Virtual World Entertainment (in-universe)
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Virtual World Entertainment | |
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| Corporation Profile | |
| Leadership | CEO |
| Product(s) | Holovids |
| Plant(s) | Solaris VII |
Overview[edit]
Virtual World Entertainment was a holovid production company. In 3056, Archon-Prince Victor Steiner-Davion used Virtual World to pass off civilian deaths on Lyons by Peter Steiner-Davion (an incident manufactured by the Free Skye movement) as promotional material for an upcoming action trivid in order to discredit claims it showed an actual atrocity. This duplicity was revealed in 3067 by Free Skye spokesman Roland Furst which also revealed the footage was had not been used in a holo production to date.[1][2]
Virtual World also had various franchises through the Inner Sphere, including at Solaris VII (closed by 3062), which presumably simulated BattleMech combat.[3]
Apocryphal Content
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Reportedly founded on Terra, Virtual World Centers originally served purely as a form of entertainment, its patented SimPods allowing civilians to experience the thrill of piloting a BattleMech. By the later decades of the Third Succession War as the technical decline saw more military academies disappear even as the war went on, Virtual World saw a lucrative new market it could tap into, upgrading its SimPods to truly military standards to provide short-term military training to those unable to access more prestigious academies.[4] |
Notes[edit]
- This is the in-universe counterpart to Virtual World Entertainment.