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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 3972726" data-attributes="member: 3087">[sblock=Archer]Braddock, Fitzroy and Lamb scouted Archer out of college. The company is peculiar to say the least. Still controlled by the founders and their families it focuses on only one area: providing high quality weapons (and increasingly technology in general) to discriminating clients around the world. Naturally they call themselves "consultants" but as a privately held organization with assets in LRJ (low regulation jurisdictions like Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, BVI, etc), they answer no outsiders anyway.The company secretive to the point of is cultishness however in the seven years he's worked for them Archer has noted a number of things* The company is almost a cult of personality, oriented oddly enough, around the single member who apparently wasn't active (Cole Braddock). Fitzroy, Lamb and their respective descendants occupy virtually all of the higher posts but Archer's never come across anything or anyone directly related to Cole. Until this moment he has seemed to exist only in the same set of black and white photos that adorn the executive suite of every B,F &L office in the world. * Rumors about Cole are ruthlessly suppressed (the joke is that it's the only way you can get fired). Naturally there are, of course, dozens of them. The most popular and persistent revolve around the idea that he runs the "black" side of the operation: industrial espionage for hire (as opposed to "in the course of business" one of Archer's areas), spycraft, assassination, and so forth. (The idea of a shell-within-a-shell makes great fodder for rumors). Archer himself has never seen or interacted with anyone from this purported "black" side of the business. * The company operates globally, through a mass of limited partnerships, shell companies and so forth. However legally complex the operation is the actual operations are relatively blatant; the company relies upon lawyers and connections to insure that it stays above the fray. * Lamb and Fitzroy were both extremely virile men, ruling with an iron hand and active into their nineties. When they passed away recently, one right after another, it triggered a power struggle for control of B,F &L. *The struggle is between the "old guard", the members of the family who are more traditional, and the "new guard" a handful of Harvard/Oxford educated cousins and junior members who have successfully revamped the company over the past 20 years and are demanding greater control. Not that Archer has seen out-and-out warfare yet. Somewhat arbitrarily I would say that Archer was hired and promoted within the organization through a program developed by the "new guard" to assess people with uniquely valuable skills. His position was Specialist and he was on the Senior Specialist track (the highest non-management position within the organization).[/sblock]</blockquote>

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