 December 26, 2011 - 4:54pm | I can see militias as a natural development of the Vrusk. As the hive
system dismantled there were the soldier vrusk that were displaced in
politics but yet necessary. These vrusk would easliy transistion from
hive controlled to corporate controlled organizations. In the hives
they served as police/security/military, then they reorganized in the
corporate system but retained their roles. I even see them
specializeing more in the corporate system. The hive system had many militaries, each loyal to their hive. Then the hives cease as corporations and boards of directors take over. The corporate system is an ever changing system of corporate controling interests and loyalties. The soldiers naturally needed an organization to be loyal too and not all corporations maintained a function for them. Thus they gravitated to and were adopgted by those corporations that developed a need for them. We often speak of the Vrusk corporations as raising all of their personel from with in their own employees. We typically think of the vrusk as born into his corporation. This is generally the case but as corporations expand and find that outsourcing does not fit their particular case then they hire skilled personel to fill that function. Thus vrusk do change corporations on rare occasions. The function of secutity often conflits with outsorcing models due to trade secrets and propriatary business practices. Thus forming private security forces with corporations for a division or project is necessary. The vrusk would be naturally very good at this and I see very experiance vrusk military/security contractors being hired into a company, forming the team(s)/militia and then when the function is no longer needed in the company they are disbanded. Oddly, I don't see vrusk as laying off their work force. I imagine that their society deams it proper for the corporation to sell their contracts off to another corporation. The vrusk solution to unemployment. I can even see vrusk companies that seek to buy employee contracts they find very attractive to resale. -iggy |
 January 16, 2012 - 4:04am | Iggy, There is an example of this in the SFAD6 module. The Vrusk have a security firm in there. |
 January 16, 2012 - 6:13am | In this economy, I'm kinda liking the vrusk solution to unemployment. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 19, 2012 - 3:36pm | There could be a perception of indentured servitude with the selling of contracts and a human observer may just perceive it that way. A vrusk has the option to terminate his employment at any time though its considered poor taste to do so before working for the company long enough to have compensated the company for its expense for having raised the vrusk. The vrusk have complicated formulas for computing productivity of an employee and the benefit of his labor to the company. No one else even comes close to understanding these formulas beside the vrusk. Most vrusk take the sale of their contract with good humor, prefering that sometimes over the option of cross training. Part of the contract sale includes this concept of compensation to the company though the computations to figure the cost of the contract are quite Byzantine. Strangely vrusk companies don't consider a contract with little compensation on it a good buy and prefer contracts with higher amounts of compensation on them with a view toward longevity and longer employee dedication. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
