General Development Company

The General Development Company (GeDeCo) sector-wide firm active in Trojan Reach and the spinward portion of Reft.

• In some areas, it is known as the General Development Corporation.
• It primarily operates within Charted Space.

Market Ticker Code

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

Market Ticker Code

Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
General Development Company	GeDeCo-Int-Lin	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	LIC	Interface Line, shipyard, manufacturer, distributor, and economic development corporation.

Description (Portfolio)

The General Development Company is a semi-commercial corporation chartered to both conduct interstellar trade and develop a higher technological base within its area of operations.

GeDeCo was founded to improve the standing of the disparate human colonies, but in time its aims in regions like Trojan Reach Sector shifted, to influencing the course of local history. In the Reach, their psychohistorians predicted that unless the Aslan were dealt with in some regard, they would eventually conquer the whole Domain of Deneb; the Peace of Ftahalr couldn't stand against the inevitabile demographics. The Imperium’s policy of containment and appeasement, they believed, was futile. GeDeCo intended to turn the whole Trojan Reach into a firebreak to stop the Aslan advance.

Commercial Competencies

• Interstellar shipping & Trade (Interface Line)
  • Freight
  • Passengers

GeDeCo's charter obligates it not only to conduct interstellar trade, but also to increase tech levels.

• To this end, the company runs a route from Deneb (Deneb 1925 B537ADD-C) through Reft to Tobia (Trojan Reach 3215 A444A55-F).

Governance & Organization

GeDeCo is governed by a CEO with an advisory board of directors. Local control is exercised by hand chosen leaders selected by the CEO. The company has a strong Vilani lineage although later Imperial influences have brought in Solomani and even Imperial Aslan influences.

Stockholders

Stock ownership: 1105

• Complete information not yet available.
• Imperial family— 18%
• Zirunkariish - 25%.
• House Shiishuginsa - 10%.
• Other - 47%.

Subsidiaries

Subsidiary operations import higher-tech products and engage in speculative trade throughout GeDeCo's territory.

Best Known Products & Services

This business is best known for:

1. Communications Vessel
2. Courier Vessel
3. Dimin class Pocket Cruiser
4. Express Boat
5. Express Boat Tender
6. Express Rock class Mail Drone
7. Fleet Courier

History & Background (Dossier)

The company dates back to the period immediately following the Civil War, when Empress Arbellatra resettled many nobles - both supporters and rivals - on new border fiefs.

• In 700, a group of these nobles pooled their resources to buy bankrupt fledgling lines, merging them to form GeDeCo.
  • Vilani megacorporation Zirunkariish supported the company's formation and took a 25% equity stake. The company also ensured that the owning House Shiishuginsa took a 10% equity stake. Not surprisingly, some of the nobles are related by blood or marriage to House Shiishuginsa.

Economic historians credit GeDeCo with raising the frontier's tech levels to the "average stellar" range.

• This continuing goal of technological dispersion is supported by a variety of planetary industries that manufacture goods for offworld export.

Trade Partners

No information yet available.

Trade Competitors

No information yet available.

Corporate Timeline

No information yet available.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

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

• Beyond Sector
  • Katanga Subsector: Constructed the starports at Drygalski and Diversion in an abortive attempt to increase trade with the Corellan League.
• Reft Sector
• Trojan Reach Sector
  • Sindal Subsector: Built the HighPorts at Vume and Palindrome
    • They maintain a B-class starport at the gas giant Khazha, in the Oghma system, run with zero interaction or participation from the people of Oghma itself.
  • Tlaiowaha Subsector: Nurtured the world of Vorito into a financial centre on the edge of Aslan space.
  • The company has particularly fostered use of the Florian Corridor.

Facilities Data

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

• Deneb (world)
• Tobia (world)

World Listing

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

16 of 16 World articles in General Development Company

Acrid  •  Berengaria  •  Byrni  •  Crescent  •  Deneb  •  Dustpan  •  Ergo (TR 2625)  •  Falcon (TR 2725)  •  Khtiyrlo  •  Oghma  •  Szirp  •  Tanith (TR 2721)  •  Tech-World  •  Tobia  •  Viceroy  •  Vorito  •  

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• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 20
• Mongoose Traveller: Aslan
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science