SecuraCorp

CEO: Ethan Moreau

Employees: 10,000+

Status: Megacorp

Industry: Security Services

Founded: 2645

Competitors: No major competitors.

Current Goals: Their largest client, Ingrahm Civic Services, is losing control of its properties, the people who live there are ignoring their contractual obligations and breaking the terms of their contract. Some of these individuals have taken things violent. In short, there are areas where the contract has become unenforceable. Ingrahm has changed the terms of the contract to allow more freedom for SecuraCorp to protect Ingraham's assets.

History:

SecuraCorp's roots go deep as one of the longest-standing security forces, predating even the idea of civic service companies. SecuraCorp got its start doing policing work in small towns, their first town had a problem with rolling gangs demanding protection payments, and failure to pay almost always says your home or business attacked. When they first started they were seen as just another gang, but they promised to fight off other gangs, something that current gangs didn't offer. The corp was true to its word and began fighting off these rolling gangs, eventually gaining the trust of the people. Their payment methods were unique as well, they approached the town as a whole and gave an open-ended deal, they needed 10 thousand credits to operate, and if anything more they would increase their operation. They raised 10k in a few weeks, and even in those weeks they slowly brought people into the company. After defending the first gangs they quickly made more money. Within a year SecuraCorp had expanded their services to a few nearby towns, had even built their training camp outside the city, and grew the company to over 500 employees, with a monthly profit of over 150k credits.

In the next few years, they expanded their services to medical, search, and rescue, and started an official offensive operations division that preemptively went after other violent groups that didn't fit their standard of operations. A few competitors came up that SecuraCorp couldn't classify as a gang, since they offered nearly identical services to them in nearly the same way. The only saving grace for the young company is that they operated mostly in cities they hadn't yet gotten to, so as long as they were able to focus on building a vertical, they could eventually outperform them and move into their territories.

Everything changed for SecuraCorp when they found out they had a spy, someone who was stealing credits from the company and sending them to competitors, someone who was getting employees moved to competition with raises and better benefits. The nail in the coffin was when SecuraCorp started its executive protection program, something that wasn't meant to bring in a bunch of credits but would be a very valuable service. The team creating it was small and the project was considered top secret since the company knew that there was a mole, the classification was mostly to prevent the competition from launching a similar program before they got theirs out, which is exactly what happened. This narrowed the number of people the spy could be, and after some internal investigation, the spy was found and dealt with.

The discovery of this corporate espionage started a war, known as the Secura-Sentinel conflict. Negotiations failed, and SecuraCorp requested access to all the data they'd stolen, and monetary compensation for damages. This was more of an ultimatum and less of a negotiation. SecuraCorp demanded a payout of 250 Million credits, which for the small company would have meant liquidation of all assets, then would still fall short. The following kinetic conflict would see the loss of hundreds of security officers on both sides, most of the conflict was contained to company property, but the occasional firefight of patrols occurred in what was considered civilian areas.

The war was ultimately decided by SecuraCorp's demand that their officers be better trained, and their offensive division was stronger, but the single largest factor was SecuraCorp's superior medical evac services. This allowed SecuraCorp to prevent the deaths of many of their officers, and with better medical facilities officers were back in the conflict much quicker. The decisive blow was a SecuraCorp attack on their medical facility, which ended in the destruction of SafeGuard Sentinel's medical facilities.

SecuraCorp acted quickly, their next attack was on the HQ building for Sentinel, in the center of a civilian town. The attack started with man-portable artillery, quickly followed by precision drone strikes. Once the air defense systems were destroyed, and the impromptu defensive positions were destroyed grav flyers dropped in a platoon of a new division, a branch of the executive defense program, meant to extract any VIP from any environment. This elite team cleared a landing zone and began to move interior, their mission was to forcefully extract their CEO. The elite team fought hard, but using explosives to quickly break several walls they were able to evacuate the VIP within 20 minutes. SecuraCorp officers then arrived to support the exfil of the elite team, then they moved in to secure important documentation. This battle lasted a few hours, and while some of the neighboring buildings were damaged, considering the level of conflict inside the HQ SecuraCorp considered this an overall success, considering the mission finished off Sentinel. In the end, the CEO agreed to become a subsidiary of SecuraCorp. Over the next two years, SecuraCorp would fully absorb them, eliminating the Sentinel brand and replacing it with SecuraCorp.

After this conflict, SecuraCorp solidified its place as the top company in the industry, its next few acquisitions were much more peaceful, with SecuraCorp buying out the next 3 largest competitors, the remaining competition only had markets in small towns, and SecuraCorp was now the primary security force in most major cities.

This is about the time of the rise of Civic Service companies, SecuraCorp took the opportunity to get in on this and offer a new host of services for these companies, and they no longer had to deal with collecting payment from individual citizens, instead just working with another business. This was the turning point for the company, this was such a profitable move that it took less than a decade to take over every market globally, leaving no real competition standing.

Business grew, and several divisions were formed over the next decades, the power and control of SecuraCorp reaching all-time highs every year. Acting as the enforcement arm for Ingrahm and Sopic. The next major conflict for them was when Ingrahm decided to conduct a hostile takeover of Sopic, of which SecuraCorp was critical.

Ingrahm's CEO contacted the CEO of SecuraCorp and asked what they could do, and after some negotiations and business talk the two agreed. SecuraCorp employees at Sopic would receive a stand-down order just as SecuraCorp employees escorted Ingrahm executives into Sopic's HQ. Sopic did have their security force, as was the norm for any company of this size, but after a short firefight that killed a few Sopic Officers, the rest surrendered and realized how dire the situation was. This would have been a PR nightmare for SecuraCorp if their other clients found out they were involved, they provided security for a large number of competing companies. In the end, the conflict wasn't very violent, so it could have been realistic that it was only internal forces that fought, and that was the official story. Unofficially, Sopic's forces were in well-prepared defensive positions, and the ideological difference between the two wouldn't have allowed a peaceful merger.

As far as the executive protection goes for Sopic's executives, it is very convenient that there was a payment issue that quarter, it was quite unusual but it was in the process of being cleared up when the attack began, when the executives initiated a rescue, no one showed up.