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Governments and Organisations/Corporations/Nanotrasen/Corporate Structure.md

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+# Nanotrasen: Too Big to Fail
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+> "Indeed, eventually a corporation becomes so large that it takes on the trappings of a state in itself; complete with bickering and politicking between individual divisions competing for resources from the top. Nanotrasen is no exception; in fact, it may be the archetypical megacorporation: bloated, bureaucratic, and internally cutthroat."
+
+# The Many Centcoms
+To Nanotrasen's employees in the Spinward Sector, Centcom is exactly that- Central Command. But, it is only one of many large centralised stations directly owned and operated by Nanotrasen itself to oversee corporate operations across the galaxy. CC-SS (Central Command: Spinward Sector) administers over Nanotrasen's operations in the Spinward Sector, under the watchful eye of Regional Operations Executive Harper Wong and her green-clad crew.
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+Important functions of Central Command stations include:
+- Coordinating stations owned and operated by Nanotrasen's various subdivisions, keeping them in lockstep with Corporate's orders (as best they can, anyway).
+- Acting as a regional logistics hub, dispatching cargo shuttles to stations throughout the sector.
+- Being a hub for evacuation, in the unlikely scenario that a station needs to be fully evacuated.
+- Acting as a regional headquarters for the Asset Protection and Security Division, and a hub for the ERTs they dispatch.
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+The Regional Operations Executives report directly to the board of directors, giving them the authority to execute Corporate's will in their administered sectors. Beyond this, they're also offered a fair amount of leeway and autonomy, so long as they keep their sector profitable and don't wind up dragging NT into a war.
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+Various examples of Regional Central Commands include:
+- CC-AS (Central Command: Australicus Sector, located in the Christchurch Outlying Territory), ROE Carter Wright
+- CC-HS (Central Command: Home Sectors, in Alpha Centauri), ROE Ousmane Cisse
+
+# Internal Divisions
+The many divisions of Nanotrasen are, in many ways, essentially companies of their own. While every one of them nominally answers to the board and the mother company itself, in practice, they have large amounts of autonomy in how they conduct themselves, especially the larger divisions such as NTFID, NTHI, and NTCG. These larger divisions operate their own stations, conduct their own hiring and personnel management, and this has, in turn, resulted in internal conflict. Since each of them is ultimately beholden to the board, and in particular to their allocation of funding, each branch also finds itself needing to show itself to be the best- and in turn, that the rest aren't as worthy of cash. This, of course, leads to byzantine politics- much like unruly siblings fighting each other, the branches often devolve into petty infighting, or worse, actual violence like sabotage or subterfuge. Corporate is left with the unenviable task of trying to rule over this mess, and their solution is to essentially do nothing so long as it doesn't affect their bottom line (or in other words, if they're going to sabotage each other, at least they shouldn't cost *corporate* money when doing it).

Governments and Organisations/Corporations/Nanotrasen/Divisions of Nanotrasen.md

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 # Divisions of Nanotrasen
 
-## Trasen-Knox Scientific
-Field: Scientific Computers and Analytical Equipment
-A legacy division of Nanotrasen, Trasen-Knox Scientific maintains the company's previous name, as well as its original purpose: high-grade scientific computing and analytical equipment. It's one of Nanotrasen's smallest divisions, but their products are popular with the academic market. Trasen-Knox operates out of Nanotrasen's Southwestern campus at San Jose.
-
-## NTHI (Nanotrasen Heavy Industry)
+# NTHI (Nanotrasen Heavy Industry)
+![NTHI logo](https://i.imgur.com/zMO6ZK5.png)
+Headquarters: NT European International Campus, Dortmund, Germany
 Field: Resource Extraction and Heavy Industrial Equipment
-Originally existing as the German Wulfe Gruppe, NTHI was the first major acquisition beyond computing made by Nanotrasen, starting their upwards climb to being one of humanity's foremost corporations. It's arguably one of the company's most important divisions, being responsible for around 1/3rd of Nanotrasen's overall net worth, as well as managing Nanotrasen's extensive plasma empire. Most of the stations found in the frontier are operated primarily by NTHI, usually with some involvement by NTFID. NTHI's operations are mostly coordinated from Nanotrasen's European regional headquarters, located in Dortmund.
-
-## NTFID (Nanotrasen Futures and Innovation Division)
-Field: Research and Development
-Nanotrasen's research and development division, responsible for pushing humanity's scientific boundaries and being on the cutting edge of innovation. Naturally, NTFID acts as a significant source of funding for Nanotrasen's endeavours as a whole in the form of grants from TerraGov, as well as being a magnet for talent due to partnerships with research groups at universities across human space. Additionally, NTFID is a signatory and member of the Terran Joint Research Collective alongside many other major corporations. In theory, this should ensure that discoveries made by NTFID's researchers make their way into the collective knowledge of mankind rapidly. In practice, the collective sees very little of Nanotrasen's juiciest research, instead getting scraps or anything that management has deemed "no longer critical to maintain secrecy on". NTFID is based out of the Southwestern Campus at San Jose, although it also has major secondary sites at Houston, Busan, Dortmund and Adasta City.
+Originally existing as the German Wulfe Gruppe, NTHI was the first major acquisition beyond computing made by Nanotrasen, starting their upwards climb to being one of humanity's foremost corporations. NTHI is the company's most profitable division, being responsible for around 1/3rd of Nanotrasen's overall net worth, as well as managing Nanotrasen's extensive plasma empire. Most of the stations and outposts found in the frontier and in major industrial centres are operated primarily by NTHI, usually with some involvement by NTFID.
 
-In terms of land share within Nanotrasen's full organisation, NTFID comes in second place behind NTHI, operating a large number of facilities across human space, including several major sites on the peripheries. One of NTFID's notable sites is Space Station 13, which it will operate jointly with NTHI until the construction of a more permanent mining outpost on or around Indecipheres is finished.
+NTHI's director is Heike Beissel. Elevated to the position due to her exemplary handling of operations at NTCS, Beissel is a company woman through-and-through; ruthless, profit-oriented, and willing to take almost any step necessary to ensure that NTHI is the foremost of Nanotrasen's divisions.
 
-## NTCS (Nanotrasen Chemical Supply)
+## NTHI Subdivisions
+### NTCS (Nanotrasen Chemical Supply)
 Field: Chemical Manufacture and Distribution
-Another acquisition made in the early days of the company, NTCS began life as Texas Chemical, a major US-based chemical manufacturer. In the centuries since, it's grown to be one of humanity's largest chemical producers, taking advantage of NTHI's dominance in the resource extraction field to produce a wide range of consumer, laboratory, and industrial grade chemicals. NTCS' operations are managed from Nanotrasen's Southern US Headquarters, in Houston.
+Another acquisition made in the early days of the company, NTCS began life as Texas Chemical, a major US-based chemical manufacturer. In the centuries since, it's grown to be one of humanity's largest chemical producers, although not large enough to secure its independence from NTHI. Today, NTCS is involved heavily in NTHI's plasma production, providing the various reagents required for the Altmeyer process. In addition, it produces a wide range of industrial and consumer chemicals, from battery acid through to petrochemicals.
 
-## NTCG (Nanotrasen Consumer Goods)
-Field: Consumer Electronics
-NTCG is based out of Nanotrasen's Asian regional headquarters in Busan, Korea. NTCG is responsible primarily for basic consumer electronics, such as kitchen appliances, lamps, alarm clocks, and other similar devices, as well as larger, more premium devices such as televisions and computers.
+### General Energy
+Field: Energy, Petrochemical, and Fuel
 
-## GEW (Global Engine Works)
-Field: Vehicles
-GEW is one of the world's oldest engine works, having originated in the mid-1800s as a producer of railway steam engines. Into the 1900s, they broadened to aircraft, and then onto motorcars in the wake of the Second World War. After financial troubles in the early 2000s, they were acquired by Nanotrasen to further diversify the company's portfolio. GEW today is known for their bipolar range of vehicles, catering to both the lowest end of the market with budget options, and the extreme upper end with high-class supercars and luxury touring cars- in addition to maintaining their work on high-end aircraft engines. Additionally, their design expertise has been coupled into some of Nanotrasen's other companies, such as providing interior design for small luxury space vessels for ATA or atmospheric engine designs for Galaxywise.
 
-## Galaxywise Shipyards
+# NTFID (Nanotrasen Futures and Innovation Division)
+Headquarters: NT Southwestern Campus, San Jose, California
+Nanotrasen's research and development division, responsible for pushing humanity's scientific boundaries and being on the cutting edge of innovation. Naturally, NTFID acts as a significant source of funding for Nanotrasen's endeavours as a whole in the form of grants from TerraGov, as well as being a magnet for talent due to partnerships with research groups at universities across human space. Additionally, NTFID is a signatory and member of the Terran Joint Research Collective alongside many other major corporations. In theory, this should ensure that discoveries made by NTFID's researchers make their way into the collective knowledge of mankind rapidly. In practice, the collective sees very little of Nanotrasen's juiciest research, instead getting scraps or anything that management has deemed "no longer critical to maintain secrecy on". NTFID is based out of the Southwestern Campus at San Jose, although it also has major secondary sites at Houston, Busan, Dortmund and Adasta City, and a huge number of lesser facilities across pretty much all of human space.
+
+In terms of land share within Nanotrasen's full organisation, NTFID comes in second place behind NTHI, operating a large number of facilities across human space, including several major sites on the peripheries. One of NTFID's notable sites is Space Station 13, which it will operate jointly with NTHI until the construction of a more permanent mining outpost on or around Indecipheres is finished, at which point the station will pass entirely into its ownership.
+
+NTFID's director is Mátyás Lórincz, who worked his way up through the ranks as a researcher and eventually into the upper echelons of management. Though driven and ambitious, Lórincz is also a true believer in the importance of science. This makes his role as the director of NTFID difficult, as he is often required to balance his genuine desire to drive scientific development and push the limits with his requirement to balance the budget and play the internal game of politics within Nanotrasen.
+
+## NTFID Subdivisions
+### New Horizons
+Field: Surveying and Colonial Endeavours
+
+# NTHW (Nanotrasen Health and Wellbeing)
+Headquarters: Ishtar, Astarte, Alpha Centauri
+NTHW is Nanotrasen's medical subdivision, tasked with medical research, health insurance, production of medical goods, and operation of hospitals, clinics, and deathcare facilities across human space. Despite consistent profits, the division has fallen on hard times in recent years due to the Prosperity cloning scandal damaging public trust, and this has resulted in a reduction of funding from corporate. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this hasn't exactly made NTHW's higher-ups happy, and their approach to internal politics within Nanotrasen has become increasingly hostile, with Director Claire Duchamp being desperate to reclaim the division's lost glory by any means necessary.
+
+## NTHW Subdivisions
+
+# NTCG (Nanotrasen Consumer Goods)
+Headquarters: NT Asian Regional Headquarters, Busan, Korea
+NTCG is responsible for most of Nanotrasen's publically-sold products; under their broad heading is included consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace, as well as dozens of smaller companies with their own branding under the NT umbrella. As might be expected of the division that produces everything from alarm clocks to spaceships, coffeemakers to industrial drills, or games consoles to handguns, they exercise a great deal of power within NT's internal politics game and generate a lot of revenue for the corporation.
+
+NTCG is based out of Nanotrasen's Asian regional headquarters in Busan, Korea, in addition to operating extensive manufacturing across the human core territories, especially on the Moon, Adasta, San Garcia, and dozens of other planets. In the further reaches of human space, NTCG's presence is very limited: it's simply not economical to build factories on the frontiers versus manufacturing everything where the customers are. This is the key part that makes NTCG a smaller division than NTHI or NTFID- it's not that they don't make money, or that they don't have a lot of employees, it's that their geographic reach is limited by their profit motive.
+
+## NTCG Subdivisions
+### Trasen-Knox Scientific
+Headquarters: NT Southwestern Campus, San Jose, California
+Field: Scientific Computers and Analytical Equipment
+A legacy division of Nanotrasen, Trasen-Knox Scientific maintains the company's previous name, as well as its original purpose: high-grade scientific computing and analytical equipment. Operating under NTCG, Trasen-Knox doesn't make very much these days, but their products remain popular with the academic market, and the name still maintains some historical significance as the one that started the whole thing off.
+
+Trasen-Knox maintains its site at the Southwestern Campus, purchased by Michael and Dale as they expanded out of Dale's garage in Fresno into a real company. Even if most of the rest of the company's moved away, at least some of its history stays alive here.
+
+### Galaxywise Shipyards
+Headquarters: Anderston Yards, Adasta Orbital
 Field: General Aerospace
 Much of Nanotrasen's strength as a megacorporation comes from their ability to practice what is essentially autarky- the production of all required goods from raw material to finalised item, with little to no reliance on external companies or factors. To this end, Galaxywise is critical to Nanotrasen's practice of autarky- from their orbital shipyards above Adasta, Nanotrasen is able to produce a wide range of important vessels, from small single-man scouting vessels to large-scale freighters and everything inbetween. Unfortunately for Nanotrasen, however, their autarky chain is broken by limitations imposed by TerraGov stating that only licensed corporations are capable of producing heavily armed vessels (the Merchant Marine Act states that any vessel capable of bearing armaments in excess of Class 2, the highest legal civilian grade, may be produced by licensed companies only)- a license Galaxywise has been unable to secure due to politicking by corporate rivals at the senate.
 
-## ATA (Adasta Travaux Aérospatiaux/Adasta Aerospace Works)
+### GEW (Global Engine Works)
+Field: Vehicles
+GEW is one of the world's oldest engine works, having originated in the mid-1800s as a producer of railway steam engines. Into the 1900s, they broadened to aircraft, and then onto motorcars in the wake of the Second World War. After financial troubles in the early 2000s, they were acquired by Nanotrasen to further diversify the company's portfolio. GEW today is known for their bipolar range of vehicles, catering to both the lowest end of the market with budget options, and the extreme upper end with high-class supercars and luxury touring cars- in addition to maintaining their work on high-end aircraft engines. Additionally, their design expertise has been coupled into some of Nanotrasen's other companies, such as providing interior design for small luxury space vessels for ATA or atmospheric engine designs for Galaxywise.
+
+### ATA (Adasta Travaux Aérospatiaux/Adasta Aerospace Works)
 Field: Luxury Aerospace
 If Galaxywise is Nanotrasen's answer to the demand for reliable budget ships, ATA is their answer to the cries of billionaire corpos and top politicians: a shipyard based around the creation of bespoke, luxury vessels fit for royalty. Operating as part of the Galaxywise Shipyard Facility, ATA builds palatial vessels to the exacting demands of its clients, at extreme cost. No two ships built there come out alike. Of course, ships from ATA are commonly used by Nanotrasen's top executives.