Gateway Consortium
A commercial entity registered to the Corellan League.
The Gateway Consortium is an operator of commercial starports and starships for the purpose of conducting foreign trade. More than 90% of its business is concerned with interfaces between the League and its neighbours, mainly in the state's trailing border regions.
For centuries, the Gateway Consortium maintained an effective monopoly on trade routes by limiting port access to its own ships and by charging high rates to military vessels that wished to use the facilities for resupply or maintenance. While the League supported this position, mainly because of overlapping influence among a number of Great Houses, independent operators were unhappy with the arrangement. In 833, the combined pressure of foreign nations forced the Consortium to surrender its monopoly and permit access to its waystations for independent commercial vessels.
Trade Partners[edit]
Formed in 435, shortly after the creation of the Stormhaven Republic, the Gateway Consortium dominates large scale trade between the Corellan League and the nations of the Stormhaven Republic, Nakris Confederation, and Zydarian Codominium. It has a minor but growing presence in trade to the Jarnac Pashalic, the Monarchy of Lod, Marrakesh, and the Florian League. Trade with various Aslan clans has risen and subsided over the centuries.
The League's only trade with the I'Sred*Ni Protectorate occurs out of the Consortium's brokerage office on Shalukin.
Astrography[edit]
This business is active in the following regions:
In six systems, the Gateway Consortium has established starport-class waystations and become the effective system government. These systems are as follows:
- Broduhr (Beyond 1522)
- Gateway (Beyond 1227)
- Link (Beyond 1617)
- Nestor (Beyond 0430)
- Pit Stop (Beyond 1026)
- Stovall (Beyond 1324)
At all six Gateway-operated ports (all of them class-B), a Traveller's Aid Society hostel is present via a special lease arrangement. Since the closure of the TAS hostel on Adhaeoe in Knoellighz Sector, the hostel on Nestor is the furthest operational Travellers Aid Society facility from the borders of the Third Imperium.
Despite being a registered Corellan League entity, the Gateway Consortium maintains its own consular offices on various major worlds, including several League members, as well as Jarnac, Zydar, Nakris, Stormhaven, Beriel, and Lod.