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+ | ====== The Far Flung Trading Company ====== | ||
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+ | The FFTC isn’t really a merchant house, nor is it a centrally managed business organization - rather it incorporates a number of Small Traders, Merchants and Ship’s Captains under a mutually beneficial umbrella - and is more of a guild or union. | ||
+ | As the fixed infrastructure is owned by the FFTC, individual captains and owners have to take much less of a risk - although (as members of FFTC) they get preferential service. | ||
+ | In many small ports, the FFTC has little more than an agent, who knows where to find competitively priced warehousing, | ||
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+ | It is also one of the first organizations to open new trade routes and often follows colonization efforts, to establish a foothold in any new territories. However, it knows that, eventually, it will be relegated to a minor role as the colonies are established, | ||
+ | While the majority of FFTC’s buildings serve the waterborne merchant trade, it supports a few land based trade trains, with agents and small serais, as well. | ||
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+ | ===== Membership ===== | ||
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+ | Full members are organizations who have signed a series of contracts agreeing to ' | ||
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+ | Associate Members pay a small percentage of their take to FFTC on a regular basis. | ||
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+ | Pensioners are retired associate members who give their ships (or other resources) to the FFTC. In return, they receive a ‘share’ of the company and a pension. | ||
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+ | Pension is calculated at (roughly) 4% of the value of the resources used to buy full membership. | ||
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+ | The full pension can be transferred to a surviving spouse, free of charge, although there is a fee (worth 25%) if the pension is inherited by children, or other relatives, of the original pensioner. | ||
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+ | The pension is paid annually, and to collect it, the pensioner must present themselves at an FFTC office (in many cases one of the agents offices) to collect their money. | ||
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+ | ===== Governance ===== | ||
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+ | The FFTC Board, is made up of representatives from the Full Member organizations and Original Pensioners (not people who have inherited their pension). | ||
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+ | ===== Full Members ===== | ||
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+ | Full Members all control a shipping office, wharf, warehouse and multiple vessels. | ||
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+ | * The LAS Company. | ||
+ | * Occidental Trading. From their base in the Faran islands (Western Telida), they work the coastal route from Porters Bar to The Strongholds. | ||
+ | * The Kassen Kompany. | ||
+ | * House Marisi, a Celtic family fleet, operating out of Angasa, which trade as far as The Strongholds and Bime. While the traders are all part of the same family, they operate as semi-independent traders | ||
+ | * Al’Nisr Shipping, based in the Razardi islands cover the Far Coast states as far as Bime, and trade down to Finaroka and across to Sakhar. | ||
+ | * House A’Dair, based in Porter’s Bar trade from Porter’s Bar to Port Elizabeth, and the East Telida coast. | ||
+ | * Free Captains of Stilmouth - a semi-formal arrangement | ||
+ | * FFTC - owned ships, can be found just about anywhere around the Hann Sea and Finaroka region. | ||
+ | ===== Assets breakdown ===== | ||
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+ | | - |Ships|Coasters |Keel Boats|Shipping Office| | ||
+ | |FFTC owned|1| 3 |15|2 - Finaroka, Jekleal| | ||
+ | |Al’Nisr Shipping|3|2 |3 |1 - Razadi| | ||
+ | |Free Captains of Stilmouth|2 |3 |7|1 - Stilmouth| | ||
+ | |House A’Dair|2|2 | 2 |1 - Porters Bar | | ||
+ | |House Marisi|1|2 |4|1 - Angasa| | ||
+ | |The LAS Company| 1 | 2 |3|1 - Port Elizabeth| | ||
+ | |Occidental Trading|0 | 2|3|1 - Farran Isles| | ||
+ | |Kassen Kompany|0| 1|2|1 - Bime| | ||
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+ | **In general terms ...** | ||
+ | * Ships - Travel quickly, over long distances, and can cross deep water comfortably. | ||
+ | * Coasters - Travel slowly and can follow coastal routes over long distances. | ||
+ | * Keel Boats - Travel slowly, carry less cargo and serve the local community |