That makes sense, however my point is that in RL with large organizations you get SoD breaking stupidities. Granted in a competent, well managed organization those tend to be fairly rare, but they do happen.
Yeah, you do occasionally get really big problems, but not normally when you've just raked some of the biggest troublemakers over the coals.
Not really. The Archon is, when it comes down to it, only one person and most of her time needs to be taken up with running of the entire empire. She can take some time occasionally to focus on pet projects, but generally any decisions on what projects get funded would need to be done on a much lower level, with her getting at best a summary, and most likely not having time to read that unless there's some disaster involved.
Erm. This is major military R&D where several of the companies involved have accepted guaranteed loans to be able to do the projects. The Archon is definitely going to be checking in on them. Every day? No. Probably not even every month. But every quarter? Damn straight! And if shit gets too far off the rails, she ain't gonna be happy about it.
Also, see above. THI and CMW Just had major scandals a decade ago and only just got let out of the doghouse in time for Lockheed CBM to be shoved inside, and both the new CEOs are noted to be competent and hard-working.
Red Devil is specifically Sir Not Invited To This Party.
DefHes is essentially beyond suspicion with Brewer at the helm, and TharHes might as well be the Archon's personal fiefdom.
Olivetti and CAC are both in nose-to-the-grindstone mode trying to keep ahead of their better-established competitors.
Shipil has been in financial distress for 2/3rds of forever and this is their best shot at a way out.
The Archon has personally handled both StarCorp Industries and MacEnroe Motors. Only one was handled on screen, but both were shown the carrot and the stick and MacEnroe Motors is, if anything, even more motivated to not fuck this up than SCI because MM is literally chump change compared to anyone else getting a copy of the Catachan Core. They don't even make
BattleMechs anymore at this point, just Combat Vehicles, and now they're being given a chance to put Arcturus back on the map as something other than a used-to-was. It's almost like Katrina and Simon Johnson plotted this out very fucking carefully over the course of weeks-months and used every bit of leverage they could manage to scrape up to ensure that this isn't going to turn out to be a disaster. The literal only corporation that Katrina does not have absolutely over a barrel is Bowie Industries.
She is
expending political capitol on this. She is going to make sure she sees a solid return.