Maialen-Silenus, Inc. (MSI) — Corporate Dossier

• Incorporated: 2304 CE (charter filed on Old Terra; re-chartered on Mars after the First Machine War)
• Ticker (Mars Stock Exchange): MSI:MSE
• Headquarters: Pune Line Industrial Spine, Valles Marineris Sector, Mars — low, heavily shielded complex of blast-forged halls and tempered alloy manufacturing kilns called The Foundry Yard.
• Corporate motto: “Forge what holds.”
• Primary sectors: Ordnance and kinetic munitions, tactical systems integration, vehicle armatures, industrial fabrication, small arms R&D and limited-run heavy breach systems.

Quick Financial Snapshot

• Quick Financial Snapshot: 3,120 – 3,840 cr / share (volatile; subject to military procurement news)
• Market cap (approx.): 2.2 – 3.1 trillion cr
• Annual revenue (consolidated): ~380 – 620 billion cr
• Employees: ~1.1 million (manufacturing plants, foundries, logistics, military contracts, R&D)
• Ownership mix: ~43% public float; 29% Mars Industrial Trust consortium; 18% held by legacy terrestrial family estates (nominee trusts ~10% opaque holdings tied to off-ledgers investors (rumored Lazarus shell companies)

Executive Suite & Corporate Command

CEO — Ishaan Maialen-Silenus

• Scion of the founding Maialen family and public face of MSI. Late 50s, gaunt, always seen in flame-patterned workcoat; former foundry foreman first, corporate executive later. Ishaan runs the company with iron pragmatism and a public-facing love of old-school manufacturing heritage. Coldly efficient; sentimental about tooling and the “art of the forge.” Rumored to personally intervene on high-priority black ops.

President / COO — Dr. Keturah S. Vance

• Logistics and production czar; ex-naval ordnance logistics planner. Keeps the Foundry Yard humming, negotiates fleet contracts, disciplinarian of plant managers. Quiet, surgical, excellent at bending supply chains.

CFO — Mateusz “Matt” Ghadir

• Numbers and offshore accounts. Charismatic former trader who engineered MSI’s financing vehicles after the Martian Credit Freeze. Keeps the books clean-ish and the black ops slush funded via subsidiaries.

CTO — Prof. Hye-Jin O’Rourke

• Head of weapons R&D and materials science. Academic-turned-director; responsible for flechette shaping and caseless feed design and the now-infamous Casaba interface algorithms (story wise, she signs non-disclosure agreements with trembling hands).

Director of Global Security — Brigadier (Ret.) Saira Lemieux

• Ex-Colonial Fleet Marine command officer turned corporate enforcer. Runs MSI’s private security wings and the “Retrieval Group” (officially: asset recovery). Publicly denies any paramilitary operations; quietly approves them.

Head of Compliance / Public Affairs — Laila Abboud

• Front for regulatory appearances, tax disclosures, and PR. Runs the charity arm Maialen Foundry Initiative used for smoothing public relations after incidents.

Board of Directors (7 seats)

• Chair: Amb. Oren Malhotra (Mars Industrial Trust seat)
• Evelyn Cho (Deep Logistics Holdings)
• Rajaek “Ras” Kavi (Legacy family trustee, Maialen investor)
• Professor Hana Ivers (Academic seat, materials science liaison)
• “Mr. Black” (nom de guerre; investor seat—fingerprint scrubbed; rumored Lazarus front)
• Colonel (Emer.) Tomasz Brenek (retired BuCol liaison)
• Independent Director: Marta Zuberi (privacy/ethics token; mostly symbolic)

Major Subsidiaries & Holdings

• MSI Ordnance Systems: Small arms, drum-fed platforms, ammo lots (covers Kubera lines, Abhishek variant series).
• Foundry Dynamics: Heavy manufacturing; casaba and heavy breacher assembly lines; cryo-casting for shipboard housings.
• Maialen Logistics & Transit (MLT): Shipping, warehousing, and discreet transport networks. MLT contracts often route “sensitive cargo” through third-party shell nodes.
• Silenus Industrial Robotics (SIR): Automated assembly and drone fabricators — feeds other MSI plants.
• Maialen Materials (rare metals trading arm): mines and refines strategic materials; key tie to tantalum routing — critical in flechette supply threads.
• Nexus Defense Systems: Joint venture with smaller firms; produces vehicle armor and limited anti-entropy field research (classified).
• Foundry Trust Services: Financial arm for pension and trust managing — used for long term capital and concealment.

Flagship Products & Notable Lines

• Abhishek 5 mm series (caseless compact pistols) — entry market and long-lived design (Rat’s pistol lineage).
• Kubera 3 mm (flechette subgun family) — black-market and gang-market notoriety; MSI sells “controlled lots” and supplies legal markets with demilitarized training variants.
• Casaba Class Airlock Breacher — the heavy breacher line issued to Colonial Fleet Marines and select corporate navies (MSI is lead contractor on several fleet contracts).
• Talon feed stock (MSI Talon rounds) — ammunition manufacturing and sealed drum logistics (they supply to third parties and keep a closed loop).
• Industrial casings & ship-frame composites used in orbital shipyards and planetary installations.

HQ: The Foundry Yard (Pune Line, Valles Marineris, Mars)

• A fortress of concrete and alloy, ringed with blast shutters and rail-spine docking for heavy raw ingots. The public campus houses visitor galleries (heritage plaques and polished relics) while the inner yards are automatized for machining and high-energy synthesis. The yard sits within a corporate security exclusion zone; BuCol inspects on a predictable monthly cadence (or so the board likes to believe).

Public Image vs. Internal Reality

• Public Narrative: MSI is the “practical backbone” of Martian defense: builders of dependable tools, honest employer of thousands, partner to the Fleet, and a stalwart of Martian industry.
• Private Reality: MSI is both an open contractor and a practical broker — training lines for navies sit beside black-market lot production; “de-conflicted” shipments route through Nexus and MLT shell companies. The company tolerates and occasionally routes questionable clients when the price (and political cover) is right.

Political, Military & Corporate Ties

• DSI (Defense Securities Initiative): Longstanding contractor relationship. DSI lends MSI doctrine and classified specs; MSI supplies hardware and funding for “field trials.” This is the pipeline that allowed casaba variants into Fleet inventories and into certain black-ops caches.
• Bureau of Colonies (BuCol): Major customer and regulator — MSI holds multiple BuCol procurement contracts. BuCol audits occasionally find anomalies that are then buried for “national security.”
• Lazarus Consortium: Complicated relationship — MSI trades, sells, and disputes with Lazarus. There are documented sales and suspicious “equipment diversions” in years past that implicate middlemen. The Board contains a shadow seat (Mr. Black) which occasionally steers MSI into profitable but murky deals.
• Mars Industrial Trust / Federation Lobby: MSI has deep representation on Martian political advisory committees; helps shape munitions standards and export codes.

Culture & Internal Politics

• Plant culture: MSI celebrates old-school foundry traditions — “forge days,” commemorative rolling of first ingot. Among floor workers there is pride in toolcraft and a rough moral code: “We make things that last.”
• Executive culture: Risk-tolerant, profit-oriented. The board tolerates shady deals for bottom line growth so long as plausible deniability is maintained.

Security & Soft Power

• Black ledger & slush funds: CFO runs a nested set of trusts that can buy “difficulty” (remediation, bribes, cleanups) for a price. This mechanism explains how MSI’s “problem lots” rarely turn into full scandals.
• Private Security Force: Several thousand hardened guards and rapid retrieval teams. Known code names include Houndline and the Retrieval Group. Operatives are often ex-Marines or from BuCol black projects (contractors).

Forensic & Investigative Hooks

• Lot traces: MSI uses lot stamping and microtagging on legal drums; recovered microtags can reveal provenance in a BuCol inquiry if investigators push.
• Paper trails: MLT manifests and Foundry Trust service invoices contain coded ledger lines — a good investigator can read the code if they have access.
• Whistleblower risks: MSI’s security culture discourages leaks; whistleblowers face both legal and extra-legal pressures. A single recovered email or ledger line can bring down a middle manager and create waves.