Tinker&Transport was founded in 821 AS by a group of libertonian Inverstors looking for an opening in the ever evolving trade and economy struggles between the *Big Three* and non-libertonian companies. With no real opportunity in sight some of them asked around till they found a couple of resourceful but trustworthy freelance traders.
They found Phileas Ottobert Tukker and his long time friend and partner FinnMcKannon : Two enterprising Freelancers with a good reputation of honesty. Mr. Tukker being an experienced borderworld trader and freelance supply runner with bretonian and rheinland parents, and McKannon an orphan from the Gallia to Liberty wars, flying his private Montante Gunboat as escort for his friend. Both where not only interested but suggested something that at first seemed quite unusual : a trade partnership with Junkers.
McKannon´s close childhood friend FynnMcScrap was looking for options to trade scrap metal and other recycled resources from Liberty to Kusari and beyond.
And so a cooperation started developing,
Freelance traders and Junker scrappers working together in a sharehold and cooperative setting. And it worked well. The Freelance traders got the connections they needed , and got a steady supply of tradeable prime sorted metal alloys, electronics and Hull plates. And the Junkers got fair pay and official trade and base licences, pulling them away from shadow markets and drug dealing or piracy. With hard work came pride, and wealth.
The Investors got fine cuts for their shareholds, and forgot about prejudice against their Junker employees, as the joung Junker Foreman and his two Freelance Partners had hoped.
Their plans continued to grow fast in this first jear: With the opening of the Haven Memorial Clinic and the dealing with the philantroph Sirius Relief Organization lead by Mr. William Walker they worked on bettering the reputation of the base and it´s crews, investing even more into Tinker&Transport and it´s affiliated Junker crews besids opening up a humanitarian Ambulance and MedEvac service for the Pilots and scrap workers in the radioactive debris fields, quickly expanding this service to other customers and clients.
And Junker skills came in handy while escorting the [SRO] Ships to Leeds for refugee evacuation , too.
Of course, Freelance and Junker opportunity´s come from the shady side... the "Tinkers" are known to run a blokade now and then, or have been met supplying a blackmarket base in one or the other uncharted areas of house and independent systems, too. But there is an iron code, enforced by their Foreman FynnMcScrap : No Orange, no Artefacts, No Black Market Munitions.
Blokade runners, free traders and MedEvac or mechanic services.
Walking a slim line between law and grey shade deals. The Haven is known as a trade platform without a Freeport status, but with close ties to Junkers and the more flexible of Liberty´s Traders. And usually a connection to the underground, too.
Tinker´s employees are aware that trust and reputation is essential for their work, as stated in theiry behavioral code :
Value integrity over lawful conduct. But never forget the local laws and follow them wherever possible. If not possible : evade and come again tomorrow.
Currently the base called Tinkers Haven is the only base of operations for T&T/ , and it´s affiliated Junker workforce. But rumour has it that the Haven Memorial Clinic is planning to expand to planetside. And with the influx of refugees from Leeds, current rehab programs and the ever expanding workforce at the debris clouds the Investors are only too happy to seek new oportunities.
Since early AS 822 the Tinkers trade fleet have become a common sight on Liberty´s lanes and beyond, and the cooperation has opened several diplomatic channels : To the gallic Council, to IMG and to the Crayter Republic. More and more not only the economic focus has shifted away from sole scrap trade to a flourishing free trade network but also the code of conduct the fleets skippers follow has shaped and defined the cooperations diplomacy.
It is a rare sights nowadays to see a Tinker fly to Omikron Alpha or Gamma, but they do regularily supply the Councils efforts at Champagne with salvaged spare parts or shiploads of fresh Nanocapacitors. And rumors about a cooperation with the [TAZ] zoners in Baffin are common too. While T&T/ remains somewhat shady in its ability and experience in flying wartime blokade runs through the gallic Royalist lines and its open alleigance with several Junker or Freelancer factions at the same time the coop seems determined to keep away from open criminality and does not allow Cardamine trade, Artefact smuggle or Blak Market Munitions transport.
Timeline
821 AS / 05 :
the first base called Tinkers Haven is constructed in system Hudson, near Cold Bay Depot.
After only 24 hours the building site is razed and totally demolished through Liberty Forces due to licence ligitation.
200 crewmen are lost, and the *Cold Bay Massacre* is part of T&T´s memory, a tale told to every newcomer.
821 AS / 06 :
first meeting between the middle class Investors and Mr. Tukker.
Mr. McKannon suggests FynnMcScrap as a connection to Junker workcrews :
first planning stage for a new joint venture.
821 AS / 07 :
with Licencing granted through Liberty Forces the construction of Tinkers Haven is restarted.
New Location : Texas, 18k from Planet Houston.
821 AS / 08 :
Tinkers Haven reaches Core 2 , scrap rig is fully operational.
Construction of the Haven Memorial Clinic is started.
Contact with Doc Holliday from [MFE] Med Force Enterprizes ( formerly : TAZ Member ) is sought to find a first class Doctor as Chief Resident of the Memorial orbital Clinic.
Doc Doreen Nagger arrives and is appointed to the task.
821 AS / 09 :
[SRO] Sirius Relief Org. is founded and rents office and storage space at the Haven.
Mr. Walker and his partner arrive and are welcomed to the Haven and the Board of Trustees.
821 AS / 10 :
The Haven reaches Core 3
The Clinic is fully operational. As a public relations effort the [SRO] and T&T pilots organize a refugee relief run to Leeds.
The \V/ - Vigilantes rent a housing module and storage space for their own needs after a working relationship has been established during the Leeds runs. ( EDIT : \V/ disbanded / info left for nostalgy )
822 AS / 1
The Haven reaches Core 4, all operations are at full capacity.
The Galena Park Project is started to supply more available space for rehabilitation facilities and living space at Houston / Texas
[SRO] fusions with Tinker&Transport, taking the T&T/ <shipname> [SRO] transponder.
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