Reas Froiz Commerce and Dominion Network

dossier — Froiz Commerce & Dominion Network

Codename: Les Reliquaires du Serpent
Holder: Reas Froiz
Declared Net Worth (in-world): ₡932,000,000,000 (credits)
Hidden Reserves: ₡20,000,000,000 (physical: gold, silver, gems, Arkos vault)
Operational Posture: Global supplier, shadow-state financier, contingency sovereign.

Executive Summary

Reas Froiz does not simply hoard wealth; he sculpts influence. His empire — known within the underworld as Les Reliquaires du Serpent — is a vertically integrated conglomerate that spans licit luxury markets, clandestine armories, logistics, and a layered system of soft-power institutions. On paper he is a patron of art and industry; in practice he controls supply, credit, and the means of violence across multiple city-states. The headline number — ₡932B — represents liquid capital, holdings, investments, and shadow real estate. Hidden away in Arkos are ₡20B in tangible bullion and gems, safeguarded as the last-of-last-resort treasury that can fund a rapid mercenary remobilization and buy time if his digital networks are compromised.

Financial Architecture (High-Level, Fictional)

Total Holdings: ₡932B

  • Core Liquidity & Credit Lines: ₡168B — cash reserves, trade credit, short-term assets.

  • Corporate Holdings (front & shell corps): ₡360B — luxury manufacturing, shipping conglomerates, energy stakes, black-market subcontractors.

  • Real Estate & Infrastructure: ₡210B — Crimson Spire, urban district holdings, port leases, secure hangars, underground depots.

  • Investments & Endowments: ₡94B — art, tech startups (fronts), political donations, media influence.

  • Weaponry & Materiel Reserves: ₡50B — cached arsenals, armored vehicles, armory fabrication lines.

  • Discretionary/Illicit Accounts: ₡50B — untraceable credits, crypto pools, offshore stashes.

Arkos Vault (Physical Cache): ₡20B in bullion & gemstones

  • Purpose: irrevocable collateral, barter capital, and a physical fallback if financial rails and institutions are cut.

Note: figures are organizational ledger values used by in-world planners; liquidity and access are controlled by multi-layered keys and trusted couriers.

Principal Nodes & Geographic Footprint

  • The Crimson Spire (Highspire District) — Primary HQ, political salon, manufacturing front-rooms; nerve center for commerce and diplomacy.

  • Arkos Vault (Arkos Province) — Sealed subterranean vault complex; physical bullion, gemstones, and the “last armory.” Highly compartmentalized.

  • The Fang Den (Nova Prime Outskirts) — Military fallback, vehicle depot, armament testing range (Phase Two start).

  • Port Constellations (Warrens / Gransport / Ocean City Outskirts) — Shipping hubs and transfer points for legitimate and shadow cargo.

  • Offshore Holdings (registered shells / corporate fronts) — Luxury import/export companies, logistics firms, salvage refineries.

  • Hidden Cache Network — Series of small, hardened depots hidden in rural estates, abandoned mines, and private cargo containers; purpose-built to sustain a small army for a prolonged period if necessary.

Economic & Influence Mechanisms

1. Vertical Supply Control
Froiz controls both the legal supply lines (luxury goods, medical tech, sanctioned components) and shadow flows (black-market mods, illicit munitions). This lets him set market prices, throttle access, and convert scarcity into leverage.

2. Front Corporations & Legitimate Veneers
High-end perfumeries, boutique armories (legal façade), import houses, and a media arm function as buffers — laundering cultural capital into political goodwill and redirecting suspicion from core assets.

3. Credit Web & Patronage
He extends bespoke credit lines to chiefs, aldermen, and gang lords, binding their futures to his ledgers. Repayment is not always monetary: influence, territory, or loyalty are alternatives he has accepted.

4. Intelligence & Sabotage
An in-house intelligence desk (codenamed Lignes Silencieuses) feeds Reas actionable market and threat intelligence. It tracks competitors, monitors Aegis movements, and seeds disinformation through planted media and compromised channels.

5. Media Influence
Through donations, puppet directors, and discreet investments, Froiz shapes narratives — sponsoring art festivals, funding charitable fronts, and seeding coverage sympathetic to his interests.

Military & Materiel Posture

Strategic Reserve: Enough arms, armor, and vehicles to mobilize a force roughly the size of a well-equipped private regiment: armored transports, light APCs, modular drones, and staged munitions. These are distributed across the Fang Den, the Spire’s underground armory, and Arkos caches.

Tiered Weapon Control: Froiz maintains the manufacturing rights and distribution keys for multi-tiered armaments (Stage I–VII in his hierarchy), keeping Stage VI–VII technical knowledge and blueprints strictly compartmentalized and physically guarded. He doles access as political capital.

Rapid Remobilization Plan: If cut off digitally, the Arkos vault and hidden cache nodes allow a remnant force to rebuild hardware, re-arm personnel, and use tangible collateral to broker supply lines. The physical bullion ensures his mercenaries and subcontractors can be paid outside compromised banking rails.

Organizational Structure (Condensed)

  • Sovereign Council (Triune Core): Reas Froiz (Chair), Lazarus Kane (Enforcer), Tookie Williams (Operations). Strategic decisions; final arbiter for major actions.

  • Commerce Directorate: Oversees fronts, luxury trades, and legal businesses (led by a trusted CFO and an in-house counsel).

  • Armament Directorate: Manufactures, stores, and vets weapon stages; enforces distribution policies.

  • Logistics & Fleet Command: Shipping, salvage, vehicle fleets, and convoy operations (includes civilian shipping firms as cover).

  • Intelligence & Influence (Lignes Silencieuses): Operatives for surveillance, counterintelligence, and media manipulation.

  • Security & Retinue: Willow Hayes and her Crimson Guard, elite squads, and private merc groups with compartmentalized loyalty pledges.

  • Treasury & Vault Holders: Trusted custodians managing Arkos cache and physical reserves; access controlled by layered keys, blood-oath bonds, and rotational security.

Legal & Political Layers

  • Legitimate Footing: Galleries, export businesses, and philanthropic foundations provide plausible tax returns and public legitimacy.

  • Political Investments: Controlled donations and discreet loans build ties with judges, aldermen, and a few compromised Aegis contractors.

  • Diplomatic Plausible Deniability: Reas uses diplomatic covers, cultural exchange programs, and hired lobbyists when necessary to re-route suspicion and protect cross-border assets.

Contingencies & Fail-safes

  • Physical Collateral (Arkos): ₡20B in bullion & gems is non-digital, non-forgeable currency for black-market conversion and diplomatic bribery.

  • Decentralized Caches: Hidden depots are small and numerous to prevent a single point of failure.

  • Trusted Human Bonds: Several human couriers, trustees, and sworn lieutenants hold keys and knowledge on rotating schedules — less attack surface than a centralized ledger.

  • False Flags & Redirections: If compromised, the network has pre-planned decoy transactions, controlled leaks, and sacrificial shell companies to obscure true ownership.

Cultural Capital & Psychological Levers

  • Mythmaking: Froiz cultivates legends — of weapons withheld, bargains struck, and favours owed. Myth serves both recruitment and deterrence.

  • Ceremony & Pageantry: Banquets, gifts, and public displays (like gifting Tier suits) are used to bind loyalty emotionally and theatrically.

  • Fear as Currency: The architecture of dread — an ever-present, controlled menace — ensures obedience without continuous force.

Vulnerabilities (Narrative Hooks)

  • Central Personhood Risk: Much of the network’s cohesion depends on Reas’s strategic mind and charisma. Targeted decapitation or an irresistible internal succession could fracture the network.

  • Physical Caches: Arkos and hidden depots are secure but finite; a coordinated assault or betrayal could strip the pact of emergency collateral.

  • Political Exposure: Heavy-handed moves (Stage VII deployment, overt hostage-taking) draw state-level response and multi-lateral coalitions.

  • Internal Ambition: The Triune is elegant but brittle; personal ambitions (Kane’s desire to rule Gransport, Tookie’s thirst for revenge) can create fault lines if not managed.

Roleplaying & Plot Seeds

  • A mysterious trustee of the Arkos vault disappears — who took the keys, and why?

  • A trusted front corporation is subpoenaed — can Reas hide the true ledger before Aegis auditors trace the flow?

  • A staged leak reveals a partial list of weapon-stage recipients — panic and bidding wars erupt across the Warrens.

  • An old creditor invokes a long-buried favor, forcing Reas to choose between treasure and reputation.

  • A faction tries to buy the Arkos cache outright, initiating a dangerous diplomatic negotiation.

Closing Note (In-World Voice)

Les Reliquaires du Serpent is not a fortune; it is an ecosystem of leverage. Reas Froiz holds wealth not to be admired, but to be used — to tilt markets, to buy silence, to build engines of force, and, if necessary, to rebuild from the ashes. The coin in Arkos is the last argument. Keep it close, and the world remembers your name.