The Mercury-Vulcan Group

Mercury Industries began over 45 years ago at Harvard University in a small but well-funded research laboratory headed by the Japanese-American Dr. Yuki Arano. Yuki Arano began her journey over 12 years prior as she ascended through academia in some of the most prestigious universities on the planet. From Harvard, to Yale, Cambridge, to Stanford and Oxford, to half a dozen of the universities that host the world’s greatest mind, she has pioneered at them all.

Holding several degrees in analytics and possessing the capability to change the world, it was her mind that realized that the world’s brightest needed to come together and that she could not do this alone. Yuki Arano was correct, and in her laboratory with the minds she had gathered what would be one of the world’s greatest innovations had began. She brought them together to change the world, and it created something beautiful that could very well make an impact large enough that it would affect the future of global affairs.

The mass data analytics platform known as WINS was given birth, and with Arano at the head she created the corporation that you know today as Mercury Industries. News of one of the greatest innovations of the 20th century quickly spread throughout the nation and she forged relationships with the largest national corporations. That was when Mercury Industries’ share price exploded and the company shot out of the US into international waters.

It took a while for Mercury Industries to do it, but they soon achieved the publicity that they had needed and began to expand past the borders of more and more nations. The corporation’s blaze across the globe had just began as it caught the interest of major corporations that bought stock in it and invested in the WINS project. This investment had been just what the small corporation that would become a fledgling giant had needed to expand and establish a small cabal of subsidiaries.

Included in this list of subsidiaries significantly smaller than the corporation was Orion Cellular, Ventus Energies, Apex Minerals & Resources and Pan Medical among others. While still considered small, and with most of the profit they had made invested in research and assets instead of being liquidized resources, Mercury had just begun the founding of a great legacy. This legacy was something that the aging Dr. Yuki Arano had hoped would set up the future of not only her corporation but the world as well.

It was thirteen years later that Arano had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that caused tumors to develop across the entire body, and despite it being in early stages she was too old and too out of shape to he helped especially with the amount of small tumors already developing. Knowing that she was doomed to die a slow and painful death, Arano used her entire fortune to create the Arano Humanities Foundation and hoped that, in the future, other corporations, her nation and one day other nations would adopt the same policies. Mercury Industries thus was destined to adopt a newer, younger CEO because of Arano retiring early and after a few months opting to use an assisted suicide program, beginning the dawn of a new era at the small, but steadily growing, corporation.

Lady Emilia Lilian Barosoque, a “young” and brilliant London-borne woman holding three doctorates among five different degrees, two of which were Master’s, that had went to Cambridge at age 9, and former Chief of Research at Mercury Technologies was elected to run the corporation in the mid 90’s. Emilia was one of the world’s greatest minds, and similar to Arano had a vision but this vision had a wider scope for the business, one that didn’t primarily focus on research. It was this vision that had begun the second era of Mercury Industries and Emilia’s excellent leadership skills that set the foundation for a great new beginning.

The age of innovation had begun back in the 80’s and it was this innovation that had allowed the corporation to grow exponentially and become the primary corporation that the government and people in the US went to in most areas such as medicine and pharmaceuticals. They were doing great work at Mercury Industries, and people were taking note as the corporation grew and its subsidiaries began breaking major ground in various areas. However, the company was still relatively small despite all it had done due to the fact that research and assets had always been the primary focus under Arano.

Emilia took this as the indication that Mercury Industries needed to take a different direction, and she began stopping the research of new potential roads of development, storing their ideas for later, and instead focusing on current projects before anything else began. This would allow Mercury to stay at the cutting edge without eventually becoming broke due to the fact that there were always more thoughts than there was funding. It was her ambition that drove Mercury to restructure themselves under her mind, and luckily it coincided with the thirty year plan Arano had laid out and simply accelerated things.

That being said the 32 year old Barosoque was ruthless, intelligent, brilliant, highly analytical and constantly studying in new fields so that she could do what was required to ensure a future for the company. Barosoque busied herself with as many aspects of the business as possible, enveloping her mind in research while also managing as much of Mercury as she could handle. It was then, in the early 2000’s that she began restructuring the subsidiaries to hand all of most of their research over to two massive new subsidiaries known as Mercury Technologies and Mercury Mobile Technologies.

These new subsidiaries were large because every research project was now handled by Mercury Technologies and Mercury Mobile Technologies, with the various other subsidiaries handling only a small portion of what they were specialized in. This allowed the subsidiaries of Mercury Industries to focus on growth, advertising, developing partnerships and otherwise handling what mattered most. The second era of Mercury Technologies had begun speeding up right about this time as management changed and Emilia took full reign over the corporation.

It was a welcome change, and the corporation had the world’s brightest flood to them once more as they were allowed to recruit out of universities around the world. It was arguably one of the most exciting developments that had occurred within the corporation and its subsidiaries within the last four decades. Thus the end of the second era ended and the modern era had begun with more experienced hands, two of which were Emilia’s, guiding the next generation’s minds.

The modern era was one that would see the rise and fall of countless corporations, the end of oligarch empires, and the beginning of a new day at Mercury. Mercury Industries was renamed as Mercury World Industries and given a list of commandments and a large, growing set of discoveries to make. Emilia, as always, was at the forefront with her right hand being the more experienced executives and her left being the wunderkids.

Emilia’s latest purchase to enhance the corporation, and possibly the largest to date, was none other than Harvard University and it was one of her proudest moments. Emilia began an organization devoted to recruiting, schooling, training, and preparing the greatest minds on the planet from continents ranging from Eurasia, to Oceania, to North and South America, and even Africa. Her goal was to prepare the next generation to work at Mercury, and it developed into a highly successful endeavor.

While still supporting general applications and those who didn’t want to join Mercury, the face of Harvard University had been changed to show that Mercury was the biggest priority. PIU became a workhorse that shuffled out some of the most brilliant students in the university to work with Mercury. Three years into the 2000’s Mercury saw their workforce grow from 30,000 to over 125,000 fresh minds that were brilliant at what they did.

The corporation’s growth was exponential, yet at the same time it was sustainable due to how Mercury focused on their projects and how they worked. Divisions were created to house new sectors of research and development and by 2005 the company had been restructured to support a sufficiently larger amount of research in subsidiaries that needed it so that all of the researchers weren’t stuck in one corporation. Mercury saw the dawn of a new age with a hybrid business model that let them dominate the market at every turn; Emilia looked upon the thing she had molded into her own creation and smiled.

In 2007 the first major partnership with a massive multinational manufacturing corporation known as Vulcan Manufacturing was forged, which resulted in standardization and a higher quality over all products. Over three years of the partnership culminated in two corporations that worked in perfect synchronization, corporations that attended each other’s meetings, gave each other advice, and shared technology, techniques and a variety of other things. Inevitably, Emilia Barosoque, the CEO and majority shareholder of Mercury, and Argus Miyake held a meeting between the two boards and the company performed a massive merger in 2010.

By 2011 the company once known as Mercury World Industries changed their name to the Mercury-Vulcan Group (MV) and established themselves as a major presence in the business world. Over 500,000 employees made up one of the most efficient workforces o the planet, and this workforce was the one that fueled the Mercury-Vulcan Group. The Mercury-Vulcan Group caused a reckoning on the planet as one of the most capable corporation ever to exist, and to this day continues to innovate in industries across the world.

One day Mercury-Vulcan will define the planet in every area, with the hopes that their technology will truly make a change and benefit the world in ways unimaginable. Working on the cutting edge, innovating current technologies, preparing humanity for the future, improving everything they get their hands on, Mercury-Vulcan is a work machine. Mercury-Vulcan is the company to come to if you want to achieve your dreams, for they flow like liquid silver and have a passion that burns with the heat of the God of volcanoes himself.

Welcome to the future, welcome to the Mercury-Vulcan Group.