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Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
ENTRY FOR 0.01.01
I am Chief Executive Officer Dov'ace of Caphev Incorporated, newly elected by my fellows on the Board of Directors. I have started this journal to preserve for posterity the thoughts and workings of the company I serve. As this is for posterity, I shall begin with history:
400 years ago the Kingdom of Tira created the Royal Tiran Mining Concern, which had monopoly rights to all mining activities of any kind in the Tiran Colonies. It quickly expanded into other areas. As Tira's reach grew so did the RTMC, and soon the RTMC ruled several provinces and states in it's own right. Eventually the RTMC and it's subsidiaries ruled almost a third of the planet, and it was the dominate mercantile force across the rest. Fifty years ago, the RTMC bought out Tira and it's last economic rivals, and renamed itself Caphev Incorporated.
Yet this presented a problem. We now control the world, we pay all the wages, so even though we provide all things that are bought how do we make a profit? By digging enough money out of the ground to cover everything, that and financial tricks. The RTMC branch of Caphev Inc is the only branch to turn a consistent profit on it's own. On that we have built a vast edifice of financial trickery that allows us to report a profit. Yet the margin is thin, and growing thinner each year. And it will only last until the mines run dry.
Which brings us to the present. An astute observer will recognize that this entry is for year 0. This is because we have inaugurated a new calendar to greet the new age of Mathin kind. We have broken the Light Barrier.
While the people celebrate, I must confess that I am anxious. We need new mines to keep the profit going. The research for the Warp Engine was expensive, and should we not be able to tap into the vast resources my advisers and the board are certain exist in space, then the house of cards will collapse.
But it will eventually collapse regardless, even if the mines never run dry. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. We need new markets, and new customers. Otherwise the financial markets will collapse, and take the physical economy with it.
I dearly hope we are not alone.
0.01.02
I have set our Science Ship to survey the Belo'vi system, our system, in hopes of finding resources to mine, and our Construction Ship to follow it until it finds such resources. Meanwhile, I have divided our corvettle fleet. Bah, it's only three ships. They shall serve as our emissaries and explorers at this juncture, they are under firm orders to only fire upon anything they encounter in self defense.
I expect another entry of historical import will be months away. Unless we get "discovered".
I am Chief Executive Officer Dov'ace of Caphev Incorporated, newly elected by my fellows on the Board of Directors. I have started this journal to preserve for posterity the thoughts and workings of the company I serve. As this is for posterity, I shall begin with history:
400 years ago the Kingdom of Tira created the Royal Tiran Mining Concern, which had monopoly rights to all mining activities of any kind in the Tiran Colonies. It quickly expanded into other areas. As Tira's reach grew so did the RTMC, and soon the RTMC ruled several provinces and states in it's own right. Eventually the RTMC and it's subsidiaries ruled almost a third of the planet, and it was the dominate mercantile force across the rest. Fifty years ago, the RTMC bought out Tira and it's last economic rivals, and renamed itself Caphev Incorporated.
Yet this presented a problem. We now control the world, we pay all the wages, so even though we provide all things that are bought how do we make a profit? By digging enough money out of the ground to cover everything, that and financial tricks. The RTMC branch of Caphev Inc is the only branch to turn a consistent profit on it's own. On that we have built a vast edifice of financial trickery that allows us to report a profit. Yet the margin is thin, and growing thinner each year. And it will only last until the mines run dry.
Which brings us to the present. An astute observer will recognize that this entry is for year 0. This is because we have inaugurated a new calendar to greet the new age of Mathin kind. We have broken the Light Barrier.
While the people celebrate, I must confess that I am anxious. We need new mines to keep the profit going. The research for the Warp Engine was expensive, and should we not be able to tap into the vast resources my advisers and the board are certain exist in space, then the house of cards will collapse.
But it will eventually collapse regardless, even if the mines never run dry. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. We need new markets, and new customers. Otherwise the financial markets will collapse, and take the physical economy with it.
I dearly hope we are not alone.
0.01.02
I have set our Science Ship to survey the Belo'vi system, our system, in hopes of finding resources to mine, and our Construction Ship to follow it until it finds such resources. Meanwhile, I have divided our corvettle fleet. Bah, it's only three ships. They shall serve as our emissaries and explorers at this juncture, they are under firm orders to only fire upon anything they encounter in self defense.
I expect another entry of historical import will be months away. Unless we get "discovered".
