To Harry's surprise, a great many people were paying attention to Roxxon Corporation's presentation.
Of course, the arrival of the current Chief Justice might have had something to do with it. Logically, the Chief Justice had little to do with this meeting, but he had done something controversial over the past few months.
This company was the Marvel world's equivalent of Standard Oil. The difference was that, in the original world, many of the companies created after Standard Oil's breakup still belonged to the Rockefeller family. That was not the case here.
Here, the results of the antitrust investigation that took place in the nineteenth century were roughly similar, but the reality was vastly different. The company had indeed been broken up, but its major directors had died under mysterious circumstances, and its investor structure had changed.
The changes involved were extremely complicated, but from the looks of it now, a large portion of those shares had fallen into Hydra's hands—into the "bank" of the Hydra Council that Harry had captured. Honestly, it was rather surreal, because his ancestor had actually been one of Little Mustache's robbery targets.
After World War II, Hydra placed increasing importance on oil resources. One of the Council's former members had even served as CEO, though in modern times, the company's CEO had become Dario Agger.
Without going through the process of being dismantled and reorganized, the company's growth had been remarkably smooth.
That was why Roxxon Corporation could be seen all over movie backdrops—on buses, gas stations, buildings, and more. It was a massive business empire.
But with the five great powers seizing Hydra's little bank and the Osborn Group aggressively promoting Nuclear Fusion Energy, this business empire was crumbling. Their so-called capital was like a naked beauty without the strength to truss a