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Line 1: {{InfoBoxCorporation {{InfoBoxCorporation − | image = Ulsop Robotics logo.jpg + | image = − | founded = [[2387]]<ref name=SLp163>''The Star League'', p. 163: "Top Ten Hegemony Companies - [Ulsop Robotics]"</ref> + | Founded = − | dissolved = + | Dissolved = − | affiliation = {{Ubl|[[Lyran Commonwealth]]|[[Terran Hegemony]]}} + | Previous Names = − | previous_names = + | headquarters = [[Zebebelgenubi]] − | headquarters = Gray Valley City ([[Zebebelgenubi VI]])<ref name=SLp163/> | leadership = [[CEO of Ulsop Robotics|CEO]] | leadership = [[CEO of Ulsop Robotics|CEO]] | products = [[WarShip]]s | products = [[WarShip]]s − | parent = + | Parent Corporation = − | divisions = + | Division = − | plants = {{Ubl|[[Murchison]]|[[Terra]]|[[Tharkad]]}} }} }} − '''Ulsop Robotics''' was one of the top ten major corporations of the [[Star League]] and one of the League's foremost producers of advanced [[Robots]]. − ==Overview== ==Overview== − With its headquarters located in Grey Valley City, [[Zebebelgenubi]], the company was created in [[2387]] when it broke away from its parent corporation [[International Business Machines]], with regional offices on [[Terra]], [[Murchison]], and [[Tharkad]].<ref name=SLp163/> + '''Ulsop Robotics''' was one of the top ten major corporations of the [[Star League]] and one of the League's foremost producers of advanced [[Robots]]. With its headquarters located in Grey Valley City, [[Zebebelgenubi]], the company was created in [[2387]] when it broke away from its parent corporation, with regional offices on [[Terra]], [[Murchison]] and [[Tharkad]].<ref name=SL>''The Star League'', p. 163</ref> − Ulsop first broke into the business producing assembly-line robots, quality machines which could last for decades without maintenance. This allowed their expansion into other areas of robotics, first with the unsuccessful test flight of the ''Bright Star'' Automated Scout [[JumpShip]] in [[2545]]<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles'', p. 16</ref>, then with the successful creation of the ''Guardian'' line of security guard robots. Efforts at creating combat robots proved dismal, in part because trained soldiers could outperform them in battle.<ref name=SLp163/> + Ulsop first broke into the business producing assembly-line robots, quality machines which could last for decades without maintenance. This allowed their expansion into other areas of robotics, first with the unsuccessful test flight of the ''Bright Star'' Automated Scout [[JumpShip]] in [[2545]]<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles'', p. 16</ref>, then with the successful creation of the ''Guardian'' line of security guard robots. Efforts at creating combat robots proved dismal, in part because trained soldiers could outperform them in battle.<ref name=SL /> − It was Ulsop Robotics, in one of their greatest achievements, which designed the artificial intelligence used to control the ground-based weapons of the [[Terran Hegemony]] [[Space Defense System]].<ref name=SLp163/> [[Stefan Amaris]] knew that retribution from [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] for his coup was inevitable, and that the defense of his empire depended upon the [[Space Defense System]] developed by the [[SLDF]]. Amaris had made acquriing control of system SDS networks a priority during [[Operation APOTHEOSIS]] but the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] forces had only managed to secure control over six networks across the entire of the Hegemony.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', pp. 88–89: "Preparing For The Inevitable"</ref> + It was Ulsop Robotics, in one of their greatest achievements, which designed the artificial intelligence used to control the ground-based weapons of the [[Terran Hegemony]] [[Space Defense System]].<ref name=SL /> [[Stefan Amaris]] knew that retribution from [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] for his coup was inevitable, and that the defense of his empire depended upon the [[Space Defense System]] developed by the [[SLDF]]. Amaris had made acquriing control of system SDS networks a priority during [[Operation APOTHEOSIS]] but the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] forces had only managed to secure control over six networks across the entire of the Hegemony.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 88-89, "Preparing For The Inevitable"</ref> Amaris' forces learned that the key developer of the SDS system was Ulsop Robotics of [[Zebebelgenubi]], and in response Amaris made the training of loyal Republican SDS operators a priority. An intense three-year period of training activity promptly began on Zebebelgenubi, with technicians and researchers from Ulsop Robotics impressed into training several thousand Amaris' loyalist in SDS network operations. Partisans from the resistance attempted to disrupt the training, inviting harsh responses from [[Colonel]] [[Vargo Burkenya]], the local Republican commander on the ground; after a successful resistance operation resulted in a fire at a training complex that injured more than a hundred Republican trainees and killed forty more, Burkenya responded by executing three hundred Ulsop Robotics personnel. This effectively ended the training of new operators by Ulsop Robotics staff, but Burkenya continued executing researchers and technicians at a rate of five for every Republican killed by the resistance up until he and his command staff were killed by partisan snipers two years later. By this point the Republicans had already trained enough operators and trainers that they needed no further external assistance.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+"/> Amaris' forces learned that the key developer of the SDS system was Ulsop Robotics of [[Zebebelgenubi]], and in response Amaris made the training of loyal Republican SDS operators a priority. An intense three-year period of training activity promptly began on Zebebelgenubi, with technicians and researchers from Ulsop Robotics impressed into training several thousand Amaris' loyalist in SDS network operations. Partisans from the resistance attempted to disrupt the training, inviting harsh responses from [[Colonel]] [[Vargo Burkenya]], the local Republican commander on the ground; after a successful resistance operation resulted in a fire at a training complex that injured more than a hundred Republican trainees and killed forty more, Burkenya responded by executing three hundred Ulsop Robotics personnel. This effectively ended the training of new operators by Ulsop Robotics staff, but Burkenya continued executing researchers and technicians at a rate of five for every Republican killed by the resistance up until he and his command staff were killed by partisan snipers two years later. By this point the Republicans had already trained enough operators and trainers that they needed no further external assistance.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+"/> Line 25:
Line 21: Despite the months of training given by the Ulsop Robotics personnel to the first group of operators it still took more than two years for the Republicans to begin bringing SDS networks back online, particularly the most advanced of the systems, the Reagan SDS network in the [[Terra]] system.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+"/> Despite the months of training given by the Ulsop Robotics personnel to the first group of operators it still took more than two years for the Republicans to begin bringing SDS networks back online, particularly the most advanced of the systems, the Reagan SDS network in the [[Terra]] system.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+"/> − Unfortunately, the company would not survive the collapse of the Star League and subsequent [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]]. What few scraps of technology which did survive fell into the hands of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name=SLp163/> + Unfortunately, the company would not survive the collapse of the Star League and subsequent [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]]. What few scraps of technology which did survive fell into the hands of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name=SL /> + + ==Leadership== + Ulsop Robotics was not ruled by one family; instead an Chief Executive Officer was elected to head the corporation.<ref name=SL /> ==Manufacturing== ==Manufacturing== {|class="wikitable" {|class="wikitable" − ! colspan="2" |Components produced by Ulsop:<ref name=TRO2750p126>''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 126: Vincent-class corvette profile</ref> + ! colspan="2" |Components produced by Ulsop:<ref name=TRO2750p126>''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 126, Vincent-class corvette profile</ref> |- |- ! width="350pt" | Component ! width="350pt" | Component Line 36:
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Line 51: ===Zebebelgenubi=== ===Zebebelgenubi=== {|class="wikitable" {|class="wikitable" − ! colspan="2" |Components produced on Zebebelgenubi:<ref name=XTRO>''Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles'', p. 16: Bright Star Auto Scout</ref> + ! colspan="2" |Components produced on Zebebelgenubi:<ref name=XTRO>''Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles'', p. 16, Bright Star Auto Scout</ref> |- |- ! width="350pt" | Component ! width="350pt" | Component Line 59:
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
| − | With its headquarters located in Grey Valley City, [[Zebebelgenubi]], the company was created in [[2387]] when it broke away from its parent corporation | + | '''Ulsop Robotics''' was one of the top ten major corporations of the [[Star League]] and one of the League's foremost producers of advanced [[Robots]]. With its headquarters located in Grey Valley City, [[Zebebelgenubi]], the company was created in [[2387]] when it broke away from its parent corporation, with regional offices on [[Terra]], [[Murchison]] and [[Tharkad]].<ref name=SL>''The Star League'', p. 163</ref> |
| − | Ulsop first broke into the business producing assembly-line robots, quality machines which could last for decades without maintenance. This allowed their expansion into other areas of robotics, first with the unsuccessful test flight of the ''Bright Star'' Automated Scout [[JumpShip]] in [[2545]]<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles'', p. 16</ref>, then with the successful creation of the ''Guardian'' line of security guard robots. Efforts at creating combat robots proved dismal, in part because trained soldiers could outperform them in battle.<ref name= | + | Ulsop first broke into the business producing assembly-line robots, quality machines which could last for decades without maintenance. This allowed their expansion into other areas of robotics, first with the unsuccessful test flight of the ''Bright Star'' Automated Scout [[JumpShip]] in [[2545]]<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles'', p. 16</ref>, then with the successful creation of the ''Guardian'' line of security guard robots. Efforts at creating combat robots proved dismal, in part because trained soldiers could outperform them in battle.<ref name=SL /> |
| − | It was Ulsop Robotics, in one of their greatest achievements, which designed the artificial intelligence used to control the ground-based weapons of the [[Terran Hegemony]] [[Space Defense System]].<ref name= | + | It was Ulsop Robotics, in one of their greatest achievements, which designed the artificial intelligence used to control the ground-based weapons of the [[Terran Hegemony]] [[Space Defense System]].<ref name=SL /> [[Stefan Amaris]] knew that retribution from [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] for his coup was inevitable, and that the defense of his empire depended upon the [[Space Defense System]] developed by the [[SLDF]]. Amaris had made acquriing control of system SDS networks a priority during [[Operation APOTHEOSIS]] but the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] forces had only managed to secure control over six networks across the entire of the Hegemony.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 88-89, "Preparing For The Inevitable"</ref> |
Amaris' forces learned that the key developer of the SDS system was Ulsop Robotics of [[Zebebelgenubi]], and in response Amaris made the training of loyal Republican SDS operators a priority. An intense three-year period of training activity promptly began on Zebebelgenubi, with technicians and researchers from Ulsop Robotics impressed into training several thousand Amaris' loyalist in SDS network operations. Partisans from the resistance attempted to disrupt the training, inviting harsh responses from [[Colonel]] [[Vargo Burkenya]], the local Republican commander on the ground; after a successful resistance operation resulted in a fire at a training complex that injured more than a hundred Republican trainees and killed forty more, Burkenya responded by executing three hundred Ulsop Robotics personnel. This effectively ended the training of new operators by Ulsop Robotics staff, but Burkenya continued executing researchers and technicians at a rate of five for every Republican killed by the resistance up until he and his command staff were killed by partisan snipers two years later. By this point the Republicans had already trained enough operators and trainers that they needed no further external assistance.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+"/> | Amaris' forces learned that the key developer of the SDS system was Ulsop Robotics of [[Zebebelgenubi]], and in response Amaris made the training of loyal Republican SDS operators a priority. An intense three-year period of training activity promptly began on Zebebelgenubi, with technicians and researchers from Ulsop Robotics impressed into training several thousand Amaris' loyalist in SDS network operations. Partisans from the resistance attempted to disrupt the training, inviting harsh responses from [[Colonel]] [[Vargo Burkenya]], the local Republican commander on the ground; after a successful resistance operation resulted in a fire at a training complex that injured more than a hundred Republican trainees and killed forty more, Burkenya responded by executing three hundred Ulsop Robotics personnel. This effectively ended the training of new operators by Ulsop Robotics staff, but Burkenya continued executing researchers and technicians at a rate of five for every Republican killed by the resistance up until he and his command staff were killed by partisan snipers two years later. By this point the Republicans had already trained enough operators and trainers that they needed no further external assistance.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+"/> | ||
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Despite the months of training given by the Ulsop Robotics personnel to the first group of operators it still took more than two years for the Republicans to begin bringing SDS networks back online, particularly the most advanced of the systems, the Reagan SDS network in the [[Terra]] system.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+"/> | Despite the months of training given by the Ulsop Robotics personnel to the first group of operators it still took more than two years for the Republicans to begin bringing SDS networks back online, particularly the most advanced of the systems, the Reagan SDS network in the [[Terra]] system.<ref name="H:LoTV1p88+"/> | ||
| − | Unfortunately, the company would not survive the collapse of the Star League and subsequent [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]]. What few scraps of technology which did survive fell into the hands of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name= | + | Unfortunately, the company would not survive the collapse of the Star League and subsequent [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]]. What few scraps of technology which did survive fell into the hands of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name=SL /> |
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| + | ==Leadership== | ||
| + | Ulsop Robotics was not ruled by one family; instead an Chief Executive Officer was elected to head the corporation.<ref name=SL /> | ||
==Manufacturing== | ==Manufacturing== | ||
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| − | ! colspan="2" |Components produced by Ulsop:<ref name=TRO2750p126>''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 126 | + | ! colspan="2" |Components produced by Ulsop:<ref name=TRO2750p126>''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 126, Vincent-class corvette profile</ref> |
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| colspan="2" align="center " | <u>WarShips</u> | | colspan="2" align="center " | <u>WarShips</u> | ||
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| colspan="2" align="center " | <u>[[Targeting-Tracking System]]</u> | | colspan="2" align="center " | <u>[[Targeting-Tracking System]]</u> | ||
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===Zebebelgenubi=== | ===Zebebelgenubi=== | ||
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| − | ! colspan="2" |Components produced on Zebebelgenubi:<ref name=XTRO>''Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles'', p. 16 | + | ! colspan="2" |Components produced on Zebebelgenubi:<ref name=XTRO>''Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles'', p. 16, Bright Star Auto Scout</ref> |
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| colspan="2" align="center " | <u>WarShips</u> | | colspan="2" align="center " | <u>WarShips</u> | ||
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