Good business is where you find it and for Omni Consumer Products, good business was
found everywhere.
Built on competitive pricing, backroom deals, intense government lobbying, and the aggressive
acquisition of competitors, OCP was a dominant force in every market it entered.
OCP manufactured products and provided services for virtually every consumer need.
The conglomerate’s reach extended from basic toiletries like toothpaste and razors to entire
industries typically considered non-profit, such as hospitals and prisons.
The company was composed of dozens of subsidiaries and divisions, owning news programs such as
MediaBreak, and private military and security companies such as Security Concepts and Urban
Rehabilitators.
OCP was one of the largest defense contractors utilized by the United States Armed Forces
and the Department of Defense.
Growing to become a key part of the military-industrial complex, the company’s equipment and private
military corporations, or PMCs, were ubiquitous in virtually every major conflict.
As a true megacorporation, the company was ultimately responsible solely to its shareholders,
though senior executives were granted a high degree of latitude within the company so long
as dividends were paid.
Omni Consumer Products was overseen by a Chief Executive Officer, with support from a Senior
Vice President.
Promotions were handed out not based on merit or skill, but based on company loyalty, internal
machinations, or impressive presentations.
The Board of Directors therefore exercised very little actual power, and served mainly
to rubber stamp the proposals of upper management.
Omni Consumer Products’ ambitions were not limited merely to corporate dominance however,
and aimed to privatise an entire city, transforming OCP into a type of corporate state.
The city of Detroit, overrun with crime and its infrastructure crumbling, was the ideal
place for the company to launch this core initiative.
Undermanned, undersupplied, and underpaid, officers of the Detroit Police Department
were already on the verge of a strike, threatening to cast the city into a downward spiral from
which it might never recover.
Desperate to regain control, the city contracted OCP to fund and operate its police services,
giving it, in effect, complete control over the DPD.
Ostensibly to “give something back to the community”, OCP began work on new pilot
projects that would pave the way for Detroit to be revitalized and rebuilt as “Delta City”.
Different proposals detailing how to eliminate the high crime rates in the inner city were
brought before the company’s executives.
These included the Enforcement Droid, Series 209, which, while undeniably effective, was
ultimately scrapped when, during a demonstration of ED-209, the droid ended up killing an executive
of the company in a freak accident.
Instead, Omnicorp CEO, affectionately known as the “Old Man”, approved the proposal
for a cyborg enforcement officer, dubbed “RoboCop”.
This program was spearheaded by Bob Morton, a rising star in the company.
The RoboCop prototype was developed after 3 months, using an officer of the DPD who
had recently been killed in the line of duty as their first model.
RoboCop proved extremely effective at stopping violent crime and Morton was promoted to Vice
President, but died under suspicious circumstances a short time later.
Investigating the murder, RoboCop uncovered an internal power struggle within the company,
with the man who originally proposed ED-209, Senior Vice President Richard Jones, at its center.
Under Jones, elements of OCP had been knowingly cooperating with criminals and leveraging
Detroit’s financial instability for its own ends.
However, RoboCop’s programming, based around a series of central “Directives”, prevented
him from arresting any senior OCP executive, allowing Jones to act with impunity.
Only after extensive property damage and a sudden resurgence in violent gang activity
was Jones fired from his position and subsequently dealt with by the RoboCop.
Following this dramatic confrontation at OCP Headquarters, the Security Concepts division
of the company began work on developing better, more reliable RoboCop units.
Many of these attempts ultimately failed as each one turned suicidal upon realizing their
new nature.
In a desperate attempt, Security Concepts began experimenting on criminals instead of
police officers, seeking to control their behaviour through more rigorous programming.
The RoboCop 2 experiment backfired, causing the deaths of hundreds of civilians and officers
while the city streets were flowing with a new drug called “Nuke”.
Ultimately, the original RoboCop, repaired after a drug lord had dismantled him, dispatched
the RoboCop 2 prototype during the public unveiling of the Delta City project.
Omni Consumer Products highly publicized failures following the Robocop 2 and Delta City incidents
caused the company’s stock to plummet and it was eventually bought by a rival Japanese
zaibatsu, the Kanemitsu Corporation.
As a Kanemitsu subisiary, OCP remained committed to the dream of Delta City and quietly began
evicting the residents of Old Detroit to make room for their construction teams.
The work was conducted by Urban Rehabilitators, nicknamed Rehabs, who had seen extensive service
as a private military corporation in the Amazon War.
This forced displacement and the less than ethical methods of the Rehabs, created an immense
backlash across the city.
An underground resistance was formed in response, with citizens pushing back as best they could.
But with both OCP and the Kanemitsu Corporation’s own robotic police force deployed against
them, the odds were not in their favour.
After RoboCop was damaged protecting civilians from the Rehabs, he was taken by the resistance
and reprogrammed to remove the directives that had prevented him from arresting OCP executives.
The actions of the RoboCop against the Rehabs and OCP turned the tide for the resistance,
who were able to broadcast the full extent of OCP’s actions to the rest of the world.
The revelations destroyed the company’s stock and remaining reputation irreparably
and Omni Consumer Products was liquidated and shut down for good.
Omni Consumer Products now lives on only in its greatest creation, an officer dedicated
to serving the public trust, protecting the innocent and upholding the law.
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