Balls. I forgot I switched the colours around.
Viking Union was for PinkCorp - not YellowCorp.
Sorry!

You know theres already a cyberpunk rpg right? it's called cyberpunk. Just play that dude.

>>3351042

yes, I know Cyberpunk 2020, but it's not what I'm really looking for.
Thanks for the input though.

Browncorp should stay browncorp and should be a waste management company.

What have you done to the USA?

>>3351053

What system are you using?

syndicate rpg? sounds awesome

browncorp stays browncorp

what the shit

pinkcorp = Kalil Enterprises

>>3351100

or yellowcorp or whatever

>>3351069

It's still the USA - it's tough to see in the small map but national borders are in black, while corporate borders are in grey. Most smallish or poorer nations are wholly controlled, whereas very large or wealthy nations are divided up depending on which corporations control trade and industry in which areas.
In the time of the original Syndicate the Corporations have reached a kind of parity with the national governments, but they're not in total control just yet. Makes for some interesting conflicts.

>>3351081

Unisystem, almost certainly.

>>3351060

Oh you! Brown is not entirely impossible as a corporation name though...

if you have a eurocorp, you must have browncorp

sorry, rules of the world

>>3351100

Is Kalil just a name or is there some other meaning behind it?

Yellow = Scientology Industries LTD

>>3351132

EuroCorp is one of the canonical factions dude.

Is Krakov just the USSR?

Pink should be the Mary Kay Perfume Conglomerates Ltd.

>>3351138
Kal-El?

I fucking loved syndicate

JAPAN BREAK INDUSTRIES!

>>3351178

I love it. Especially if their primary trade is in weapons.

>>3351179

This was my first thought too.

>>3351168

Not at all - they're rampantly capitalist for a start, and their sphere of influence is wildly different from that of the USSR - they control much less of Russia and much more of the Middle East and Africa.

Did you really expect tg to be helpful? lol

Viro Engineering for orange, because Africa is AIDS. It could have sprung up as an international effort to cure the disease that gradually gained autonomy.

Mom's Friendly Cyborg Company!

>>3351199

Weaponized Eau de Toilette, or weaponized Womanly Hygiene Products.

>>3351275

Welp, there goes my lunch.

Why won't my DM do a Syndicate rpg?

The east coast US is home to some of the biggest and richest companys in the world. They should be in one of the big corps - or even controlling one.

>>3351242
Orange would probably suit more to something to do with drinking water, seeing as the Russian area seems to be above the permafrost, and Africa and Australia are drier than a good martini.

>>3351242

I've been trying very hard to not think these sorts of thoughts.
You are a bad man.

>>3351311

>The east coast US is home to some of the biggest and richest companys in the world.

It is, which is why it's managed to resist being subsumed into one of the Multinationals, those huge comapnies like Microsoft (for example - I haven't decided if Microsoft still exist in this period - maybe some Apple/Microsoft merger would be fun) have enough money to resist takeover bids.

>>3351321

Lots of those 'uninhabitable' areas are home to hevay industry like mining for example.
Drinking water is probably a major commodity in the horrible future though... I hadn't thought of that.

I should point out that although every corp will have flagship products that they're known for, they are actually HUGE conglomerates of dozens - even hundreds of smaller companies that they gobbled up over time, so every company probably poduces every commodity in some measure.

I'm not familiar with syndicate. What sort of game are you planning?

>>3351138

its just an arabic name

YOU ARE CLOSE TO MY HEART

AND I FUCKING LOVE YOU

>>3351361
id assume similar to how syndicate played

ie, you send agents (presumably the players) into a rival corporation controlled territory and do something that causes them to lose enough resources that eurocorp can take over

This is awesome, and you should feel awesome.

>>3351361

As I said a little way up there ^ in Syndicate the corporations are on almost equal footing with national governments, and are always bucking and vying for corporate control of areas which are rich in resources or consumers.
Sectors of industry or commerce that would in our time be fought over with advertising ("Buy our cigarettes!" "No, buy ours!") are fought over just as much with guns - why spend millions in advertising and many years hard work trying to break a rival corp monopoly in France, for example, when you can just waltz in, blow up the rival corp regional HQ and stock, and then fill the void with your own product?

That's a very crude example, but you get the idea.

pink corp would be human resources conglomerate

if you want personnel, think pink

Pink = Bharat Unlimited Economic Solutions (Usually just called Bharat.)

Many corporations strive to instill loyalty in their employees, a sense of belonging and purpose, but none succeed in quite manner of Bharat.

Formed in a merger between a Swedish electronics engineering firm and a Delhi-based technical consulting and customer-support group, Bharat grew explosively in its early years. Its spread has slowed recently, as it consolidates its holdings and indoctrinates the inhabitants of its regions with its peculiar ideology.

Bharat unabashedly considers itself an improvement over national governments, and the debt-riddled failing states it shares territory are finding it increasingly difficult to disagree. Bharat's employees are employees for life... and possibly beyond, in the opinion of those who subscribe to the in-house sect of Hinduism. Children born to Bharat families enjoy the benefits of comprehensive child services, including a creche system that allows ambitious parents to leave their children's upbringing entirely to the company. At 15, children take aptitude tests to determine their caste (the official term is "ideal leveraged placement prospectus") and then embarked on specialized training to become managers, factory workers, human-resources counselors (essentially priests,) and so on. Promotions are generally only possible within caste, not from one caste to another; that's left for your next reincarnation, if you perform well in this one.

That the kind of thing you were hoping for, OP?

Brown Corp, formerly known as Frank and Jim's Feces Reduction Co. They changed their name after a sudden explosion of success due to their slippery market maneuvering.

Their current top secret projects include
-Undetectable aerosol laxatives
-Chemically changing feces into a cheap, sturdy and weather proof building material.
-Collecting vast stores of information based on garbage and chemically analyzing waste for blackmail purposes.
-Trash-compactor/Mass driver orbital weapon satellites.

Brown: Bolivar Pacific Corporation.
Headquarters: Caracas, Venezuela (possibly also a giant underwater facility under the Caribbean)

Specializes in the production of Oil (Venezuela, Alaska, Phillipines) and vaulable metal (Andes). The uncontested leader in anything having to do with underground surveying, drilling and mining, Bolivar's latest tactic has been to gain control of areas of the world that no one else has seemed to want like Indonesia and use their skills to rape the countryside of their metals. Originally founded from the takeover of the Venezuelan government by the state-ran oil company, Citgo.

>>3351402

Even if nobody else had contributed this alone would have made the thread worthwhile. It's fantastic, thank you very much!

>>3351384

Pretty much, although in the time frame of this game the Agents do not truly exist yet - the players will start out as basic Security troops, but around the time the first cybernetic enhancement experiments are taking place.

>>3351380

:3

>>3351412
> Trash-compactor/Mass driver orbital weapon satellites.

Like... An Ion canon, that throw condensated shit from Space ?

OH WOW

>>Evening everybody.
I'm planning a Syndicate RPG

YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING MORE TO SAY, I'M IN

>>3351402

I thought some kind of stylised lotus blossom might make a nice corporate logo.....

>>3351412

>Chemically changing feces into a cheap, sturdy and weather proof building material.
>Trash-compactor/Mass driver orbital weapon satellites.

:3 Syndicate Wars actually has an orbital weapon which drops solid objects onto targets.
And in Africa some primitive tribes still build huts out of poop - amongst other things!

>>3351422

This is wonderful! I already had KRAKOV pegged as mining and industry, but perhaps manufacturing would be more their style Either way your propsal is great and I'd like to work it in.

>>3351402

Oh, yeah, forgot products!

Bharat is slandered for producing "cheap crap," but this is an unfair depiction of their business model. They are masters of mass-production. Bharat engineers (traditionally Scandinavians, though more Indians have been entering the caste recently) pride themselves on "simple perfection;" they design a produce with simplicity, durability, efficiency, and ease of production in mind, and then turn their design over to the massive manufacturing capabilities of Bharat's Indian subcontinent facilities.

If you want an insanely expensive one-of-a-kind sniper rifle with sharkskin grips and custom ammo that can fire through bulletproof glass a mile away but jams in high humidity, look elsewhere. If you want six hundred million compact cars that will run for 50 years on vegetable oil... or six hundred million elegantly simple automatic rifles that will still work after being buried in a swamp for a week... Bharat Unlimited Economic Solutions will be pleased to business with you.

i assume nanosoft for all your future electronics(all of them) needs

>>3351450

ah ah oh wow. I should have though of that guy.

>>3351519

Pretty much. They're a merger between a few major American and Japanese firms. They're also one of the major producers of Maglev vehicles.

>>3351518

Fantastic! Post your surname man, so I can make you CEO!

unaligned areas have at least one pmc contracted at all times in order to play peacekeeper between corporations for the government.

I'm glad you're pleased with our Bharat proposal. I'm sure you'll agree that ceding all Orange areas to Morgan Industries is a pittance to pay for the idea.

You'll need to give it a twist for your setting, of course. In AC Morgan Industries was THE megacorp, which means it's kind of generic for a megacorp.

Suggestion: beneath the professionalism, the corporate culture has an undercurrent of vengeance. In the previous century, the world grew fat while Africa starved... but now the colonized and oppressed have the power and skills to acquire all that was cruelly denied them.

This stance is never admitted officially, but Morgan Industries tactics tend to be particularly vicious when dealing with groups they perceive as the successors to the unfairly advantaged of yesteryear. In a conflict between Bharat and Eurocorp, for instance, they'd side with Bharat as long as the cost-benefit analysis was somewhere close to equal.

Their dealings with Krakov, who they consider to be both irritatingly white and encroaching on their rightful turf, are particularly violent; using assassination when bribery might be just as effective, or choosing poison gas instead of a hacker info-war attack to shut down a rival facility.

>>3351629

Governments are still in nominal control, even in corp areas. It's not easy to fully explain - an example from the games is that during missions you can -and often will - have to kill police officers or even soldiers. The corps have so much power that, although it'll cause a clusterfuck, the corps can generally throw money at that kind of problem until it goes away.

You never actively work against the governments, but since the government police don't like you having running gun battles in the streets with rival corp agents (an inevitable event) you often have to kill them to succeed in your real objective.

>>3351422 again.

Orange: Monselix Biosynthetic Co.
Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya

“The surest way to control a man is through their stomach.” - Morgan Tsangarai, President Monselix Biosynthetic Co.

Formed from the combination of 4 major genetic engineering, bio-agricultural, and farming companies, Monselix has singlehandedly turned Africa into the breadbasket of the world, and Australia and New Zealand into it's butcher shop. Bio-synthetic plants and animals that grow to maturity ten times faster than normal under any drought or flood conditions. Cows and sheep that grow to the height of a man. Insects bio-engineered to cure disease instead of causing it. These are what give Monselix their economic status.

Their unmatched ability to reshape the genome, and alter bio-chemistry after decades of experimentation, along with their risk-averse policy to fighting has led many things suitable for humans as well. First on that list is Monselix's ability to drug their citizenry into happiness, and the desire to eat their engineered food. Not surprisingly, Monselix influenced areas have a higher rate of obesity than anywhere else in the world. Valued employees can get a rapidly-increasing range of genetic modifications, most of which are still a secret.

Monselix isn't heavily involved in arms production, preferring to control the world by being able to choke off their supplies of food and water. For any other work that needs to be done, they can also be quite adept at making uncontrolled territories achieve their goals for them, in exchange for enough food to survive the winter.

>>3351648
>>3351677

Somehow I have to combine these two beautiful pieces of work. You're all spoiling me with your efforts.

By the by; this is the kind of thing I'm thinking for the Bharat logo. The actual version will have much cleaner lines, however - and colour of course.
I'm still not sure about it though - it only really represents the Indian part of the syndicate.

>>3351648

coda: CEO Nwabudike Morgan himself probably acts as a check on this behavior, as he holds practicality and profit above mere ideas of justice. However, he does recognize the morale benefit to his employees... so he allows the practice to continue, but tries to ensure it doesn't hurt the bottom line or lead the company into reckless or unprofitable acts.

>>3351013
Uberlutnet? you come to /tg/? I thought you lived on /v/!

>>3351706

I'm a regular visitor of /tg/, /v/ and /co/.
The unholy trinity of nerdy puruits.

I mostly post without my tripcode on /tg/ and /co/...

>>3351688

Groovy... the ideas aren't incompatible, after all, and more ideas make for a better-developed setting. And sweet Jesus, the idea of a biotech company with a grudge is downright terrifying. YOU GONNA GET AIDS.

I do however INSIST on Nwabudike Morgan.

>>3351648

>Nwabundike Morgan

FUCK YEAH YOU'RE THE BEST NIGGER EVER

Morgan Biosynthetic?
Monselix Industries?
Monselix Biosynthetic Industries?

Decisions, decisions. The first is quite pleasing on the tongue.

>>3351723
>>3351677 here.
Agreed. N-longname Morgan it is.

Also, mosquito transferred Ebola, or AIDS, or simply making a large plant like a watermelon that can implant into the victim's stiomach and live off the nutrients provided would be sweet.. The plant doesn't sound so bad until about 2-3 weeks in when the giant fruit rips through the stomach lining and eventually the skin. Or strangling an outpost under super-fast growing kudzu. I think I'm giving myself a hard-on.

>>3351752

Sir, our focus group studies indicate consumers find the name "Morgan Biosynthetic" less impersonal and intimidating. The use of CEO Morgan's name evokes the reassuring and obsolete idea of a lone artisan starting a business; the friendly town blacksmith, if you will.

We project use of this name will result in a 2.7% increase in consumer loyalty, or alternately offset the propaganda damage from one class-C bioweapons outbreak per annum.

>>3351778

Damnit, man. You're transferring your sneaky plans/delicious destruction boner to me via Internet.

Stop it.

Now we're getting somewhere.....

>>3351778
>Africa
>watermelon

>>3351831
lol, I didn't even think about that. Watermelon was just the first fruit that came to mind.

Archival on the Sup /tg/ about to be set in motion.

Title: Oberleutnant's Syndicate RPG, #1

Desc: Brainstorming for what looks to be a seriously intense potential game of Syndicate RPG.

Sound good?

Ahah... aha, really? Now where did you hear that?

I assure you, rumors that Morgan Biosynthetic is researching racially-selective pathogens is pure propaganda... bald lies spread by our competitors in an attempt to reignite the reprehensible racial tensions of yesteryear. We are not now seeking, nor have we ever sought, some foolish sort of vengeance for the atrocities wrought upon our ancestors. That's all in the past.

Last year's epidemic? Come now, reports that the so called "screaming flu" affected only persons of European descent are hear-say, pure and simple. And, after all, if Morgan Biosynthetic had some sort of grudge against those afflicted, we wouldn't have immediately begun selling the cure, would we?

FUCK YES DO WANT.

This thread is rapidly becoming about the boner we're all getting for Morgan Industries.

COMMUNISM WAS HERE

CORPORATION IS A LOSER

Did somebody say Megacorps? I think I heard somebody say Megacorps.

It's far too gaudy in colour, but I really love that shape.
Any thoughts?

Do you have a logo for eurocorp?

>>3352004

its a bullfrog

>>3351963

It's definitely super heavy on the Indian influence, without a lot of Nordic/Viking. That might be a good thing though depending on which half of the world's running the company.

>>3352004

The Bullfrog logo is standard I think.
I was experimenting with a highly stylised Bulls head (Europa and all that) but I'll most likely leave it as is.

>>3351013

OP, your choice of setting is wise and good.

And for a TPK, go for that motherfucking Atlantic Accelerator.

who else was pissed that even after conquering the entire map in syndicate, even the fuckhard atlantic accelerator, you get no ending cutscene

>>3352023

That's just it, I'd want to combine elements of both cultures into one simple and powerful symbol, but the only Scandinavian cultural symbol I can think of (to my shame) is a Longship....

>>3351963
Simplify the colours.

Use two colours - background and logo; or three at most, if you need to - background, logo main and logo highlight.

If you use a few, strong colours that catch the eye the logo will be more simple and effective than having dozens of colours in there.

>>3352054

Dig into Norse mythology. There's no end of crazy world-killing monsters to name a corporation after there.

>>3352071

I know :) I was just experimenting with various tones. I want to find something *just right*.

Nanosoft destroys Krakov in an inter-corp war and the Police have a lot of suicides.

>>3352084

We're not that far into the future just yet, but I'm incredibly please to see I'm not the only G-Police fan here. There'll probably be a Government Police unit in the game too.

Got a minor update. No surprises here I think.

>>3352129

EuroCorp should probably expand just a little farther down the African coast, so as to come into contact (and implied conflict) with Morgan Bio.

Just a thought.

Maybe you can have a stylized version of the Serpent of Midgard (sp) either emerging from or encircling the flower. A snake that eats it's own tail that's big enough to surround the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jormungandr
the o has umlauts.

Also, I'm throwing together something for the yellow.

>>3352103
Underfunded, ineffectual and taking a beating from corporations with military-grade hardware, I presume?

>>3352206

Oh there'll be plenty of conflict on all sides. These kinds of corporate wars are very asymmetric - even if you don't share a physical border with somebody the odds are you have conflict over something.
Anyway, those unaligned areas are ripe for the plunder, so as one corp moves in to try and lock that area down, you can bet any others with interests in the region will hit back hard.

As it stands Eurocorp is very much a little upstart, and I like that for a position from which to begin a campaign. Gives the players some motivation to do well.

>>3352219

I was thinking a highly stylised Kraken like in the pic, but this idea is perhaps even better.

>>3352226

But of course!
I just have some beautiful ideas for incorporating Havoc Gunships. :D

Yellow: PeopleSoft Corp.
Headquarters: Shanghai, China.

A man by himself is a target. A group of men, a danger. A mass of men, an unstoppable force.

In the last century it became evident that the Chinese were going through a economic revolution. A generation of leaders learned that it was fine to let their subjects earn money, as long as they controlled everything else. That lesson is evident in the PeopleSoft conglomerate's way of doing business. PeopleSoft doesn't want to control the way you make money.. What they do want to control is how you spend your money, down to the last dime.

After basically merging with the government of most of China, the Corporation fought for and received land to space out their massive population with a hostile takeover of Kazakhstan. They then exported their form of “Greed-Based Communism” to Central America where it became immensely popular, leading to immense revolts and the replacement of former governments with more...friendly leaders. They've used their expertise in Mexico to establish a foothold in the American South, but they don't have the complete level of control that they would like.

Yet.

Instead of focusing on areas of expertise like most other companies, PeopleSoft supplies everything for everyone in true Communist fashion. Need to buy food, go to People-Mart (just don't buy the super-cheap meat...PeopleSoft's prisons double as meatpacking plants for a reason). Do you need medical care? Go to The People's Hospital. Need a sportscar? Try driving the new LaRaza XT, made in scenic Mexico.

>>3351574

>Post your surname man, so I can make you CEO!

Hmm... this actually got me thinking. I don't give out my personal moniker over the interwebs, so I'd give my screen name... but would a Scandinavian/Indian firm accept a CEO named Leibowitz? So... here's the deal with the Bharat leadership.

CEO Udham Singh is gravely ill. The details (chemical or bioweapons attack, aggressor unknown) are not made public except for statements encouraging employees to pray for his health. Most do, for two reasons; the bearded old Sikh was a well-loved father figure to generations of Bharat employees, and most Bharat employees are religious.

This is unusual for a megacorporation. Most Corps feel that religion leads to employees with divided loyalties, who ask for irritating things like holidays off and object to certain products, research, and ventures on "moral grounds." Bharat is the notable exception... religion is actually encouraged, albeit specific interpretations of religion that lead to increased worker harmony and productivity. Most of the engineer caste is at least publicly agnostic, as they are under social pressure to appear scientifically minded and clear-thinking, but the laboring and management castes are largely devout Hindus and the security forces are primarily Sikhs.

The problem with this is that the man running the show while Udham Singh is down is his longtime friend and CFO Joachim Percival Leibowitz, American-born and of Jewish descent. While Leibowitz is competent and experienced (rumor has it he shared power with Singh for years) there is a dangerous undercurrent of discontent in corporation. Will he appoint a figurehead from good Hindu stock and rule from the shadows? Will he attempt to win over his people by excelling at his job, or by propaganda? Will he get capped in the back of the head for being an unenlightened foreigner? Will Bharat's massive security forces* stage a coup? The situation is dangerously fluid.

>>3352290
*Bharat may not have the highly-trained special agents of certain other corps. However, Bharat boasts high employee and consumer loyalty rates and has an unusual strategy of not merely dominating the marketplace of areas under their control but directly employing most of the populace, meaning that where other corps might send in 300 highly-trained and kitted-out commandos, Bharat sends in 30,000 soldiers with spiffy beards, stylish turbans, and a religion that requires them to go armed at all times. Manpower, mass production, and Mudras, that's the Bharat way.

>>3352284
They literally provide everything possible for their subjects, which means that they have to have a lot more interactions with other Corps and Governments so they can buy exotic items. They also have a lot of people, and show it by being able to stomach a larger amount of casualties than most other Corporations. Human wave attacks? A waste of trained personnel for most other companies, but to PeopleSoft it means that they can resell the deceased's homes (through People 21 realty, of course). Since they're also the government of most areas they control, either nominally or de facto, they can get away with crimes inside their territories that most Corps could only dream of.

>>3352284

PeopleSoft! Ha! I immediately think of some ridiculously colourful logo with a smiley face or something.

>>3352250
whoa man, browncorp is in a major position of power, they practically got nanocorp locked up in SA, they have all of indonesia and vietnam, thailand, malaysia, and the micronesians, with unaligned above that, unaligned below that area, though competing with orangecorp and eurocorp.
In south america they can pretty much pincer green and rape all of the unaligned, they're pretty fucked in north america though due to green being on both sides of the bering straight, but if they rush east/southeast and cut a deal with pinkcorp (possibly involving burma and southern china) they can totally secure a canuck position.

Just kill me now. :P

>>3352347
A bunch of smiley-face guys interlocked together to make the hammer + sickle.

>>3352315

Come now... You're talking about open warfare, and no one wants that. Bad for business. Unnecessary expense.

Bioweapons make kill workers and leave facilities usable, but buyouts net you the workers as well.

>>3352371

WRONG.

A gold star on a red field with a face like the Wal-Mart smiley.

TA-DA!

Yellow is a shock-labor megacorp, producing crap cheaply (what China does these days). They make cola bottles, metal cookware, toys, etc. General manufacturing and fabrication. Includes a lot of regions traditionally agricultural or just not very developed at all which gradually became sources of cheap labor and space to build factories. It was thus industrial space owned by various corporations from various other parts of the world that over time liberated and became self-owned, unionizing with the other such micro-corps across the world (because in the digital age and onward the world is flat via telecommunications).

Thus the yellowcorporation in more recent history is a union of neo-socialist worker managed factories that became a corporation with good publicity, and is corporatizing more and more over time, despite many worker-friendly regulations still being on the books.

Thus what was once a union of corporations (using the socialist sense of a corporation) is now a capitalist megacorp. Their name should be appropriately nondescript and utilitarian reflecting it's origins.

Light Industries

>>3352315

But remember, it's not just a case of walking into a bit of land and declaring ownership, it's as much about economy and supplying what the people want - or even about getting what you want - if an area has no resources that benefit your specific corporation then odd are you'll ignore it.
Bolivar Pacific (Brown) might not have any interests in those areas. I've yet to finalise any of it of course, so who knows.

>>3352290
>>3352296

I'm going to give this some thought and try to incorporate it into the corporate profile as much as possible. :)

>>3352379
But... Walmart HATES unions. And Unions are as close as communism that many of us will get.

>>3352383
>>3352284

Elements of both of these proposals would probably fit together very well. :)

>>3352374
war? nono i was talking market shares! with the ability to start an advertisment campaign from two parts of the country and roll your product in through several channels, it becomes much easier to obtain a larger market share.
Green is in a position to expand their north american dominance into the brown areas as well as the unaligned ones unless browncorp quickly consolidates itself as the leading provider and producer of everything you might need in the unaligned north american areas. Greenland while a minor market may be the aim of a joint venture between pinkcorp and browncorp, and similarly would a joint venture in the burmese/south chinese area mean browncorp could muster a simultaneous advance into the australian areas, positioning itself as the 'outsider' and the 'better man with a better product' of the australian continent.

YOU NEED TO NAME THEM AFTER THE ALPHA CENTAURI CORPORATIONS.

>>3351821
We of the PAC believe you may be engaging in some copyright infringement. Our tanks are here to recover all uses of our emblem. your compliance is appreciated.

I foresee bitter long-term conflict between Bharat and Peoplesoft. They're close neighbors, they boty have corporate cultures that aim for high levels of involvement and control in the areas they touch, they both favor large conventional militaries... and their ideologies are completely incompatible. Materialistic greed on one side, spiritual fulfillment and knowing your place in society on the other.

Note I'm not saying one ideology is better than the other, but a culture that purports to be materialistic and a culture that purports to be spiritual are likely to be at odds, especially when their business models compete with each other.

PEOPLESOFT

>>3352432

That was the inspiration, but it's too tall and not wide enough.
Also not Scandinavian enough.

>>3352443

Give him chink eyes and we have a winner

>>3352454
add in the ygdrasil tree. the lotus flow is already a plant, so it kinda fits.

>>3352454

Well, the Scandinavian influence could be fairly minor. After all, they're outnumbered by like a thousand to one.

They've got a presence in the engineering caste, but otherwise it's INDIANS EVERYWHERE.

>>3352438
You mean like China and India now? Good thing there's that giant mountain range in the way. :]

>>3352482

A gentleman above mentioned incorporating the oruborus /Midgard serpent and a lotus blossom. I think it's a nice concept. Something like this hideous monstrosity. I'll have to work on it, all of a sudden I'm flooded with material.

Would NPC agents have access to different equipment depending on who they work for? Pharmaceutical/biotech corp giving their agents experimental, powerful drugs to enhance their abilities, etc?

>>3352482
>>3352454
like so.

>>3352522

Well, as I mentioned earlier, the Agents do not truly exist yet, since Cybernetic enhancement is still somewhat experimental - that experimental nature will make it crucial to the plot as I imagine it so far, with rival corporations going to huge lengths to gain access to data and prototypes made by their rivals, since every corp will have their fingers in this pie to some extent (Eurocrop, NanoSoft and Bharat especially, but everybody will be interested in it).

But yes, I will be working out unique 'product lines' in terms of weapons and equipment for each corp, so far as it is useful and feasible.

>>3352522
I would certainly hope so.

Nanosoft = Computer skills / implanted machinery / EMP based Weaponry

Morgan BioSynth = Viruses / Poisons / Anything biological or chemical they're on top of it.

Bolivar = Underground transportation / Precise weaponry made from their mastery of Metallurgy / Geological weapons (evil plot? super high weaponry?)

Krakov = Energy weapons / Spetznaz troops / Nuclear based items

You already have the pot all worked out?

>>3352586

The plot?
No, not all worked out, but I have a lot of specific events which can be tied together. I know the first mission, certainly - a Eurocorp scientist is trying to defect to KRAKOV with a prototype Persuadatron, and the players have to track him down and recover him and his prototype (or at least kill him and get the prototype) before the KRAKOV extraction team can get him across the border.

In the unaligned areas and open seas anarcho-capitalist pirates in airships laden with gold-bars might roam, or perhaps ply the seas in golden submarines like Hagbeard Celine.

I'm going to have to scale back the territory controlled by each syndicate to some extent, too. What they control right now is representative of the start of the first game.

>>3352493

Exactly. Megacorps may overtake nations, but cultures are a bit more difficult... especially cultures as old as China or India. Old hates die very hard.

>>3352536

Lotus-Yggdrasil makes me happy.

>>3352347

Also this. Emblazoned on the tanks crushing your village.

>>3352629
Do you know how much it would suck to get rolled over by a tank with a giant smiley face logo on it? You don't even have a good story to tell in the afterlife.

Well.... NanoSoft and KRAKOV may get name and logo changes, but their 'image' and practises are well set in my head now, so that's pretty final I think, minus gouging out some new unaligned territory.

Is there any way for me to save this entire thread? I'd love to keep it - I want to make a little pdf of all the fluff and development and so forth, if only for my own interest - it'd be nice to include it.

>>3352675
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3351013/
we're ahead of you.

>>3352645

"I got crushed by a tank" is a legitimate way to die, I think. I wouldn't be ashamed of that.

How much of a problem would the police be?
Bribed officers turning a blind-eye to you or chasing you down a street with a gunship?

>>3352735

Both of the above.
You're shooting up some office building, the police will turn up in their squad cars and try to arrest you. You shoot them, the gunships turn up - and if they catch you out in the open they'll do their best to catch or kill you. But if you make it back to a friendly compound - which will have high walls, its own guard detail, possibly weapon turrets etc... they'll back off, official complaints will be made, lots of money will be thrown at the government and you'll get reprimanded for causing trouble for the company, but it would be generally accepted that you had no other alternative.

>>3352650
>gouging out some new unaligned territory

Can you tell I'm bored?

I never really got the whole territory map thing in syndicate setting. corps fight over market share, not land-grabs.

>>3352650
Maybe you should move the borders between EuroCorp and KRAKOV a bit so they are less COLD WAR IRON CURTAIN HURR

Possible changes to blur that line a little: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia to EuroCorp
Rest of former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania neutral.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Bharat UES.

>>3352872

This is along the right lines, but I was going to put a bit of a gap between KRAKOV and Eurocorp, possibly pulling Eurocorp back as far as Italy, while pushing KRAKOV to the other side of Poland at least. That middle ground will be a real hotspot between those guys.
I still envisage KRAKOV controlling quite a large part of Russia, but perhaps less of Africa.
I don't think Bharat will lose *too much*, since I want them to be a little bigger than Eurocorp.

It's all very fluid at the moment. I'm going to compare some maps for population density, economic wealth, GDP etc... and try to give it some sort of logic...

>>3352889

The syndicates produce almost every conceivable commodity in some form or other. The territorial maps represent areas in which they completely control the flow of wealth - food, energy, housing, services, industry, manufacturing - everything.
Makes perfect sense to me.

Loved the thread. Be sure to tell us all how it turns out.

>>3352994

I'm sure there'll be more as I develop things :)
My hope is to make a concise, condensed little file that anybody can download and use to run games in the Syndicate setting - should they want to.

>>3353023

Hence why I included a "#1" in the Archive title.

As I have actually heard one of my Southern cousins say, "y'all come back now, y'hear?"

>>3353048
I've actually said it without doing it for the lolz, or being sarcastic. Well, not the "you hear" part, but definitely the rest.

superior map

>>3353076

Far too cluttered.
Thanks, but no thanks.

Peoplesoft has a unique advantage in the field of competitive branding. Pre-fabricated manufacturing facilities and mobile labor. If there's any weakness in a market area, or a loophole in local laws that gives them an advantage, they move in the trucks, and start setting up portable factories and shipping in labor to flood the local market with their goods.

The south-east states of America didn't have a dominating corporate entity, and Peoplesoft began an agressive immigration and building program that had them in charge of a modest part of the territory in a short two years. The greatest threat from Peoplesoft comes from their ability to exploit weaknesses in a market, especially ones they've prepared for, and caused by their own agents.

>>3353199

I like this. it's going inthe file.

Would the police ever move against a corp if it started a corp-war or was too obvious with it's activities? Or are they just there to keep the players in line?

>>3353316

It really depends on the locality. In some tinpot little African state? probably not, it's likely that most of the government is in the pocket of the corporations, and while their police wil try to keep the peace on the streets so as to look like they're not a bunch of corrupt pigs to their populace, behind closed doors, they'll be doing bugger all to actually clamp down on corporate warfare.

The primary function of police in the Syndicate setting seems to be to patrol the streets and keep people safe - I'm sure they have investigative branches and things like that, but in any but the very richest unaligned states the police, courts and government don't really have the ability to enforce any sanctions against a corp without resorting to force, and since corps maintain their own private security forces that rival any national army, the last thing any side wants is for a full-on corp-government war.

>>3353316

Think of it like this - how would you punish an entity that controls every aspect of your day to day existence? You can't freeze their assets, they control the banks, you can't arrest their members, they live in huge compounds with thousands of armed guards - if you cause too much trouble, who's to say they won't turn all the power off, or close down the hospitals?
You can be sure as hell that they control those too.

>>3353352
Until they start stealing brain-chips, right?

>>3353403

I'm thinking that in this game time (before the full outbreak of the corporate war) the Chip was still very much in development or at most 'designer' - most common plebs couldn't afford it.
In either case, it's not quite the same as in the Syndicate Wars era, where the chip was developed and common enough to be used as a device for total thought control of entire populations.

>>3352773
Got a wonderful mental image of an agent out front of a building thats being torn apart by the rest of the group, having a dozen cop cars pulling up out front and him just holding up his ID and stating

"Do not be concerned, this is official corporation business, if you wish, you may give me your names and serial numbers so you may receive the standard co-operation payment for non-interference".

>>3353436
This.

While on the subject, would the UTOPIA system, even in a preliminary stage, make an appearance?

>>3353446

UTOPIA was quite a late development for Eurocorp I think, but I do have ideas for their early experiments in that kind of global computer/communications/AI field.
Mostly in them going wrong.

>>3353436

Agents are bad motherfuckers. :)

>>3353474
*pulls out the tripcode*

So how/where are you planning to run this? Online? Because Syndicate RPG do want. You were planning to use Unisystem?

>>3353497
*forgets how to trip. motherfucker.*

>>3353497

Unisystem - yes. Online - quite possibly. My regular group turned their noses up at an idea for an Alpha Centauri rpg I tried a few months back, so I'm not sure how they'll respond to this.
I could probably run it over IRC for /tg/, I've had some experience playing over that medium before.

No ideas about when - whenever I'm comfortable enough with the lee of rules and fluff I have I suppose.
I would like to try something in the next week or so, but I have so many other commitments (my SH3 threads for example) that I would rather not neglect entirely...

'In financial news, after several isolated incidents believed to have caused several billion credits in damage, Nanosoft has relocated several major production centers and administration buildings to the fourth moon of Jupiter, after what it claims to be organised acts of corporate espionage.

A spokeperson blamed a group of corporately-funded terrorists for the damage.'

>>3353509
>>My regular group turned their noses up at an idea for an Alpha Centauri rpg


Philistines!

>>3353570
Nanosoft should be where Microsoft went. Merger with Sony.

http://andorejr.zeroesunlimited.com/node/194 ?

EUROCORP, FUCK YEAH
In return, pixel art.
I...didn't know anyone still played Syndicate...

>>3353788
I still play Syndicate. And really want a new syndicate-like game. They just don't make them anymore.

>>3353795
there's an open source mod for the original, but it hasnt been updated...

>>3353795

Rumours abound that EA is working on a sequel, or so CVG reported anyway, but we'll haver to wait and see.

>>3353826
Actually, I'm hoping that Subversion, being made by Introversion, comes out to be something along those lines. Right now it just generates cities and offices procedurally, but apparently there's a game to be made out of it yet...

>>3353841
EA? inb4 shitty waste of programming time

>>3353841 EA... Syndicate sequel...
COMING THIS FALL TO XBOX360 and PS3, SYNDICATE WARS: THE CONSOLE ACTION GAME

syndicate pixelart?

saved instantly.

Corporate business.

>>3353965
>>3353788

These are wonderful. I really love dystopian/cyberpunkish artwork in general.

'Coffin Nails: For when you really need a cigarette...and now, a word from CEO Morgan...'

Not only will all eyes be on the leaders of men, but all combat sights as well.

bump for Syndicate