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Sunday, May 26, 2024

"I Met This Little Girl" - The Sandman

A young mortal girl living on Earth, she complemented Delirium of the Endless' appearance, saying she looked pretty. As a thank you, the youngest of the Endless charmed her so that she would always be happy, no matter what. 

Twelve Point Unlimited - Young Justice: Outsiders

A shell company founded and owned by Simon Stagg, Twelve Point Unlimited's operations were closely tied to the meta-human trafficking ring, Branchwater, funding and arming their lucrative and highly illegal corporate espionage missions.

Antler Bay Media - Young Justice: Outsiders

One of four shell companies under Simon Stagg's control, Antler Bay Media was a media broadcasting company operating in the late 2010s. 

However, like Stagg's other enterprises, their operations helped to fund and arm the Brachwater meta-human trafficking ring. 

Lakewood Protection Agency - Young Justice: Outsiders

A shell company owned by Stagg Industries C.E.O Simon Stagg, Lakewood Protection Agency was used to help him facilitate covert corporate espionage projects, funnelling funds and resources into the Branchwater meta-trafficking ring. 

Branchwater Security - Young Justice: Outsiders

One of four shell companies founded and owned by Simon Stagg, Branchwater Security was publically a private security firm. 

However, privately, they were a front for a meta-human trafficking ring run by Stagg, who wished to create a covert meta-criminal team to perform corporate espionage and warfare. 

Branchwater's operations ended on September 26, 2018, when Stagg was arrested for receiving stolen property. 

Simon Stagg - Young Justice: Outsiders

A wealthy C.E.O and founder of Stagg Industries, Simon Stagg is ruthless, morally bankrupt and willing to steep to new lows to get ahead in the business world. 

Seeing criminals as pawns, he created Branchwater, a meta-human trafficking ring that would coerce and control meta-criminals into acting as his agents, performing acts of corporate espionage that would benefit Stagg Industries without implicating him in any impropriety. 

To control his assets, Stagg hired Jervis Tetch, aka The Mad Hatter, who injected his victims with nanite technology that stripped them of their free will, turning them into obedient puppets. He also contracted various mercenaries to work for Branchwater, who would operate both as recruiters and handlers. 

To facilitate and pay for these mercenaries, Simon created additional shell companies, each designed to ensure that no one could trace the meta-trafficking ring back to him. 

However, fearing that one of his competitors would have similar ideas, he sought out a way to stop any meta-human who opposed him. Hearing that such a device - a meta-human failsafe - had been salvaged from Reach ships and sent to S.T.A.R. Labs Detroit for further analysis, Stagg ordered Branchwater to secure the tech and bring it back to him in Gotham. 

Though the mission was a success, Branchwater was all but incapacitated by the Anti-light, who had learned of Stagg's operation and decided to expose him once and for all. 

On September 26th 2019, he was arrested on the ground of possession of stolen goods. Simon would be taken into police custody, where he would remain in prison. 

However, prison could not save him. While reading in his cell late one night, he was visited by The Shade, one of his former assets, who sought revenge on Stagg for Branchwater. 

Stagg Industries - Young Justice: Outsiders

A research and development firm founded and owned by the corrupt entrepreneur Simon Stagg, Stagg Industries was a tech firm competing alongside the likes of WayneTech and LexCorp. 

Wishing to best his competitors, Stagg founded Branchwater, creating a network of meta-criminal operatives to work for him. This team, coerced into committing corporate espionage through mind control, would go on to perform several daring raids. 

To fund and arm Branchwater with everything they needed, Stagg would create and control four additional shell companies; Twelve Point Unlimited, Antler Bay Media, Lakewood Protection Agency and Branchwater Security

However, fearing that others would have the same idea, Stagg ordered that they steal a device from S.T.A.R Labs Detroit. This device was technology salvaged from the Reach, designed as a deterrent and fail-safe against meta-humans. Despite facing complications, the device was transported to Stagg Industries' headquarters in Gotham City. 

After discovering Branchwater's meta-human trafficking ring, The Anti-Light would mobilise teams to disrupt their efforts, coordinating a tightly-knit resistance movement to disrupt and destroy Branchwater's operations. 

The theft of the Reach Tech would be Stagg's undoing. After an anonymous tip - Oracle - was sent to the G.C.P.D, detectives raided the building to discover the stolen tech. Stagg was sent to prison and the company would undergo police investigation.  


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Poggle the Lesser - Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

Escaping Republic custody on his home planet of Geonosis, Archduke Poggle the Lesser rejoined his allies in the Separatist Council. There they all remained hidden, fearing more humiliating defeats at the hands of the Grand Army of the Republic, who were turning the tide of the Clone Wars in their favour. 

Placed in the care of General Grievous and his droid army, they remained on Utapau while Grievous and Dooku launched an all-out assault on Coruscant; this would end in disaster with the death of Dooku, the loss of their political prisoner, Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, and the destruction of The Invisible Hand, Grevious' flagship. 

At the behest of their benefactor, Darth Sidious, Poggle and the rest of the council were once again moved, this time to Mustafar, a planet whose people sympathised with the Separatist cause and had made trade agreements with the Techno Union to carry out mining operations across the planet. 

They managed to flee Utapau just in the nick of time as General Obi-Wan Kenobi and his troops stormed the capital, Pau City, and killed the Grevious. 

Arriving on Mustafar, Poggle and the rest of the Council settled into the Klegger Corp Mining Facility's fortified bunker. There they would wait out the end of the war. 

Contacted by Darth Sidious, the Sith lord informed them that his new apprentice, Darth Vader, would be arriving shortly to ensure that they called a peaceful ceasefire and bring about an end to the war. 

Taking Sidious' words in good faith, Poggle and the others did not expect the betrayal until it was too late. He and the others were executed right then and there. He had tried to fight the Jedi with his staff, though his cane was no match for the lightsaber and he was decapitated. 

With the Council dead, the droid army was deactivated and the Clone War was declared officially over. 

After his death, a new Archduke would be appointed and the Geonosians would work towards completing construction on the original Death Star, not for the Republic, but for the Galactic Empire. 

Watt Tambor - Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

With the death of Count Dooku aboard the Invisible Hand, General Grievous ordered Watt Tambor and the rest of the Separatist Council to be sent to the planet of Utapau in the Outer Rim of the Galaxy. As it was a neutral world, it would be the last place the Republic would think to look. 

At least that was the intention. Nevertheless, the Grand Army would track Grievous and his forces to the planet, but not before Tambor and the rest were once again moved, this time to the planet Mustafar.

The stronghold, the headquarters of Klegger Corp Mining Facility was a Techno Union-owned structure, designed to keep them safe and secure until the end of the war. The planet also had trade dealings with Watt Tambor and Techno Union, in exchange for Separestist support. 

Receiving word that Grevious was dead, Tambor and the others waited for the arrival of Darth Sidious' new apprentice, Darth Vader. There they would peacefully surrender and end the three-year-long war between the Republic and the Separatists. 

Or so he had thought. 

Vader's arrival did indeed mark the end of the war, but not quite how they imagined. The Sith apprentice proceeded to slaughter the members of the council one by one. Tambor tried to flee, but he was impaled in the conference room. 

With his death, the Clone Wars were deemed officially over. His assets would be seized by the Empire and those loyal to him, executed as war criminals and traitors.