Dunames Lopez
Megalomaniac CEO of Star Tours
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Corporation Name: Star Tours
Headquarters: Dosuun
Locations: Spaceport THX1138 (JanFathal), Tomorrowland Spaceport (Eriadu), Ringo Vinda, Nar Shaddaa, Lanever Villecham Starport(Hosnian Prime), Bant'ena Fhernan Starport (Lanteeb), Flashpoint Spaceport (Cademimu), Spaceport Derretowa (Morellia), Lipsec, Jiroch-Reslia, Geonosis, Dulvoyinn, Xal 3, Gandle Ott, Rakata Beta, Druckenwell, Riflor, Hoth, Ziost, Vorzyd V, Dosuun, Coruscant, Endor, Attahox, Hijarna
Operations: Interplanetary travel, entertainment, waste management, shipping
Rationale: Using the proceeds of a moneylaundering scheme involving a sizeable number of nova crystals, Dunames purchased a fleet of ships, mostly light freighters. And she then proceeded to hire pilots and make a schedule of routes for interplanetary travel. At the beginning, she also used Star Tours to smuggle and implement her own moneylaundering scheme, involving security deposits. But, in order to operate in First Order space, she had to modify the way she conducts smuggling to appear legitimate. In the end, these efforts paid off and the space line is operational.
Tier: 6
Description: Star Tours operates space flights from their original six bases, Spaceport THX1138, Tomorrowland Spaceport, Nar Shaddaa, Hosnian Prime, Lanteeb and Ringo Vinda using a fleet made up of over one hundred ships, which they use for regular passenger services as well as for vacation packages. They also offer two levels of cargo services: some clients are content with using Star Tours as they would any other space shipping company, while others would desire, at a premium, which includes a security deposit, to have their cargo delivered safe from prying eyes and paying another layer of extra as security deposit if they need to schedule a stop due to the cargo necessitating a rush delivery. For this reason, some have been known to use Star Tours as a means of smuggling cargo and/or laundering money.
Cargo services have since expanded to include interplanetary travel of bulk freight, as well as of luxury cruises, with the advent of the Maersk-class bulk freighter in Star Tours service. As with its main supplier of starships, Star Tours swears to operate only using ships capable of landing on planets. In addition, Star Tours has been voted Most Improved Spaceline in 845 ABY by Hyperspace Traveler thanks to all seats being outfitted with holotrays for in-flight entertainment, meals designed from traditional cuisine at the endpoints of each flight, as well as a wide selection of in-flight duty-free shops. Its weekly in-flight magazine, Taking Off on a Star Tour, also covers the implication of the main galactic events on either their own activities or tourism at large, in addition to covering highlights of select destinations. Due to its involvement in the First Order's bread-and-circuses, Star Tours is nowadays more closely associated to the First Order especially since it systematically sponsors podraces in First Order space, and even deployed a ski resort on Mount Ison. Most importantly, it is one of the many sponsors of the Galactic Games.
In recent years, it is most notable for being the preeminent First Order shipping company. It has greatly expanded its network and entertainment offerings, both within and outside First Order space and, in recent years, it also operated a variety of entertainment facilities and spaceports, such as an amusement park on Jiroch-Reslia, a cinema complex on Druckenwell and a podrace track on Mindabaal. Finally, it started contributing to reconstruction efforts on Endor, Mindabaal and Rakata Beta, as well as completing its major project of rebuilding all the spaceports destroyed by the Primeval in what formerly was Primeval space.
Subsidiaries: Taking Off on a Star Tour (media)
Parent Corporation: None
Primary Source: http://starwars.wiki...wiki/Star_Tours
*This is a canon company*
Pertinent development threads:
Tier II to Tier III:
Sign a contract with two more factions or organizations.
Tier II to Tier III:
Sign a contract with two more factions or organizations.
- Deathsticks, deathsticks and more deathsticks! (delivers 300 tons of a week of narcotics to House Thul Estates)
- More hypermatter than sense? (acquires the rights to deliver 1.05 million tons of hypermatter a week from Seraph Industries)
- Spaceport THX1138 (their base on JanFathal)
- Tomorrowland Starport (Terminal 1 on Eriadu)
- Kartika Supermall (a stop in the Lipstick Express travel package)
- Galactic Cosmetics Museum (another stop in the Lipstick Express travel package)
- Seventh Heaven Resort (a resort operated by Star Tours on Lanteeb)
- Milk run delivery (smuggles a shipment of hazardous materials to Nar Shaddaa for Enryu's Corp, and adds Nar Shaddaa as a location)
- First Order of Business (discusses expansion of business in First Order space)
- Too crazy to be true? (preliminary plans for building the ship used in Operation Noah's Ark by Star Tours and orders a second batch of ships)
Modification made:
- Adding Hosnian Prime and Lanteeb to the list of locations
Rationale: All the current locations are in the Mid or Outer Rims; Hosnian Prime gives Star Tours a base in the Core Worlds
Pertinent dev threads:
- Just a nail (Star Tours effects a turnaround in Lanever Villecham Starport, of which Star Tours is still the only major tenant)
- Allez-vous en (Dunames discusses the First Order's transportation infrastructure strategy)
- Adding Hosnian Prime and Lanteeb to the list of locations
Rationale: All the current locations are in the Mid or Outer Rims; Hosnian Prime gives Star Tours a base in the Core Worlds
Pertinent dev threads:
- Just a nail (Star Tours effects a turnaround in Lanever Villecham Starport, of which Star Tours is still the only major tenant)
- Allez-vous en (Dunames discusses the First Order's transportation infrastructure strategy)
Modifications Made:
Pertinent development threads:
Sign a contract with three player-run organizations, one of which must be a major faction OR a Tier-V+ company.
- Advancement to tier-4
- Addition of Cademimu and Morellia to locations
- Addition of entertainment to operations
- Addition of Taking Off on a Star Tour as a subsidiary
- Headquarters moved to Dosuun
Pertinent development threads:
Sign a contract with three player-run organizations, one of which must be a major faction OR a Tier-V+ company.
- Lipstick Express (Star Tours signs a contract with Quaint Gardens Beauty to deliver their products in dark-sided space)
- Coruscant: Please, take my money! (Star Tours signs a contract with tier-6 Silk Holdings to assist in the delivery of materials for rebuilding Coruscant)
- Nar Shaddaa and Voss (Star Tours signs a contract with Voss for supplying clients to their Nar Shaddaa location)
- Lanever Villecham Starport (Hosnian Prime)
- Fifth Avenue (Hosnian Prime)
- Bant'ena Fhernan Starport (Lanteeb)
- Lanteeb Speedway (Lanteeb)
- Flashpoint Spaceport (Cademimu)
- Cademimu Autodrome (Cademimu)
- Spaceport Derretowa (Morellia)
- Allez-vous En (Star Tours discusses the First Order's transportation infrastructure)
- Hear. me. Roar [ME dominion of Cademimu Hex] (Star Tours launches the maiden Cademimu-Lanteeb flight; posts #22, 49, 59, 71, 82, 88, 97, 103, 113, 120, 125)
- Just a Nail (Star Tours ferries seismic charges to Hosnian Prime)
- The Morellia Damotite Massacre (Star Tours ferries 242 containers of damotite for genocidal ends)
- Lanteeb Grand Prix (Star Tours sponsors and partially funds the Lanteeb Grand Prix; 42 posts)
- Side by side... by side [First Order dominion of Anoat Sector Hex] (Star Tours deploys a ski resort on Hoth; 23 posts, specifically #3, 9, 15, 23, 32, 38, 43, 50, 56, 62, 69, 75, 83, 89, 98, 103, 110, 117, 122, 127, 138, 144, 150)
- Make the Best Use of Frequent Flyer Miles (Star Tours announces, among other things, that it will be doing holovids as well as broadcast the Galactic Games; 17 posts)
- The Gospel and Testaments of Ardgal Raxis (Star Tours signs a contract with the Pantheon to shoot its first FO-compliant holovid; 18 posts)
Pertinent development threads:
Pertinent development threads:
Sign a contract with two major factions OR Tier-V+ companies.
Obtain the sponsorship of a major faction.
Sign a contract with two major factions OR Tier-V+ companies.
- Second Contact [The Kathol Outback dominion of the Resu Hex - Witchmasters Invited] (posts #4, 14, 21, 29, 38; Star Tours signs a contract with the Kathol Outback for opening the Edge of the Galaxy service)
- Strength through Joy [FO dominion of Trenwyth Hex] (posts #2, 3, 22, 25, 30, 33, 35, 38, 49, 57, 64, 72, 76, 89, 95, 101, 110, 119, 126, 127, 129, 137, 140, 149, 151; Star Tours ships in components for Iron Crown Enterprises to build its Xal 3 location)
- Star Tours Headquarters (Dosuun)
- Tevv Bay Resort (Dulvoyinn)
- Druckenwell Cinema City
- Stalgasin Spaceport (Geonosis)
- Rise of the Imperials [First Order Dominion of Yalara and Effekt] (the First Order collects some scholars from Yalara and Effekt)
- Recon Run: Hoth (Kathol Outback, First Order, etc.) (the Kathol Outback stages an espionage mission based out of the ski resort)
- First Order: Blackwing Virus [Dominion of Mephout and Seoul] (a failed attempt at evacuating Mephout is made)
- Taking Off on a Star Tour Episode 1: Dark Side of the Force (part of the Star Tours Guide to Force Specialties material is taken from this)
- Taking Off on a Star Tour Episode 2: Light Side of the Force (part of the Star Tours Guide to Force Specialties material is taken from this)
- The Galactic Premiere of Dead Fantasy 2 (Star Tours operates a movie theater on Druckenwell; 10 posts)
- Go forth, and fear no darkness! (Star Tours opens the Forbidden Dark Tour on Ziost; 17 posts)
- A Blaze in the Endor Sky [First Order Dominion of Endor Hex] (Star Tours creates an Ewok reserve, posts #4, 11, 18, 21, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 39, 44, 49, 52, 60, 66, 67, 70, 76, 78, 84, 88, 90, 92, 94, 95, 98, 100, 101, 109, 113, 115, 117, 121, 125, 128, 130, 131, 133, 134, 137, 140, 144, 147; 46 posts)
- Bright Tree Village (Star Tours sponsors Ewok relief efforts; 12 posts)
- Vorzyd Roulette (Star Tours opens a route to Vorzyd V; 11 posts)
- First Order: All Hallow's Eve: Dominion of Red Nebula and Gehenna (Star Tours pries the Sole Survivor tour from a navigation malfunction amid zombies, posts # 52, 58, 60, 61, 65, 69, 72, 77, 83, 95, 97, 100, 106, 108, 111, 112; 16 posts)
- Progenies of Asymetric Warfare [FO Dominion of Zarnathea Hex] (Star Tours opens negotiations for opening shipping routes to Riflor, posts #3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 19, 39, 45, 48, 55, 59, 66, 83, 89, 90, 105, 118, 122, 123, 124, 127, 128, 129, 130, 149; 25 posts)
- The Red Curtain [First Order Dominion of Quintas] (Star Tours operates a hazardous waste disposal route to Quintas, posts #9, 22, 24, 27, 31, 33, 34, 38, 47, 48; 10 posts)
- Harry Potter and the Jedi Temple (Star Tours opens a route to Coruscant; 38 posts)
- First Order: Beyond Darkness [Dominion of Rakata Beta] (Star Tours rebuilds a spaceport on Rakata Beta, and adds a museum about the history of the Infinite Empire and public works white elephants to it, posts # 6, 20, 28, 35, 38, 43, 47, 53, 56, 67, 71, 74, 80, 84, 91, 96; 16 posts)
Obtain the sponsorship of a major faction.
- TKO: Hyperspace Highway (Aaris Express Way) (Star Tours takes part in a winning bid on the Gandle Ott station for its entertainment facilities, launched by the Kathol Outback)
Sign a contract with two major factions OR Tier-V+ companies.
Obtain the sponsorship of a major faction.
- 3:10 to Kathol: TKO dominion of Zonju V Hex (posts #54, 56, 59, 62, 66, 166; builds a spaceport on Zonju 5 for the Outer Rim Coalition)
- Insert Travel Pun (signs a contract with tier-5 Heartbeat House to operate mail services)
- Rakata Beta Spaceport (codex)
- Star Tours Ski Resort (codex)
- Kaeshana Spaceport (codex)
- Small Business (Star Tours buys security equipment)
- Back in Business [First Order dominion of Halm hex] (Star Tours attends the second economic First Order summit)
- Borders aren't the only thing expanding [First Order T2 dominion of Askaj and Subterrel] (Star Tours builds a bulk spaceport on Subterrel)
- We Are One [Dominion dom of Bimmiel and Gravlex Med] (the Dominion contracts Star Tours to build an orbital toxic waste processing plant over Gravlex Med)
- Mindabaal Grand Prix (Star Tours establishes a sphere of influence on Mindabaal)
- The romance of flying (Star Tours opens its Valentine's Day honeymoon cruise: 20 posts)
- Hey all, it's the sector pub crawl! [First Order T3 dominion of New Balosar hex] (posts #2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 19, 26, 28, 30, 32, 38, 45, 47, 51, 55, 64, 72, 80, 87, 96, 102, 108, 112, 119, 126, 131, 136, 139; Star Tours rebuilds Kaeshana with the First Order, 28 posts)
- Sports Medicine (Star Tours gets a supplier to help out building a luxury health spa resort in Luminoss, on Yuuzhan'tar; 15 posts)
- Wow, This Faction Name Is Hoing To Make Things Confusing [Dominion's Hex Dom of Ventooine] (posts #5, 6, 8, 39, 44, 54, 56, 58, 65, 72, 76, 78, 86, 116, 124, 126, 132, 136, 139, 142; Star Tours builds a spaceport for the Atrisian colony on Trian, 20 posts)
- Blood and Wine (Dominion Tier 2 dom of Serenno and Kushiban) (posts #7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27, 31, 41, 43, 60, 64, 71, 85, 90; Star Tours enters negotiations to rebuild the Serenno spaceport, 20 posts)
- The Dungeons of the High Castle (a criminal uses Star Tours to escape prison, exploiting a vacation package, and is later recaptured; 25 posts)
- Hijarna Industrial Park (Star Tours helps rebuild a mining colony on Hijarna; 24 posts)
- Sekalien Supernova (ORC T2 domidion of Ancora and Torrential) (Star Tours assists in the evacuation of Sekalus and in building Ancora's spaceport; 59 posts and counting)
- Shadows of the Empire (Dominion dom of Helska IV and Pax Insul) (posts #3, 14, 21, 24, 29, 32, 38, 47, 56, 66, 73, 75, 79, 81, 82, 83, 86, 87, 94, 99, 105, 107; Star Tours builds a spaceport on Pax Insul, 21 posts)
- What Was Once Lost, Now Found: First Order Tier 2 dominion of Gilaria and Rehl Prime (posts #5, 10, 16, 22, 31, 35, 39, 44, 49, 54, 59, 65; Star Tours establishes a location on Gilaria out of a run-down spaceport; 12 posts)
- Kairos [Corporate Summit] (Star Tours extends its sphere of influence around Serenno and gets a memorandum of understanding in a bid for the contract to rebuild the spaceport on Mirial; 27 posts)
- The Crown Jewel of Destroyed Spaceports in Primeval-Land (Star Tours rebuilds Mirial's spaceport; 11 posts)
- The Chorus of Chaos (The Dominion dom of Mandalore hex) (posts #4, 13, 17, 20, 24, 29, 59, 64, 67, 72, 86, 100, 122, 128; Star Tours rebuilds a spaceport on Taris; 14 posts)
- Every Day A Little Death (First Order dominion of Taloraan Hex) (posts #83, 119, 123, 128, 133, 136, 140, 142, 146, 148; Star Tours builds an orbital trade station over Fenessa; 10 posts)
Obtain the sponsorship of a major faction.
- Toxic Waste Management (signs a contract for toxic waste hauling with the Commenor Systems Alliance)
