Corpo Vendrix

CORPO VENDRIX are one of the four Factions within VoxoDeus.

**‘Standing on the shoulders of gas giants.’**

Permanence comes with a cost. One that must be shouldered by Corpo Vendrix.

The burden of **industry.**

Through the efforts of each and every staffer on the Vendrix datastream, the company is forged and reformed. Resigned and reimagined. **Immortalised**.

Expansion demands resource. Resource requires innovation. Innovation keeps the corporation ahead.

Doing what must be done today to fuel the future, that is the Corpo Vendrix method.

**KEYWORDS**

* Toil
* Greatness
* Sacrifice
* Prosperity
* Strategy

**POSITION IN THE WORLD**

* Industry
* Economy
* Control

**ORIGIN**

Corpo Vendrix is named for the A.I. that leads the corporation towards its ultimate objective:

to become an immortal company.

**GOVERNANCE**

Where once the Corpo Vendrix were one, now they are many - an ever-expanding corporation with ever-newer departments and an ever-more-complex system of governance.

With myriad systems intended to regulate and maintain order, Corpos now depend on machines to make sense of the logistics of the Faction, but the true leadership comes from the Matriarchs.

Each Matriarch is responsible for a segment of Vendrix’s business interests, and are beyond reproach or questioning.

Several Matriarchs dwell within the mysterious Corporate Center Of Operations, a well defended installation built upon a meteor constantly in orbit around Ecumenopolis.

Without sophisticated software, it takes an extremely skilled pilot to land and take off from the hurtling object, yet those within the CCOO are settled and focused on the tasks of governance.

It is not known how many of those stationed within the CCOO are sapiens, and rumours abound of their plans and intentions for the Faction.

Some even speculate that there is no longer sentience in the very highest positions of power, and that the corporation’s endless growth is the will of the machines created to enable that intial growth.

All anyone knows for sure is that they answer to their direct seniors within the corporation, and somewhere that seniority culminates in the CCOO.

**CULTURE**

The CV culture is simple - be productive and hit the quota.

If questions must be asked, make them good ones. If orders must be questioned, the reasoning better be solid.

Life in CV is regimented and tireless, sure, but the rewards are worth the grind for many of the prospects looking to rise through the ranks and prove themselves as stellar employees.

There is wealth and comfort available to those who succeed, as well as a primo retirement package

As such,, competition is fierce, and there is always room for innovation. CV success is counted in absolutes - numbers, fractions, sums. Everything is a calculation.

There is also competition within CV’s many departments.

Rival contractors undercut one another, innovating on ways to make more profit on a deal; departments find ways to upgrade their tools, then patent the solutions; miners compete for the most lucrative contracts.

CV doesn’t just mine NRG. It makes and manufactures the things that every citizen of the Cypherverse needs - from food and clothing to weapons and housing. It isn’t the finest quality and it doesn’t last for ever, but the profit margins are good and you get what you pay for!

Deliverobits zip around delivering things to exactly where they need to go with an efficiency well within threshold.

**POLITICS**

With competing departments comes politics.

And stripping planets of NRG on such a scale requires an intricate understanding of universal politics and Cypherverse law.

Luckily, CV had a large hand in writing those laws - and in updating them.

There aren’t many among the other Factions with the means and the expertise to challenge CV in these matters, and when they do they often find the odds stacked against them.

Personal disputes are handled by way of triubunals. Tribunals are ruled over by CV’s artificial intelligence machines that operate to “within a 0.001% margin of error”, meaning that disputes are always resolved to the corporation’s satisfaction - even when the verdict doesn’t seem just.

For employees who step beyond their bounds, there is a swift and efficient justice machinism in place. It is not uncommon on the furthest-flung asteroids to find convicted sapiens toiling alongside their machine counterparts for as long as their biology will allow.

**ORIGIN**

The idea of Corpo Vendrix began with the very first NRG trade.

As soon as there was currency and the concept of a transaction, a scholar named Azmith began the study of economics. Inspired by theological studies of Omega, this scholarly work endeavoured to find the fairest outcome for all involved in a trade, and his work swiftly evolved thanks to machine learning.

Azmith’s robits were originally purely a mediator between any two groups wishing to make an exchange, but as the concept of trade spread, so too did the demand for fair deals overseen by an objective third party

Azmith’s tradebits became a commodity in themselves, and marketplaces were regularly overseen by tradebits

With the creation of the white market, so came the black, known as The Shroud.

Enterprising rogues found ways to hack and modify the tradebits, and thus deal in their own favour. A few such sapiens bandied together and controlled the free market in certain sectors of the Cypherverse.

When Azmith passed away, the tradebits license became available and these wealthy sapiens bought them up.