NOTE: This is a highly speculative profile I (Monk) did on Lynch a long time ago. Read at your peril…

• At the beginning of the Privateer timeline (early 2669), he controls:
  • Bronte in New Detroit
  • Lynch Mining
  • Lynch Shipping
  • Lynch Enterprises
  • Quite likely, Corcoran Corporation in Liverpool, New Castle
  • The New Detroit militias (“a mere entry in his payroll”)
• Is a VIP customer of the Mercenaries Guild
• Sells dcomissioned ships and weapons to pirates at Oakham through Tayla
• His Territory probably extends over the Potter and Humboldt quadrants.

At the start of Privateer Part 1, Lynch has a mighty empire; a near monopoli of illegal trade. Probably it includes cheap food production and metal ore mining at “Grey Zone” hidden planets using slave labor, and refining, in addition to his serving as middleman between corrupt Confed officials in charge of decomissioning old fighters (primarily Talons), who instead sell them to him, – then pocket some of the money, and send the rest “up the chain of command” where it ends up at the disposal of secret conspiracies–; and pirate bases' ship dealers. And similar arms deals.

At that time his main rivals are Damien Lang in the food business, and another, unnamed operator in the metal ore mining biz in Hyades.

Some time during Privateer Part 1, before RF, a new kid comes to town: former governor Menesch, who has contacts within the Confeds, Kilrathis and the Church of Man.

While Lynch's ships and arms sales were mostly to pirate groups, Menesch deals primarily with the retros. Non-the-less, this cuts into Lynch's business deeply, if indirectly: The prices of talons are affected by the buyers' perception of worth, which is affected by re-sale value. While retros could only obtain Talons in the second hand market, before Menesch, –boosting prices up the chain–; now they can obtain them directly.

Presumably, Lynch deals with this by filing a complaint with his Confed suppliers. His suppliers have reasons besides pleasing Lynch to cut off Menesch: They don't like retros much either. Menesch suddenly finds himself without a supplier …

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Never mind… Read the Privateer Analysis page for more info on Lynch.