History Characters / TheOuterWorldsCorporationsMSI

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* SoleSurvivor: One of the few survivors of the Amber Heights massacre. It's why he's the head of Monarch Industries.

* OnlySaneMan: On the corporate side of things. Sanjar is the only corporate executive in the game that realizes how the Board runs things is completely messed up and can't be allowed to continue. The main difference between him and characters like Graham is that Sanjar fully believes he can fix the board from the inside.

* BigGood: For Monarch, somewhat surprisingly: he, Junlei, and Phineas Welles are probably the only people working to make things better for everyone. The Iconoclasts are ultimately too focused on bringing down the Board at all costs to even consider how they're going to solve the food shortage crisis.

* TheImmodestOrgasm: Once she starts dating Sebastian, her neighbors can be heard complaining about the noise the two of them make.

->'''Voiced by:''' Andrew Morgado

* CrapsackOnlyByComparison: Stellar Bay is cut off from all contact with the rest of the system via a gunship blockade, under embargo from the Board, and on a DeathWorld. It's also probably the nicest place to live in the system if you're not a [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Byzantine]] or on the Groundbreaker. Sanjar, for all of his ButtMonkey status, has run the place surprisingly well.

* DramaticIrony: Despite its DyingTown status, Stellar Bay is one of the few cities that might actually weather TheFamine as its a place where they have actual fish to farm and apparently in large enough amounts to feed everyone as well as export. This is in addition to being around other food sources [[HumanResources like Boarst Wurst that is similarly satisfying if you don't ask where it came from.]] It is one of the few that can survive events on its own.

* NoodleIncident: He donated his kidney to an executive to improve his chances at a promotion. It didn't work out.

* {{Irony}}: The only executive who actually seems to realize looter capitalism isn't actually sound economics in a survival situation.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:If you side with the Board and make the factions have peace, it will actually survive when everyone else is frozen with little chance of awakening. Less so if Graham takes over or MSI goes alone. Is a full-blown HappyEnding with everyone else.]]

! Monarch Stellar Industries (MSI)

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* GenocideBackfire: The death of all of its executives in the Amber Heights massacre [[spoiler: was meant to reform the company, and did, but also helped result in its collapse as a business.]]

! Stellar Bay

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: If you side with the Board and make the factions have peace, it will actually survive when everyone else is frozen with little chance of awakening. Less so if Graham takes over or MSI goes alone. Is a full-blown HappyEnding with everyone else.]]

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->''"I don't think I realized how far they'd stoop. Everything we did was legal and aboveboard -- we followed their rules! And yet they still found reasons to declare us outlaws."''

* SkewedPriorities: Wants to know what Zora's performance review was before he'll think of working with her. Places a lot of importance on his. [[spoiler: His was very mediocre, while hers was much more glowing.]]

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[[Characters/TheOuterWorldsTheCrew The Crew]] | Factions (Corporations: [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsTheBoard The Board]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsAuntieCleos Auntie Cleo's]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsSpacersChoice Spacer's Choice]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCPBoarstFactory C&P Boarst Factory]], '''MSI'''), [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsSubLight SubLight Salvaging & Shipping]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsIconoclasts Iconoclasts]], Other Groups: [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsGroundbreaker Groundbreaker]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsDeserters Deserters]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsGorgon Gorgon]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsMarauders Marauders]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsOutlaws Outlaws]] | [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]

* HonestCorporateExecutive: Sanjar really believes the Board can be reformed from within, even if this belief is what got MSI blacklisted by the board. He also genuinely cares about his employees, limiting instituting wage increases, limiting overtime, and letting his assistant Celia take multiple advances on her paycheck.

* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:In the Anti-Board route, provided that you complete the Monarch questline to the benefit of MSI Sanjay sends a platoon of soldiers to help you out]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: If you side with the Board and make the factions have peace, it will actually survive when everyone else is frozen with little chance of awakening. Less so if Graham takes over or MSI goes alone. Is a full blown HappyEnding with everyone else.]]

* HonestCorporateExecutive: Sanjar really believes MSI and the Board can be reformed from within. His belief in fact is what got MSI blacklisted by the board. He also genuinely cares about his employees. For example letting Celia get multiple advances on her paycheck.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: Sanjar really believes MSI and the board can be reformed from within. His belief in fact is what got MSI blacklisted by the board. He also genuinely cares about his employees. For example letting Celia get multiple advances on her paycheck.

* BigGood: To the great surprise of many: he, Junlei, and Phineas Welles are probably the only people working to make things better for everyone.

* NoSocialSkills: Downplayed. He's always quite polite and affable, and generally well liked. But he doesn't understand why other people don't get as excited about properly-filed paperwork and positively-trending statistics as he does, and lacks the kind of charisma that a true leader needs.

* PragmaticVillainy: Somewhere between this and PragmaticHero. MSI's treatment of the workers is leagues better than anywhere else in the colony -- because happy, well-fed, well-rested workers are more productive. He wants to rejoin the Board and rebuild MSI's good name -- because fighting them for principle alone is a waste of resources neither side can afford and reform serves the greater good in a way that smashing the system does not. Amusingly, this makes him the closest thing to a BigGood for the arc, based purely on practical effects. Pragmatic is the key word.

* ShoutOut: It may or may not be intentional, but he has a lot of similarities to Nico Sanjrani from ''Literature/TheExpanse'' -- besides having similar initials (NS, SN) and similar sounding names (Sanjar, Sanjrani). Both are brilliant economists [[OnlySaneMan with firm grips on the sanity ball]], with a tendency towards PragmaticVillainy as they try to solve a gradually worsening food crisis while being {{Ignored Expert}}s. The main difference, however, is that unlike Sanjrani, Sanjar is fighting a war on two fronts thanks to the Board and Iconoclasts.

->''"Oh, Mr. Nandar's doing that thing where he breathes through his nose real slowly. I better get back to work."''

* CannotSpitItOut: Requests the player help her set up a date with Sebastian. It's implied her feelings for him are the only reason he's still in business because she keeps buying his useless inventory as an excuse to chat him up.
* DeadpanSnarker: Is cheerful in disposition but doesn't let her boss' ideals get in the way of the occasional barb.

* TheImmodestOrgasm: Once she starts dating Sebastian, her neighbors are heard complaining about the noise she makes.
* NumberTwo: Is pretty much the only other executive in Monarch Industries at present.

[[caption-width-right:350:''I gave MSI everything - my work, my youth, my left kidney - and for years, I was a joke to them.'']]

* PragmaticVillainy:
** Is the reason for MSI's treatment of the workers. Amusingly, this makes him actually the BigGood--just for purely practical effects.
** A more straight example is he wants to re-join the ObviouslyEvil Board but that's because he wants to use their resources for the greater good.

* ShoutOut: It may or may not be intentional, but he has a lot of similarities to Nico Sanjrani from ''Literature/TheExpanse'' - besides having similar initials (NS, SN) and similar sounding names (Sanjar, Sanjrani). Both are brilliant economists [[OnlySaneMan with firm grips on the sanity ball]], with a tendency towards PragmaticVillainy as they try to solve a gradually worsening food crisis while being {{Ignored Expert}}s. The main difference, however, is that unlike Sanjrani, Sanjar is fighting a war on two fronts thanks to the Board and Iconoclasts.

* SoleSurvivor: Of the Amber Heights massacre. It's why he's the head of Monarch Industries.

Sanjar's hypercompetent right-hand-woman.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Is considerably more professional than Sanjar.

* EnlightenedSelfInterest: He does care about his employees' welfare, but his writings show that he's also cottoned onto the fact that genuinely happy workers are more productive.

* BenevolentBoss: Sanjar has a firm grasp on fair treatment of workers - one entry in Stellar Bay mentions him asking a worker to take a day off.