The Corporate Review
by Chrome Tiger

» Hey chummers, snagged me an interesting tidbit last night in my wanderings of the Miami Metro. A small simsense/entertainment firm by the name of ‘ Faster Than Life Entertainment Studios’. They put out some great sim flicks and games. Below is the listing of what I have found.
» Chrome Tiger <20:15:44/05-08-60>

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Faster Than Life Entertainment Studios

Home Office : Miami, Caribbean League
President/CEO : Roger Corellan, CEO
Chairman of the Board : Mellisa Waters
Corporate Status : Public Corporation
Major Shareholders :

Roger Corellan (approx. 14 percent)
Mellisa Waters (approx 10 percent)
Oriyasu Tanakasa (approx 8 percent)

Major Interests :

Simsense Playback Feed
Simsense VR Game Systems
Aerospace Control Systems
Matrix Environment Systems
Consumer Goods (Product marketing apparel, etc)

Operations:

Fiscal : 6
Intelligence : 5
Management : 6
Reputation : 9
Security : 7
Magic : 6
Matrix :8
Physical :6
Military : Outsourced

Primary Business

FTL is the leading simsense publisher in the Carib/CAS area with such titles to their name as ‘Midnight Runners’ and ‘In Deep’. Recent developments in simulation environments are being exercised in military pilot training simulators, pushing the envelope of flight training. Featuring a state of the art production staff and well recruited technical talent, FTL edges its way up the ladder towards becoming a global simsense and entertainment commodity.

Corporate Structure

Members of the FTL staff own a majority of the company, making for a group of loyal and dedicated employees. There are no major internal feuds noted. Operations are controlled by a majority vote of stockholders. Although major takeovers have been attempted, none have been successful.

» Rumor has it that Novatech has strong interest in FTL and has even paid them extraordinary amounts of money for FTL services.
» Chrome Tiger

Security

Physical security is contracted through the Miami division of Lone Star. Two heavy response teams and general security personnel take residence in on-site barracks. Security forces are on call as needed per terms of the FTL/Lone Star contract.

Magic security is maintained by a combination of in-house talent and outsourced Lone Star personnel. Watcher spirits are used frequently along the perimeter of the compound and within sensitive areas of the R&D building.

Matrix security is all in-house. Employing some of the areas top matrix security freelancers, matrix access to the FTL construct is complex and tight. Killer ice is rare, but the freelance security personnel have been known to utilize black ice technology. Database information is distributed among multiple tier storage nodes, requiring multiple access points for obtaining secure information. Productions in progress are stored in a servo controlled offline storage node. A high level complex slave node controls access to the offline storage facility. The physical storage is located in a guarded system room. Head of system security is Darren Philips, an ex-UCAS military systems engineer.

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» Believe me, getting into this system was rough. Access node entry is rated as orange with some heavy encrypt on and data access algorhythms thrown up on the datastore access points. Not a construct for the newbie or light-hearted decker.
» Chrome Tiger