Nebula Enterprises

**Nebula Enterprises** (abbreviated as **N.L.E.**) is an intergalactic corporation only seen in *The Beginning* trilogy of *Leeko: The Series*; established by Nebula to act as a front for sending monsters and other dubious and expensive equipment across the universe to alien civilization in order to covertly weaken them in preparation for subsuming them into Nebula's empire. Nebula Enterprises engages in this tactic against King Leonardo by establishing a parasitic relationship with him through Gene, who acts as the company's front-man and drains King Leonardo's treasury to sell him monsters that wreck his kingdom. However, these monsters end up being defeated by Leeko and his allies, and they later muster the necessary strength to invade Nebula's fortress and destroy Nebula Enterprises and its master once and for all.

## Overview

Nebula Enterprises is an intergalactic business that primarily deals with their customers by selling them monsters which are advertised to handle certain problems, but ultimately aim to work again the customers who bought them. These monsters are often sold at a high price, and N.L.E takes every opportunity they can to scalp their customers further with express charges, optional features, and other technicalities. These monsters are typically sent through a monster delivery system, which allows all sorts of things to be instantly transmitted to and from the purchaser's planet and connecting it to Nebula's fortress, where the monsters are created. All of N.L.E's sales to King Leonardo are handled by Gene, who is available at all hours and all days to handle video calls at a moment's notice.

Despite operating under a secret business, N.L.E often uses underhanded tactics when dealing with its customers. In particular, it uses hidden contracts in order to prevent their customers from petitioning for refunds or other forms of compensation for the often defective goods it sells. When customers accumulate overdue unpaid balances, N.L.E will also send monsters to covertly steal assets from those customers in order to make up the difference. N.L.E may also earn other penalties for overdue bills, with one example in the episode Trashed! being turning Usapia into an intergalactic dump site to punish King Leonardo for not paying his due. Despite the regular abuse that King Leonardo suffers in his interactions with N.L.E., he foolishly continues to rely on them for their monsters and other goods, even as the monsters are continuously bested by Leeko and his friends.

## Role in *Leeko: The Beginning*

Nebula Enterprises was established by Nebula shortly after defeating the Star Warriors in the great war that took place prior to the events of the show. The main purpose of the organization is to utilize the resources of Nebula's empire to establish a foothold on alien worlds outside his direct control and gradually weaken them while searching for Star Warrior stragglers to eliminate in the process. King Leonardo formed relations with N.L.E many years before Leeko arrived in Usapia, and intermittently ordered monsters which caused problems for his kingdom. It was this series of monster orders that eventually caused Leeko's starship to direct its still immature occupant to Usapia in order to protect it from Nebula's creations. From there, Leeko habitually becomes responsible for defeating the monsters that King Leonardo orders to try and get rid of him.

When N.L.E learns that Leeko has arrived in Usapia, they intensify their shipments of monsters to there in hopes of subduing their greatest threat, but due to their insistence on charging King Leonardo for the monsters they send at his discretion, Leeko often cannot afford to pay for his service. This leads N.L.E to sometimes deny him shipment, even if it could potentially defeat Leeko. Over the course of *The Beginning* series, many schemes are hatched by Leonardo and N.L.E to try and defeat Leeko, but all of them are foiled in one way or another. Eventually, this strategy is ditched in favor of simply sending the Destriker fleet to completely destroy Usapia, but by this point, Moonlight Man and his crew are ready to launch their counterattack and eventually destroy N.L.E after their attack on Nebula's fortress at the end of the trilogy.

## Services

In addition to selling monsters, Nebula Enterprises offers the following services:

* Selling various inanimate items, such as books, building kits, and beverages
* Turning otherwise normal individuals or inanimate objects into monsters (Minesweeper's father, Rosa, and Barbarion).
* Providing logistical support and financial backing for special events (Viva Las Leo!, The Leeko Quiz Show!, The Mild Side, Part 1, and Part 2)
* Waste disposal services (Trashed! and Cleaning Up Your Act)
* Intergalactic tourism (A Show For The Tourists)
* Intergalactic television network broadcasting (Cartooned!, Fitness Fool!, Toon In!)
* Catering (Leeko’s Anniversary! and Chow-Off)
* Art rental services (Monsterpiece On The Loose)
* Contract hiring (Schooled 3: Teacher’s Threat and Toon In!)