United Bank of Liberty

[Culbrelai]

The First National United Bank of Liberty

a wholly-owned Subsidiary of

Welcome.

Allow me an introduction. I am Thomas Gage, CEO and Administrator of the mobile Interspace stock exchange, bank, and bazaar United Bank of Liberty.

We offer a wide array of financial products and services, including brokerage, commodity exchange and investment opportunities through our vast network of agents throughout the colonies, a modestly sized stock exchange, and of course, insurance ranging in coverage from your everyday trips in-system to your most dangerous expeditions far afield into the border worlds and further parts unknown.

History of the Bank

The First National United Bank of Liberty was established a decade ago as a start-up, intended to expand into hitherto untapped revenue streams for Interspace, primarily in the areas of banking, financial services, wealth management, and so on. It was created by Thomas J. Gage and a select group of investors from its namesake house, with advising agents from across the houses. The board of directors is similarly diverse, though controlling interest is held principally by Interspace Commerce and Mr. Gage himself.

The bank itself is a former DSE semi-mobile station, a Barge-class vessel that once trawled the fields of Coronado refining millions of tons of copper brought by smaller mining vessels, which, lacking the fuel range to reach Yuma or Scottsdale in one go, could stop at the mobile station to offload their ores. Due to a shift by DSE toward more efficient, faster and more defensible Archon-class ships, the station fell into disuse and decay. Interspace Commerce saw an opportunity to strike a deal, and the Bank was born; though, after years of neglect and bare-minimum maintenance, the station needed a massive amount of repairs and upgrades. Every addition was bespoke by Interspace, anticipating the needs of hundreds of investors, commodity speculators and traders, and the required infrastructure for exchanging billions of credits in securities, bonds and other financial products daily across the vast distances of space. Much of the bulk cargo carrying capacity has been removed for this purpose, and replaced with luxury hotels, trading floors, high-end restaurants and other accoutrements. Multiple levels of the vessel are mechanical floors dedicated to serving the large computing needs that tracking vast numbers of stock trades across interstellar space requires.

For the past ten years, the bank has been a successful venture for Interspace, providing a financial safe-haven for all throughout the colonies, often operating outside regulated financial markets in the Border worlds, moving from system to system as the houses push their spheres of influence further and further from their core worlds.

However, with the recent uptick in border friction between the Houses of Liberty and Kusari, and the rumble of excited speculation on H-fuel prices, thoroughly expected to rise should a skirmish or full-out war occur, the Bank would operate at a financial loss if it were to have to pay exorbitant prices for fueling its gargantuan engines. Rather than close the bank down and take a very large loss on their investment, Interspace's executives as well as Mr. Gage have commissioned the construction of a permanent mooring platform in the Texas system, to eliminate the possibility of volatile H-fuel price swings having an affect on the Bank's operations. If rumor is to be believed, the bank is expected to crack down on the less-fiscally-sound of the financial dealings taking place on the property. It remains to be seen if these dealings will cease once permanently attached to Liberty's laws.

About the Leadership

CEO and Administrator of the First National United Bank of Liberty, Thomas J. Gage

Born on Planet Manhattan in 770 A.S. to an influential family of bankers, Thomas Joseph Gage is a long-time employee of Interspace Commerce, with decades of experience operating in the financial industry. He came to be employed by Interspace when his innovative startup funded principally by his father, Gage & Associates, was bought out by the mega-corporation in the late 810s, during Interspace's period of diversification and expansion from their primary business of insurance to investment operations in securities, bonds, commodities, and other financial products. No longer master of his own destiny, he quickly understood the objective of common office politics, to climb his way up the corporate ladder one rung at a time - kissing the right behinds, stepping on the right people, and carrying the right $900,000 credit watch to impress the boss. Taking over as CEO of G&A from his father not long before having been bought out, he was elevated to middle management when Interspace purchased the company and given the title of Vice President of Financial Asset Management, one of a labyrinth of fluffy titles one may find plastered on the office doors in the average Manhattan high-rise.

With corner offices, come great responsibilities - as the saying goes. With the repairs and upgrades to the bank nearing completion, Interspace's purchase of Thomas's business was the final step in their plan to expand into these untapped markets. They needed a scapegoat, a fall guy - someone to insulate upper management from the wrath of investors should their speculative venture go under. They found, or rather, purchased, their fall guy - Thomas.

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