Cabotton University: Acquisition by Moorings Financial Equity Firm

Throughout the final week of January 1362, those Cabotton students who still firmly believed in the philosophies of Former Headmaster Arnold Stamp had been calling for the new owners, Moorings Financial Equity Firm, to allow and facilitate charter school classes to take place in the former classrooms adjacent to the rooms now occupied by private business offices. During that time, five charter school businesses, honoring said agenda, merged into the Endler Charter Academy, who approached Moorings with a bid to acquire the Main Campus. Initially, Moorings leadership voiced a provisional agreement.

On 02 February 1362, however, Moorings was approached by the Linbraean Treasury with a counter-offer. As it turned out, the Esurchians sold the Main Campus in haste, and thus accepted an unusually low offer from Moorings. The Linbraeans offered to buy the Campus from Moorings at a profit to the latter. Afterward, the plan was for the Treasury to flip the property through basic cleaning and landscaping, and then sell the property for a marginal profit in turn. On 03 February, Moorings leadership was approached by the henshale industry, who had since re-appraised the henshale reserves underneath the Main Campus and made an offer even higher than that of the Linbraean Royal Treasury.

Cabotton Scholar Foundation: Negotiations with the Linbraean Royal Treasury

On 04 February 1362, the Cabotton Scholar Foundation collaborated with the Lake Maern Reserve Community with a hope to outbid the competitors for the Main Campus. Such an agenda failed, however, when Moorings leadership stated that the resulting written proposal was invalid due to its usage of the name "Cabotton University." After subsequent investigations, the Cabotton Scholar Foundation discovered that, on 23 January, the Jon Den Administration had sold the title "Cabotton University" to the Congress of Circlaria Registry for the Public Domain, meaning that any entity could claim the name as part of their title without having to pay royalties. This meant that, should the Foundation succeed in re-acquiring the Main Campus, it would have to take a name like "The Cabotton University of Ereautea." And with 57 entities already laying claim to the original title "Cabotton University," the agenda to fulfill the international requirement to have all those entities renounce such claims in order to remove "Cabotton University" from the Public Domain was a lost cause for the Foundation. This would have a negative impact on the morale of Foundation membership.

However, the Cabotton Scholar Foundation, as a whole, resolved yet to restore the Main Campus as a place of learning, regardless of title. On 07 February, they formed a business coalition with the Linbraean Royal Treasury, with whom they agreed for the Treasury to buy the Main Campus and flip the property through landscaping and basic cleaning. The Treasury would then sell the Main Campus to the National University Research Foundation, who would make said purchase with use of money from the University Trust Fund. The Trust Fund would be provided by the Cabotton Scholar Foundation, while said Fund would be supplemented by credit from the Linbraean Royal Treasury, itself, who agreed to accept payback in the form of a ten-year mortgage with a fixed interest rate.