Editing Green Star Corporation

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
 
{{InfoBoxCorporation
 
{{InfoBoxCorporation
 
| image = Green-Star-Corporation.png
 
| image = Green-Star-Corporation.png
| founded = [[3008]]<ref name=HB:HDp161>''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 161: "Green Star Corporation (GStC)"</ref>
+
| founded = [[3008]]<ref name=H:HDp161>''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 161: "Green Star Corporation (GStC)"</ref>
 
| dissolved =  
 
| dissolved =  
 
| affiliation = [[Federated Suns]]
 
| affiliation = [[Federated Suns]]
 
| previous_names = Green Star Emergency Services
 
| previous_names = Green Star Emergency Services
| headquarters = Clam Falls<br>([[Minette III]])<ref name=HB:HDp161/>
+
| headquarters = Clam Falls<br>([[Minette III]])<ref name=H:HDp161/>
 
| leadership = [[CEO of Green Star Corporation|CEO]]
 
| leadership = [[CEO of Green Star Corporation|CEO]]
 
| products = Civilian products, utilities, and services
 
| products = Civilian products, utilities, and services
Line 12: Line 12:
 
| plants = Amasterdam ([[Arnaudville]])<ref name=HD(TFS)p174a>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 174 (PDF p. 176): "Other Major Companies in the Federated Suns - [Green Star Emergency Services]</ref>
 
| plants = Amasterdam ([[Arnaudville]])<ref name=HD(TFS)p174a>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 174 (PDF p. 176): "Other Major Companies in the Federated Suns - [Green Star Emergency Services]</ref>
 
}}
 
}}
Formerly '''Green Star Emergency Services''', the mammoth '''Green Star Corporation''' has grown to become effectively a shadow-government in the [[Federated Suns]] [[Periphery]] facing [[Outback]] region.<ref name=HD(TFS)p174b>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 174: "Other Major Companies in the Federated Suns - [Green Star Emergency Services] - [Federated Arbitrators and Judges Inc.]"</ref>  
+
Formerly '''Green Star Emergency Services''', the mammoth '''Green Star Corporation''' has grown to become effectively a shadow-government in the [[Federated Suns]] [[Periphery]] facing [[Outback]] region.<ref name=HD(TFS)p174>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 174 (PDF p. 176): "Other Major Companies in the Federated Suns - [Green Star Emergency Services] - [Federated Arbitrators and Judges Inc.]"</ref>  
  
 
==Overview==
 
==Overview==
Founded in [[3008]], initially Green Star Emergency Services represented an experiment by the Federated Suns government when it decided to privatize certain emergency services within the Outback region. Issuing these former government emergency response teams with some ancient equipment that would otherwise been scrapped, Green Star Emergency Services provided relief services primarily during such events as bandit raids or natural disasters, negotiating contracts with local planetary governments in feeding, sheltering and caring for disaster victims as well as consulting in reconstruction efforts. In the wake of [[First Prince of the Federated Suns|First Prince]] [[Hanse Davion]]'s "Bold New Frontier" speech urging the people of the Federated Suns to colonize new planets and invest in the resource rich worlds near the Federated Suns/Periphery border, the experiment provided highly successful as Green Star eventually opened up subsidiary offices across the Outback to feed increased demand for its services.<ref name=HB:HDp161/><ref name=HD(TFS)p174b/>
+
Founded in [[3008]], initially Green Star Emergency Services represented an experiment by the Federated Suns government when it decided to privatize certain emergency services within the Outback region. Issuing these former government emergency response teams with some ancient equipment that would otherwise been scrapped, Green Star Emergency Services provided relief services primarily during such events as bandit raids or natural disasters, negotiating contracts with local planetary governments in feeding, sheltering and caring for disaster victims as well as consulting in reconstruction efforts. In the wake of [[First Prince of the Federated Suns|First Prince]] [[Hanse Davion]]'s "Bold New Frontier" speech in [[3017]] urging the people of the Federated Suns to colonize new planets and invest in the resource rich worlds near the Federated Suns/Periphery border, the experiment provided highly successful as Green Star eventually opened up subsidiary offices across the Outback to feed increased demand for its services.<ref name=H:HDp161/><ref name=HD(TFS)p174/>
  
It was on the back of this booming business and with significant anonymous financial backing (rumored to be [[House Davion]], though other prominent FedSun families have been suggested) that Green Star signed several remarkable merger deals with companies that complemented its operations in Outback, allowing it by the era of the [[Clan Invasion]] to grow into the Green Star Corporation, the Federated Suns newest megacorporation, providing products and services to much of the Outback as well as a not-insignificant percentage of the entire nation. While providing much needed services to the disadvantaged region, Green Star's dominance is such that some have come to think of it as a shadow-government, effectively running the Outback through its near-monopolies and exploiting those least able to resist. One example of this is when numerous groups sought to bring antitrust suits against the influence of Green Star purchased Consolidated Utilities and Services in the Outback they used the services of Federated Arbitrators and Judges Inc, the FedSuns premier civil arbitration firm and ironically another Green Star holding, to do so.<ref name=HB:HDp161/>
+
It was on the back of this booming business and with significant anonymous financial backing (rumored to be [[House Davion]], though other prominent FedSun families have been suggested) that Green Star signed several remarkable merger deals with companies that complemented its operations in Outback, allowing it by the era of the [[Clan Invasion]] to grow into the Green Star Corporation, the Federated Suns newest megacorporation, providing products and services to much of the Outback as well as a not-insignificant percentage of the entire nation. While providing much needed services to the disadvantaged region, Green Star's dominance is such that some have come to think of it as a shadow-government, effectively running the Outback through its near-monopolies and exploiting those least able to resist. One example of this is when numerous groups sought to bring antitrust suits against the influence of Green Star purchased Consolidated Utilities and Services in the Outback they used the services of Federated Arbitrators and Judges Inc, the FedSuns premier civil arbitration firm and ironically another Green Star holding, to do so.<ref name=H:HDp161/>
  
As of [[3067]], aside from Green Star Emergency Services, the Green Star Corporation boasted five other major divisions:<ref name=HB:HDp161/>
+
==Divisions==
* [[Consolidated Utilities and Services]]
+
As of 3067, aside from Green Star Emergency Services, the Green Star Corporation boasted four other major divisions:
* [[Crimson Sun Permanent Assurance]]
+
 
* [[Federated Arbitrators and Judges Inc.]]
+
===Federated Arbitrators and Judges Inc.===
* [[McRae Quik Construct]]
+
Originally an independent company, [[Federated Arbitrators and Judges Inc.]] was founded in [[3017]] by Count Edward Defano as a civil arbitration firm largely confining itself to interplanetary disputes. Focusing the bulk of its efforts in the Outback, Count Defano and his company grew to become de facto alternative judicial system for the entire Davion realm. The company's Outback-focus made Federated Arbitrators highly attractive to the expanding Green Star Corporation which acquired it in the wake of the  [[Clan Invasion]]. Green Star funds allowed Federated Arbitrators to grow larger, taking over a heavy burden from the FedSuns judicial system but also cementing a near monopoly on legal services in the Outback.<ref name=H:HDp161/><ref name=HD(TFS)p174/>
* [[The Pit and Andrea Hu Enterprises]]
+
 
 +
===McRae Quik Construct===
 +
Created in [[3018]], Outback based [[McRae Quik Construct]] developed an extremely popular line of lightweight yet durable prefabricated housing to meet the needs of the many citizens who took up First Prince Hanse Davion's calls to  The company planned to pour the windfall of this success into expanding into city planning and heavy construction to situate themselves as the natural choice to replace their temporary buildings when they wore out with more permanent structures. Suffering from a series of scandals in the wake of the Clan Invasion, McRae Quik Construct was acquired by the expanding Green Star Corporation in [[3057]], its new parent company expanding McRae with much-needed heavy construction equipment and providing it with near-monopoly construction and engineering contracts for all Green Star administrated operations.<ref name=H:HDp161/><ref name=HD(TFS)p172>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 172: "Other Major Companies in the Federated Suns - [McRae Quik Construct]"</ref>
 +
 
 +
===Consolidated Utilities and Services===
 +
Originally a loose alliance of utility companies that services about 15 percent of the Outback, Consolidated Utilities and Services was a natural addition to the expanding Green Sun Corporation. Once merged under Green Star management and making heavy use of Green Star and affiliated services that percentage dramatically increased to the point numerous groups brought antitrust suits against Consolidated Utilities and Services.<ref name=H:HDp161/>
 +
 
 +
===Crimson Star Permanent Assurance===
 +
The fourth largest insurance provider in the Federated Suns, the company was another natural fit for Green Star Corporation's expansion, being famous for offering low cost insurance to traditionally destitute worlds. Crimson Star built a sizable network of hospitals and clinics on such worlds, making extensive use of Green Star and affiliated services in their expansion and operation.<ref name=H:HDp161/>
 +
 
 +
===The Pit and Andrea Hu Enterprises===
 +
Among the oddest additions to the Green Star family, The Pit was a huge chain of popular clothing stores while Andrea Hu Enterprises were designers and manufacturers of "affordable everyday wear." Merging both acquisitions into one division, Green Star Corporation built several clothing factories in both the Outback and near the [[Chaos March]] to take advantage of the lower labor costs and fewer regulations in those regions.<ref name=H:HDp161/>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Please note that all contributions to BattleTechWiki are considered to be released under the GNU FDL 1.2 (see BattleTechWiki:Copyrights for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To edit this page, please answer the question that appears below (more info):

Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)

Advanced templates:

Editing: {{Merge}}   {{Moratorium}}   {{Otheruses| | | }}

Notices: {{NoEdit}}   {{Sign}}   {{Unsigned|name}}   {{Welcome}}

Administration: {{Essay}}   {{Policy}}   {{Procedure}}