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-<wrap lo><wrap lo>//Photo/Industry Studios Facebook Page//</wrap></wrap>+<wrap lo>**CONVOLUTED CONNECTIONS** between Alec Peters' Georgia business concerns, his Atlanta attorney and his California companies are mapped out in this infographic. Click image to view full size, or {{ ::twisted-path-4.pdf |view 480K PDF}} with added hyperlinks. <wrap lo>//Valkyrie graphic/Shuri Dreamscape/Flickr//</wrap> 
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 September 26, 2016</wrap> September 26, 2016</wrap>
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-<wrap lo>//See also: [[investor_group|Investor Group Plans to Buy Axanar's Studio Assets]]//</wrap> 
  
 **WITH THE** //formal opening of the for-profit studio Alec Peters built using money supporters donated to produce //Axanar, **AxaMonitor**//'s investigation into the companies behind the studio revealed a complete lack of transparency about who stands to financially benefit from the facility.// **WITH THE** //formal opening of the for-profit studio Alec Peters built using money supporters donated to produce //Axanar, **AxaMonitor**//'s investigation into the companies behind the studio revealed a complete lack of transparency about who stands to financially benefit from the facility.//
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 +<wrap lo>See also: //[[studio_ownership|Another Company Emerges in Axanar Studio Ownership]]//, //[[investor_group|Investor Group Plans to Buy Axanar's Studio Assets]]//, //[[studio_move|Alec Peters Strikes Deal with Studio Landlord, Moving Out]]// and //[[luh_studios|Axanar's Abandoned Former Studio Continues to Flail]]//</wrap>
  
 Producer [[Alec Peters]] has formally opened the studio he built with money from donors to make //Axanar//, with a new website and a Facebook business page. Producer [[Alec Peters]] has formally opened the studio he built with money from donors to make //Axanar//, with a new website and a Facebook business page.
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 Originally called [[Ares Studios]], the warehouse space leased by Peters to produce his Star Trek film, is now known as Industry Studios, after a brief designation in spring 2016 as Valkyrie Studios. Peters began marketing the studio on a [[face>IndustryStudiosSCV/|Facebook page]] launched in August 2016, and on a website with the domain [[http://industrystudios.la|industry studios.la]]. Originally called [[Ares Studios]], the warehouse space leased by Peters to produce his Star Trek film, is now known as Industry Studios, after a brief designation in spring 2016 as Valkyrie Studios. Peters began marketing the studio on a [[face>IndustryStudiosSCV/|Facebook page]] launched in August 2016, and on a website with the domain [[http://industrystudios.la|industry studios.la]].
  
-<WRAP> +[{{ ::industry-studios.jpg?300|**THE STUDIO** where Axanar was to have been filmed also houses Alec Peters' separate company, Propworx, rent-free. <wrap lo>//Photo/Industry Studios Facebook Page//</wrap>}}]
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-<wrap lo>**CONVOLUTED CONNECTIONS** between Alec Peters' Georgia companies, his Atlanta attorney and his California business concerns are mapped out in this infographic. <wrap lo>//Valkyrie graphic/Shuri Dreamscape/Flickr//</wrap> +
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 {{gallery> galleries:warhammer-venue?lightbox&reverse&crop&150x150&nocache}}<wrap lo>**WARHAMMER** Alec Peters hosted a Warhammer 40K tournament in the unused Industry Studios on October 15, 2016.</wrap> {{gallery> galleries:warhammer-venue?lightbox&reverse&crop&150x150&nocache}}<wrap lo>**WARHAMMER** Alec Peters hosted a Warhammer 40K tournament in the unused Industry Studios on October 15, 2016.</wrap>
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 And if he is a member of the investors' group, then he would have an interest in Axanar Productions, contrary to Bawden's claim. And if he is a member of the investors' group, then he would have an interest in Axanar Productions, contrary to Bawden's claim.
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 +<wrap lo><wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> A court document filed January 5, 2017, revealed another company, of which Alec Peters is the sole owner, holds the lease to the building housing Industry Studios. [[studio_ownership|Read more »]]</wrap>
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 ==== What is Industry Studios? ==== ==== What is Industry Studios? ====
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 The studio was built out in a 15,000-square foot warehouse space leased by [[Axanar Productions]] for three years starting in January 2015 at an estimated cost of a quarter-million dollars. In April, [[investor_group|Peters announced]] a secret investors' group was taking over management of the studio and its three-year lease, and would reimburse Axanar for the money it spent on building out the soundstage. The studio was built out in a 15,000-square foot warehouse space leased by [[Axanar Productions]] for three years starting in January 2015 at an estimated cost of a quarter-million dollars. In April, [[investor_group|Peters announced]] a secret investors' group was taking over management of the studio and its three-year lease, and would reimburse Axanar for the money it spent on building out the soundstage.
  
-**AxaMonitor** asked Axanar spokesman Bawden if Peters or any other Axanar principal is a member of the investors group or has some tangential financial interest in its activities moving forward, such as break on studio rent, priority on use of facility, continued housing of Axanar and Propworx offices, or anything else.+**AxaMonitor** asked Axanar spokesman Bawden if Peters or any other Axanar principal is a member of the investors group or has some tangential financial interest in its activities moving forward, such as a break on studio rent, priority on use of facility, continued housing of Axanar and Propworx offices, or anything else. Bawden did not respond.
  
 === Peters: 'We Have No Such Asset' === === Peters: 'We Have No Such Asset' ===
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 > I'm not going to talk about that until we release all that information to the donors. Let's be very clear: People say we built a for-profit studio. Totally false. There is basically a building that has two years left on its lease. Someone needs to pay for that. An asset is something tangible that is worth money that you can go out and sell. We have no such asset.(([[https://youtu.be/ZcPjJKzRdK4|Alec Peters interview, TREKZONE Spotlight YouTube Channel]], 4/3/16.)) > I'm not going to talk about that until we release all that information to the donors. Let's be very clear: People say we built a for-profit studio. Totally false. There is basically a building that has two years left on its lease. Someone needs to pay for that. An asset is something tangible that is worth money that you can go out and sell. We have no such asset.(([[https://youtu.be/ZcPjJKzRdK4|Alec Peters interview, TREKZONE Spotlight YouTube Channel]], 4/3/16.))
  
-However, there appeared to be something of value in the studio, as Peters went on to offer a 2 percent stake in it to former chief technologist [[Terry McIntosh]] in May 2016 in exchange for McIntosh's [[Ares Digital]] software, which was intended to fulfill perks from the crowdfunding campaigns, but [[ares_digital_update|utterly failed]]. McIntosh turned down the offer, saying the investment was [[axanar_finances|too speculative]] to be worth the value of the software. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}+However, there appeared to be something of value in the studio, as Peters went on to offer a 2 percent stake in it to former chief technologist [[Terry McIntosh]] in May 2016 in exchange for McIntosh's [[Ares Digital]] software, which was intended to fulfill perks from the crowdfunding campaigns, but [[ares_digital_update|utterly failed]]. McIntosh turned down the offer, saying the investment was [[axanar_finances|too speculative]] to be worth the value of the software. 
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 +===== A Grim Coda ===== 
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 +<wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> In a [[luh_studios|grim coda]] to the story of Axanar's ill-fated studio, its landlord died unexpectedly in January 2018, throwing into confusion assurances Peters gave donors when he was forced to [[studio_move|vacate the premises]] after running out of money to pay the rent. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
  
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