[Organisation] Innovative Fenspace Industries (IFI)

[Ace Dreamer]

Innovative Fenspace Industries (IFI) was an Australian construction company set up, early 2008, to exploit the possibilities of near-Earth construction in space, using handwavium-based tools and industry.  Their first big project was intended to be a luxury hotel, with the core built on Earth, launched to L5, then construction completed there.
Unfortunately, while they had excellent engineering skills, they lacked on the business and financial side, and by mid 2008 they were forced to sell the project and the part-completed hotel core to an O'Niell organisation, to become an L5 private home, O'Neill Station.  The core was launched 9th November 2008, and successfully placed at L5.  They spent two months, working through Christmas and the New Year at triple-time rate, so by early January 2009 they could give a rough station completion of end of March 2009.  The station officially opened 8th April 2009.
Unfortunately, back on Earth, things hadn't gone smoothly.  IFI collapsed with allegations of mixing drugs, catgirls and Warhammer 40k, 2nd of January 2009.  Existing projects (including O'Neill Station) were pretty smoothly taken over by CHOAM.  The management had seen the writing on the wall, and they were already in serious negotiations.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

[Ace Dreamer]

META "IFI"

This was created as part of the back story for the launch of O'Neill Station. A while later it disappears into CHOAM.

There is reference to other projects than O'Niell's; any idea what they might have been?

Also, is it worth tweaking the CHOAM stuff to list some of the organisations absorbed into it?
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

[robkelk]

Also, is it worth tweaking the CHOAM stuff to list some of the organisations absorbed into it?

That's probably a good idea. (At the least, it'll let me know what isn't available for purchase by StellviaCorp.)
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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

[Dartz]

We are CHOAM of Borg. Your enterprise as it has been is over. Your business will adapt to service us. Your commercial and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile.

.... everyone's thinking it.

A good reason not to go fully public, if ever there was one. More than a few may have gotten nasty surprises when their business was bought out from underneath them....
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[HRogge]

We are CHOAM of Borg. Your enterprise as it has been is over. Your business will adapt to service us. Your commercial and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile.

... oh, we are used to be second place!

[Ace Dreamer]

I was thinking in general terms that IFI wanted to be THE building firm in L5. Maybe they started with a luxury hotel, an industrial station and one intended for general use. Aiming to show they could build anything, well.

So, "O'Neill Station" is the recycled luxury hotel.

"Over The Rainbow" is the industrial concern?

What might be the third? "Humanitas Excelsior"? "Meetpoint"?

"CHOAM" was a bit later in their fate...
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

[Bob Schroeck]

... oh, we are used to be second place!

...But we try harder.  
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Ace Dreamer]

I wanted to know...
Does this apply in Fenspace as well? [grin]
(runs off and hides)
Edit: http://www.animeultima.tv/ufo-ultramaid ... episode-1/
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

[Warringer]

Lets hope not. That would mean less kitties in fenspace...

[Dartz]

If that's the case, I'm a walking catgirl holocaust.
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[HRogge]

If that's the case, I'm a walking catgirl holocaust.

The fact that CI is still growing suggests the law doesn't work since the end of the Boskonian war anymore.