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Planetform Incorporated - pform - 02-02-2012

Disclaimer Wrote:Post is under construction, feedback welcomed.

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Tag: PFI]
ID: Planetform


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[font=Agency FB]<span style="font-size:36pt;line-height:100%][color=#009900]History
Building Better Biospheres

Planetform was founded under the straightforward, if challenging, goal of turning a barren planet into one ripe for agricultural purposes within a time frame of 400 years. Originally funded solely by the Bretonian Government, Planetform came into existence in late 411 AS, as a group of Cambridge and California scientists banded together to give Planet Harris a new place in Sirius. Due to the naturally planet starved environs of The Barrier, and the ecologically devastated condition of Leeds, it came as no surprise that the Bretonian Crown was more than willing to pour credit after credit into Planetform'€™s promising methods of terraforming, despite the incredibly long-term contract they found themselves in.

The future of the Harris and Ayr projects began to cloud in the mid 700'€™s, with the advent of a deadly and fanatical eco-terrorist group known as the '€˜Gaians'€™. Exacting what appeared to be a personal vendetta, the Gaians began to hamper Planetform'€™s operations in-system and across Bretonia. Planetform adapted to this threat, placing large bounties on criminal elements that threatened their work. With the situation in Tau 31 seeming to finally stablise, increased hostilities between the Governments of Bretonia and Kusari developed into full-scale war. The Harris project'€™s logistics became increasingly difficult to maintain in light of a Kusari blockade, due to its position as the last Bretonian bastion in the Tau 31 system. Planetform'€™s Bretonian heritage made them no friends with Kusari.

Things took a turn for the worse in the years following, when the threat of Gallia was revealed, their forces pushing through the Taus. Harris was left without a Bretonian guard, and Planetform was forced to all but abandon the Harris project. Worse still, Planet Ayr and Perth Station were captured in their entirety by GRN forces during the Bretonian retreat from Edinburgh. Planet Harris'€™ has yet to be assaulted, with an uneasy status-quo developing on the undefended planet. Gallia appears to have little to no interest in terraforming, leaving the incomplete planet of little use to the GRN and their monarch. Local security forces have made sure to avoid aggravating the Gauls, believing their position only secure while the invaders consider them harmless.

With the Bretonian government in no position to fund the company as it had in the past, Planetform has been forced to branch out in an attempt to become a Trans-Sirius company, putting more emphasis on it'€™s other projects abroad. In particular, Planetform'€™s trade wing has been reinforced and expanded in order to distribute the company'€™s two innovative and lucrative new inventions, FloraGro and Xenobiotic Filters. The Board of Directors has recently seen fit to acquire several smaller firms in the agriculture and chemical production industries, in an attempt to offset losses in the firm'€™s main business focus, expanding the corporation'€™s portfolio in the process.



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[color=#009900]Current Projects
[color=#FF6600]Planet Harris

Planet Harris represents a significant milestone in Sirius' history: the transition of terraforming from a theoretical concept to a practical science. Harris is the company'€™s longest running project, intended to offset Bretonia'€™s food shortages and planetary overpopulations. With the terraforming process initiated in 450 AS, Harris was scheduled for completion in 820 AS. This deadline is now considered impossible due to incessant pre-war raids from Gaian eco-terrorists, followed by a Kusari blockade of incoming traffic and finally a Gallic invasion that led to the recall of the BAF garrison. While the planet currently remains in Planetform's hands, progress has almost halted due to the threat of a Gallic occupation looming ever present.

[color=#FF6600]California Minor

California Minor marked Planetform'€™s transition from a local Bretonian concern to an internationally relevant corporation. With operations beginning in 741 AS, Planetform was contracted by the Libertonian government to transform the arid, bitterly cold ice planet into a temperate, self-sufficient world. A working estimate for colonisation was placed at 826 AS. Planetform tackled the challenging project by tapping geothermic vents, releasing large quantities of greenhouse gasses. Alien Organisms and silver deposits have also been utilised to speed the process and initiate industrial scale cloud seeding. The project is largely running according to schedule, with widespread biosphere creation expected to begin within a year. California Minor is currently home to several large factories, producing FloraGro.

[color=#FF6600]Planet Ayr

Operations to terraform Ayr began in 752 AS, with a colonisation estimate being made for 900 AS. Following the construction of Perth Outpost, Planetform began the terraforming process by bombarding the gas-rich polar icecaps with oxygen asteroids found in the nearby Tain Asteroid Field. This practice was largely halted after Gaians began launching systematic and coordinated raids on Perth from the field, resulting in increasingly long delays. Terraforming gasses were bulk-imported to speed the warming process, which was estimated to become exponential once the polar icecaps began to thaw. Recently leaked reports state that Planetform had managed to overtake their schedule for the first time in over a decade, immediately prior to Edinburgh'€™s fall. Due to the sensitive nature of the current stage of the terraforming process, it is believed that a prolonged lack of planetary maintenance could do untold damage and set the project back by years.

[color=#FF6600]Planet Atka

Operations to begin terraforming Atka were initiated in 816 AS, prior to the declaration of hostilities between the states of Liberty and Rheinland. With the construction of Cold Bay Depot in orbit, staff were ordered to work under a media blackout order, to ensure relative secrecy. The first basic stages of terraforming were cautiously initiated before the Rheinland Bundstag filed an official complaint against the Republic of Liberty for what it viewed as a precursor to an unacceptable breach of trust and the annexation of the trans-House Independent Worlds. Following the declaration of war and the Liberty Navy'€™s capture of the Hudson system, work was tentatively renewed, the cease and desist order being ignored. Cold Bay is currently home to several large factories, producing Xenobiotic Filters.

[color=#FF6600]Planet Carlisle

From orbit, Carlisle appears to be an idyllic world, far from the barren balls of ice and rock Planetform is accustomed to dealing with. Despite this, the tropical jungle planet has been deemed completely hostile to human life due to sweltering temperatures and deadly strains of native bacteria prevalent across the planet's surface. Working in tandem with the Cambridge Research Institute and Cryer since 818 AS, Planetform hopes to utilise its industry leading biosphere amendment capabilities to distribute a cocktail of antibiotic proteins across the planet's surface, opening certain temperate corridors for immediate colonisation. Localised paraterraforming has already been considered, with both schemes expected to come to a head within the next year.



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[color=#009900]Corporate Fleet Operations
Eventually deciding that outsourcing their operations to other corporations was not cutting as many costs as it intended, Planetform began to source it's own fleet of transports ships, dedicated to moving the cargoes needed for the various terraforming operations around Sirius.

Planetform's trade fleet is responsible for the supply of all of the company's ongoing projects and holdings, ranging from planets undergoing the terraforming process, such as Harris and California Minor, to the maintenance of advanced factories producing cutting edge commodities such as FloraGro and Xenobiotic Filters.

Smaller vessels of the trade fleet may also act as scouts, checking desolate and barren planets for potential terraforming viability. When such a planet is detected, the information is usually released to the local governing body, followed by a petition for a contract of services. Planetform has found that it is most efficient to make your own business.



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[color=#009900]Rank Structures

[color=#FF6600]CEO
(NPC Controlled by the Board, non-voting, save for tie-break situations)
Alastair Lance

[color=#FF6600]Board of Directors
Director of Relations: Horatio Winston Octavius (Erica Hartmann)
Director of Security: John Preston (SothaSil)
Director of Terraforming: Danny Burns (jammi)
Director of Commerce: Thomas Grey (Ktayn)
Open Seat 1: Lord William Curtis (Escopton)
Open Seat 2: Denny Crane (Loneshark)

[color=#FF6600]Consultants

[color=#FF6600]Transport Captains

PFI]Genesis - James Miller (jammi)
PFI]Haphaestus - James Miller (jammi)
PFI]Izanami - Tiana Lanster (Erica Hartmann)
PFI]Uranos - Vedam Dren (SothaSil)
PFI]Tethys - Michael Alexandros (Ktayn)

[color=#FF6600]Transport Recruits


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[color=#009900]Shares

Twenty-Five Million (25,000,000) Credits worth of Company shares allow for Non-Vocal & Non-Voting access to Board meetings.

Fifty Million (50,000,000) Credits worth of Company shares allow for Vocal but Non-Voting access to Board meetings.

Two Open Board of Directors seats (Vocal and Voting) are open to shareholders with prices starting at One-Hundred Million (100,000,000) Credits. Board Seat shareholders may be removed by total majority (unanimous) board vote. They may also sell their shares and position to another, so long as the new shareholder is permitted by the Board through a majority vote.


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[color=#009900]Diplomacy

Note that these denote the Planetform'€™s stance towards others, not necessarily their stance towards Planetform.

[color=#FF6600]Business Partners

[color=#33FF33]Synth Foods

Coming together to create the product FloraGro, Planetform and Synth Foods share a relatively close relationship in the industry, due to their similar purposes.

Cryer Pharmaceuticals
With the discovery of a bacterial organism on Atka, Planetform worked with Cryer to create Xenobiotic Filters. The situation on Carlisle also requires the two companies to work closely together, forming a fairly close relationship between them.


Friendly
[color=#33FF33]Bretonia, Liberty & Rheinland House Authorities and Corporations

Planetform maintains a favourable stance towards these houses, as they are their current and likely contractors.


Neutral
[color=#3333FF]All unlisted factions and Kusari House Authorities & Corporations

Planetform'€™s Bretonian heritage cannot be denied, and despite moves to distance itself from them, old habits die hard, and so do grudges. That said, the company is willing to work with whoever will pay them, so the past is mostly left in the past, whether it be for an entire house of the various pirate factions that may have had encounters with Planetform in the past.


Hostile
[color=#FF0000]Gaians

Exhibiting an unwavering hostility towards Planetform and her operations, the company has no time for these fanatical terrorists. Secure the safety of company assets first, but otherwise eliminate on sight.


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[color=#009900]Static Assets

[color=#FF6600]Stations

Canterbury Station, New London (Planetform Incorporated Headquarters)
Perth Station, Edinburgh (Currently occupied by Gallic Royalist forces, off-limits)
Cold Bay Depot, Hudson


[color=#FF6600]Planetary Bases

Planet California Minor, California
Planet Harris, Tau-31 (Operations ceased due to hostile Gallic Royalist fleet)



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[color=#009900]Technology Allowances

[color=#FF6600]Ships
All Civilian/Generic ships as the ID allows.
Bretonian corporate ships.
Libertonian corporate ships.

[color=#FF6600]Weapons
All Civilian/Generic weapons.



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[color=#009900]Links

Personnel Database
Message Dump
Recruitment
Boardroom
Shares Purchase

Leaked Files News Report
Deep Space Engineering Ship Construction Contract
Border Worlds Export Ship Construction Contract
ALG Toxic Waste Disposal Contract
Robotics Complaint to Ageira Technologies
Auction of second Boardroom Director's seat



Planetform Incorporated - escopton - 02-02-2012

// someone told me it was ok to post ooRP feedback here so I will say what I came here to say:

Lord William Curtis, from the House of Curtis, Planet Leeds, would be interested in being a 100M share holder with voice and vote, but that 'share bid overrun rule' is actually discouraging me from doing it. I mean, I spend 100M to support a faction which I have waited long to see alive, but then someone with 150M comes and kicks me out? Please clarify this.


Planetform Incorporated - SparkyRailgun - 02-02-2012

Hey Escopton;
That idea was a theory that admittedly wasn't thought out to it's fullest.
We've gone ahead and altered the rules there, how do you feel about them now?

And yes, feedback is perfectly okay and encouraged!:smile2:


Planetform Incorporated - escopton - 02-02-2012

Well the new write up seems more trust worthy now. Will you create a different inRP thread where I can apply for share purchase?


Planetform Incorporated - pform - 02-02-2012

Feel free to send us a communication regarding it.
Once our rank structure is finalised the board's members will be shown there, so people will be able to see if a seat is open or not.

~Erica


Planetform Incorporated - escopton - 02-02-2012

I posted on the RP stories thread, if it's not the correct place, please have it moved.


Planetform Incorporated - RmJ - 02-02-2012

I hope Planetform can get enough base to get going and stay going. I might need a planet or two! xD


Peace.


Planetform Incorporated - SparkyRailgun - 02-02-2012

It's not outlined in the writeup there, but we do plan to take PFI in a slightly different direction than normal.

Not to talk down on earlier incarnations of the faction, but it's evident that the general trading faction idea just doesn't work for it, so the plan is to make deals with those you wouldn't find most lawful corporations even talking to at all.

But, such things will be revealed in the future, thanks for your well wishes.:smile2:


Planetform Incorporated - Battlesnax - 02-02-2012

My suggestions for your write-up:
  • Under diplomacy, add Gallic Lawful Forces and Gallic Corporations as hostile.
  • You need to add some section where you lay out what your members will be actually doing in game. Just shipping terraforming supplies from your bases to sites that need to be terraformed? What else? By reading your write-up it's not obvious what the members do.
  • Add a section for Bases Owned and name 1 as your HQ.
  • Will Planetform have its own escorts, hire others for that, or fly un-escorted? Note it on your write-up.
  • Add a listing of the systems in your ZOI



Planetform Incorporated - SparkyRailgun - 02-03-2012

' Wrote:My suggestions for your write-up:
  • Under diplomacy, add Gallic Lawful Forces and Gallic Corporations as hostile.
  • You need to add some section where you lay out what your members will be actually doing in game. Just shipping terraforming supplies from your bases to sites that need to be terraformed? What else? By reading your write-up it's not obvious what the members do.
  • Add a section for Bases Owned and name 1 as your HQ.
  • Will Planetform have its own escorts, hire others for that, or fly un-escorted? Note it on your write-up.
  • Add a listing of the systems in your ZOI

Thanks for your suggestions!
I'll get around to using most of them later today, but in reply to your first point;

As noted, the Diplomacy is how we view others. Yes, they have trampled on our projects and stolen our station, but that doesn't mean we're going to start shooting at them. Look at it like the IMG; they know they'd get crushed if they attempted anything silly.

In the end, obviously we don't like them too much, but we would be willing to make money from them if the Bretonian Government never found out. That's difficult and unlikely to happen, but the possibility remains.

Planetform's main reason for existing is to adapt planets for human life... That skill of adaptation continues in the corporate level by taking things as they come, even if our beautiful station is conquered by the cheese-eating surrender monkeys.:P

The hostile section is for entities we openly fire at if provoked.


Thanks again!