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BOOMTEC Recruitment: OPEN FOR ALL ROLES.
Waves bobbing peacefully were interrupted by a great seafaring vessel that commanded the waves, its many mechanical propellers churning the brine beneath it. A marvel of engineering, the great barge had what looked like an entire town mounted on its back, the likes of which had not been seen beyond Fizzle and Pozzik’s Speedbarge and a few other great seafaring craft brought in by the Kul Tirans, Zandalari or Iron Horde designs. Such a feat could have only been achieved by Goblins and Gnomes working together, and it had. Populating this vessel were people of both races, and many others of the Horde and Alliance, all sharing the same goal of living free upon the waves, making coin for their employers and making as many scientific and technological discoveries as possible while doing so. Of course they Goblins and Gnomes didn’t always get along. Friendly rivalry was always going to flare up, but it was a worthy price to pay for the sake of being able to do research away from the prying eyes of the Alliance and Horde with mercenaries and security to do the dirty work.
BOOMTEC Incorporated and Sparkforge Industries take the same approaches to their business practices, and with the help of their floating headquarters there is money and there are scientific to discoveries to be made no matter where you look!
Hey all,
A new age of peace has dawned between the Alliance and Horde, and because there’s no longer as many wars to profit off of, BOOMTEC had to find new means of turning a profit in this peace time economy. Opportunity knocked when a group of Gnomes bought out the Alliance mercenarry company that was on the BOOMTEC payroll, and now BOOMTEC Incorporated and Sparkforge Industries are working together to go on many adventures, have many scientific and technological discoveries and make plenty of moolah!
In our new guild concept, the two companies are separate entities that work together regularly, often based aboard a Speedbarge of the Conglomerates own making that sails the seas in search of profit, discovery and adventure. Of course both companies have their own work to do and BOOMTEC will always be number one, but this gives us a chance to be able to RP both Goblins and Gnomes in a pair of guilds that recruit in ways that allow characters of any race to join in so long as their ideology matches our own approaches. In the words of a girl who broke the stalemate between hard and soft tacos, ‘Why don’t we just have both?’
The BOOMTEC Neutrality Clause
BOOMTEC follows a neutrality clause that is important to understand for both members of the company, allies of the union and those who purchase the inventions or services of the union and those who work for it:
- BOOMTEC sells inventions and technology to individuals and groups of any faction as long as they are not ‘evil’ (e.g. a void or Legion cult, criminal gang)
- If BOOMTEC products are used by one faction in a conflict, BOOMTEC is not liable for how they have been used and if the other faction wishes to field such technology themselves, they should buy from BOOMTEC as well.
- BOOMTEC employees are allowed to offer their services individually to the Alliance and Horde and even fight for them. Trucebreaking actions taken by members of the company are considered entirely their own and separate from the company.
- While on company business, all BOOMTEC employees are to be considered fully neutral regardless of their previous actions against other factions and will be protected by the company in event of assault.
- If a member of the company is seen to be using their neutral status as a member of the company to harm a neutral faction or the Alliance and Horde through espionage or incendiary actions, they will be fired and left at the mercy of the affected faction.
- The company will take research and development jobs from the major factions of Azeroth so long as they do not involve aggressive or harmful actions towards other factions.
BOOMTEC currently has trade relations with the Alliance, Horde, Argent Crusade, Kirin Tor, Bilgewater Cartel and Steamwheedle Cartel. As a company we sell our products to and do jobs for these factions but we would never, as a company, actively harm any of these factions ourselves.
What is B.O.O.M.T.E.C.?
B.O.O.M.T.E.C. stands for the Bilgewater Organization of Operations, Military, Technology, Explosions and Craftsmanship, a Goblin company that is focused on the mass production, research and development of munitions and war machines for the purpose of sale as well as offering the services of a group of Bilgewater Battalion trained soldiers and mercenaries equipped with these blasting edge munitions. This means that not only do we focus on building up and protecting our resource operations in Stranglethorn, Azshara, the Barrens and Ashenvale in order to make these war machines, but we also often deploy our Battalion on missions and campaigns or see our research team doing experiments. The company is also often set to work on projects or missions assigned by members of the board that works with the Mogul, and our various allies across the Horde and beyond. This means that we do all sorts of events from something laid back and casual or something absolutely wild and crazy, meeting all sorts of interesting characters from across all factions as we go.
On the lowdown, B.O.O.M.T.E.C. is also a company that hires outside help that can get to places that members of the Horde cannot from our subsidary company, staffed by characters that are our own alts.
Ranks:
Personnel: (Accepted Races: All) Personnel are those who have been recently hired into the company either as research interns, profiteers or merchants. On the B.O.O.M.T.E.C. payroll merchants gain many opportunities to attend markets and make lucrative business deals, while research interns get the chance to progress further in their careers to become fully fledged members of B.O.O.M.T.E.C.'s Research and Development team.
Hired Muscle: (Accepted Races: All) Mercenaries come from all walks of life and creeds, but their weapons are now pledged to the B.O.O.M.T.E.C. payroll. As a mercenary of B.O.O.M.T.E.C., you can enjoy pay on a job by job basis and work with other mercenaries across the faction lines. All mercenaries are also invited to the Battalion’s basic training sessions and gain opportunities to get ahold of Bilgewater munitions within reason.
R&D: (Accepted Races: Goblins, Orcs, Forsaken, Vulpera and dedicated researchers) To be a part of the B.O.O.M.T.E.C. Research and Development team is to be at the forefront of keeping the munitions, potions and war machines we produce alongside those at the forefront of Horde technology. As a member of R&D you’ll be offered research grants and work with other researchers on projects that may well go awry, as well as problem solving and manning war machines out in the field. This rank is often locked off to those who aren’t of the core races, but a very dedicated researcher who shows their worth may well be considered.
Battalion Private: (Accepted Races: Goblins, Orcs, Forsaken, Vulpera) The first rank of our detachment of official Battalion soldiers working for B.O.O.M.T.E.C., so long as they follow orders, receive secure pay and the best of Bilgewater technology to fight the enemies of B.O.O.M.T.E.C. and the Horde with. They also receive advanced Battalion training to become a fighting fit unit that definitely aren’t sent out alongside the mercenaries at times, no siree.
Battalion Sergeant and Lieutenant: Sergeant and Lieutenant are the lower and upper officer ranks of the Battalion. It takes multiple leaders and a chain of command to run a tight ship, especially when that ship has mercenaries on it!
Captain: The Battalion Captain and R&D Captain are responsible for the day to day running of the company’s R&D and Battalion. It’s their job to make sure that researchers are working on their projects, profits are being made and the Battalion and mercenaries successful on fifty percent of their missions, OR ELSE!!!
The Board and Mogul: The Board are a group of rich and powerful Goblins who have invested in B.O.O.M.T.E.C. to the point of being trusted shareholders who act as advisors to the Mogul who acts as the chair and has overall control of the company so long as the Board does not unanimously vote them out. All of the big deals are made by the Mogul and the Board, and their safety and orders are the top priority of the entire company. You could call them… Quest givers who fire you if you decline quest…
Event Schedule:
Our event schedule is quite random as we like to mix in social days with event days and ensure that people with any sort of schedule get to attend events. However, we do commit to having at least three events a week and at maximum five unless we’re on campaign which we’ll warn you of in advance. However, our is to make sure there is a welcoming environment for all members to run their own events prioritised over official guild events and casual RP in the places we go to as well.
Rules:
Getting down to the more administrative side of the guild, the rules of our guild are simple:
- Do not OOC in spatial channels eg. say, yell or emote- this applies even to clarifying things happening in RP, it’s best to just use whispers or guild and raid chat!
- We have zero tolerance towards ERP within the guild. If we catch you ERPing it will result in immediate removal from the guild as we don’t want erotic acts where children can find them. We also don’t condone erotic descriptions in RP profiles nor lust bars in TRPs.
- Please respect other Roleplayers and don’t run around on mounts/disrupt RP.
We don’t like drama in the guild and will act upon it when it arises, so please try to keep up a friendly atmosphere within the guild and our discord. - We also request that people be respectful towards peoples opinions. Therefore please only use TRP’s pronoun indicators as intended and understand that we have zero tolerance towards homophobic, transphobic or racist views.
Attendance Rules:
We run by a month based attendance system. If you don’t show up for fifteen days, we demote to citizen rank. If you don’t show up for thirty days, we will unfortunately have to remove you from the guild.
These rules mean showing up for RP, not logging in and out. Furthermore, if you log in for one day it will only stop your attendance timer temporarily. You’ll have to log on relatively regularly for at least a week before we remove the attendance timer. This way we can keep our numbers as a true reflection of the guilds actual size.
Recruitment and Accepted Races:
As stated on the rank list, some ranks in the guild are only for the core races of the original guild, Goblins, Orcs, Forsaken and Vulpera with extra emphasis on wanting mainly Goblins being a Bilgewater company and all, but our personnel and mercenary ranks are open to all races who have good reason and are of the right power level/lore friendliness. Please note that we are strict on attendance at first and unless forewarned will remove people who join never to log on again after a week or two. Our current recruitment officers are Bettiboom, Hexietta, Hexfeltech, Viira and Letzy.