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Roberts Space Industries ®

Crimson Permanent Assurance / CPAO

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History

In the bleak days of nineteen-eighty-three, as Earth languished in the doldrums of a ruinous monetarist policy, the good and loyal men of the Crimson Permanent Assurance Company— a once-proud family firm, recently fallen in hard times— strained under the yoke of their oppressive new corporate management.

Pushed beyond the bounds of decent and reasonable victimization, the aged retainers took their destiny in their own hands and— Mutiny!

And so, the Crimson Permanent Assurance was launched upon the high seas of interstellar finance.

There it lay, the prize they sought, the many rich jewels in the crown of the universe: The financial districts swollen with multi-nationals, conglomerates, and fat, bloated merchant banks.

Hidden behind the faceless, towering canyons of glass, the world of high finance sat smug and self-satisfied as their future,in the shape of their past. The Crimson Permanent Assurance slipped silently through the stars, returning to wreak a terrible revenge.

Adopting, adapting, and improving traditional business practices, the Permanent Assurance puts into motion an audacious and totally unsuspected takeover bid.

And so, heartened by their initial success, the desperate and reasonably violent men of the Crimson Permanent Assurance battled on…

And so, they sailed off into the ledgers of history, one by one, the financial capitals of the world crumbling under the might of their business acumen,… or so it would have been… if certain modern theories concerning the size of the universe had been… disastrously wrong.

Manifesto

Arthur: The Lady of the Lake— her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!

Dennis: (laughingly) Listen: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some… farcical aquatic ceremony!

Arthur: (yelling) BE QUIET!

Dennis: You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!!

Arthur: (coming forward and grabbing the man) Shut UP!

Dennis: I mean, if I went ‘round, saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

Arthur: (throwing the man around) Shut up, will you, SHUT UP!

Dennis: Aha! Now we see the violence inherent in the system!

Arthur: SHUT UP!

Dennis: (yelling to all the other workers) Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP, HELP, I’M BEING REPRESSED!

Arthur: (letting go and walking away) Bloody PEASANT!

Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did’j‘hear that, did’j‘hear that, eh? That’s what I’m all about! Did you see ‘im repressing me? You saw it, didn’t you?!

Charter

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