Data Services

Data Services is a corporation of the Distant Fringe.

• It primarily operates within Uncharted Space.
• It is an unpublished, non-canon organization.

Market Ticker Code

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

Market Ticker Code

Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Data Services	DtSv	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	LIC	None

Description (Portfolio)

Data Services is considered to be a part of the Media, Leisure, and Tourism Business Sector. It operates throughout the Distant Fringe, though its interest is strongest in the central parts of Halcyon Sector. It is involved with media and entertainment.

Commercial Competencies

• 3V Entertainment 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

Data Services is governed by a President and a Board of Trustees. It is run by a 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

The head office is located on Nexus, a major economic power in the central part of Halcyon Sector. As well as the main administrative complexes its headquarters includes corporate retreats and spa complexes, a number of luxurious 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.

• 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

• Advertising Division
• Commercial Production Division
• Communications and Courier Bureau
• Far Home Division
• Halcyon Division
• Integrated Activities Group
• Logistics Division
• Special Productions Division

Subsidiaries

None.

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

• Private ownership – 14%,
  • of which "Fives" families – 7%,
• Public ownership – 14%,
• Archus Mutual Investment – 14%,
• Portfolio Mitchell – 14%,
  • of which Harbinger Holdings – 7%,
• InStellar Consortium – 14%,
• Lindemann Holdings – 14%,
• StoneRock Fidelity – 14%,
• Mardos Meridien – 14%,

Best Known Products & Services

This business is best known for:

1. Public news broadcasts with no particular bias.
2. Popular media content including documentaries.
3. Stocks and shares, economic market updates.

Corporate Holdings

Data Services owns major studio complexes, sound stages, communication centers, office complexes, workshops and production centers, and specialist storage units, along with the equipment, machinery, vehicles and technology necessary to maintain operations. It has private facilities on many worlds within the rimward half of the Distant Fringe and maintains communications and media centers in many large urban hubs. Data Services 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.

History & Background (Dossier)

Public Image

Data Services is watched by billions of viewers across the Distant Fringe. News and current affairs are perennial mainstays, with 3V current affairs and consumer advice programs proving almost as popular.

The organization is regarded as rather bland and middle-of-the-road.

Trade Partners

• Fringe News Network ("FNN") (based at Selasia)

Trade Competitors

• Scybria-Nachrichtendienst (based at Denirad).
  • Rimward Data Services.

Corporate Timeline

The organization has been active for at least a century.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

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

• Halcyon Sector
  • Sena Subsector

Facilities Data

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

• Nexus

World Listing

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

No world articles for Data Services

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science