Talokan Trade Authority

The Talokan Trade Authority is a large organization that functions as a corporation.

• It is a closely tied to the government of Talokan.
• It primarily operates within Charted Space.
• The name is frequently abbreviated to "TTA".

Market Ticker Code

This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market codes:

Market Ticker Code
Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Talokan Trade Authority	Tlkn-Trde-Auth	Transport / Logistics	LLC	Quasi-governmental organization

Portfolio

The Talokan Trade Authority administers and operates freight and passenger services between worlds lying in the rimward part of Mavuzog Sector and the coreward regions of Harea Sector. It also has interests among the clans of the expanding Aslan, to trailing.

Commercial Competencies

• Bulk transport of raw materials.
• Bulk transport of finished goods.
• Protected storage and warehousing.
• Interface services.
• Personnel transportation.
• Executive transportation.

Governance & Organization

The Talokan Trade Authority 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 Records Department, an Audit Office, a Legal Department, a Sophont Resources Department, a Public Relations Office, a Finance Department, and a Security Department.

Head Office:

The headquarters is located at Talokan, a planetoid belt in orbit around the bright, unstable primary star of its system.

The TTA's main administrative offices are located on Nu Veze, an agricultural garden world lying two parsecs from Talokan. The facilities here include a vast corporate healthcare center and spa complex, huge executive villa complexes, and large private estates with associated recreational facilities where business may be undertaken in complete privacy. The company controls a number of private secondary spaceport facilities on the world.

• The organization maintains Regional Head Offices, administrative centers, holding and storage facilities, private landing pads, hangers, commercial premises and private territories on worlds across the region. These holdings are protected by corporate security.

Major Divisions:

• Maintenance Division (responsible for keeping the ships flying)
• Primary Logistics Division (responsible for corporate operations including warehousing and storage)
• Flight Operations Division (responsible for space and interstellar operations). The shipyards on Holdo have been commissioned to produce some commercial vessels for the TTA. The results are found in the hands of a variety of end users throughout the Mavuzog Sector and the Theta Borealis Sector. TTA Commercial Design Bureau supervises licensing subsidiary starports to construct these popular designs.

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

• Talokan Government - 46%,
• Arshugan Cartel – 21%,
• Private ownership – 20%,
• First Bank of Talokan - 5%,
• Prime Star Bank – 4%,
• Portfolio Barratt – 2%,
• Yeiyhea Oiya – 2%.

Subsidiaries

None

Notable Investments

• Talokan Shipyards (preferential construction contracts, private maintenance docks).

Corporate Holdings

A fleet of more than 400 commercial vessels with a declared total tonnage in excess of 12 million displacement tons. Fleet assets include jump-capable ships, large in-system transports, interface vessels and small craft. Almost all vessels in the fleet are Talokan-built.

The TTA has private berthing and warehousing facilities in many starports within Mavuzog and Harea sectors. It maintains commercial offices in many large urban areas.

History & Background

The organization was founded as a branch of the Talokan government.

Trade Partners

• Arshugan Logistics (based at Refinery)
• CP-LLC (Complete Protection -- a paramilitary security organization that operates small warships and fields a variety of ground units).

Trade Competitors

Independent traders and freelance operators.

Notes

Image Repository

A map showing the importance of various worlds in the rimward half of Mavuzog Sector and the J-2 arterial trade routes that connect them.

The region circled in yellow has been economically devastated by the Jaibok invasion of Jend.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This Corporation is primarily found in the following areas:
Charted Space:

• Mavuzog Sector
  • Darkshade Subsector
  • Talokan Void Subsector
  • Oscuro Subsector
• Harea Sector
  • Cleft Subsector
  • Outrange Subsector

World Member Data

The mainworlds of this Corporation are:

• Haradin
• Nu Vese
• Talokan

World Listing: 1105

The following systems and worlds are associated with this Corporation:

18 of 18 World articles in Talokan Trade Authority

Amastra  •  Amaxi  •  Asulrea  •  Bleeq  •  Bucher  •  Divine  •  Emur (Mv 0940)  •  Eresolu  •  Haradin  •  Holdo  •  Jend (Mv 1833)  •  Ktauhokh  •  Larodil  •  Malatak  •  Nu Vese  •  Shornik  •  Talokan  •  Yersaran  •  

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