Kruger Minerals (player faction)
- This is a player faction. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Kruger Minerals
| Kruger minerals | |
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| Origin | |
| Alignment | Lawful |
| Profile | |
| Date of founding | 193 A.S. |
| Date of dissolution | N/A A.S. |
| Founder(s) | Various, Kruger family |
| Current leader(s) | Vorsitzender Thomas Weber |
| Base of operations | Essen Station, New Berlin |
| Primary role | |
| To Consolidate from the losses taken in the 80 years war, and to compete with Daumann in Rhienland markets | |
| Secondary role | |
| To expand operations, in foreign markets. | |
Description
Kruger Minerals works in partnership with ALG Waste Disposal in Rhienland and its neighboring territories.
Kruger was a primary supporter of the 80-Years War. After the conflict ending in disaster, Kruger's base operations was exhausted and the company persecuted. Today Kruger is attempting to rebuild by establishing an alliance with ALG Waste Disposal.
It is one of the oldest existing companies in Rhienland.
History of the Company
In 193 A.S. a multitude of small companies were formed in preparation for securing contracts to mine the distant systems, sealing lucrative deals. Kruger Minerals was one of these companies and was successful in obtaining rights to establishing mining operations in Dresden as well as receiving considerable government backing in regard to its plans of expansion.
However, in early 587 A.S., the company was put in a difficult place. Their largest rival, Daumann Heavy Construction, had succeeded in claiming the remaining mining fields in Dresden, thus striking out expansion plans. Kruger were faced with the prospect of losing out on its government influences and a resulting economic decline. They had no choice but to expand into the Crow Nebula, since they felt that there was enough gas for everyone in Sigma-13, but that viewpoint was obviously not shared by the GMG.
Kruger lost almost everything during the 80 years war, a large portion of their fleet, a station, their expansion plans, as well as having to pay the cost of reparations to the GMG. Since then, further restrictions on their ethical standards and further compensation payments left the company unable to recover.
In 817 A.S., after numerous negotiations between ALG and Kruger, an agreement was made to merge the Glaenzende Steine Division into the ALG as a trial initiative. The details of this are secret, however it is rumoured that the offer was more substantial than predicted. This is in ALG's interests, as this money will be put towards remodeling and modernising the division, therefore increasing output. It is hoped by ALG Waste Disposal that this will be the first step of many into total control, there is no other foreseeable option for Kruger to survive.
Though Kruger Minerals encourages their labour force to take breaks when they are too tired to work safely; it is their choice to keep working because no work means no pay; ALG would like to see further improvements in the worker standards, and as displayed by their own example have found that workers with more positive attitudes are more productive and profitable. This ideology has been imposed on the Glaenzende Steine Initiative, in which workers will have reduced hours, higher wages, higher grade equipment and protection provided.
This Initiative will serve to provide materials and services to both ALG and Kruger Mineralien. Still involved in mining operations, but expanding to incorporate waste disposal and manufacturing support.
Seeing ALG moves, Republican Shipping started to worry that such acquisition would had lead to a change in the power relations between themselves and ALG. Hence in the aim to cope with ALG strategy, Republican Shipping tried to bargain with some minority sharholders in order to acquire a stake in Kruger Minerals capital.
At this point the Rheinland Government stepped in. A potential acquisition of Kruger by ALG would have likely lead to a monopoly in the raw materials market in Rheinland, being ALG the biggest supplier of metal and Kruger the biggest supplier of H-Fuel. The Kanzler was not willing have the need to face such a challenge to his power and so he fiercely opposed to further integration between the two companies.
This situation seemed to be quite favorable to Republican Shipping aims but the Army Secretary pointed out that if Republican would had been involved in the mining industry they probably would have shifted financial resources from research on ship technology to research on mining technology with a potential harm for Rheinland ability to cope with other nations in the shipping technologies. To rule out completely the problem, the Kanzler even tried to nationalize the company on the base that H-Fuel is so important for military effort that it cannot be left in the hand of a private enterprise. Unfortunately for the Kanzler, the new war against Liberty weakened his support in the Rheinland Chamber of Representative and lead to the impossibility to have such nationalization to be approved.
This situation left Kruger Mineralen in a very bad position. Neither ALG nor the Republican Shipping were in the position to go against Kanzler will; many other Rheinland companies, were still suffering from the war situation where not in the position to invest huge amount of money in an almost bankrupt company like the Kruger. And, the same time, all the rumors about Kanzler opposition where pushing down Kruger Minerals stock prices. In this situation ALG keeped their shares and started to await next chance to take over the company but they doesn't know what will happen further and right now they are just hoping.
Unexpected, a wealthy Stuttgart’s family (that already owned the Stuttgart Wafer, Wurstel und Beer), taking advantage of the low prices of Kruger shares on the stock market suddenly bought a large amount of shares and finally got the control. In the first shareholder meeting after the takeover the new controlling shareholder, the Weber Fiduciary Fund (a legal entity used by the Weber family to operate on the Rheinland Stock Market), appointed a new CEO of the Kruger Minerals: the former CEO of SWWB, Thomas Weber. The business community saw as a peculiar coincidence that Thomas himself had previously worked himself in the Kruger when he was just 19 years old. After this meeting there was a discussion inside the ALG about their alliance with Kruger and they decided to keep their alliance to later get second opportunity to take over the Kruger company and form grand Rheinland corporation.
Being the the Stuttgart Wafer, Wurstel und Beer an important food supplier of the Army some rumors said that the Weber acquisition had been saw by the Kanzler with friendly eyes (if not directly inspired by him). An other indication of the Kanzler favor is the fact that no member of cabinet pointed out that one of Thomas Weber main consultant is Jack Hole, a bright mining engineer born in Rheinland but from libertonian parents and graduated from the Liberty Mining University.
Late 817 A.S., Under Weber's direction, Kruger Minerals is starting to grow again and it has made a remarkably grand level of reform. They are more convenient and they are trying to claim all Kruger fields absolutely. They have even developed a new foreign logo as a symbol that they are expanding their company outside Rheinland. The new task of Kruger Minerals is to conquer the market, which is currently dominated by Daumann Heavy Construction.
Ranks
Management -
Vorsitzende (Chairman) - Owner of the Kruger minerals company. Stellvertretender Vorsitzender (Vice chairman) - Governs 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 meetings.
Mining Employees -
Abbau Leiter (Extraction leader) - Responsible for supervising and co-ordinating the mining operations and the distribution of profit between other miners. Gelernter Bergmann (Experienced miner) - A miner with officially acknowledged experience and therefore authority over his co-workers. Knappen supervise mining operations in the absence of Abbau Leiters. Mainly opperating arround with the standart mining ship. Bergarbeiter (Miner) - The everyday Kruger Minerals employee, responsible for extracting ore and diamonds from minable fields using small mining vessels.
Transportation Employees -
Transportation employees:
Vertriebsleiter (Sales manager) - Leader of the transportation-related issues, responsible for setting up trade routes, leading convoys and keeping Kruger's products on the market. Advanced Transport Pilot - Experienced transport personell, responsible for moving large amounts of cargo around and keeping the larger supply routes busy. Transport Pilot - Transport pilot that is responsible for carrying goods between systems using medium transporters. Freighter Pilot - New transportation employees, responsible for the delivery of Kruger material to the markets and the assembly of needed mining equipment and space port supplies in turn using freighter class ships.
Security Staff -
Security staff:
Aufsicht (Supervisor) - Chief of security. Responsible for splitting and controlling security wings of the Kruger minerals corporation. Can be involved in quick, field diplomacy if the situation demands. Master Escort Pilot - Leaders of security wings patrolling Kruger territory and safeguarding convoys. Has authority to command Miners and Transport personell if their lives are at stake. Advanced Escort Pilot - Escort pilots with good expiriance in escorting and fighter/bomber piloting. Escort Pilot - Security personell responsible for the integrity of convoys and supervisory Kruger territory.
Special -
Dockarbeiter (Dock worker) - Employees commandeering Lifters that carry the Miners' material back to the Kruger space ports or the distribution personell.
Ingenieur (Engineer) - Employees commanding Repair ships that are repairing stations and ships.
