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Revision as of 01:00, 30 January 2016

Vandal "Archie" Archibald, the First
File:Archiemainimagefixed.jpg
Biographical Information
Race Human
Homeworld Coruscant
Mother Victoria Lygian
Father Alan Archibald
Siblings Sophie Archibald (deceased)
Children None
Born Year -06 Day 0001
Physical Description
Gender Male
Height 1.73 meters
Eye Color Dull Grey
Political Information
Affiliation Gowix Computers
Rank CEO
Positions
  • None
Prior Affiliation
  • None
"Luxury is simply the orthodox of the wealthy."
— Vandal Archibald, Year 17 Day 061


Vandal Archibald, most commonly referred to his nickname Archie, is a simple profiteer, indulging himself in the luxury the galaxy has to offer yet maintaining efficient and pragmatic business practices. He has gained minute wealth through the businesses of Gowix Computers, a front company for a far more baser, morally ambiguous financial organization. Within this organization, he has utilized cutting edge technology and software engineering of Gowix Computers to discreetly launder the credits of his clients.


Acquisition of Gowix Computers

Gowix Computers was headquartered on Corellia for much of its history, until it was acquired as a subsidiary of Tagge Company in the years before the Clone Wars. Upon the creation of the new Galactic Empire of today, Tagge Company was long-lost in the massive galaxy-wide conglomeration of industries and Gowix Computers became defunct. Its public stock offerings were dissolved while all its assets were merged into gigantic industrial complexes of the Galactic Empire. The name, Gowix Computers, persisted to exist on paper, falling into the ownership of one of the heirs to the company, who held onto the meager assets that were leftover. This small corporation was made known to Archie through his associates, and in Year 17, he acquired ownership of the name of Gowix Computers while purchasing the former datacards of Gowix Computers from the government.

Soon after acquiring Gowix Computers, Archie quickly relocated the core manufacturing and administrative components into a secluded deepspace location in the Outer Rim. Hiring bright, upstart geniuses of the new generation to fill the ranks of the lost company, Archie officially opened sales on the 30th day of Year 17 by first selling off the unused assets of Gowix Computers, including a large number of personnel. From there on, Gowix Computers mainly stalled in terms of sales and profit, as most of the efforts within the company were structured towards building up the necessary infrastructure needed for large scale production. As the costs and losses grew, Gowix Computers were entering troubling financial times and were forced to enter more illegitimate means of profit through slicing and corporate espionage.

Archie quickly refocused the efforts of the company into creating a high-end data-mining and infiltration program. The result, after weeks of constant research and development, was The Gatekeeper. The Gatekeeper was formally called the “Stropheus Protocol" and was originally developed by Archie in his time at the University of Coruscant as a side-project during his graduate studies. An efficient, yet extremely effective data-mining protocol which subtly hijacked the security protocols in place by integrating the “Stropheus Protocol" program as a core part of the infected system’s security. Any information processed by the security protocols would also be handled by the “Stropheus Protocol", which would replicate the data, encrypt it, compress it, and then, store the processed data within the “Stropheus Protocol". With a simple execution of three lines of code, the “Stropheus Protocol" would encrypt itself within the deleted files of the system and the loss of the “Stropheus Protocol" would cause the security protocols to fail, allowing unrestricted access to be exploited by other opportunistic hackers to flood the system. As soon as a system administrator attempts to reset the system, the “Stropheus Protocol" would detach itself from the server and trail any outgoing communications. As the reset would clear the logs of any outgoing communication, the “Stropheus Protocol" would ultimately be left undetected.

The purpose of the “Stropheus Protocol" was simple: collect information and relay it through. However, Archie required a more sophisticated program which would allow him to implant data and even manipulate it. This required a significantly more intelligent artificial intelligent, while maintaining the compressed side of the “Stropheus Protocol" to avoid detection. This culminated into the Gatekeeper, which allowed the user to not only collect information and relay it through, but also modify it and relay its own information. This allowed Archie to easily manipulate corporations to act as launderers for the "dirty" credits Gowix Computers was accumulating. Later on, Archie would extend this laundering service to his growing base of trusted clientele.

Fortuitous Acquisition

As Gowix Computers was slowly devolving into a front company for an illegitimate financial organization, on Year 17 Day 61, Archie had the fortuitous acquisition of a large portion of the assets of Solonar Rangers' through one of his clients, Baldwin Tyrus. Tyrus was the second-in-command of ZolCorp, a small, upcoming production company focused on station construction and deepspace exploration. Trusting his position and reputation, Archie completed a few deals with Tyrus and eventually, Tyrus took a substantial loan from Archie, giving Archie ownership of his personal BFF-1 Bulk Freighter as collateral and assignment of his assets as proof of trust.

A few days later, ZolCorp went through a takeover by one of Solonar Rangers' high command members, Exanthium Kerensky and current leader of the Solonar Rangers' Krogoth YrTang invested the assets of Solonar Rangers into the newly gained ZolCorp. In response to being left out of the loop of the corporate takeover, Tyrus forcefully seized all the invested assets and attempted to escape on his BFF-1 Bulk Freighter. Archie eventually heard about this through YrTang's public bounty on Tyrus's head and gave YrTang the BFF-1 Bulk Freighter Tyrus was on in exchange for two Ardent-class Fast Frigates. Tyrus soon claimed his own life, leaving Archie to inherit the invested assets, estimated to be around 1,500,000,000 credits in current market value.

This fortuitous acquisition allowed Gowix Computers to return back to legitimacy, launching a large expansion of the manufacturing capacity of Gowix Computers.