Hermes International Transport Solutions

## Description:

Hermes International Transport Solutions, often shortened to Hermes International or simply "Hermes," is a global logistics, delivery, storage, and transportation megacorporation founded in 2021 following The Fiscal Suicide of 2020. Hermes is dedicated to providing fast and efficient services to anyone across the globe, and is willing to move or transport anything or anyone for the right price. Hermes's position as the world's largest delivery service solidifies it as a superpower among the megacorporations, and maintains positive relations with every megacorporation as a result of their nigh-monopoly; Hermes has tense relations with Kodian Enterprises, however, feeling that KE holds too much of a monopoly on the world's transportation lanes and routes like the Panama Canal.

### Organization:

#### Headquarters: Ryanstown

Hermes is organized in a manner identical to the usual corporate structure, with some notable exceptions. While the Board of Directors and CEO manage the company's global operations, regional managers are placed in charge of Branches; these regional managers possess total authority over the thousands of employees that operate underneath them, and manage every payment, delivery, purchase, and operation of their Branch. Hermes International's many divisions and branches ensure that the company runs at peak efficiency at all times, with even the slightest misstep costing someone thousands of Kollars.

Hermes International recruits from people of all walks of life to fill a wide variety of positions, from the regional managers to the delivery boys. Hermes's size and scope require that it fill its ranks with high quality employees, and it does so frequently, preferring to choose management recruits from local colleges/universities near their Branches and introducing the potential employees to the company via an extensive internship program (marketed as Hermes's "Earn Your Wings" Program). This large-scale internship program is known as a weakness for the company that leaves Hermes open to infiltration, espionage, and sabotage, but the company's army of lawyers ensure that potential interns are well-vetted before being chosen for the position.

Hermes International Transport Solutions operates worldwide, and even has a subsidiary (Hermes Interplanetary Transport Solutions) that operates beyond earth's atmosphere. The company dedicates most of its resources to its business model, maintaining and repairing the company's extensive fleet of drones (both armed and unarmed models), vehicles, and Arcologies. The company works to increase profits by increasing their customer base through expansion, monopoly, and other heavy-handed business tactics. Hermes's online presence exists as Hermes's online marketplace, where businesses can sell their products to a much larger audience via Hermes's extensive (and global) network of contacts; Hermes takes a percentage of client business' sales in exchange for allowing said smaller businesses to use their online marketplace and storage services.

Up until 2099, Hermes International prohibited the use of external mercenaries for any task dealing with internal matters, preferring to use their own security forces to handle matters within the company. In 2099, however, it was deemed necessary to open those jobs to third-party mercenaries, and an order was passed along to all regional managers that allowed the temporary employment of mercenaries to complete jobs that were deemed too risky or heavy-handed for company associates to carry out. Regional managers under Hermes's purview interpreted this in a variety of ways, most commonly by using it as an excuse to hire mercenaries to eliminate rivals within their company. Hermes International has been placed on a watchlist by Cyberscan Securities as a result of this order, believing it to be the early preparations for a military build-up.

1. Bradyn Zanthorpe: Regional manager of Sector 35 of Ryanstown; considered one of the youngest regional managers in company history, and is viewed as a very successful and ambitious employee.

### Equipment:

Hermes maintains a very advanced level of technology, even in areas of the world that lack such modern amenities, including the world's largest unarmed drone fleet, used by the company to deliver hundreds of thousands of packages a day to customers the world over. Hermes's armed drone fleet is one of the largest in the world, proudly occupying the 6th spot on that list.

### Military:

Hermes does employ its own internal security forces, and, as of 2099, is also allowed to employ mercenaries, but does not maintain a large enough standing military to pose significant threat to many of the other larger megacorporations. Hermes's position as the arteries of the global economy ensures its safety from total destruction or assault by any other megacorporation, under the looming threat that Hermes will cut off deliveries to certain regions or hold the economy hostage (a tactic used by Kodian Enterprises as well). Hermes's usual military strategies include the large-scale deployment of its overwhelming drone fleets combined with superior economic warfare and legal assaults; Hermes's main weapon is on the stock market and in the conference room as opposed to on a real battlefield.

### Products:

#### Services:

1. Hermes Prime: A monthly subscription service currently sitting at K100 per month that guarantees next-day delivery for purchases made through Hermes and its online marketplace (regardless of purchase size); coupons and exclusive deals are also offered to Prime Members.
2. Hermes White Knight Membership: A monthly subscription service currently sitting at K7,500+ per month that grants subscribers access to a limited number of Hermes armed drones; clients can choose up to 3 drones from a list of offerings to have at their beck and call (Hermes is not liable for death, bodily harm, or property damage done by these drones when on-call from a client), and can choose to pay more per month to increase the number of drones and increase the available options for use; clients must pay for repairs or replacements of damaged drones and spent munitions in addition to their monthly fee, but many reviews claim that the service (and its response time that beats even LSSI's Extraction Teams) is worth the price tag.