Ling-Standard Products

Ling-Standard Products (LSP) is a megacorporation primarily conducting business within the Third Imperium.

Market Ticker Code

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

Market Ticker Code

Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Ling-Standard Products	LSP-Mega-Corp	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	LIC	Megacorporation producer of robots and other products.

Description (Portfolio)

LSP is one of the thirteen Imperial MegaCorporations in operation in 1105.

Commercial Competencies

It specializes in the following commercial competencies:

• Mining (very active)
• Banking (small degree),
• Insurance (small degree), and...
• Other activities.

Manufacture of:

• Computer systems
• Consumer Goods
• Electronic equipment of all sorts,
• Ground & air vehicles,
• Starships,
• Starship armaments systems,
• Starship drive systems,
• Starship power systems,
• Robots
• Software,
• Small arms
• Weapons, and...
• A variety of other items.

Governance & Organization: 1105

LSP is organized by a board governed by votes. Senior board members possess more votes than junior members. The exact number of boards varies and can be changed and adapted to regional needs.

Stockholders

Stock ownership (1105):

• Hortalez et Cie- 26%
• GSbAG- 23%
• Imperial family- 8%
• Murdoch Holdings, LIC- 8%
• Noble families- 8%
  • House Ling
  • House Meyers
• Other- 27%

Stock ownership (1126):

• Imperial Family- 8%
• Hortalez et Cie- 32%
• GSbAG- 23% (n.b. Controlled by Hortalez et Cie)
• General Products- 2%
• Noble Families- 8%
  • House Ling
  • House Meyers
• Murdoch Holdings- 2%
• Other- 27%

Subsidiaries

• Baldang Arms
• Dashi Combine
• Ling Personnel Systems
• Ling-Standard Metals
• Ling Standard Products Spinward
• Military Technologies Group

Best Known Products & Services

This business is best known for:

1. PR-317 class Police Robot
2. Royal Forces Standard Magazine Project 10-20

History & Background (Dossier)

In the chaotic environment of the Rule Of Man, Terran Army veteran Captain John Meyers ventured into the newly conquered territories of the First Imperium to seek his fortune. He found it in supplying Terran Confederation forces with contract services: he succeeded because he was a familiar face in an alien (...and potentially hostile) culture. Although Meyers envisioned mining operations for his newly created company, his emphasis soon morphed into a broad spectrum of services and production.

LSP survived the isolation of the Long Night as many independently operating divisions. With the rise of the Third Imperium, LSP's complex ownership structure enabled its many components to re-unite into a true megacorporation.

LSP currently engages in a wide spectrum of activities including (but by no means limited to) manufacture of electronic equipment of all sorts, ground and air vehicles, starships and starship armaments systems, drive systems, power systems, computer systems and software, small arms, and a variety of other items. Concerned to a small degree with banking, insurance, and other activities, LSP maintains mining and manufacturing facilities throughout the Imperium and beyond.

Trade Partners: 1105

Trade partners vary, but LSP has had long lasting trade partnerships with a number of megacorporations, corporations, and even interstellar polities including:

• Third Imperium

Trade Competitors: 1105

LSP most often butts heads with other megacorporations, both Major Race and Imperial:

• TBD

History-Era: New Era

Ling-Standard Products LRC, a former Imperial Megacorp. In antebellum times the company produced everything short of the kitchen sink. Compared to most of its Imperial era brethren, LSP was quiet and modest, and its success had less to do with chicanery and scheming than with solid corporate policies and management. But the desolation of the Imperial environment has given way to the extremely fluid and competitive markets of the Regency, and LSP has had to struggle to maintain its dominance in the face of new corporate competition. That it is still the largest company in the Regency is testament to its management and corporate vision, and it remains the benchmark by which all corporate activity is compared.

• LSP is still primarily a general manufacturer, though its starships and vehicles are the most noticeable of its massive product line. It maintains its headquarters at Lunion, and regional headquarters at Tobia and Dekha. It has shipyards at Rhylanor, Lunion and Strouden (both the largest private yards in the Marches), Pallique and Mora, Ffudn and Glisten, Edenelt, Tobia, Seleen, Starn (largest private yard in the Regency), Isurkun, Dekha (Plant 12) and HRD/Vincennes, Qevar and Pikha.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

LSP maintains mining and manufacturing facilities throughout the Imperium and beyond.

Daibei Sector

LSP has become deeply involved with the Evantha Protectorate worlds, in partnership with the current Maia (dictator) of the Evantha.

Ley Sector

Hagajaya Sarana, LIC is an LSP subsidiary, and the corporation's primary vehicle manufacturer within Ley Sector. Hagajaya Sarana concentrates upon smaller private grav vehicles.

Reaver's Deep Sector

LSP operate the large Imperial shipyards at Concorde and Kaagin. LSP has been exerting political pressure to obtain lanthanum mining rights on Lurammish but has encountered fierce local resistance.

Reft Sector

LSP is one of the few Imperial Megacorporations to be highly active beyond the Imperial border, and as such naturally began to move into Reft Sector as soon as this became possible. LSP has a contract with Amondiage, which acts as a factor for products and components. These are shipped to Amondiage aboard LSP starships, after which sales and distribution are locally arranged.

Facilities Data: 1105

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

• No information yet available

World Listing: 1105

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

54 of 54 World articles in Ling-Standard Products

815-205  •  Aramanx  •  Baytapik  •  Bowman  •  Cilnodan  •  Dashi  •  Dekha  •  Deneb  •  Depot (De 1613)  •  Diablo (RD 2423)  •  Edenelt  •  Enos  •  Feneteman  •  Ffudn  •  Flammarion  •  Gagaridir  •  Gila  •  Glisten  •  HRD  •  Horosho  •  Ikhaba  •  Ikuna  •  Ilium (SM 0426)  •  Imga  •  Inkekush  •  Isurkun  •  Khuulush  •  Kivu (Co 3129)  •  Luguk  •  Lunion  •  Lurammish  •  Marnig  •  Mashnamii  •  Mimishka  •  Mirror  •  Mora  •  Neto  •  Northammon  •  Palique (SM 3029)  •  Phoenix (AC 0221)  •  Pikha  •  Qevar  •  Rhylanor  •  Rugbird  •  Seleen  •  Shuama  •  Starn  •  Strouden  •  Talca  •  Tobia  •  Trin (SM 3235)  •  Ucella  •  Upag  •  Urnas  •  

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