[Traveller]

Interesting to to see who is and who is not, on the Council of Tommorrow.

My original council had Michael Rockefeller as well (his disappearance has so many in-game possibilities), as well as his father as one of the "Money Men", though my final version of the Council dropped both men.

One of the major council members (IMO) would be Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. A major force int eh construciton of the Hoover Dam, Oakland Bay Bridge, Canol Pipeline and the Experimental Breedre Reactor seem to make Bechtel a natural choice for the CoT (I had Bechtel as the chief designer/builder of Prime Base).

My council, as used consists of:

Bruce Edwin Morrow (Founder/CEO of Morrow Industries)
Howard R. Hughes Jr. (CEO Hughes Aircraft/Hughes Tool Co.);
Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. (Engineer - CEO Bechtel Engineering);
Joseph L. Block (CEO US Steel);
Harry F. Guggenheim (ASARCO Mining/Smelting & Publishing);
James M. Roche (CEO General Motors, 1965-67);
Charles Francis Adams IV (CEO Raytheon);
Henry Ford 2nd (Chairman Ford Motor Co.);
Thomas J. Watson Jr (IBM CEO)

The one council member of my own creation is Kenneth Allard II (CEO Aladdin Technologies). Aladdin Technologies replaces 'United Technologies' on the 1965 Fortune 500 listing (#38).

For my own purposes, I've used Howard Hughes as an on-scene, in-game presence at Prime Base (having faked his death), who went on to survive 'The End' thanks to cryogenic technology The same goes for Kenneth Allard, is also a 'hands-on' council member, acting on behalf of his father Kevin (the CEO and Founder of AT). Kenneth Allard is also an interesting NPC to survive 'The End'.

Stephen Bechtel had a major role in designing and building Prime Base, while Guggenheim, Allard and Adams all assisted in the building and developing of the Project's resources.

Watson, Roche, Ford, and Block were part of the 'Money Men' in the early days, setting up the fronts and accounts to get the Project off the ground, then they handled 'laundering the money' that came in from later activities to keep the Project financed while staying off government radar.

The advantages of men such as Bechtel, Guggenheim and Hughes is that they are the heads of privately owned major companies, as opposed to publicly traded ones.

With Morrow, Hughes, and Kenneth Allard all running aorund Post-Ooops, there's enough CoT activity to keep the Playerrs on their toes.

Cheers!
John