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	In the days before the Fall, the brutal march of progress carried on. As it had been since times unrecorded, fortunes were made, stolen, and lost from day to day and moment to moment. It was into this world that FortiCo came to be. Like a phoenix, FortiCo rose from an admixture of the ashes of 3 separate Corps. In order to understand the current state of the Megacorp, one must begin with a brief history of each of the founder Corps, and the dreams and motivations of the associated CEOs.

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	The Commission for Corporate Architecture and Planning was founded by Leo Lynch, a wealthy immigrant to [REDACTED] and sole heir to the Lynch fortune. Having expressed an interest in architecture and design at an early age, it came as no surprise that Lynch founded a Corp dedicated to the pursuit of such enterprises when he inherited his father and mother's wealth. CCAP's reservations against military and government contracts, prompted by the personal beliefs of Lynch himself, was much less expected. Even still, the architects and designers recruited by Lynch's charisma and connections were all absolute top-notch talent and this, coupled with the firm's unusual personnel structure (which allowed and encouraged even the lowest of assistants to express their opinion when they noticed a flaw in a plan of action, while still maintaining extreme efficiency) ensured that CCAP's expertise stayed in high demand. Their work included some of the most notable and intricate personal bunkers, megatowers, self-contained arcologies, hydroponic complexes, and corporate towns of the entire Pre-Fall world. However, eventually Lynch's prohibition on taking government and military contracts earned the enmity of several powerful individuals...as well as his shareholders, who became very frustrated over the missed revenue. After a particularly lucrative contract was given to a competing company, the shareholders raised an outcry. Lynch held majority share and refused to impinge on his pacificist ideals. In response the shareholders organized a massive sell off of company stock. Lynch was forced to burn the vast majority of his fortune buying back shares of his stock at a fraction of what they should have been worth. He watched as his company was driven into the ground, but still refused to relent on his convictions.
	When all was said and done, Lynch had regained sole ownership of the company...but he found himself with scarcely enough money to keep the established corporate facilities running. Many employees left, as wages were delayed for weeks or months due to lack of funds. In short order only the most loyal members of the company who would stand by CCAP, Lynch, and the ideals they symbolized no matter what remained. It was truly the darkness before dawn, but neither My Lynch, nor any outside observer would've gussed as much at the time.

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	Leo Lynch's pacifist and non-violence tendencies, while widely acknowledged, are not very well understood. Multiple opinions and conjectures have been presented, but information on the CEO is scarce and few to none have been substantiated.
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	The most widely accepted theory is that Mr. Lynch uncovered the secret of how his great-grandfather had earned seed-money to start the family fortune and recoiled from it, causing him to revolt from his legacy and swear off violence forever.
	It is rendered clear by FortiCo's success in its trade that, even if he attempted to suppress it, the propensity towards violence and warcraft remained intensely ingrained in Lynch's very genes.