Roseus Galactic

Roseus Galactic

Basic Information

Official Name:	Roseus Galactic Entertainment
Other Names:	Roseus
Headquarters:	New Detroit, Mars
Structure:	Corporation, Film Studio
Denonym(s):	Not Specified
Founded:	2329

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• Award-Winning movies with Syndicate sympathies
• Respected in the Intelligence community
• History of making security equipment and weaponry

“If there is anything we can all agree on, it's that we love a good story.”
— Rskaz Guwa-Ros, head of the Uuoea-Esa branch of Roseus Galactic, on adapting films for other cultures.

Roseus Galactic is a Sol-based film production company that showed heavy support for The Syndicate during the Inter-Corporate Wars. Originally founded as a producer of small arms and security equipment, the heirs of the Roseus family quickly found themselves taking a different direction - the arts.

Nowadays, Roseus is a well-respected film company that produces media for many different cultures, creatively adapting stories and bleeding entirely different worlds together in hopes of creating sympathy and unity among people.

Roseus Galactic ships use audio/visual or stage terminology in their model names.

Playing a member of this faction

• Roseus Galactic is a strange faction, and it is best to approach it knowing exactly what your character's role in it is. Not all Roseus characters will fit on all Roseus ships.
• Its public-facing employees are charming and charismatic, and they have been known to host events for the entertainment of all people.
• The less public-facing crew, however, have a variety of skillsets. Roseus employs spies and assassins for covert operations - you don't become a powerful force of intelligence without good spies... and being able to take out the enemy's. While this side of the company has started to wane since the end of the ICW, it is still very much utilized to pursue the political interests of the company.
• While many SS13 servers may treat their spies as a joke faction, Roseus is not.

Structure

Roseus Galactic has a central branch in Sol, which commands several smaller ones in various systems with executives from their local regions. While these branches may often cooperate, outside of operations specific to the frontier, they largely work independently with only necessary communications between them.

Culture

Roseus holds its employees, especially those facing the public, to high standards of behavior. They are expected to look and behave their best, with mistakes often resulting in harsh punishments. A severe enough slip-up from a movie star or director can even prove to be career-ending, with Roseus cutting ties with them and using their influence to blacklist the person throughout the industry.

While more private-facing employees aren't held to as high of standards, Roseus spies have been known to leave with new scars - or simply vanish into the night - after falling out of line.

History

Founded in 2329 by Cassandra Roseus to sell security equipment, it struggled to find its place in the industry. Her son, Brandon Roseus, found himself more interested in the arts, and on being granted a position at Roseus Galactic corporate, would insist on having a film made to advertise their new pistol, the G-103. Ironically, the film sold extremely well, Brandon’s focus proving to be more on telling a story and providing quality special effects over actually advertising the product. Cassandra hesitantly allowed him to continue, eventually passing the torch on to him.

Brandon made the company change direction entirely during his reign, focusing far more on films - and consistently making box office successes. When the ICW came around, Nanotrasen dominated the tech industry with the stock parts system. Once everybody had started to make a shift toward their system, they began to raise the prices - which started to impact Roseus profits. Furious, their CEO at the time, Lowen Marshalls, reached out to the Gorlex Marauders. In exchange for stolen NT stock parts, they would produce films glorifying the Gorlex cause and making them into heroes in the public eye. This deal proved lucrative for both sides, with Roseus saving significant amounts on the stolen goods while making even more with their Syndicate propaganda as other activist groups offered them deals as well. Roseus Galactic would go on to design the Infiltrator Suit for the Gorlex Marauders to help further aid in their battles, often borrowing soldiers’ equipment after battles to use as props. Some Gorlex veterans now hold weapons that have been in major motion picture films and signed by actors, worth staggering amounts of credits on the market - and priceless to them. Roseus Galactic was the heart and soul of Syndicate morale during the ICW, and many agree there couldn’t have been better people to do it. Furthermore, while often uncredited, Roseus Galactic established a network of spies using bribery and promises of stardom, quickly becoming the backbone of Syndicate intelligence.

Post-War, Roseus reaches out to the frontier in hopes of gathering intelligence for allied parties, providing entertainment to the civilians who’d begun to settle, and seeking out new stories to provide the basis for films. Spies and entertainers, Roseus Galactic’s influence on the frontier is truly pervasive - even as quiet as they may seem.

Notable Releases

Security Equipment

G-103 Energy Gun (2335), a heavier energy pistol that has become a recurring object in their films as a sort of easter egg.

Gorlex Infiltrator Suit (2549), a set of startlingly bright red armor that hides the wearer's identity, muffles their footsteps, and aids in capturing targets. Surprisingly unsubtle, but at least it does a good job hiding blood.

Films

Star Strike (2340), an action movie about a merchant kidnapped by pirates as he takes over the ship using nothing but a G-103 and his wits. Notably their first film, and far more of an advertisement for their weapon than anything released in the past century. Ironically, the studio made more money on this film than they ever did on the weapon it was supposed to advertise.

47 Guwanji (2523), a historical film

Stranded (2547), a film about a small mining colony being abandoned by an evil megacorporation. The protagonists band together and kill the evil station master who is planning on starving them to death and replacing them with robots. This film was banned in NT-controlled areas for being Syndicate propaganda, but sold particularly well outside of them.

The Lone Knight Wanders (2560), a film about a Sinta’Unathi war hero who is exiled for a mysterious murder. He returns after hearing about similar crimes occurring throughout the city, only to find it’s his son. He dies taking down his son in a one-on-one duel, and his name is cleared by their clan. This film was especially popular in the polar parts of Moghes, though it briefly reignited controversy over the guwandi system.

Relations

• Roseus Galactic is in positive terms with much of the Gorlex Marauders splinter groups due to their film Stranded (released in 2547) portraying their founders as heroes.
• Roseus Galactic is on uneasy terms with Cybersun due to their attempts to poach GEC work off of them - even with their limited success caused by lackluster offers and contractual agreements.
• Roseus Galactic, most notably, has recently started basing designs of villains off of Inteq equipment in an attempt to harm their public image.

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  CMM
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  Inteq
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  Nanotrasen
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  SolFed
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  Syndicate