Q4 2016
Inform Ms. Papanous that she can have a place in the bunker for free, but only as much as any other person, Korir included (egalitarian spaces and all that, you see). If she's got a circle of friends to come along to make a round 20 people, then she can have quarters for 20 people. Or, if this is unacceptable, provide her space enough to house two people as a gesture of personal goodwill.
Meanwhile, start quietly selling my real estate to the company (at a discount) bit by bit at a pace that would have most of it sold by the end of next year.
1. Figure out if we can get water wells to work in the bunker so that we don't even need desalinization.
2. Regardless of the previous results, check Mr. Rasmussen's info and whether it might help with desalinizing water for human use.
3. How's the wastewater treatment, then? Look into that and see if improvements can be made.
4. Furnish the bunker with sturdy, yet tasteful furniture and amenities that would provide an enjoyable living experience for however long is required.
5. Make sure there's at least some room for security in this bunker of mine, with a few holding cells and some nonlethal weaponry.
6. Also collect assorted, multitudinous knowledge on microfiche, obtain microfilm viewers to educate future generations.
Consider her informed.
You will sell 2.2 bil USD worth of land every quarter for 1.5 bil USD until end of Q4 2017. Unless I failed my math this would leave you 1 bil worth of real estate. Is this OK? Naturally this much will drop profits of your company.
Now the bunker business:
1. [3] Wells? The bunker is dug on 3 km height into volcanic rock. Only wells you dig are no different from mines. Well, if you dig downwards 10 km you could find some water hiding down there. This side of mountain isn't terribly wet so you would need to drain water from surface. Which might not be a good idea depending how high the water will raise during the incoming flood.
2. [5
+1] The data Mr. Rasmussen send is quite simple and easily understandable as long as you have even slightest idea what you are doing. You could build this system by yourself. It could definitely improve availability of clean water in your bunker.
3. [5] It has the water filteration system you had installed earlier. It's good, but NASA patented filteration system could improve it even further.
4. [5] You find great deals of pleasant and good furniture and other things. After those are installed you take a tour in the bunker. You find that despite of lack of space it would be very nice to live in here. And if you switch rooms every few years you could spend a lifetime here without getting too bored, assuming you survive that long.
5. [4] Done. It does drop personel capacity by 50.
6. [2] You can find anyone who's currently selling those. Looks like you need to put in custom order for various manufacturers and libraries.
Personal financial situation:This quarter was rather crappy, stocks lose value and dividends take a steep dive downwards as well.
End year company finances:On this year revenue increased by impressive 3 billion USD, but some unexpected expenses, such as your land trades, kept profit same.
CEO: Codeine Ogudi Korir.
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Personal traits:- Well-read
- Quick hands
- Quick pitches
Personal wealth: 21.942 billion USD
- Real estate: 9.8 bil USD
- Stocks: 6.9 bil USD
- Cash: 5.242 bil USD
Quarterly income: 189 mil USD- Salary: 175 mil USD
- Dividend: 14 mil USD
Company name: The Equatorial Foods Corporation
Business:- Agribusiness
- Biotechnological research
Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya
Total - Annual revenue: 25 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 4 billion USD
Has highly competent staff specialized on gene modification.
Stockpiles of MREs.
Has airtight old military bunker in Mount Kenya.
Qualified workers working on it.
Can host 950 people indefinitely.
Waste is turned into bio-diesel to be used in generators.
Furnished with sturdy and tasteful furniture and amenities.
Has space for security, including holding cells and nonlethal weapons.
Technology: Aquaponics: "It works".
- Continue ongoing work.
- Try to pick up some of the aquaponics people Korir burned to improve the systems.
- Begin slow sell-off of nonessential real estate.
- Start a very careful evaluation of company and associate personnel, particularly those who are young, highly skilled in relevant fields, and highly motivated.
To Sophia: No doubt that is true, and the monetary price is within acceptable limits. Nevertheless, we will not have room for malingerers, and the ships shall certainly not be divided into personal fiefdoms. However, I have already begun the process of identifying suitable candidates, and I would not at all be opposed to an arrangement in which you could submit lists of your own recommendations -- if they are useful individuals, they'll certainly be included. That, and there will be more than one ship completed on time.
So, rather than managing the engineering compartments of a single vessel, you could perhaps retain overall command of one of the six ships, with an actual Captain managing day-to-day operations of the vessel. This is to be a joint venture, after all, but I and my own people have generations of experience building, sailing, and maintaining ships. Naturally your own experts would be the ones to service and maintain Byzantine's equipment, I merely aim to remove the possibility for political fragmentation.
Work continues.
[6] You get them, but they demand rather outrageous wage. If they can't prove they are worth of it, then other half of company leadership wants to kick them out. (In other words, if they roll under 3 they are fired.)
[4] You sell 2 billion dollars worth of land and buildings. This will automatically continue until you tell to stop.
[6] Evaluation in progress.
USA power company research: [4] Terrestrial generator design is now finished and they too start building it. They start work on miniaturizing the desing for ship use.
European power company research: [4] Miniaturized fusion reactor design is done. Their version for primary reactor indeed does its job, but its spare capacity is not as big as you would hope. Will you wait for version from USA company before choosing which one to green light for ark ships? You should have about half year (two turns) time to decide before any ship is in state where reactors needs to be installed.
Desalinization plants: [1] The engineers quit after doing basically nothing. On top of that they also start a new company dealing with advanced desalinization plants. Their design isn't exactly like yours, but similar enough for you to understand that they stole your data.
Aquaponics research: [5] These scientists are dead set to prove their worth and they do so. They essentially finish the work they started under Korir.
Your assorted patents cost you 750 000 USD this year.
Sophia Papanous sends her hydro engine design and bunch of other research data for you to use.
Ark-ships:
#1: [1] Still no progress. Reserved builders start messing around shipyards and one dies in accident.
#2: [6] Materials for framework finally come and work starts
#3: [1] Accident prevents any work being done. Luckily no human lives were lost, but some of earlier work was lost.
#4: [1] Same here.
#5: [1] And here.
#6: [6] This one finally gets materials and builders get into work with great enthusiasm.
Personal financial situation:Your finances are doing good.
End year company finances:Mining - Revenue inceases, but profits drop sharply. It is partially explained by raw metals being fed for self-repairing metals production, another part is because of expenses for improving safety in renewing mining equipment, but there's still large amouint of money missing. Has someone been stealing money?
Shipbuilding - Ship building is now more lively, thanks to your ark-ships.
Self-repairing metals - So far your single factory has been producing metals for your ships only. It doesn't have capacity to produce any extra for external sales.
CEO: Herwald Rasmussen V.
Gender: Male.
Age: 53.
Personal traits:- Model-building
- Unlimited-weight all-waters U.S. Merchant Marine Captain's license
Personal wealth: 23.024 billion USD
- Real estate: 4 bil USD
- Stocks: 5.0 bil USD
- Cash: 12.108 bil USD
Quarterly income: 565 mil USD- Salary: 215 mil USD
- Dividend: 400 mil USD
Company name: Rasmussen Steel Services.
Business:- Mining and Refining
- Shipbuilding
Headquarters: Main office in Boston, USA. Strong secondary office retained in London, UK.
Mining - Annual revenue: 58 billion USD
Mining - Annual profit: 14 billion USD
Self-repairing metals - Annual revenue: 0 USD
Self-repairing metals - Annual profit: 0 USD
Shipbuilding - Annual revenue: 17 billion USD
Shipbuilding - Annual profit: 0 billion USD
Total - Annual revenue: 75 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 14 billion USD
Desalinization engineers view you unworthy.
Has some working reluctantly on desalinization plant data.
Design for expensive and overly large ark-ship.
Desing of ark-ships oriented around long-term sustainability, durability and autonomy.
In construction.
Deal with USA power company and secretly with European power company:
Rasmussen Steel Services grants to the power company non-exlusive licence to produce land-based fusion reactors.
Power company must desing and build two variants of shipboard fusion reactor.
Power company must not redistribute technology received from Rasmussen Steel Services.
Prototype factory: Self-repairing metal.
High wage aquaponics scientists.
Has effective aquaponics technology.
Has on board fusion reactor design from europe.
The foundation should focus on research that might convince the population to worry more about floods.
Assist in any way possible with the bunkers, send any equipment and specialist I am asked to.
Pay bonuses to mercenaries to ensure their loyalty.
Send my engines and other researched equipment to Herwald Rasmussen V.
Start slowly selling off real estate to have it completely finished within a year.
Compose a list of loyal engineers and mercs that I could potentially take onboard the Ark.
You can have a place in the bunker for free, but only as much as any other person, me included (egalitarian spaces and all that, you see). If you got a circle of friends to come along to make a round 20 people, then you can have quarters for 20 people. Or, if this is unacceptable, I can provide you space enough to house two people as a gesture of personal goodwill.
Ok. [2] Foundation doesn't do much progress there. Deep sea study is quite difficult.
Korir haven't requested any as far as I can see.
[6] They gladly take your money.
Done.
[3] Sold 500 mil USD worth of real estate.
[3] Some potential engineers found, but so far no mercs loyal enough are found. They might work only for money, but more detailed research should shed more light into the matter.
Personal financial situation:Stocks increase their value, but dividends drop badly.
End year company finances:Electricity - Revenue increases a little, but profits triple, mostly thanks for your new solar panels.
Oil - Numbers remain largely same.
Coal - Markets sails back and worth like a ship without captain. Last year was bad, but this year sees large increase both in revenue and profits.
This year total profit doubles, so board of directors thinks it is fine to rise your quarterly salary by 50 million USD.
CEO: Sophia Papanous
Gender: Female
Age: 54
Personal traits: - Mathematics
- Knows electricity
- Cold and Rational
Personal wealth: 26.727 billion USD
- Real estate: 3.5 bil USD
- Stocks: 15 bil USD
- Cash: 8.227 bil USD
Quarterly income: 367 mil USD- Salary: 266 mil USD
- Dividend: 101 mil USD
Company name: Byzantine Energetics Inc.
Business: - Producing and selling electrical energy
- Oil Shafts and Coal Mines
Headquarters: Prague, Czech Republic
Electricity - Annual revenue: 11.4 billion USD
Electricity - Annual profit: 0.9 billion USD
Oil - Annual revenue: 41.1 billion USD
Oil - Annual profit: 1.8 billion USD
Coal - Annual revenue: 9 billion USD
Coal - Annual profit: 1.7 billion USD
Total - Annual revenue: 61.5 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 4.4 billion USD
Has improved solar panels
Has improved battery desing
Has effective on board hydro engine design
Deep Sea Discovery Foundation
Good reputation
Has mercenaries guarding power plants
Continue stock the ship with necessities, and make it more liveable.
Help fund the shipbuilding efforts, and offload some engineers, if there are any in the company's employment, to help with the effort.
[4] Done.
Your company doesn't really have any engineers that can participate ship building.
The 421.2 million USD you pay per quarter is continuous assistance and will not end until you say so.
Personal financial situation:Your stocks return to being trash paper, but at least dividends keep coming.
End year company finances:Pharmaceuticals - Revenues drop over 5 billion since last year, but somehow profits manage to remain up.
Kitchen appliances - Marketing and sales personel have done extraoridinary job this year. Revenue and profit see massive increase!
D Store - New medicines are basically taken out of hands, so store shelves are frequently empty. Revenue and profits increase, but reputation goes down a bit.
CEO: Priya Gupta
Gender: Female
Age: 47
Personal traits: - Persuasive
- Meticulous
- Caring
Personal wealth: 37.023 billion USD
- Real estate: 8 bil USD
- Stocks: 0.4 bil USD
- Cash: 28.623 bil USD
Quarterly income: 248.5 mil USD- Salary: 232.5 mil USD
- Dividend: 16 mil USD
Company name: Dharma Inc.
Business: - Kitchen appliances
- Pharmaceuticals
- Small chain of drugstores, named the D Store
Headquarters: Mumbai, India
Pharmaceuticals - Annual revenue: 40 billion USD
Pharmaceuticals - Annual profit: 13 billion USD
Kitchen appliances - Annual revenue: 15 billion USD
Kitchen appliances - Annual profit: 2 billion USD
D Store - Annual revenue: 25 million USD
D Store - Annual profit: 3 million USD
Total - Annual revenue: 55.25 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 15.003 billion USD
Owns a "small" ship
Has canned food to feed crew and passengers for a year as well as other necessities.
NEWS:Financial:Economy is back doing great. Business should be good in coming months.
Q1 2017