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 doesn't exist yet 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, not deep secret lore and clandestine operations. Avoid spoilers that would fall more on the "deep secrets" side of things.
Nanotrasen
The company that owns and operates the playable stations. Your employer, unless you've rolled a special or antagonist role. Nanotrasen is the leading corporation in plasma extraction, plasma-research, plasma-derived technologies, and are effectively the tollbooth keepers for the Channel to the Frontier. Nanotrasen's plasma drives expanded Humanity's reach across the Solar System and outward. Nanotrasen has been a private-public partner of NASA since the late Apollo era and provided the fuel for Martian and Jovian exploration before the discovery of the Channel at Io. A leading force in the new Frontier, Nanotrasen has recently become the dominant corporate power following years of legal and less-than-legal conquest. 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 Nanotrasen, to the many disgruntled current or former employees of Nanotrasen itself.
National Notary Supply Corporation, Annapolis MD
The core business of NT before the Space Age. Makers of pens and stamps. 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, Seneca NY
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 little-known Mr. Erdmann Frosch in the late 1880s. After the Korean War, Senator Victor Jam (NY, US) secured the purchase of the retired Naval Training Facility Sampson for Tradecraft Seneca's primary shipyard and training academy on Seneca Lake. This facility eventually expanded further with the acquisition of the 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.
Five Points Armory, Romulus NY
An in-house brand providing basic security equipment. Helmets, batons, handcuffs and more!
Bellona Special Requisitions, Bellona NY
Another in-house brand providing much more advanced equipment for tactical operations, used by Nanotrasen's internal security division.
Hafgan Heavy Industries
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 the new Frontier.
Radnor Photonics
Kingsway Systems
Donk!
Mabinogi Firearms Company
In-house weaponry used by Hafgan mine guards and corporate security, also sold for export.
Hemera Astral Research Corporation
A newer tech startup that revolutionized space-based construction with their invention of the Rapid Construction Device. Hemera's expertise with compressed matter technologies, telecrystals and other applied materials research laid the groundwork for recent advances in teleportation, though Hemera itself is largely defunct as a corporation by 2053.
Products include the RCD, the singularity generator and black hole bomb, the Alastor beam rifle, and the HEPT test apparatus.
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 and Lunaport. 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
