Editing Disney Villains Victorious: Space K/L/Rs (section)

=== Chairman L.C. Clench: X-S Tech (ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter) ===

King: L.C. Clench

As head of the galaxy’s biggest tech conglomerate, Chairman L.C. Clench is a very important man. True, he may not command the iron-fisted aura of galactic dictators, or even what little bureaucratic legitimacy the GalFed clings to, but he doesn’t need it. As the saying goes, money makes the universe go round, and nobody’s got more to burn than Clench. 
Starting from humble roots as the manager of a small manufacturing plant, Clench soon found he has a knack for business, especially cutting costs and corners without being caught. In no time at all, he had secured himself as Chairman of the interstellar corporation that would become X-S. As head of the Company, Clench has considerably boosted profit margins by wheeling and dealing behind the scenes with various kings, schmoozing them up to agree to contracts with hidden traps and clauses to keep them in his pocket, then throwing his considerable economic weight around to get his way once they realize they’ve been had. To avoid assassination attempts from competitors or burned clients, Clench has ensured that the intricate trade network X-S plays lynchpin to will collapse if he’s ever unexpectedly retired, leaving behind a galaxy-wide economic disaster as previously unnoticed dependencies suddenly become all too obvious. In this way, Clench has made himself the single most valuable VIP in the galaxy, and has many times halted a war in progress simply by his presence--neither side willing to risk accidently killing him. 

Clench is not only a consummate businessman, but a dedicated showman, constantly stretching to develop new and boldly innovative ways to push his company forwards. The annual X-S exhibitions at trade fairs around the galaxy draw billions of visitors, all clamoring to see how X-S will top last year and blow their competition out of the water. Never one to give up the spotlight, Clench makes appearances at as many of these demonstrations as physically possible, his sure-footed charisma keeping crowds riveted to the stage. Unfortunately, Clench’s own ambition tends to get the better of him. His constant demands for bigger and bigger spectacles from an already overworked staff has a tendency to result in mishaps and disastrous failures at the expense of the audience. Of course, these incidents never amount to any lasting public outrage. Owning significant shares in the majority of galactic media producers helps considerably with PR.  

Land: X-S Tech

X-S today is a major supplier of tech galaxy-wide, producing complex heavy machinery such as cold fusion reactors, advanced AIs, weaponry of all sorts. Its veritable monopoly over a number of industries makes keeping a good relation with the company a prime concern for Kings not yet 100% self-sufficient. Aside from its heavy manufacturing, X-S also has a heavy influence over the civilian market thanks to its dominant role in consumer products. Nearly all household robots are based on X-S’s S.I.R. model. The live feed from the eyes of these androids gives the monolithic corporation nearly unlimited powers of surveillance over its customers, though it assures that all data collected will be kept private and used strictly to improve the consumer experience. 

Physically, X-S’s presence in the galaxy is felt only lightly  Aside from its scattered manufacturing outposts, orbiting regional headquarters, and a few company towns established near valuable veins of rare metals, X-S keeps itself scarce outside of a few core systems. Far more impactful, however, is the network of teleportation uplinks it has established as part of its foray into interstellar transit. X-S teleportation tubes are miracles of modern engineering, able to instantly transport people and goods across lightyears of space. It is primarily because of their control of the teleportation network that X-S has become so influential in galactic affairs, controlling the critical transportation infrastructure that keeps many isolated worlds afloat. The threat of cutting off a planet's teleporters from the grid is more than enough to bully governments into looking the other way from the company's unscrupulous business practices. If it comes to it, X-S can always fall back on staging an unfortunate “accident” for any crusading anti-corp politicians who step into their tubes.

Rule: If It Can't Be Done With X-S, It Shouldn’t Be Done At All  

Never content to sit on top of the heap, X-S is driven under Clench's leadership to push boundaries and expand profit margins by any means necessary. Part of it may be his addiction to risking it all; Clench thrives most in the tense environment of a hostile boardroom. Clench may also just be, like so many other multimillionaires, be trying to shovel money into a void it just can't fill; endlessly dissatisfied with the cold shallowness of exorbitant wealth no matter how much of it he has. At the core though, the company he has created had simply grown to be far larger force than he has any hope of corralling, reliant on an endless and ultimately unsustainable pattern of constant growth.

This squeeze for profit is felt especially hard in regions X-S has invested significantly in. Whole inhabited planets are stripmined of resources by the insatiable company, often with the go-head of political leaders either duped or bribed into buying X-S's promises of prosperity and job creation. In other cases, X-S will infiltrate a planet's economy more subtly, slowly increasing their market share until the whole planet is entirely dependent on X-S goods and all of its production centres have been bought out. Primitives, thanks to their naivety and lack of standing to represent themselves in Galactic Court, are especially valued as marks by the company. If a primitive world rich in resources is discovered, X-S will waste no time rolling up to dazzle them with their advanced technology before persuading them to sign away their world's mineral rights. Under the guise of philanthropy, X-S have dedicated significant resources to the exploration of the outer rims to seek these hapless planets out. 


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