Cartel Businesses on Zonju V

[Livgardist]

So, with Duke going away, that changes things a little on Zonju.

Basically, Sonny will still be gunning for control. It'll only happen so much faster. The business plan of the day is; Cause a war between the rivalling factions. When they're all weakened from it, go in and take control with the help of Borga the Hutt's forces. Originally he was going to use Mallum Company (an npc faction created by Duke) as expendables for this, but it doesn't feel right when Duke has left.

However, Borga kindly offered his help with manpower, so Sonny will take that if the offer still stands.

After this, he will divide the operations on Zonju into different pieces of a pie. There will be several, and positions open for other Hutt Cartel members to help him out as off-world partners. As follows is what I've got so far (and let me know if I've missed something, guys. It's early);



* Manufacture, export and distribution of drugs created on Zonju - Borga the Hutt



* Distribution and supply of weapons on Zonju - Nor'baal (Open for additional cooperation here if you have any ideas, Norby).



* Taking control of the mining industry, creating a legal mining industry under the control of the Hutt Cartel, to give Zonju something that will give it financial power and help it develop into a civilized planet - Sonny will do this, but he's happy to take partners here. The idea of it is it will be a legal entity controlled by a crime syndicate - so it will be working in the borderlands between legal and illegal. All its profits will of course go to Sonny, his partner and the Cartel.



* Building other industries on Zonju to give the planet more corporate power - under Hutt Cartel control of course - ?



* Building the city into a metropolis - i.e., bring it out of the muck of stone age decay that it is in currently, to help corporate growth in the city/on the planet. Essentially, bring electricity and some fancy skyscrapers.


Ideas, suggestions, tips, offers?

 

[Just Matt Now]

This sounds excellent, well thought out and definitely possible with help.

I am willing to help out whatever I can with either of my Hutt characters, you already know Borga.

 

[Nor'baal]

* Manufacture, export and distribution of drugs created on Zonju - Borga the Hutt

Nothing to say here.

* Distribution and supply of weapons on Zonju - Nor'baal (Open for additional cooperation here if you have any ideas, Norby).

Currently, Norby is discussing some protection for his smuggling ships with MU, so once that goes through I would love to start sort of 'wholesale' shipping ships worth of weapons to Zonju, basically, expand!

* Taking control of the mining industry, creating a legal mining industry under the control of the Hutt Cartel, to give Zonju something that will give it financial power and help it develop into a civilized planet - Sonny will do this, but he's happy to take partners here. The idea of it is it will be a legal entity controlled by a crime syndicate - so it will be working in the borderlands between legal and illegal. All its profits will of course go to Sonny, his partner and the Cartel.

Very very interested. Nor'baal has a small mining interest on Tatooine, so one on Zonju would interest him greatly.

* Building other industries on Zonju to give the planet more corporate power - under Hutt Cartel control of course - ?

* Building the city into a metropolis - i.e., bring it out of the muck of stone age decay that it is in currently, to help corporate growth in the city/on the planet. Essentially, bring electricity and some fancy skyscrapers.

For these two, count Norby very interested as well. Gun making, Ship making, Shipping, Arena's, Cantina's and of course housing interests me greatly. However, for such a large undertaking, I would love to work with Gary (Borga) on this as well as Sonny.


Basically, count me in.

Oh, and if you need manpower: I can provide some NPC's and a few players I know would love to get stuck in!

 

[Livgardist]

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Listing it roughly as a plan here now. Let me know if any of it is too far out there for you guys. :CScool

STEP ONE

What needs to be done now firstly, in what my man Sonny likes to refer to as his Step One, is as follows;

I need a handful of gun thugs (I've been watching Justified, and I love that word.) for some wetwork on Zonju. Just one or two roleplays, to make things easy. These guys need to do some kind of attack against two of the gangs, and frame it on another gang. Let's say one of the swoop gangs, the Huns that is, and the Vipers (poison/drug gang). Obviously there'll be other "NPC" attacks of the same kind as well, (that is to say, attacks we won't roleplay out), that'll help fuel the embers and spark a war in the City of Bones on Zonju.

This'll weaken the gangs, regardless of who wins. At the later end of the war, Nor'baal will cut supplies of weapons to the planet entirely. This will help consume the dwindling resources of the gangs as they keep fighting the war, weakening them even more. And also prepare for step 2.


STEP TWO

Step two will be more extensive. I figure this is going to take a month or two to work through entirely since it will be an extensive series of roleplays, each detailing basically how our little triumvirate and its combined fighting forces, wipe out each of the gangs of importance on Zonju; The Vipers, the Ra'Fakki, the Huns, and the former employees of Sonny's, Mallum Company. There is also the Federated Republic (a sad excuse for a toothless government) that needs wiping out, as well as the Erenshi Finance Guild (bankers), and a hoard of sentient and self-ruling droids in an area called the Factory - and random smaller gangs that we won't actually IC wipe out since they're not worth the time of roleplaying. That part will basically be mop up operations.

So this part will for us, if we want to, consist of roleplay meetings between our trio discussing our progress, and for Sonny and any characters of Hutt Cartel loyalty who want in, the actual fighting itself.

Side note; Details about the gangs and their locales can still be found on the Waste Rangers profile.

But, the above mentioned gangs will all be wiped out in actual threads, one by one or however we see fit to do it once we face Step Two. It'll also allow us to explore in character some of the regions of Zonju that Duke has done a fantastic job at developing before leaving, which I for one will like a lot.


STEP THREE

Step Three is where we change from fighting roleplays to what essentially will boil down to, to a great degree, business meetings, board room meetings, that sort of thing, both on and off-world. It should still be very interesting though. And I'll also have Sonny throw a few jobs for gun thugs on Zonju that'll help bring step three to a reality.

For clarification, the main part of Step Three will be the forming of a Zonju mining corporation - let's called it Troika Mining Corporation, or TMC - and for gun thugs, their participation will be to secure one or more wealthy mines for TMC and our trio, from the monsters that lurk in their depths. Also possibly some fighting against those freaks lurking outside the city walls.

But as I said, for our trio, step three will mostly involve board room meetings, and the details around the formation of the mining company. :D


STEP FOUR

This is the real game changer. This is where we begin to develop civilization again on Zonju, in part by booting up more corporate interests, as well as getting other corporations to land some business on Zonju, and in part by bringing in electricity and other civilized stuff, with the help of the Hutt Cartel of course. I feel like this would be a series of roleplays each detailing a new business venture between the trio of our characters, as well as dealings with the Hutt Cartel itself and other interested characters, to bring their actual enterprises to the planet, and also financing contracts to build a real spaceport, which will be the jumping point to bringing real civilization to Zonju. It'll also involve finding financiers, getting corporations to work on Zonju (for a Hutt Cartel fee of course), that sort of thing.

The goal is to turn it into a pseudo-corporate-criminal metropolis, or if you will, a crime haven a la Gotham City or something (minus Batman. Batman must die.)

And what happens after Step Four? Well, I haven't thought that far ahead - but step four if all goes as planned would make all of our characters disgustingly filthy rich. Mwahaha. There's always opportunity to expand our onto the rest of Zonju, take other cities, but I don't want to give the impression I'm suffering from roleplaying megalomania. :CSly

On Zonju;
http://www.thestarwarsrp.com/forum/showthread.php?50744-The-Waste-Rangers

http://www.thestarwarsrp.com/forum/showthread.php?51324-Zonju-V

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Now that that's done with - and sorry for the sheer length of it, y'all - let me know how you guys feel about this. :CIsee

 

[Nor'baal]

100% behind this!

As well as this, I'll run some threads in Tatooine with my chaps, so as to show the fruits of our labours effecting Norbys buisness there as well.

Other than that, we should get a Skype chat up or something and add the folks in that are part of this.

Looks like its going to be a cracking story!

 

[Livgardist]

Awesome! And the Tatooine side is great. I'm going to do something similar for Sonny on Zonju when I feel the time is right. :CSly

And while I am not on Skype a lot since my internet is mobile broadband and therefor sucks, yes, I am all for that as well.



I'll look into whipping up those sabotage/diversion missions for the Hutt Cartel Henchmen. :D

 

[Just Matt Now]

Per step 4, Borga would takeover the Arena :CHappy

 

[Dóiteán]

Is there still room for another Hutt?(Borgeye wants to expand his business, possibly start animal trafficking)

 

[Livgardist]

@Hurricane; Sounds like an exceptionally good idea. :CSly

@Doitean; Yes, and no. As far as the triumvirate go (The unholy alliance between Borga, Nor'baal and Sonny that will take them to the top), there can be only those three. But that said, I'd be happy to have Sonny make a deal with you regarding some profitable animal cruelty. :CSly It won't make you part of the entirety of the plans, but it will bring you a ton of cash as well as open the door for Borgeye to make more deals with Sonny in the future. :D

 

[Dóiteán]

Works for me.

 

[Livgardist]

Cool. Give us a few days to kick things in the right direction, and then we can hit up a roleplay setting up a deal. :D

 

[Maxx]

I wonder if there are any ex-rangers left that might be interested in undermining the Hutts...this wouldn't be fun if there wasn't some PC resistance.

 

[Livgardist]

:CIsee

 

[Just Matt Now]

:CIsee

I'm crying haha

 

[Livgardist]

Conflict of interest. We have it. :CIsee

 

[Nor'baal]

That would need to be done very carefully. I don't see how a PC could screw this up, and still expect to get out alive when the Hutts come for them.

 

[Livgardist]

And they will come for them. :CIsee

 

[Nor'baal]

The triumvirate will protect its interests.

We will drown you in illegal guns, spice, and billions of credits, held by swarthy pig men!

 

[Livgardist]

Yea! What he said...wait, what?

Nobody told me the Triumvirate would involve swarthy pig men. :CIsee

 

[Nor'baal]

Swarthy is essential! Your with Hutts now!