Catalyst Corporation

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Catalyst is a Muhir based entertainment and commodities conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to perfume, toys, pharmaceuticals, and high quality textiles. Though not exceptionally large, Catalyst is the first recorded instance of a company going from small business to corporation.

Their CEO has gone on record as saying that he hopes to expand the company's interests and horizons into the fields of communications, theatre, restaurants, luxury, and music.

Catalyst has plans to go international in the summer.

Loyalty business model: Company resources are employed so as to increase the loyalty of customers and other stakeholders in expectation that objectives will be met or surpassed. Simply put: quality of product and service equates to customer satisfaction, which leads to customer loyalty and ultimately ends in profitability.

Monopoly business model: Occurs when an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product (perfume, toys, Catalyst brand pharmaceuticals) or service to determine significantly the terms on which there is access to it.

Business Information

Type: Entertainment and commodities conglomerated.
Location: Muhir, with international interests.
Primary interests: Perfume, pharmaceuticals, high quality textiles, information.
Secondary interests: Weapons development, legal services, cosmetic surgery.
Newly acquired interests: Genetic engineering.
Looking to expand into: Communications, theatre, restaurant, luxury services, and music.
Architecture: The main building juts directly into the sky, and its rigid rectangular angles, highly reflective windows and Spartan aesthetic makes it a unique and imposing sight among the otherwise colorful and quaint Muhirian neighborhood.

Primary Services

Suit shop: Rumor has it that in the Catalyst's employ is a man with the most blessed hands to ever grace a pair of sewing chatelaine scissors. His skill, though vast, is rarely on display. The tailor works strictly at this shop and strictly for the elite clientele on Catalyst's list of contacts.

Perfume industry: Catalyst has its own manufacturing plant and provides perfume to exclusive merchant customers, who then re-distribute the supply. Catalyst is the only known international seller of perfume. Their trademarked scent is known as "Elysium".

Toy factory: Catalyst has an off-site toy factory that produces all manner of toys, trinket and baubles. Stuffed teddy bears are their largest production line, with a three-way tie for second place between bubble blowers, yo-yo's and coloring books.

Teashop: Tiason is a small-medium business (family owned, just so happens to be by a very large family) that got its start fifty years ago as a booth by the youngest member of the Hallifax family, Stacy. Stemming from a long line of apothecary, it should be no wonder that Stacy's brews were both delicious and invigorating. Since then Tiason has grown to become a prominent presence in Muhir, spreading all across the continent with the corporate headquarters remaining in that little-known-nearly-nameless village that gave it birth. Tiason has gone from comfortable, family-oriented atmosphere to sterile, corporate linoleum but is proud to announce that their products have not suffered in quality.

Secondary Services

S.S. Charon: This luxury cruise liner is one of three on active duty and sailing the wide seas of Valucre, with a fourth currently in production. The S.S. Charon is not the largest ship but it is the most decadent and esteemed. It's insides can house the equivalent of a small village. There are a number of parks, three of them water parks, gambling houses, reserves of liquors made available in the plush accommodations of swank restaurants, and red-light district where only those with proper verification and appropriate color of boarding pass could enter (security is tight).

The ships hover atop the water on an array of square pads that unfold from their underbellies and can propel the ship at great speed by way of electricity. The ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene dome, with a strength 75 times stronger than steel but a fraction of the weight, can seal off at all ends and allow the ship to submerge. On cruises when the customers have spent enough money collectively, the ship takes a breath-taking underwater voyage.

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|Subsidiaries and assets|

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The Electric Chameleon

Quite literally a one stop shop for nearly everything legal and illegal one can seek in a city, is both Muhir's ying and yang.

Of course there is the typical business and service one finds in a nightclub. First, it is the home base of the Branangan Guild; Muhir's thieves and assassins' guild which is involved in as much crime as it is community service. Secondly, it serves as a pleasure house, boasting some of the most beautiful women from all corners of Valucre. Thirdly, it is a black market nexus where people come to procure anything and everything, be it impossible or not. Fourth, it is a satellite base and gathering point for the infamous crime syndicate; The Dead and thus a liaison for any with whom business is conducted -- citizens, the military, pirates, etc.

The owner, Valentine Branagan, whom is also a Lieutenant of The Dead and Patriarch of the Guild, runs his strange empire from these halls; newspapers, bars, shipping and many more enterprises are governed from here.

The Dragon Iris Art Museum

The Iris is a showcase of fine and rare artifacts and remnants of current and ancient cultures with both public and private exhibits. The public exhibits are marvelous and open to walk-ins; the private exhibits are closely guarded secrets, whispered only among the power elite, for security reasons. The Iris is located located in Casper, Terrenus on the waterfront. It is of intelligent design, elegant construction, and is the first art museum in the whole of Valucre of its size and to attract clientele from all over the world.

There are four rooms, each dedicated to one season. Upon entry, the windows to the outside world become an elaborate depiction of each quarter for the year. There are five primary works to be examined; one for each room, and one that has been made a mural on the domed ceiling of the large front foyer.

These five works are of astounding value, and as thus are guarded by a stringent security system designed by Catalyst specifically for the Dragon Iris museum. Little detail is known as to the Iris's security system in specific, but word on the street is that each room holding each of the seasonal works has its own defense system.

The Mausoleum

The Mausoleum is a privately owned health care facility specializing in long-term recovery and triage, cosmetic surgery, pharmaceutical application, experimental research and development and comes equipped with a staff whose cumulative skills stand unmatched in the greater continent of Muhir and perhaps all of Valucre. A number of more clandestine experiments occur in the Mausoleum's basement, affectionately titled the Sepulcher, but little is known about this work. The facility is heavily guarded, and apparently guarded by local law.

Types of people that might find the Mausoleum a great place to visit are those suffering from massive damage or trauma, those with missing limbs wanting either a replacement or an upgrade, those psionically afflicted or magically enchanted or compelled, those suffering from a vampire or werewolf bite before a full transformation, those hexed or cursed and last but not least, the sick or dying. The Mausoleum also offers very competitive programs for bright minds that want to enlist to work on the cutting edge of medical science.

The Black Tarantula

The Black Tarantual is a night-club, sister to the Electric Chameleon, a popular and highly exclusive hotspot located in Aeliyr, Muhir – Tellus Mater. The Catalyst corporation, also Muhirian based and owner of the Electric Chameleon, loaned Ai Frost, partner-owner of the Black Tarantula, the funds to move start her business in Terrenus and is equal partner with the woman. Executive control is split fifty-fifty, but Catalyst has relinquished all creative control to Ai Frost.

The Black Tarantula is unique in that it caters exclusively to the supernatural, complete with the odd eccentricities appealing to the major classes of the weird and sometimes frightening. A vast selection of blood, for example, for the various intelligent monsters that subsist on it. A complete lack of iron and silver metalwork, ingredients that would produce an adverse effect on their clientele. An impressive selection of spell components (see: eye of newt and wart of frog) for those wizards and acolytes that to employ a personal touch to their drinks and meals.

Humans are permitted entrance to the Black Tarantula, but given the relatively low occurrence of supernatural and metaphysical attributes to be found among their expansive numbers, it is no wonder that they are found in short supply.

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Updated Primary Services to include the Mausoleum, our hospital.

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Updates

1/21/2011 - Updated subsidiaries and assets with the Dragon Iris Art Museum.
1/22/2011 - Updated subsidiaries and assets information for Museum and Mausoleum, added pictures for those two and for Electric Chameleon.