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divine_braid) wrote2015-05-18 10:21 pm
divine_braid) wrote2015-05-18 10:21 pm
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Sweepers Plotting
I'd eventually like to develop the Sweepers as an in-game group characters can join for employment and exploring of ruins.
In canon, the Sweepers are a group of salvage mechanics that Professor G (the engineer that created Deathscythe) was using as a cover to gather supplies and develop the Gundam. They operate as a legitimate business with a space colony branch run by Professor G and an Earth branch run by Howard. They act as Duo's support network when he arrives on Earth with Deathscythe for the first time, and he uses them several times throughout canon as a place to hide and to get quick, cheap repairs for his Gundam. Duo even hooks Hilde up with them in canon after she leaves OZ and it's easy to assume that he starts his own sub-group unified with them once he stops doing Gundam pilot things (though he never fully retires from Gundam pilot life). In a way, he appears to operate some sort of franchise type of shop, affiliated with the Sweepers. There's no named character in canon that acts as a CEO. Professor G was working mostly undercover to build Deathscythe, and Howard, on Earth, was captain of the sea freighter, but didn't seem to be in charge of the company, either.
For BNW AU purposes, they will not be focused on creating weapons of war undercover. They're working to restore humanity's strengths through technology. Like most people in Union, they're not looking to restore PokeBalls or the PC system, but rather to make a better world for Pokemon and humans by improving on old recovered technology they find in ruins, like HMs and TMs, evolution devices, etc. They still act as salvage mechanics in that they find old stuff and fix it, and will also help people in town with fixing stuff like bicycles and other mechanical things. For in game purposes, they'd be a loosely controlled group, most employees acting almost like independent contractors, with no serious structure beyond someone handling finances, someone handling inventory, and someone managing projects (these can all be taken on by characters in game if someone wants to their character to be in that position). I get the impression that it's a very laid back corporate culture because it's always a business that will be needed in some form, but not something that will constantly have steady work. Most of the employees, as independent contractors, will likely have other jobs to fill the gaps between projects (think: crab fishermen on the Bering Sea, construction workers, landscapers, etc.). Because Duo isn't necessarily "in charge" early in canon, he wouldn't be in game, either, when he first starts out, but, if someone feels their character would fit the role, they are welcome to give it a go. I would be glad to offer up information as it's available. Duo may, as the game progresses, reach a point where he wants to open his own small shop that will be affiliated or under the Sweepers, but he'll likely never be a CEO. I'm totally okay with someone else taking the reins of the group if it comes to that. I also have no issue with having Duo refer to the others he works with as "boss" or "job buddy" or some other nickname instead of giving them specific names in case they can be applied for as characters in game.
In canon, the Sweepers are a group of salvage mechanics that Professor G (the engineer that created Deathscythe) was using as a cover to gather supplies and develop the Gundam. They operate as a legitimate business with a space colony branch run by Professor G and an Earth branch run by Howard. They act as Duo's support network when he arrives on Earth with Deathscythe for the first time, and he uses them several times throughout canon as a place to hide and to get quick, cheap repairs for his Gundam. Duo even hooks Hilde up with them in canon after she leaves OZ and it's easy to assume that he starts his own sub-group unified with them once he stops doing Gundam pilot things (though he never fully retires from Gundam pilot life). In a way, he appears to operate some sort of franchise type of shop, affiliated with the Sweepers. There's no named character in canon that acts as a CEO. Professor G was working mostly undercover to build Deathscythe, and Howard, on Earth, was captain of the sea freighter, but didn't seem to be in charge of the company, either.
For BNW AU purposes, they will not be focused on creating weapons of war undercover. They're working to restore humanity's strengths through technology. Like most people in Union, they're not looking to restore PokeBalls or the PC system, but rather to make a better world for Pokemon and humans by improving on old recovered technology they find in ruins, like HMs and TMs, evolution devices, etc. They still act as salvage mechanics in that they find old stuff and fix it, and will also help people in town with fixing stuff like bicycles and other mechanical things. For in game purposes, they'd be a loosely controlled group, most employees acting almost like independent contractors, with no serious structure beyond someone handling finances, someone handling inventory, and someone managing projects (these can all be taken on by characters in game if someone wants to their character to be in that position). I get the impression that it's a very laid back corporate culture because it's always a business that will be needed in some form, but not something that will constantly have steady work. Most of the employees, as independent contractors, will likely have other jobs to fill the gaps between projects (think: crab fishermen on the Bering Sea, construction workers, landscapers, etc.). Because Duo isn't necessarily "in charge" early in canon, he wouldn't be in game, either, when he first starts out, but, if someone feels their character would fit the role, they are welcome to give it a go. I would be glad to offer up information as it's available. Duo may, as the game progresses, reach a point where he wants to open his own small shop that will be affiliated or under the Sweepers, but he'll likely never be a CEO. I'm totally okay with someone else taking the reins of the group if it comes to that. I also have no issue with having Duo refer to the others he works with as "boss" or "job buddy" or some other nickname instead of giving them specific names in case they can be applied for as characters in game.