NanoTrasen Corporation

'"Nanotrasen is the leader in all things plasma... And more! Across the galaxy we provide the finest plasma-combustion generators and plasma byproducts, such as the supermatter engines and singularity fields to bring power to your neighborhood! We continue to make significant advances in other major fields ranging from the hydroponics, to genetic research, to information technology and robotics! As a proud employee of our corporation, we encourage you to take active part in continuing to advance our our scientific knowledge for the good of the human race, and your pay check!"

General
Nanotrasen is the corporation the player works for. Formerly a biotech research company, its size, influence, and wealth exploded to previously unthinkable heights after the discovery of plasma and bluespace. It has a net worth of 730 trillion credits and 440 million employees.

Nanotrasen remains an extremely controversial mega-corporation. It's accused of buying Tau Ceti outright, bribing politicians, and preforming illegal experiments and research in the unexplored or lawless Frontier of human space. They're rumored to have their hands in every level of Tau Ceti's government and have a reputation of treating their workforce poorly in the name of the bottom line. The corporation is also suspected of inflaming entire wars on Ahdomai and Moghes for the purpose of manipulating the species' into lucrative deals.

The headquarters of NanoTrasen is currently Mendell City, on the planet of Biesel, in the Tau Ceti Star System. Its primary administrative center, however, remains the orbital Central Command, also known as the NTCC Odin.

NanoTrasen maintains a direct presence in over 75% of human states with manufacturing sectors, R&D, and orbital facilities

History
Formed in 2346, Nanotrasen Biomedical, now the Nanotrasen Corporation, was a leading trans-stellar research corporation specializing in Genetic Engineering and medical research.

Nanotrasen started out as a small company, whose research was mostly based around gene-therapy in the heart of human space, Mars. Nanotrasen was effective at patenting methods that lead to more cost effective medical coverage plans for business use, primarily through aggressive business tactics than personal research brilliance. Many minor medical research facilities ended up on the unpleasant end of Xavier Trasen's desire to make a name for himself and shark-like approach, and were bought out and taken apart for his company's capitalization. By the end of the decade, Nanotrasen became a trans-stellar entity.

On 2417, Nanotrasen discovered plasma in the Tau Ceti star system in the Romanovich Cloud. This new resource allowed the generation of immense amounts of electricity and could be used as fuel for FTL travel, outdating everything that had come before it. Nanotrasen began exploiting this new resource aggressively, setting up numerous stations and outposts in Tau Ceti to exploit the resource while sending out many new probes and drones to discover more.

Research facilities, stations, ships and other installations were being built faster than ever. Nanotrasen, capitalizing on it's newfound wealth managed to bankrupt and absorb many other companies on a larger scale that ever before (one of the only known organizations to escape this fate being the Providence Foundation). This only further increased Nanotrasen's power and scope, ratcheting it up to the status of a true super-corporation, the most powerful business-empire in the known galaxy.

Stations, Merchant Fleet and the Fleet Security Force.
The Nanotrasen corporation maintains a large fleet of ships and stations for varying purposes ranging from research to transport to medical to exploration. These ships form the backbone of Nanotrasens financing transporting personnel, cargo and research from system to system, planet to planet and back again.

The military arm of this fleet is known as the Nanotrasen Navy, which is overseen by the Chief Naval Director and his Sector Commanders. Utilizing ships from simple patrol frigates to the impressive drone carriers like the NMV Icarus that patrols the space around the Aurora and Exodus. Some ships even have attachments of ERT teams that can respond across their system.



Every megacorporation has some sort of orbital fleet to protect their assets, but Nanotrasen is notable in that it is the only mega-corporation that fields a fleet its size completely independent of government contracts of subsidies. In fact, the Republic of Biesel in Tau Ceti lacks any form of fleet and relies on Nanotrasen completely to deter pirates and other threats, to which they pay hefty fees for. This has lead to Nanotrasen being accused of fielding a mercenary army, one that could have the potential to put pressure on traditional governments of the galaxy if used poorly...

Prefixes

NCV - Nanotrasen Corporate Vessel NSS - Nantrasen Space Station NMV - Nanotrasen Martial Vessel

Some of it's largest and/or most expensive holdings are listed below.