The West Wing

Antares

Description

Antares hurtles toward obliteration as a defect-devastated chip mandates recall of 80 million units across every product, detonating Thursday's announcement. CEO Jake Kimball, gaunt and suicidal, storms the Oval Office with catastrophe blueprints, slashing 98,000 jobs—75,000 U.S.—and slamming NASDAQ with a kidney punch. This publicly traded tech behemoth, chip-dependent and job-sustaining, ignites White House economic inferno, thrusting Bartlet into triage amid corporate apocalypse.

Event Involvements

Events with structured involvement data

2 events
S3E18 · Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Leo Unveils Antares Chip Recall Catastrophe

Thrust into Oval spotlight via Leo's relay of CEO Jake Kimball's visit, Antares embodies tech implosion with its defective chip forcing Thursday's 80-million-unit recall across all products, dooming the firm and igniting White House triage on job hemorrhages.

Active Representation

Through CEO's direct visit and Leo's authoritative briefing

Power Dynamics

Crumbling private entity desperately orbiting presidential power for lifeline

Institutional Impact

Exposes fragility of U.S. tech sector and ripple effects on national economy

Organizational Goals
Execute mandatory recall to comply with safety standards Seek external support to cushion job and market losses
Influence Mechanisms
Massive employment footprint pressuring economic policy CEO's personal crisis humanizing corporate peril
S3E18 · Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Fitzwallace Exposes Russian Heavy Water Reactor in Iran

Antares' looming 80-million-chip recall devastation lingers from Leo's prior relay, its job carnage and NASDAQ gut-punch providing the grim backdrop as Fitzwallace pivots to Bushehr, illustrating how corporate implosion primes vulnerability to foreign nuclear threats in Bartlet's crisis cascade.

Active Representation

Via CEO Jake Kimball's desperate earlier visit invoked by Leo

Power Dynamics

Crumbling under market forces, pleading for presidential salvage

Institutional Impact

Exposes U.S. tech dependency amid global brinkmanship

Organizational Goals
Mitigate total product-line annihilation through announcement delay Secure government contracts to avert mass layoffs
Influence Mechanisms
Economic ripple threats pressuring White House intervention CEO's personal desperation humanizing institutional collapse

Related Events

Events mentioning this organization

2 events
S3E18
Leo Unveils Antares Chip Recall Catastrophe

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S3E18
Bartlet Brokers Contracts and Accountability for Kimball's Crisis

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