LEIGH&CO
LEIGH&CO is an interplanetary corporation headquartered in New Eden City. As the sole supplier of advanced technology in the web worlds, it oversees the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of its products. LEIGH&CO was formed in Y0 NESC by the First Survivor of the Great Crash.
Sometime in Y1 NESC after CaptainOHair vanquished the End Dragon, LEIGH&CO scientists and military specialists travelled to The End where they returned with a bounty of matériel, including two entire copies of End Ships. One of the ships, stripped of any useful technology, was donated to the Martin Field Museum and the other was disassembled in a secret LEIGH&CO facility. These End Ships ultimately provided the insight required for LEIGH&CO to produce the Repulsors necessary for their fleet of flying ships, allowing them to easily cement their position as the dominating power in force projection and forward logistics handling.
Services & Products
Embassies
LEIGH&CO operates embassies and missions in various locations controlled by other groups throughout the Web Worlds. These embassies provide a variety of consular services, and often contain a Central Bank buy chest for diamonds. An embassy might contain a teleporter for rapid travel to New Eden City.
Notable Embassies include:
Embassy Crisis of Y2S2
In Y2S2, LEIGH&CO opened an embassy location in a northern village in de-facto but unrecognized control of the infamous Isolationist mrunix. Significant hostility and resentment ensued, at the time leading LEIGH&CO spokesperson Miguel Vector to comment "Look, he didn't own the land. Nobody did. We moved in, same as him, same as anyone, and built a tasteful, modest building. We didn't even build inside the town. We built beside it. We gave the guy and all those poor natives he claims to be helping, when he is really just abusing them for emeralds and enchants, a free teleporter after watching him walk back and forth to New Eden City overland for kms every day, and this is what we get for it. Nothing but trouble". This situation ultimately came to a head when the embassy ambassador and staff were evacuated by helicopter from the roof of the building, immediately prior to its destruction with a tactical terraforming device.
Accidents
Due to its role in creating and distributing advanced technological products and matériel, there have been a number of incidents involving loss of life and/or significant property damage.
Criticism
LEIGH&CO has been described as a "sadoanarchistic corporation" which exploits its monopoly of force on the planet to gain advantage and further its own undisclosed agenda. LEIGH&CO has been repeatedly criticized by environmentalists for its relationship to the negative environmental impacts of resource exploitation, mining, deforestation, and distribution operations of exotic (and dangerous) materials, continued exploitation of interdimensional travel and spacetime manipulation.
It has been alleged by some critics that LEIGH&CO does not reveal the true nature of its ambitions nor the scope of its operations, resource mining, and especially, technological experimentation. It has been suggested that LEIGH&CO does not act in a forthcoming or transparent manner as relates to incidents, especially accidents, related to to the development and application of its technology.