[Commerce] Ivanova Industries to Expand Operations on Terra Nova

Ivanova Industries to Expand Operations on Terra Nova

Anchalee Chareonkul, Terra Nova News

SCOTT-At a press conference this morning, CEO Nadezhda Ivanova of Ivanova Industries announced that the company would be expanding its newly acquired facilities on Terra Nova and concentrating civilian production on its range of constructor, mining and other industrial vessels. Pre-war, Ivanova Industries was one of the largest aerospace companies in Alliance space, building several classes of Alliance warship, a line of modular orbital infrastructure and the popular Monaco leisure corvette. It was expected that the corporation would fold after the destruction of its Arcturus industrial complex, but Alliance funding and a steady market for constructor vessels revitalised the flagging company.

Miss Ivanova stated three thousand jobs are expected to be created within the next year as a result of the move, with eight hundred Terra Novans already employed by Ivanova Industrial with the completion of Aysta Station. Further jobs are expected as Ivanova Industrial ramps up production and completes construction of Quentin and Harlek Stations.

“We expect to begin production of at Aysta Station within the next two months,” Ivanova stated, adding that the corporation was in the process of building housing for workers and their families.

Local Kieran Flannagan, 44, welcomed the move. “This is just what Terra Nova needs,” He said, “New jobs, more corporate investment into the colony, something to give the economy a kick. There’s a lot of people looking for work, and this might just be the ticket.”

There is, however, criticism of Ivanova Industries policy, “They discriminate against whom they employ,” argued Rakesh Mehra, a member of the activist group StandUp. “If you’re not a patriotic Alliance citizen with ‘appropriate politics’, you’ve got no chance. This corporation is partially owned by the Alliance, for goodness sake.”

When asked about these claims, Ivanova replied, “Anyone seeking employment with the military projects division is required to have a Systems Alliance security clearance. If you fail to receive such a clearance, you may be refused employment. This policy has been in place since before the Reaper War.” When asked about government ownership of the corporation, she stated, “While the Alliance owns some shares as part of its rescue package, Ivanova Industrial operates independently.”

How dare the military contractor ask workers to submit to a military-class background check?!

Oh cool. You know, as a kid I always kind of wanted to build spacecraft. You know, Ships that travel unimaginable distances, at speeds that break the very laws of Physics. It's all kinds of awesome.
Good for Terra Nova.
Although, Seppers gonna sep seems to be in full effect Again.

Really? They are getting upset over something like a background check? Which, last I recall, is pretty much standard for any avenue of employment, especially a government contracted industry.

If the separatists truly want others to sympathize with their cause, they could do well to find reasons that don't paint them as petty, and dare I say it, ungrateful.

I like how within the first two comments people are already blowing past the details so they can get in their "seppers gonna sep" comments. Seriously, this:


Does not equal "Boohoohoo, I had to pass a background check!"

Maybe this person is just blowing it out of their assorted holes and should be ignored (they almost certainly have their own biases against the Alliance), but I am almost certain that you dont have any relevant information to base that judgement on. In the end, the fact that you'll dismiss somone's claim of discrimination based on poltical affiliation as sepper whining is frustratingly stupid.

Meanwhile, in a more relevant comment: Good for Terra Nova and good for the Alliance. This is the kind of stuff we are going to need to see happen in order to make progress towards recovery.

To be fair, from what I've read it seems the Alliance patriots and the separatists seem to equally share pettiness on this level quite often, so it's not unheard of that this'd be interpreted as such.

Try reading Ivanova's very next statement in the article.


See? I can pull quotes from the article too!

The only "political affiliation" that is relevant to the average Alliance Citizen these days is "do you wish to end the current Alliance system of government." Those who answer yes are unlikely to attain the needed clearance.

Yeah, I can read as well, ESpiza. Ivonova claims that its a security issue. But a corporation caught in discriminating isn't going to just out right say that's what they are doing (just like Mehra might be full blown sepper and not admitting either, before you try to throw that in my face).

My point here is that, as of late, no one can say anything negative about something even remotely aligned with the Alliance without being called a sepper and having their arguments dismissed. That kind of attitude is ignorant at best, dangerous at worst.

Look at the poster right below you for an example of this.

Edit: It's also of note that you didn't mention Mehra being a separatist at all, which is more what I have a gripe about. My original comment should have said the first three comments, as I was mostly referring to the other two posters.

@RTB

That's bull crap and you know it. There is a large number of people who disagree with a varying amount of the current Sytem Alliance policy and have no desire to seperate from the Alliance or see its end. Humanity needs the Alliance. That doesn't mean that people will automatically agree with its choices, nor does it make the Alliance an infallible agent of Shepard herself. Corruption, well-meaning mistakes, people abusing power: all these ghosts of temptation still haunt any orginazation with power.

Does these mean we shouldn't support the Alliance? No, of course not. But ignoring complaints about these kind of issues is just stupid.

Under the current military governance, anyone without brass on their shoulders has virtually no political agency. How much a person disagrees with current Alliance policy is irrelevant. The only question that matters is whether or not they are willing to take action and attempt to dissolve, replace, or secede from said government. Those who are should not be allowed to work on vital military equipment.

And I agree with most of that. If this person is a separatist willing to take action against the Alliance, she shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Alliance equipment. But what bothers me is that there are people (even in this thread) who will take any disagreement as an admission of separatist alignement, and will discriminate based on that assumption.

That's not okay.

Also, while I'm aware it's a military government, as far as I know the Alliance still encourages its citizen's to come to it with complaints, concerns, ect. After all, it's a 5 year plan. The Alliance has an intrest in not making people too dependent on its rule. They might not be bound by the democratic process, but it's in their intrest to encourage people to maintain some sort of "voice".

Allow me to play the role of "[translation error: did you mean:]devil[/t]'s advocate":

Is it not a positive act if individuals of any variety are being employed after the Reapers? Even if the company is acting unfairly in some manner in terms of diversity hires, is it not a benefit to the community as a whole to have a portion of itself employed?

The small handful of brass of I've heard from have no interest in keeping up a military-run government, and the Alliance rules are set up to recognize the authority of our nation-states. So, Earth's individual nations (especially the larger ones, like my homeland) need to get functional again to elect a new Alliance Parliament. Whereas the Turian governemnt is set up to recover from a devastating war, our plan of continuity is not quite so deep.

Yeah, of course. Which is why I'm not saying the company should be dissoloved or anything. I don't even know that the company is discriminating at all. I was just pointing that jumping to "sepper" is a mistake, both on behalf of the company and for those in this thread.

This is not 'seppers gonna sep' you pair of self satisfied ponces. This is a disgruntled whiner with an axe to grind. Most separatists, with the exceptions of Schmidt and his ilk, have enough grey matter to figure out that publicly stating your disapproval of Alliance policy and your wish to secede from the Alliance is not conducive to getting an Alliance issued military grade security clearance. Most also have the brains to figure out that working for a military contractor requires the aforementioned military grade security clearance. I know this must be hard to hammer through your smug arrogance, but Separatists have brains too. Some of them even use them to think.

If this is any indication of the policies endorsed by 'Stand Up' then these are probably the sort of people who would protest a dextro restaurant for discriminating against levo species or some such equally inane bullshit.

Glad to know that the Separatist rhetoric has an IQ test now. Here I was, thinking the only qualifier was "Anti-Alliance Occupation."

Working for a military contractor requires you get military security clearance. This is not bloody rocket science. Most people in general are smart enough to figure this out. Your average Separatist is just that. Average. Sorry to disappoint. I'd try to dig up one who whines about how the 'big gub'mint' is going to take away all our rights and toss us into forced labor camps but Schmidt doesn't seem to be about now. I'll be sure to bring along a stereotypical separatist next time so that nobody will need to look past preconceptions.

I guess the real question is, does the company screen off separatists, which seems natural to me, or any person who has a critical mind about the Alliance.

Which is exactly my point, if you'll stop being offended at every post everyone makes on this forum long enough to realize that. I'm not saying every separatist is an obnoxious, constantly-bitching moron freezing her ass off on Ur, but I'm also not going to discount someone's "membership" in the Seppy Cause just because they're a blithering idiot.

Where in that article do you see that this person is a separatist? If every human who ever criticized the Alliance or made idiotic remarks about Alliance supported companies was a separatist then we'd actually make up the overwhelming majority of the SA population.

Where did I say that he was?