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deconstruct) wrote2016-07-16 09:10 pm
[APP INFO] HOUSE HAPSBURG
» SYNOPSIS
House Hapsburg is one of the leading Houses on the globe, specializing in high durability Mice with increased strength and various offensive augmentations. They're largely military/security suppliers, as well as chief providers of the popular source of entertainment that is Mouse cage-fights, essentially. Hapsburg Mice can typically be picked out by their trademark external spine, a second structure engineered on the backs of each created Mouse that provides for heightened pain tolerance and an increase in full body support, boosting potential for strength.
» DETAILS
— House Hapsburg, as a business, was founded in 3409, by Charles Hapsburg V, expanded to include his son, Philip, in 3442. It had been one of the first Houses to crop up globally, initially established with the goal of physical therapy research, investigating how the advent of the KN gene could affect the healing process of those who'd suffered great injury, taking on many military veterans as experimental volunteers. Over time, it evolved to be more militaristic aimed, as it is in 3451 (Andyr's canon point year). As Houses began to assume more and more power on the political scale, and as Hapsburg in particular began to be the necessary source of military supply, Charles Hapsburg became obsessed with the idea of becoming 'World Emperor', turning ruthless and absolute in his control and advancement of corporate and political power.
— Philip would follow in his father's footsteps, raised and groomed to continue the dream Charles V set out for, and turned out to be just as driven and merciless, if not more so, than his father.
— While Gloriana and Bathory are both very matriarchal in nature, Hapsburg is the opposite, extremely patriarchal, culturally and structurally.
— Prizefighting Mice is a sport for the wealthy, some even televised for wide entertainent. It also functions as means for Houses to show off their new models and pitch them against rival Houses, to prove their model's superiority and all that.
— On the subject of status symbols, society tends to vary on what they want in a Mouse, and Hapsburg provides the Look How Much Damage/How Much Of A Badass This Thing I Own Is, a lot like how you would want the fastest, most powerful kind of sports car. Hapsburg mice are like The Gun Collection Mice (who needs guns, I have a Hapsburg model). Many Hapsburg Mice are some level of... I don't want to say lobotomized, but made significantly more docile/obedient, as a rebelling Hapsburg Mouse can be a big problem for a lot of people. It's all basically sports car modification - my Mouse is absurdly expensive, and the features that I paid for are the best in this particular range of taste, which tells you about who I am as a person and what I value.
— Within the allied New Orleans Houses, House Báthory specializes in organ farming, House Florens specializes in pharmaceuticals and medical experimentation, as well as memories and mentally copy-pasting people into clone bodies, and House Gloriana, which specializes in the ethereal sort of visual augmentations. These are just some of the top corporations in the business, particular in North America and the South nation. Houses tend intermingle in their work often, both to help keep things "legal", as well as keep an eye on what the other business is up to.
» FORTRESS HAPSBURG
— When entering Hapsburg, the rooms and lobby closest to the front seem very clean, warm and inviting. The further one ventures back into the labs, research areas and Mice quarters, the more utilitarian, cold and fortress-like the environment becomes. Andyr's room is towards the back of the complex. Typically one needs to either work at the complex, or be taken on a tour to get to where Andyr is held. Security also increases exponentially as you move back into the building. All doors to the outside that aren't the main entrance require special security clearance via thumbprint or retinal scan to open. When a riot or raid is going on at one of the other allied Houses, or if extensive security is needed for any reason, Hapsburg typically sends a team of reinforcements. Hapsburg is the only House to possess a full private military, of a size that would rival that of many national forces. See aesthetic here.