Interspace Commerce (player faction)
- This is a player faction. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Interspace Commerce
Synopsis
Interspace Commerce is one of the few corporations that has ability to deal in all four Sirius houses. Started as a banking company, Interspace understood that gaining profit and influence is faster by entering the shipping business. Advantage of having a station for each house in their capital system and one very strategical station in Okinawa led to one of the best infrastructures for reaching their aims - becomming #1 in shipping business. At this moment Interspace Commerce is by far one of the richest corporations in Sirius, trying to keep its neutrality towards all houses, however having Libertonian roots, it is met with quite unfriendly manner in Rheinland that led to various restrictions while visiting Rheinland.
History
Founded during 218 A.S in partnership between Deep Space Engineering and Ageria Technologys it quickly became the leading financial company within the Sirius. Its planned purpose was for the constructions of jump gates and trade lanes outside of liberty.
Interspace Commerce expanded into Kusari and had set up Roppongi station in the New Tokyo system. Up until this point the Kusari goverment had banned all foreign immigration as well as the construction of foreign stations and businesses. It was a risky move and angered many Kusarian citizens, however Interspace Commerce stayed in Kusari. Groups of terrorism such as the Blood Dragons sprouted to stop foreign corruption into Kusari and became hostile to Interspace Commerce.
In 350 A.S, Interspace Commcerce became the primary financier of trade lanes for the other houses. In Rheinland, it constructed Bonn station in New Berlin to oversee its interests in 521 A.S. Later in 525 A.S Interspace Commerce agreed to forgive all debts to foreign houses, and turned control of the trade lanes and jump gates in those houses over to their governments. With this, Interspace Commerce collected tolls for using its jump gates and trade lanes for the next 200 years. The company has never been satisfied with the two hundred years of tolls it got in exchange, and it is for this chief reason that a good deal of animosity towards Rheinland and Kusari exists even today. As a result, Interspace Commerce often allows ships from the Bundschuh, Red Hessians and even the Unioners to dock and purchase supplies on Bonn station. In respone, the Rheinland military placed the Battleship Strausberg outside the station to keep an eye on Interspace's activities.
Interspace Commerce conducted the same dealings with the Golden Chrysanthemum terrorist movement and began to fund them as well. Rumors of this sprouted up but Interspace Commerce has called off these allegations as "slander".
In 700 A.S., Agiera and Interspace developed a project called the Universal Ship Identification system (USI) which gave Interspace Commerce the ability to track ships and lay tariffs appropriately. Some of the Houses expect this gives Interspace Commerce an edge in competition, however so far nothing has been proven. Piracy organisations such as the Lane Hackers broke into the system and kept track of shipments and raided them accordingly. It also gave shipping locations to other pirate groups like the Rogues and Outcasts.
When the Okinawa System was discovered at the Border Worlds in 812 A.S., both the GMG and Kishiro were eager to move in as fast as possible. In a deal with Interspace Commerce to invest and finance the development of the system, the GMG resentfully signed the deal with Interspace Commerce, who would get 5% of all H-fuel profits. Most piracy and raids in the system are suspected to have originated or sponsored by the Hogosha due to Interspace Commerce's dealings and influence with the Golden Chrysanthemum movement, which has prevented any Golden Chrysanthemum attacks in the system. Kishiro and the Gas Mining Guild ignored whenever a Golden Chrysanthemum vessel has been seen docking with Furyoku Station.
Divisions
Interspace Commerce has two public divisions that perform the tasks of their respective names. Pilots assigned to one of them cannot be at the same on the other for the legal procedures reasons. Some papers suggest that Interspace Commerce has third division, however no evidence of its existance can be found or any rumours heard. The only
Transportation
Employess assigned to this division are expected to make constant shipments to various stations and planets. Interspace Commerce specializes in bulk cargo, so you should only see them transporting refugees on rare and odd occasions.
Security
The special wing dedicated to defend Interspace Commerce's stations and assets near them. Secondary task is hunting the Lane Hackers on free time and for own entertainment. Security Division is different from regular escorting and scouting since it specilizes in more devastating aspect. Interspace Commerce does not like to be messed around, especially near their major zone of influence.
Structure
- Intern
An intern is just a fresh applicant, who just got accepted into Interspace Commerce. He can fly any ships allowed for Trasportation Division but he may not venture into Rheinland space to avoid any misunderstanding and hardly understandable restrictions for Interspace Commerce vessels. It was proven that many incidents occur when inexperienced member is trading within Rheinland.
- Shipper
The most numerious rank in Interspace Commerce. These employees have aquired enough knowledge and experience to be performing shippments in Rheinland. They have acces to perform shipping contracts and assigment for a bonus salary.
- Senior
Employees with the large experience base capable of dealing with almost every situation that might happen. Pilots of this rank will be assigned with the hardest, the most dangerous contracts that mostly will be provided by the terrorism movement in Kusari and Rheinland.
- Head of Security
Person in charge of security protocols, equipment regulations, hiring pilots for the Security Division. Head of Security is responsible for aquiring weapons as well as selling some of the unused equipment.
- Head of Transportation
- Chief Financial Officer
Person responsible for financial side of Interspace Commerce. THis includes Bounty Board's payments, salaries for shipping assigment, calculating needed finances for equiping ships or constructing them as well as making sure loan, investment and insurance business is going in the profitable side for Interspace Commerce.
- Chief Operative Officer
- Chief Executive Officer
- Shareholders
Currently 100% of stocks (shares) are held by David Mahone. No plans whether to open some shares for sale is known. However, it is speculated that those would be very expensive as Interspace Commerce is still
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Goals
Interspace Commerce has only few goals in mind, yet those few are grand and ambitious ones.
- To become the premier shipping entity.
- To become the premier insurancing entity.
- To become the premier loans offering entity.
- To overcome the IND as closest and only one worthy competitor.
- To get the most shipping rights in whole Sirius.
Owned Stations
Newark Station
Type: Chasins class station
Location: 4C, New York
Gravity: Complete
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Yes
Population: 5000
Interspace Corporate was founded in 204 A.S. by Ageira and Deep Space Engineering, since they could pool the necessary capital in insurance and finance. Built in the same year, Newark Station is the local headquarters for the now renamed "Interspace Commerce" (IC), one of the largest financial concerns in the Sirius Sector. While Interspace was initially responsible for financing the construction of the vast Jump Gate and Trade Lane network that connects the various colonies, it was forced to divest itself of these holdings as a result of the Rheinland-Kusari Trade Embargo in 521 A.S.
The corporation changed its name to Interspace Commerce and has since transitioned to insuring cargo shipments within and between the various colonies. The remainder of the Newark Station population is a constantly shifting crowd of traders, technocrats, executives, and Bounty Hunters, all cutting deals and arranging for the transport or protection of their goods.
Newark is also ideally located in central New York to act as a Headquarters for the Angels. It has been rumored that the Angels garnered one of the best offices on Newark by gathering potential employees for Interspace. As a place where bounty hunters, traders and many other types of pilots live and work from, the Angels have an ear to the ground on Newark, able to read more out of financial and insurance records than most accountants. Occasional maintenance drones can be seen cleaning the outside of Newark, when an unfortunate trading vessel tries to enter the docking pattern at high speeds.
Bonn Station
Type: Cathedral class station
Location: 5C, New Berlin
Gravity: Complete
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Yes
Population: 3000
Originally constructed in 521 A.S., to oversee the transition of trade lanes and jump gates to Rheinland ownership after Interspace Commerce was all but forced to sign agreements to nationalise them, Bonn Station has since become the headquarters of Interspace within Rheinland, and is the station where all cargo being shipped out of Rheinland is insured for the journey.
Thoroughly angry with having to wipe countless billions of credits of debt away almost overnight, after Kusari and Rheinland both nationalised their trade lanes and jump gates, Interspace Commerce has never been satisfied with the two hundred years of tolls it got in exchange, and it is for this chief reason that a good deal of animosity towards Rheinland and Kusari exists even today. As a result, Interspace Commerce often allows ships from the Bundschuh, Red Hessians and even the Unioners to dock and purchase supplies, and even going so far as to donate money to their causes or share information of cargo shipments with them.
This has angered the Rheinland government considerably, although as yet it has been completely impossible to prove. However, the Rheinland Military has recently stationed the Battleship Strausberg outside the station to keep an eye on Interspace's activities.
Waterloo Station
Type: Zeus class station
Location: 6D, New London
Gravity: Complete
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Yes
Population: 5000
Waterloo Station acts as headquarters for the local branch of Interspace Commerce (IC) as well as foreign shippers such as Republican Shipping and Universal Shipping. It is a busy, bustling place, constantly humming with activity as business transactions are conducted around the clock.
Roppongi Station
Type: Akebono class station
Location: 6D, New Tokyo
Gravity: Complete
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Yes
Population: 4000
In the early years of the Kusari Empire, foreign immigration was strictly controlled and permanent foreign settlements on New Tokyo were strictly forbidden. While the Kusari Shogunate was unwilling to bend these rules, it still accommodated foreign business interests by allowing Interspace Commerce to construct Roppongi Station in 318 A.S. Despite the restrictions placed on permanent residencies elsewhere in Kusari, and the outrage expressed by conservative Kusari politicians at the Hideyoshi controlled Shogunate for allowing foreigners into the New Tokyo system, Roppongi Station's business flourished, with many corporations opening offices onboard.
When the Hideyoshi Emperor was deposed in 321 A.S., Roppongi's future was plunged into doubt. Thankfully, even the conservatives had recognised the financial benefits of leaving it alone, and in any case they had no desire at the time to upset Interspace Commerce, which at that time owned the rights to all the jump gates and trade lanes within Kusari. The conservatives were still reluctant to have too many foreigners in New Tokyo, however, and Deshima Station in Shikoku was eventually constructed in 350 A.S. with the aim of reducing the "outsider" population.
The Kusari-Rheinland embargo in 521 A.S. resulted in both those Houses nationalising their trade lanes and jump gates, causing Interspace Commerce to lose countless billions of credits almost overnight, as Kusari and Rheinland wiped away their debts to the Liberty corporation. Thoroughly angry with their losses, and the paltry two hundred years worth of tolls they extracted in exchange for their losses, Interspace began covertly funding independent pirates to raid Kusari shipping. After the formation of the Golden Chrysanthemum terrorist organisation, it is widely believed that Interspace has been funding them, just as they later began funding the Red Hessian pirates, and that the pirates in return sell stolen goods cheaply to Interspace. It is likely that these practices continue to this day, although Interspace's involvement has never been substantiated, and always sues any such allegations as "slander".
Furyoku Station
Type: Akebono class station
Location: 5D/5E, Okinawa
Gravity: Complete
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Yes
Population: 3000
After the discovery of the Okinawa system, Kishiro and the GMG required a considerable amount of money to quickly begin the construction of the system's infrastructure. Unfortunately, the only corporation both willing and able to underwrite the project was Interspace Commerce, who agreed to insure and finance it in exchange for 5% of the H-Fuel profits and also being permitted to construct a base in Okinawa. The GMG grudgingly agreed, and construction started on Furyoku Station at the same time as Fujisawa Mining Facility was assembled. The station was eventually completed in early 816 A.S., despite a number of sabotage incidences that were believed to be the work of Hogosha agents.
The base handles a large portion of the traffic moving in and out of Okinawa, and the GMG often stores a large amount of H-Fuel reserves at Furyoku. Attacks in the system against GMG and Kishiro facilities, as well as the Interspace base, have been more or less non-existent, save for the occasional raiding parties that are almost certainly Hogosha in origin. Part of the reason for this is almost certainly due to the influence and dealings that Interspace are known to have with the Golden Chrysanthemums. In exchange for the lack of piracy and attacks on their facilities and transports within Okinawa, it appears that both the Kishiro and GMG authorities within the system have taken to turning a blind eye whenever a Golden Chrysanthemum vessel has been seen docking with Furyoku Station.
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