(12-13-2013, 04:47 PM)Highland Laddie Wrote: Gateway is always looking for new customers to ship for as well.

(12-14-2013, 01:18 AM)SummerMcLovin Wrote:

(12-13-2013, 10:23 AM)Ponge Wrote: As Summer mentioned, you can make big money (and the best is, all inRP) by trading silver ore from Omega-7 to California Minor, thus giving you 2 more factions to interact with: Kruger and IMG.

No issues with Rheinland if you want to work with Kruger, but there has been some interaction (mostly by lore, around Holman) with IMG in the past - hence the 75% tech column.

They do live in some sort of neutral zone in Bretonia where you can work with anyone (lawful, of course) rather than being on the Royalist or other side. This doesn't really make too much sense given they pretty much only received Crown money for the first few centuries of their existence, but we'll roll with it.

(12-14-2013, 01:29 AM)Snak3 Wrote: I am sometimes flying Synth|Banana, so if you ever want to tag along on Xenobiotic or FloraGro shipment skype me ( name in profile )

(12-14-2013, 01:42 AM)Pel Wrote: As far as I can tell Planetform is some sort of scam to get government funding for terraforming projects that are never completed.

If I remember correctly, a Planetform NPC in Bretonia mentions that the efforts to terraform Planet Harris have had mixed results. The NPC says the planet will revert to its original state as soon as Planetform packs up and leaves. So what kind of business is this?

I can't think of any properly terraformed planet in all of Freelancer-- just half-assed efforts that never seem to pay off.

Either the company is doing it wrong, or they are picking the wrong candidates for terraforming. No matter what, their efforts are fruitless.

We Gaians, of course, think all this planet meddling is anathema, but we couldn't wish for a more bumbling, inept villain than Planetform. And since they never move on to the next project, we always know just where to find them. Sitting around with their thumbs up their tailpipes on Harris, Minor and maybe Atka (the last being one of their more obvious failures).

But an active faction could flip this script, or at least move it forward.

Planetform Inc.

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Corporation ID: Planetform
Corporation IFF: Planetform

Under the terms of a Bretonian charter, a cadre of Cambridge researchers and California consultants were given a challenge: Transform a planet from a cold, desert locale with a limited carbon dioxide atmosphere into an agricultural planet-within 400 years. Planetform was born. The company grew very slowly, dependent on the largess of the Bretonian Government for most of it's money.

Planetform had few enemies until 67 years ago, when the radical eco-terrorist group the Gaians formed within the research environments of Edinburgh's Gaia Planet and Cambridge University. The Groups amateurish efforts soon matured into a serious threat to Planetform operations throughout Bretonian space.

Planetform began manufacturing Xenobiotic Filters in 815 A.S., which are essential in creating stations. Due to the recent war with Kusari, and the current war with Gallia, Planetform has taken severe economical hits with the loss of Planet Harris and Planet Ayr, as well as Perth Station leaving Planetform much weaker than it used to be.

Early in 819 A.S., Stephan Littlebury took over control of the company and is now attempting to rebuild the corporate strength that Planetform once held.

Our goals

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Current Goals:

Our main objective is to keep Planetform as the best choice when it comes to develop new habitable worlds, improve the conditions of those who are already inhabited and provide a wide range of service to improve planet's climates and weather.

Planetfomr Inc. isn't looking only for a high quality projects but also improving our lives in planets, looking for new possibilities in other systems thus cooperating with several house to chart and analyse new planets and stellar bodies.

Future goals:

Additionally we are always looking to do our work more sustainable. Meanwhile we have been labelled as a pollutant company by a well known eco-terrorist party we are working every day to develop a more green future for or children. One of thus projects is to develop a full planet scale seaweed farm to grow what it will be the future bio-fuel that will bring our vessels beyond new worlds and stars.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the green hope.

Corporation Fleet

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Logistic line

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Titanic | Enterprise liner | X-Suttle

Security line

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Griffin | Falcon | Eagle | Roc | Spatial | Waran bomber

Our partners

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Gateway
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Gateway is among the most contacted companies when it come to move Planetform goods around Sirius

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IMG
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The main providers of large scale tools to terraform and the only company contracted to feed Planet Harris with fresh water

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Synth Food
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A terraforming project lasts most of the times decades and even centuries involving hundreds of employees. Once a Planet is ready for colonization Planetform ensures the supply of basic commodities like food to and drinks by contracting Synth until the planet is ready to be farmed.

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ALG
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Being force to do a cleaning image operation by Gaians accusations, Planetform started to contract ALG to remove some remains and debris generated by the terraform projects. ALG is quite happy to receive almost the 60% of the marketing budget from the company via contracts.

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BMM, Bowex
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Meanwhile Bowex is not the first choice to move goods around Sirius, BMM is being contracted to build and keep Planetform fleet, thus keeping a quite good understanding with Bretonian crown

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Gallic Royal navy, Gallic police
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Gallic forces don't let pass so frequent the shipments heading to Planet Harris from Bretonia space. Most of the times Planetform is seen as a mere smuggler organization with corporation credentials feeding a planet in it's nowadays frontier background

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Mollies, Pirates in general
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Planetform, as a lawful corporation, directly opposes to any kind of piracy

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Gaians
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The main headache for the company, a small but aggressive group that directly works against Planetform interests.

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Corporation Assets & Projects

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Canterbury station
Sector 4D, New London system. Bretonia.

Canterbury Station houses the headquarters for Planetform, Inc., a pioneer in transforming uninhabitable or marginally habitable planets into terrestrial worlds. With the sparseness of arable planets outside of the core systems claimed by Liberty, Planetform, Inc. has been conducting a considerable amount of business in Bretonia and elsewhere. However, its operations have recently come under attack by Gaian eco-terrorists, and by necessity security guidelines have grown more stringent.

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Planet California Minor
Sector 6E, California system. Liberty.

In 741 A.S., Planetform devised a method to channel the planet's enormous subterranean stores of geothermic energy, releasing greenhouse gases and introducing alien organisms into the atmosphere to speed up the terraforming process. Planetform estimates that the terraforming process will likely be completed and the planet will be open for colonization around the year 826 A.S. Despite the harsh planetary conditions, the increasing availability of jobs on the planet has attracted large numbers of manual laborers, particularly from the Colorado system, and California Minor's population is estimated to be just over 8 million at present.

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Planet Harris
Sector 4B/4C, Tau-31 System. Borderworlds.

Previously a barren world, Harris was the object of one of the first large-scale terraforming efforts by Planetform, Inc. Initiated in 450 AS, the project was made easier by the abundance of pure Water and Oxygen ice in the system, while Terraforming Gases were easily transported by Bowex from the Stokes Mining Station in nearby Leeds. Harris was originally scheduled for colonization in 820 AS, but the project has recently suffered a series of setbacks due to attacks by Gaian terrorists.

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Cold bay depot
Sector 5C, Hudson system. Borderworlds.

Cold Bay is a small Planetform base built near Planet Atka in 816 A.S., being the first hidden step in preparations for Atka terraforming ordered by the Liberty government. Rheinland discovered this base in 817 A.S. and demanded its immediate deconstrucion, since populating Atka would mean that Liberty would claim the whole Hudson system as a part of its own territory. Liberty has since occupied the system, and a small part of Hudson on the other side.

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Canterbury station - Sector 4D, New London system. Bretonia.

Canterbury Station houses the headquarters for Planetform, Inc., a pioneer in transforming uninhabitable or marginally habitable planets into terrestrial worlds. With the sparseness of arable planets outside of the core systems claimed by Liberty, Planetform, Inc. has been conducting a considerable amount of business in Bretonia and elsewhere. However, its operations have recently come under attack by Gaian eco-terrorists, and by necessity security guidelines have grown more stringent.

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Green hope project
Upcoming - Location not established

Green hope project pretends to be the last in innovation in vessels fuel engineering. A bio-fuel coming from small organisms and seaweed that once lyophilized become an alternative to the current fuel options. Currently the R+D department is looking to improve the bio-fuel performance meanwhile our pilots are scanning vast regions of multiple planets to find the best suitable place to develop such planet-scale seaweed farm.

Our supply chain

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Harris supply routes Wrote:.
California Minor [Floragro] ► Planet Harris
Planet Harris [Gaian wildlife] ► California Minor

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Methyr-Tydfill [Flourine] ► Planet Harris
Planet Harris [Tungsten] ► Caernarfor Station
Caernarfor Station [Drill Bills] ► Methyr-Tydfill

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Planet Kurile [Alien organisms] ► Planet Harris
Planet Harris [Gaian wildlife] ► Atka Research station
Atka research station [Pharmaceuticlas] ► Planet Kurile
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California minor supply routes Wrote:.
Planet Harris [Gaian wildlife] ► California Minor
California Minor [Floragro] ► Planet Harris

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Canterbury [Alien organisms] ► California Minor
California minor [Floragro] ► Canterbury
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Cold Bay depot supply routes Wrote:.
Methyr-Tydfill [Flourine] ► Cold Bay depot
Cold Bay depot [Xenobiotic filters ► Canterbury
Canterbury [Consummer goods] ► Methyr-Tydfill
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(12-15-2013, 01:47 PM)Ponge Wrote: Nice.
Diplomacy, which is a key factor in my opinion, is yet missing.
I really don't think BAF/BPA will hand military class snubs to civilian corporations, especially in wartime, but it never hurts to ask, and it would present a nice RP.

Snubs: what about the Raven's Talon and the Waran?

(12-15-2013, 01:58 PM)Dr.Peter Venkman Wrote: Note: You have 2x Canterbury Station descriptions.

(12-15-2013, 03:14 PM)Syrus Wrote: Planetform owns the following stations / planets and runs the following operations:
- Canterbury Station, New London
PFI headquarters

- Cold Bay Depot, Hudson
Preparations for the terraforming of Atka; production of Xenobiotic Filters.

- Methyr-Tydfill Mining Station, Poole
Fluorine mining from the nearby Torfaen field

- Planet California Minor, California
Major terraforming operation in the later stages of the terraforming process; considering how long terraforming takes it can be said that this is "almost done".

- Planet Harris, Tau-31
Major terraforming operation. The process would be done, had GRN not invaded. Currently cut off from everyone else pretty much and forced to survive independently mostly.


They cooperate with Gateway in Poole, Caernarfon supplies them Drill Bits for example. They also cooperate in New London I would guess, considering that their headquarters there are close together and all. Other operations Planetform is involved in is the limited terraforming of Sprague. They also get hydrocarbons from Birmingham in Manchester and Douglas in Omega-3. I would guess Planetform also acts as an advisor for the Miura terraforming project, although from what I know it's not directly mentioned, but I honestly don't know all the rumors and such of that. The flourine they produce is widely used. They also had major cooperation with IMG in Tau-31 prior to the Gallic invasion, IMG supplied the pure water as well as a lot of the silver used on Planet Harris.

Hm...probably missed something still...

Besides that I'd suggest sticking more to the civilian ship lines instead of the Bretonian ones. While Planetform is mostly a Bretonian corporation they work more like ALG, not limiting themselves to just one house. I suggest using the Gull, Albatross, Heron, Crane and Stork, as well as the Firefly once it's remodeled into the Serenity. Of course you still have access to the Bretonian trading ships; Bowex (by themselves and via BMM) and Gateway (via IMG) both produce them or have them produced for them.

I see Planetform, as I said, mostly like ALG or Synth Foods (and somewhat close to Cryer or even IC): as an interhouse faction with (a bit) stronger ties to one house.



Hm...if I remember some other stuff I'll post it, I guess...

(12-15-2013, 06:10 PM)Syrus Wrote: The situation with Kusari is also interesting. Considering that neither GRN nor Kusari actually touched Harris and all...
There is (currently) no (hostile) rephack for Planetform in Kusari, you can move rather freely around there. That situation might be interesting. Especially with Planet Miura, Okinawa, being terraformed by GMG and Planet Kurile, Sigma-17, providing the main part of the Alien Organisms which are very useful for accelerating the terraforming process.

Another thing is Planet Toulouse in Roussillion: there's something about a terraforming project on that planet's infocard. Something you might want to look into? Though it says another faction is mostly involved in that, it might be interested to RP around it a bit.

Then there's that black spot ... Planet Yuma in Coronado. But...you are not very friendly with CR, who are working on terraforming that planet a bit (as it is already quite habitable, but overgrown by fast growing plants). Maybe something can be done to mend the relations?

There are many other planets and opportunities where Planetform's knowledge and workforce could come in very handy, which you could help terraform.