[Empire 5] IC Thread

[Zayuz]

Celestia Enterprises (CLS)
“Live like gods.”

CEO Natascha Liwei (Ruler Rolls // Reference)
Diplomacy 5
Economy 5
Military 4
Philosophy 1
Intrigue 3

Actions for Round 1 (Rolls)

• [Economy] Purchase [Guardians] TP2 from OPEN in Sui Generis (G19) [Success!]
  Trade begins between Celestia Corp and their close neighbor of the Droccen Homeworlds, spreading remarkably compatible cultures and messages and products. Korima in particular paints her people in a wonderful light, gaining popularity across both stellar powers for their deep yet intrinsically differing philosophies. ...This of course, comes with some penalties, despite hooking up with a dozen sponsors. Magazines! The pinnacle of humanity's wisdom, follow her around and seem to be intent on causing trouble where they can. Finding out little intricacies in her life and secrets they may uncover. By the end of the first year after the galactic meetup, they've been all over the place across the stars - creating detailed reports on the 'hottest' galactic leaders and nationalities to watch out for in the local systems. Guardians that Sui Generis produce are an object of fascination, seemingly immune to bad press and generally just... Really wholesome. It's a nice change of place from oppressive megacorp society, and they're accepted happily.
  
• [Economy] Purchase [Sunstones] TP2 from OPEN in Svaatyr (K21) [Fail!]
  The Nolkir are very agreeable. Sunstones are predicted to be one of the premiere tiling components on expensive homes in the next few years, but the market just isn't ready for them yet. While many funds go into other projects, the ones crafted with the Nolkir are exclusively short term - to be revisited later.
  
• [Economy] Purchase [Entertainment] TP2 from OPEN in Zara (G25) [Success!]
  Jesska media is a curiosity to many. When Celestia Corp goes through with a purchase of one of their largest broadcasting networks, it begins to play not only through one empire but two. Natascha has insisted that despite the buyout that they allow it to run autonomously for a couple years before really changing their production or markets, keeping funds going to continue existing products, and only changing the entire advertising scheme to be dedicated entirely to Celestia Corp products; which are just a natural feature of Celestia showing up anywhere at all. One way or another, their advanced entertainment industries seem like a very promising piece of tomorrow. ...Quite literally, as humans and Jesska begin to mingle and trade homeworlds. The lower classes from Celestia in particular are abandoning their empire in favor of Zara, before Celestia Corp puts a hefty 'migration fee' on travel long term. With any luck, the Commonwealth will help them track down rogue civilians.
  
• [Economy] Purchase [Novendallin] TP2 from OPEN in Triskellius (I27) [Fail!]
  Arcane crystals are... Weird to Celestia Corp. The trade agreement went well enough, but somewhere between taking interest in the crystals and receiving them, Celestia Corp forgot to ask pretty well anything about them. Especially not what they could do with them. The deal falls through the next year, to the annoyance of investors.
  
• [Diplomacy 5] Cultural Identity: Surplus Brand Recognition (Increase die size on faraway [hard/improbable]) economic [buyout offense/defense] actions in regions with [great] resource quantities!)
  -Plenty of fluff FTB-
  

Non Actions:

Spoiler: News and Rumors

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1. Plans made to 'sue' the squirrel folk are quickly disbanded as physicists argue that the endeavor would end up costing nearly fifty six times as much to complete than just building a new satellite. The future tech that can be salvaged is brought in for study while the biotics are studied to satisfy curiosity about their alien biology.
2. Mittens the cat is promoted to 'head of cuteness' by Natascha. When the time comes to vote on how Celestia Enterprises will act in the future concerning the exploration of the core, things seem to be in favor of exploring it despite the warnings. After having personally won the vote, Natascha swings the vote by buying a ton of company shares under Mittens' account, which are subsequently removed from the equation because he is, in fact, just a cat. Buying them herself to publicly force her way through would have been to morally questionable, but as long as nobody knows that the account who bought all the mystery shares was a cat, it stands as just a standard business transaction... Right?
3. The tourism begins. After having gotten off to an agreeable start with the surrounding nations, the pull of trade towards Olympia begins...

Spoiler: Stats

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