Vandal Archibald

Vandal "Archie" Archibald, I
Biographical Information
Race	Human
Homeworld	Coruscant
Father	Alan Archibald
Mother	Kaylynn Lygian
Siblings	Nicole Archibald (deceased)
Born	Year 06 (BCGT) Day 001
Languages	Fluent: Galactic Basic, Tapani (dialect), Herglese, Binary Limited: Flames of the Crucible, Oldspeak Basic
Religion	Atheist
Quote	"True tragedy is when men are afraid of the light."
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Age	23
Height	1.75 meters
Weight	65 kilograms
Eye Color	Dull Grey
Hair Color	Dark Brown
Socioeconomic Status
Economic Status	Upper Class
Economic Stance	Capitalism
Social Status	High Society
Social Stance	Plutocracy
Political Status	Imperial Citizen
Political Stance	Political Apathy
Affiliation	Gowix Computers (CEO)
Prior Affiliation	The University of Coruscant

"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 at the end of his time at the University of Coruscant, and after his graduation 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. However, both of these activities brought upon scrutiny and heightened awareness of these unspoken, illicit activities of Gowix Computers, further complicating the legal sales of the company and causing an even larger deficit.

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 attempted 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 intelligence, while maintaining the compressed aspect 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 and significantly reduce the need for corporate espionage and slicing. Later on, Archie would extend this laundering service to his growing base of trusted clientele, allowing Gowix Computers to equilibrate in terms of finances and gain a small profit of a few million credits each month.

Archie at his first corporate meeting, addressing the new executives and staff

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 Solonar Rangers' assets 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 yet maintaining his position within the company, Tyrus forcefully seized all the invested assets and attempted to escape on his BFF-1 Bulk Freighter. Supposedly, in order to repossess the lost assets, YrTang offered Tyrus an Ardent-class Fast Frigate and his position as 2nd-in-Command in return for stolen assets. Tyrus assumed 2nd-in-Command once again and received his Ardent-class Fast Frigate. After buying YrTang's Centerpoint Market listing, he was bound by contract to fulfill his obligation with YrTang and obliged to the contract by sending all the assets he had stolen back to ZolCorp. A few moments after this, Tyrus forcefully seized all the invested assets a second time, along with the million-odd credits that Kerensky had invested into the faction. Leaving behind 1 single credit, Tyrus was quickly forced out of the company once again and continued his escape. 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. However, complaints, accusations and conspiracy theories from the Solonar Rangers and its investors were lodged at Gowix Computers, attempting to smear their reputation in public through the Holoforums. This ultimately lead to to the quick sale of the assets to Black Sun in exchange for an undisclosed sum, angering the Solonar Rangers to a greater degree, albeit leading to Gowix Computers and Archie to quickly fall from their supposed infamy and away from the public eye into the shadows.

Creating Opportunity

"Man is fallible, but perhaps men are less so."

— Vandal Archibald, Year 17 Day XXX