Tukera Lines

Tukera's long-standing logo.

Tukera Lines is a major interstellar transport company with service to virtually every important world in the Third Imperium. The keyword is “important:” Tukera ignores the backwater worlds and their low profit routes.

• Tukera Lines, LIC is an Imperial megacorporation.
• It operates within Charted Space.

Market Ticker Code

This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market code/s:

Market Ticker Code

Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Tukera Lines	Tuke-Mega-Corp	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	LIC	Major megacorporation dominating multisector transport lines, shipyard manufacturing, and industrial concerns.

Description (Portfolio)

Tukera Lines is one of the thirteen Imperial MegaCorporations in operation in 1105. Tukera Lines operates a vast fleet of passenger and freight vessels throughout the Imperium, following the X-Boat lines. In many subsectors (...particularly the older, more established regions of the Imperium) Tukera Lines has a virtual monopoly on long-distance shipping and travel.

Commercial Competencies

• Interstellar Shipping & Trade
  • Freight
  • Passengers
• Manufacturing
  • Robotics
  • Starship Manufacturing
    • Civil Ships
    • Military Ships
    • Paramilitary Ships
    • Other Ships
    • Smallcraft
    • Starship Components
• Speculation

Governance & Organization

Tukera's head is Count Blaine Trulla Tukera and his two brothers. Duchess Margaret who is married to Count Tukera, is also close to the Imperial Throne.

• Tukera's intelligence services, the Vemene, are feared for their ruthlessness by both citizens and the corporation's employees.

Stockholders

Stock ownership (1105):

Tukera family — 29%

Imperial family — 3%

Sternmetal Horizons— 2%

SuSAG— 5%

General Products— 2%

Private ownership— 31%

Investment trusts— 28%

Stock ownership (1126):

Tukera family — 29%

Imperial family — 3%

Sternmetal Horizons— 2%

SuSAG— 5%

General Products— 2%

Private ownership— 31%

Investment trusts— 28%

Subsidiaries

Tukera has a habit of setting up subsector-sized subsidiaries to provide feeder service.

Some of those companies include:

1. Alpac
2. Akagi Transport
3. Akerut
4. Arean Transport
5. Ekatur
6. Fornice Packet
7. Ingram Services
8. Keratu
9. Murdstone Yards
10. Stellar Construction
11. Thanber Consolidated Properties
12. Tukera Wines
13. Tukera CoreSpan
14. Vemene

Selected Officers

• Spinward Marches Sector Lead in 1099: Sir Bargil Muukirba.

Best Known Products & Services

This business is best known for:
Robots:

1. 232-BHR-7 class Toolbot

Civilian Ships:

1. Borazio class Heavy Freighter
2. Hercules class Cargo Transport
3. Margaret class Longliner
4. Pride of Vland class Long Liner
5. Prosperity class Medium Freighter
6. Type AH class Heavy Merchant
7. Type RT class Longliner

Military Ships:

1. Lightning class Frontier Cruiser
2. World class Battle Tender

History & Background (Dossier)

The oldest record of the firm is a charter from the government of the Sylean Federation, but family tradition holds the company to be several centuries older.

There is considerable rivalry with Imperiallines throughout the Imperium, and Oberlindes Lines within the Marches.

Tukera Lines is responsible for the unusual political situation of worlds in Atsah Subsector. Tukera Factor Shekhagimu, a seasoned diplomat and businessman, used his knowledge of the Vargr to present himself to the Atsak Federation, the local Vargr government. After a show of appropriate military strength and cunning, each world was ceded to a separate Vargr clan warlord, with the exception of Atsah, which was claimed for the ‘Imperial’ warlord, the Emperor, who ruled by proxy through his Duke. Most people viewed all of these worlds as Imperial, despite the technical legality that they were not. Due to the free-handed dealings of Shekhagimu, one of the most resource-rich worlds, Atadl (Deneb 3015) wasn’t ceded to the Imperium. At the same time, Tukera established its domain headquarters there. It should be noted that this bothered the Imperium greatly, and for centuries overtures were made to bring the system into the fold. Tukera and Atsah's consistent support of Atadl's solidarity caused Arbellatra to express her discontent, by ordering the X-boat route to enter Deneb by way of the Imperial world Sherad (Deneb 3116), only granting Atsah a subordinate branch.

Trade Partners

• Hive Federation

Trade Competitors

• Achenaar Antilles Line
  • Tukera has made inroads in the lower third of Saregon Subsector, using their industrial might to undercut Achenaar Antilles. The two lines have accused one another of sabotage and commerce raiding, and both have hired mercenary companies to secure their starships and industrial facilities.
• DaguMassilLines
• Imperiallines
• Oberlindes Lines

History-Era: Rebellion

Rebellion: The Tukera family and its holdings support Duchess Margaret's bid for the Iridium Throne.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following worlds and systems:
Charted Space:

• Core Sector
  • Apge Subsector
  • Cemplas Subsector
  • Chant Subsector
  • Ch'naar Subsector
  • Core Subsector
  • Kaskii Subsector
  • Perite Subsector
  • Shinkan Subsector
• Deneb Sector
  • Antra Subsector
  • Atsah Subsector
  • Dunmag Subsector
  • Lamas Subsector
  • Pretoria Subsector
  • Usani Subsector
• Empty Quarter Sector
  • Nulinad Subsector
• Foreven Sector
  • Fessor Subsector
• Ley Sector
  • Ikhnaton Subsector
  • Spearhead Subsector
• Spinward Marches Sector
  • Aramis Subsector
  • Glisten Subsector
  • Mora Subsector
  • Querion Subsector
  • Regina Subsector

Facilities Data

This business is known to host headquarters facilities in the following locations:

• Aramis (SM 3110) (world)
• Other locations

World Listing

This business can be found on the following worlds and systems:

28 of 28 World articles in Tukera Lines

Ansirk  •  Aramis (SM 3110)  •  Atadl  •  Atsah  •  Deneb  •  Dhian  •  Dunmag  •  Horosho  •  Jode  •  Junidy  •  Khinumi  •  Lamas  •  Lewis  •  Maitz  •  Mora  •  Nasemin  •  Natoko (SM 3209)  •  Noscius  •  Parthinia  •  Paya  •  Pretoria  •  Roup  •  Rurur  •  Sentry  •  Sherad  •  Thanber  •  Towers  •  Uramid  •  

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