Rising Phoenix News Service
Rising Phoenix News Service is a Solomani corporation providing media and news content.
- It primarily operates within the Solomani Confederation.
- It is also known as Rising Phoenix, RPNS, and Phoenix Rising News Services.
Market Ticker Code[edit]
This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market code/s:
| Market Ticker Code | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Code | Type | Charter | Remarks | |
| Rising Phoenix News Service | RPNS | Media | LLC | Media, entertainment and communications. | |
Description (Portfolio)[edit]
Rising Phoenix is a Solomani news and media corporation. It is involved in the production of news programming, published media, and entertainment shows: it is heavily involved in holographic entertainment. Its productions and content are viewed all across the Solomani Confederation and far beyond its borders. It receives considerable backing from the Confederation government.
- The Confederation government sanctions huge public holographic displays to provide advertising and showcase appropriate Rising Phoenix news content.
A significant number of its news anchors, familiar faces across entire sectors, are holograms tweaked to meet public expectations of what a media personality should be. As a rule, these holograms provide a "front end" for living reporters and journalists, who conduct interviews with public figures and provide opinion and perspective on current events, which is then transmitted in the trusted, familiar form and voice of the hologram presenter. This is conducted completely overtly and is widely accepted by the public, who are able to pull up detailed biopics on the various reporters that a hologram presenter might be speaking for.
Commercial Competencies[edit]
- Holograpic and televisual production
- Advertising and product placement
- Broadcasting, movie and series production
- Direct communication services
- Personal communications and data services
- Sport management and promotion
- Theme parks and entertainment centers
- Venture capital
Governance & Organization[edit]
Rising Phoenix is governed by a President and a Board of Trustees. It is run by an Executive Chairman, Senior Operating Officers and Department Directors. It has an extensive Records Department, an Internal Audit Department, a very large Legal Department, a Sophont Resources Office, a very large Public Relations Department, a Finance Department, and a Corporate Security Department.
Head Office[edit]
The head office is located on Home, a technologically advanced high population garden world that serves as the capital of the Solomani Confederation. 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.
- The company maintains Regional Head Offices, administrative centers, communications centers, studios and lots, commercial premises and private territory on worlds across the region. These holdings are protected by corporate security.
Major Divisions[edit]
- Advertising Division
- Commercial Production Division
- Communications and Courier Bureau
- Integrated Activities Group
- Logistics Division
- Special Productions Division
Stockholders[edit]
Stock ownership:
- Public Ownership – 44%,
- Private Ownership – 26%,
- Aldebaran Syndicate – 11%
- Trusts – 10%
- Financial Institutions – 6%,
- Daughters of the Confederation – 3%.
Best Known Products & Services[edit]
This business is best known for:
- Public news broadcasts.
- Popular media content including interactive situation comedies.
- Data regarding stocks and shares, and economic market updates.
Corporate Holdings[edit]
Rising Phoenix owns major studio complexes, sound stages, communication centers, office complexes, workshops and production centers, and specialist storage units, along with the equipment, vehicles, and technology necessary to maintain operations. It has private facilities on many worlds within the Solomani Confederation and maintains communications and media centers in many large urban hubs. Rising Phoenix protects its products and interests and vigorously pursues those who infringe its rights.
- It has a corporate fleet of personnel transport vessels, equipment transports and maintenance craft.
- It maintains communications satellites and communications networks around many worlds.
Notable Investments[edit]
Multiple, but the company does not disclose this information.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
The corporation was founded by a consortium of media groups and financiers on Firdausi, in Aldebaran Sector, in 920. It has continually expanded since then, gaining considerable acclaim and a hugely increased viewer base for its coverage of the Rim War. While it is proud of its own journalistic standards and integrety, the company is regarded by many as a mouthpiece for the Solomani Confederation. Much of its content displays a distinctly pro-Confederation bias.
- Detractors call it the Golden Chicken, referring to its logo.
Solomani Security works closely with the company to ensure the security of the Solomani State and the well-being of its loyal citizens. Almost anyone could be a SolSec informant, passing on all sorts of useful information. SolSec and the Confederation Navy grants access to Rising Phoenix journalists where it routinly denies such access to members of other organizations.
Public Image[edit]
Rising Phoenix programming and content is watched by trillions of viewers across the Solomani Confederation and far beyond. News and current affairs are perennial mainstays, with holographic interactive situational comedies and blockbuster movies proving increasingly popular.
Trade Partners[edit]
Various, chiefly multi-world subsidiaries and syndicated local broadcasters.
The corporation maintains close ties to both SolSec and the Confederation Navy.
Trade Competitors[edit]
Various, including various well funded Imperial-backed anti-Solomani media organizations.
Corporate Timeline[edit]
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.
- 920: 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)[edit]
This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following regions:
Charted Space - Solomani Confederation:
Facilities Data[edit]
This business is known to host major facilities in the following locations:
- Corporate headquarters is located on Home, a technologically advanced high population garden world that serves as the capital of the Solomani Confederation.
- The corporation was founded on Firdausi and maintains large studios and offices there
World Listing[edit]
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:
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)[edit]
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- David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), pages 16, 48. (mention of the corporation)
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS