Buddha Line Corporation

Overview

Buddha Line is corporation, the controling shares of which are owned by a cabal of individuals all of whom could be said to be involved in the corporations central "cult" of beliefs. Which is that via genetics that they can one day reproduce the Buddha, in fact whole worlds of Buddhas.

History (Phases)

Phase 1 - Enlightening Experience - Gerald Everson, an executive with an American biology firm becomes involved heavily in Buddhist philosophy. He notes that there are some severe problems with attaining enlightenment with the distractions of some modern technologies. Instead of the spread of Buddhism creating more enlightened people, fewer and fewer can be said to achieve it to any extent, and those who do don't seem to be able to maintain it.

He speculates that, to some extent, humans have evolved over time to be more complex beings to relate to the realities of technological advancement. Meaning that the potential for enlightenment may have been bred out of us. That, given the current movement of humanity that the next Supreme Buddha, Maitreya Bodhisattva, will never appear as successor to Siddhartha Gautama.

At a Lake Tahoe retreat for the company executives, Everson, standing at the top of one of the majestic ski runs had a sudden "enlightening experience." That is, he didn't claim to have become enlightened, so much as had a dawning of how to create more enlightenment in a world otherwise headed to becoming a hell on Earth (and beyond).

• Aspects – Gerald Everson [][]
• Knacks - 4 for purchasing Everson (see details below)

Phase 2 - The incorporation - Within a couple of years, Everson had bought out the company he worked for, funded largely by donations from "followers" who were very wealthy, and Buddha Line Corporation was formed.

• Aspects – Corporation [], ENATO Charter [] (I’m thinking that on forming ENATO that they came up with some form of corporate charter, and this is what Buddha Line operates under as a relationship to ENATO – note that it’s only one level, representing that it’s an old charter, and Buddha Line tends to operate under it’s own rules of late – see the aspect in the last phase).
• Knacks - Industry, Biology, Chemistry, Computers

Phase 3 - Early Years - The Company focus was immediately shifted entirely to cloning and genetic engineering research. The early years were lean ones for the company as the research was still rather focused on accelerating the knowledge base, and less on coming up with developed products. Further, Everson's philosophy was spread throughout the company bringing it a strong sense of unity amongst the employees (who tended to become more like followers).

• Aspects – Genetics Knowledge [][]
• Knacks - Biology, Chemistry, Social, Unity

Phase 4 - Profitability - As the technology surged ahead, inevitably some of the products that the company produced to maintain its research became very profitable (especially replacement organs). Production capacity was expanded to accommodate, and corporate security had to be tightened to protect secrets.

• Aspects – Resourceful [], Genetics Knowledge []
• Knacks - Biology, Industry, Espionage, Planetary Combat

Phase 5 - Production Expansion - The resources required to continue genetics research were staggering, and the company continued to expand it's base of operations to accommodate, including expanding operations to many of the new space colonies.

• Aspects – Resourceful [], Locations Everywhere in ENATO []
• Knacks - Industry, Communications, Espionage, Social

Phase 6 - Current Positioning - Their Biotech close to being able to reproduce the bloodline of Siddartha Guatama, philosophical enemies have arrayed against Buddha Line (or at least Everson believes so) leading to increased counter-espionage and an acquisition of energy sources to ensure greater self-sufficiency for the corporation.

• Aspects – Avoids ENATO Control [], New Bloodlines []
• Knacks - Biology, Espionage, Energy, Unity.

Current Goal

Expand the New Bloodlines aspect adding things like Sanity, Unity, Physical Hardiness, etc.

Current Form:

• Aspects
  • (Fair) Avoids ENATO Control O
  • (Fair) Corporation O
  • (Fair) ENATO Charter O
  • (Good) Gerald Everson XO
  • (Great) Genetics Knowledge XXX
  • (Fair) Everywhere in ENATO O
  • (Fair) New Bloodlines O
  • (Good) Resourceful XO
  • (Good) Very Calm Employees OO
  • (Fair) Bio-Cyberinterface O
• Knacks
  • Great Biology
  • Great Espionage
  • Good Industry
  • Good Social
  • Good Sanity
  • Good Xenoscience
  • Good Computers
  • Fair Chemistry
  • Fair Unity
  • Fair Sanity
  • Fair Arts
  • Fair Communications
  • Fair Energy
  • Average Planetary Combat
  • Average Physical Hardiness
  • Average FTL Lore
  • Average Space Combat
  • Average Hyperspace Combat
  • Average Transportation
• Extras
  • Gerald Everson
    • Extra Aspects - CEO's Inner Circle
      • Vision OOO
      • Leadership OO
      • Business Acumen OO
    • Extra Knacks - CEO's Inner Circle
      • Great Unity
      • Good Biology
      • Good Social
      • Fair Sanity
      • Fair Communication
      • Fair Espionage
      • Fair Planetary Combat (physical security)
      • Average Physical Hardiness
      • Average Space Combat (must protect CEO while travelling)
      • Average Computers
      • Average Arts (pretty marketing graphics)
      • Average Transportation (for getting important people around)
      • Average Energy

Fate Points - 7

Contingencies:

• If meeting aliens unknown to ENATO, retreat to safe distance and attempt to establish first contact.
• If security breaches are discovered, prosecute them to the full extent allowed under ENATO law if they are ENATO citizens, or entreat ENATO to take care of their responsibility to protect us if it's an external threat.
• If any new technology is found, move to immediately secure it at the secret jumpgate site to maintain secrecy. Generally keep all big secrets there.
• Have resources set aside to do evacuation of important assests of BLC to secret locations should the new aliens turn out to be bad guys. Any attempt on their part to establish control over human territory will be considered a potential threat.