Worldbuilding - Evans Enterprises

Evans Enterprises

A company created by Jor-El to assist in ensuring the best possible life for his Master, Evans Enterprises is a company which operates in both the Wizarding and Muggle worlds. In the Muggle World, EvEn is the vector for the slow and covert introduction of Kryptonian technological concepts, most notably in the fields of Communications and Computing. Jor-El has managed to recruit several Muggleborns who chose to abandon the Wizarding World, using them as the public faces of EvEn during its interactions with other companies.

On the Magical side, Jor-El originally relied primarily on Remus Lupin and Sirius Black to oversee the various projects which are designed to slowly bring the Wizarding World up to date but has now located and hired several Muggleborns to take over said duties. Most of the limited product lines use both Magic and Technology, the latter modified to work perfectly in high-magic environments that would normally cause delicate electronics to short out.

The phone system installed in Hogwarts (and the houses of several of the more modern Wizarding families) connect via switching micro-spheres to a central server, the optically-transparent centimeter-wide crown-glass spheres instantaneously switching at twenty thousand million times per second for the primary servers, thus allowing for uninterrupted high-speed light-based data transfer without the need for cables or transmissions that could be intercepted. For the actual phones and secondary servers, the switch-rate is a mere fifty-thousand times per second which takes up a mere fraction of a percentage of the magical energy of the primary links without degrading the dataflow in any way that the users can detect.

Due to the power requirements for the switching spell, a dedicated Mage-reactor has been constructed for the server and its switch-links with additional reactors planned to allow for the use of multiple servers. Each reactor can maintain up to a hundred and twelve primary switch-links (plus or minus five due to molecular differences in the construction of the reactors) or over half a million secondary switch-links while still supplying the needed power to the server itself.

If a Magical using a phone wishes to contact a non-magical, 684453 (MUGGLE) must be entered before the desired number. Conversely, if a Muggle wishes to contact a specific Magical, they must use the prefix 62442 (MAGIC) to access the magical portion of the telephone network. In either case, the user must be registered to access that particular function.

Owned Companies

- Kitsune Broadcasting is a wholly-owned Evans Enterprises subsiduary which acts in partnership with the American News Company and the British Broadcasting Corporation to bring programs into the Magical World. It has a large studio complex on the upper part of the cavern wall opposite the DMLE, a position which also gives it an excellent view of the James Potter Memorial Quidditch Pitch.

- Lily’s Rest is one of the hotels that Evans Industries owns and is notable in that it operates in both the Wizarding and Muggle worlds. With branches across the country, it makes it far easier for the families of Muggleborn to access the Wizarding World, thus increasing the potential markets available to the other companies.

- Cavern Domociles is the company which oversaw the re-opening of Tegg’s Nose and the selling/letting of the various properties therein. While it still holds some of the rights to the commercial areas, its mandate was to move as many properties as possible into private hands to encourage economic growth and social responsability.

- Magic Staff Shoppe is, just as the name suggests, a shop devoted to the selling and use of Magic Staffs. Employing retired Cursebreakers, it was founded in response to the Hogwarts Liberation, where Voldemort erected an anti-Wand Ward. The shop makes Magic Staffs and has an attached training hall for learning how to use them. Lessons for a nominal fee are given to anyone who works for Gringotts, which the Goblins approve of as it means that they do not have to spend that money themselves.