Liberty Trade Shipping [Faction Information]

[Liberty Trade Shipping]

HISTORY

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- 819 A.S. -

Although Liberty Trade Shipping was founded officially in May 819 A.S., the history of this company began earlier, when Rick Tenda, a 22-year-old young man, has decided to resign from Interspace Commerce corporation, after his parents died in an accident. Becoming very rich, as result of the exceptional financial situation of his family, Rick tried to start his own bussiness, together with two brothers, Mark and Joe. They succeed to create a small private company, named Liberty Trade and Supply. But due to lack of experience, their initiative has failed. Few months later, the father of those two brothers, also an employee of Interspace Commerce, being dissatisfied by the policy of this corporation, has decided to resign and joined to these young mens, in their attempt to form a new shipping company. And thus was born the Liberty Trade Shipping corporation, with Rick Tenda as Vice President and David Leroy as President.

Knowing that to become a competitive company on the shipping market is necessary to have a vast transportation division, they bought many transport ships and decided to begin first businesses in Kusari space, trying to take advantage of the poor relationship between Interspace Commerce and local authorities from this house. Seen as a foreign competitor, arrival of Liberty Trade Shipping in this space was not greeted enthusiastically by other much bigger corporations. However, in a few weeks, Liberty Trade Shipping, with the consistent financial support from Rick Tenda, has succeeded to sign some contracts with local companies, like Kishiro Technologies or Samura Heavy Industries, to purchase from a group of freelancers, known as Coalition of Free Traders, a private station, named Muroto Trade Center, wich has become also the headquarter of Liberty Trade Shipping and to promote the company name by creating their own Media Center.

Beginning was a tough one. But having more employees, more ships and more influence, David Leroy considered that it was the proper time for the beginning of a intense campaign, in order to extend the operations area of his company in other houses. In this regard, he started negotiations to receive approval from Bretonian local authorities for building a new trade center in New London system, but were never materialized. In the meantime, this company was forced to cope with different obstacles in its way to ascension: repeated attacks from terrorists groups like the Xenos in Liberty or the Artisan Farmers Alliance in Kusari, difficulties due to relationship with Interspace Commerce and influences of this corporation or solving of some events occurring in the Honshu system, after a treaty has been signed by Kusari Naval Forces and Rheinland Military, initially considered a potential danger for the Liberty Trade Shipping, and it all culminated with sudden disappearance of Rick Tenda at the end of 819 A.S., while he was in a business travel in Nagano system.

- 820 A.S. -

Left alone in the lead of this company, David had a psychotic break when Mark Leroy ran with over two billions of credits from the funds of Liberty Trade Shipping. Being betrayed by one of his own sons and without his best friend, David was very close to give up. Two full weeks he tried to find a way for solving of this situation. [img float=right]http://discoverygc.com/forums/uploads/avatars/avatar_26394.jpg?dateline=1368941131[/img]At the beginning of 820 A.S., he was tempted to sell Muroto Trade Center and to dissolve this company. But in a night, he had a dream about future... "A future where Liberty Trade Shipping is seen as one of the biggest shipping company from Liberty, where all lawful traders are protected by global treaties signed by the most important corporations from all Sirius, where civilians have a different status and are not involved in conflicts between the military forces from all houses and where... the traders rights, foreigns or not, are respected everywhere."Remaining only with a few friends which have trust in his dream, David Leroy, has decided to continue his fight for the success of this company.

But the reality was cruel and overwhelming. A few months later, somewhere in Dublin system, several convoys of the Liberty Trade Shipping were caught in an ambush prepared by a group of Mollys. Nobody knows exactly how many employees of this company were killed there, but one of them was certainly the son of David, Joe Leroy. With luck, his father survived, but fell into a coma. For more than six months, he was cared for by a woman, named Susan, somewhere in a hospital from New London planet.

In the meantime, due to the unexplained disappearance of David Leroy and all members of the board, Nicholas Carter (Vice President), Brian Ford (Trade & Logistics Manager) and Armund Pagasi (Public Relations Officer), the Chief Security Officer, Francois DeVersailles, has decided to take temporary full control of the company. At the end of 820 A.S., as temporary CEO, without too many solutions to survive on the shipping market, he signed a contract with Gateway Shipping Inc.. Liberty Trade Shipping company had became a subsidiary of this bretonian corporation and its headquarters, Muroto Trade Center, was transformed in a kind of depot for its operations.

- 821 A.S. -

Although the representatives of the Gateway Shipping Inc. thought that David Leroy is dead, at the beginning of 821 A.S., the former CEO has unexpectedly returned together with the woman who helped him and it was surprised when he saw that Liberty Trade Shipping was incorporated by the bretonians. Inevitably, given the high stakes regarding to the full rights over Liberty Trade Shipping company and Muroto Trade Center, a huge scandal broke out, having, as mediator, the Kusari Naval Forces. Forced by circumstances, David took a radical decision: donation of the Muroto Trade Center to the Kishiro Technologies. In return, as part of their agreement, Liberty Trade Shipping was allowed to keep its headquarters there and the kusarian corporation was agreed to compensate Gateway Shipping Inc. for their efforts to maintain the Muroto Trade Center facility, during the period when Mr. Leroy was hospitalised.

Shortly after this event, due to a financial crisis without precedent in the company's history, in a press conference, David Leroy announced that the executive leader of the Liberty Trade Shipping corporation will be Susan Miller, the same woman who kept him alive in the period when he was in coma. At 28-year-old, having different ideas and ideologies, much closer to those promoted by Interspace Commerce, Susan is extremely determined to revive the Liberty Trade Shipping activity and began a campaign in order to form a new management team. Also she negotiated an agreement with Interspace Commerce and decided as the headquarters of the Liberty Trade Shipping company to be moved to Newark Station, in New York system. With a new development plan, promoting her original internal policy, Susan Miller expressed a more liberal viewpoint regarding the restoration of the broken relationships with all Liberty companies, especially with the Interspace Commerce. The first step has already made when this corporation was asked to participate at "The Cold Lake Project". The Liberty Trade Shipping history is written nowadays and despite of being a young player on the shipping market, its new CEO could be the key for the company's success.

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