Gazetteer stub - Stellvia Corp.

[robkelk]

Since it came up in the "Three Graces" thread, here's what I just put in the wiki:

Stellvia Corporation

Stellvia Corporation is a holding company founded on 1 July 2009, with Noah Scott being the sole
stockholder.

It owns or has controlling interest in three companies, and has minor holdings in many other 'Dane and Fen businesses.

Daughter companies

* Stellvia Trading: Founded 1 July 2009; owner/operator of the
Stellvia trading-post-and-resort space station; 100% owned by Stellvia Corp.

* name to be announced later (Please do not suggest one; I already
have a name picked out, but it's a spoiler. -RK): Founded 15 June 2013; philanthropic organization, backer of the Space
Patrol; owned 51% by Stellvia Corp., xx% by the Soviet Air Force,
xx% by Operation GREAT JUSTICE, and the remainder by other companies and individuals.

* Artemis Corporation: Founded 1 April 2014; in charge of Project Artemis, any new Shuttles
built by the company, and Main Belt Research Stations McAuliffe and
Chawla; owned 85% by Stellvia Corp., 5% by 'Dane interests supposedly not connected with NASA,
and 10% by other Fen organizations and individuals.



-Rob Kelk




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[robkelk]

Well, I said that the above was a stub...

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Stellvia Corporation
Stellvia Corporation is a holding company founded on 1 July 2009, with Noah Scott being the sole stockholder.

Stellvia Corporation owns or has controlling interest in three companies, and has minor holdings in many other 'Dane and Fen businesses.
Stellvia Trading
Founded 1 July 2009 to administer the Stellvia space station, Stellvia Trading is 100% owned by Stellvia Corp. This is the company that most people think of when they hear the name "Stellvia".
Stellvia Trading originally specialized in selling finished materials from Earth to Fen for the first few months of its existance, continuing how Noah Scott was earning a living before incorporating. However, Stellvia Trading's reaction to the Kaboomite Incident at Worldcon Floating Island that summer drove most of the Fen trading business away from Stellvia and into Fenspace proper, especially to The Island.
Faced with bankrupcy, Stellvia Trading began an ambitious project of offering "space tourism" to the people of Earth. Purchasing one of the two Concorde aircraft owned by the Airbus Factory, the company rebuilt and handwaved it into a luxury passenger spacecraft, christened it Ad Astra, and began offering weekly luxury transportation between Sydney's Kingsford Smith International Airport, Kandor City, and Stellvia, which had been renovated to include a small hotel facility. This worked so well that Stellvia Trading began an expansion project to increase the station's available hotel space, which was scaled up to meet vastly increased demand after the company's directors acted to prevent the destruction of Aukland in July 2011.
The expanded hotel was opened for business in April 2012, mere weeks before the SOS-Con. Stellvia Corporation rented out an entire level of the new hotel facility to Operation GREAT JUSTICE, which brought some of the previously-lost Fen business back to Stellvia and paid for the station's first dry-dock facility. The dry-dock was rented to the SEBureau's Above and Beyond Development as soon as it was completed in February 2013, and was used to support Operation GREAT JUSTICE until the end of the Boskone Incident in early 2014.
In order to help stave off a post-war economic depression, Stellvia Trading began an ambitious station expansion project in April 2014. Many groups that wanted a presence near but not on Earth have queued to rent space in the new section of the station, but as of July 2014 the only ones yet able to move in are the Banzai Institute, the SEBureau, the Artemis Corporation, and Stellvia Trading itself. Despite all the construction, the original Stellvia station ring still exists; it is now Noah Scott's private residence, and access to it is restricted to Mr. Scott, his "angels", and a very short list of trusted allies.
Stellvia Trading owns both the Stellvia station and the Ad Astra outright. It also maintains and provides home port facilities for Noah Scott's private yacht Epsilon Blade.
The company is run directly by Noah Scott, with the assistance of his "angels" and specialists in various fields.

name to be announced later ((Please do not suggest one; I already have a name picked out, but it's a spoiler. -RK))
This philanthropic organization was founded on 15 June 2013, after (spoiler).
It acts to funnel contributions of all sorts - financial gifts, expertise, and anything in between - from factions, businesses, and individuals to where they will do the most good, especially but not exclusively to the Space Patrol.
The foundation is owned 51% by Stellvia Corp., 15% by the Soviet Air Force, and 10% by Operation GREAT JUSTICE. The remainder is owned by other companies and individuals. (For many reasons, most of which are political, the Banzai Institute does not have a financial interest in the organization.)
Thanks to extensive automation, including AI assistance, the foundation's staff is very small. Day-to-day operations are handled by (sorry, another spoiler), the foundation's AI system, while personal meetings are attended by any of the organization's five field representatives. Oliver Towne manages the foundation on behalf of the shareholders.
The organization's physical offices are in the Watchtower, in Kandor City. They have three 'waved 1985 Lincoln Town Cars at their disposal for day-to-day operations.

Artemis Corporation
The Artemis Corporation was founded 1 April 2014 to support the April Fool's Purchase. Nobody was more surprised than Noah when the Purchase was approved, and he quickly expanded the Artemis Corporation from a shell company to an actual corporation.
Their primary business is administration of Project Artemis, the space science body staffed by many of the people who left NASA when its operations were absorbed by the TASB. In support of that, they also operate the shipyard Ley in the Main Belt, where they build unmaned probes for themselves and Shuttles for themselves and anyone else who can afford to buy them (under licence from the Soviet Air Force, which irks them no end). In order to break even, they also deliver 'Danelaw satellites to Earth orbit and maintain the International Space Station.
They are owned 85% by Stellvia Corp., 5% by 'Dane interests supposedly not connected with NASA, and 10% by other Fen organizations and individuals.
The Artemis Corporation employs many of the civilian scientists and researchers previously employed by NASA.
Their physical assets include the Shuttles Challenger and Phoenix, Main Belt Research Stations McAuliffe and Chawla, shipyard Ley, many varieties of unmanned exploration drones in orbit around all four of Sol's gas giants and throughout the Alpha Centauri system, and administrative offices in Crystal Kyoto, Starbase 1, Starbase 2, and Stellvia. They also rent small offices in Canberra, Australia, Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, and Washington, DC, USA, but their main administrative offices are in Port Phobos.
For obvious reasons, Artemis Corp. does not get along well with the TASB.

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There's still a couple of blanks to fill in, which is why I haven't updated the wiki yet. (The old Soviet launch facility is in the Ukraine, right? Edit: Nope, it's in Kazakhstan. Fixing the entry and filling in the blanks...)
And as everyone can see from the revised entry, the Soviet Air Force won the Great Shuttle Naming Skirmish. (Basically, Sora quivered her lower lip and almost cried, and Noah gave in. He's a softy that way.) Edit: No, according to Mal, it was a split decision. I'm okay with that. Altering the above to match. In exchange, Stellvia Corp got the Soviet Air Force to buy a notable portion of the shares of that philanthropic organization, which they probably would have anyway since that group's backing the Space Patrol. How big a percentage did you folks want, Mal?

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[M Fnord]

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Day-to-day operations are handled by (sorry, another spoiler), the foundation's AI system

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Aw, and here I had a thought as to who the AI should be. (KJ can probably guess, so he's got dibs to injure me in the event.)

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Their physical assets include the Shuttles Phoenix and Columbia,

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Challenger. Remember, the VVS got Columbia.

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Edit: No, according to Mal, it was a split decision. I'm okay with that. Altering the above to match.

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Well, in the 201 notes it's a disagreement that wouldn't have come up except for the inattention of certain parties (*cough Wire Geek *cough*) when it came to selling the first batch of 201s. Selling something that technically had already been sold, basically. So in the end it all comes out okay.

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How big a percentage did you folks want, Mal?

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Hm... let's see... Stellvia has 51%, leaving 49% to be fought over by various others. Let's put it at 15% for now, and revise upwards as the shareholder list becomes more apparent.---
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[robkelk]

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Aw, and here I had a thought as to who the AI should be. (KJ can probably guess, so he's got dibs to injure me in the event.)

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Consider the plot outline I e-mailed you last week, especially the epilogue... if you're familiar with the source material, you'll know both the organization's name and who the AI is.

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Challenger. Remember, the VVS got Columbia.

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You flipped them around when you posted your stub, then... Which of us is going to update his entry?

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Hm... let's see... Stellvia has 51%, leaving 49% to be fought over by various others. Let's put it at 15% for now, and revise upwards as the shareholder list becomes more apparent.

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Okay... 51% for Stellvia, 15% for the VVS, 10% for OGJ - that leaves 24% for everyone else. Anyone interested?

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[M Fnord]

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You flipped them around when you posted your stub, then... Which of us is going to update his entry?

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I did? I've been pretty adamant since the subject came up in the TSAB thread that the Soviets got Columbia. I don't *think* I reversed that position at any point...
ETA: Also, when I drafted the 201 notes, it was my general intent that Artemis would also acquire Enterprise and Pathfinder, then sort of changed my mind re: Enterprise, so left the table blank for the moment. My apologies for any confusion that caused.---
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[robkelk]

You did... Considering I gave you a bit more for the new Shuttles, I'll let you update your entry, then I'll update mine to match.

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[M Fnord]

I did? Seriously?
Jesus, memory's going in my fucking dotage...---
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[robkelk]

Yep... Anyway, the above entry is now fixed, and I'm heading over to the wiki to fix it as well.

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
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"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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[robkelk]

Thanks, and glad to have you aboard!

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012