Solomani Maschinenbau

Solomani Maschinenbau AG is a large corporation involved in manufacturing and heavy industry

• It primarily operates within the Solomani Confederation.
• It is most commonly known as SolMan AG.

Market Ticker Code

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

Market Ticker Code
Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Solomani Maschinenbau	SolMan	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	AG	Industrial concern covering the spinward half of the Solomani Sphere.

Description (Portfolio)

Solomani Maschinenbau is a Solomani engineering corporation headquartered on Home, in Aldebaran Sector. It is prominent in heavy industry and starship construction, it produces excellent quality mining equipment, and is also well known as a manufacturer of tools, vehicles, power generation equipment, and agricultural machinery.

Commercial Competencies

• Creation of high quality materials
• Manipulation of exotic / specialist materials.
• Practical design, planning, and tooling.
• Cutting, moulding, shaping, and joining materials.
• Precision construction and manufacturing.
• Retrofitting, conversions and modifications.
• Spacecraft and starship design and construction.
• Storage of finished products.

Governance & Organization

Solomani Maschinenbau 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 sector and by region within a sector: Sector Offices and Regional Offices are run by Executive Managers, Chief Operating Officers, and Department Heads. Offices each have an extensive Records Department, an Audit Office, a Legal Department, a Logistical Support Office, a Sophont Resources Department, a Public Relations Bureau, a Finance Department, and an extensive Security Department that operates closely with SolSec.

Head Office

The head office is located on Home, the capital of the Confederation. As well as the main administrative complexes its headquarters includes a sprawling 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 number of private spaceport facilities on the world. All of the facilities are heavily guarded by corporate security.

Major Divisions:

• Research and Development
• Lift, Gravitics, and Thrust Division
• Consumer Products Division
• Contract Construction Division
• Heavy Machinery Division
• Vehicle and Plant Division
• Special Projects Department

Subsidiaries

Multiple companies, chiefly single system operations running shipyards at Class A Starports across the spinward regions of the Confederation.

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

• Private Ownership – 41%,
• Public Ownership – 29%,
• Trusts – 15%
• Financial Institutions – 12%,
• Darkhorse Syndicate – 3%.

Products & Services

This business is best known for:

1. Krabb Series Industrial Vehicles and Heavy Plant
2. Surefix Tools, "The Tools You Can Trust".
3. Valiant Prime Mining Robots

History & Background (Dossier)

The company principally operates within the spinward half of the Solomani Confederation, although it is expanding its area of operations into the vast regions of Balkanized Space to rimward. It was originally headquartered on Simonides, in Aldebaran Sector, but this was shifted to Home immediately after the Rim War. It has a well deserved reputation for precision and engineering excellence, though arguably many of its products are over-engineered and are often hard to maintain.

The company is heavily involved with the Confederation government and produces military starships and vehicles (known as Contract Constructions) for Confederation service.

• SolMan-produced equipment is considered superior to that of other manufacturers.

Solomani Security quietly keeps an eye on things 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

• Guardian Military Systems, a major armaments manufacturer.
• Orion Metallurgy Corporation, specializing in resource extraction and processing.

Trade Competitors

• Confederation Heavy Industries (CHI) LLC, a corporation with interests in heavy engineering and starship manufacture active throughout the trailing half of the Confederation.

Multiple small corporations.

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.
• 880: The company is granted a charter by the Confederation.
• 940: The Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
• 990-1002: The Solomani Rim War.
• 1003: The corporate headquarters is moved to Home.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following regions:
Charted Space - Solomani Confederation:

• Aldebaran Sector
• Canopus Sector
• Magyar Sector

Facilities Data

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

• Home, a high population garden world that serves as the capital of the Confederation.
• Simonides, an exotic atmosphere industrial world where the company was founded.

World Listing

Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that are associated with SolMan AG 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:

8 of 8 World articles in Solomani Maschinenbau

Castine  •  Hipponax  •  Home (Al 1009)  •  Hyrcanus  •  Nanfeng  •  Ravenna  •  Salient  •  Simonides  •  

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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.

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