EFL| Oil & Machinery Faction Creation Request.

[EFL Oil and Machinery]

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Overview:

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Unlike other colonies in the Sirius sector, cores systems of Gallia proved to have rich deposits of oil. Utilizing these limitless deposits was far more efficient for building up the new House than using other sources of energy. In 234 AGS a giant corporation, owned in majority by the Gallic crown called EFL Oil at the time, realized the potential of these oil deposits and was granted the responsibility of control, extraction, transportation and processing of this “black gold” throughout Gallic colonies in the early years of the empire.

In 440 AGS, at a time when space colonization was on the rise, EFL acquired and absorbed several large shipbuilding and engineering firms and companies, becoming EFL Oil & Machinery. This new mega-corporation soon became responsible for building and maintaining many of the current space stations in Gallic space including shipyards and space colonies.

Currently, EFL Oil & Machinery is the largest Gallic corporation with the total value of assets and enterprises estimated to be somewhere near five hundred billion credits. It is also one of the largest employers in the Gallic sector, with its employees counting as high as six million.

EFL Oil & Machinery maintains a large presence in every corner of the Gallic economy. In addition to building stations, the corporation is also the largest station operator in Gallia. Due to its sizeable reserves, EFL has been able to compensate the enormous losses incurred during the Second Gallic War. Reserves are not infinite and the war is still underway, both on the homefront and Sirius, which puts the company under further stress due to the incoming contracts with defence agencies and mainly with the Gallic Royal Navy.

Unlike other companies and corporations in Gallia, IDF who is smaller in size or GMS who is independent of the crown, EFL Oil & Machinery is the symbol excessive crown involvement in a corporation and also Gallic economy. This close involvement with the crown paints a target on the company and makes it a favoured target for Crown’s enemies such as the Maquis.

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Bases of Operation:

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Abbeville Production Facility

Once operated by Solar Engineering, Abbeville Production Facility is a relatively modern production centre built around the core of the Abbeville Mining Station. Solar purchased the station from Nery Space Construction during a time where Picardy was faced with an economic crisis. The prospect of cheap labour motivated Solar's decision to establish a number of labour-intensive industries near Amiens.

Worker conditions on the station were rumoured to be poor; those who spoke out against their conditions quickly found themselves on a shuttle back to Amiens, where dozens of others would eagerly take their place. As a part of the merger, this facility came under the ownership of EFL Oil and Machinery, who pledged to look into the reports of poor conditions on behalf of the Crown. Presently, the station is heavily involved in the production of construction alloys and energy field equipment.

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Beauvais Production Facility

Beauvais was one of the first space stations constructed by EFL Oil and Machinery back in the time when it was called EFL Oil. The company initially built its fortune on planetside mining of oil and producing a wide array of petroleum products. Moving to space was a necessary step forward to move the most ecologically hazardous productions away from the planet's surface, and to gain access to easily accessible resource deposits located in space.

EFL started constructing the station in the year 281 A.G.S., and in the hundreds of years to come the facility was rebuilt several times. It contains a number of highly efficient petroleum processing facilities, making Beauvais one of the primary sources of petrochemicals in the Ile-de-France system. The station is also known for being the closest lawful facility to Beaumont Base. Junkers are fairly frequent visitors at Beauvais, despite the attempts of EFL managers to drive the ambiguous faction away from the facility.

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Briancon Station

Briancon is a large civilian space station maintained by EFL Oil and Machinery and the Gallic Royal Police. Since the Gallic Border Worlds became an area of fighting between the Council and the Gallic Navy, Briancon was one of the first installations to receive advanced weapon systems, which included long-range missile turrets.

Reinforced armour and an advanced weapons grid were meant to guarantee the safety of the station inhabitants even in the years when the Council was raiding Dauphine system on a regular basis. In truth, the Council never attacked the station in force, as Council field commanders routinely refused to endanger the large civilian population of Briancon.

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Chartres Space Colony

Chartres Space Colony is the oldest space colony in Gallic space that still retains its original core modules since the foundation of the colony in the year 341 A.G.S. It was expanded several times, increasing its housing capacity to over 1.500 by 650 A.G.S.

Along with multiple housing modules, the station also has a number of light factories, and is known as one of the primary sources of high-quality plastics in Gallic space. The station has been operated by EFL since its foundation, but the company is rumoured to be considering to transfer the station to civilian authorities due to the low-profit margins versus the high administrative costs.

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Montlucon Space Colony

The large space colony of Montlucon was built in 644 A.G.S. by EFL Oil and Machinery. The facility is representative of a new generation of space colony facilities. Montlucon was built utilizing recent advances in technology, and follows strict quality standards for space habitats. EFL managed to keep the station profitable for most of its existence. The Second Gallic War attracted a large number of migrants from the Languedoc system, bringing the station to full capacity. EFL's policies deny the acceptance of any additional people, even relatives of the current settlers.

The station also houses one of the largest Polymer production plants in Gallic space. High-quality Polymers that require Zero-G production methods, and various byproducts are exported from Montlucon to a number of locations in Auvergne, Orleanais, and beyond.

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Riom Shipyard

Riom was one of the first stations built in the Auvergne system. A light industrial facility that mainly mass-produces smaller spacecraft for the civilian market, it has seen a considerable boost in productivity as the nearby Clermont colony expanded, and its citizens required small civilian craft to travel to the Gallic core worlds. Riom also produces larger civilian space fighters for various corporations.

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Romorantin Space Port

Romorantin is one of the older stations in Orleanais, built by EFL in 386 A.G.S. . It once was an important shipping point and a place where mining companies brought ores mined from various parts of the vast Loire Asteroid Field. For some time, the station was also used to build and maintain ships and build framework components for the jump gates to Lyonnais and Berry. The Beuvron Debris Field formed as a result of this unchecked space construction activity. Since then, economic activity in the area has been declining steadily.

The Loire asteroids proved to be difficult to mine, and nowadays no legal mining activity takes place in the field. Ship construction improvements resulted in transport ships no longer needing to stop for refuelling on their way through Orleanais' trade lane system. Romorantin remains a well-known station where the descendants of the first Orleanais space settlers still reside, but the port currently has very few shipping contracts to keep it alive. EFL loses billions every year to keep the station operational, and despite the resistance of the local community, the company plans to scrap the port in the coming decade unless it can find a source of income to sustain itself.

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Goals:

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1. Maintain and expand influence in all corners of Gallic industry and commerce ensuring EFL supremacy.
2. Assist Gallic corporation through shipbuilding and base building contracts.
3. Assist the Gallic Royal Navy & Gallic Royal police with shipbuilding and maintenance, at home and on the warfront.
4. Develop further relations and secure contracts with other Sirian corporations; namely in Kusari & Rheinland.

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Roles:

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Primary: Extraction, Processing & Transportation of Oil in Gallia.
Secondary: Base Construction, Gate/Lane Construction & Maintenance, Shipbuilding.
Tertiary: Industrial clean-up.

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Structure:

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Chief Executive Officer
Cheif Operating Officer

Director of Logistics
Director of Engineering

Director of Corporate Security

Employees
Apprentices & Trainees

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Ships in Service:

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Engineering, Logistics & Manufacturing:

MCU-1 "Aurochs" Gallic Freighter
"Taureau" Gallic Assault Transport
ME-UH "Vache" Gallic Train
"Pachyderme" Gallic Advanced Train
"Rock Badger" Gallic Miner
"Briller" Gallic Repair Ship

Security:

UX-256 "Moonbeam" Gallic Civilian Heavy Fighter
UY -258 "Sunbeam" Gallic Civilian Heavy Fighter
HM Series "Courbe" Gallic Metal Service Heavy Miner
UZ-300 "Eclipse" Gallic civilian bomber
"Perilous" Gallic Royal Navy Gunboat - pending Crown approval

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Corporate Relations:

Allies

Our corporate siblings and Gallic Law Enforcement Agencies

Ille-De-France Shipping
Gallic Metal Service
Gallic Royal Navy
Gallic Royal Poilce

Friends

Corporations based outside of Gallia, who we have worked closely with and have reached some form of contracted deal with.

ALG Waste Disposal
Daumann Heavy Construction
The Core

Custodi

Potential Friendlies

Groups or organizations who have shown loyalty to the crown and have potential to be profitable business partners in the future as well as Rheinland and Kusari Police.

Independent Miners Guild
Kishiro Technologies
Samura Heavy Industries
Kruger Mineralien
Republican Shipping

Corsair Empire

Kusari State Police
Rheinland Federal Police


Neutral Parties

Unlisted Groups.


Organizations who we have had contact with but currently are not in any sort of contract, stated they hold no hostilities but are still treated with caution additionally Rheinland and Kusari house navies.

Rheinland Military
Kusari Naval Forces
KPT
MND

Der Alster Union
Blood Dragon Shogunate
Molly Republic


Wary

These organizations we haven't had contact with however, hostilities are not expected or we are hoping to become business partners to some measure or another. Use caution.

Interspace Commerce

Gallic Brigands
Gaians

Unfriendly


These organizations have shown lack of interest in dealing with EFL or Gallia. They are distrusted and are to be treated with extreme prejudice.

Unione Corse Syndicate
Hogosha
Farmer's Alliance
Red Hessians
Sirius Coalition
Bundschuh
Gateway Shipping

Hostiles



The undesirables, they are responsible for repeated atrocities against both the Gallic Crown as well as EFL its self. Shoot if need be, avoid if possible.

The Council
Universal Shipping
Borderworld Exports
Bretonian Mining and Manufacturing
Outcasts
Golden Chrysanthemums

At War

These are groups who we have no tolerance for, from corporate competitors to terrorists these parties are to be treated with the utmost hostilities

The Maquis
Ageira Technologies
Deep Space Engineering

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Faction Name: EFL Oil and Machinery
ID: EFL Oil and Machinery
IFF: EFL Oil and Machinery
Transport Tag: EFL|(French City/Container ship name/Character Name)
Escort Tag: EFL|(First name.Last name/Codename)

Notable Role play on the forums:


1. Employee Lounge
2. To: The Human inhabitants of the Omicrons and Omegas
3. To: The Corporations of Rheinland and Kusari
4. To: [ALG] Subj:A Tiny Problem.
5. To: Daumann Heavy Construction
6. To: The UN| Unioners
7. To: The Hellfire Legion
8. To: All IDF, EFL, and GMS Assets: A call to mobilization.
9. To: Ministre de l'Intérieur and Nathan Archos, Supreme Guildkeeper of The Core
10. To: Gateway|- Shipping | Lets talk about the future.
11. To: EFL Oil and Machinery

Reporting Facilities:

EFL| Oil & Machinery | Tau-23 Trade Lane Construction | Supplies Reporting Facility
EFL| Oil & Machinery | New London Gate Construction | Reporting Facility
EFL| Oil & Machinery | Auvergne Trade Lane Construction | Supplies Reporting Facility


Kudos to @Laz @Neptune for formatting <3

This is a Re-submission.*

[SnakThree]

I always find it distasteful when description of bases, ships or technology is taking more space than what faction stands for.

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[Sciamach]

It's what people call "flavortext", and some people actually enjoy reading it and/or writing it
Crazy, right?

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[ sci·am·ach ]
/sīˈamək/

A simple, angry man casually working his way through life on a personal quest to acquire copious amounts of street cred.

[SnakThree]

It's what people call "flavortext", and some people actually enjoy reading it and/or writing it
Crazy, right?

Copy and paste from wiki is not flavour text.

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[Thyrzul]

I always find it distasteful when description of bases, ships or technology is taking more space than what faction stands for.

Why?

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[SnakThree]

I always find it distasteful when description of bases, ships or technology is taking more space than what faction stands for.

Why?

I think that it's effortless copy paste and duplication of already existing information. Official faction should strive to be better and provide something more than what developers have already written for NPC faction. But that's just me giving feedback on what I saw in this creation request.

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[Thyrzul]

First you've found the chosen ratio of goals/aims to the other details distasteful, then you've found the usage of already existing information in unchanged form effortless, so I'm not sure what exactly is the issue, your response made your feedback more confusing than clearing it up. Though I do agree with the second point you brought up.

Overall I do find the Goals and the Roles section sufficient enough to describe the core of what EFL stands for, past that I'm personally not concerned with how many other details this post contains.

On the other hand, since I've had a brainfart this morning and the rest of the dudes liked the idea, we might have "something more than what developers have already written for NPC faction" soon. I'm having an exam before the end of this month, so not that soon.

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[A.B.]

I always find it distasteful when description of bases, ships or technology is taking more space than what faction stands for.

I think it is way safer to do that, rather than defend against "But How Your Faction Has Something That Is Not In Their Lore" coming from all the sides when a thread like this pops up.

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User was banned for: User request
Time left: (Permanent)

[Laz]

Just to point out - When Vulk asked me to format this I did state that the base section needed either cutting entirely or a serious rework but he said it was fine as is. At most I'd say one paragraph written by yourselves describing the functions and duties, but what is there right now (and with the images) it is just clutter and clunky. Other than the bases, it's pretty okay imo.

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[St.Denis]

Money taken, added to Tracker

Good luck

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