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[Mithfindel]

A note on crime: That corporate immunity would be a pretty damn good thing if you happen to be smuggling. Of course, this is just a wild guess based on them having stations all round the place. Most would be investments etc., since obviously they cannot stick a NOH logo on anything that's obviously illegal. However, they likely are more suspectible to accept ISK from shady sources - or use subsidiaries as front corporations - and thus benefit from ISK laundry.

Some items also seem to hint to illegal arms trade. Gurista connections certainly aren't out of question.

http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/item.php?type_id=21616
http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/item.php?type_id=21046

[Casiella]

I wonder if those are from a mission series or such...

[Silver Night]

COSMOS maybe?

[Mithfindel]

Forgot one item, since it wasn't a hit in the item DB: One of the Epic Arc rewards is a Nugoeihuvi-brand Blue Pill booster. They likely could have a hand in the manufacture and retail of, um, "recreational chemicals"?

[Boma Airaken]

Confirming those items mentioned above are from highsec Caldari Cosmos. NOH is involved in smuggling, money laundering, and blackmail in said arc.

[Silver Night]

I think NOH is unusual in that (at least OOC) there is a definite perception that there is more focus (entertainment) than with other megacorps.

Do you folks think that is the perception IC for most people?

What other industries might NOH be heavy into?

Shipping (and all it's traditional criminal variations).

How about intellectual property stuff, Eve style? NOH has offices all over. I could see it not-quite-copying other people's patents and inventions for the Caldari market, or using it's army of lawyers to screw over some smaller company that was silly enough to think just because they created something first, they had the rights to it. 

[Number 17]

When speaking of NOH inner workings, dealings and alignments one has to keep in mind it's a practical Corp. with all that this implies.

[Silver Night]

When speaking of NOH inner workings, dealings and alignments one has to keep in mind it's a practical Corp. with all that this implies.

That's kinda where I was approaching it from. There might also be a broader debate there about whether 'practical' means that the corporation is all about the bottom line, or about the 'greater good' of the corporation (and what that is) - and whether or not those things are sometimes different.

OFC, 'Practical' is also just a sort of rough political delineation, and there are probably a lot of subtleties to the whole thing, too.

[Boma Airaken]

Do any of the other COSMOS nerds remember, in Ihakana, if that huge contingent of Kazka Bandits, mostly battleships, was blockading the NOH station? Or protecting it? I can't remember for the life of me as it has been so long.

[Jonathan Morrison]

Remember NOH also disrupted the Ishukone even awhile back when Aurora was still around when I believe IShukone was buying a patent or some such from a scientist working on a top secret project. Omerta Syndicate was involved with NOH, where they destroyed the research station being used.

So I'm also guessing NOH is probably involved with cloak and daggers kind of operations, stopping other corporations from getting too much of an upper hand.

[Silver Night]

Well, it makes sense that they would sabotage the competition (and being NOH, probably through whatever available means. Not that other corps are all a great deal more scrupulous.)

You happen to remember around when that was, so I can try and find new items and forum posts?

[orange]

COSMOS maybe?

It is the Caldari COSMOs missions.

[Jonathan Morrison]

Well, it makes sense that they would sabotage the competition (and being NOH, probably through whatever available means. Not that other corps are all a great deal more scrupulous.)

You happen to remember around when that was, so I can try and find new items and forum posts?

Not really no. You can try asking Kyoko Sakoda, Kale Ryoko, or Yuki Li as they were all there and may have better memories of when it happened than I do; I can't remember when it went down but the bugged research station respawning during the event was awesome as the Aurora guy didn't know how to respond to it xD

[April Knox]

It implies others doing the laundry!

[Horatius Caul]

What other industries might NOH be heavy into?

- Soft drinks, competing with Quafe. (is Starsi a NOH product?)
- Hard drinks. Everything from cheap-ass stuff that doubles as drain cleaner to high-end spirits (I'm imagining absinthe rather than whiskey and vodka here, though NOH would probably cover the entire spectrum of liquor.)
- Drugs. Covered. Is it possible that drug laws are less restrictive in NOH territories?
- The entire TV/Holo/Film spectra. They probably produce most of the media in the State, and are definitely overrepresented in the media exported from the State.
- Newspapers, Tabloids, Specialist Magazines and book publishing.
- Audio/Music. All genres, most of which we haven't even heard of. They have probably also ripped off the Egonics technology or are doing their best to compete with that by other means.
- Games, ranging from boardgames to video games to sports leagues (See the NOH team play ball in the NOH league on a NOH channel).
- Consumer electronics. Like modern companies like HP, they probably run a big pile of brands and sub-companies ranging from economy choice to Apple-analogues to diamond-plated and platinum-studded extravagance.
- Cybernetics.
- Jewelry
- Clothes
- Vehicles. Luxury sports cars, motorbikes, futuristic aircraft and personal jets.
- Travel companies. (Charter and tourism, smuggling and "special needs")
- Prostitution
- Racketeering ("I see you want to run an independent news outlet...")
- "Sponsorships" with "Anonymous parties"
- Novelty keychains