General Products

General Products, LIC: Largely concerned with heavy industry, General is a manufacturer of starships, non-starships, and heavy machinery of all sorts. General is known for inexpensive products of adequate quality, but of late its starship division (particularly its military products) has been plagued with disaster. The corporation was formed by the merger of a number smaller manufacturing concerns shortly after the end of the Civil War, in the period 620 to 622.

Stock ownership: Imperial family— 5%, Hortalez et Cie— 26%, Noble families- 35%, Private ownership- 12%, Antares Holdings, LIC- 12%, Other- 10%

- Source: Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M)

Non-Canon

Former Imperial megacorporation that survives in the Regency and the Spinward States. GP was primarily a manufacturer of starships, transportation machinery and manufacturing equipment. Slipshod management and shortsighted austerity measures resulted in a dramatic lowering of the company's product quality and reliability late in the Antebellum period, a matter that came to a head with the Kinunir fiasco. The company has managed to solve its difficulties since the Collapse, but its reputation still suffers. The company is an active partner with Delgado Trading in the General Mechanics joint venture firm.

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Metgame

General Products was the prime producer of starship hulls and a frontend for the manipulating Puppeteers in Larry Nivens "Known Space" Universe (aka Ringworld Universe).