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Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Combined Thread - Williams-Mordhauser - 07-22-2016

"Fun is contraband, and we're all about contraband" -Janet Teresa Williams, 2012-2046

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Introduction


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There's many places in the galaxy to talk business - realwood-furnished boardrooms, hastily assembled holoconferences, a corner office on the pinnacle of Manhattan or a rapidly-venting airlock. Most people wouldn't count an extra-seedy dive bar on a certain derelict deathtrap-turned-spacestation as a nice place to be, much less a good place to talk business. Then again, the participants were hardly usual people. Both of the men in question were representatives of a certain spacer clan - each not particularly renowned, but with a solid and well-earned reputation for horribly immoral smuggling and terrifically large explosions, respectively.
...

Today was a pretty good day in Howard Williams' books. The atmospheric klaxons had only gone off twice, the station's Chief Medical Officer wasn't a lecherous nymphomaniac this time, his freighter hadn't picked up any new dents and the vigilantes eyeing him up didn't look too tough. And considering that his associate, Mordhauser, had finally returned his call, well, there's a good chance it was about to get even better.

The Mordhauser in question had just taken a seat across from him. Not that you could tell - the fine smog that The Hole in the Wall's bartender insisted was breathable atmosphere was pretty thick today, and it took a recognizable voice to remove both parties hands from their respective gun. Can't be too careful.

"So Williams. What's so important that you're calling me away from my bomb lab?"
"Well Mordhauser, I've got a brilliant plan."
"Aw no not aga--"
"No no no, nothing like that. I learned my lesson last time, honest. But listen, if this works we're both gonna be makin' a looot of money. I'm talkin' swimming pools made of gold here man."
"And what could a man like me possibly want with money?"
"Antimatter torpedoes, among other things."
"I'm in. What's the plan?"
"Well, I know a guy over on Pittsburgh..."

...

Howard Williams' week only got better from there. Before long, his half-baked get-rich-quick scheme had grown ships, crew, lawyers, a corporate registry, and even a proper name - Williams-Mordhauser Distributing, or WMD as they named their ships. Rumor has it that's a backcronym, but rumor also has it that spreading that around will get you airlocked faster than the Head of Security in the middle of a mutiny.



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Information:

Who We Are: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing is a limited-liability corporation founded in 823 A.S. headquartered in Maltese space with the consent of the National Council. We are principally concerned with the trafficking of arms and munitions, though we also traffick cardamine, manpower, and dabble in various other illegal goods such as counterfeit software and human organs. The Board of Directors makes it a point to maintain a Sirius-wide distribution network, and to ensure that our pilots evade, elude, out-wit and out-fly naval patrols whenever they may try to interdict us in order to ensure steady and consistent delivery of our merchandise.

What We Do: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing is an organization of professional smugglers incorporated under Maltese Corporate Law. Unlike most smuggling organizations, WMD elects to approach our profession with highly-effective corporate methodologies, including (but not limited to) market research, price volatility analysis, commodity demand incentivization, high-interest layaway and competition discouragement. In the (paraphrased) words of our Chief Executive Officer, we traffick human organs from people we don't like, and traffick "Instant Armies, Just Add Manpower" to people we do. In addition, our board of directors has various project and ideas that may or may not see Williams-Mordhauser driven from Sirius with torch and pitchfork.

Corporate Registry: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing was officially incorporated on Malta in 823 A.S. and given the Maltese corporate registration number 554A9J21MTZ8X. Williams-Mordhauser Distributing is officially bound to no law other than those of the Maltese courts and recognizes no taxation or fines other than that which the Maltese authorities may or may not see fit to levy.

Diplomacy: Being incorporated on Malta in 823 A.S., Williams-Mordhauser Distributing is loosely Outcast-aligned. Being arms dealers and drug runners of some ill-repute, Williams-Mordhauser maintains unfriendly (but fastidiously not shoot-on-sight) ties with most Police and Naval organizations. The Liberty Navy bears particular mention, as they are, quote, "No-fun sticks in the mud". Being arms dealers and drug runners of a reliable nature and high quality, Williams-Mordhauser maintains friendly ties with most Sirius unlawfuls.

Zones of Influence: Being incorporated on Malta in 823 A.S., Williams-Mordhauser maintains a semi-regular presence in Maltese space; it is a much more comfortable home to many of our employees than the houses they may or may not have originated from. Our principal places of business, however are the industrial starbases and planets of various Houses from which the goods we traffick are created and sold, as well as the unlawful and quasi-lawful starbases at which our merchandise is most highly in demand. We do not have a base of operations, per se, so much as a Sirius-wide distribution network.

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Infoblock

Affiliation: Unaffiliated Quasi-Lawful
ID: Freelancer
Tag: WMD.********
Ships: "Whatever we can get our grubby little hands on" (WMD officially favors Civilian, Border Worlds, Junker and Zoner ships - C.C.)
In-character objectives: To cultivate a reputation as a morally-bankrupt corporation. To traffick arms, drugs, and illicit cargoes throughout Sirius. To create business ties with unlawful and quasi-lawful factions, as well as morally-flexible lawful factions.
Out of character objectives: To create fun and content for fellow spessmen. To promote casual & high-quality roleplaying. To have a good time - what more could a spessman want?

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Roster:

Updated July 26

Williams-Mordhauser Human Resources Wrote:WMD.Firefly - Howard Williams, CEO - Serenity-class transport // Player: @Psyentific
WMD.Mordhauser - Finn Mordhauser, CFO - Border Worlds transport // Player: @FreakyM
WMD.Davidson - Donovan 'Donnie' Davidson, Chief Legal Officer - Mammoth-class transport // Player: @Donovan Darwin Davidson
WMD.Whitehead - Caroline Convair, General Secretary - Osprey II Long Range Escort // Player: @Psyentific
WMD.Hidalgo - Arturo Malinovsky, Head of Security - Montante-class Gunboat // Player: @Cataphrak
WMD.Honeybadger - Stanley Westwood, Business Associate - Mammoth-class transport // Player: @McCormig
WMD.Ctesiphon - Ctesiphon Jones, Business Associate - Serenity-class transport // Player: @Cataphrak
WMD.TARTAROS - ??? - Nephilim-class Corporate Headquarters // Player: Shared Account

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Recruitment:

Prospective members shall answer the following questions to the best of their abilities, in this thread, using the form provided. The Board of Directors shall periodically review new applicants and issue an official decision, at which point the applicant shall be notified of the result.

Williams-Mordhauser Human Resources Wrote:Q1. What is your character concept?


Q2. In-character, what do you think we do?


Q3. Out of character, what do you think we do?


Q4. Why do you want to join us?


Q5. What is best in life?

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Contact:

Private Business Communications shall always be routed through this account, administered by the General Secretary and reviewed by the Board of Directors.
Official relations shall be handled through this account or through the directors personal accounts, as the mood strikes (I tried. -C.C. / Do or Do Not -HW)
Individual members may be reached through their personal accounts.
The Board of Directors may be reached through this account or through their personals.

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Roleplaying:

In the (paraphrased) words of our Chief Executive Officer, "If something fun happens, post about it here."
Williams-Mordhauser Distributing officially states that, despite our selective recruitment processes, this general thread (incl. message dump) is open to all spacers, so long as they do not "**** up the thread" (Please excuse the CEO's language -C.C.)
Williams-Mordhauser Distributing officially states that, while maintaining character is encouraged, out-of-character discussions involving WMD or its members are also allowed within reason.


RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - nOmnomnOm - 07-22-2016

(07-22-2016, 02:52 PM)Williams-Mordhauser Wrote: ID: Freelancer, Junker, Mercenary
Last I checked you can have only one ID

(sorry.... i can post here, right?)


RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - Psyentific - 07-22-2016

(07-22-2016, 02:54 PM)nOmnomnOm Wrote:
(07-22-2016, 02:52 PM)Williams-Mordhauser Wrote: ID: Freelancer, Junker, Mercenary
Last I checked you can have only one ID
The problem is there's not really one catch-all ID that covers everything we'd like to do except Junker, and that's got its own seperate style from what WMD has evolved into.
Junkers do not have lawyers. We do, and we're gonna find someone to use 'em on too.

Freelancer doesn't allow you to pirate people, mostly, and we've got some ideas about 'encouraging' traders to take on escort contracts with our inevitable non-transport ships. Apparently the Mercenary ID doesn't exist anymore, because that would fit our non-transports perfectly.

(07-22-2016, 02:54 PM)nOmnomnOm Wrote: (sorry.... i can post here, right?)
Absolutely, call your friends, get 'em in. As long as you don't **** up the thread, everyone's welcome.


RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - nOmnomnOm - 07-22-2016

What you can do is just stick with the ID that best covers your style of play and just say you are not the name of the ID? That is what i was told by admin.
So i can suggest maybe sticking with that 1 junker ID and just going with it?
Unfortunately the rules do say not to have 2 IDs for 1 faction... So i am just kindly letting u know and offering a solution to the issue.


RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - Enkidu - 07-22-2016

Suggest sticking Junker, gun for official, then get an ID that represents your RP adequately. It's what Aux has been doing to great success.


RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - McCormig - 07-23-2016

Q1. What do you think we do?
Trading in various commodities

Q2. Why do you want to join us?
To achieve more than one man could alone

Q3. What is best in life?
Having fun and being able to share it with people with similar mindset


RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - Williams-Mordhauser - 07-23-2016

(07-23-2016, 02:17 AM)McCormig Wrote: Q1. What do you think we do?
Trading in various commodities

Q2. Why do you want to join us?
To achieve more than one man could alone

Q3. What is best in life?
Having fun and being able to share it with people with similar mindset

While you are already formally acknowledged as a member of WMD, the Human Resources department appreciates the formality.
Application accepted - Please provide your registered ships, their classes, and your name for the roster.


RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - McCormig - 07-23-2016

WMD.Honeybadger - Stanley Westwood - Mammoth-class transport // Player: McCormig


RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - Kauket - 07-23-2016

The image you're using is too large, use [img=700x433]link[/img] - as 700 pixels is the forum limit for width, also, as a suggestion, make a seperate thread for recruitment - as replies will get clustered with feedback, and format the OP a bit, so it's not just plain grey text and easier to read.

Otherwise, good luck with your faction.



RE: Williams-Mordhauser Distributing: Intro, Message Dump, Recruitment - Donovan Darwin Davidson - 07-23-2016



21:33 local time, July 22nd, 823 A.S.
Beaumont Base, Texas System


Say what you will about Beaumont, one can never call the place pretty. Nevertheless, well into his second day there, Donnie Davidson was finding that the bucket of bolts was growing on him, like some sort of fungal infection - he reminded himself to consult a reputable physician next time he visited an actual planet. Striding through the automatic doors of the local Williams-Mordhauser branch as though he owned the place - in part, he did - the man, all five and a half lanky feet of him, brushed white powder from his slicked-back hair, forming a billowing cloud that swiftly settled on the shoulders of his charcoal-gray suit jacket.

Striding past the receptionist with a wave - she knew him on sight, they were rather well-acquainted - the lawyer made his way past corridors and rooms appointed in moderately-priced gray and white, fixtures in corporate steel and glass, to to shoulder open a familiar door. He stepped past and into a long, oval room containing a similarly-oval table and many swivel chairs, high-backed in dark leather; a brass plate on the dark wood table bore his name, stood in line with many others of its kind, and he collapsed heavily in the seat it faced.

The station's atmospheric scrubbers, management had decided - he, in particular - were not up to the task of keeping up with his nicotine habit, and so the WMD office block was fitted with their own. Top of the line, absolute best that money can buy. So Donovan felt no guilt or apprehension - emotions that were, quite frankly, foreign to him - when he pulled a silver-plated cigarette case from his breast pocket, released from it a long white cylinder, and lit up.

A single lung-full of menthol-scented smoke is all he allowed himself before getting to work. A push of the button on the conference table's underside lit it all up, holographic projectors spinning a console for him of light. He breathed cigarette smoke through it.

"TBD (Donovan, please fix this -C.C.)" blinked at him from the employee directory, marked 'urgent' for his attention. Right. What was the Corporate account's log-in again..?