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Phoenix Industries

Metropolis-based conglomeration of businesses, mostly tech

Founding Date
1939
Type
Consortium, Business
Location
Metropolis
Controlled Territories
Notable Members
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  • 1960

    Jean-Claude Gironde
    Life, Birth

    Jean-Claude Gironde is born, a late-in-life son to Jean-Pierre Gironde.

    Wyldfire
    Location
    Metropolis
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  • 1983

    Jean-Pierre Gironde dies
    Life, Death

    Jean-Pierre Gironde dies. The Gironde house is shuttered, with one longtime employee resident to keep an eye on the place and make any necessary groundskeeping arrangements. Jean-Claude Gironde tries to maintain his own career as a psychiatrist ((secretly working for the NSA)) while taking one day a week to oversee all Phoenix Industries matters. The balancing act between two high-stakes roles gets excrutiatingly difficult as the 1980s continue.

    Wyldfire
    Location
    Metropolis
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    Phoenix Industries
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  • 1989

    attempted assassination of Phoenix Industries heir
    Life, Failure / Mishap

    Jean-Claude Gironde's balancing act comes crashing down. Because he has not been available to his riskier "world-renowned psychiatrist" role for more than one day per week, and because he is not getting enough downtime, enemy operatives from HYDRA almost succeed in assassinating Jean-Claude with an experimental ray gun. He lives, but is confined to a wheelchair while neurologists try to figure out what happened to his spine.

    Wyldfire
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    Jean-Claude Gironde
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  • 1990

    Phoenix Industries milestone
    Life, Relocation

    Jean-Claude Gironde moves back to Metropolis, Pennsylvania and oversees a wheelchair-friendly renovation of the family home.

    Wyldfire
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    Jean-Claude Gironde
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  • 1998

    12 October
    Breaking News: Phoenix Industries Head Kidnapped
    Life, Crime

    Intergang forces stage a daring raid on the boardroom of Phoenix Industries, drugging the executives at a conference on the construction of a high-tech prison for metahuman lawbreakers. More as this story develops!

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    Wyldfire Card-Shark
    Location
    Metropolis
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    Phoenix Industries
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  • 1998

    22 October
    1998

    25 October
    True Beginnings I chapter 1
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    When a superspeedster and a hacktivist take a romantic vacation in the Bermuda Triangle, the laws of reality guarantee that something hinky will crop up. In this case, there is a shimmer in the air that tosses one of the two metahuman college students almost sixty years into the past.

    time-travel Wyldfire pql
    Location
    North America
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    Silverwing
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  • 1999

    12 June
    1999

    14 June
    Lord Bayne Incident
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    A supervillain from another dimension, seeking a world where he can become the Ultimate Evil Overlord with less opposition which might be competent to stop his dastardly conquest, picks the wrong reality. Dr. Doom invites himself into the opposition, in the process realizing that he truly does not want to rule a world. He merely wants to not live under the moral obligation to oppose Reed Richards. No: Doom wants to live quietly in a space he completely controls, exploring his theories of superscience, and going down in history as the smartest person ever to use a soldering iron.

     

    During the ramp-up for this adventure, Jean-Claude Gironde discovers and unmakes numerous mental blocks and hypnotic commands implanted in Jarissa Venters' mind. This includes all of the villainous work Kadaver accomplished in the previous adventure, plus several things (but not all) from the Infinity Inc Hybrid Minion mental programming.

     

    Also during this adventure, villain henchman-for-hire Mime gets physically split into two people. Mime/Robert Ridderhoff remains an employee of Phoenix Industries working at the Gironde mansion, as part of his parole. Ghoul is now a cannibalistic shapeshifting villain who can no longer copy new powers. Ghoul leaves to work in high-mortality areas of the world, mostly urban areas of Colombia, as a do-anything flunky.

    Wyldfire Infinity-Inc Doom pql
    Location
    About Earth 1
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    Wyldfire
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  • 1999

    17 June
    1999

    18 June
    Sylvan Institute

    Four girls have gone missing, all connected to this school which Professor Gironde suspects of being a front for a neo-Nazi radical organization. The school takes only mutants, teaches them to suppress their powers, teaches them that mutants are lesser than "true humans". All four girls were taken from their own homes, from their bedrooms, at night; no sign of forced entry. Two bodies have been found.

    Wyldfire investigates.

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    Wyldfire
    Location
    Metropolis
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    Gironde School
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  • 1999

    13 September
    Gironde School for Gifted and Special Needs Students
    Founding

    The private school, which had spent ten years as part of Metropolis's city-wide college network, now officially opens its doors as a private boarding school for students who need a specific learning environment. Some of these students are metahuman, either born with an active metagene or developing metagene activity due to medical or environmental intervention. Others are more traditionally "human", but come from complex circumstances or have difficult-to-fit learning needs.

    Wyldfire
    Location
    Gironde School
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    Gironde School
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  • 1999

    27 October
    Phoenix Industries announces medical breakthrough
    Technological achievement

    Dr. Jean-Claude Gironde, who has spent the past ten years unable to stand or walk after an attempted assassination, publicly returns from an overseas trip on crutches; a single press release states that he has undergone an experimental treatment developed by one of his privately-owned international firms, a research-based biotechnic lab, and will be applying for FDA approval to offer the new cybernetic chip to U.S. candidates as soon as in-house legal staff are satisfied that the patent was irrefutably established. He cannot really run, but he can now walk for reasonable amounts of time.

    This massively increases attempts by other business interests to make long-term business deals with Phoenix Industries. Or to try to find a way to force Phoenix Industries to become a publicly-held corporation, which might be bought out. Or to try to hire away anyone who works in any capacity even remotely associated with the cybernetic and medical divisions. Or to get their own project to a similar stage of viability.

    Wyldfire
    Location
    Metropolis
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    Phoenix Industries
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  • 2000

    24 March
    Paintball
    Life, Crime

    Jarissa Paxton runs an errand to New York City and gets mugged. She's okay, if rattled, but upset that she had to play the meek victim in her visibly pregnant state. She calls her friend Knight Thrasher for help, who brings in his own backup in the form of local mercenary Snake Eyes. The two men work together to catch the Bullseye Blaster, paintball team turned low-level mercenaries, who were hired to kill and rob anybody who picked up a certain FedEx International package. They in turn are anxious to cover up the fact that some five-months-pregnant short woman managed to run away faster than they could capture ... but, hey, they did get the package!

    Location
    New York City
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    Knight Thrasher
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    NYC
  • 2000

    11 July
    Corporate Wars 2: Die Hard
    Life, Crime

    Hired terrorists who watch too much television attack during a Phoenix Industries social function. Their first mistake lies in not knowing that Phoenix Industries is the secret backer of Wyldfire.

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    2000 metropolis Wyldfire
    Location
    Metropolis
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    Phoenix Industries
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  • 2006

    5 February
    2006

    28 February
    First World Problems
    Disaster / Destruction

    Limited Series: First World Problems
     

    During real world gathering ChipCon 2012, the PCs play the villains for a very special adventure.

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    limited-series 2006
    Location
    About Earth 1
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    Catastrophe
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    NYC
  • 2008

    6 October
    Between the Panels: Millie's Coffee and Bakery
    Miscellaneous

    Meanwhile at Millie’s Coffee and Bakery in Metropolis, one of the best coffee and bakery shops in the ‘City of Tomorrow’ …

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    Location
    Metropolis
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    Jean-Claude Gironde
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Organization
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Tales of Justice
Category
Businesses and Corporations in Section Two: Businesses and Organizations!
Author
Jarissa
Publication Date
5 May, 2019
Creation Date
23 Oct, 2018
Last Update Date
5 May, 2019
Visibility
Public
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