Darwin Rothchild

A day of battle, is a day of business – Darwin Rothchild

Intro

In war one needs manpower, supplies to feed that manpower, and weapons to equip that manpower. Darwin Rothchild in the WWR universe provides those weapons and one could say a bit of the manpower as well. For he is the man behind the company that makes all the robots that both sides in the war use. Rothchild is a weapons manufacturer that holds immense power or as he puts it “they say that he who has the gold also makes the rules, but now it is the rule-makers on both sides who are paying me gold to rewrite their inept rules.”

 

 

 

 

 

Backstory

Darwin Rothchild, or simply Rothchild, is kind of an enigma in WWR lore. There isn't a lot of backstory when it comes to him. It is unknown how he became the one sole manufacture of robots in the WWR universe or what even set him on the course to make them. However,  he did set out to make robots and that he has a monopoly on them. There is a little bit of info about Rothchild's younger years. For Rothchild he saw his family as lacking when he was very young and in one shape or another his family members all died... from obscure accidents of course: “it was obvious at a young age I was destined to be alone.” And one damning piece of evidence being “the death of my father was cathartic, it was at my hands naturally.”

Rothchild's father didn't care for him, he was a raging drunk, his mother was extremely religious, and do to this lack of care or empathy it made him into the man he is today. One would probably be correct in assuming that Darwin Rothchild was responsible for the untimely demise of his family members. Possibly due to them doing nothing about how his father treated him or maybe that's how his whole family treated him. I think it's a little bit of both.

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The Moon and His Company

Rothchild had the headquarters of his company Rothchild Mechanics/Corporation/Company (it isn't specifically specified which name is correct) on Earth's Moon. How he came to own the Moon and make it his own domain is unknown. It is probably correct in assuming that thanks to his early sales of his robots to the Terrans and the Martians he was able to acquire it. Up on the Moon he had everything he needed to produce his lines of robots, perform R&D, and field test. If one didn't know that the Moon was Rothchild's domain then his advanced defenses would remind you. He had kill sats orbiting the Moon, patrolling 0G Armstrongs, and his Rothchild Internal Police or R.I.P made up of three very deadly Caesars.

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Not all of Rothchild Mechanics was located on the Moon. Rothchild had areas around Earth known as storerooms. One of these storerooms was located in Geneva where Rothchild sent some of his experiments.

It might seem like Rothchild was a one man band but he wasn't the only human in his company. He's the visionary and a key part in the development of his companies robots but he also employed engineers, mechanics, administrative personnel, and others. There are references to a administrative officer and a storeroom caretaker. We also had the Rothchild mechanics (people who fix stuff not his company). 

 

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Like other big corporations Rothchild Mechanics also had subsidiaries. One being BcELL which was a logistics company that delivered Rothchild's robots and other logistical goods. This added to his monopoly as he also controlled who his robots could and couldn't be delivered to.

 

Rothchild's Goal

Rothchild wasn't someone who stood around reaping the benefits for benefits sake. Rothchild had always had a goal when it comes the war. A direct quote explains it quite well: “The children of men were supposed to inherit the Earth, or so the story goes, but my children, my offspring, mechanical in design, and glorious in every way, shall inherit the universe, and I, Darwin Rothchild, shall not rest until they do.” Rothchild was using the war and providing the weapons for it to see the destruction of humanity. For when humanity had snuffed itself out, with a little help, then the creations of Rothchild would be the true owners of Earth, the Moon, Mars, and possibly the universe.

Rothchild had been very persistent about pursuing this goal. Not just in providing both sides with his robots but he had actively meddled in the war itself. This can be seen with his backdoor dealings with the Moderator group, the Peaceday Massacres, and having his own military units, like the Junglers who operated on Earth.

 

 

 

Exile

This goal and meddling had put Rothchild into the cross hairs of N.O.M who'd been actively trying to prevent what Rothchild had in mind for humanity. After N.O.M revealed itself to the public they performed their most important act. A lone Astro NOM infiltrated one of Rothchild's kill sats and turned it on Rothchild's moon facility. The base was totally destroyed and almost killed Rothchild. Almost being the key word there. Rothchild was able to escape, not unharmed though, and flee to the jungles of Colombia to link up with the Junglers. This started the next chapter in Rothchild's life and marked a new phase in the war itself.

Caesar Mk1.5

Now Rothchild sits in his complex deep in the Colombian jungle protected by the Junglers, now known as jungle defense, the Moderators, and his 12 Caesar Mk1.5s known as the Apostles.

We know at this time that a crack team known as the Shitty 9 lead by Von de Plume are trying to hunt Rothchild down.

 

 

 

 

Shitty 9

Iconography

 

The R: The big R can really only stand for one thing: Rothchild.

The Crown: Another symbol associated with Rothchild. A little more subtle then the R but not by much. The crown represents Rothchild being the king. He's the king of his robots and is the king of war.

The New Logo: The new logo was quite different from the old simple R. It had two horizontal lines intersecting each other. It was definitely abstract and could stand for a number of things. One could view it as the moon Rothchild's base was once apart of. The smaller section showing a kind of separation from the main body of the circle. Possible symbolism for when Rothchild was kicked off his moon? Maybe.