Ling-Standard Products
Ling-Standard Products (LSP) is a megacorporation primarily conducting business within the Third Imperium.
Market Ticker Code[edit]
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)[edit]
LSP is one of the thirteen Imperial MegaCorporations in operation in 1105.
Commercial Competencies[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Stock ownership (1105):
- Hortalez et Cie- 26%
- GSbAG- 23%
- Imperial family- 8%
- Murdoch Holdings, LIC- 8%
- Noble families- 8%
- Other- 27%
Stock ownership (1126)[1]:
- Imperial Family- 8%
- Hortalez et Cie- 32%
- GSbAG- 23% (n.b. Controlled by Hortalez et Cie)
- General Products- 2%
- Noble Families- 8%
- Murdoch Holdings- 2%
- Other- 27%
Subsidiaries[edit]
- Baldang Arms
- Dashi Combine
- Ling Personnel Systems
- Ling-Standard Metals
- Ling Standard Products Spinward
- Military Technologies Group
Best Known Products & Services[edit]
This business is best known for:
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
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[edit]
Trade partners vary, but LSP has had long lasting trade partnerships with a number of megacorporations, corporations, and even interstellar polities including:
Trade Competitors: 1105[edit]
LSP most often butts heads with other megacorporations, both Major Race and Imperial:
- TBD
History-Era: New Era[edit]
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)[edit]
LSP maintains mining and manufacturing facilities throughout the Imperium and beyond.
Dagudashaag Sector[edit]
The entire population of Khuluuuh is the staff of a mining facility maintained by LSP.
Daibei Sector[edit]
LSP has become deeply involved with the Evantha Protectorate worlds, in partnership with the current Maia (dictator) of the Evantha.
Deneb Sector[edit]
LSP owns and operates the Highport at Gabrael.
Ley Sector[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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.
Spinward Marches Sector[edit]
LSP has major shipyards at Lunion and Strouden, the most important yards in the Marches in terms of output. They handle commercial and military contracts on a large scale, as well as building standard designs and one-off vessels for private customers. Standards of workmanship are very high.
Facilities Data: 1105[edit]
This business is known to host facilities in the following locations:
- No information yet available
World Listing: 1105[edit]
This business can be found on the following worlds and systems:
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