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03-19-2016, 08:15 AM
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It's not that they're small-time in the corporate world. They are massive, and across all the constituent families they make products and services for the financial elite and the regular masses alike. It's just that the highest-ranking members we've seen have only been in charge of single facilities or small slices of fledgling empires. They don't care about the damage they do to cultures and nature in their quest for personal wealth and recognition.

But they do answer to their investors, both within and beyond the Magog Cartel. Oktigi are a big financial family or families, but so far we've only seen Sekto, who's still at the low level of industry management. As a group they're not part of the Cartel, but individuals can be members. A high-ranking investor doesn't just damage the world as a byproduct of their operations; they deliberately engineer damage to the world that will serve their power-seeking interests. But that's harder to fight against because they're not public-facing like corporations and CEOs. They keep themselves far away from public scrutiny, operating through disposable corporate-level pawns.

Then there's the creepy fuckers a level above them. They don't just keep their business secrets, they're keeping their very existence known only to the elites. Then there are their masters. I don't know if that's even the top.
So what you're saying is that Abe, Munch, Stranger, and any other rebels we might eventually meet are screwed six ways to Sunday.

Also, all these scary investor guys live underground where it's sweltering and hellish, right? Now I can't help but picture a Balrog in a business suit.

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I've always assumed everything the Cartel does is legal. What do we know about the government of Oddworld? What crazy fuckers are saying this is OK?
Does Oddworld even have an official government? I thought it was just a capitalistic free-for-all.

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