Develop Rheinland's economy by fulfilling the original goal of Krüger Mineralien. That would mean working side by side with other corporations and employing more staff in order to achieve a higher activity rate. To expand mining operations, Krüger would need a high income that can be achieved only by working side by side with other corporations. This profit will give the corporation room to expand by developing new mining technologies, purchasing new vessels and employing more staff.
SECONDARY GOALS
Find new ways of income to replace the dried out mining fields of Dresden. Even though the Silver and Cobalt fields in omega 7 are rich now, they will be dried out eventually.
DESCRIPTION
The company has a rather interesting background including wars, cooperations, rivalisation and so on. Due to different interests and deficiencies, mining operations became harder, more expensive and eventually lead to the fall of the company. Trends indicates that the current market slowly becomes an oligopsony. The competition is getting bigger and more aggressive while corporations join forces in order to reduce their costs and improve their supplier power. Krüger Mineralien had a poor market position in the last decades, while other Rheinland companies were flourishing and are growing even today.
One of the Krüger main assets is Mannheim Station. This station is an H-Fuel production facility. It supports the Military and Federal Polizei in their efforts to ensure the safety of Rheinland. The Rheinland government does not openly agree with the Krüger and their corporate war with the Gas Miners Guild. Because of this disagreement the Rheinland cannot support the Krüger with their attempts to gather Helium-3 in the Sigmas.
The Gas Miners Guild is trying to disallow the Krüger to gather there needed resources called Helium-3 and to prevent them from creating H-Fuel for the Rheinland with the sole intention to not jeopardize their obsolete market for H-Fuel supply throughout Sirius. If needed the Gas Miners Guild will even use brute force within the Sigma’s to prevent the Krüger from shipping Helium-3 to the Mannheim Station to prevent the production of H-Fuel. Secretly the Krüger did gather information about the Gas Miners Guild to maybe find a way to persuade the Gas Miners Guild so it would benefit them both, maybe even Rheinland as well in the end.
Krüger's remaining operations are within Dresden and Omega-7 systems, but the Dresden suffers from almost dried out mining fields. Some of the Krüger employees claim that there are hidden spots in the system and some believe that further research might be needed to improve the efficiency and possibility to discover new mining locations within the Dresden system. Still there is another problem that Krüger has to face, the Red Hessian Army. Their forces are numerous, strong and even the Rheinland military has problems to overcome them. Krüger has a small security fleet, but is not able to oppose the might of the Red Hessian Army, or that of their allies.
Within Omega 7 the Krüger has rich silver and cobalt fields, but also a high competition with the Independent Miners Guild. Krüger has also to compete with Daumann Heavy Construction, as Daumann has claimed a lot of the mining fields within the Rheinland. All this makes it even more difficult for Krüger to find a solution for their weak position in Rheinland. Despite all the competition Daumann Heavy Construction has agreed to aid Krüger against mutual criminals, but still refuses any cooperation when it comes to mining or transportation.
INFOCHART
Krüger Mineralien suffered a great economical crisis causing staff redundancy, losing millions of long term investments and drifted to the edge of bankruptcy proceedings. The current wealth of the corporation consists 4 stations, a few mining vessels and some ships capable of transportation. The stations are in bad shape, one of them is under constant threat. The lack of logistic expertise makes the facilities lose interest in business life and draws a lot of expenses.
In order to restore the former position of Krüger Mineralien, the new leadership faces a difficult ordeal. The crisis management of the company includes the differentiation of their products by evolving a new mining mechanism which allows gaining ore in higher quantities with greater purity and less additional costs.
This is achievable only by forming partnerships and providing a constant supply to satisfy not just the demand of Rheinland but the other corporations too. Krüger Mineralien main task is to restore mining operations in the sector and to cooperate with the other corporations of Rheinland. This means supplying Daumann's manufacturing department as well as tasking the ALG with waste disposal to clean the by-products of the mining procedures.
HISTORY
193 A.S.
As the third major company of Rheinland, Krüger Mineralien was founded by a few well-off citizens of the Homeland. The corporation was the first who received the rights to mine in Dresden and was aided by the government itself in order to expand on the market.
600 A.S.
The 80 years war. There are speculations about the possibility that Liberty agent provoked the struggle of Rheinland yet the truth is that Krüger Mineralien saw the possibility of a high income by mining from the Crow Nebula in the Sigma systems, which was occupied by the settlers of Planet Honshu, the Gas Miners Guild.
The company convinced the Rheinland government to help them expanding and taking control over the rich gas field of the Sigmas. Daumann also welcomed the idea as they knew that their capability of constructing warships will be required upon the war.
At the end of the war Krüger Mineralien became the last on the list in terms of wealth, active contracts and reputation. The company is finding hard to upkeep the business ever since.
820 A.S.
I.John Jacob Astor took over the Krüger shortly after that and construction for the Krüger base was summoned. Called the Auerhammer Storage Facility, the base was a success at the beginning. Krüger was flourishing and the station was a good sale-point for the Mineralien mined by the company itself. It worked along with the employees moored at Elbich Mining Facility. After some months the Red Hessian Army took on a long siege and just before the destruction came nearby, several of the station crew managed to escape between the heavy gunfire. It stroke the Krüger Mineralien hard, not only within the wallet, but also emotional with all the casualties left behind.
II.After a distress signal John Jacob Astor did disappear along with his wingmen. Some months went by while the employees where concerned about the future of the Krüger Mineralien. During this time the counsellor took over and managed to run it in the absence of the director. After that Helene Schmidt decided to take over and lead them to flourishing future with her counsellor, Anne Kulzer.
III.Krüger Mineralien contacted the infamous Gallia for a trading license to ship precious mined resources to sell at a high price. They tried to get a license for using Jump Drive technology as well, to further secure their huge size transport vessels for safe delivering to the merchants within Gallia. Additional requests were made to prevent any situations with the Gallic Metal Service on the Roanne Production Facility. The same requests were made to the IDF Shipping for Montbrison Storage Facility.
IV.The decision was made to contact Samura Heavy industries for 3 K7 : P-19T "Akegata" Kusari Container Transports. Not only for the ships itself, but also to improve the relations with the Samura Heavy industries for future developments and business deals.
821 A.S.
I.Helene Schmidt took the chance to see along with the board of directors a way to gain more profit from the Omega 7 mining fields. They decided to start the construction of Reutlingen Storage Facility, in the hope to gain more profits to invest for the future of Krüger Mineralien.
II.After a meeting with the board, Anne Kulzer had to contact Samura Heavy Industries again, this time for some interesting contracts to make. Faith was it that the Samura had the same intentions and contacted the Krüger Mineralien first. Krüger hopes to gain more of the Helium-3 market and to sole supply the whole Rheinland with the cheap H-Fuel production. While they gain a more consequent credit flow to invest more into research and to improve the working conditions of the Krüger employees. This business deal might benefit Krüger Mineralien and the Samura Heavy Industries on a short and possible long term as well.
III.After a visit on Planet Hamburg, Anne Kulzer became very ill. Doctors do not expect she will survive, the disease she has is one they have never seen before. Only the future shall tell if she will survive or not, during the meantime Anne Kulzer has to resign from her position as Stellvertretender Vorsitzender. After a voting the decision was made that Ulrich Schweighöfer would walk into her footsteps and take upon the position as Stellvertretender Vorsitzender, leaving the position Vertriebsleiter empty for the time being. Evaluations and re-assignments have to be made to see who would be fit to fulfill this position.
IV.Helene Schmidt and Ulrich Schweighöfer gave the green light upon a new survey in the Koeln system. This was lead by Axel Walther and it evolved into a promising future. With the Bautzen station being a liability for the Krüger Mineralien due to the constant attack and surrounding of the Red Hessian Army. At a later state the Krüger Mineralien did lay a claim on the Koeln system its mining fields.
V.Krüger Mineralien finally decided to contact the Gas Miners Guild. The task was given to the Radgeber Frederick Schneider to contact them and to make the arrangements. After it was all decided and arranged the meeting started. The meeting might have had a different result than planned, the Gas Miners Guild are now fully aware of our presence of Krüger Mineralien within the Sigma’s. Also about their awareness of their collaboration with the known criminal organisation of the Red Hessian Army. This would prove for the Krüger Mineralien to deploy more security forces within the Sigma’s to increase the defence of it’s assets.
VI.The head of security of Krüger Mineralien, managed to gather evidence along with another employee of the security division, to catch the Red Hessian Army docking on a station of the Independent Miners Guild right next to the Omega 7 jumpgate in the Omega 3 system. After a some time more evidence of the Independent Miners Guild supporting the Red Hessian Army was revealed leaving still a lot of evidence of their collaboration behind locked in a safe place. The Vorstand of Krüger Mineralien decided then to contact the Gallic Metal Service to start the supply of Niobium to Rheinland. To protect the supply lines heading to Rheinland and to lose the sole dependency on the Independent Miners Guild.
VII.The vorstand
ASSETS
ESSEN STATION
Essen Station is located within the New Berlin system. This Station serves as a Headquarter for the Krüger Mineralien. Secret assignments and all other operations are planned from this station. Orders will be relayed throughout the chain of command from this location, so that the employees can work as efficient as possible, on the various locations Krüger operates within Sirius.
BAUTZEN STATION
Bautzen Station is located within the Dresden system. It suffers from high maintenance costs. Not only due to the low rates the miners gather from the fields, but also because the Red Hessian Army is forcing themselves a way through the system. Krüger fears that the Hessians may try to siege the station and Bautzen may share the same fate as Leipzig Station.
The exact plans of Krüger for this station are uncertain. They have a lot of problems to solve and fear that big investments into that sector, will only be a waste of money. Yet they try to maintain the base and hope to be able to fight of the Red Hessian Army. For the Krüger it is a huge money sink in its current state. The Rheinland government does everything to assist Krüger in obtaining some of the resources within the Dresden fields. But there will come a time the costs to defend the system will outweigh the profit's they gain from it.
ELBICH MINING FACILITY
The main income for Krüger is processed from this station. The surrounding fields are rich of resources like silver and cobalt. This gives Krüger employees a lot of work to process. Many sales can be done within the field, directly filling the transport's with the unrefined ore and the rest would be shipped to Elbich.
REUTLINGEN STORAGE FACILITY
Reutlingen is the newest Krüger asset. Located within the Omega 7 silver field and serves as a drop off point for ore. Miner's no longer have to travel as far as Elbich to unload their cargo, giving them more time to mine. The station also sells the mined ore to other company transports. Recently it has come under attacks by Hessians and corsair forces and the Krüger security was forced to build new weapon platform's to ensure the safety of the station.
MANNHEIM STATION
This station is used to produce the clean H-Fuel for Rheinland. Due to the exorbitant price the Gas Miners Guild charges, the Rheinland Military and the Rheinland Federal Polizei, made it possible for the Krüger to to gain some good profit from the situation. Nevertheless the gathering for the needed Helium-3 resources is a dangerous task for Krüger to achieve. Rumors were spread that Krüger has future plans with some Kusari corporation to possibly fully supply the Rheinland with H-fuel.
Zone of Interest (Operations)
Krüger focuses mainly on Rheinland, to mine and to sell their mined resources. Omega 7 is a high interest zone for Krüger, as it includes the main mining zones. Meanwhile the Dresden system has lost most of its value and has become more of a burden. It is filled with criminals and a rough environment to gather resources, not to mention the almost dried out fields.
Krüger ships offload their ores mainly in Kusari and Gallia and sometimes low amount's of ores, which are not needed in either Kusari or Gallia, are shipped to Bretonia. Usually Krüger stays outside of Bretonia, to avoid any conflicts of interest caused by the war between Gallia and Bretonia. The Sigma’s are also valuable zones of interest for Krüger, as they pose the one of the few places to gather Helium-3. Krüger ship's mainly stay inside Sigma 13, only occasionally going as far as Sigma 19 to gather the valuable gas.
Diplomacy
ALLIES Rheinland Police, Rheinland Military, Daumann Heavy Construction and Samura Heavy Industries
FRIENDLY Republican Shipping and Junker Marauders
NEUTRAL LWB, IMG, Everyone Else
UNFRIENDLY Outcasts, Corsairs, ALG, Liberty Authorities, GMG and BMM
ENEMIES Federalists, BDM|, Red Hessians, Vagrant Raiders, Bundschuh, Nomads, Wilde and other Criminals
Fleet
Fighters, bombers and gunboats
The various squadrons formed by these vessels have the responsibility to protect Krüger transport convoys and assure the arrival of transported goods to the buyer. This is the task of each pilot serving in the security wing of the corporation, including the protection of Krüger owned stations and defending friendly convoys under pirate attack.
This is one of the most important division of Krüger Mineralien that is responsible for making profit and eventually generating cash flow. These ships are made with precision that allows to fill its cargo bays completely with mineralien. Almost everything is robotized so the filling or loading of these ships take only little time. Each ships is equipped with emergency transponders and improved engines allowing them to travel between systems more easily.
The heart of the corporation. Mining vessels are always in the mining sites collecting mineralien and filling large transports with valuable ores. This division can be divided into two smaller ones. One of them is made of massive mining ships which are controlled by trained personnel very well paid. Each ship is equipped with the latest mining devices researched and developed by the company. The second one is made of small mining vessels that are controlled by a single person. These are also used by Krüger Mineralien mainly fulfilling contracts of not legal entities.
Special ships are used by Krüger to handle difficult, dangerous or high priority missions. These are to be registered by the company’s administration office. Each ship receives a special call-sign during the operation.
Fighters, bombers and gunboats:Kruger|Greek Letter-xx Freighters and transports:Kruger|KTS-Shipname * Preferably German city/town names Mining Vessels (non fighter class):Kruger|KMS-Shipname * Preferably German city/town names Special Vessels:Contact Krüger Mineralien Administration
All Greek Letters: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, (i) Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi and Omega
Management (Ranks)
Vorsitzende (Chairman) - The main person, responsible for the progress of the Krüger Mineralien. He or she has the highest influence for making decisions. Stellvertretender Vorsitzender (Vice chairman) - Controls the company in the Chairman's absence. If the Chairman is present, the SV. handles the bank, the process of mining, transport and employment moderation issues. Also plays an important role on diplomatic relations. Ratgeber (Counselor) - The personal advisor for the Chairmen. He will also be given administration and office work appointed by the Chairmen.
Miner employees:
Direktor der Erzbetriebsgruppe(Extraction leader) -Dkt. - Responsible for supervising and coordinating the mining operations and recruiting new miners. Master Miner-Mmr. - A master of his trade, he doesn't need to ask for respect. Advanced Miner -Amn. - A miner with officially acknowledged experience and therefore authority over his co-workers. Miner-Mnr. - The everyday Krüger Mineralien employee, responsible for extracting ore and diamonds from mineable fields using small mining vessels.
Transportation employees:
Vertriebsleiter (Sales manager) -Sm. - Leader of the transportation-related issues, responsible for setting up trade routes, leading convoys and keeping Krüger's products on the market. Master Transporter -Mtr. - Experienced transport pilot, responsible for moving large amounts of cargo around and keeping the larger supply routes busy. Advanced Transporter -Atr. - Transportation Commander that is responsible for carrying goods between systems using transporters. Transporter -Tr. - New transportation officers, responsible for the delivery of Krüger material to the markets and the assembly of needed mining equipment and space port supplies in turn using transportation ships.
Security staff: Kommandant(Commander) -Kom. - Chief of security. Responsible for splitting and controlling security and safeguarding convoys. Has authority to command Miners and Transport personnel if their lives are at stake. Also has the responsibility of recruiting new security pilots. Sondereinsatzkraft-Sek. - Leaders of security wings patrolling Krüger territory. Can be involved in quick, field diplomacy if the situation demands. Kampfpilot-Kpl. - Security personnel responsible for the integrity of convoys and supervisory Krüger territory.
Special: Ingenieur (Engineer) - Employees commanding Repair ships that are repairing. These Employees are considered the heart behind the strength of the fleet. Without the repairs they make in space, the enemies of Krüger would have a much more easy time if these skilled men would not assist in middle of a combat situation to do the necessary repairs. The engineers are in almost every situation a primary target for the enemies of Krüger Mineralien. They all know the engineers can change the outcome of any battle.
How to grow upon the ranks you should check the Request Office for more information.
Current Leadership Staff: Vorsitzende (Leader) Karl Mecker Stellvertretende Vorsitzende (2IC), Valentina von Thielau
Direktor der Erzbetriebsgruppe (Mining Leader) -open- Counselor (Ratgeber) Dieter Porta Direktor des Sicherheitsdiensts (Escort Leader) Paul Abel Direktor der Intelligenz (Research Leader) Achim Schwarzmann Vertriebsleiter (Sales manager) Erik Mannlicher
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