Defensus

Defensus is a corporation specializing in armaments.

• It primarily operates within the Solomani Confederation.

Market Ticker Code

This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market codes:

Market Ticker Code
Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Defensus	Dfns	Defense	LLC	Defensus is a major supplier of military equipment to the Solomani Confederation.

Description (Portfolio)

Defensus is a diversified manufacturer of weapon systems and heavy military hardware and is considered to be a key part of the Solomani defense industry. It primarily operates within Aldebaran Sector, though it is expanding into new areas.

Commercial Competencies

• Primary logistics and materials processing.
• CAD, practical design and tooling.
• Cutting, shaping, and joining materials.
• Precision construction and manufacturing.
• Testing and proving.
• Specialties, variants, and limited production runs.
• Retrofitting, conversions, and modifications.
• High security storage of finished products.

Governance & Organization

Defensus is governed by a Chairman and a Board of Directors, all of whom have high-level contacts in the Confederation government. Business operations are divided by region within a sector: Regional Offices are run by a Senior Operating Officer, an executive board, and Departmental Directors. Each Office has an extensive Records Office, an Internal Audit Office, a Legal Department, a Logistics Office, a Sophont Resources Office, a Public Relations Office, a Finance Department, and a Security Department.

Head Office:

The head office is located on Europa, a technolgically advanced, high population garden world lying in the coreward-trailing quadrant of Aldebaran Sector. As well as the main administrative complexes its headquarters includes estates located in wilderness regions, testing ranges, managed parkland, and a number of exclusive villas where business may be undertaken in complete privacy. The company controls a number of private spaceport facilities on the world.

Major Divisions:

• Research and Development
• Commercial Division
• Defense Division
• Offense Division
• Special Projects Department

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

• Private Ownership – 48%,
• Public Ownership – 23%,
• Trusts – 17%
• Financial Institutions – 9%,
• Daughters of the Confederation – 3%.

Subsidiaries

Multiple, chiefly small businesses manufacturing specialist components.

Notable Investments

Multiple.

Corporate Holdings

The company maintains Regional Head Offices, administrative centers, fabrication facilities, assembly plants, factories and industrial complexes on worlds across the region. It holds substantial amounts of machinery, tools, vehicles, supplies, and the supporting equipment and technology necessary to maintain operations. Its various assets and holdings are protected by corporate security.

• The company has a fleet of small personnel transport vessels.

Best Known Products & Services

This business is best known for:

• High quality personal weapons systems.
• Starship Weaponry.

History & Background (Dossier)

The corporation was founded by a small consortium of military contractors during the middle years of the 10th century. While initially a relatively small business, it made a fortune in weapons sales and expanded considerably during the Rim War. The quality of its products was noticed and it retains Favored Contractor status with several world governments, supplying Home Forces with relatively highly priced but extremely high quality weapon systems.

Solomani Security quietly keeps an eye on its activities 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

• Probable Technologies, an organization devoted to scientific research that works closely with the Confederation military.
• Confederation Heavy Industries LLC, a heavy engineering firm that produces military starships and vehicles.

Trade Competitors

• Guardian Military Systems (you can shoot with a Guardian, but you'll kill with a Defensus).

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.
• 940: The Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
• mid 900s: A consortium of military contractors found the corporation on Europa.
• 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

Facilities Data

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

• Lebannon, a technologically advanced corporate world, with a settlement designed specifically as a weapons assembly facility. The majority of the population are former Confederation military personnel.

World Listing

Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that are associated with Guardian Military Systems 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:

2 of 2 World articles in Defensus

Europa  •  Lebannon  •  

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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.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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