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+ | :Nicknamed "Convention Security," the '''Dorsai''' are the oldest (but no longer the most powerful) mercenary organization in Fenspace. | ||
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+ | :The '''Roughriders''' have eclipsed the Dorsai as the largest and most powerful private military body in Fenspace. While their overall reputation is positive, there are those who distrust them on principle or because of their previous actions. | ||
==Other Notable Businesspeople== | ==Other Notable Businesspeople== |
Revision as of 00:24, 11 November 2011
“ | A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room. | ” |
—Poul Anderson, Margin of Profit (1956) |
Even in Fenspace, people have to work for a living. The Boskonians may see crime as acceptable, but the rest of Fenspace doesn't...
Major Fen Companies
- 7-sided Dice Productions
- Producers of fine games.
- Bailey Security Service
- Fenspace's answer to the Pinkerton agency... of the wild west era.
- Candy Apple Red's
- A "house of ill repute," of very good repute.
- Catgirl Industries
- Fenspace's answer to the Skunkworks. (Insert "Pepe le Pew" jokes here.)
- Cavalier Concerts
- Live music - promotion and hosting.
- CHOAM
- The Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles (CHOAM) hope to making interstellar trading easy by gaining a very early monopoly on it. They are Stellvia Corporation's largest rivals.
- Hephaestus Mining and Metalworking, Unltd.
- The first heavy industry in the Main Belt, Hephaestus is Fenspace's oldest and largest steelworks. They also operate a shipyard.
- Hermes Universal Deliveries
- HUD is Fenspace's original delivery service.
- Jupiter Mining Corporation
- Fenspace's up-and-coming delivery service.
- Ninjaburger
- Fast food, delivered directly to your airlock.
- Orbital Air
- Passenger transportation to and from Earth.
- Greenwood, Unltd.
- The most diverse holding company in Fenspace.
- Rockhounds
- The original asteroid miners, and a subsidary of Greenwood.
- Spot Cleaning
- Waste-disposal specialists.
- Stellvia Corporation
- The first of Fenspace's luxury-goods traders, Stellvia Corporation has branched out into general trading, tourism services, and philanthropic activities.
- Whistler Services
- Satellite repair and salvage specialists.
Private Law-Enforcement
Mercenaries, private detectives, and others who Uphold the Right for a fee.
- Dorsai
- Nicknamed "Convention Security," the Dorsai are the oldest (but no longer the most powerful) mercenary organization in Fenspace.
- The Roughriders
- The Roughriders have eclipsed the Dorsai as the largest and most powerful private military body in Fenspace. While their overall reputation is positive, there are those who distrust them on principle or because of their previous actions.
Other Notable Businesspeople
- Bounty Hunters
- People who go after the criminals that the Space Patrol can't reach.
- Vitamin Man
- A collection of individual suppliers of necessary trace minerals to far-flung settlements.
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