Rio Argo

Rio Argo is a large corporation of the Distant Fringe.

• It primarily operates within Uncharted Space.

Market Ticker Code

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

Market Ticker Code
Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Rio Argo	TBD	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	TBD	None

Description (Portfolio)

Rio Argo is considered to be a part of the Mining, Refining, and Industrial Chemistry Business Sector. It specializes in mineral extraction and provides processed ore and raw materials for commercial and industrial use.

Commercial Competencies

• Geological surveys, mineral exploration and prospecting.
• Cartographic and multimedia data.
• Bulk extraction of raw materials.
• Bulk refining of raw materials.
• Hostile environment processes.
• Protected storage of finished products.

Governance & Organization

Rio Argo is governed by a Chairman and a Board of Directors. It is run by a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officers and Department Heads. It has an extensive Cartography and Records Department, an Audit Office, a Legal Department, a Sophont Resources Department, a Liaison Office, a Public Relations Office, a Finance Department, and a Security Department.

Head Office:

The head office is located on Sudi Verisia, an advancing industrial world lying on the trailing border of Far Home Sector. As well as the main administrative complexes its headquarters includes a 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 private spaceport facility on the world.

• The company maintains Regional Head Offices, administrative centers, extraction sites, production plants, refineries, industrial facilities, commercial premises and private territory on worlds across the region. These holdings are protected by corporate security.

Major Divisions:

• Research and Development
• Strategic Exploration Division
• Environmental Group
• Primary logistics
• Commercial Recovery Division
• Processing and Refining Division

Stockholders

Stock Ownership: 1105:

• Rio Argo Cartel – 68%,
• Private ownership – 21%
• First Astra Bank – 7%,
• Portfolio Mitchell – 4%,
  • of which Harbinger Holdings – 30%.

Subsidiaries

• Masters Allied LLC (a heavy engineering firm based on Sudi Verisia producing high quality mining equipment).

Notable Investments

No information yet available.

Corporate Holdings

The company has proprietary mineral extraction rights with regard to millions of km² of unclaimed surface territory on worlds throughout the trailing part of Far Home Sector. Its assets include mineral extraction facilities and refineries, along with the equipment, machinery, vehicles and technology necessary to maintain operations. It has a corporate fleet of survey ships and personnel transport vessels. Rio Argo has warehousing and storage facilities in many starports lying on Star Lanes within the trailing part of Far Home Sector. It maintains a commercial presence throughout the region.

History & Background (Dossier)

The corporation was founded by a consortium of mining and industrial companies in 5138AD.

Trade Partners

• Coralin et Fils SPRL (based at Ras Tennol)

Trade Competitors

• Industrias Espinosa SA (based at Ras Tennol)

Notes

The company has been broadly vilified for its brutal approach to resource extraction. It regularly uses strip mining, open cast mines and large-scale quarrying. Its heavy-handed approach towards environmental issues has brought it a great deal of negative publicity.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following worlds and systems:
Distant Fringe:

• Far Home Sector
  • Aredian Subsector

Facilities Data: 1105

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

• Sudi Verisia

World Listing: 1105

This business can be found on the following worlds and systems:

No world articles for Rio Argo

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science