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| − | A large [[Wikipedia:Multinational corporation|multinational corporation]] headquartered in the [[Zero-One|Queendom of Zero-One]], '''Zero-One Monocorporation''' (01MC or "The MonoCorporation" for short) is the largest business interest in Zero-One, employing nearly 95% of all [[mechanoids|minds]] in the Queendom, and one of the largest businesses in the [[Triumvirate of Yut]] along with [[KarmaCorp TechSystems]], [[IngolfTech]], the [[Feanor Holdings Group]], and [[TME Industries]]. Besides being a major [[Wikipedia:Defense contractor|defense contractor]] for the [[Triumvirate of Yut Combined Services]] and the sole manufacturer of [[Queendom Armed Conflict Force]] materiel, 01MC also has divisions covering almost every imaginable kind of product from [[Wikipedia:Fork|forks]] and [[Wikipedia:Spoon|spoons]] to luxury civilian spacecraft an custom [[Wikipedia:Cybernetics|cybernetic augments]]. It has branch offices in nearly every [[Triumvirate of Yut]] nation and market reach far beyond that, including essentially designing [[The Freethinkers|The Freethinkers']] spacy and infamous "as is" arms trade with [[Allanea|The United States of Allanea]] immediately prior to the [[One Day War]] (and military sales to [[Sentient Peoples|The Federation of Sentient Peoples]] during its occupation of Allanea after the war). | + | A large [[Wikipedia:Multinational corporation|multinational corporation]] headquartered in the [[Zero-One|Queendom of Zero-One]], '''Zero-One Monocorporation''' (01MC or "The MonoCorporation" for short) is the largest business interest in Zero-One, employing nearly 95% of all [[mechanoids|minds]] in the Queendom, and one of the largest businesses in the [[Triumvirate of Yut]] along with [[KarmaCorp TechSystems]], [[IngolfTech]], the [[Feanor Holdings Group]], and [[TME Industries]]. Besides being a major [[Wikipedia:Defense contractor|defense contractor]] for the [[Triumvirate of Yut Combined Services]] and the sole manufacturer of [[Queendom Armed Conflict Force]] materiel, 01MC also has divisions covering almost every imaginable kind of product from [[Wikipedia:Fork|forks]] and [[Wikipedia:Spoon|spoons]] to luxury civilian spacecraft an custom [[Wikipedia:Cybernetics|cybernetic augments]]. It has branch offices in nearly every [[Triumvirate of Yut]] nation and market reach far beyond that, including essentially designing [[The Freethinkers|The Freethinkers']] spacy and its infamous "as is" arms trade with [[Allanea|The United States of Allanea]] immediately prior to the [[One Day War]] (and military sales to [[Sentient Peoples|The Federation of Sentient Peoples]] during its occupation of Allanea after the war). |
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A large multinational corporation headquartered in the Queendom of Zero-One, Zero-One Monocorporation (01MC or "The MonoCorporation" for short) is the largest business interest in Zero-One, employing nearly 95% of all minds in the Queendom, and one of the largest businesses in the Triumvirate of Yut along with KarmaCorp TechSystems, IngolfTech, the Feanor Holdings Group, and TME Industries. Besides being a major defense contractor for the Triumvirate of Yut Combined Services and the sole manufacturer of Queendom Armed Conflict Force materiel, 01MC also has divisions covering almost every imaginable kind of product from forks and spoons to luxury civilian spacecraft an custom cybernetic augments. It has branch offices in nearly every Triumvirate of Yut nation and market reach far beyond that, including essentially designing The Freethinkers' spacy and its infamous "as is" arms trade with The United States of Allanea immediately prior to the One Day War (and military sales to The Federation of Sentient Peoples during its occupation of Allanea after the war).
Contents
Services
Structure
Relationship to the Queendom
Populace
Government
Corporate Philosophy
The MonoCorporation exists, by the admission of more than one of its head executives, to generate wealth, no more and no less. Its mission to achieve this end is to sell practically everything to practically everybody, only declining to make a sale when it would be politically inconvenient for the Queendom or its allies. Additionally, its pricing strategies and payment options are highly flexible to ensure the greatest number of customers and greatest possible revenue. To prevent garnering the image of a completely soulless megacorporation with no interest beyond its own profits, 01MC invests heavily in marketing, branding, and public relations to portray itself in a positive light.
End User License Agreement
One of the less conventional ways it has found to do this is through the use of End User License Agreements, extremely flexible legal documents attached to nearly everything they sell and more often than not coded holographically in the actual structure of the product. EULAs for products sold to unreliable or untrustworthy customers are lengthy, intentionally convoluted, and designed to essentially give the MonoCorporation the right to refuse service (including the continued use of the product) for any reason whatsoever. This allows 01MC to hold tremendous power over customers it does not trust but can keep through predatory pricing strategies.
For most customers, the EULA is a formality that essentially constitutes a hold harmless agreement for 01MC in all things except clearly faulty design or engineering (as opposed to labeling). 01MC has a solid record of 'never' changing these agreements without warning the consumer ahead of time, and only rarely does it ever change the agreement without the end user's consent. However, it is also widely known that those customers the MonoCorporation considers dangerous, risky, or untrustworthy are given no quarter. Beyond that, though, there is a special class of customer to which it will intentionally sell shoddy goods or misleading services.
M4|2K Customers
The M4|2K ("Mark", see definition 16) customer is a "special consumer category" in which the MonoCorporation places all of its least-trusted customers (for a time, the architypical M4|2K customer was Allanea). While ostensibly a "preferred buyer" club with access to exclusive goods, most of the things 01MC sells to these customers are thinly disguised shams or shoddy goods, all thoroughly protected by a EULA that practically ensures that the customer has no legal recourse when the good inevitably (and sometimes intentionally) fails dramatically. The kinds of products 01MC sells to these customers are generally marked, almost obviously so, as to highlight the perceived idiocy of the customer. They would almost classify as practical jokes if their results were not usually fatal. Examples of products offered only to M4|2K customers are:
- 80M8 Nucleonic Omnidirectional Thrust System: Sold as an advanced fusion propulsion system for fighters to Allanea and subsequently called the "Kazansky Drive," the 80M8 was actually, as suggested by its alphanumeric code, a bomb. Fusion based, each 80M8 had approximately a ten megaton yield and were linked together by quantum entanglement ansibles. The result was the destruction of Allanea's Liberty space station.[1]
- Biochemical Petroleum Extraction Enzymes: Sold to Allanea as a method to simplify the extraction of oil as well make it cleaner to the environment, these otherwise unnamed enzymes actually decomposed any oil contaminated with them into chemically inert and incombustable compounds.[2]
- Tarugo Light Air Superiority Fighter: A perfectly conventional jet fighter[3] except for its use of:
- Pressed FibroCellulose Armor (PFCA): cardboard, used to skin the aircraft and supposedly armor it.
- Transparent Polyurethane Enhanced Durability and Airflow Layer (TPEDAL): plastic varnish to go over the cardboard.
- Lamellor-Arrangement Data Input-Output Memory Storage System: a notepad, spiral-bound according to the marketing line "a central steel helical structural member for lamellor component support" and with a cardboard cover. It was intended to be the aircraft's avionics system.
- Quantized Mechanical Computation System: an abacus. Marketed as "the only onboard computation system to date which can be manipulated in three dimensions"
- High-Density Braided Aluminum Force Transferral Systems in Polycarbonate Insulator Sheaths: aluminum wires in plastic sheaths, acting as physical linkages between the control column and the control surfaces.
- Rube-class Troop Transport / Utility Ship: standard QACF "DRAB" utility DropShips that had exceeded their operational lifespan and had been scrapped due to the presence of stress fractures in their hulls, emptied out of any useful technology, refitted with "whatever junk was handy," and sold for fifty billion dollars. Also sold to Allanea.
- Mark-class Insystem Cruiser: several Rubes "crudely bolted together" and sold to Allanea.
01MC only sold these items to nations well outside the good favor of the international community and thus maintained its corporate credibility with its primary trade partners. It has served, however, as a more-or-less successful warning to potentially gullible customers to beware offending the MonoCorporation's sensibilities.
