Laura Brown

Laura Brown, or Laurie as she's called, is a young AcDragonian woman that made a gamble on Space-Bending technology when it was first brought into the Aegian system. She is just out of her schooling but is already a multi-billionaire in the Aegian system due to her business acumen and her willingness to jump into the unknown without a life preserver, as some would say. She stands at about 1.6m and weighs around 57kg. She has brown hair that goes to her shoulders.
Laura got her start when a small start-up company named Grandstand Tetra-Works claimed to have developed an almost perfect diamond filament bundle which is one of the primary pieces of equipment needed for space-bending to work properly and after seeing it Laura stole her parent's credit details and basically made a fraudulent cash infusion into the company. What made the filaments so revolutionary was their ability to cast, or project, the bend away from it's source, meaning that in theory someone could create a small portal and potentially toss an object through it. Although it was an unfounded theory Laura, who read comics as a hobby, had wild ideas on what could possibly be done with that technology. So instead of just giving Grandstand Tetra-Works the money, she outright bought into the company and became the primary financial backer.
So with two million credits she and GTW went to work on pitching these filaments. At first, it was extraordinarily hard to get someone to bite onto these items as Space-Bending was so state of the art that it was still practically a pipedream as far as most militaries and countries were concerned. With the military playing hard to get, she brainstormed ways in which to use that technology for the civilian sector. The most obvious use would be ultra-high speed data transfer so GTW started selling these bundles to telecommunications companies to use in laying out their communications infrastructure. This kept GTW afloat but not nearly as well as Laura knew they could. Unfortunately at this time, her parents discovered that their savings had been obliterated and all traces led back to Laura. She was soon dragged to court after her parents sued her.
Laura completely understood why they did it and she wasn't mad. From all outside eyes, it appears she took a bet and lost, hard. But she knew that this was an emerging technology and since she had secured patents for the process to make the diamond bundles she disclosed what she had been up to as she owed her parents that much. She promised that within 6 months she would generate pure profit and payback all she owed with 200% interest, she just needed a chance and the right people. To further prove her intent, she gave her parents 200000 credits worth of stock from GTW as a good faith measure. Her parents agreed but only if she could deliver tangible results on her venture as they were now stakeholders in the company. Laura's father did have connects with the Dragonian DX division, the division responsible for the black site development of advanced weaponry for Dragonia so he put in a few calls and eventually got some prominent R&D specialists in front of Laura.
She pitched her idea and even threw in a little of the fantastical stating that it could be possible to throw an object through a localized space bend and have it appear at another location almost instantaneously. The specialists seemed intrigued and then handed Laura an NDA form. Without them even saying the words Laura knew this might be the break she needed. She signed the form and the specialists carried on. Dragonia was developing and testing ways to do just what Laura was proposing so that they can give the Space Catapult the ability to hit targets practically anywhere without the complex calculations they used up until this point. They also revealed that the Space Catapult's periphery cannons were going to use this technology to tactically strike battlefield targets, giving the Grand Army an almost insurmountable edge in combat. The main problem they were having was the same as when the Space Catapult was first created; energy inefficiencies in the design of the cannon but while the prismatic arrays used in the cannon were just what was needed to let it fire properly, they were nowhere near pure enough to allow enough energy to go through them to cast a space bend in FRONT of the cannon and as such create a localized pocket where they could send objects through. It was something that was being worked on for decades. The specialists ran a test on one of the bundles using a laser and they determined that in order to make this feasible, they need to have a 96.85% efficiency rate which indicates the purity of the bundles. The bundles had 99.32% efficiency, which was much higher than Dragonia needed. They made some calls, got some approvals and within 2 weeks came back to Laura with a staggering offer.
They contracted GTW to produce for them as many bundles as they needed. It was essentially a blank check. When she pressed on about the deal it was revealed to her that there was a number of things these bundles could be used for and they want ample time and supply to be able to test them as they see fit. She accepted the offer but made sure to emphasize that GTW would not be owned by Dragonia and was free to pursue other business ventures as needed. They agreed.
The money started rolling in and Laura was reaping the rewards. While her business partners got out early, Laura soldiered on with the company. Within 2 months, Laura not only paid back her parents, she did so with 1000% interest. Not only that, the stock price of GTW soared from 163 credits per share to 22,635 per share so her parents also got enormous paydays for that. Soon after, Corsair reached out to Laura for orders of these bundles to increase the output of the Ion Cannon and other energy based weapons. AcDragonia soon followed suit as they were developing the first man portable energy rifle in the Aegian system and desperately needed something like this. At just 18 years old, Laura made her first billion. By 2635, she was a multi-billionaire.
Laura wasn't finished however. With the sheer amount of money GTW was pulling in, Laura broke the company in half; one side focusing on what they've been doing up until that point and the other half something completely different. That company was called "Unity Forever" and they were focused solely on Project Horizon. Project Horizon was a concentrated effort to create the first of it's kind in the Aegian system Space-Bending Jump Gate. Laura's vision was to create a network of these gates to allow space-bending travel to the masses. In essence, to bring the entire Dragon Protectorate and anyone in it just a few hours travel away.
Category:Supporting Character