Isesaki Shipping
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Isesaki Shipping | |
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| Corporation Profile | |
| Affiliation | Draconis Combine |
| Headquarters | Ukonsoi (Isesaki I)[1] |
| Leadership | CEO |
| Product(s) |
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| Division(s) | Kintetsu Stellar Systems |
| Manufacturing Plant(s) | Luthien (Orbital)[1] |
One of Chandrasekhar Kurita's numerous business holdings, Isesaki Shipping was an interstellar shipping company within in the Draconis Combine.[2][3]
Overview[edit]
Isesaki Shipping could trace its history back hundreds of years to before the first Star League.[1][2] Founder Uchio Randolph petitioned the Coordinator for corporate control over the entire Isesaki system and the first colony was built in 2612. Within two centuries, the company had built two JumpShip yards, several microgravity manufacturing facilities, and a small spacecraft manufacturing complex.[4]
While the company had gone through changes throughout the centuries, Isesaki had always held a royal patent to trade anywhere in human occupied space.[5] While the wars between the states of the Inner Sphere had sometimes prevented the company from trading as freely as it wished, the company's agents and its extensive contacts with "independent" traders ensured Isesaki could always find someone willing to make a deal.[1][2][3]
Isesaki Shipping was known to have ties to virtually every shadow and political organization in Combine space, including the Internal Security Force, yakuza, Order of Five Pillars, and Black Dragons.[6]
After the Ronin War, Isesaki received considerable financial assistance as "Uncle Chandy" began to clandestinely invest in the company as a means of securing Hachiman Taro Electronics' shipping routes as well as allowing him to establish an extensive network of contacts beyond the Combine's borders.[7] In 3056, Isesaki hired several smaller mercenary commands to defend its ships from pirate forces.[8]
Unfortunately the company's ties to "Uncle Chandy" and its Sphere-wide operations meant Isesaki Shipping suffered heavy losses during the Jihad; in 3073, a raid on Shuen Wan in the Free Worlds League by the Capellan Confederation saw the indiscriminate use of tactical nuclear devices by the CCAF, and the Isesaki dockyard there was destroyed.[9] On 21 March 3075, Ukonsoi City was raided by the elite Word of Blake unit, the Opacus Venatori. The raid targeted the headquarters of Isesaki Shipping, levelling both the HQ and a wide swath of the commercial district of the city, and killing the company's CEO Ernest Machida.[10][11]
Manufacturing[edit]
Isesaki Shipping has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
Isesaki[edit]
| Components produced: | |
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| Component | Type |
| JumpShips | |
| Tramp[1] | JumpShip |
| Support Vehicles | |
| Roku Royal[1] | Land train |
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Handbook: House Kurita, p. 163: "Isesaki Shipping"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 163: "Important Corporations - [Isesaki Shipping]"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jihad Conspiracies: Interstellar Players 2, p. 28: "Uncle Chandy - Gamemaster's Section - Holdings - Isesaki Shipping"
- ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 91: "Isesaki" planet profile
- ↑ Heir to the Dragon, p. 271
- ↑ 1st Somerset Strikers, p. 41: "Intelligence Secretariat Internal Memo No. 6599"
- ↑ Jihad Conspiracies: Interstellar Players 2, p. 23: "Uncle Chandy - Economic Tentacles"
- ↑ Hot Spots, p. 27
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 12: "On The Precipice"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 15: "Timeline of the Jihad"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 53: "The Jihad In Review"