Chapter 112: Stark can't do it
If Rhaegar knew that Stark wanted to clear Stephanie Malik's innocence, he would definitely have to complain and wait to see the big show. Unfortunately, he didn't know Stark well enough to think like that. But even if he knew, his idea of completely staying out of the way and watching the big drama would not come true. He had just received a call from Hal, and his first mission had come a little earlier than expected.
"Keep an eye on Stark Industries, observe the development of the situation, analyze the information obtained and return it in a timely manner if it feels useful."
According to Hal, this is not so much a long-term mission as a long-term test and exercise, testing and training Rhaeggar's ability to steal and gather and analyze intelligence. As for the "state of affairs" here, it refers to the instability within Stark Industries. For most of the world's intelligence agencies, Stark Industries has a close relationship with Hydra, which is almost an open secret. Therefore, the changes within Stark Industries are likely to affect the trend of the world situation, so the Resistance Group immediately launched an investigation after noticing the turmoil within Stark Industries.
Imagine being able to disrupt or monitor Hydra's main weapon source by controlling Stark Industries, and that would be almost the end of the game!
However, in the face of a company like Stark Industries, which is full of technology in itself, it is not easy to seek information from the outside. They themselves have enough means of guarding against snooping and so on; And if hackers are used, ordinary hackers can't break through the firewall of Stark Industries, even if it's a high-level hacker, once discovered, it will only backfire in the end, be tracked in turn, and there is a danger of exposure. No, there are already people from other forces who have touched the mold. The hapless hacker himself is facing a lawsuit from Stark Industries' huge team of lawyers, and the organization behind the hacker has been blacklisted by Hydra and some other forces that have ideas about Stark Industries.
I have to say that although the resistance group is the largest anti-hydra force today, its background is still a little worse, which affects the vision of the decision-making level. This is also the reason why they didn't pay much attention to Stark Industries in the past, and when they cared enough about it in the past few years, they couldn't arrange the right people to go in.
Now that Rhaegar is a 'newcomer', the situation is different? Hehe, the mysterious leader of the Resistance thought a little further.
"Do you think I can sneak into Stark Industries with such a pair of ears?" Rhaegar said angrily.
If you really want Regar to work as an employee at Stark Industries, assuming that he has that ability, he will be easily discovered. There are a pair of half-elf ears, which are too easy to attract attention. However, Hal then explained: the Resistance does not need Rhaegar to infiltrate Stark Industries himself, nor does he need him to do or achieve anything in a short period of time, what goals to achieve, etc., he only needs to know some people in Stark Industries, build good relationships with them, and even make friends, which is enough.
Well, this is the plan for the first stage, and the time frame given by the Resistance is within a year.
"Do you think this commotion within Stark Industries will last that long?" Rhaegar was a little confused, and he asked Hal, "As far as I know, Stark isn't the kind of person who waits a year or more to reap the rewards. He should be the acute subtype. ”
Hearing his words, Hal laughed exaggeratedly.
"You know a lot about Stark. Well, I asked the same question on the phone at the time, and the chief said the same. What the leader meant was that even if Stark tried to deal with the internal problems as soon as possible, he would certainly not be able to do so. The situation within Stark Industries is no longer something that a certain faction can break in a short period of time. Stark is not a patient person, but he must be patient in this matter. If nothing else, what follows is a secret wrestling between him and the board. ”
Rhaegar was stunned for a moment: "Didn't you say that no one in your resistance group is inside Stark Industries?" ”
"I didn't say that none of us are in Stark Industries, it's just that our people are relatively low-level and don't play much of a role." Hal said a little helplessly. "And this kind of thing doesn't need to be found to be in the interior and mixed in with the upper echelons, you can see it by anyone who understands a little shopping mall methods or knows more about human nature."
After thinking about it, Rhaegar nodded. After Hal mentioned this, he also roughly understood.
The Stark industry in this world is different from the Stark industry in the film and television animation works in Rhaegar's previous life, Howard Stark is the founder, yes, but due to the early defeat of S.H.I.E.L.D. in this world, Howard does not have a prominent enough identity to escort or even add help to his business behavior, and in the process of developing Stark Industry, he inevitably experienced the unspoken rules of the capitalist market system - he was pressured by several capital predators on Wall Street. Although Howard's own means were not bad, and he had the help of Obadai's buddy at that time, he still had to repeatedly dilute his stake and had to accept the creation and expansion of the board of directors. In short, neither the former Howard Stark nor the current Tony Stark can decide the important matters of Stark Industries in a word, like Rhaegar in his previous life. They must be bound by the Board of Directors.
So, on the other side of the world before Rhaegar crossed over, Stark could have decided to close Stark Industries' weapons department without consulting others, and he couldn't do it here; Over there, Stark can directly appoint a person as CEO, and here he can't do it; A casual remark over there would allow Stark Industries to host a global tech expo again after a decades hiatus, where he ...... He still had a long argument with his board members, even going so far as to force them to compromise by threatening to resign as CEO.
Ever since Stark declared himself Iron Man, Stark Industries' stock price has been rising, and the board members won't let Stark resign. It's just an expo, it's not a devastating policy like 'shutting down the arms sector', it doesn't cost much, and it's not completely bad for companies. Thinking of this, the board members still felt that it would be good for Stark to be willful.
Stark naturally knew the thinking of those people on the board, and he didn't care. was mistaken for a contest with Howard and Einstein's generation, and he was quite willing. It's just that he didn't expect that he had just diverted the attention of those board members and was about to secretly find out the internal symptoms of the company, and someone couldn't wait to come out and make trouble.