Basimer Gone Mad! | The Starset Bulletin
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Basimer Gone Mad!
Nikola Basimer, CEO of Gravitas, Inc, first became a household name in 344 ACE at only age 19, following the invention of the KZK400 autocycle, now the most popular motorcycle across the solar system. Since that first invention took off, the company has expanded into hundreds of different markets both on Earth and off it, selling everything from resynthesization respirator cybernetics to household datapads such as the GX-Toff 13. Tech Tomorrow digital magazine was the first to call Basimer a tech genius in 335 ACE, and Galactic Business was the first to call him a “master of business manipulation” in 337 ACE—a tongue-in-cheek insult to the then-billionaire. Basimer has spent almost forty years amassing nearly incalculable power, wealth, and prestige in the form of businesses, loans, royalties, properties, and stocks.
Basimer has been accused of mental deficiencies more than a dozen times during his life, with variable levels of truth behind the accusations. His brief venture into a winged human flight suit in 356 ACE, for instance, left many, myself included, questioning if he also believed chemistry to be merely a suggestion along with physics. Just three months ago, Wealth & Strength put out an article stating that Basimer reigned as the wealthiest individual in the solar system, a fact he appears to be intent on changing. After the announcement of the Great Dimming six weeks ago, Basimer started his latest spiral of insanity by flinging himself across the solar system from one reckless party to the next, drowning his apparent sorrows in wine, women, and Reveler-sponsored wonder. After three weeks of nearly nonstop partying, Basimer disappeared from the public eye just long enough for everyone to wonder—and some to hope—he might never reappear. Then, he materialized in Podiff dressed in a quarter-of-a-million-credit suit and announced to a room full of his business partners and stockholders that he was selling. “Selling what?” Jeremirah Von-Thuke, CTO of Gravitas, Inc asked, in turn. “Everything.” came the answer, and Basimer has seemingly followed through on that promise. Stocks, companies, properties, nearly every single thing of value Basimer owns, even tauron cars, pleasure ships, and luxury goods are all being auctioned off across the solar system. Basimer has repeatedly refused to answer any questions as to why he is doing this, or what he plans to do with all of the credits he is accumulating. I suspect we will not have any answers until he is done and has begun his next venture in earnest.
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