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[[Hortalez et Cie]], {{LIC}}: Founded in [[221]] by [[Hortalez family|Lucienne Hortalez]], capitalized from family funds. Primarily a banking and investment house, Hortalez specializes in loans to planetary governments, mercenary unit bonding, underwriting of large scale projects of all sorts, and other fiscal activities. Hortalez is one of the major insurance houses in the {{Imperium}}. In some regions (the [[Spinward Marches Sector]] especially) the firm acts as a [[Mercenary|mercenary]] clearinghouse.
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[[File:Logo Hortalez et Cie Basic 2.png|250px|right]]
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[[Hortalez et Cie]], {{LIC}} is one of the major {{Imperial}} [[Megacorporation]]s.  
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* It is the dominant insurance and financial services company within the [[Third Imperium]].
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* It primarily operates within [[Charted Space]].
  
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{{Metadata}}
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=== [[Market Ticker Code]] ===
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This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market code/s:
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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|-
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!colspan="6"| [[Market Ticker Code]]
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|-
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! Name
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! Code
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! Type
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! [[Charter]]
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! Remarks
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|-
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| [[Hortalez et Cie]]
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| HetC-Fina-MEGA
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| 4 to 12 alphanumeric character
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| [[LIC]]
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| None
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|-
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|}
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== Description ([[Portfolio]]) ==
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''Hortalez et Cie'' has its fingers in financial and credit transactions at all levels of Imperial society. This corporation was founded in [[221]] by [[Lucienne Hortalez]], capitalised from family funds.
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=== [[Commercial Competencies]] ===
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* Banking
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* Financial Arrangements
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* Investments
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==== Competency Remarks ====
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It is primarily a banking and investment house, which specializes in:
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* Loans to planetary governments
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* Mercenary unit bonding
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* Underwriting of large scale projects of all sorts
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* And other fiscal activities
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In some regions (the [[Spinward Marches Sector]] especially) the firm acts as a [[Mercenary|mercenary]] clearinghouse.
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=== [[Stockholder]]s ===
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Stock ownership (1105):
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* [[Hortalez family]] (Via [[Hortalez Family Trust]]) — 74%
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* Other corporations — 15%
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* ''[[Zirunkariish]]'' — 7%
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* [[Imperial family]] — 5%
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* Other — 6%
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Stock ownership (1126):
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* Hortalez Family: 71%
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* ''Zirunkarlish'' — 1%
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* ''Naasirka'' — 5%
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* ''Makhidkarun'' — 2%
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* Imperial Family — 5%
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* Private Investors — 3%
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* ''Murdoch Holdings'' — 3%
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* Noble Families — 4%
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* Other — 6%
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=== [[Subsidiaries]] and Holding in other [[Megacorporation]]s ===
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====([[1105]])====
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* ''[[Musizis Pen]]''
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* ''[[Zaimen, Clammath and Hollings]]''
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====After ([[1126]])====
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* [[Megacorporation]]s
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** ''General Products'': 4%
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** ''GSbAG'': 41% (Control)
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** ''Instellarms'': 40% (Control)
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** ''Ling-Standard Products'': 32% (Control)
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** ''Makhidkarun'': 14%
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** ''SuSAG'': 6%
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** ''Sharurshid'': 4%
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** ''Sternmetal Horizons'': 45% (Control)
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** ''Zirunkarlish'': 3%
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* Other
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** ''[[Musizis Pen]]'': 100% (Control)
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** ''[[Zaimen, Clammath and Hollings]]'': 100% (Control)
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=== Best Known Products & Services ===
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# Financial services
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# Insurance
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# Etc., etc.
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== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
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It was founded in [[221]] by [[Hortalez family|Lucienne Hortalez]], capitalized from family funds.
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* The name of the company comes from the venerated [[French]] language of [[Terra (world)|Terra]].
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# Older logos used throughout spinward space since the 800s. <br> [[File:Hortalez_et_Cie.jpg|150px]] [[File:HortalezEtCie.png|150 px]]
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=== Trade Partners ===
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# [[Naasirka]]
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# [[Sharurshid]]
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# [[Zaimen, Clammath and Hollings]]
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# Etc., etc.
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=== Trade Competitors ===
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# No information yet available.
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# Etc., etc.
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=== Corporate Timeline ===
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* [[221]]: Founded
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* [[1122]] to 001-[[1126]]: [[Great Asset Swap]] orchestrated.
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====Popular Culture====
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After [[1126]], the term ''[[Hortalez et Cie|Hortalez]]'' came to represent the more rapacious individual out to make a profit at anyone's expense.
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== [[World]]s & [[Sector]]s ([[Astrography]]) ==
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This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following [[world]]s and [[system]]s: <br>
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''[[Charted Space]]:''
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* [[Third Imperium]]: As a megacorporation, it has operations and facilities across Imperial space, in all sectors.
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===[[Core Sector]]===
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''Hortalez et Cie'' has funded one of the most ambitious terraforming projects to date in the Imperium, on the world of [[Ameros (world)|Ameros]]. The goal of the pilot project is to completely transform the surface of Ameros from a barren airless rock into a world with a thin atmosphere and a 10% hydrosphere in less than 100 years.
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===[[Daibei Sector]]===
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''Hortalez et Cie'' maintains a regional office on the sector capital of [[Warinir (world)|Warinir]].
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===[[Reaver's Deep Sector]]===
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''Hortalez et Cie'' owns and operates the [[highport]] in orbit above [[Diablo (RD 2423) (world)|Diablo]], an Imperial world in [[Drexilthar Subsector]].
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===[[Reft Sector]]===
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''Hortalez et Cie'' has little interest in Reft Sector, other than the region "beneath the claw". Although well known for bankrolling colonial operations and construction projects, the megacorporation seems to have decided to stay out of the [[Islands Cluster]] market.
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=== Facilities Data ===
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This business is known to host major [[facilities]] in the following locations:
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* [[Capital (world)|Capital]]
  
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Stock ownership:
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=== World Listing ===
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:[[Hortalez family]] &mdash; 74%
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This business can be found on the following [[world]]s and [[system]]s:
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:Other corporations &mdash; 15%
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{{ClusterWorlds2}}
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:Imperial family &mdash; 5%
 
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:Other &mdash; 6%
 
  
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==References & Contributors ([[Resources]]) ==
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{{Metadata}}
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{{Intermediate}}
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{{Detail}}
 
{{Sources
 
{{Sources
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|S1= {{CT}} [[Library Data (A-M)|Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M)]]
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| {{Ludography cite|name= Library Data (A-M)|page=}}
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|S2= {{MT}} [[Referee's Companion]]
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| {{Ludography cite|name= Referee's Companion|page=}}
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|S3=  
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| {{Ludography cite|name= MegaTraveller Journal 3|article=Megacorporations in the Rebellion Era|page=20}}
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|S4=  
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| {{Ludography cite|name= Hard Times|page=56-57}}
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| {{Ludography cite|name=Solomani Front|page=83}}
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| {{Ludography cite|name=The Third Imperium|page=58}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
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[[Category: Financial Corporation]]
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{{LE|Megacorporations|Corporations}}
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[[Category: Mercenary Corporation]]
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[[Category: Security Corporation]]
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{{LE|Megacorporation}}

Latest revision as of 19:34, 14 February 2026

Logo Hortalez et Cie Basic 2.png

Hortalez et Cie, LIC is one of the major Imperial Megacorporations.

Market Ticker Code[edit]

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

Market Ticker Code
Name Code Type Charter Remarks
Hortalez et Cie HetC-Fina-MEGA 4 to 12 alphanumeric character LIC None

Description (Portfolio)[edit]

Hortalez et Cie has its fingers in financial and credit transactions at all levels of Imperial society. This corporation was founded in 221 by Lucienne Hortalez, capitalised from family funds.

Commercial Competencies[edit]

  • Banking
  • Financial Arrangements
  • Investments

Competency Remarks[edit]

It is primarily a banking and investment house, which specializes in:

  • Loans to planetary governments
  • Mercenary unit bonding
  • Underwriting of large scale projects of all sorts
  • And other fiscal activities

In some regions (the Spinward Marches Sector especially) the firm acts as a mercenary clearinghouse.

Stockholders[edit]

Stock ownership (1105):

Stock ownership (1126):

  • Hortalez Family: 71%
  • Zirunkarlish — 1%
  • Naasirka — 5%
  • Makhidkarun — 2%
  • Imperial Family — 5%
  • Private Investors — 3%
  • Murdoch Holdings — 3%
  • Noble Families — 4%
  • Other — 6%

Subsidiaries and Holding in other Megacorporations[edit]

(1105)[edit]

After (1126)[edit]

  • Megacorporations
    • General Products: 4%
    • GSbAG: 41% (Control)
    • Instellarms: 40% (Control)
    • Ling-Standard Products: 32% (Control)
    • Makhidkarun: 14%
    • SuSAG: 6%
    • Sharurshid: 4%
    • Sternmetal Horizons: 45% (Control)
    • Zirunkarlish: 3%
  • Other

Best Known Products & Services[edit]

  1. Financial services
  2. Insurance
  3. Etc., etc.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

It was founded in 221 by Lucienne Hortalez, capitalized from family funds.

  • The name of the company comes from the venerated French language of Terra.
  1. Older logos used throughout spinward space since the 800s.
    Hortalez et Cie.jpg HortalezEtCie.png

Trade Partners[edit]

  1. Naasirka
  2. Sharurshid
  3. Zaimen, Clammath and Hollings
  4. Etc., etc.

Trade Competitors[edit]

  1. No information yet available.
  2. Etc., etc.

Corporate Timeline[edit]

Popular Culture[edit]

After 1126, the term Hortalez came to represent the more rapacious individual out to make a profit at anyone's expense.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)[edit]

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following worlds and systems:
Charted Space:

  • Third Imperium: As a megacorporation, it has operations and facilities across Imperial space, in all sectors.

Core Sector[edit]

Hortalez et Cie has funded one of the most ambitious terraforming projects to date in the Imperium, on the world of Ameros. The goal of the pilot project is to completely transform the surface of Ameros from a barren airless rock into a world with a thin atmosphere and a 10% hydrosphere in less than 100 years.

Daibei Sector[edit]

Hortalez et Cie maintains a regional office on the sector capital of Warinir.

Reaver's Deep Sector[edit]

Hortalez et Cie owns and operates the highport in orbit above Diablo, an Imperial world in Drexilthar Subsector.

Reft Sector[edit]

Hortalez et Cie has little interest in Reft Sector, other than the region "beneath the claw". Although well known for bankrolling colonial operations and construction projects, the megacorporation seems to have decided to stay out of the Islands Cluster market.

Facilities Data[edit]

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

World Listing[edit]

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

11 of 11 World articles in Hortalez et Cie
975-452  •  Ameros  •  Diablo (RD 2423)  •  Enos  •  Ershur (Ma 0504)  •  Gagaridir  •  Horosho  •  Miam  •  Noscius  •  Rubrak  •  Starn  •  
startbacknext(11 listed)


References & Contributors (Resources)[edit]

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