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Nanotrasen
- "Everywhere we go, Nanotrasen's already been!"
- -A candid complaint from Laura Kripac, senior TerraGov intelligence officer, after learning Nanotrasen preempted TG on pulse weapon technology by ten years. The quote has since become an unofficial motto among NT workers.
Nanotrasen is a very, very large and important company. A company so large, in fact, that at least half a century has passed since it became large enough to receive a charter from TerraGov to form its own expeditionary fleets and establish its own settlements outside the Sol system. While a large portion of their investments are tied up in Sol, they were notably the first private corporations to be granted such a charter and invest heavily in the distant reaches of space. At the time it was regarded as an incredibly risky gamble, and there was great speculation that all the money spent on exploring space and launching deep space missions would end up a waste that would sink the company, but the gambit has more than paid off and Nanotrasen's portfolio has soared since.
Primarily an advanced research and development conglomerate, Nanotrasen also has skin in many other fields. While a great deal of their income still comes from producing public research funded by government research grants, their operations also directly producing and selling their most profitable designs, leasing out their asset protection forces to governments and private organizations (both space fleets and ground troops), logistics management with a specialization in remote settlement self-sufficiency, and maintaining interstellar communication infrastructures to name a few. The common theme that runs through most of their business ventures is taking the lessons they've learned from operating on such a massive scale and helping smaller organizations stretch themselves.
Fields of research:
- Plasma extraction and refining: The original target of the Periphery Space Station project, plasma has a variety of applications from creating devastating bombs and firestorms, to use in energy generation processes, and many other more exotic and less well understood fields. The long term effects of exposure to plasma and
- Bluespace technology: Teleportation and faster than light travel. Obvious applications both on a large (ship engines allowing significantly
- Alternative energy sources: Whether it's braving the event horizon of a black hole to collect its radiation, detonating an entire hyper-dense planet to extract the supermatter at its core, or
Notes:
- The humble Beach Ball is one of Nanotrasen's most profitable products!
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