I request a corporation to be formally known as The Imperial Outer Rim Trading Company, less formally known as The Outer Rim Trading Company, The Rim Trading Company, and, commonly, The Rim Company or "RimCo". It will have been quietly chartered on Brentaal by members of the noble House Cambrist, and funded initially by the government of Brentaal (a 51% share) or the government of Brentaal and the government of Anaxes (if Ordan is willing to go along, I was thinking a spread of 30% share for Brentaal and a 21% share for Anaxes, with an exclusive right-of-first-refusal agreement between them). The rest of the shares will, eventually, be filled out by various investors as well as prominent philanthropists, as Cambrist (and Ordan, if, again, he's willing to be involved) sell the purpose of the company as this: "to develop the economic potential of the Outer Rim and its people," and to "raise the standard of living" for those people through employment (and associated benefits) for the company as it "extracts and transports raw materials" for refinement in the Core Worlds, by partner firms such as, for instance, Ordan's company Azure Durasteel.

In practice, the Rim Company will essentially be swindling indigenous populations out of mining rights on their worlds, and proceeding, usually, to strip mine them in earnest and use the population as slave labor, both for the company and for sale to other companies. I request, also, that the Rim Company be granted the appropriate license by the Empire to operate across interstellar lines, on an unspoken understanding that raw materials, like durasteel, and slave labor will be provided to the Empire at preferential rates. All of this is in the future, however; the Rim Company will remain in the shadows for some time, attracting investment and acquiring a modest merchant fleet (I'll request this later, as the company develops) while Cambrist & co. lay some of the groundwork in the Senate in the days and weeks to come.

It sounds all very abstract—one of those things just intended to make a character look evil and get him rich. But I'd like for the company to also become useful for storyline purposes, too. For example, I'd like to bring some other RPers into the company, eventually, who perhaps have moments of horror and conscience at the company's methods and use its connections to the Empire against it, and perhaps in favor of rebels, instead of the company's usual not-so-secret support of the Empire. The conflict between principled, Rebel-sympathetic characters like this, and the more nefarious shareholders of the company like Cambrist and possibly Ordan, under Imperial pressure, would be interesting I think.

(I hope this request makes sense. I've had a bit to drink and I seem stubbornly unable to sober up as soon as I'd like. "Don't drink and post," I think I've seen somewhere. Just now actually, as I typed it).