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Hexon Holdings

Continuity of care

Join a company that cares. Continuously. Hexon Holdings carries the medicine, the luxuries and the sealed containers that keep the safe core safe. We pay well and on time, and we expect the same of you.

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Where it works: The safe core: Corporate States, Democracies and Confederacies.

A wireframe Coriolis station in orbit above a glowing planet

On offer at Cambridge Orbital, Lave

The same board a commander docked at Lave sees right now.

    Working for Hexon Holdings

    • Discreet Medical Courier

      Carry medical supplies between Corporate States and Democracies. Punctuality essential. Curiosity discouraged.

      Safe core · Supplied cargo · Typically 50 to 250 Cr a run

      Apply

    • Luxury Goods Haulier

      Fine wines, luxuries and computers for discerning worlds. You will be trusted with valuable cargo once we trust you.

      Contractor standing · Bigger loads, typically 300 to 1,000 Cr

      Apply

    • Specimen Transport Associate

      Sealed class-4 biologicals, by invitation only. No prior biology required. No later biology permitted.

      By invitation · 600 Cr and up · Do not open

      Apply

    Who they are

    Where it came from

    Two houses, one merger.

    • Hale & Ostrander were carriers, older than most stations. In the first years of the Galactic Co-operative they were granted the Charter of Carriage: the right to carry the Co-operative's own freight, collect its tariffs, and keep order on the routes they served. They built warehouses, then ports, then, in a few systems, the police. (Inspired by the chartered trading companies of history, which ran ports, armies and whole countries in the name of trade.)
    • Hexagen Biologics began as Project Lantern, a vaccine stockpile set up by the Bureau of Continuity, the Co-operative's quiet intelligence office, after the Grey Fever emptied three colony worlds in a year. Lantern was spun off as a private company "to bring its benefits to market". The Bureau kept a seat on the board. It still has it.

    When the Charter came up for renewal, Hexagen bought Hale & Ostrander outright. The new company took the name Hexon Holdings and a mark of two H's back to back. Officially the H's stand for nothing. Old hands say Hexagen–Hale. Older hands say Heads, Hexon wins; tails, Hexon wins.

    What it does

    Medicine, biologicals, luxury goods and anything that must arrive on time, across the safe core: Corporate States, Democracies and Confederacies. Hexon contracts pay well, pay promptly, and come with paperwork. Late deliveries are not forgiven.

    What people say

    • When a plague breaks out, Hexon's medicine is already on the way. Some say it's already in the warehouse a fortnight before. Nobody has proved it. The people who tried to are hard to find.
    • Some cargo travels in sealed containers, class-4 biologicals, never opened, never scanned. Customs officers who ask are thanked, and transferred.
    • The Bureau's seat on the board is empty at every meeting, and every vote goes its way.

    Its ship: the Coral

    Named for the coral snake: beautiful, bright, and deadly. (Original class; not from Elite.)

    • A long, smooth bio-freighter with few faces and no visible weapons: the menace is in its cleanliness.
    • An armoured central hold, the vault, that can't be scanned and survives the ship's destruction as a single sealed canister.
    • Fast for its size; relies on escorts rather than guns.

    Not built yet. Design it.

    From the trading companies, the canon. Their liveries, story hooks and concept-art prompts are there.

    Standing

    Hexon Holdings keeps a record of every contract you fly for it. Your standing decides what it offers you.

    1. Partner+100The top of the ladder. Partner perks are designed, not built yet.
    2. Preferred+40The most valuable cargoes.
    3. Trusted+15Valuable cargo.
    4. Contractor+5Bigger loads, and now and then a special assignment, by invitation.
    5. Casual0Starter work: small loads, open to any pilot. Where everyone begins.
    6. Unreliable-5Starter work still. Deliver on time and they come round.
    7. Distrusted-9Starter work, grudgingly.
    8. BlacklistedNo work at all, until you make amends or they forget.

    Standing rises with every contract delivered on time: one point, two for a rush job or danger pay, three for a special assignment. Abandoning a contract costs three, losing its cargo with your ship two. Below zero, Hexon Holdings forgets a point a day, or takes compensation.

    How contracts work

    • The company supplies the cargo. You fly it there.
    • Deadlines are counted in hyperspace jumps, so closing your browser never makes you late.
    • Late pays half.
    • Deliver well and your standing rises, which opens bigger work. At Contractor, the companies start getting in touch.

    Every commander starts at Lave in a Cobra Mk III with 20 t of hold and 100 Cr.

    Between them

    • Hexon and Vorg need each other: Hexon's worlds buy Vorg's weapons, and Vorg's frontier buys Hexon's medicine. In public they despise each other.
    • Wexley-Yorozu builds the worlds the others trade with, and owns the debts of the people on them. Hexon sells its colonies medicine; Vorg sells them protection; the Mutual carries for them at cost and asks awkward questions.
    • The Bureau of Continuity sits on Hexon's board, buys from Vorg, and chartered the Mutual. Nobody is quite sure whose side it's on. That's how it likes it.

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