| From: | ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.COLORADO.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Maxim. |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Oct 1995 18:42:02 -0600 |
Well, you weren't around for the Org/Maxim plot that followed Dante's death.
Well, what happened was that The Org was a private intelligence gathering
orginization that AJ had built up over 30 years of being an arms dealer
and an excellent street samurai. He retired after the "corp" that ran it
originally was destroyed, and the Org was moved under Maxim. Maxim later
started getting connected by the german BIS and Interpol to The Org, and
thus to AJ and most of my characters. When this happened, AJ and
crew(look at the Org as a CIA type group--once you're in, you're never
out again no matter how much you might want to be.) went to Berlin and NY
and destroyed the only proof and tried to destroy the only people who
knew enough to cause Maxim grief. The almost succeeded. In the process,
Velli had been ascending the ranks of Maxim through assassination. My
decker character, Solitaire, was killed after she mad the connection that
Velli was paying Dante to do some special work for her. Velli then hired
an assassin team to kill her boss, Collussus the cyborg, and became VP of
Corporate Security. Then she had the CEOs ear and manipulated him into
doing what she wanted. After that, she killed him, although he's
officially resigned and on a permanent vacation, and she took his place.
Originally, when Solitaire was running Matrix security, Maxim had a
veritable fortress in the Matrix. Most of it the HQ in Boulder is still
off-line, and all of the R&D connections to the Matrix require that they
be bridged physically from within the facility, which happens to be
either the new one in Algonqian-Manitou, the one in Orbit, or the
original, buried about 200 feet beneath the corporate HQ. the HQ is
still a fortress, but a little easier to get to. The other subsidiary
HQs are smaller fortresses, except for the Maxim Arm. Tech., the military
folk. They have the latest in milspec IC and have no problems using it
all through the system. Other than that, the locals all have much lower
matrix security than they used to, with the only exception of
encryption. All my major deckers have one thing that they excell in.
Solitaire's expertise was encryption and decryption code. And Maxim
still modifies and improves on her code. I'd like to say that they are
the best in the world for this stuff, but that'd be a big change, so
they're just really good at it.
Magical security: Well, they have a large number of mages on thier
staff, more than anyone except Azzy and S-K, because of the Org. The Org
had what were effectively special ops units called Quads, and they
consisted of one mage, one adept, one rigger/decker, and a sam. There
were hundreds of these quads, and although many were split up when the
Org went down, they form the backbone of the Maxim magical section.
Maxim Armament Research and MASystems do the magic research, and of
course, the HQ is damn near impenetrable. They use passive goodies,
including ivy and other living stuff to keep astral beings out, and they
have many nice critters too. Add to it at least a bonded elemental or
two per minor facility, up to a dozens of watchers and spirits for the
HQ, and they're decently protected in this realm.
Physical is where these guys reign supreme. They were a military
provider originally, regardless of how they are branching out now, and
they still make most of their money of this area. The major facilities
will all have at least one Quad in them, usually repsonsible for
security. Minor facilities will have just your normal sec guards, but
thos normal sec guards are still armed in security armor and carry SMGs
with explosive or APDS ammo as a standard. Expensive, but Maxim can
afford it. Also, any facility that is alone in a city or not within 10
minutes flying time of another is considered major in this regard, even
though it may only be a warehouse. And the truly major
facilities(excluding the 5 in Denver, that is) have the people with
heavy duty armor and the really great stuff. If something is going to go
nuts, then expect the power armor, lasers, full auto sniper rifles, API
and APDI and DU ammo to come out and play, and if it's near a MAT
facility(or Maxim expected something to hit the fan), expect military units.
The way I introduced Maxim as a power in the corporate world was by
having them defeat Aztechnology in a Desert Wars engagement that was
originally to be totally simulated, and that turned nasty when the Azzys
decided to play rough. If I remember correctly, Maxim inflicted 70%
losses on Azzy while getting only 40 or 45% themselves. Their big toys
are VT and air cushion military and security vehicles, but they're
getting into aerospace fighters. IE combat planes that fight in orbit as
well as in the atmosphere.
Now, for research. Well, Maxim has been digging into some new armor,
both personal and vehicle, and are alwasys looking for new weapons
systems. In my game, their VT MBT(I can't remember what I called it....)
has an APZ that is laser based rather than blast/flechette/Sentry(TM) gun
based. And they have railguns, and are working on battle lasers, man and
vehicle portable, and the list goes on and on and on. Mostly military
goodies that conflict directly with Ares, S-K, and Aztechnology for the
most part. Their matrixware research is almost exclusively encryption
programs, but they have some really nasty ones(like encryption that has
black IC in the code for secure data packet transmission). Thier IC
research is rather limited, but they do have a protodeck that is rather
powerful that the rest of the world might like to see.
Magically, very little. They are working on discovering the secret of
Cybermancy, but are having little success, partly to the abhorance of
most of the researchers.
They have a major presence in Aerospace, Computer Science(mostly
encryption and control software for their tanks and such), computer
engineering, chemistry, military tech, with limited research in cyber and
biotech. This is changing, however, and they've been able to make a few
leaps regarding electronic ways to destroy/short out temporarily
cyberware.
That's all I have from memory, although I have much more if I care to
look it up.
Now that i've waxed on and on, mind if I know why you wanted to know? Or
was it just general info so you'd have a better idea of Maxim?
Brian
