Viggo Industries: You will buy our products.
— Ingame billboard, Fur Fighters
Pentex pursues a well-concealed but unrelenting plan of subjugating humanity - not through direct conquest, but by more insidious methods. The Board wants to desensitize humanity, reducing compassion and hope. They want to immunize people to urban sprawl and swelling populations, the better to reduce hope. They want the public caught up in materialism, apathy and short-sightedness - all the better to suit their ultimate purposes of domination.
— Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Book Of The Wyrm (2nd Ed)
Wanna know why I have to work tomorrow? My firm's designing an executive lounge for a tobacco company. In the fight against cancer, I'm on the side of cancer.
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, "Belly Full of Turkey"
To secure the Templar’s control over the world, a great majority of Abstergo resources are devoted to locating and acquiring Pieces of Eden. Most of you know the company from its painkillers, or fitness trackers, or, more recently, its virtual entertainment features. Perhaps a handsome man served you a tasty coffee there sometime. But what you may not realize is that they also like to build things like satellite arrays designed to control your mind. The vast majority of Abstergo’s employees are not, in fact, Templars, but rather honest folk just trying to make a living. Individually, any one facet of Abstergo’s business looks rather harmless, but taken together, Abstergo is the noose around the neck of the free world.
The corporate coven takes the worst parts of humanity — greed, insurmountable hierarchies, strict dress codes — and utilizes them in a structure that makes for both a good cover in the mortal world and an effective vampire organization. The corporate structure allows vampires to lure human clients and business associates to conference rooms for productive dinner meetings, and the sight of office lights on at all hours of the night will instill confidence in the company work ethic, rather than raise suspicions that you're running a streamlined bloodletting operation. Another strong feature of the corporate coven is the potential for expansion. A mainstream coven that adds a new member every week will be seen as freakish, whereas a corporate coven that adds a new member every week is a booming business ripe for investment. When starting a corporate coven, hire a crackerjack accounting firm to keep the books clean, as a preventative measure. The last thing a corporate coven needs is some state attorney general who's looking to make a name for himself by going after the company.
— The New Vampire's Handbook
"Gentlemen, to evil."
—"Mr. Black", The Simpsons, "Kamp Krusty''
