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| '''[[Hogwarts#Hogwarts' Press|Hogwarts' Press]]'''|| ||The preeminent publishing house in the Main Belt.
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| '''ISN'''|| ||'''ISN System Service''' is the best-known media outlet in Fenspace.
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| '''[[ZNN]]|| [[Image:Znn.png|50px|center]] || The most trusted News Network in Fenspace
 
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| '''[[Catgirl Industries|CI]]'''|| ||'''Catgirl Industries''' is Fenspace's answer to the Skunkworks<ref>Insert "Pepe le Pew" jokes here.</ref> or the RAND Corporation.
 
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| '''[[Ninjaburger]]'''|| ||Fast food, delivered directly to your airlock.
 
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| '''[[Whistler Services]]'''||[[Image:WhistlerServices.png|50px|center]]||Satellite repair and salvage specialists. Lately branching of into construction.
 
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“ 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

Manufacturing

People who make things for a living.

Manufacturing Companies
Company Logo Capsule Description
Hephaestus
Hephaestus crew patch.png
 The first heavy industry in the Main Belt, Hephaestus Mining and Metalworking, Unltd. is Fenspace's oldest and largest steelworks. They also operate a shipyard.

Trading

People who sell things for a living.

Trading Companies
Company Logo Capsule Description
CHOAM The Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles hope to making interstellar trading easy by gaining a very early monopoly on it. They are Stellvia Corporation's largest rivals.
StellviaCorp
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 The first of Fenspace's luxury-goods traders, Stellvia Corporation has branched out into general trading, tourism services, and philanthropic activities.

Transport

People who move things or people for a living.

Transportation Companies
Company Logo Capsule Description
HUD Hermes Universal Deliveries is Fenspace's original delivery service.
JMC
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 Jupiter Mining Corporation is Fenspace's up-and-coming delivery service, better able to serve the Jovian subsystem than HUD is.
Orbital Air Orbital Air provides passenger transportation to and from Earth.

Entertainment

People who make other people happy for a living.

Entertainment Companies
Company Logo Capsule Description
7-sided Dice Productions Producers of fine games.
Candy Apple Red's A "house of ill repute," of very good repute.
Cavalier Concerts Live music - promotion and hosting.
Renfaire A historical-reenactment theme park, located on 4860 Gubbio.

Private Law-Enforcement

Mercenaries, private detectives, and others who Uphold the Right for a fee.

Private Law-Enforcement Companies
Company Logo Capsule Description
Bailey Security Service Fenspace's answer to the Pinkerton agency... of the wild west era.
Bounty Hunters People who go after the criminals that the Space Patrol can't reach, the various Bounty Hunters of Fenspace aren't organized in any real fashion.
Dorsai Nicknamed "Convention Security," the Dorsai are the oldest (but no longer the most powerful) mercenary organization in Fenspace.
The Roughriders
1st Calvary Regiment.jpg
 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 some of their previous actions.

Media Companies

People who tell other people things.

Media Companies
Company Logo Capsule Description
Hogwarts' Press The preeminent publishing house in the Main Belt.
ISN ISN System Service is the best-known media outlet in Fenspace.
ZNN
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 The most trusted News Network in Fenspace

Other Services

People who do things for other people, but not things listed above.

Service Companies
Company Logo Capsule Description
CI Catgirl Industries is Fenspace's answer to the Skunkworks[1] or the RAND Corporation.
Ninjaburger Fast food, delivered directly to your airlock.
Spot Cleaning Waste-disposal specialists.
Whistler Services
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 Satellite repair and salvage specialists. Lately branching of into construction.

Other Companies

People who do other things for a living.

Other Companies
Company Logo Capsule Description
Greenwood, Unltd. The most diverse holding company in Fenspace.
Rockhounds
RockhoundsLogo.jpg
 The original asteroid miners, and a subsidiary of Greenwood.
WaaPE[2] Wing and a Prayer Enterprises is as quiet in Fenspace as is its major asset, Babylon .5
Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems Independent spacecraft designers, whose most famous (and profitable) design is the A510 Starclipper

Other Notable Businesspeople

Not everyone works for a large company.

Vitamin Man
A collection of individual suppliers of necessary trace minerals to far-flung settlements.
Sabre Fang
Owns and runs Cold Cat Spaceworks, a small one-fen Construction and Manufacturing company based off Sabre's ship the Tyger Tyger
Dakota
Owns and runs Holo Neon in Kandor City, a business dictated to manufacturing, selling, and programing of hologram systems.
Vulpine Fury
Fenspace's best and best-known builder of puppets, AI shells, and telepresence rigs.

Notes

  1. ↑ Insert "Pepe le Pew" jokes here.
  2. ↑ Pronounced 'whap'


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Fen Companies
Manufacturing
Trading
Transport
Entertainment
Private Law-Enforcement
Media
Other Services
Other Companies
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Culture of Fenspace
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