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Who was the most powerful?

catstarstocatstarsto Member Posts: 2,149 Arc User
edited September 2015 in Ten Forward
Of all the most popular crime inspired businesses in fiction, who's would of been the most powerful? But to be fair to earth based ones, this takes place during the DS9 era of star trek.

Who was the most powerful? 25 votes

Lexcorp
4%
dexa001 1 vote
Ferengi Trade Franchise
16%
hawku001xcentersolacegradiilomax6996 4 votes
Hutt Cartel
56%
comrademocoantonine3258kesselrunner#0768themetalstickmanartan42lindaleffwildthyme467989hawkwing43theraven2378rekurzionstarswordcbioixiadmiralnatgrandnaguszek1 14 votes
Kingpin's Crime Syndicate
0%
Czerka
0%
Shadaloo
0%
Zorg
4%
ladytiamat666 1 vote
Cobra
8%
mhall85cmdrscarlet 2 votes
Hydra
4%
markhawkman 1 vote
OCP
8%
kinaenovtm706 2 votes

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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    Hutt Cartel
    I don't know about most of them but the Hutts have fleets, Bobba Fett, and a super weapon (thankfully in the EU that was scrubbed).​​
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  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    Ferengi Trade Franchise
    Ferengi OP.
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  • catstarstocatstarsto Member Posts: 2,149 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    artan42 wrote: »
    I don't know about most of them but the Hutts have fleets, Bobba Fett, and a super weapon (thankfully in the EU that was scrubbed).​​

    Lexcorp: owned by Lex Luthor, supermans arch nemesis, hes basically an evil tony stark...with power armor and super weapons, connected just as much as the kingpin.

    Ferengi Trade franchise: ...ferengi traders, a legion of greedy and shamless opportunists with a fleet of ships equal to the enterprise D

    Hutt Cartell: a crime syndicate, a scifi mofia that owns a large spread of the outter rim

    KIngpins Crime syndicate: like the Hutts but he generally employs super humans and researches like the imperial scientists in SW

    CZerka: picture Walmart as a well funded galactic empire, owned by james bond style villains

    Shadaloo: General M Bisons crime organisation, he has a vast army with the most advanced tech in the world, and employs some of the most powerful street fighters as assassins

    Zorg: the Lex Luther clone from the movie 5th Element, only he has no conscious or power armor.

    Cobra: terrorist organisation, striving for world domination. Has powerful weapnry and a vast army, including immortals, ninjas and modern military weapons and vehicles...with lasers and blasters!

    Hydra: Like Cobra only less showy and more infiltrated into governments for under the table funding

    OCP: worlds most dominant industrial power in the robocop future, they pretty much own the citys, police, gangs, criminals, products...citizens lives and well everything! they have what seems like unlimited resources for scientific and cybernetic development
  • lindalefflindaleff Member Posts: 3,734 Arc User
    Hutt Cartel
    The Hutts, definitely. They owned Tatooine, and half the galaxy.

    Czerka does not even have a place on the same list. Although, I do have at least some measure of respect for Czerka for what they wanted to do with Telos. But to be fair, I always will favour the Ithorians in that particular matter.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    Hutt Cartel
    Believe it or not, in KOTOR's backstory the Hutts were a superpower before the Galactic Republic formed. (But I agree with @artan42: the heck with Darksaber.)
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  • ladytiamat666ladytiamat666 Member Posts: 276 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    Zorg
    Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg, of course. And by the way i think that the Merovingian from Matrix deserves to be in your list too.
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  • catstarstocatstarsto Member Posts: 2,149 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    ladytiamat666 wrote: »
    Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg, of course. And by the way i think that the Merovingian from Matrix deserves to be in your list too.

    to acknowledge the first sequel would be to acknowledge the 2nd one....and that didnt happen! (refuses to believe, lalalala, not listening!) ...ok, the videogame ending saved it!
  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    Hutt Cartel
    Hutt Cartel - a crime syndicate that decided it would be easier to write the laws on a big chunk of the Outer Rim.
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  • hawkwing43hawkwing43 Member Posts: 1,701 Arc User
    Hutt Cartel
    Please Hutt Cartel all the way.
  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    Hutt Cartel
    Didn't add Spectre?
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  • catstarstocatstarsto Member Posts: 2,149 Arc User
    grandnaguszek1 wrote: »
    Didn't add Spectre?

    the guys who keep loosing to one man??
  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    Cobra
    "catstarsto wrote: »
    Cobra: terrorist organisation, striving for world domination. Has powerful weapnry and a vast army, including immortals, ninjas and modern military weapons and vehicles...with lasers and blasters!

    'Nuff said. Seriously.

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  • bossmastrvimbossmastrvim Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    This thread entertains me.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
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  • rekurzionrekurzion Member Posts: 697 Arc User
    Hutt Cartel
    The rest of the names on that list can barely lock up the city they reside in without harassment from some kid in a Halloween costume. The Hutts business spans the galaxy. While technically the Ferengi match the range of the Hutt's, they aren't feared and you can't have proper power without fear.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Hydra
    The problem with the Hutts is the same as the Orion Syndicate... They're too predictable. That and they're almost a sovereign state in their own right. So they're not really a business. They're more a sinister political entity.
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  • rekurzionrekurzion Member Posts: 697 Arc User
    Hutt Cartel
    markhawkman wrote: »
    They're more a sinister political entity.

    exactly...a business :)
  • catstarstocatstarsto Member Posts: 2,149 Arc User
    markhawkman wrote: »
    The problem with the Hutts is the same as the Orion Syndicate... They're too predictable. That and they're almost a sovereign state in their own right. So they're not really a business. They're more a sinister political entity.

    the Orion Syndicate....i forgot to add them. =U.U=
    ...but now that i think of it, they are very shaky in organisation, and a few on the list would probably end up buying and integrating them into their own ranks like some of the biker gangs did in RL, they would vanish to swell an others army.
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  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    where's the orion syndicate? how the hell do you post something like this in a star trek forum and NOT list one of star trek's BIGGEST criminal orginizations as an option?​​
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    Hutt Cartel
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    where's the orion syndicate? how the hell do you post something like this in a star trek forum and NOT list one of star trek's BIGGEST criminal orginizations as an option?​​
    A. They lose to the Hutts because Hutts have hyperdrive.

    B. They were disqualified from a discussion of criminal organizations when they signed a treaty with Chancellor J'mpok the Honorless and got upgraded into a rogue state.

    Pick one.
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  • mhall85mhall85 Member Posts: 2,852 Arc User1
    Cobra
    Well, all I know is that for as many times as COBRA was engaged by Team GI Joe, they were never really shot...

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  • catstarstocatstarsto Member Posts: 2,149 Arc User
    mhall85 wrote: »
    Well, all I know is that for as many times as COBRA was engaged by Team GI Joe, they were never really shot...

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    kinda like mystic knights of tir na nog, they all came out to the battle field made a bunch of noise and went home...some machinery was destroyed, and unfriendly banter but they all lived.....well there was that one time Bazooka stood up and was hit by a stationary turret, but does jumping infront of the shot count??
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    Well mainframe was hit by an explosion too, but got a kiss from the Baroness, and they fell in love from then on they where technically a couple...too bad Destro! XD
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