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Line 17: '''Home Office:''' Hollers, [[Derf]] '''Home Office:''' Hollers, [[Derf]] − '''President/CEO:''' [[Barbara Ewards]] (3022) + '''President/CEO:''' Barbara Ewards ==Overview== ==Overview== Line 23:
Line 23: 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 [[House Vickers|Vickers family]], [[Tamra Vickers]], would join the [[SLDF]] and later help [[Nicholas Kerensky]] found the [[Clans]].<ref>''Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption'', p. 11</ref> 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 [[House Vickers|Vickers family]], [[Tamra Vickers]], would join the [[SLDF]] and later help [[Nicholas Kerensky]] found the [[Clans]].<ref>''Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption'', p. 11</ref> − 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.<ref name=1SS-33>''1st Somerset Strikers'', p. 33</ref>+ 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 (planet)|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. − − 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 (system)|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. ==References== ==References== Line 31:
Line 29: ==Bibliography== ==Bibliography== − * ''[[1st Somerset Strikers (sourcebook)]]'' * ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]'' * ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]'' * ''[[Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption]]'' * ''[[Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption]]'' − [[Category:Lyran Commonwealth Corporations]] + [[Category:Companies]] + [[Category:Lyran Commonwealth Companies]]
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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 [[House Vickers|Vickers family]], [[Tamra Vickers]], would join the [[SLDF]] and later help [[Nicholas Kerensky]] found the [[Clans]].<ref>''Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption'', p. 11</ref> | 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 [[House Vickers|Vickers family]], [[Tamra Vickers]], would join the [[SLDF]] and later help [[Nicholas Kerensky]] found the [[Clans]].<ref>''Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption'', p. 11</ref> | ||
| − | + | 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 (planet)|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. | |
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| − | 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 ( | ||
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* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]'' | * ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]'' | ||
* ''[[Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption]]'' | * ''[[Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption]]'' | ||
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