"I'll stay a few days to help you through some of the work but that's all I can offer as the old tree still needs someone at the helm." The old man said gruffly.
"I certainly won't complain to have an experienced hand at all this around to point out some of my mistakes." I said with a grin.
It was hell.
A lot of the paperwork had nothing to do with the company itself but was left over nonsense from the incompetent assholes who ruled the corporation before. Stupid laws, chaotic nepotism fueled military arrangements, a list of assassinations a mile long, unpaid ignored bills, luxury item storage arrangements, a lot of grog shit.-
The bills were discarded after being forwarded to the living nepo-babies as their problem and not company expenses. That's what the stupid fucks got for putting their names as the recipients rather than the company. Clearly they expected the company to shoulder their debts but they weren't company purchases and so got sent to their rightful debtors. The fact that nearly half the paperwork was bills like this made my eyebrows twitch in annoyance once we finally sorted through the massive pile.-
The things that were put under the company I was forced to pay off out of pocket or there'd be no getting rid of the bankruptcy filings. This cost me a massive sum of money out of my cut of the Eridium profits and almost left me broke but thankfully I had just enough money to settle it all. Once that was done I immediately got to work consolidating and sorting the assets left over from the company and had to sigh at the sheer amount of stupid things I found.-
Whole infrastructures abandoned for as little as the piping needing replacement, mass amounts of civil projects half done before being forgotten and so much fucking more. I started with the Atlas homeworld of Promethea as I reshuffled the remained staff into proper roles and functions, pumped out money and resources to finish the half done civil projects. I improved the cities of the planet and the feedback was instantaneous. The people who lived here were cautious at first but once I proved I wasn't following in the footsteps of the old Atlas began to actively try and help me fix things.-
Hiring people for good salaries and benefits did wonders for work flow improvement and talents popped up out of the woodwork hoping to ride the new companies rising force. I finally got the company back to the bare minimum acceptable level within a GT month and could start working on rolling out the rebranding of the company. I revamped the production facilities on Promethea and started selling the new weapons and other products I had set up for this on Pandora. I even spent a hefty amount of money to spread advertisements for the new rebrand and products.-
The name Drake got around as people bought the new products after seeing these advertisements and discovered it's quality. Naturally I had already patented the various things I had created so even after the other corporations wanted to copy my work they could only stomp their feet when they saw the copyrights. Still it was enough to make them take me and my rapidly growing company seriously. And oh was it a meteoric ascension. After reclaiming and "renovating" Promethea in a months time through my massively advanced tech I started reclaiming Atlas owned resources across the galaxies and doing the same to them.-
Within three months time my company had gone from barely stable to near dominant status rivaling Jakobs, Maliwan and the others. I didn't stop there though as I started work to advance my people to an even higher level. I started with Promethea by creating a global shielding and sensor array to monitor incoming and outgoing space traffic. Once that was done I began rebuilding the cities on the planet from the ground up superior than before. The slums vanished entirely and no one starved so long as they had something to offer. I had plenty of jobs whether in the military or the factories to offer.-
I created public free schools that children were mandated to to go to because it was frankly ridiculous how low the education rate was. I made sure to pay the teachers in these school hefty wages because I was well aware that a motivated teacher was far better than one that was not. It would take a few years before this particular project bore fruit but I had all the time in the world and I knew that payout would be all the sweeter for it. I had no intention of revamping the borderlands entirely since that would require kicking out the other corporations but my own little slice of this place was not too much.-
The other corporations with the exception of Jakobs didn't take kindly to my educational mandate though.
"It is in the best interest to all parties that the population remains ignorant and easily manipulated." the liaison from Maliwan said threateningly.
"Hmmm, well it seems we have a disagreement then. See I think an educated population is the most useful, more room for innovation and advancement." I said casually as I leaned back in my hover chair.
"This matter is not up for discussion Mr. Drake. You WILL revoke that mandate or suffer the consequences." the liaison said firmly.
"Is that a threat?" I asked with a predatory smile.
"This is a fact. One you should heed." the liaison said dismissively.
I raised my hand and phase locked the smug fucker.
"What are you doing!? Release me this instant or there'll be hell to pay!" he demanded arrogantly.
"You come to MY planet, MY office and make demands of ME without even an ounce of respect. You are either ignorant of who the fuck I am or seriously think you are untouchable. Whatever the case you are wrong and will serve as a fine example of what happens when you fuck around." I said casually before slowly pulling him apart atom by atom.
The screams didn't make me even flinch and once done I summoned the very soul of the man with my phase trance powers.
"What is this!? What have you done!?" he demanded in terror.
"I have claimed your soul from beyond death and now I will let you fade away, no afterlife, just the cold reality of nonexistence." I said before releasing my hold on his body.
Without that he started breaking down immediately and begged for mercy, servitude, anything but this fate. I merely watched without any change in expression until it was over. I then pulled the footage of this entire little event and released it across the echonet. The result was explosive. Horror, awe, disbelief and worship from the bandits, "normal" people and even the elites. Maliwan declared war on my company within the GT day. The war didn't start like they expected however. They sent their a fleet to Promethea and tried to orbital bomb the Drake headquarters only for the bombs to hit the global shield and achieve nothing.-
No, that wasn't quite accurate. It did achieve something, it created an unease in the higher ups of that corporation as they realized I wasn't some Ratch they could crush but a true enemy, one prepared. I flew up past the shield in my ship and decided to give a REAL show of power. No oz kit, no suit, just my flesh and blood body in the void as I proceeded to phase lock each one of the four Maliwan fleet ships at the same time and turn them and their contents into energy that I ate all while live streaming this across the borderlands.
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Alexander Drake
Lifeforce: 2,381,920
Integrated Traits: [Clever mind-Rare grade],[Enhanced senses-Epic grade]X2, [Energy projection-Legendary grade], [Supreme vitality-Legendary grade],[Lesser dragon breath-Epic grade],[Regeneration-Epic grade]X2, [Disease resistance-Epic grade],[Amphibious lungs-Uncommon grade]X2, [Thermal sensing-Uncommon grade], [Water resistance-Rare grade],[Active camouflage-Legendary grade], [Eridian engineering expertise-Mythical grade], [Efficient lungs-Rare grade]x2, [Biometallic bones-Legendary grade], [Quick thinking-Rare grade], [Minor spatial awareness-Epic grade], [Adrenal rush-Rare grade], [Mechanical engineering expertise-Rare grade]X3, [Gunsmithing expertise(degrading)-Common grade]X3, [Mechanical Savant-Epic grade], [Embodiment of destruction(partial)-Mythical grade], [Demi-god body-Mythical grade], [Martial savant-Legendary grade], [Tinkering instinct-Rare grade], [Phase-god(Incomplete)-Mythical grade], [Impenetrable hide-Legendary grade]
Stored traits: [Agelessness-Legendary grade],[Elemental lifeform-Epic grade], [Elemental embodiment(Fire)-Legendary grade], [Elemental embodiment(Cryo)-Legendary grade],