| Anatidaes Livestock Co Farming Conglomerate. Specializes in Livestock. |
Anatidaes Livestock Co generally just sells and buys large numbers of the same kind of boring domestic animals you will find on most farms in the civilized universe. Fortunately, they are also incredibly good at finding exotic animals nobody has ever heard of before. Rumor has it that they genetically engineer most of these discoveries in secret laboratories, but who's going to complain when they have a genuine novelty on their hands? Anatidaes Livestoc Co is mostly run by people of German ancestry and is said to be named after one Howard Anatidaes, fabled duck entertainer and subject of much lore from olden times. For some reason, the only thing Anatidaes Livestoc Co refuses to deal with is albino felines of all varieties. |
| Adamantium Arms Weapons Manufacturer. Specializes in suits of armor and and armored vehicles. |
This company is run by people who truly enjoy being shot at. They assemble decent weapons, but mostly regard this a tedious exercise necessary to be able to test their prized inventions. Adamantium Arms armor is so good that many soldiers claim they have often found themselves in intense firefights without realizing it until the opposing side had to run off to buy more ammunitions. You don't win wars by sitting in an armored car in a full suit of armor, but the secret to war is that whoever ends up dead is the loser, and if that can't be you then you're already halfway there. |
| The Splendid Society League of Artisans. Specializes in Media Attention. |
Producing nothing other than strange poetry, grotesque paintings and plays wherein everyone is either naked during the course of most of the plot or dies at the end of the same, the Splendid Society wouldn't have anything worth selling if the media of the entire universe weren't so very much in love with them. Everything they do guarantees media coverage. While this might be useful if you're building a holiday resort and want lots of patrons, it is probably something to be avoided if you're smuggling narcotics or manufacturing torture machines. |
| Thinkbank Research Institute. Specializes in Scientific Breakthroughs. |
This institute is every scientist's dream. Thinkbank is basically a huge overfunded Thinktank with a severe lack of guidance. One day they'll have people research the mating rituals of insects that haven't been discovered yet (although their existence has been theorized by R.C.G.W. Lederhösen in his comprehensive book "A girl can dream, can't she?"), and another they'll find a way to travel forwards at twice the speed of light while at the same time moving backwards at slightly less than twice he speed of light. This effectively means they found a way to travel forwards awkwardly slowly, but the scientific implications were huge. Thinkbank doesn't sell finished products, but holds so many patents that most super computers simply die at the prospect of having to keep track of them. |
| G.U.N. Spacefleet Military Organisation. Specializes in Specialization. |
Suppose someone needed a bomber that was small, fast, and could withstand attacks from laser based weapons. Now suppose someone wanted the same bomber with the addition that it should be able to operate in extremely cold environments. And finally suppose someone wanted a fighter version of the same jet. In any other fleet, you'd be looking at two different types of ships here, tops. Sure you'd swap some pieces, but the thing could be mass produced and customized. If this is the G.U.N. Spacefleet however, above scenario will result in 27 different types of attack vessels. This is because G.U.N. admirals adore having just the right vessel for extremely specific situations. That all those ships cluster together in gigantic swarms of madness in actual sorties is both quite a thing to behold and a spectacular orgy of wasted resources, but every so often one single ship ends up at exactly the right spot and everything is golden. |
| Treasure Huntington Venture Mining Company. Specializes in Rare Minerals. |
Treasure Huntington could not care less about a meteorite made of solid gold. Sure gold is pretty rare, but it isn't rare enough for Treasure Huntington. They are interested only in the rarest of rare metals, and are constantly devising new ways to find and extract them. The founder of the company, Lenore Huntington, is the proud owner of one atom of absurdium, a metal so rare that so far only two atoms have been found. Mining for oddities is expensive, but many of the elusive materials scattered around the cosmos are highly sought after by all kinds of industries. |
| Malibubu Inc Manufacturer of Consumer Goods. Specializes in Lawsuits. |
This corporation is notorious for filing lawsuits against everyone and their mothers for whatever reasons they can come up with. They employ the finest laywers in the universe and have quickly gained a reputation as the second most loathsome people in the universe (laywers still easily in the lead). Whenever their lawsuits fail they sue the court, then sue themselves, then fire two million employees and buy up all the competition only to sue them. They make products of some sort, but nobody really pays much attention to that anymore. Malibubu Inc representatives are very irritating to deal with, but oftentimes siding with them is the only way to keep their legal muscle in safe distance. |
| Holiday Out Trade Agent. Specializes in Tourism. |
While still a trade agent in a traditional sense, Holiday Out constantly sends ships to unprofitable locations in order to find new vacation spots for both the unwashed masses and the well to do. Apparently roughing it on some remote colony is currently all the rage in the high society, so Holiday Out representatives are constantly on the lookout for colonies that might meet their requirements. They aren't overly succesful as traders, as in they're very unsuccesful as traders, but their booming chain of inexpensive resorts and contracts with high profile locations easily make up for it. No joke here because tourism is serious business. |