based on material given in Unseen Masters by Bruce Ballon, Day of the Beast by Keith Herber,
and At Your Door by L.N. Isynwill.
OVERVIEW
New World Industries = privately held corporation chartered in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
NWI is a Mythos-tainted multinational corporation with access to massive resources from around the earth... and beyond. Its agents are scattered across the globe. On the surface, NWI looks legitimate, but those who delve into its secrets uncover festering evil, growing from the seeds of vileness planted by its original founder, Edward Chandler. Investigators of such mysteries often vanish without a trace.
Most employees of NWI are unaware of the inner workings of the company. Those who do find out are quickly eliminated.
HISTORY
NWI was originally created to help finance and act as a front for the Brotherhood of the Beast. CEO Edward Chandler was a descendent of the mad Egyptian priest Nophru-Ka who, under the guidance of the evil Baron Hauptmann and the sinister Lang-Fu, planned to turn over the earth to the forces of the Mythos. It was through the luck and bravery of a few investigators in 1929 that the terrible three were destroyed by the very forces they aroused. The death of Edward Chandler was a catalyst toward the stock market crash and the Great Depression that followed.
New World Industries began as the once immensely successful New World Incorporated, a mega-corporation that collapsed in 1929, due to the stock maket crash and the disappearance of its chairman, Edward Chandler.
In 1934, Nitocris felt the return of the Haunter. In its fleshy shell that once housed the soul of Ambrose Dexter, it helped direct Nitocris in financial and political dealings to prevent NWI from going under. By World War II, Dexter drafted plans for various unique weapons and materials for war that NWI would patent. This began the company's mteoric rise back into the black, as well as its start in illegal arms trading. Dexter's technology became the hidden cause behind border wars, military actions, and political assassinations. NWI often secretly supplied weapons to both sides of conflicts.
After the crash, the company appointed a new CEO, Damiana Thistle, who helped NWI scrape by in the 1930s. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, providing military weapons to the U.S. armed forces and its allies revitalized NWI. WWII left the company flush with easy money and open international markets, enabling great diversification. In the early 1950s, the corporation bought up outstanding shares and reorganized as NWI Inc., thereafter profiting greatly from investments in business machines and information processing. A Bahamian charter was granted in the late 1970s, the event marking the end of public knowledge concerning the company.
In 1951, Dexter vanished to fulfill some private plots of his own. In the 1970s, Nitocris found out through her sources that the host of her lord was slain.
CURRENT EVENTS
The current CEO, Thalassa Chandler, is rumored to be one of the wealthiest women in the world. She is the great granddaughter of Edward. She re-established the Chandler Foundation, originally created by Edward Chandler. It provides generous donations to charities and grants to individuals around the world.
The diabolical Ghoul Queen Nitocris decided to use the remnants of the comapny to rebuild the Brotherhood of the Beast as well as the Black Brotherhood. Nitocris slowly adapted the Brotherhood of the Black Pharoah into an international organization of spies, assassins, and thieves. NWI became the tool to allow the Black Brotherhood to flourish in North America. In building the company, she traveled throughout Europe and established bases for the acquisition of power and money, as well as sites for the worship of her despicable gods. She has been the CEO of NWI since then, although under different names and forms, currently Thalassa Chandler.
During her wait for the Haunter's return, Nitocris has sent the tentacles of the Black Brotherhood to crisscross the globe. Powerful sorcerers have joined her sinister cabal. Among the board of directors are captains of industry, military generals, terrorist leaders, Nobel prize-winning scientists, and more, all loyal to the Crawling Chaos.
Barron's estimates its assets in excess of 36 billion dollars for the NATO countries.
Major holdings are also inferred in Taiwan, Brazil, Paraguay, South Africa, and Iraq.
The head office is located in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, on the island of New Providence, renowned for its lush flowers, gentle trade breezes, and superb sandy beaches. NWI chose this location to operate in secrecy away from the public eye. Remote islands were perfect sites to conduct the foul rituals to the Great Old Ones. Through a puppet company called Royale Entertainment, NWI maintains a large opulent hotel and massive casino named The Devil's Playground.
The original NWI Tower in Chicago is the corporation's U.S. main office. The top three floors are the private quarters of Thalassa Chandler. NWI has various sites in most major cities around the world.
In its business operations, NWI mostly seems to be into munitions, shipbuilding, mining, and computer technology. They have recently begun a contract with NASA to develop space technology. The Chandler Foundation has proposed starting youth camps for homeless kids, to help get them off the streets and back into society. Such projects serve to strengthen the Black Brotherhood, and prepare for the End Times.
NWI does not like to be directly linked to illegal operations. It uses a vast network of puppet corporations and business subsidiaries to confound those curious about their operations. These include Larson Pharmaceuticals, Rothermersholm Ltd., Dawn Biozyme, Cyclopean Citadels, Royale Entertainment, Future Horizons, Chantraine Enterprises, NeoTekio Inc., DeVeers Diamonds, and many, many more.
NWI has been researching ways to harness the powers inherent in the milk of Shub-Niggurath. This includes a variety of applications, such as developing biological weapons, enhancing human capabilities, creating new servitor races for the Mythos, and tainting food supplies. One major area is the production of substances that can influence and control minds. Work is currently progressing with experimentation on the milk of Shub-Niggurath at Dawn Biozyme and Rothmersholm Ltd., under the leadership of an ambitious shoggoth lord, Albert Shiny (see The Creature Companion and At Your Door). The next stage in this project will be handled by Anne Chantraine, who plans to market certain mind-altering fragrances in small remote towns and the proposed NWI youth camps. If it succeeds, NWI may be able to influence the world with brainwashing pheromones.
Nitocris has kept alive the dreams of Edward Chandler, Lang-Fu, and Hauptmann. The Beast is being tended, and will be set loose soon, when the Dark Messiah proclaims his dismal prophecies.
NWI also sponsors numerous archaeological digs. This is done to collect as many Mythos artifacts as possible.
NWI has a contract with NASA to produce certain mechanisms and instruments for satellites. NWI has two satellites of its own, one for weather and the other for communications. Oddly, these satellites seem to cross over certain sections of the Pacific Ocean quite regularly.
Youth camps to indoctrinate children and adolescents into Mythos-minded thinking are also being developed. One is set up to start soon near Samson, California.
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