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**"Vanguard Global will acquire your entire coastal shipping fleet, assume your outstanding debts, and retain your union workers at their current pay scale. In exchange, you sign over complete controlling interest, and you step down as CEO immediately."**
Marcus Sterling, a red-faced, aging shipping magnate who had been steadily driving his family's company into the ground, slammed his fist onto the table.
"This is extortion!" Marcus yelled, his face purple with outrage. "You're offering me pennies on the dollar! My family has owned those shipping lanes for four generations. You think you can just march in here, a ghost with no corporate history, and swallow us whole?"
