AP Line of Freighters and Transports

[Athenian]

This is not so much a separate faction as an idea to have a bit of fun playing traders as a wing of the S/D. We built an AT and I'm working on another Prison Liner for RP events - prisoner transfers, etc. - which helps generate enough cash to keep the faction running without a cash injection from our "investors" but I wanted to expand RP and overcome the limitation on trade. So I came up with this. The S/D has a controlling interest in the company. It is effectively a trader faction that is closely affiliated to the BHG (hence the tag).

I also wanted to get some of the less used transport vessels in circulation, especially the chunkier models like the tanker and the mammoth. I don't imagine we can justify having a separate ship line. Only draws attention to it.

AP Manufacturing


AP Manufacturing is a diversified heavy industrial company specialising in shipbuilding, ship breaking, station construction, modular construction, civil and military engineering, renewables and project management, and is the exclusive supplier of vessels to the Bounty Hunters' Guild.

Corporate Fleet:
Nowhere is APM's unique corporate identity more apparent than in its transport fleet. The fleet is required to deal with a wide variety of commodities, ranging from bulky cargo such as capital ship hull components and space station modules to fragile optronics and optical chips. Moreover, company ships ply trade lanes through remote Border and Independent systems where the rule of law does not always apply. In addition, the company's connection to the Guild means that it is often obliged to operate in Houses throughout the galaxy, and this has resulted in a fleet comprised of corporate standards augmented by local models.
More distubringly, in recent times the company has attracted increasing attention from pirates who may have learned of the company's connection to the Guild. Former military specialists seconded to APM from the Guild developed reinforced hulls and advanced power arrays to provide additional protection for the company's dangerous and often lengthy trading missions.

Ships comprising the fleet (provisional):

Light - Armoured Transport; Heavy Lifter; Transport

Medium - EL-HiL51 "Mammoth" Liberty Transport (2 available) ; Large Transport

Heavy - 568-ARKG-B6 "Behemoth" Rheinland Heavy Transport (2 available); b-40-E "Percheron" Bretonia Transport (2 available); Train

Very Heavy - Large Train; Heavy Tanker; Advanced Train

Components, Identification and IFF Protocol

All vessels shall carry a BH tag. All vessels shall carry a Trader identification card.
All vessels may mount Bounty Hunter and Civilian Weapons

Suppliers, Cargo and Trade Routes:
The APM trade network is heavily concentrated in the southern half of Sirius, and APM ships rarely have any need to venture into Kusari space, perhaps a consequence of the company's close association with the Guild. Components and materials are sourced principally through trade agreements with Ageira, DSE, Daumann, BMM and the IMG, among others. The company's buying power is reflected in the discount it enjoys in the trade of commodties essential to ship construction. While many space station modules and reactor cores are assembled in the larger factories and shipyards of Rheinland and Liberty, the final assembly of Guild ships is carried out in locations as far apart as Newcastle and the Omegas.

One principal duty of APM is supplying Deshima Station with deuterium. The Guild's control of this station means that a tidy profit can be turned from sales of the product. More importantly, unscrupulous Kusari black market operators often make cutting-edge Kusari avionic material, such as optronics and chips, available to APM buyers at the station.

Planet Cambridge houses one of the company's main engine assembly plants. Here, control, monitoring, communication, navigation, weather, and anti-collision systems for Guild ships are also put through their final tests.

This is the list of commodtities and approved trade routes. All are lucrative, long and often dangerous.

Beryllium - collect from Cardiff Mining Facility; deliver to The Ring
Boron - collect from Newark Station; deliver to LD-14
Cobalt - collect from Freistadt Station; deliver to Pueblo Station
Copper - collect from Freistadt Station; deliver to Pueblo Station
Deuterium - collect from Planet Gran Canaria; deliver to Deshima Station
Engine Components - collect from The Ring; deliver to Planet Cambridge
Gold - collect from Graves Station; deliver to Oder Shipyard
High Temp Alloys - collect from Leipzig Station; deliver to Southhampton Shipyard
Hydrocarbons - collect from Freeport 1; deliver to Leipzig Station
Niobium - collect from South Shields Refinery; deliver to Leipzig Station
Optical Chips - collect from Deshima Station; deliver to Planet Leeds
Optronics - collect frolm Deshima Station; deliver to Planet Cambridge
Polymers - collect frolm Freeport 1; deliver to Planet Denver
Ship Hull Panels - collect from Stokes Mining Station; deliver to Baltimore Shipyard
Super Alloys - collect from Pueblo Station; deliver to Oder Shipyard
Superconductors - collect from Pueblo Station; deliver to The Ring
Fleet:
APM-Taurus *
APM-Scorpio *
APM-Gemini
APM-Aries *
APM-Cancer
APM-Libra
APM-Virgo
APM-Sagittarius *
APM-Aquarius *
APM-Leo
APM-Pisces
APM-Capricorn

*=active

Board of Directors

Leroy Jenkins (GaryStargazer)
Huw Evans (Fletcher)
Garret Goderich (ProwlerPC)
Christian Michael Scott (Menthe)
Edward James Harland - CEO (Athenian)

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