Graves Corporation, also known as Graves Diamonds, was a fictional diamonds mining company operating from Iceland. Supposedly founded by wealthy entrepreneur, Gustav Graves, an orphan brought up in the diamond mines of Argentina, Graves Corporation is based around an unexpected and highly improbable diamond mine in the wastelands of Iceland. However, in reality, the diamond mine is a front for the laundering of African conflict diamonds by surgically altered North Korean colonel Tan-Sun Moon. The organization was created for the 2002 James Bond film, Die Another Day, and its accompanying novelisation, penned by Raymond Benson. It was also later re-imagined for the 2012 video-game, 007 Legends.
History[]
Die Another Day (film)[]
After undergoing surgery to create a new identity for himself as British socialite "Gustav Graves", DPRK Colonel Tan-Sun Moon set up the Graves Corporation as a front for his activities. The corporation was purportedly centered around a rich diamond mine Graves had discovered in Iceland, when in actuality its diamonds were conflict diamonds smuggled from Africa. Graves used his corporation to propel himself to high status in English society and gather the resources necessary to complete his plan - the construction of the solar-powered satellite "Icarus". Although Graves claimed the satellite's purpose was to relieve famine by creating sunlight in places where it was hard to grow crops, its true purpose was to harness the sun's energy into a solar-powered beam, with which Graves intended to use to conquer South Korea in the name of North Korea.
James Bond search for the double agent within MI6 led him to discover a link between the traitor and the Graves Corporation, leading him to head to Iceland to investigate with the assistance of NSA agent Jinx. Although Bond uncovered the plot, he was unable to stop Graves from completing his satellite. After presenting it to his father, General Moon, and three generals of the DPRK military (Han, Dong and Li), Graves activated the Icarus satellite's beam function and used it to steer the satellite towards the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, intent on using it to wipe out the South Korean government so the North could swoop in and take over. However, Bond and Jinx were able to board the carrier plane he was on and stop him. After Graves was killed and his control gauntlet for the satellite was destroyed, Icarus shut off and Graves' scheme was foiled. It is unknown what happened to the Graves Corporation after, but it can be presumed it was exposed as a fraud and shut down.
Alternate Continuities[]
Die Another Day (novelisation)[]
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007 Legends[]
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Known associates & structure[]
- Gustav Graves — Founder
- Miranda Frost - Second-in-command
- Vlad - Scientist
- Mr. Kil - Chief of security
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