| From: | shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam) |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Maxim(forwarded from ShadowTK) |
| Date: | Thu, 25 Jan 1996 02:27:07 GMT |
> stuff later on when I have more time. But for now, just a few comments
> that are immediately appropos.
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Paul J. Adam wrote:
> > What will the second wave be? Someone was willing to expend millions in
> > hardware and troops to destroy that facility. Since conventional weapons
> > failed...
>
> After the nearly total destruction of the facility(Maxim is going for
> spin doctoring), the Court would have issued a second ultimatum which
> Maxim would have immediately responded to and followed to the letter.
> This would be within 12 hours, so any action after that would meet a
> Maxim Arms that is compliant with the Court.
Then the problem fails to arise. How it fails to arise will need
discussion: most likely a frosty response from the Court that the matter
is in hand and no attacks on any Maxim facility on, in or surrounded by
UCAS territory are anticipated, et cetera et cetera: that government
interference in corporate matters is irrelevant and unwelcome; et cetera.
The politicians in the UCAS can claim a victory. The corps know the real
score. The public can be reassured that it's all SOP in response to a
(fill in the blanks, it's very late) incident and there was never any
risk or danger.
> > Also, exactly where *is* Velli? Where is the Board? Are they advertising
> > their location?
>
> Velli and the Board are in the Ute Sector of the FRFZ at Maxim Arms HQ.
> The only HQ on UCAS territory is Maxim Aerotech, and that's in the FRFZ
> as well. Maxim has split it's corporate HQs between all the sectors of
> the FRFZ(Denver). In addition, Maxim Arms pretty much runs the rest of
> the subsidiaries as well as providing security, military, and
> intelligence assets. As such, the parent company has only 8 facilities
> worldwide, and they are; Quito, Ecuador; London; Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
> Sidney; Denver; Sidney; Hilo, Hawaii; Marrakech, Moroccco.
It was actually a rhetorical question in answer to "why so general a
posting"? :) However, the phrases 'holding company' and 'wholly owned
subsidiary' come to mind when looking at 'only eight facilities' for
a major corporation.
> Like I said, I'll respond to this in a lot more detail later. But by 4
> hours after you had sent the message, Maxim would have been in compliance
> with the Court's ruling regarding the nukes, they would all have been
> stored in Cambodia(or, since SE Asia is nearly a war zone ruled by local
> warlords, what's left of it) or presumed destroyed. The rest of the plot
> will be a while in coming.
The UCAS *might* try some investigation to verify that, but certainly not
within that sort of timescale, and probably unsuccessfully: if Maxim are at
least nominally back within the fold, the Court would then be protecting
Maxim and much of what I've written (re. an isolated corp) becomes irrelevant.
In any case, outside the UCAS = out of sight, out of mind, someone else's
problem, and most of all expensive to check.
--
Paul J. Adam
