Talk:Alad V/@comment-182.239.248.61-20140531095125/@comment-88.113.178.17-20140727203528

I'm guessing Alad basically took his personal holdings and split from the main body of the Corpus* with them - Jupiter and its moons are damn near a miniature solar system all by themselves, so resource base shouldn't be a problem. Classic private fiefdom/ rebellious governor stuff basically.

As for the troops, well, the bots are self-explanatory. The humans are anyone's guess as we know shit all about how Corpus society actually works - maybe the rank and file crewmembers are indoctrinated to be blindly obedient to the upper echelons, maybe he can keep paying them good enough wages, maybe they're just personally loyal.

As for where he gets his funds nowadays, well, think about it - he basically heads a rogue Corpus splinter group at loggerheads with the main group. That makes him an obvious competing source of Corp tech and products for whoever is interested - say, most Grineer who aren't Sargas Ruk - thus basically breaking a monopoly, and then there's whatever markets the doubtless extensive infrastructure of the Jovian subsystem serviced before the split. Corpus proper no doubt threatens dire sanctions against whoever does business with him but not like that kind of thing ever particularly stopped anybody, and it's not like they could afford to just go and get into a fight with the Grineer empire over it. And good luck keeping track of who might shop at his store in the first place.

Ofc, none of this means his operation is actually viable in the long term. He might well be "eating his seed grain", so to speak, just to sustain day-to-day operations, be obliged to cut an increasing amount of corners in infrastructural upkeep for shortages of funds and supplies, be headed for an eventual bankruptcy and so on and so on. Not like he was planning for the current situation after all, and TBH he seems like too much of an arrogant self-absorbed prick to be very good at thinking ahead in the first place. The track record thus far would certainly suggest that.

10€ on him eventually burning too many bridges behind his mad-scientist ass, chasing himself into a corner, and in desperation resorting to irrecoverably extreme measures. The whole Breeding Grounds episode already hints of as much.