I don't see how the sprots&culture would be not-fighty against the alien?
hmm yeah, we'd be in a similar state martially with most corps, whether they be sport, medicine, etc. think what i'm getting at is how corp would also have (whatever their products are) as something else to provide.
health sector stuff is more useful than entertainment sector stuff for the most part. might be less of an advantage if we could heal anyhow in-house, but it also gives us an opportunity to support the health of our group members, performing useful research if we can get equipment from the hospital, and PR boosts if we can do a better job than existing infrastructure for far cheaper.
I've previously said the advantages of providing (disguised) psychic products/services as well, focusing on that sort of thing ideally lets us take action to oppose gygas while making money at the same time, in a way that garners less suspicion
meanwhile, as you've said if we end up with sport and culture we'd get more luxury stuff, which would mainly boost morale? could also help with equipment and infastructure, but that should be managable anyhow/might be limited in utility?
there's advantages to each, but my point is that focusing on the psychic angle has more directly useful advantages.
YOU are the Authority! YOU are THE MAN!
and later and gradually it would become bureucratic and govermental without anyone realizing it
may be quoting the wrong thing here, but this hits a similar vibe to how i said this previously
I think it would hilarious to have a delinquent with a baseball as our board chairperson
(now sorry in advance, this argument's a little out there, but bear with me lol. )
basically, it's like this? megacorps are terrible, but if one's led by a gang of teenagers that's completely divorced from the typical "old white men" you'd usually see. because it's so incompatible it breaks the bad vibes? instead of falling into the twisted system, someone unwittingly replaced it entirely (in our territory at least). could give the effect of a "teenager who gained disproportionate political power"
if you tried to do this with a charity, it would fall flat. the organisation's not scary, so the conflicting vibes would be between violence and public good, (as opposed to being the authority and the ones stepped upon). would just end up as a "gangster who saves puppies" archetype, which isn't fun?
to clear up stuff, I'm saying that putting cass in charge of a corp and a charity both would be unconventional and end up silly, but doing a charity would easily fit into various jerk with a heart of gold stereotypes. there's nothing wrong with those, but you kind of see them everywhere right?
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The difficulty with finding PSI users is that no one can tell who has it ahead of time
yeah, that can't be helped. what i'm hoping is that there might be an action to test faction members all at once, which would hopefully reveal some who can quickly help out
the organsiation being psychic based isn't intended to try and recruit a ton all at once, but to utilise any who we do manage to find, if that makes sense
We're fighting a secret war. Having a nice and friendly "legitimate" facade to our organization feels like a good idea. And funds are still an issue we need to deal with.
a lot of things would work here which is good. whatever the case, we probably need some above ground action, some below ground action (just not in such a way that actions are redundant). one part to help people deal with the situation/lower gygas's influence, one part to strike out where we can't publicly/where we need to.
people will very much end up believing in it and go off running with the thing. Even if we are strictly ethical, others taking advantage of it wont.
this is a serious concern, we've already seen people freak out over the healing (probably because it was a tier 1) so part of my priorities for expanding it is to try and prevent weird rumours from surfacing.
(would also be good to prevent the proliferation of PSI users that are aggressive to us. if they're unaligned/decide to align themselves with us afterward because we're the experts then fair, but if they join other organisations that's going to make opposing them more difficult)
couching things as miracle technology is a pretty neat idea, could be useful for branching out into legit technology later, and if anyone tries to steal our tools/designs then they've wasted a whole deal of effort xD. are you thinking like, ghostbusters style?
would it be possible to lean into more magitech/exotic technology angle? if it's possible to disguise it as science while keeping the marketing as something supernatural, that would be good (to appeal to as many people as possible/still be able to act as experts when there's gygas posession)
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other people disliking corps is sort of awkward, but it's not the sort of thing to argue anyhow. for now i just want to reassure people that forming one wouldn't be the end of the world. no matter what, organisations are just a vector to achieve our goals and that remains true no matter what we pick. goverment bodies/ethical organisations can count as corps, freedom fighters and non-violent societies can count as criminals. this is just how we present ourselves externally so people can fit us into a nice box and freak out less.
