Confederation Heavy Industries

Confederation Heavy Industries LLC is a large corporation involved in manufacturing and heavy industry

• It primarily operates within the Solomani Confederation.
• It is most commonly known as CHI.

Market Ticker Code

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

Market Ticker Code
Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Confederation Heavy Industries	CHI	Manufacturing	LLC	Industrial concern covering the trailing half of the Solomani Sphere.

Description (Portfolio)

Confederation Heavy Industries is a Solomani engineering corporation headquartered on Despin, in Neworld Sector. It is prominent in heavy industry and starship construction, it produces excellent agricultural machinery, and is a leading manufacturer of civilian and commercial vehicles. It is closely associated with infrastructure projects, producing and installing many elements.

Commercial Competencies

• Creation of high quality materials
• Cutting, shaping, molding, and joining materials.
• Manipulation of exotic / specialist materials.
• Civil and architectural planning and design.
• Precision construction and manufacturing.
• Retrofitting, conversions, and modifications.
• Spacecraft and starship design and construction.
• Storage of finished products.

Governance & Organization

Confederation Heavy Industries is governed by a Director and a Board of Governers, all of whom have high-level contacts in the Confederation government. Business operations are divided by sector and by region within a sector: Sector Offices and Regional Offices are run by Executive Directors, Chief Operating Officers, and Department Heads. Offices each have an extensive Records Department, an Audit Office, a Legal Department, a Logistical Support Office, a Sophont Resources Department, a Public Relations Bureau, a Finance Department, and an extensive Security Department that operates closely with SolSec.

Head Office

The head office is located on Despin, a technologically advanced high population world in Neworld Sector. As well as the main administrative complexes its headquarters includes a sprawling corporate healthcare center and spa complex, a number of executive villas, and large private estates with associated recreational facilities where business may be undertaken in complete privacy. The company controls a number of private spaceport facilities on the world. All of the facilities are heavily guarded by corporate security.

Major Divisions:

• Research and Development
• Civil Division
• Products Division
• Transportation Division
• Heavy Machinery Division
• Orbital Division
• Special Projects Department

Subsidiaries

Multiple companies, chiefly engineering and manufacturing concerns operating within a single system.

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

• Private Ownership – 36%,
• Public Ownership – 27%,
• Trusts – 17%
• Financial Institutions – 12%,
• The Association – 8%.

Products & Services

This business is best known for:

1. Astromax Gravitics (give your day a lift)
2. Harvestin Agricultural Machinery

History & Background (Dossier)

The company principally operates within the trailing half of the Solomani Confederation, although it is gradually expanding its area of operations into the vast regions of Balkanized Space to rimward. It has a reputation for high quality engineering, though many of its products are manufactured to lower technological levels than those of its competitors. While the competition mocks CHI as backward and old-fashioned, the company promotes its goods as reliable, time-proven, easy to maintain, and very competitively priced.

The company is heavily involved with the Confederation government and produces military starships and vehicles for Confederation service.

• CHI-produced equipment is considered rugged and reliable, able to take a beating and still work.

Solomani Security quietly keeps an eye on the business to ensure the security of the Confederation and the well-being of its loyal citizens. Almost anyone could be a SolSec informant, passing on all sorts of useful information: some gain a reward or benefit for their actions, others are coerced, but many see it as an act of duty to help protect the Solomani state and its interests.

Trade Partners

• Guardian Military Systems, a major armaments manufacturer.
• Orion Metallurgy Corporation, specializing in resource extraction and processing.

Trade Competitors

• Solomani Maschinenbau (SolMan) AG, a corporation with interests in heavy engineering and starship manufacture active throughout the spinward half of the Solomani Sphere.
• Multiple smaller companies.

Corporate Timeline

Major events that have affected this corporation and the wider region that it lies within:

• 704: the Solomani Autonomous Region is formed.
• 871: the Solomani Confederation is founded.
• 915: the company is granted a charter by the Confederation.
• 940: the Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
• 990-1002: the Solomani Rim War.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following regions:
Charted Space - Solomani Confederation:

• Aldebaran Sector
• Alpha Crucis Sector
• Neworld Sector

Facilities Data

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

• Despin, a technologically advanced high population world that hosts the corporation's headquarters.

World Listing

Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that are associated with Confederation Heavy Industries is available.

• The primary source material for all data is Traveller Map.
• Other sources may differ: some elements of the data may be contradictory or incorrect.
• Data is occasionally updated as new information becomes available.

AAB library archives contain expanded data about the following systems:

4 of 4 World articles in Confederation Heavy Industries

Asphodel  •  Borethane  •  Despin  •  Firdausi  •  

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Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, may already be out of date.

• Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS