Vickers Mining

Vickers Mining
Corporation Profile
Affiliation	Lyran Commonwealth
Headquarters	Hollers (Derf)
Leadership	CEO
Product(s)	Mineral extraction

Vickers Mining (ViMin) was a mining company in the Lyran Commonwealth.

Overview

Vickers Mining is the major mining firm in the Trellshire Province of the Lyran Commonwealth. They have operations on more than 40 worlds, moons, and asteroids. Their specialization is the extraction of rare minerals and they have an impeccable safety record. One member of the Vickers family, Tamra Vickers, would join the Star League Defense Force and later help Nicholas Kerensky found the Clans.

In 3022, Vickers Mining CEO Barbara Edwards solicited a second opinion from Victoria Jones of Jones Consulting regarding a mining operation on the moon of Waldorff VII. The report strongly advised Edwards to shut the operation down immediately as it was considered immensely dangerous; it was thought that an accident could easily cause the vast interconnected deposits of hydrocarbon "superfuel" (that had its own oxidizer bound into it) to explode which would at the very least destroy the facility if not the entire moon. It is implied that the extraction plant was indeed subsequently abandoned.

In 3025, Vickers was counting on the performance of the Wotan Mole-T5 Tunnel Borer by Wotan Mining Systems to assist its performance in airless conditions. However, due to the borer's failure, the Vickers operation on the second moon of Apollo was placed in jeopardy. Unless Vickers was willing to work in less-than-safe conditions, a company not as concerned with safety would win the mining contract.

Bibliography

• 1st Somerset Strikers
• House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)
• Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption