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Type: Worker cooperative federation Founded: June 826 Headquarters: Bristol Bay Station, Bering Key People: Jaina Wheeler Products: Container shipping, logistics and freight forwarding, recycling, ore surveying, space salvaging, space engineering, small scale shipyards and manufacturing, Employees: ~12700 (833)

Bristol
Constructions & Manufacturing

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Bristol Constructions & Manufacturing, commonly known as Bristol or Bristol Constructions, is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in Bering and across the independent worlds.

It as founded in Bering in 826 by a group of Freelancers and engineers where they maintain the largest depot and manufacturing installation within Bering.

Bristol is managing its intersystem presence from Bering with administration out of Bristol Bay Station. At the end of 828 it employed about 4700 people and as of 833 the company employs about 12700 employees across 9 companies. These companies are headquartered across three different systems with operations across Sirius

Contents 1 History 2 Installations ----2.1 Bristol Bay Station ----2.2 Cleveland Station ----2.3 Aruba Depot ----2.4 Mississauga Station ----2.5 Akutan Production Facility ----2.6 Arcetri Station 3 Planetary Operations ----3.1 Planet Hallam 4 Transport & Logistics 5 Mining Operations 6 Salvaging & Repairs 7 Space Engineering 8 Controversies

History

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Bristol Constructions & Manufacturing was founded in Bering in June 826 by a group of Freelancers and engineers. Their main business relied on taking over Bristol Depot. The Separatist Navy abandoned the operation of the installation in May 826. It is assumed that the installation had served their purpose for their military and Bristol Constructions could take it over. Since then the company has taken on more employees and repurposed the installation left behind by Separatists. As it has defacto replaced the Freeport 2 Zoners as a half way point within Bering, their situation has stabilised.
When salvage continued to turn more sparsely, the company made the decision in early 828 to act on various other projects within the independent worlds. With Cleveland Station in Pennsylvania and Aruba Depot in Cortez, the company is further committing to its Independent World focus. Seeking new resources, Bristol has moved its surveying team to Cleveland Station.
When the jumpgate blackout hit, Bristol was affected by a massive slow down in traffic. Leaving its installations stranded. This caused the order to abandon Aruba Depot. The cooperative nature of Bristol caused the company to reemploy all people in different positions and it came out of the blackout relatively unscathed.

Installations

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Proficient in space constructions that they provide to various clients, they also maintain various of their own installations.

Bristol Bay Station

Main Article: Bristol Bay Station

Bristol Bay Station, formerly Bristol Depot, functions as the headquarters to Bristol Constructions. Within the system it acts as a salvage collection, sorting and recycling plant. With the destruction of Freeport 2, Bristol has slowly taken over its role as a half way trade station. It has begun to salvage the Freeport itself after acquiring the wreckage from Liberty.

Cleveland Station

Main Article: Cleveland Station

Within the Pennsylvania system, Cleveland is Bristol Construction's staging ground into the deeper independent worlds. Collecting various resources from the regions and of course providing an orbital presence for Bristol's ground mining operation on Hallam. It has considerable storages allocated for Helium, mined in system.

Aruba Depot

Main Article: Aruba Depot

Aruba Depot used to be located within Cortez, near the Coronado gate, Aruba Depot functioned as a drop off point for Tau-bound goods as well as some returning ones. As its primary business was the holding and reselling of Pristine Ice, mined in Cortez, it lost its financial viability as those resources suddenly turned up dry.

Mississauga Station

Main Article: Mississauga Station

Mississauga Station is a new Bristol installation of unknown purpose and location.

Akutan Production Facility

Main Article: Akutan Production Facility

Akutan Production Facility is the second largest production plant within the Bristol Constructions Group. Located within Bering it produces various equipment and weapon systems according to customer specification. The equipment is considered high quality and the military expertise flowing into the gear hints at Bristol having acquired engineering talent beyond their means though where is undisclosed.

Arcetri Station

Main Article: Arcetri Station

Arcetri Station was built and is owned and operated by Bristol Constructions & Manufacturing. Focused entirely on the mining and refining of Platinum. Arcetri operates on Bristol's open docking policy and many parties that would usually not be able to acquire refined metal are occasionally seen near the station.

Planetary Operations

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When Bristol reached the size necessary to expand out of Bering, various planetside operations were established.

Planet Hallam

Main Article: Planet Hallam

An icy planet within Pennsylvania with various resources being mined exclusively by Bristol Constructions. Bristol maintains a base camp on the world.

Transport & Logistics

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Bristol is operating a small fleet of mostly transports for their logistics. Around half of these vessels are tasked with supplying Bristol's own installations at any given time. In addition to the transport fleet, Bristol operates multiple small freighters to assist unloading and smaller shipments.

In recent years with constant growth for Bristol, the company has expanded its fleet with Bison-class heavy transport vessels and a Colossus-class train which is used to supply the vast amount of resources station construction and maintenance consume.

Mining Operations

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Two of Bristols cooperatives used to be involved in mining. The branch that has mined Pristine Ice in Cortez has since mostly merged into a miners operation in Pennsylvania. The primary output of this company is Helium which they sell and store on Cleveland Station. While a surveying team is constantly searching for new opportunities, Bristol has not announced any findings. In its yearly reports, the surveying division has not once operated at a profit.

Salvaging & Repairs

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BCV Pittsburgh as seen in Bering

Among Bristol's fleet vessels are multiple vessels for repairs and salvaging. Their most notable vessel is the BCV Pittsburgh, a new vessel of the Rheinland "Kaiser"-class mining vessels. Equipped with scanner devices for ore and deep scans of ships, it serves the company to salvage ships and installation, mine ores and find new deposits.

The Salvaging and Repairs part is Bristol's currently smallest business but growing steadily.

Space Engineering

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With Bristol Depot's considerable expansion being their biggest accomplishments, Bristol has been involved in the constructions and maintenance of multiple installations. Their experience with constructions in dangerous environments has earned them a few contracts, expanding their fleet by a "Hercules"-class construction vehicle in late 826.

With Cleveland Station, Bristol Constructions is currently working on their largest station project to date.

Controversies

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With the installation initially built by the Liberty Separatists and Bering slowly drifting into a state of approaching anarchy, there's been doubts in Bristol's actual independence. Though the station is controlled entirely by Bristol Constructions, they act more like a Freeport in Bering in regards to docking permissions on their public installation. Bristol employs a small security detail that so far has kept order akin to the old Zoner presence on Freeport 2.

After the Separatist, Insurgency and Erie incidents there have been occasional accusations that fugitives were finding employ in Bristol. The only cases where Bristol has admitted to employing a former Zoner or Insurgency civilian was after they had served their time on LPI prisons.

Bristol's organisation as a cooperative has caused market consultants and other companies to ridicule the organisation. The most famous of these being the rescue of one Adam Rayleigh. The Bristol employed miner had lost control of his ship in the Pennsylvania system, leading to estimated loss of life within four hours. Cleveland Station teams immediately despatched what was considered a "ridiculous waste of resources" in a salvaging team and a scout craft. Arriving on site the crew did not manage to rescue the miner as trying to dislodge the vessel vented all air from the craft. Bristol holds this situation up as its "workers first" approach, promising employees they would not be abandoned. Market advisors repeatedly said how it shows the inefficiency of this behaviour. With one reportedly saying "If every company operated on this policy, they would need dedicated security teams and feasibly this could only be done with company funded health and accident insurance. Outright ridiculous."

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