[SBURVIVOR] - Crocker Corp

Crocker Corporation / Crocker Corp / Crocker Humanitarian Defense Systems / Crocker Corps

[History and Public Image]
	The Crocker Corporation during the first few years of its life focused on presenting itself publicly as a Wholesome, ‘Good Old Days’ 40’s-50’s aesthetic Home and Cooking company. While initially producing state-of-the-art Kitchen Appliances, Utensils, and commercial edible goods that brought the Company much financial success and interest, Crocker Corp didn’t rise to a widespread household name until after their first Best-Seller Cookbook: ‘Cooking With Crocker!: 100 Delicious Recipes’. According to Public Record, ‘Cooking With Crocker!: 100 Delicious Recipes’ was an unfinished collection of recipes and cooking tips that Jude had inherited after his Mother’s passing and was completed by him and his sister, June English, in memory of her. This book however, unbeknownst to the General Public, was retrieved from a Lotus Capsule by the CEO of Crocker Corp, Jude Crocker, and had been  left to him by Jane Crocker (who had written the book in its entirety).

Currently, the Crocker Corporation is a Household Name in Technologically Forward Household Appliances and is a staple within the culinary world, but has recently been expanding its horizons into other Facets of Pop-Culture and Trendy Services. Crocker Corp is known now for its various services and programs:

- A ‘HelloFresh’ style service called CrockerCookin’
	CrockerCookin’ provides a Weekly Food Delivery Service with simple Recipes and required Utensils. Utensils may be returned for a credited discount on your next CrockerCookin’, or kept for no additional fee. There are Kosher, Vegan, Vegetarian, and Gluten-friendly options and you may adjust your choice at any time. CrockerCookin’ holds an amazing value at $40-$65/month. CrockerCookin’ has also partnered with several Humanitarian Groups and offers free CrockerCookin’ to low-income families, as well as supplying CrockerCookin’ services to more than a Dozen homeless shelters in the Las Vegas, NV area.

-Podcast: ‘CrockPot’
	A monthly Podcast in which Jude Crocker, with culinary guests from across the Globe, sit down and provide Nutrition Information, Simple every-day Recipes for the average Household, Low-Income Recipes on a Budget, as well as some specialty Baking recipes for their more creative listeners. Annually CrockPot hosts a Fundraising Campaign for ‘Food for Thought’ which is a Non-Profit Organizations that brings knowledge of how to prepare low-cost and nutritional meals to underprivileged areas of the United States, as well as providing supplementary food assistance for those in need.

- Podcast: ‘Keeping Up with the Crockers’
	This weekly Podcast is hosted not by Jude Crocker (though he does make appearances every now and then) but is instead hosted by members of the Crocker Family, heads of Departments, and sometimes Crocker Corp Interns. Keeping Up with the Crockers covers current events, News, and brings attention to different charitable organizations in their ‘Sweetspotlight’. The Weekly Host will also spotlight different benefits of joining the Crocker Corp ‘Family’ and give dates for Open Houses and events where recruiters may be.


[Joining the Family]
	The Crocker Corporation totes itself as a Good Old American-Style Family and any Employees who are hired into the company are not ‘Hired’, but instead have ‘Joined the Crocker Family’. There are many different ‘Crocker Tiers’ of employment, from Unpaid Internships all the way up to Private Sector ‘Custodians and Guardians’ that are hush-hush even within Company Walls.

All employees, regardless of Position within the company, gain the same Benefits:

- Standardized Healthcare:
	All Employees within Crocker Corp have their Medical Bills paid in full by the Company, including but not limited to Mental Health, Dental, and Prescriptions. There is no deductible for this service as it is provided by Crocker Corp’s Sister Company, Big Pharma ULL.

- Betty’s Best:
	A Scholarship Program that any and all of its Employees can utilize at any time. Crocker Corp has partnered with a number of Educational Programs globally to allow things such as Exchange Students to visit non-US Colleges and Universities, as well as a comprehensive ‘subsidized’ Scholarship Grant for Employees who wish to attend a School not covered by the Betty’s Best Scholastic Initiative. Those on the Subsidized Grant will have their Tuition and Fees covered by Crocker Corp but will have their future pay docked by 7% until they have paid $4,000 back to the company. Those on the Subsidized Grant may pay into the loan at their own discretion, as well.

-A Crocker Corp ‘WaitWatch’:
	A Personal device not unlike a FitBit, that acts as a Bluetooth calendar for Company Events, a Pager, and a Lifestyle Accessory to assist with things like step-counting, sleep tracking, and heartrate monitoring.

-Family Discounts:
	A 40% Discount on all CrockerCookin’ Meal Plans, as well as a ‘Family Card’ to get discounts at most major Outlets, Retailers, and Shopping centers.

-Credit:
	A line of Credit called ‘Mom’s Purse’ which is calculated based on income of Company Position, starting as low as $1000 and going up as high as $800,000.

Any Unpaid Interns who Join the Family are allowed to utilize the Crocker Corporation Benefits as long as they serve a mandatory 13-Month stint within the Company in any paid position following the completion of their Schooling and/or before they withdraw their employment. If they Join the Family, utilize the Benefits and Services, and then ‘Run Away from Home’, the individual will be accountable for the Monetary Compensation of all services used as well as a 65% Interest and may serve Jail time under ‘theft of company funds’.


[The Private Sector and the Reveal]
	While Crocker Corp gained public notoriety as a Family-Friendly Foods and Kitchen Company, but away from prying eyes was a much different story. From its inception, the funds raised through the sale of Kitchenware, appliances, and commercial goods was partially invested into Big Pharma ULL, a Medical Sciences company purchased by June English at the turn of the Company’s Popularity and shortly before her departure. Utilizing the Unlimited Company’s hidden financial ongoings, Crocker Corp established its Private Sector and began investigation into Skaianet’s ongoings. The Private Sector of Crocker Corp/Big Pharma became a fully established underground Company of its own make with special focus into Superior Technological Advancement, Interstellar Travel, Genetic Sequencing and Splicing, as well as other more nefarious and eclectic avenues of research and development.

The direction this Private Sector went in was the ballast in June English eventually leaving the company to be run by Jude Crocker and his Founders Board. The Private Sector’s primary directives are:

- Scientific Research
	Research and development regarding Ectobiology, the proliferation of SBURB, interstellar communication, and more. Though Crockercorp has a strong foundational knowledge of what Skaianet knows, they do not have the full picture, and conduct their own individual research. Thanks to its founder's inheritance of the Unreal Heiress Thoughtwave Tiaratop, the company is currently conducting extensive research into mind control, crowd control and subliminal imagery. The tracking of Founder genetic lines is of interest to Crockercorp, though it is a pursuit that consistently provides no useful information or conclusions.

- Defense Work
	Crockercorp's specialty is training private defense corps to protect various corporations' facilities; this is also one of the ways they were able to infiltrate numerous Skaianet properties. Their contracts with several agencies and companies (including contract work for the American government) allows them access to classified information and impressive resources.

- Propaganda and Control
	Crockercorp's greatest effort is one of control and influence, believing it to be the best way to combat Skaianet's growing power. Crockercorp has continually cultivated the image of a wholesome corporation hailing back towards the 'good old days' of the fifties; thanks to a well-timed Lotus Time Capsule release, the company was able to publish Cooking With Crocker! One Hundred Delicious Recipes to the masses, which became a critically-acclaimed hit. The company's uniforms reflect their 'traditional and American' professed goals. The company's attempts to weaponize their employees both physically and mentally are merely the beginning stages of its plan to influence the public.

	Shortly after the return of the ‘Survivors’ from the First SBURB Session, Crocker Corp came forward with its Warnings against the Danger of Skaianet and the unethical Human Experimentation the rival company was supposedly carrying out behind closed doors. Without expressly revealing Details about the ‘SBURB’ situation (mostly in part to not having them), Crocker Corp exposed stolen Documents that proved the use of Genetic Splicing on Human Subjects, as well as the endangerment of Human Life to test Skaianet’s newest avenues of technological advancements (wile all very carefully keeping his own dealings in these fields perfectly hidden).

Crocker Corp would come clean with its military-based facets of the Private Sector and re-brand it as the ‘Crocker Humanitarian Defense Systems’ while explaining that its use of research into Weapons and Defense Systems was to counter-balance Skaianet until such a time as they could come public, like they had just done. While ‘Custodians’ and ‘Guardians’ were never a Public Release, the facets of Crocker Corp such as weapons advancements and medical sciences were released into Public Domain under heavy vetting by Jude himself.

[Skaianet and The Founders Board]
	The Founders Board is (currently) made up of three individuals who used to be a part of Skaianet’s Employ, each of them representing one ‘Hereditary Line’ in mirror to the rival company (due to their inherent relation with The Medium, Skaia, and SBURB in some way). Both Rich Lalonde and Dawn Strider are closely related to their Skaianet counterparts, but were not offered hereditary positions with the Rival Company and were instead personally recruited by Jude Crocker and June English during their departure from Skaianet at the age of 18.

While there is a Fouth Founders Board Seat that is as of yet unfilled, it is on tentative reserve for June English in the event that she were ever to return to the Company.

[The Founders]
-Jude Crocker:
	Bright and shiny CEO of Crockercorp. He routinely (and very publicly) donates to the most hot-button charity of the moment, hosts fundraising galas, and personally attends as many public events as possible to keep up appearances. He intermittently hosts two podcasts: 'Keeping Up with the Crockers', a general news and story-of-the-week podcast where he answers questions from his listeners and talks about current events, and 'Crockpot', which is a cooking and baking podcast that releases monthly recipes for a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Ecto-Brother of June English.

-Dawn Strider:
	Works behind the scenes and prefers not to be the face of the company; she'll leave that to Jude. Instead, she chooses to organize and run the company, structuring it with a calculating eye and steady hands. Efficient, dependable and private, Dawn ensures that Crockercorp isn't destroyed by mismanagement. Though the employees of Crockercorp are not entirely sure of her specialization within the company, she's amassed a great deal of respect within the organization, and is often referred to as the genuine leader of the company; at least, its common workers and goals.

-Rich Lalonde,
	Totally unseen by the common workers of the company. It's said that only the two other founders have ever actually met him; though this is an exaggeration, it's nearly an entirely accurate one. Privately, he heads both the research and development division as well as the security division, handling higher-level decision making entirely through secure internal internet communications. Rumors surround him and his true position within the company, and the public is nearly entirely unaware of him, only knowing that he is a (seemingly boring) founding member of the company.

-[Absentee] June English:
	A friendly, chipper girl who defected from Skaianet along with her brother. At the beginning of Crockercorp's life, June cheerfully helped Jude set up what she thought would be a good-hearted organization intended to prevent Skaianet's cruelties. Things developed differently. After a few years, she decided that the nefarious and questionable tactics of Crockercorp weren't for her and absconded to an unknown location. She's secretly living on an island with a large Lotus Time Capsule blooming at its center; though she hasn't yet figured out what it is, a green helmet interface spawned from it, and she's been tinkering with it in her spare time. Her passion is travel, and she founded the English Foundation with the intent of making travel more accessible to the masses, as well as exploring rare temples and uncovering unique artifacts.