| CEO Suzanne Fielding | |
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| Introduced in Vanilla | |
| Titles | Director of the Corporation "Guardian of Progress" |
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| Civilization | American Reclamation Corporation |
| Preferred victory | |
| Language | English |
| Voice actor/actress | |
Suzanne Fielding leads the American Reclamation Corporation.
Civilopedia entry
Early Life
Suzanne Fielding was the eldest of three siblings, all daughters, born on the Texas Gulf Coast to a Mexican-born mother and an African-American father. Her father was the owner of three hardware stores in the region; Suzanne joined her father in running the business as a teenager. Accepting a scholarship to Louisiana State University, she graduated with honors and a double-major in economics and accounting. Driven by a desire to help reclaim coastal lands lost to the rising sea level in her home states, she was hired by the relatively new American Reclamation Corporation (ARC) to an entry-level position. Both meticulous and daring, and surprisingly adept at corporate politics, Fielding rose steadily through the ARC accounting division until, within 15 years, she was heading several operations simultaneously as operations manager.
Career
When ARC CEO Michael Moderski signed the Trans-Mississippi Recovery Initiative, he personally asked Fielding to oversee the governmental resource coordination, to which she turned her considerable acumen. It was Fielding who caught the accounting chicanery which led to the FBI's Operation Riverboat and subsequent political fallout. Guiding the government to continue funding during the roiling controversy that followed, Fielding also kept the Initiative on track and on time, such that when Modersky stepped down as CEO, Fielding (who had since been elevated to CFO) was the logical choice for CEO. Sidestepping the Board of Directors, Fielding's appeal to the shareholders enabled her to hold both the CEO and CFO positions for ARC, making her the most powerful woman in the most powerful corporation in the world.
Founding the Colony
With Fielding at the helm, ARC turned from retail and manufacturing to financial and other services. She used the balance sheet and financial weight of ARC as a massive lever, engineering a series of shifts on Old Wall Street to unseat banks and exchanges. As ARC's capital reserves blossomed, many wondered what Fielding would do next. Few expected that she would announce ARC pursuing its own private Seeding venture, drawing on its vast engineering and manufacturing resources, and gaining a waiver from the government to conduct private space operations. The biggest surprise was when Fielding announced she would personally lead the first such expedition. With enough money to buy the world, the woman who led ARC found more meaning in starting over with a new planet.
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<< Excerpts from Colony Archives >> << Personal Log, Suzanne Marjorie Fielding >>
[CED.2321.66]
Everything has gone according to plan. The colony is mine to control. Who else could do what I do? Could lead with my skill? No one. ARC knows I‘m their greatest asset. The more responsibility they give me, the more invaluable I become.
<< Excerpts from Colony Archives >> << Personal Log, Suzanne Marjorie Fielding >>
[CED.2479.24]
They think this will be a challenge. They don’t realize Economics is nothing more than Sociology followed through to its logical conclusion. If you understand the various factors which define people and their desires, you can be prepared to give them what they want. Once you know that, starting from scratch is easy. I will lead this colony to great riches, and ARC will profit, once I have my share.
<< Excerpts from Colony Archives >> << Personal Log, Suzanne Marjorie Fielding >>
[CED.2978.75]
I tell them this is for the greater good. They think I mean the greater good of Earth and humanity. I don’t. We are the ones being launched into space. The ones who will toil against the unknown. We are risking everything. If that risk pays off, humanity will survive, but we will reap the rewards.
<< Excerpts from Colony Archives >> << Personal Log, Suzanne Marjorie Fielding >>
[CED.1978.28]
I want more – Responsibility, power, wealth. All of it. If you think I’m greedy, then you don’t understand ambition. Ambition isn’t a character flaw. It’s the means by which I envision the future and then bring it into being. I will make the most of my existence. Those who help me can only prosper.
<< Excerpts from Colony Archives >> << Personal Log, Suzanne Marjorie Fielding >>
[CED.3112.74]
I will start from scratch on this new planet, but I have done so successfully before. When I was just a girl, I helped my father run his business. Economics has never baffled me, as it has so many others. Such principles just make sense to me. I will lead my colony to great riches, and ARC will profit, once I have my share.
Civilopedia Quotes
Wonders
- "The goal of the Chief should be to align the personal with the larger political, economic, and organizational goals. What's good for the organization's always what's best for the individual."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "Your most valuable human asset has one foot in the code and one foot in the world and is still on solid ground."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "What I like best about quantum computing is that we get something for nothing from someone else's somewhere."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
Euphortic Strand
- "I eagerly anticipate the results of infusing additional solar capital into moribund benthic ecosystems. Disruption is always a positive force."
Suzanne Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
Relavtistic Data Bank
- "Operations begin with intelligence. Ideal intel gathers itself, in abundance, before you even conceive of the use for it."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, New Approaches to Perpendicular Colonial Relations
Technology
- "Life is an inherently depreciating asset."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "What is best for the shareholders of the American Reclamation Corporation? That's what's best for you."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "All planets possess inherent value and establishing the exact dollar value of the property should be a priority."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "Patent your discoveries. Each new species represents an opportunity for uncontestable ownership of that lifeform."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "The capacity for stupid agents to produce smart outcomes has a lesson for the manager. Your employees do not need to know very much for you to get the desired results."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "The only reason you are here is because a committee picked who to send. Ponder why they chose you instead of their own self-interest."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "Resistance, in regards to electrical conductivity, is undesirable. In regards to hyperconductivity, it is futile."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources
- "Computational and human resources should never have been separate strategic assets."
Suzanne Marjorie Fielding, Transplanetary Management, Methods, and Resources