Rimward Opportunities

Rimward Opportunities was a Development Organization active within Far Home Sector during the 50th–52nd centuries.

Description (Specifications)

Rimward Opportunities was divided into five separate Directorates, each controlled by a Director. These included the Pel Avena Directorate and Far Rim Mining.

Rimward Management: 4933AD-5042AD

During the Renaissance the area was claimed by the newly-formed Rimward Opportunities development organisation, a corporate venture begun by a group of disgruntled executives displaced by a power struggle within Tal Varisan Development.

Rimward Opportunities divided its territory into five separate Directorates, each controlled by an Operations Director. The richest and most productive of these was the Pel Avena Directorate, which occupied the Pel Avena Cluster. The other four Directorates of Rimward Opportunities always struggled to break even, let alone produce a surplus. Head Office poured the resources of Pel Avena into them, but these materials and funds were very often squandered on failed projects or simply stolen. Very few of those precious resources were spent on the Directorate that had generated them.

As feelings of resentment and neglect grew within the Pel Avena Directorate, its officials launched a series of "private ventures" to covertly improve their domestic budget. Regular trade was established with New Frontiers and the worlds of the Pador-Aredian Cluster to trailing, with Pel Avena even going as far as using vessels chartered from New Frontiers to transport their produce and their staff. The benefits to the worlds and facilities within the Cluster were rapid and noticeable.

Pel Avena Autonomy: 5042AD-5183AD

Head Office eventually became aware of Pel Avena's activities and dispatched Security forces to the cluster to bring its systems back in line; they were met with strong system defense forces and large numbers of locally raised militia. In the face of such overwhelming resistance the Security forces chose to withdraw - they weren't being paid to fight an actual war.

Instead, and from a humiliatingly weakened position, Rimward Opportunities was forced to initiate negotiations with Pel Avena, eventually drawing up an agreement that effectively made the Directorate a self-governing autonomous zone. Pel Avena, in return, agreed to pay an annual dividend. Rimward Opportunities never overcame its financial issues. Having lost its primary asset the remaining four directorates staggered on, with the final one, Far Rim Mining, folding around 5350AD. The worlds of each of the four remaining Directorates became independent. Pel Avena, however, continued much as before, though they now retained the annual dividend for their own use.

"Hollow Opportunities" (5184AD–ca 5350AD)

The name applied to the functioning remnant of Rimward Opportunities following the secession of the Pel Avena Cluster and the formation of the Rimward Federation.

The remaining four Directorates staggered along, gradually folding until the organization ceased to function during the 54th Century. The last active Directorate was Far Rim Mining.

Subsector Listing

Rimward Opportunities was active within the following Subsectors:

• Paradise Subsector: Subsector L of Halcyon Sector.
• Irikusk Subsector: Subsector I of Far Home Sector.
• Demon's Eye Subsector: Subsector J of Far Home Sector.
• Orret Subsector: Subsector K of Far Home Sector.
• Annistu Subsector: Subsector M of Far Home Sector.
• Foralin Subsector: Subsector N of Far Home Sector.
• Liradi Subsector: Subsector A of Far Home Sector.

Organisation

Headquarters: Dal Hallen.

Departments:

• Treasury
• Colonial Office
• Sophont Affairs
• Office of Trade

Conflicts

Clashed with New Frontiers Development Organization in Orret Subsector.

Clashed with Tal Varisan Development in Demon's Eye Subsector.

History & Background (Dossier)

ca 4933AD–5350AD. It sought to improve the systems along the rimward edge of the Distant Fringe, an area that had previously been neglected and was little more than wilderness. It increasingly found itself in competition with New Frontiers to trailing. Its core systems became the Rimward Federation.

Major Historical Events Timeline

• 4933AD: Formation of Rimward Opportunities Development Organization.
• 5183AD: The Rimward Federation is founded from the core regions of Rimward Opportunities.
• 5184AD: "Hollow Opportunities".
• 5350AD: Rimward Opportunities ceases to exist as an entity.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science