TriOptimum Corporation

Tri-Optimum Logo

TriOptimum Corporation was a business company that was responsible for the creation of SHODAN, Citadel Station, the Von Braun and many more.

It is considered a megacorporation due to the fact it has influence in the government and is the major supplier for the military and the consumer. Although the company created SHODAN that led to the Citadel incident, TriOptimum is considered just a bystander.

The first System Shock, members of the TriOptimum however are either with or against the player and in this case, the company helping the Hacker while Edward Diego is the supporting villain.

TriOp saw its golden age thanks to the Hays-Bishop bill. Ιn 2059 TriOp absorved whatever remained of the United States and later it purchased the rights to Saturnian orbit. There the Citadel Station was constructed.

System Shock

During the event of System Shock, TriOptimum was at its peak. Being a megacorporation and government, there was nothing in the world that TriOptimum could not provide.

On April 7, 2072, the arrest of the Hacker would unknowingly set the company down a destructive path. TriOptimum executive Edward Diego, who was secretly funding illegal experiment, offers the Hacker a chance to drop the charges and a military grade interface if he disables SHODAN's ethical restraints.

During the Hacker's coma all TriOptimum workers aboard Citadel Station were either mutated or converted into cyborgs by SHODAN. It was the Hacker with the help of Rebecca Lansing, a TriOptimum counter terror consultant, managed to stop SHODAN and save humanity. Upon returning back, the company offered the Hacker a job, but refused and went back to his own ways.

Death and Rebirth

Once when news of how humanity was very nearly destroyed by SHODAN, TriOptimum's stock plummeted, smaller corporations that had contracts with it withdrew, employees resigned in enmass, workers whistleblew, reporting massive labor and ethic violation, and the public was outraged.

Lawsuits  flew in every directions from families who lost loved ones on the station and from  work violations. At first TriOptimum would pay the lawsuits directly out of pocket, but soon the money began drying up. With no investors wanting to put money into the company and no new business contracts, TriOptimum became a shadow of its former glory. The creation of the UNN was the final nail on the coffin; as TriOptimum  could not function other than paying lawsuit settlements. It was not until the arrivial of the shrewd Russian businessman Anatoly Korenchkin,  who would rebuilt the company, could TriOptimum get back to its feet.

Although the United Nations Nominate is the official government body, the newly relicensed TriOptimum restablished itself, as the company became the sole supplier from military hardware to consumer goods. Soon, the company's hold on the UNN was well known, as neither could live without each other.

System Shock 2

By this time, TriOptimum  had grown back to the giant megacoporation it was before. Virtually everything in the world had TriOptimum logos on it, from small lighter matches to military hardware. Even the mighty UNN was powerless to opposed TriOptimum interests; many of its members were stockholders and had deep connections.

When the Faster than Light engine was proposed to the TriOptimum board, the company would become not only the biggest consumer corporation, but a monopoly in interstellar space travel as well. Soon, construction of the Von Braun was underway. By the time the player awakes from stasis almost all TriOptimum workers have been consumed by The Many.