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Vigilance Technologies Request
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| Alyn_Stark | Date: Monday, 18 Jun 2012, 11:06 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Not for a specific item or any such, but I'd like it to be noted that Vigilance Technologies has been, for the past say eight months, been working on quantum fluctuation and zero-point energy to be utilized in energy-providing format; that is to say, instead of weaponizing it like the zero-point warheads, to utilize it as a power source in starships and whatnot. Perhaps a prototype powerplant is in the works, but nothing actually exists outside of design phases for now.
Alyn Stark
Lord of Kinyov
Senior Captain, Retired, Republic Navy
Head of House Malos (former)
Licensed bounty hunter
Majority shareholder, Lorrd Engineering
Owner, Stark Defense Conglomerate
Civilian Medal of Honor recipient
Representative, Lorrd (10 BBY-9 BBY)
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Saturday, 23 Jun 2012, 9:31 PM | Message # 2 |
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| So...
You want to request... acknowledgement of something that you haven't actually requested yet?
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| Alyn_Stark | Date: Sunday, 24 Jun 2012, 4:46 AM | Message # 3 |
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| No, just acknowledgement that work has been put forth towards a specific goal; that the plans exist for a prototype powerplant but the powerplant hasn't been built yet.
Alyn Stark
Lord of Kinyov
Senior Captain, Retired, Republic Navy
Head of House Malos (former)
Licensed bounty hunter
Majority shareholder, Lorrd Engineering
Owner, Stark Defense Conglomerate
Civilian Medal of Honor recipient
Representative, Lorrd (10 BBY-9 BBY)
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Sunday, 24 Jun 2012, 9:08 PM | Message # 4 |
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| What is Vigilance doing to attract scientific expertise to itself rather than the more prestigious and presumably much higher-paying Core companies or indeed the Empire itself with the enormous amount of money it throws into research and development? Granted, there's Lorrd University, but wouldn't most educated and upwardly-mobile people consider a degree from Lorrd University as a stepping stone to the Core, rather than remaining on the Outer Rim? I'm imagining myself as a physicist here (in high demand, judging from the sheer number of references to physicists and other scientists in the canon) and posing to myself the question—why work for Vigilance Technologies?
It would need to have a rather good team of scientists, in my view, to surpass the Empire in engineering as I think you're requesting to do here.
If I seem like I'm going hard on Vigilance here or holding it to an unreasonable standard for an RP company, it's only because I've always been somewhat resistant to non-canon technology and I've become rather more so over time, as requests for non-canon technology haven't slowed down at all. On the other hand, original designs and technology have always been a part of the pastime for as long as I've been RPing (what, 12 years now?) and I don't want to discourage it completely. But I don't think this line of questioning is unreasonable (I've also seen RPers over the years go into detail about their engineering teams, how they attract engineering talent, etc).
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| Alyn_Stark | Date: Monday, 25 Jun 2012, 4:44 AM | Message # 5 |
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| You actually give a good point here Jace, and quite valid. I hardly see it as going hard on VT either; a fair question is a fair question after all. So therefore, you ask, how does VT attract new scientific minds?
1) Lorrd University happens to be on, as we know, Lorrd. This gives Vigilance Technologies, Lorrd Engineering and now Stark Defense Conglomerate the first pick, so to speak, of the graduates and undergraduates in their own backyard. Scholarships for the brightest, funding, grants, all sorts of things to the most promising minds. It's rather like how talent scouts come to football games to find that next big name that might make it to the NFL.
2) Vigilance Technology, despite the negative publicity regarding Stark, has a very good name in the Kanz Sector, even with the Moff. When Imperials tend to look at people who've worked at a company in a favorable light and may consider them for civilian consultation, it helps to have a resume from that area.
3) The Stark name in itself, connected with Vigilance, means wealth, more or less. Wealth and lots of it can be a seriously powerful motivator. For the best and brightest, Stark pays top dollar so to speak. Vigilance Technologies is meant to be a cutting-edge company aimed towards the advancement of security and defense systems. With such competitors as you mention, Rothana, KDY, the Empire itself, if one has to pay more to keep that edge then so be it.
Alyn Stark
Lord of Kinyov
Senior Captain, Retired, Republic Navy
Head of House Malos (former)
Licensed bounty hunter
Majority shareholder, Lorrd Engineering
Owner, Stark Defense Conglomerate
Civilian Medal of Honor recipient
Representative, Lorrd (10 BBY-9 BBY)
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Wednesday, 27 Jun 2012, 12:37 PM | Message # 6 |
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| I don't give too much credence to your second point, since Moff Shirnoq is your character and seems, on-balance, more-favorable-than-average to Vigilance and the Stark Defense Conglomerate (not that it isn't understandable, mind you; I'm not being critical of this—though presumably Shirnoq would lust for a company such as Stark's to be under his personal control, but no matter). I accept this reasoning as long as there's a high turnover rate at Vigilance Technology and, accordingly, that research takes a longer period of time. Anyway, I APPROVE with the drawback that the power plant, when it's eventually developed, would be far more expensive than conventional technologies.
Jace Varitek
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My recent posts here, pre-2009 archives here
"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"
—John Maynard Keynes
Furthermore, a dancing Wookiee:
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Wednesday, 27 Jun 2012, 7:22 PM | Message # 7 |
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| APPROVE with Jace's stipulations.
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| Jaron | Date: Thursday, 28 Jun 2012, 10:00 PM | Message # 8 |
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| APPROVED
Jaron Park
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