[DM DEV EVENT] A New Generation of Wealth

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THIS IS A SINGLE-ACTION DM EVENT FOR THE

GREATER REPUBLIC OF ROSKANA

THIS POST IS MADE BY EpicToaster1 AND ALL SUBSEQUENT POSTS WILL BE PLAYER DRIVEN.

A NEW GENERATION OF WEALTH

Carme, Roskana

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A relatively major city along the belly of Roskana, the city has its fair share of trade transferring through as it's passed by rail through between the larger cities of Moncton and Kasrkine. However, despite the wealth the moving goods bring and take, the city itself has begun to fall on harder times. Its meager industrial base has been slowly corroding away, unable to sustain itself, forcing factories one by one to shutter their doors and be left to rot with no one willing to buy up the failing industries.

That is, until along came a certain individual. Not much of a sight, with only a basic button-down outfit and a comically-sized bowler hat, and an overall plain gray fur pattern, the Karrashi standing before the empty factory would survey every square inch of what he was looking at. The exterior has remained largely unchanged from when it shut its doors, only some minor rusting on the catwalks surrounding the west end of the building. Relieved at his purchase, he'd pull the dull, bronze key from his jacket pocket. My house is on the line for this.

The latch would unhook loudly before the doors would creak open, revealing the dusty, dark, and dank interior. He'd stare for a moment before nodding and saying aloud. "I could pay back the loan on my house with this." With that, the following week would be spent with him gathering his friends to help him clean the factory, soon hiring on additional help to rework the old equipment of the construction factory to turn it into a more general goods factory.

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Okay, so to explain what's happening here. As I explained in the beginning of the RP, nations with a capitalist economic policy [and other free forms of economics] can have adventure capitalists invest in their nation. This is meant to be an example post of this is occurring. Others may see this occur over the next few days as well. From a moderation standpoint, this is the only post that will be made. Basically, this is a starter post for the potential for economic change to a nation. I will not make further posts to this thread. Further development must be done by the target player otherwise nothing will be done.

Have fun! <3

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Hiring from the city's pool of labor workers would prove to be fruitful - being a notable percentage of the population given that so much of its productivity had been centralized in factories until the shuttering had effectively caused both a departure of wealth and as well, a fair lot of the skilled workers. What was left behind was the portion that could not afford to move, but as well had few other areas to go. The pool of workers was there, added to further by the returning workers from Arema who had not been able to find work in the colony.

With the factory soon clean and tidy the reworking of the equipment came next, but that was itself not a simple task. Still, however, it was doable, and hiring the people to do it would take a substantial chunk of the pool of leftover cash from the loan, but once they had in the weeks after, they had as well returned a few of the assembly lines to working order. Now it was a case of securing the material for the first batch of goods, which he had done by prowling the market for quality sources of wood, metal, and rubber. He opted to go through Ulster-Gaelian channels in pursuit of such.

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Opting to pay in Rosarks, they would get the initial flow of materials and pay a substantial amount extra for expedited shipping. Once it arrived though, in late Sablien, on the 31st, he had what he needed. The factory would open again, and this time, as the workers came to the assembly line.. the machines came to life, and the line began to move. The first products of their endeavor would come rolling off from the line moments later.

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The factory soon had all of its lines running regularly, establishing three 8 hour shifts for its workers with as well, a few swing shifts interspaced between it all. They produced a fairly large amount of goods and had increased their intake of material to do so, but as they did as well they had started to pump out pallet after pallet of material. The CEO of the newly founded Tri-C Company, or Carme Consumer Company, had as well reached out to stores and suppliers across Carme and as well, further afield while his aides worked on organizing a small fleet of trucks to move the material. As the new year dawned, their first shipments would hit store shelves.

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Obsillia 5th

 Sales were slow on the first day, but they exploded rapidly as the populace of Carme got a taste of something they'd not had for a long, long time.
Locally produced consumer products. Bicycles were among that list of 'Final Goods', consumer products that were rapidly sold out after merely a few days for sale. The profit was exceptional.. and as well, the factory was flooded with applications for work before they could take the 'Hiring' sign down. Quickly, the new CEO had raced back to the bank to take out another loan, so that he could once again buy another old factory, and as well - so he could pay a second workforce.

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Obsillia 7th to 10th

 The loan would go through, with the Karrashi returning to his factory and then soon, heading out to another once he had gotten a few things in order. 
He would perform an inspection, and eventually he'd come to find that while it wasn't in the best shape, needing some renovations, it was in workable condition and it sitll had the equipment he needed, though he'd have to have it all serviced before he felt he could reasonably let his workers operate it. Safety laws being what they were.. 

 He bought the building and opened it the same day to a crew of inspectors, engineers and mechanics of whom would be on the new company's payroll. They found the equipment was mostly serviceable, but a lot of it needed to be repaired, or at least given a new work-over. Some needed to outright be replaced, and he was quick to look into that, ordering foreign replacements from Ulster-Gaelia through some of his new contacts, and while it'd be awhile before they'd arrive, he would be able to consolidate what worked down onto the other lines, which he started the process of while he hired some crews to operate those still functional assemblys. 

 Meanwhile, the income was good, and he was actually starting to see a rapidly growing demand for more as people from nearby towns began to come to the city to get their hands on more of what they'd been starved of. 
Tri-C would happily provide.. 

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Obsillia 12th

The new factory was brought up to working condition, and what repairs were needed to the structure were done largely as work in the factory began. It'd cost him a pretty penny to contract the companies and have them perform the work, and he was sure if someone came out to inspect they'd definitely have grounds to fine him, but that wasn't likely - federal inspectors were as rare as the Tsarist inspectors had previously been and largely concentrated in big cities. Meanwhile however, he was watching progress at its finest as the functional lines ran with full crews of newly hired workers, assembling both a assortment of new consumer goods and 'end products'.

He'd convinced as well, one of his friends to get aboard the wagon with him. The additional funding had gone towards acquiring the necessary equipment to start producing construction materials and to set up new lines inside of unused areas of the factory that'd been previously stripped of the necessary equipment for such - of which it all was scheduled to show up on the 20th.

Meanwhile, more products were shipped out into Carme, and further into the surrounding towns now that he had the trucks and the contracts.

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Obsillia 25th

The contract with the Gaelian company that had been supply them with raw materials had to be regularly renegotiated, as the new factory he had purchased and the four or so more he had bought up after had started to pump out goods on a regular basis.
By now he had managed to expand his shipping to several cities and towns around Carme, and finally managed to get into stores in Moncton and Kasrkine, where he had as well bought two more factories and staffed them in short order. They were now working too, the first to be launched. He had what he needed, in vast amounts now the factories were pouring out consumer goods into the Roskanan economy, taking over niches that had previously been filled by inferior quality Grinvelian products that didn't quite come up to snuff next to good, ol', Roskanan handiwork.

However of course, people had noticed his growth.
And it had inspired some others, he found. As one of them had joined on, a few investors having jumped aboard to provide the additional funding they'd need to expand nation-wide, and perhaps internationally.

Soon though he had heard wind of another factory across town in Carme opening, focused primarily on the creation of construction materials. More were starting to follow. It was only three or so now, belonging to a wealthy investment banker and his son, but he imagined before long if they could fill this new niche fast enough they'd quickly be competing for space, land, customers, and workers.
This new factory had only started producing, but they'd apparently already found buyers too, from what he'd been told.

He had meanwhile found that his new found wealth was growing quickly to create something of a corporate orbit, which he'd sucked a smaller company into. They'd been struggling, but he had found that they made fairly good quality heavy duty equipment and repaired it just as well - they'd been retooling much of their inherited gear. So he had entered into a sort of partnership with them, and with Tri-Cs money they'd begun to make more heavy equipment, while repairing a lot of their existing manufacturing capacity, and hiring some small crews. With his help they'd also found plenty more in the way of a new market - domestic production of these goods had been lacking for awhile - people wanted domestic products for cheap, and these companies all did well, then without a doubt they'd soon throw the Grinvelian consumer goods baron and their filthy inferior goods out of Roskana for good.

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Carme, Astillia 6th

Eventually, he'd had to contract to several other companies to supply material.
They were producing enough goods that they needed to further their expansion as substantially as they good, because the opportunity for growth was immense.
Roskana was littered with closed factories. He could use that to his advantage, and as well, he could perhaps even start building new ones.
For now, he's take as much of the already extant buildings that could serve, and he would renovate them even as they produced goods, or at least he would until he had to deal with a government inspector. Not that they'd likely do more than fine him for every factory in violation but that fine could easily rack up into the millions of Rosarks.

He had as well, done something new - hired an accountant.
There was room to expand, and he continued to - opening two factories in Moncton, and one in the city of Kasrkine.
As well he was now facing real competition, and the last major free factory in Carme was bought up - by another Roskanan entrepreneur, of whom was producing, at least as far as he knew, various models of heavy equipment.
While they were all still hiring new workers, there was no shortage of labour.

The city was actually coming back to life.
Of course the taxes were annoying but he had to pay taxes anyway, or the IRS would show up and break his ankles (metaphorically anyway), but the extra 8% atop of the 20 he already paid was a little bit of a oof.
Could be worse though.

The other businesses in the area were as well upping their output, stores were filling with new products and regularly so. They were pushing out imports pretty steadily in the markets they'd been trying to break into.
As well he had gotten enough to start paying back the loans he'd taken out, to which he was already on top of that - it'd just be a few months. But if growth kept up, at this rate, he'd have it paid off in less than two.

He'd as well though heard rumors of someone or perhaps a group of someones, looking to start funding the acquisition of closed mines, and planning to reopen them. He'd have to look into that. Perhaps it was another opportunity for investment on his part. Though there was no shortage now of potential projects to fund.

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Barraban, Astillia 1st 

  "I'm telling you - those foundaries Runan wants to build will be a fucking gold mine of investment! If we open mines for raw iron and other metals we can easily get in on the ground floor of this shit and make big bucks!" The human man said, his hands waving at the map. "We're right near some of the oldest and most rich iron veins and closed mines in the country, and if we send people to survey we can easily start! We could start supplying the Foundaries with all the iron they need!" 

 After a moment of thought, the Festria man would sigh. 
"..Fuck it, fine. Why not? Not got much left to lose." He'd say. "..Let's go hire a surveyor and go looking." 

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Carme, Astillia 11th

 The man had sold his mansion, or at least he figured it called a mansion, to buy a new villa. 
Being that his wife and him were both invested in the success of the business, every dollar they could put into building up their rapidly growing empire, was spent doing so. Including even professional advertising, as he quickly began to pay companies across Roskana to start putting up billboards, posters, and more to draw attention to his products and the company itself. He'd bought a number of new distribution centers and began to further the reach and spread of his goods, in doing so even incorporating two failing manufacturing companies that owned what had been some of the last factories in Carme that produced the same goods.

 They had been excellent acquisitions - their talent was the msot valuable asset of all, and after firing most of their higher staff he took the specialists and began to pay them more to have them travel around helping optimize the lines in the best ways they could, and as well, maintainers for their equipment were coming in every week now, as were the parts to bring in the old equipment they had and make it all the easier to rapidly expand production as every factory took on three shifts, and a swing shift. 

 He'd have to work on health benefits and such, but for the moment, they'd have to first build up their wealth to a point where they had that kind of power beyond Carme, but what he could offer was better pay than the competitors for the time being, given that now, he had set up more factories in Moncton and Kasr, and several other cities, including buying out a few more small ones. Productivity was rising, and he as well began to institute a worker incentives program - to which would be company funded and not cost his workers a dime. 

 Regular breaks, scheduled every two hours, an hour lunch, and as well, the comapny would pay restaraunts to prepare them food every week in a partnership program, which he had his father help with - having been a chef at a fair few restraraunts before having opened his own, it made it easy to then acquire a small number of partners in Carme, and some in the other cities.
Renovations were slower moving, but that problem wasn't as pressing, yet anyway. 

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Barraban, Astilla 8th

 Having laid out a pile of survey records, the pair of men with a hired surveyor had spent the night looking over a particular mine, a nearby one closed off some ten or so years ago during what had been the mass mine closure due to the inflex of foreign mined metal. The mine laid at the base of the mountains, a few hours drive by car given the quality of the roads there had deteriorated from both a lack of use and the elements wearing them away with no maintenance. Nothing but the mine and the attached now decrypt foundary remained, and both being abandoned led to the area falling into disrepair. 

 They decided to make a run to it and give it a look over, given that it was effectively now a vacant lot. 
The company that had owned it had dissolved not long afterl eaving the mine. Come the morning of Astillia 9th, the trio arrived and would find the gate to the mine itself unlocked and open, most of the old equipment left behind in a neat little motor pool. The exploration they did was largely down into the mine itself, but after a time, and after making sure they all had their sidearms ready, they entered the foundary. It was striped of anything particularly valuable and all that remained was the stuff that was welded or nailed down, so it proved to be perhaps best to either demolish it, or if they wanted to that badly, they could pay to restore the foundary. 

 The mine itself wasn't depleted and the vein still had decent surface level deposits, though not exactly a massive abundance of them. 
It could turn a profit, but they'd probably be setting up to do so for a fair bit. Labour of course was no shortage nowadays with so many people coming back from Arema or otherwise just out of a job, it'd be a matter of money and equipment. Some of this could rebuilt. A lot of it might be better off turned in for scrap money. 

 The group debated, as the surveyor became the third investor in doing so, collectively agreeing that while they'd buy the mine, they'd all have to take a substantial loan from the bank in doing so. 
Once they were back late on the night of the 10th, they'd start the process and be done with it relatively quickly. A hefty loan, and then a hefty fee, for the entire mine and the lots around it, including the foundary. It'd probably have put them into a deep debt without said loan, but they'd managed.

Soon they began the process of actually hiring people, mechanics, surveyors, miners, and so on - bringing them to the mine by rented buses and trucks to begin a revival. 

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Esrellia 18th

 Business is a'boomin! 
Factories were starting to open across the country, from reclaimed buildings bought out of government and bank hands, as well as having dragged a few new investors aboard. He'd received some help investing from a pair of Roskanan businessmen named Johnston and Aeridel, of whom were funneling their own personal wealth into the expansion of the business. But as they opened more and more factories, bringing the numebr of active facilities that produced goods to about 100 now from Carme to Libran, to Karshkan Valley all the way in the north. A lot of that was the result of substantial mergers, but he had attained a fair lot of power in doing so, and he was looking to absorb a number of other companies. 

Things were going amazing, and the profits were rolling in faster than every before! Sure, there were some hickups and roadblocks, especially because of how many warehouses and supporting elements still had to be fully staffed, but they were rapidly expanding even still! There were always more spaces opening in the company for warehouse staff, line workers, maintenance technicians, and they were putting out ads across every city they arrived in to fill these spots. There were some more substantial hick ups, however. 

 Their operations in Libran were contested, as a number of companies had set up shop in the region and he had not been able to merge or buy them out. 
As well in the north, a new company by the name of Aberdal had arisen, and was working to grab up workers for its own operations, the operation of a steel foundary in the city. 
As well a number of new steel foundaries were already under construction in Barraban and Karshkan Valley, soon to be completed, some already partially operational. 

Still, he had a lot of power behind him now.
They were actually pouring out goods into the market and beating out Grinvelian products pretty well. 
He wanted to try and find a way that he might be able to dramatically increase that output, or at least to increase it and perhaps either free up workers and time to man other stations. 
On that he went to a friend, and they began to discuss ways they might be able to partially automate and simplify the production of goods even further than had been achieved before. 

 An idea was floated.

"We take a line and we separate it out into work stations, and instead of having to machine or tool parts there at that moment and then send them down, we have the parts machined already at dedicated stations that then just send the finished parts down to get added when a product itself passes certain steps of the line - like, say, we're making a toy car! Like this - We have the body already made, or perhaps both parts of the body. One part reaches Area 1, and it gets glued to part 2. It goes to area 2, and there it gets the axeles for the wheels attached. Then at 3, it gets the wheels, and 4, it gets the stickers for the windows, and so on." 

 While the concept existed already and was used to varying degrees, it wasn't as heavily utilized in industries that weren't as substantially large as automotives and the Military Industrial Complex.
 He figured that he'd have to have a separate facility established to actually make the parts en mass and then to ship them here for assembly, and that's what he did, moving some recently bought equipment and setting up in a empty wing of a newly acquired warehouse building that he intended to convert into a factory anyway. They started to manufacture the parts, and shipped them to the factory a day later on the 18th, where the experiment with the new assembly line began, with them measuring if Output would increase or decrease. 

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Esrellia 18th 

The mine was opened for business. The foundary, not so much. It needed a dramatic overhaul, a lot of the equipment was from the turn of the century.
But it could be done. With a lot of money. First however, the mine needed to actually turn a profit. That was what they needed more than anything.. and now that they had miners, and had reinforced the safety of the mine by actively replacing beams and other such stuff, they were quick to start mining again in areas they knew were stable, and as well, held some valuable iron veins. While not the best they still would turn a profit if mined out, and that was what mattered above all else. 

 The work began in earnest on the 12th, and by the 14th, they had finally managed to accumulate what could be considered to be a 'decent haul'. 
While they were waiting to get their own foundary into working condition, they contracted with one in the city itself, and sent the haul of ore there. 
The payment was enough to continue operations, and they began to hire more miners, expanding the operation steadily until the 18th came around. The output was rising slowly but steadily, more and more ore as they tapped the veins they knew about, and surveyors ventured in to try to find more, and anything else of value as they did. They'd been hitting smaller veins of other material as well that they were selling off separately to a number of smaller refineries. 

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Mynti 21st 

The output of factories had increased massively, but as well, more factories had to be opened.
The empire had to simply grow out and become as immense as it needed to be to overwhelm foreign competition, and as well, to out-compete the domestic competition around it. This was sparking a arms race. 
As workers from Arema returned to Roskana, Carme Consumer Company would often snipe them at the docks with both targeted advertising, and people directly offering jobs and truck rides. Soon they would as well have begun construction on a number of factories on empty lots up in northern Roskana, around the area of Barraban, and as well on newly bought up land in the Auran Metro area. 

 Overall, there currently operational number of factories, rested at 75, spread across Roskana. 
They were aiming to get that number to 125 by the end of the year, or more if they could manage. 

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Mynti 21st

 The output of the mine had reached a stable and steady flow of Ore that while reasonable and profitable, wasn't the best, at least in the eyes of the owners. However for the moment it was enough that it was financing their work, helping them to both get new and better equipment, refurbish most of what they already had, and then as well, to pay the additional workers they were bringing in. As well however, they established an official office in Barraban from which the paperwork could be done and dealt with. Some healthcare benefits were definitely going to be needed soon though. 

They began to look towards opening a second mine, rather than opening the foundary, at least for now. 

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Sablien 3rd

Almost 110 factories working, 90 at full capacity.
Carme Consumer Company's stock went public, and trading began. Investors flocked in and the company's reach was growing substantially, now they were working to actively incorporate many smaller conglomerates, and as well, had finally sorted a lot of their logistics out, adding complexity to their supply chain. The factories were pumping out increasing quantities of everything from toys to household cooking equipment, to construction material and even some heavy machinery.

While short of their yearly goal by about 15 factories, they had still experienced exponential growth in the span of less than a year - a phenomenally short time.

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Operations at the mine continue steadily, with its owners working primarily on paying off debts and as well, they've hired people to survey another mine further into the mountains, primarily looking to extract more Iron.

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Esrellia the 3rd

Almost 135 functional factories, with 125 of them fully staffed.
They'd achieved their original goal, though somewhat late, having held back on further acquisitions for a time to instead focus on ensuring their factories were working at their most optimal.
They were pushing out the most material they could manage from their assembly lines, and as well in Carme and Karshkan valley, they'd thrown most Grinvelian goods out of those two local markets for most products.
They as well began to work towards additional heavy machinery capacity and as well, construction material - especially with the needs for it in Arema, they could capitalize on that, perhaps even open a Arema branch office in the future.

For now, they worked to hunt down some property and vacant or underperforming factories they could grab up for exactly such a purpose, and worked with their contacts in the UKUG and Marrlan for additional raw materials to fuel such an endeavor.

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DM EVENT STATUS

Concluded, nothing for me to do as this was addressed when it happened.