Corporations
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WIP: Who the heck even operates in the Frontier? What are their motivations? Who do the things? Much of this fluff isn't really established or shown much in game, but is a long project of slowly putting these references here and there onto posters and small items and such to build up a better scale of What's Around Us. The scope of this article should be worldbuilding stuff that any space resident might be vaguely aware of - public histories, public sentiments, newsworthy events, not deep secret lore and clandestine operations. Avoid spoilers that would fall more on the "deep secrets" side of things.
NanoTrasen
- HQ (CENTCOM): Seneca, NY
- Corporate Retreat: Seneca Castle, NY
- Lunar Command: Space Station One, Earth-Moon L1 Orbit
- Frontier Command: Space Station Ten, Quadriga L2 Orbit
The company that owns and operates the playable stations. Originally National Notary, became NanoTrasen after merging with Tradecraft Seneca. NT is your employer, unless you've rolled certain special or antagonist roles. "The Good Guys" as far as gameplay is concerned, but, y'know, still pretty awful.
NanoTrasen is dedicated to plasma extraction, plasma research, plasma-derived technologies and spacefaring / space exploration in general. NanoTrasen fueled Humanity's expansion across the Solar System and outward. NanoTrasen was a private-public partner of NASA since the late Apollo era, brought on by Senator Victor Jam to assist with extraction and research of lunar plasma samples discovered by Apollo 15.
NT provided the fuel for Martian, Main Asteroid Belt and Jovian exploration before the discovery of the Channel at Io. Always a leading force in the new Frontier, NanoTrasen has recently become the dominant corporate power out here following years of maneuvering, acquisitions, mergers, and takeovers. With their ambitious project to move the Channel entry from Io to near Earth orbit in the mid 2040s, NT has effectively become the tollbooth keeper for all transit to the Frontier.
Public resentments go back decades, from the many Lunar citizens harmed or displaced by the Helicon Refinery Disaster, to the current and former employees of rival corporations who for one reason or another trace their misfortunes to NT, to the many disgruntled current or former employees of NanoTrasen itself.
National Notary Supply Corporation
- HQ: Annapolis, MD
The core business of NT before the Space Age. Makers of pens, stamps, staplers, etc. Not just everyday pens though, the kinda pens you might use to sign an international treaty. Or just a mortgage. Though incorporated around the same time as the founding of the Annapolis Naval Academy, National Notary's origins are rumored to go back much, much further - kings, priests, merchants and mages have all used notarized stamps and seals since, well, forever.
Tradecraft Seneca
- HQ: Seneca Lake, NY
- Lunar Shipyards: Seneca Crater, Luna
- Frontier Shipyards: Iudicium, Equatorial Orbit
A maritime corporation from the Finger Lakes region of New York, with a long history in hull-building and ships services for Great Lakes barges and industrial freighters. Founded by business partners Willard Jam, Ovid Jam and a certain little-known Mr. Erdmann Frosch in the mid-1880s. After the Korean War, Willard's son, Senator Victor Jam (NY, US) secured the purchase of the retired Naval Training Facility Sampson as Tradecraft Seneca's primary shipyard and training academy on Seneca Lake. This facility eventually expanded further with the acquisition of the old Seneca Army Depot, repurposed as the NASA-NT Central Command and Launch Complex Seneca to service the early Lunar Rush. CENTCOM is now operated solely by Nanotrasen.
Tradecraft Seneca produces spaceships, modular station hulls, barges, shuttles, freighters, cargo holds... so many cargo holds. It also provides ships services and ships service training, including ship & station-board amenities such as vending machines, arcades, barber shops, laundry services, retail services and more.
Seneca Falls Staffing Solutions
- Current Director: Thad Davies (NanoTrasen)
- HQ: Seneca Falls, NY
- Branch Offices: Lunaport & Copernicus City, Luna
- Frontier Office: Port Roerich, Iusticia
A local agency acquired and expanded by NanoTrasen to recruit staff assistants for Frontier staffing needs and provide Human Resources expertise.
Five Points Armory
- Current Director: Colonel "Mild Bill" Williams
- HQ: Romulus, NY
An in-house brand providing basic security equipment, helmets, batons, handcuffs and more! Founded by Colonel "Five-Fingers" Devland (RETIRED) of the old Five Points Correctional Facility while the site was being decommissioned in the late 2020s. With such close proximity to CENTCOM, NanoTrasen eagerly bought the facility and funded Devland's projects in non-lethal detainment to augment NanoTrasen's over-worked station security departments. Five Points began experimentation with non-lethal energy rifles and would release the Mk. 1 taser to the public in 2027. One of their most recent releases is from Project PEW, the Portable Energy Weapon (nicknamed the E-Gun).
In the present day, Five Points provides the bulk of security equipment for all of NT's installations and to many civilian police and security forces on Earth and abroad. NT armorers and quartermasters are allowed some discretionary purchases of course to deal with the many hazards of space, and do still import products from rivals such as Xiang | Giesel, Cormorant Precision Arms, Radnor Photonics and others for special purposes.
Bellona Special Requisitions
- HQ: Bellona, NY
- Factory: 28 Bellona, Main Asteroid Belt
Another in-house brand providing much more advanced equipment for tactical operations, used by Nanotrasen's internal security division. Also contracted to military buyers.
Wallace Jam Institute of Exo-Archaeology
- HQ: Wallace Crater, Luna
A research institute founded by the former mayor of Lunaport, Wallace Jam, where some of NanoTrasen's top research directors got their start studying powerful artifacts.
Von Bürg University of Cybermedicine
- HQ: Bürg Crater, Luna
A teaching hospital at the forefront of cyborg research, which developed many of the methods used by on-site Roboticists at various NanoTrasen facilities. Provides cyborg and Silicon Resources expertise.
ThinkTronic
Makers of Robuddies and most of the operating systems in use on station. Closely aligned with NanoTrasen.
Hafgan Heavy Industries
- HQ (Earth): Great Orme, Wales
- HQ (Moon): Lake Autumn Colony, Luna
- HQ (Frontier): Caer Sidi, Antistes
A vast mining syndicate with centuries of experience in coal and ore mining, steel-making, and modern industrial robotics. A titan of the Welsh age of Steel. Conducts mining operations across the Earth, the Moon, Mars, and deep into some of the most hostile environments of the new Frontier.
Radnor Photonics
- HQ: Radnor Castle, Wales
A lighting and photonics company based in Radnor Forest, Wales, dedicated to carbon arc lighting, radio tubes, beacons and high intensity gas discharge lighting.
Modern products include the Phaser line of personal defense weaponry.
Kingsway Systems
- HQ (Moon): Tycho City, Luna
- Service Center: Port Roerich, Iustitia
Kingsway is a defunct competitor of ThinkTronic in the personal robotics and business computing markets.
Kingsway's line of executive and medical androids were unfortunately prone to hazardous bit-flips and are not recommended for use in regions with high radioactive flux, solar flares, plasma storms, or increased cosmic radiation.
Donk Co
- HQ: Donkin, Nova Scotia
From a humble lunch wagon, the popularity of the Donk Pocket among coal miners paved the way for Donk's expansion. The modern Donk Co produces a variety of shelf-stable rations and vending products, as well as metallized films, thermal susceptors, and metal vapor deposition products for aeronautics, space exploration, and survival/rescue purposes.
Mabinogi Firearms Company
- HQ: Ebbw Vale, Wales
- Lunar Factory: Mare Crisium Military-Industrial Zone, Luna
- Frontier Sales Office: New Tharros, Mundus
Produces weaponry used by Hafgan mine guards and corporate security, also sold for export.
Hemera Astral Research Corporation
Largely Defunct. A newer tech startup that revolutionized space-based construction with their research into Uqill and the invention of the Rapid Construction Device. Hemera's expertise with compressed matter technologies, telecrystals and other applied materials research laid the groundwork for Nanotrasen's own recent advances in teleportation. Once among the wealthiest corporations in the Frontier, HARC is mostly defunct by 2053 following a series of major facility writeoffs and the mysterious loss of their Grand Fleet. NanoTrasen acquired much of their corporate research and warehoused inventory at fire-sale prices during Hemera's bankruptcy proceedings.
Products include the RCD, the singularity generator and black hole bomb, the Alastor beam rifle, and the HEPT test apparatus.
Almagest Weapons Fabrication
One of Hemera's corporate holdings, Almagest WF imports surplus military-issue weaponry to the Frontier for refurbishment and upgrade. Their battle rifles, squad weapons, submachine guns and rockets are just about everything you'd need to equip your own private army. They're also highly illegal in most jurisdictions. Almagest was sold off from Hemera's portfolio during bankruptcy, but the current owner is unknown.
The BonkTek Consortium
- HQ: Bonktek Shopping Pyramid, New Memphis, Fatuus
A family business with many interests, lead by Fergus "The Plaid Baron" de Bonkyll, head of a minor house of Scottish nobility with a tradition in the merchant marine service. Fergus is still well-regarded by the public for his heroic freelance service defending merchant convoys during the Martian wars.
Zero-G Tek
Director: Baron Fergus de Bonkyll
Another hull-building company rivalling Tradecraft Seneca. Produces a variety of armed merchant craft, ranging from merchant cruisers and auxiliary frigates down to pods and mini-putts.
BlastoTek
Director: Commodore Broca de Bonkyll
Specializes in mining explosives, demolitions, and munitions for ship-scale ballistic systems. The business face of the older BADGER PMC group, a relentless team of professional sappers and demolitions engineers feared by Martians from the Solar System to the new Frontier.
FunkTek
Director: "Grody" Brodie de Bonkyll
GeneTek
Director: Baroness Moira de Bonkyll, PhD
ElecTek
Director: Buzz de Bonkyll
WaffleTek
Director: Taffy de Bonkyll
Decirprevo Glacial Water
HQ: Posidonius Crater, Luna
Decirprevo operates a fleet of water rigs, ice-mining craft and distillation outposts to produce drinking water for civil contracts and commercial export. Their largest project is the massive Posidonius Crater reservoir which gathers polar ices for distribution as drinking water to Copernicus City, Lunaport, and other Lunar cities. Subsidiaries include various interests in beer brewing, liquor distilling and chemical refining.
Beer Crater Brewing
- HQ: Beer Crater, Luna
Royal Martin Distilling
- HQ: Chateau de Versailles, Kentucky
An old Kentucky bourbon distillery with a history in moonshining. Produces vast amounts of industrial reagents and solvents as well as intoxicating spirits.
Terra Nivium Company
- HQ: Terra Nivium, Luna
A research company focused on long-distance surveys and exo-archaeological expeditions. Terra Nivium have made significant advancements in the fields of condensed energy and cryogenics with their work on recovered Precursor artifacts.
The Somnus Center for Cryogenics
Experts in all things cold and sleepy.
Chiron Research Complex
- HQ: 2060 Chiron, a comet located between Saturn and Uranus.
Advanced artifact and medical research studies.
Iridium Bay Survivor's Association
A victim's aid and advocacy nonprofit formed after the Helicon Plasma Refinery Disaster and the ensuing partial destruction of the nearby Iridium Bay Colony of Mare Imbrium.
Xiang|Giesel Advanced Power Systems
HQ: Schickard-Lehmann Lightyards, Luna
Producers of solar panels, RTGs, ion drives, char furnaces, and related power-generation and distribution systems. Operates facilities on the Moon, Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, Io, and further afield.
The Xiang Group
HQ: Hunan, China
A Chinese manufacturing and logistics conglomerate with a diverse range of products and services. The company claims to have been founded by the historic polymath Liu Xiang himself, but little evidence supports this.
Giesel Radiofabrik
HQ: Brunswick, Germany
Industrial-scale actinide refining and applied radiological technologies that harken back to the work of Friedrich Oskar Giesel during the early years of Radium research. Giesel RF is a bulk buyer of radioactive ores and minerals, refining them for use in such settings as medical imaging and thermo-electric power generation.
** UNNAMED AGRICULTURAL HOLDING CORP - TBD **
Discount Dans
GardenGear
Pitatus Farms
Creaca's Space Milk
The Law Offices of Hogge & Wylde
A law firm that has been after NanoTrasen's blood and treasure since the Helicon Disaster on Luna. Represents many personal and corporate interests opposed to NT.
Various Weapons Manufacturers
AFFILIATIONS TBD
Cormorant Precision Arms
CPA produces kinetic pistols, shotguns, and rifles in classic formats. Widely used across the Frontier, their firearms can be found in both NanoTrasen station armories and in Syndicate hands.
Spectre Tactical Laboratories
- HQ: Loch Mallachie, Scotland
Spectre was founded shortly after the Battle of Dunkirk, designing clandestine weaponry for contracts with the British Combined Operations Command and the American Office of Strategic Services. Spectre's market includes PMCs, commandos, saboteurs and infiltrators. Though independently owned, the company has many ties with the Bonykll family from long before the era of BonkTek. With diminished interest from state-level buyers, Spectre largely deals with private contracts and private sales nowadays.