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The PrattCo Conglomerate Acquires 108 New Companies

New State City- The PrattCo Conglomerate, already known for it's variety and diversity of corporate assets, and greed of it's rabid consumer market, took another step forward on the path to global monopoly this quarter as it aquired over a hundred new companies through aquisition, merger or just plain takeover.

In some cases, a simple letter began and ended the deal, and in others Bob Pratt himself met with the presidents and boards of the acquired companies in the luxurious New Winchester City, Santa Barbara, where the former Corporate Coalition Headquarters was located.

However it happened, Conglomerate owned assets expanded by full 2%, with the addition of Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United Technologies Corporation, Textron, Inc, Litton Industries, Inc, Newport News Shipbuilding, Inc, TRW Inc, the Carlyle Group, Science Applications
International, General Electric Company Inc, Human Inc, GTE Corporation, ITT Industris, INC, Allied Signal, Computer Sciences Corporation, Foundation Health Systems Inc, CBS Corporation, Dyncorp, Standard Missile Company, LLC, Rockwell International Corporation, Triwest Healthcare Alliance Co, Avondale Industries Inc, the Mitre Corporation, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Rolls-Royce PLC, The Aerospace Corporation, Longbow Limited Liability Corp, Alliant Techsystems Inc, Worldcorp, Inc, Highmark, Inc, Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc, John Hopkins University Inc, Phillip Holzmann Atkiengesells, New Energy Ventures, LLC, FDX Corporation, Halliburtan Company, Unisys Corporation, Ocean
Shipholdings, Inc, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Nassco Holdings Inc, the Sverdrup Corporation, Shell Olil Company, Nichols Research Corporation, Pemco, Raytheon, Exxon Mobil, Walmart Stores, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, British Petroleum, Citigroup, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, IBM International Business Machines, Hitachi, ING Group, Allianz, Total Fina Elf, Siemens, Phillip Morris, Bank of America, Kroger, American International Group, Procter & Gamble, Albertsons, Safeway, Farmland Industries, Centex Harvest States, Dairy Farmers of America, Michelin Uniroyal Goodrich, Goodyear, Chase Manhatten, Blockbuster, Subway, 7-11, McDonalds, DuPont, Dow, Peabody, Texas Utilities, Pacificorp, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Zen Noh, Cargill-Continental, Archer Daniels Midland, Prudential of America, Metropolitan Life, Aegon/Transamerica, State Farm, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, Burlington Resources, Union Pacific Resources, Iowa Beef Packers, Montfort, Compac, Walt Disney, Indian Oil Corp, Gazprom, Cosmo Oil, ENI, USX, China Petroleum & Chem, Tosco, Phillips Petroleum, Repsol-YPF, Lukoil Holding, and Imperial Oil.

Oh, and Kmart too.

"We weren't surprised when we saw the sparks of interest from, well, Farmland Industries, for example," said enthusiastic Eric Love, Director of the PCC International Developments Group, "After all, the Conglomerate is in the upper one percent or less of the world' largest sectors in agriculture, mining, retail, manufacturing, cheese exports what-have-you. As far as stability of investment goes, the Conglomerate is easily the safest bet to make out there."

"Of course," Mister Love went on to say, "We hadn't counted on all 108 companies deciding to join the Conglomerate at once. Hmm, that was a bit of a fortunate coincidence, I'd say."

When asked about the impact the move would have on the future of Conglomerate investment, Heinrid Abadas, Chairman of the PCC and President of the Federal Government, responded with a hearty laugh, saying: "This 'move', as you say, was hardly any effort: apparently, someone had dropped all of these corporations down a hole in the multiverse and forgotten to reclaim them. So, we just picked them up!"




[OOC: This is mostly meant a joke. However, if someone's claimed one of the above feel free to let me know and show the proof, and I'll edit accordingly... otherwise they're MINE! Nyah, nyah!]

OOC: I own all the rest, so there! Nyah nyah!

*Looks for Fortune 500 magazine*

I saw Hitachi on the list. Met an engineer from that company who lives in, you guessed it, Hitachi city.

What did you do, just go down the fortune 500 list and pick all the ones that appealed to you?

Ignorificated...

~Siri

What did you do, just go down the fortune 500 list and pick all the ones that appealed to you?

Ignorificated...

~SiriDitto.

OOC: General policy: ignore all claims to real world things. Corporations, countries (that's right: you can't claim Massachussetts, because I'm stuck there. :P), etc. Why? Because this isn't the real world. I also love how easy it seems to be to buy up all these companies, when many of them have yearly budgets larger than the GDPs of some countries.

(OOC: It's just meant as a joke, don't take it so seriously as to go all ignorish on him. Also,
I also love how easy it seems to be to buy up all these companies, when many of them have yearly budgets larger than the GDPs of some countries.

If you fully knew the economic power of SB you would see how easy it is).

Nikean Minister of Trade and Economics Aerin Istertel sat in his office reading the press release.

"Hah," he said to himself. "They may now own Kmart, but we still own Zellers."

Umm, wow, I have to break out the big Ignore cannon on this one!

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/seac2.gif

BooM!

Ignored

(ooc: Y'know, just when I thought my faith in the cognitive abilities of mankind had reached the absolute bottom, this thread comes along, and I see the complete lack of understanding of what is really a very basic joke. Sad.)

OOC: I know it's a joke thread, but the thing is that a lot of people recently have been grabbing up real-world corporations like they were going out of style. People just claimed BMW and such like undiscovered continents rather than powerful businessess. It'd be like me just saying "See Baltimore? Well, it's mine." That kind of BS.

(Then I'd doubt you are the one at whom my comments are directed ;). I was really more speaking about those who have been 'ignoring' something that was never meant to be taken seriously by its creator.)

(Then I'd doubt you are the one at whom my comments are directed ;). I was really more speaking about those who have been 'ignoring' something that was never meant to be taken seriously by its creator.)

I don't care if this is a joke or not. All I know is that, as said, a lot of people do claim real companies and real territory overnight. And that is something I don't acknowledge, and a lot of other serious players with me. So regardless of this particular topic, I think the ignoring going on here is just some players indicating that they disapprove of these practices when they are meant seriously.

(Indeed? Now, I may be using just a bit too much logic here, but if it's the other topics that are those you are ignoring, should you not ignore in them? Just a thought...)

(Indeed? Now, I may be using just a bit too much logic here, but if it's the other topics that are those you are ignoring, should you not ignore in them? Just a thought...)

Most of the other topics that I have encountered recently concern nations with whom I have no interaction, so ignoring them has no effect whatsoever. But given the Corporate nature of SB and their history as a member of the Corporate Coalition, the chances of me interacting with them are higher than with those unknown nations.

(*rubs forehead in exasperation*

(ooc: Y'know, just when I thought my faith in the cognitive abilities of mankind had reached the absolute bottom, this thread comes along, and I see the complete lack of understanding of what is really a very basic joke. Sad.))

SB is a Corporate bastard, as am I. If nobody would have ignored it, he would just have thought "cool, it works" and turn the joke into reality. If we all think its a joke and don't ignore it, he's smart enough to do it

Umm, wow, I have to break out the big Ignore cannon on this one!

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BooM!

Nice use of the Mako cannon from FFVII as an ignore cannon!

*Saves Url for pic*

(To stop with the innane quotation joke, which really wasn't even that funny the first time around, perhaps if you were more familiar with the situation, you may be better qualified to pass judgment. S.B. - who, in my opinion is one of the best roleplayers on this site and would certainly never stoop to this low of a level of RP unless it were purely in jest - responded to a thread started by Crimmond about grabbing up non-NS corporations. He mocked the thread's idea briefly and established this one to point out just how stupid the entire concept was.

I also follow S.B.'s work closely, as I am a fan of it. Of course, far be it from me to apply logic or deductive reasoning...I really should know better.)

(ooc: Y'know, just when I thought my faith in the cognitive abilities of mankind had reached the absolute bottom, this thread comes along, and I see the complete lack of understanding of what is really a very basic joke. Sad.)

(That is what I got as well. Seems like some folks are a little trigger happy with the ole ignore tech :wink:

S.B. : as one of the silly people that you are making fun of, I applaud you)

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Trogdor
Head of sillyness for Celeborne

(To stop with the innane quotation joke, which really wasn't even that funny the first time around, perhaps if you were more familiar with the situation, you may be better qualified to pass judgment. S.B. - who, in my opinion is one of the best roleplayers on this site and would certainly never stoop to this low of a level of RP unless it were purely in jest - responded to a thread started by Crimmond about grabbing up non-NS corporations. He mocked the thread's idea briefly and established this one to point out just how stupid the entire concept was.

I also follow S.B.'s work closely, as I am a fan of it. Of course, far be it from me to apply logic or deductive reasoning...I really should know better.)

In that case: my apologies for being so uptight about it

LoL.

Yes, it's a joke thread, meant to illustrate just how perverse, unrealistic and dull the NS universe can be, if you logically allow the "acquiring" or "merging with" or "expanding into" RL companies and RL territories. I don't care if this is ignored or not, because it's not going to affect my game.

As a point of fact, the PrattCo Conglomerate is several orders of magnitute more wealthy, far reaching and powerful than all those companies I've listed. So it's not like I'd need those little subcorps anyway. :P

What did you do, just go down the fortune 500 list and pick all the ones that appealed to you?


No of course not, all these CEOs just happened to show up at the PCC with the same idea. It's an amazing coincidence, like a USA based car company merging with a galactic empire based in the Orion sector... :P

General policy: ignore all claims to real world things. Corporations, countries (that's right: you can't claim Massachussetts, because I'm stuck there. icon_razz.gif), etc. Why? Because this isn't the real world.

Yeah. (Although SB is actually a real place, it's most decidedly not what I roleplay, if for no other reason than there is no way in hell you could fit nearly 2 billion people in Santa Barbara County.... try as we might during the omnipresent tourist season)

(ooc: Y'know, just when I thought my faith in the cognitive abilities of mankind had reached the absolute bottom, this thread comes along, and I see the complete lack of understanding of what is really a very basic joke. Sad.)

I have a very dry sense of humor, generally you have to be somewhat psychotic to be amused by it.

Vortex: Don't worry, I'm really only limiting my expansionism to NS. Raytheon Hughes isn't a challenge. Ah, but FHG...

::licks lips with greedy anticipation::

As for FHG, maybe we can work something out....

OOC: I know it's a joke thread, but the thing is that a lot of people recently have been grabbing up real-world corporations like they were going out of style. People just claimed BMW and such like undiscovered continents rather than powerful businessess. It'd be like me just saying "See Baltimore? Well, it's mine." That kind of BS.Hey! I BOUGHT BMW in April. No claiming to it, I spent 800 billion on it and killed my spending money for a month. Claim it like land my ass. The same with buying controling stock in Porsche and buying out VW. My budget just took a beating, which is why I'm auctioning off parts of BMW, to try and recover quicker than the profits from those companies would be able to help.

So exactly which player sold you BMW?

I'm sorry to hand it to you, but NS earth is not real earth

So exactly which player sold you BMW?

I'm sorry to hand it to you, but NS earth is not real earthSome dead nation playing as BMW.

And It's pretty obvious NS earth isn't RL earth. We don't have 30,000+ nations in RL.