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<div>The '''ESB-Jörmungandr Group''' of [[Teldrin]] of [[Ynnraile]] (formerly [[Lunaris]]) is a trading company under warrant of the Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]. The ESB Group's ostensible remit is to serve as a Joint Stock Company trading in goods, commodities and services on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] Continent.<br />
[[File:ESB.png|600px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Logo of the ESB-Jörmungandr Group</div> ]]<br />
The company was established by articles of association signed by [[Ardashir|Thorgils Tarjeisson, Daniel Dravot & Dr Ernst Cryptsinger]] on Izillare, 2 Gevrader 1634, at the saloon bar of the Bethlem Hotel, Teldrin. In light of recent corporate reorganization, it is now referred to within the Company as the Benacian Directorate.<br />
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One tenth of all profits derived by the activities of the ESB Group are remitted to the King of Goldshire, [[Ryker Everstone]].<br />
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Merger of Einhorn–Silverman–Bochs Group and Jörmungandr A/S.<br />
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== Headquarters ==<br />
The Seat of the Board of Directors is stipulated to be in Teldrin, Ynnraile and corporate offices were originally established in the suites of the the Bethlem Hotel (Formerly Bethlem Lunatic Asylum). <br />
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In 1635 the Group commenced the construction of the ''''Sanitorium'''' in Teldrin as a fortified residential cantonment for employees based in Lunaris who wished to retain their sanity in the midst of a population of habitual lunatics. The company offices were relocated to the Sanitorium upon its completion in 1637. Since then the site has successfully withstood two sieges, the first by the [[Army of the Golden Dawn]] during the [[Civil War in Goldshire]] and the second by the supporters of [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Lord Adam]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]].<br />
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The Sanitorium, so named as a pun to imply a sanctuary from the lunacy of the surrounding countryside, is fortified by three walls with the fourth side being bounded against the Red Elwynn itself, where an artificial ferroconcrete platform projecting out into the slow flowing waters of the Benacian mega-river constitutes the fourth wall in all but name. The cantonment itself was built on a terraced raised platform of 310,000 cubic metres of concrete, clad with imported limestone, enclosing an area of thirty-eight acres, filling the gap between two mounds, confirmed by archaeologists to be the remnants of ancient settlements dating back 3,000 years pre-Norton. <br />
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The walls, formed of ferroconcrete segments faced and clad by gleaming silver-gilded limestone, reached a height of ten metres capped with an extra two metres of crenellations on top, over each gate set in the walls, corresponding to the points of the compass, north, east, and south, had been set ferroconcrete barbicans clad this time in granite so as to give them an ominous distinction from the walls set behind them. These barbicans rose to a height of twenty-five metres, which is roughly equivalent to three Shirekeep omnibuses stacked one atop of another. It should be recalled however that these walls have been set atop of the retaining walls of the Sanatorium's raised platform which continue for another thirty metres below ground level. <br />
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The dressed stones of the walls, silvered and finely chiselled, have been decorated with a variety of Euran and Benacian cultural motifs, including depictions of the World Serpent, the Benac, the Cedrist Pantheon, and various Shahs and Kaisers shown in the act of ritually dispatching myriads of opponents, usually human or daemonic, thus earning the favour of the gods, whose winged servitors are depicted overhead offering gestures of benediction whilst stylised representations of the various nations of the world prostrate themselves in homage before the fearsome scene of carnage. The barbicans, by contrast, break up the monotony of black granite with veins of gold-leaf laid out in a variety of geometric patterns radiating from the archway of the gate and spiralling upwards along the base of the circular towers. Although the walls and their various towers are mostly decorative rather than practical fighting platforms they do however serve a useful purpose in providing a vantage point for observation over the town and surrounding countryside, as well as facilitating the installation of surveillance equipment, including close-circuit TV cameras, signals monitoring equipment and radio direction finders, along with masts, apparatus, arrays, and apertures belonging to various other undeclared devices.<br />
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Set into the two landward corners of the walls are however two functional buildings particular to the Euran cultural mindset – the circular flaktowers “Dominus” and “Aurangzeb” stand at a height of fifty three metres and mount eight point defence autocannons alongside a vertical launch system for twenty-four interceptor missiles. Each tower has a multi-function dual-face active electronically scanned array radar which can be retracted behind a thick concrete and steel dome for protection. The walls of the towers are four metres thick.<br />
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Although denied, rumours persist, that the visible portion of the Sanatorium is in fact merely the tip of a vast buried ziggurat. These rumours are typically described as fanciful by ESB representatives who point out, not unreasonably, that the Group is not blessed with unlimited cash reserves to splash on dubious vanity projects. <br />
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The internal portion of the Sanatorium, known as the Cantonment, is divided into four portions. The first, comprised of the western projecting platform, is reserved for storage facilities, security offices, and the landing pads for gravimetric vehicles and helicopters. The remainder is organised into concentric layers, the outermost being the residential area comprised of fifteen terraced blocks set amidst a landscaped zone of water features and green squares. The main buildings rise up to seven floors above a podium level which forms a pedestrian concourse connecting the residential area, progressing inwards, to the cultural zone. The heart of the cultural zone is the Noor Madrassa, a school for the children of ESB employees built in the Neo-Babkhan style favoured in Alalehzamin, which also serves as a venue for arts and cultural activities for the entertainment of adult residents. The cultural zone also includes a finishing school for Loyal Subjects of the company, from where ESB employees can identify and select prospective marriage partners upon graduation.<br />
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A portico or colonnaded covered walkway divides the cultural zone from the administrative district, a palace complex built as a basilica with four rows of columns running lengthwise, each made of 40 columns, thus creating three parallel halls, with a central fourteen metres wide hall and two flanking nine metres wide halls, with the central hall being twice as tall as the aisles, at nearly thirty-three metres in height. The whole structure was set amidst walled paradise gardens with discrete alcoves reserved for the pleasures of senior ESB employees.<br />
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==Organisation==<br />
The Group is organised into ten Directorates subordinate to the Board of Directors, these being:<br />
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|-<br />
! scope="col" |Directorate<br />
! scope="col" |Function<br />
! scope="col" |Employees<br />
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|'''Secretariat:'''|| Reports to the Secretary to the Board of Directors. Supporting the Board of Directors of the ESB Group in following the obligations enjoined by the Articles of Association and the Grand Ducal Warrant upon the aforesaid board. Additional duties include the Organisation and Internal Governance of the Group and it's directorates. Prospectors and Observers, both resident and itinerant, report directly to the Secretary of the Board of Directors and thus belong under the Secretariat's Pay-Roll.||1,802<br />
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|'''[[Directorate of Security]]'''||Close Protection of ESB Group corporate officers, personnel and property||14,440<br />
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| '''Directorate of Apollonian Operations'''|| Provision of commodity, logistic, and outsourcing services in Arboria, Saint Andre, and Oranje||12,873<br />
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|'''Directorate of Benacian Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistic, industrial, and outsourcing services in Shireroth, and military and technical advisory support in Kasterburg|| 106,882<br />
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| '''Directorate of Euran Operations''' || Provision of military, logistic, technical, and industrial support services in Constancia and Raspur || 42,904<br />
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|'''Directorate of Keltian Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistical, industrial, military, outsourcing, and technical support services in Caputia, Elijah's Rest (Normark), and Wechua||92,871<br />
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|'''Directorate of Tapferite Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistic, and outsourcing services in Natopia||470<br />
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|'''Tarjeisson Trust'''||Administering the estate and endowments of the late [[Kaiser Dominus]]||804<br />
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|'''Tarjeisson Complex Marriage Trust'''||Administering the estate bestowed upon the wives and children of the late [[Kaiser Dominus]]||30<br />
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|'''Directorate of Financial and Legal Services'''||Provision of financial and legal services, as well as associated consulting services, internally to the Group and externally to select clients||200<br />
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|}<br />
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Former directorates of Commodity Services, Logistic Services, and Outsourcing Services were disbanded in 1662 with their functions being reassigned to the continental operations directorates. <br />
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==Personnel==<br />
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As of 1662 the ESB Group employed 273,076 members of staff, not counting contractors, sub-contractors and short-term hires. <br />
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===Board of Directors===<br />
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! scope="col" | File Photograph<br />
! scope="col" | Director's Name<br />
! scope="col" | Post<br />
! scope="col" | Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Number<br />
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|||[[Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion]]|| Chairman, Director of Benacian Operations & Director of the Tarjeisson Trust ||Modan Hamlet, [[State of Modan]] ||1662-273069<br />
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|||[[Roy Stone]]||Secretary to the Board of Directors||[[Goldshire]]||1662-273070<br />
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|||Timūr al-Osman Taraghay||Director of Security||Raspur||1662-273071<br />
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|[[File:PdA-126.jpg]]||Jaime Augustin Joaquin Primo de Aguilar||Director of Financial and Legal Services||Vey, Constancia||1662-273075<br />
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|||Michael Humphrey||Director of Apollonian Operations||Port Saint Andre, Natopia||1662-273072<br />
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|[[File:S Dravot 1652-23051.png]]||[[Sarah Dravot]]||Director of Euran Operations||Constancia||1652-34051<br />
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|[[File:Merrick 1645-2214.png]]||[[Royston Merrick the Younger]]|| Director of Keltian Operations||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||1645-22140<br />
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|||[[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]]||Director of Tapferite Operations||Lindstrom, Natopia||1662-273073<br />
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|||[[Eliza Carstens]]||Director of the Tarjeisson Complex Marriage Trust||Mohamedion, Alalehzamin||1662-273074<br />
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|[[File:L Dravot 1645-23450.png]]||[[Liv Djupvik|Liv Dravot-Osman]]|| Non-Executive Director ||[[Ardashirshahr]]||1645-23450<br />
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|[[File:R Everstone 1651-13002.png]]||[[Ryker Everstone]]||Non-Executive Director||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1651-33002<br />
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|||[[Ayreon IV|Ayreon IV Kalirion]]||Non-Executive Director||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1662-273068<br />
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|}<br />
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===Notable Employees===<br />
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===Notable Former Employees===<br />
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The mortality rate of the ESB Group has been somewhat higher than might otherwise be expected of a large-scale corporation.<br />
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Reginald Smythe (Employee Number 1635-346), a prospector assigned to the [[Yardistan|Southern Islands]] was kidnapped by the Tegong of [[Jingdao]] and his body mutilated in a manner consistent with an internal bomb blast before his remains were deposited at the scene of a staged suicide bombing in the Imperial Assembly of Epoli. As a consequence of the abduction and murder of one of its employees the ESB Group in late 1635 created the Security Directorate to improve the safety of its workforce, at home and overseas.<br />
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[[Ernst Cryptsinger]] (Employee Number 1634-003), one of the founding partners of the company, Doctor Cryptsinger served as Director of Finance and Outsourcing before becoming [[Martial Law in Goldshire|Martial Law Administrator]] of Goldshire. He was caught in [[Goldshire Hamlet]] when a [[Civil War in Goldshire#Mutiny of the Regulars|mutiny swept the Goldshire Regulars]] and died defending the [[Palace at Goldshire Hamlet]] whilst various heirlooms and artefacts were evacuated by order of [[Queen Noor]].<br />
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In 1641 [[Deimos Jasonides]] (1634-004), Secretary to the Board of Directors and an Admiral in the [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Navy]], perished in a contrived rebel suicide attack[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=538&p=145301#p145301(1)] on the cruiser [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Stricken Ships|ZNS Kaiser Agni I]] as it laid at anchor in [[Imperial Forces#MoMA Station Sabatini|MoMA Station Sabatini]]. [[Thorgils Tarjeisson]], Deimos' employer twice over as Chairman of the ESB and [[MoMA]] of the Ministry of Military Affairs, spared no expense in hiring necromancers in an attempt to resurrect his formerly indispensable factotum; some say it was in order to punish his negligence in leaving a crucial naval base unsecured, others maintain that it was in order to torture from him the details of the secret accounts into which the Secretary had been siphoning misappropriated revenues that rightfully belonged to the ESB group. Both accounts are correct but the attempt was unsuccessful and the bodily remains of Admiral Jasonides were released in preparation of a state funeral, to be held in Shirekeep during the year 1642 AN.<br />
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[[Thorgils Tarjeisson]] (1634-001), the founder and chairman of the ESB Group, rose to fame and power as Kaiser Dominus, however he remained blind to the dangers posed by his allies [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] until virtually the last moment and thus perished miserably, digested into the corporeal form of a [[House of Slurpgurgle|newly manifested daemon]], during the [[Oustfest Massacre]].<br />
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[[Laqi Hyrrion]] (dec'd) (1634-902), notable, if not infamous, as the Itinerant Observer dispatched by the ESB Group to gather and transmit back to Teldrin any designs and or discoveries that might advance the economic interests of the Group. Although he scored notable early successes that advanced Shirerithian submarine designs by a generation, he was quickly discovered and compromised by the Minarborian authorities. Although useless for the purposes of corporate espionage, Laqi was nonetheless able to establish himself on the fringes of Minarborean polite society, obtaining a certain degree of notoriety as the first Revenant to install a putrefact into his own body for the purpose of rediscovering the joys of digestion. Subsequently dispatched to [[Dietsland]] on Imperial Service where he rose to the rank of Dux in the Imperial Army and advising the Confederacy of Puritanian States through the offices of the [[Puritanian Guidance Authority]] which he was instrumental in creating. Deposed in a local coup organised by [[Waldemar Zinkgraven]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]] he was butchered and decapitated by the mutineers; subsequently his head was retained by Waldemar as a memento of the occasion. It is unknown whether Laqi, as a Revenant rather than a Lich, will ever regenerate.<br />
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[[Marcellus Paixhans]] (1635-01003), First Director of the groups Euran Directorate, a noted inventor and naval engineer - responsible for the design and manufacture of improvised weapons systems such as the ''infernal machines'' (floating mines) and armoured land cruisers which helped the Constancian Home Guard to successfully resist the full onslaught of a Jingdaoese invasion. Murdered along with his wife in separatist riots which swept Nivardom in 1648.<br />
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The company's typing pool is rumoured to be running a sweepstake on which of the directors will survive to retirement or die of natural causes.<br />
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[[Daniyal Dravot]] (1634-002), Thorgil's successor as Chairman, succumbed to the effects of a severe intracerebral haemorrhage whilst praying in the Sanctum of Malabor, located in the [[Yoni Temple]] complex of [[Modan-Lach]]. His retainers were able to rush the stricken Chairman to the temple's on-site clinic, but Dravot was declared clinically dead whilst doctors were attempting a dural puncture in order to conduct an extraventricular drain.<br />
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[[Huldah Llynadorion]] (1634-148), former Resident Observer in the then Duchy of Raikoth, and subsequently Secretary to the Board of Directors and Director of Financial Services, was the first notable employee of the Group to reach an age where she could, prudently perhaps, elect for early retirement. A discrete and remarkably uncontroversial servant of the company it is said that she learned from the example of Laqi Hyrrion at an early stage the importance of maintaining a low profile. Her refusal to engage in the internecine factional in-fighting so beloved of other members of the board enabled her to maintain her position as secretary to the board. Similarly her discretion ensured that she continued to be entrusted with the Group's complex and deliberately opaque finances. A trusted confident of Daniyal Dravot during his lifetime, based on shared reminiscences of their respective experiences of working alongside the ''"characterful"'' revenant Laqi Hyrron, Huldah was known to disapprove of his second wife and found the tenure of Liv as Chairwoman of the Group to have been an ordeal. Llynadorion's success in transferring the title deeds to key assets offshore, via financial vehicles such as the Gainshare Capital Holdings company registered in Raspur, proved instrumental, along with a series of gun battles between the ESB Security Directorate and Imperial Marshals in Teldrin and Shirekeep, in thwarting an attempt by the [[Ministry of the Interior]] to confiscate the capital and infrastructure assets of the company during the [[Elwynnese Civil War]]. For this diligence she received a commendation from the board and the keys to a villa on the island of [[Amity]] to where she retired in 1662 following twenty-eight years in company service.<br />
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==Subsidiaries==<br />
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! scope="col" |Company Name<br />
! scope="col" |Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" |Activity<br />
! scope="col" |Estimated revenues<br />
! scope="col" |Parent Directorate<br />
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|Amity Shipyards Ltd||[[Erudition]], [[Jadid Khaz Modan]]||Shipbuilding||.||.<br />
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|Teldrin Mint||.||.||.||.<br />
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|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin and Constancia||Eura||Universal and commercial banking, financial services||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
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|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
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|The Tarjeisson Foundation||.||.||.||.<br />
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|ESB Group (Keltia)||.||.||.||.<br />
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|Atacama Corporation||Eura||Consulting and property management||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate in partnership with Oranjesion Private Equity Capital & Thema Oranjesion<br />
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|Raspur Airport Ltd||Eura||Airport operations and facilities management||.||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
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|ESB-MPFR Fisheries & Commerce Protection Squadron||Eura||Inspection, verification, testing and certification services, fisheries and commerce protection||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==Current contracts==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
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! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
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|Teldrin Trade Monopoly||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||Kingdom of Goldshire||Monopoly on all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin||1634||In perpetuity subject to per annum remittance of ten percent of all profits to the Crown<br />
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|Royal Government of Goldshire||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]||Public Administration||1635||In perpetuity, subject to Royal discretion<br />
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|Amity Ports Authority Ltd||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Emirate of [[MASS|Amity, Mirioth & So-Sara]]||Construction and civil administration of the dockyards operated by the Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||1635||12 Elw Years with options to lease back facilities. Now operated in partnership with [[House of Osman|House of Osman GmBH]]. <br />
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|Shrubway (Shireroth) Ltd||No Fixed Value||Financial Services ||Church of Minarbor/Third State Arbour (Empire of Minarboria)||Franchising authority for vendors of the Shrubway fast-food chain in the Imperial Republic of Shireroth||1635||Wholly owned following the demise of the Church of Minarbor.<br />
|-<br />
|Port and Harbour Operations and Management, Eura||No Fixed Value||Euran Operations Directorate||Government of the Free and Associative Kingdom of [[Constancia]]||Construction, Operations Management, and devolved Customs and Excise Services||1655||20 Elw Years<br />
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|}<br />
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==Former business activities==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
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|Teldrin Mint|| 12.2M Teldrin Thalers (Th)||Financial Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin|| Production and Circulation of [[Teldrin Thaler|Teldrin Thalers]] ||1634|| Expired 1644. Continues as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Teldrin Transport Docks Board Ltd||2.795M Th||Logistic Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin||Management of Teldrin Dock & Associated Warehouses||1634||Expired 1641. Reverted to local authority control.<br />
|-<br />
|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||400M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]||Banking Services to the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia||1634|| Expired 1644. Operated as wholly owned subsidiary. Divested in 1661 to [[Gainshare Capital Holdings]]. <br />
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|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||16M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of Alalehzamin & Utasia||Management of the 400M Th Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Emirate||1634||Contract expired 1654. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Boat Yards of Teldrin Ltd||3.96B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]|| In-Service Maintenance of the eleven [[Duchy Class Destroyer|Duchy Class]] Destroyers of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1655.<br />
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|Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||3.48B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]||Construction and In-Service Maintenance of the three [[Poltroon Class Submarines]] of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1647<br />
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|County of Ran Public Insurance & Cudgelling Ltd||2M Th||Outsourcing Services||[[Thorgils Tarjeisson|Count of Ran]]||Property Insurance, Public Administration, Emergency Services and Law Enforcement||1636||Ended in 1640 with loss of Ran to rebel forces during [[Civil War in Goldshire]].<br />
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|South Sea (Ura'Bos) Company Ltd ||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||The [[Kaiser]]||Plantation of a Colony onto the Imperial Dominion of [[Ura'Bos]] for the purpose of trade with [[Natopia]]||1636||In perpetuity, subject to Imperial oversight.<br />
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|ESB Imports||17.9B Th||Commodity Services||[[Imperial Forces]]<br>[[Union Defence Force]]<br>[[Goldshire Regulars]]||The reassembly, reverse engineering and unlicensed reproduction of military hardware acquired from [[wikipedia:wikipedia|sources of dubious veracity]].||1649||Terminated by [[Shirerithian Supplies Service]] following anti-corruption investigation conducted by the [[Chamber of the Crypteia]].<br />
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|[[Cedrocomando S.A.]]||39.5B Erb||Outsourcing Services||[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]||The creation of the Cedrocomando Security Force within the Shirerithian Condominium of Greater Tellia.||1641||Ended 1651. Incorporated into [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
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|}<br />
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==History==<br />
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Some jurisdictions have questioned the presence of paid Observers in their ports - considering them to be either a nuisance on a par with impertinent news correspondents or else as poorly disguised practitioners of industrial espionage. <br />
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Although the ESB-Jörmungandr Group has no openly declared rivals its monopoly on trade with Teldrin is not favourably thought of by would-be competitors. This, together with encouraging the River Trade bound between Shirekeep and Musica on the Red Elwynn to accept hospitality at Teldrin and for their [[Erb]] to be exchanged for Thalers in the pubs, hotels and brothels of the town whilst the goods they carried were repackaged for export under the ESB label, for which a fee was charged, has been considered by some to amount to sharp practice.<br />
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By operating the Teldrin Mint the ESB-Jörmungandr Group is also reported to have incurred the enmity of the [[Assayers]] of the Avakair Mint who consider the project to be little more than a systematic attempt to debase and supplant the hallowed gold-standard of currencies with worthless fiat money.<br />
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===Operation Ithaca===<br />
[[File:Vey Expedition.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">A ESB-Jörmungandr chartered cargo plane landing at Vey International Airport</div> ]]<br />
Operation Ithaca commenced in 1636 when the ESB-Jörmungandr Group received a licence from the Basileusa of Constancia to mount an expedition to the city of Vey in the interior of the Euran Continent, for the purposes of examining a ruined Babkhan ziggurat as part of the Secretariat's ongoing Industrial Archaeology Programme - which focused primarily on salvaging technology from the many ruined civilisations of Micras. This expedition also marked the first overseas deployment of the Directorate of Security, to provide close protection for the archaeologists, at a time of heightened tensions between [[Jingdao]] and Constancia.<br />
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There were however critics of the operation who maintained that it served primarily as a cover for quasi-covert deliveries of weapons, munitions and spares, as well as technical experts and advisers to prop-up the Constancian Armed Forces during their war with the Empire of Jingdao.[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Arms_imports(1)]<br />
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Furthermore the Euran War had, during the course of 1636, to eat away at the otherwise very healthy profit margins of the organisation. Leading to some internal discussion within the organisation as to whether the growth orientated business model was being undermined by increasingly political considerations. <br />
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The ESB Group neither confirmed nor denied that the disturbances on Walstadt in 1636[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Disturbances_in_Walstadt(2)], which resulted in the sinking of an ESB owned barque - the Seahawk, was a cover for an attempt on the life of the Jingdaoese Emperor. The Emperor, it should be noted, was siezed by a mob and decapitated by persons unknown, during the course of the brief tumult.<br />
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===Paramilitary Activities===<br />
[[File:ESB Security.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Contractors from the ESB's [[Directorate of Security]] on patrol in downtown [[Teldrin]]. </div> ]]<br />
After rivalries with the Assayers degenerated into [[Civil War in Goldshire|open warfare]], the ESB Group became heavily involved with trying to prop up the Royal Government after it lost control of [[Lunaris]], [[Elsenar]] and [[Ran]]. In so doing it was also directly implicated in the takeover of [[Amity]] and [[Yardistan]] by the faction of the [[Political Parties of Elwynn|Nationalist & Humanist Party]] led by [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]] and the foundation of the [[Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan]].<br />
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In addition to the Directorate of Security, the ESB has also been involved in providing logistical and tactical support to the [[Jaysh al-Sathrati]] and in establishing the [[Cedrocomando S.A.|''Cedrocomando'']] private military company (PMC).<br />
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===The Kaisership===<br />
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The apogee of the ESB Group's power and influence in the Imperial Republic was seemingly reached in 1642 when its Chairman, ideally positioned after a relatively successful tenure as [[Minister of Military Affairs]], unexpectedly acceded to the throne as [[Kaiser Dominus]].<br />
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===After the Oustfest===<br />
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In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], the position of chairman of the Group was passed, in accordance with the Kaiser's last will and testament, to [[Daniyal Dravot]], the surviving director from the founding trio of the company.<br />
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After the death of Daniyal in 1656 effective control of the Group passed to his wife [[Liv Dravot]] after a bare minimum of skulduggery amongst the directors.<br />
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In 1659 the ESB Group negotiated the largest slave purchase in history, purchasing the right to the entire [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Black_Travellers#Foreign_interest Black Traveller] community from the [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Krasnarus Khanate of Krasnarus] for four trillion Erb ($62M). The entire debt servicing edifice of the Group strained to absorb the cost of the acquisition, but, at the stroke of a pen, the ESB Group had found the pool of manual labourers required for its programme of works on the Euran Continent. <br />
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==Corporate rituals of the ESB==<br />
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The corporate culture of the ESB Group encourages employees to dedicate themselves to its cause as a lifelong venture and to give their lives willingly for the Honourable Company should the circumstances necessitate it. It follows then that the ESB has built up a considerable corpus of rituals and lore, fused with certain more material incentives, designed to engender the utmost loyalty from those in its service.<br />
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===ESB Martyrology===<br />
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From the Euran War to the various civil conflicts in Shireroth as well as the dangers inherent in the literally cutthroat competition with such rival conglomerates such as the Octavyan Imports Company and the Iron Company a great many of the ESB's employees, shareholders, business partners, and associates have been called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice. In contrast to the blatant sanguinary cynicism which pervades the Imperial service, the ESB takes a care to honour its dead with appropriate gratitude and due ceremony. <br />
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New entrants into the company begin their indoctrination from almost the beginning of their training. The story of the Industrial Archaeology Expedition to Vey, and its role in turning the tide of the Euran War, is held up as the shining example for its members to aspire to emulate in their work, at whatever level they serve. A somewhat hagiographic account of the life of [[Marcellus Paixhans]], the first Director of Euran Operations, is given to new employees as a strand that runs throughout their induction, and a theatrical account of his last stand and death at the hands of a rebel mob in Nivardom is shown on cinema night during the recruits' "decompression week" at the mid point in their basic training.<br />
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Moreover the junior employees of the ESB Group, as they finish their apprenticeships and probationary periods receive, along with their "commissioning scrolls", given in person by a member of the Board of Directors or a suitably senior deputy, a copy of the "ESB Book of Martyrs" listing those who the company deem to be the famous and or meritorious dead.<br />
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Nor does the ESB Group permit those ensconsed in the comfort of its corporate headquarters - the Sanitorium in [[Teldrin]] - to forget the sacrifices of those made in it is name by employees on the distant frontiers and in forgotten backwater ports. Martyred shareholder ritual: Shareholders attend in mourning clothes, entrance to a dirge, the meeting is solemnly called to order, the sad news is read, the bell is rung, hats are doffed and bows given to each individual name, then an adjournment.<br />
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In the lobby, more names are engraved, with a Zurvanite ritual of reading over the bones of the martyrs, inducting the fallen into their company, to be held in the side chapel for those who wish to attend.<br />
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An eternal flame is maintained in the Sanitorium, over the site of the ossuary and shareholders' crypt, with a ceremonial guard drawn from the ESB-Jagdverbande and the Jaysh al-Sathrati in continuous vigil at all hours of the day.<br />
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During the annual meetings, when the name of a departed shareholder is called, the corporate remembrancer replies in a loud voice, "Present, in spirit!"<br />
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[[Category:Goldshire]][[Category:Elwynn]][[Category:Shirekeep]][[Category:ESB-Jörmungandr Group]][[Category:Companies]]</div>Primo de aguilarhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Goldshire&diff=38363Goldshire2019-01-28T13:13:33Z<p>Primo de aguilar: /* Civil War */</p>
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<div>{{subdivision Goldshire|<br />
image_flag = Bigflag-goldshire.png | <br />
coat of arms = Goldshireseal5427.png|<br />
subdivision = Kingdom of Goldshire |<br />
motto = ''Aurea, et invicta!'' |<br />
status = Imperial State |<br />
capital = [[Goldshire Hamlet]] |<br />
largecity = [[Demonsfall]], Mesior, Kingsgate, C.R., Avaldsnes |<br />
government = ''[[Yastrebian Autocracy]]'' |<br />
leader = ''[[Ryker]]'' |<br />
title = ''King'' |<br />
language = [[Shirithian English]], [[Praeta]] |<br />
religion = [[Cedrism]], Folk Mysticism, Suthra, [[Zurvanism]] |<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Kingdom of Goldshire''' is one of [[Shireroth]]'s two founding [[Duchy|Duchies]], and is its oldest named territory. Despite being demoted or dissolved numerous times throughout Shirerithian history, it survives to the present day, becoming ever more notable for holding onto certain ''[[B0O0/\/\ism|ancient beliefs]]'' and building intentionally confounding infrastructure in a paranoid effort to dissuade invasion.<br />
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==Origins==<br />
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Goldshire has been a thoroughfare and battleground for competing neighbors for most of its history, beginning with an ancient tussle between the [[Treesia|Treesians]] and the Khaz Modani for control of its coastline, themselves in competition with natives (reported variously as fairies, elves, and other pseudohumans) from the Goldshirian interior. From this struggle, the Treesians eventually prevailed and established the first effective rule across the whole of Goldshire. Their dominance was short-lived, however, as their success attracted the eyes of Raynor, [[Duke]] of [[Brookshire]], who set about incoporating Goldshire into his own realm by force. At this he was eventually sucessful, establishing a united realm of Brookshire and Goldshire called Shireroth, with himself at its head as [[Raynor I]]. He remained in Goldshire for a time, directing his armies in the entrenchment of his rule despite a rude interruption from the Legions of [[Balgurd]] under [[Rrakanychan]], who Raynor legendarily subdued and enslaved to his cause. This entire foundational period of Goldshirian history can be appreciated fully in the writings of Duke Wintersong, named [[The Five Woes of Ynnraile]].<br />
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==Rulers==<br />
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[[File:Goldshireseal.png | thumb | Old Seal of the Duchy of Goldshire.]]<br />
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Under Shirerithian rule Goldshire has played host to various outsiders' wars, a disproportional amount of them involving the forces of [[Babkha]] or [[Babkhi]] [[Rulers of Elwynn|rulers]] of [[Elwynn]], who seemed to favour Goldshire's open and relatively featureless terrain as a strategic corridor in both the attack and defence of Shirekeep. Between these episodic interventions and absorptions into neighbouring territories (most often Brookshire) Goldshire nonetheless exhibited an intermittent shine under certain eminent rulers. Duchess Jadie codified much of the Goldshirian aesthetic and culture, alongside Duke Erutirn who established Goldshire's first full-time professional military. [[Baron]] Wintersong of Ynnraile (later Duke of all Goldshire) gave perhaps more than any other to the artistic and social growth of Goldshire, by way of his record-keeping and storytelling. Duke [[Aryeztur Mejorkhor]], while ushering an era of nigh-on genocidal cultural alteration (later diverted to [[Aryasht]]) that isn't much talked about and was mostly reverted, nonetheless made lasting contributions such as the expansion of the Goldshire Palace and the development of Goldshire's half of the River Elwynn Delta. The Dukes [[Wythe]] were the fathers of Goldshirian academia, founding the University of Goldshire in Wendor. Duke Harvey, being in charge of Goldshire more than once, has also done stuff too minor to name but too important to ignore. The Dukes Yastreb (Krasniy and [[Kaiser Mo'll|Ryabin]]), a clan of mild slavic extraction and some Treesian descent whose tenures had mostly been focused on developing the institutions of Goldshirian state and putting an end to the Duchy's history as a mere carpeted floor for passing megalomaniacs. [[Ryker|Ryker Everstone]] a Count-turned-Duke-turned-Grand Duke-turned-King who jumps in and out of Goldshirean politics like it's a cold swimming pool. Grand Duchess Kizzy Drakland, who began reforms that would help cement the state's image as a regional power. And Queen Noor, who saw Goldshire through its civil war and laid the groundwork for Goldshire to build many of it's outdated features anew.<br />
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It should be noted that record taking (let alone keeping) could rarely be called one of Goldshire's strong points. More recent efforts to collect and organize what records do exist have been met with varying degrees of success with one such effort being the "The Grand Timeline of Goldshirian History".[https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=538&t=12330]<br />
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==Geography==<br />
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Goldshire is separated by the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] from most of [[Benacia]], and comprises the entire Eastern (aka Western, for some hidden reason of tradition unsolved by this author) coast of that continent. This easy access to riverine and oceanic waters has placed Goldshire in a natural position as a mercantile hub, aided by its substantial natural gold deposits and resultant specialism in the field of currency and bullion. Goldshire is divided into five Counties administered along feudal lines: [[Elsyran]], a federation comprised of [[Ran]], [[Elsenar]], and [[Syrelwynn]] and hosts the state capitol of [[Goldshire Hamlet]]; [[Ynnraile]] a backwater county filled with crime and demons turned military juggernaut filled with crime and slightly less demons; [[Lunaris]], the oldest subdivision of Goldshire and a cherished artistic paradise; [[Suthergold]], a once barren and ignored land which has grown into a peaceful society powered by steam and the arcane; and [[Wintergleam]], a county that ran away from home for about a century to "find itself" whatever that means.<br />
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Most Goldshirian settlements are villages or small towns, with the exception of a few large Western (Eastern?) cities such as Goldshire Hamlet, Kingsgate, Cortallia-Rathwood, Demonsfall, and Mesior. The topography is largely rolling temperate hill country, flattening to bocage plains in the southeast.<br />
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==Government==<br />
[[File:GSMapBorderTemplate1.png|315px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">The provincial map of continental Goldshire as it was in the year 1652 AN .</div> ]]<br />
Goldshire is ruled by the Sovereign with absolute authority. More practically, the ruling monarch assigns the routine governance of portions of the Kingdom to the Counts who may be appointed by the crown. The government concerns itself with the Kingdom's strategic direction, the running of the High Council and liaison with the Shirerithian Imperial government. The largest single institution is the military, which although farmed out to the County Militias in large parts remains combined within a single command structure. Intelligence for the ruling King or Queen is gathered by a secretive organisation called the [[Assayers]], a relic of the ancient Mercaja dynasty operating nominally as a supervisory office of the Avakair Mint and Bullion Depository. Unfortunately the Assayers are irreverent toward all power including the sovereign, and operate entirely unregulated under their own agenda. Their relationship to the King or Queen of the day is thus complicated and at times downright unreliable, and all attempts to bring them into line have resulted in unfortunate 'consequences' for those involved.<br />
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Statute law in Goldshire is written either by Decree or added to the Codex Aureus, Goldshire's unified statute established by Duke Wintersong. While the power to create or amend said statutes resides solely with the sovereign, it is traditionally done so with the High Council and the reception of petitioners.<br />
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The [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]] of Teldrin received a warrant from Queen Noor authorising the company to begin taking on many of the routine and mundane functions of government on behalf of the Throne, whilst the [[Royal Iron Company]] received a warrant to conduct mining operations in Amity, Elsenar and Ynnraile and permission to export the extracted raw materials via the cities of [[Chryste]], [[Erudition]] and [[New Harbor]], subject to the payment of appropriate tariffs to the Imperial and Royal Governments. With the descent of the Kingdom into civil war, the RIC began to interpret this warrant as granting rights of governance over the designated export ports; a presumption that the warring factions would be unlikely to tolerate, had they not more immediate and pressing concerns.<br />
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===Civil War===<br />
'''Main Articles''': [[Martial Law in Goldshire]], [[Civil War in Goldshire]], [[Warring States Period]]<br />
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The [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]] steadily accrued power within the Royal Government to the point when in 1637 it received the powers of the office of the Chancellor to hold in commission on behalf of the crown. This, together with an increase in the Elw-Babkhi influence within the Kingdom led to an eventual, perhaps inevitable, showdown with the [[Assayers]] - the notoriously secretive Chamber of Assay for the Avakair Mint which had evolved over the centuries into an increasingly rogue freelance intelligence agency with occult pretensions. The Assayers took the part of the nativist sentiment of indigenous Goldshirians, indignant at the daily increasing Babkhano-Elw domination of their ancient homeland, the last bastion of true [[Cedrism]] in all of Shireroth. Thus it was that, in the crisis that ensued after the assassination of two royal princes, the sons of Queen [[Noor]], the Royal Government lashed out at the Assayers, including them amongst the general proscription of disloyal and suspect individuals and agencies. Inevitably the Assayers were forced, for the first time in their history, into open revolt, and a state of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|Martial Law]] was declared, plunging Goldshire into turmoil.<br />
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In 1639/6230 Goldshire was divided into three zones, the ESB Zone administered directly by the company reporting to the Royal Government, the Feudal Zone where existing lords rendered obedience to the [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Khan of Cabbagefall]], and the two Military Zones (North and South) directly controlled by the [[Imperial Forces]] dispatched to assist the Royal Government.<br />
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The first phase of open [[Civil War in Goldshire|civil war]] lasted until the latter half of 1640 and the fall of Goldshire Hamlet to mutinous troops in 1640, after which point the Kingdom [[Warring States Period|fragmented into three warring states]]<br />
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Peace was declared in 1643.<br />
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==Culture==<br />
[[File:GSEthnicity.png|315px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Ethnographic map of continental Goldshire as it was in the year 1653 AN .</div> ]]<br />
Goldshirian culture, if such a unified thing can be said to exist, is largely agrarian laced with a mild to moderate mysticism. This paves the way for the Treesian, slightly oriental but thoroughly [[Cedrist]] manner of much of central Goldshire, giving way to more localized quirks and customs in the far reaches of Lunaris and Suthergold. The creative and aesthetic virtues are, at least ostensibly, more prominently valued in Goldshire than in some other parts of the Imperial Republic, or at least so it is alleged. <br />
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While Goldshire traditionally had a well-developed noble class, the welfare of the common citizen is of chief concern: the fate of the common folk is said to be the fate of the Imperial State. A high degree of autonomy was assigned to the Counties where it could be applied more relevantly to the population, and the Goldshirian military was a strictly feudal arrangement comprised of a small professional elite leading a massive swathe of irregular militias. Much of this arrangement however was swept away in the civil war, with power slipping from the Royal Government, the nobility and the counties into the hands of militia groups backing, however tenuously, the respective claims of either the House of Merjaca or the House of Ayreon-Kalirion to the throne. After the dust settled, King Ryker revamped the military and placed himself in a position of more centralized authority, particularly following his purge of Goldshire's lesser nobility.<br />
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One effect of the conflict has however been to galvanise the sense of a Goldshire nationhood, imperiled by the perfidious Elw from the north, and to revive the Cedrist faith that had, otherwise, come to be increasingly marginalized in the modern era. Ironically the ''Treesianoid'' House of Merjaca has been obliged to embrace Cedrism in the cause of resisting an Elwynnese dynasty whose [[Church of Elwynn|faith]] was steeped in the traditions of [[Treesian Unorthodoxy|Treesian religion]].<br />
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Since the end of the Warring States Period and particularly following the draft beginning in the War of Lost Brothers, Goldshire has undergone a transformation into a more martial culture focused on protecting the Kingdom from Storish and Jing influences as well as creating a sort of mandatory education system in the for of military training. This rapid and penetrating force of military training has caused unique cultural shifts in the younger generations of the Kingdom, with prime examples being found in language and fashion which have both adopted and modified various militaristic elements.<br />
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==Demographics==<br />
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Census 1656:<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Subdivision !! Citizens !! Denizens !! Loyal Subjects !! Community Servitors !! <br />
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! Crowsilver<br />
| 20,027 || 2,770,000 || 333,248 || 352,085 || 3,475,360<br />
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! Elsyran<br />
| 203,886 || 20,346,856 || 2,172,182 || 861,824 || 23,584,748<br />
|-<br />
! Holwinn<br />
| 67,663 || 8,936,977 || 771,750 || 352,110 || 10,128,500<br />
|-<br />
! Lunaris<br />
| 70,084 || 7,220,283 || 4,684,194 || 2,304,667 || 14,279,228<br />
|-<br />
! Suthergold<br />
| 208,882 || 19,728,215 || 1,341,088 || 352,544 || 21,630,729<br />
|-<br />
! Wintergleam<br />
| 29,129 || 3,050,702 || 2,253,376 || 2,160,934 || 7,494,141<br />
|-<br />
! Total<br />
| 599,671 || 62,053,033 || 11,555,838 || 6,384,164 || 80,592,706<br />
|}<br />
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[[category:Goldshire]]</div>Primo de aguilarhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octavius&diff=38253Octavius2018-12-18T15:54:27Z<p>Primo de aguilar: /* Genetic Profiles */</p>
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<div>'''The House of Octavius''' is a noble house with imperial immediacy within the Imperial Republic of Shireroth. The house originated in [[Antica]], first as Kings in Kaikias, then as the Dinarchs of the Octavian Line within the Antican Empire. Its royal and noble status was lost when Antica became a republic.<br />
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The House of Octavius was refounded in Shireroth by [[Kaiser Aiomide |Aiomide Oqtavion]], whose uncle had been the last Dinarch of the Octavian Line. It is currently invested as the ruling dynasty of the [[Kezan|County Palatine of Kezan]].<br />
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==History==<br />
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===Royal House of Octavius===<br />
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The original house were the descendants of ''Octauos of Dioskourias'' (''Οκταυος Διοσκουριαδος''), a baron of that city. He was chosen to become King in the Lands of the Kaikiates as a compromise candidate between the powerful Kolophon and the Soloi Factions. It was assumed that, without a significant power base, King Octauos would be easily controlled. Instead, he was able to pit the various factions against one another. His son and grandson were able to consolidate this into a centralized monarchy with large concessions to the nobility.<br />
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During the Unification Wars, the Kings in Kaikias allied with the Kings in Phedodah to conquer the ascendant Aquilarian League. After subduing Aquilaria itself, the two royal lines used their alliance and shared rule over the Platea to eliminate enemies and consolidate power in their home territories, transforming the various Antican polities into an autocratic dual monarchy.<br />
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======Christopher Octavius======<br />
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The last Dinarch of the Octavian Line, Christopher Octavius, sided with the republican movement that overwhelmed the Antican Empire in its twilight years. He would become a statesman in the First Republic, the Commonwealth, and the Second Republic, serving as a senior member of several administrations over the years.<br />
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Christopher Octavius maintained a strained relationship with the remainder of his family, who had remained staunchly monarchist. In his later years, he developed a strong bond with his niece, Zoe Octavia, whom he cultivated into a noble republican and had made his sole heir as Head of House Octavius.<br />
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Christopher Octavius was killed in the turmoil that ended the Second Republic.<br />
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===The Wilderness===<br />
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At the time of the fall of the Second Antican Republic, Zoe Octavia had been serving as a diplomatic attaché to the Antican delegation to [[Elwynnese Union]] and had married Azarja Kalirion-Alnavion, a minor noble from [[Wintergleam]] and cadet member of the [[Line of Kalir]]. As the Antican population began to flee its home territories, Zoe Octavia became involved in founding the ''Antican Diaspora Society'' to help facilitate migration into friendly territories, such as Elwynn, Shireroth, and Natopia and to advocate international support for the post-Antican states.<br />
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======[[Kaiser Aiomide |Aiomide Oqtavion]] (Аїомидє Оћтавион)======<br />
[[File:Aiomide0.png]] [[File:Aiomide1.png]] [[File:Aiomide2.png]] [[File:Aiomide3.png]]<br />
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Sole child of Zoe Octavia and Azarja Kalirion-Alnavion, inheriting lordship of the defunct House Octavius from the former and membership in the [[Line of Kalir]] by the latter.<br />
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Member of the Elwynnese nobility, appointed to the Elwynnese Senate in 1583 AN, appointed to study what would become known as the [[Cabbage Crisis]] and send to the Landsraad to advocate a declaration of emergency. Elevated to the Mango Throne by the Landsraad following the abdication of [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Minor]].<br />
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Resolved the [[Cabbage Crisis]] at great loss of life, broke from the [[Line of Kalir]] to create the [[Line of Octavius]], refounded the '''House of Octavius''' as a new noble house in Shireroth and established the [[Kezan|County Palatine of Kezan]] as the house's seat.<br />
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Made into a lich to avoid dying from terminal cancer, abdicated after becoming trapped in [[Balgurd]], gained a restored body while remaining bound to the Aiomide Phylactery, successfully escaped Balgurd. Whereabouts unknown.<br />
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===House of Octavius (Refounded)===<br />
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In [[Imperial Decree 635]], Kaiser Aiomide declared a new imperial bloodline separated from the [[Line of Kalir]] and disavowed Elwynnese nationality. The new bloodline was named the [[Line of Octavius]]. Simultaneously, the House of Octavius was reconstituted as a noble house.<br />
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In [[Imperial Decree 636]], the imperial states were asked for genetic stock, secretly due the fact that Aiomide was infertile (having pure gonadal dysgenesis), in order to construct a new genetic profile for the reborn house. Twelve of the forty-seven candidates were chosen to become major contributors and used to construct five profile clusters.<br />
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The House of Octavius assumed its role as the ruling dynasty in Kezan in 1608 AN.<br />
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==Current Structure==<br />
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House Octavius is organized into five branches of equal standing. Each branch is led internally on a cooperative basis by its adult membership.<br />
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Nominally, lordship of House Octavius is held by '''Mira of Octavius-Aryani''', who also bears the title of ''Count Palatine of Kezan''. In this combined role, Mira speaks for the house and for Kezan in external political matters. The household itself is managed by '''Fairuza of Octavius-Parini''', who acts as its ''Caretaker''. Several other members oversee designated aspects of the household as well.<br />
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House Octavius is heavily intertwined with the government and society of Kezan: each branch tasked with managing one of the five ''Honours'', maintaining a court of equity within each, and owning, in whole or in part, large portions of the Kezanese corporate economy; the Executive Council is composed of the leading members of each house branch; etc.<br />
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Membership in House Octavius is defined according to mitochondrial descent from the founder, '''Aiomide Oqtavion'''. Master genetic profiles are maintained for each generation, with additional profiles produced over time. There are currently twenty five master profiles.<br />
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Each generation is produced after a five-year long genetic profile workup to test and implement revisions to the profiles before being birthed using artificial wombs. All members are given a hormonal implant to suppress fertility; this implant can be removed should continuity of the house be threatened and future generations need to be produced through conventional means. Maintenance and management of this cycle currently falls under the authority of the Chief Physician for the Household, '''Erika of Octavius-Leilani'''. <br />
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===Branches===<br />
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{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center<br />
|-<br />
!<br />
! Aryani<br />
! Adelaidini<br />
! Leilani<br />
! Parini<br />
! Teleni<br />
|-<br />
! Gen I<br />1602 AN<br />
| <br />
* Mira<br />
* Aina<br />
| <br />
* Heidi<br />
* Erin<br />
|<br />
* Jamie<br />
* Erika<br />
|<br />
* Fairuza<br />
|<br />
* Isidora<br />
|-<br />
! Gen II<br />1617 AN<br />
| <br />
* <span style="color:grey">Mira</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Aina</span><br />
* Kumari<br />
| <br />
* <span style="color:grey">Heidi</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Erin</span><br />
* Sadie<br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Jamie</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Erika</span><br />
* Tabitha<br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Fairuza</span><br />
* Robin<br />
* Soraya<br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Isidora</span><br />
* Bernice<br />
* Alba<br />
|-<br />
! Gen III<br />1632 AN<br />
| <br />
* <span style="color:grey">Mira</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Aina</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Kumari</span><br />
* Nila<br />
* Rina<br />
| <br />
* <span style="color:grey">Heidi</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Erin</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Sadie</span><br />
* Bess<br />
* Rose<br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Jamie</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Erika</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Tabitha</span><br />
* Leah<br />
* Bethany<br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Fairuza</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Robin</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Soraya</span><br />
* Sara<br />
* Nasrin<br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Isidora</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Bernice</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Alba</span><br />
* Joanne<br />
* Katharine<br />
|-<br />
! Gen IV<br />1647 AN<br />
| <br />
* <span style="color:grey">Mira</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Aina</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Kumari</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Nila</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Rina</span><br />
| <br />
* <span style="color:grey">Heidi</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Erin</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Sadie</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Bess</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Rose</span><br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Jamie</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Erika</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Tabitha</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Leah</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Bethany</span><br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Fairuza</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Robin</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Soraya</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Sara</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Nasrin</span><br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Isidora</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Bernice</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Alba</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Joanne</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Katharine</span><br />
|-<br />
! Gen V<br />1662 AN<br />
| <br />
* <span style="color:grey">Mira</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Aina</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Kumari</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Nila</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Rina</span><br />
| <br />
* <span style="color:grey">Heidi</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Erin</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Sadie</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Bess</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Rose</span><br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Jamie</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Erika</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Tabitha</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Leah</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Bethany</span><br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Fairuza</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Robin</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Soraya</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Sara</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Nasrin</span><br />
|<br />
* <span style="color:grey">Isidora</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Bernice</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Alba</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Joanne</span><br />
* <span style="color:grey">Katharine</span><br />
|}<br />
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<small>'''''Generation I''': original eight genetic profiles and gene library, produced by Dr Amos Rubinsky, the physician for [[Kaiser Aiomide]], in [[Raynor's Keep]]. Aged an additional ~23 years due to [[Temporal Haemorrhaging]].''</small><br />
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<small>'''''Generation II''': First generation born in [[Kezan]]. Daemonic Susceptibility genes removed from Adelaidini cluster.''</small><br />
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==Genetic Profiles==<br />
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{| class=wikitable style="width: 450px"<br />
|- style=text-align:center<br />
! rowspan=3 style="width: 120px" | [[File:MiraOA.png]]<br />
! <span id="Mira_Octavius-Aryani">[[Mira Octavius-Aryani]]</span><br />
|-<br />
! Count Palatine of Kezan<br />Lord of House Octavius<br />
|-<br />
| <small>''Mira I:''<br />
* Regent to [[Kaiser Aiomide]], 1607-1608 AN<br />
* Voice of Aiomide, 1608-1637 AN<br />
* Prætor, 1612-1615 AN<br />
* Interior Minister to [[Kaiser Dominus]], 1642-1644 AN<br />
* Died during [[Oustfest Massacre]], 1644 AN</small><br />
<small>''Mira II:''<br />
* Prefect of Shirekeep, 1645-1663 AN<br />
* Khanum of Cabbagefall, 1651-1663 AN<br />
* Countess of Shirekeep, 1661-1663 AN<br />
* Steward, 1657-1663 AN<br />
* Murdered, 1663 AN</small><br />
<small>''Mira III:''<br />
* Countess of Shirekeep, 1663-''Present'' AN</small><br />
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<small>''Mira IV: ''</small><br />
|}<br />
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{| class=wikitable style="width: 450px"<br />
|- style=text-align:center<br />
! rowspan=3 style="width: 120px" | <br />
! Heidi Octavius-Adelaidini<br />
|-<br />
! Dean, College of Our Lady Erganē<br />
|-<br />
| <small>''Heidi I:''<br />
* Missing, presumed dead ([[Oustfest Massacre]]), 1644 AN<br />
</small><br />
<small>''Heidi II:''</small><br />
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<small>''Heidi III:''</small><br />
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<small>''Heidi IV: ''</small><br />
|}<br />
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{| class=wikitable style="width: 450px"<br />
|- style=text-align:center<br />
! rowspan=3 style="width: 120px" | [[File:SadieOA.png]]<br />
! <span id="Sadie_Octavius-Adelaidini">Sadie Octavius-Adelaidini</span><br />
|-<br />
! Deputy Caretaker of the Household for Properties and Affairs Overseas<br />
|-<br />
| <small>''Sadie II:''<br />
*Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Constancia, 8.X.1665</small><br />
<small>''Sadie III:''</small><br />
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<small>''Sadie IV: ''</small><br />
|}<br />
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{| class=wikitable style="width: 450px"<br />
|- style=text-align:center<br />
! rowspan=3 style="width: 120px" | <br />
! <span id="Erika_Octavius-Leilani">Erika Octavius-Leilani</span><br />
|-<br />
! <br />
|-<br />
| <small>''Erika I:''<br />
* Chief Physician of the Household, 1612-''Present'' AN</small><br />
<small>''Erika II:''</small><br />
<br />
<small>''Erika III:''</small><br />
<br />
<small>''Erika IV: ''</small><br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class=wikitable style="width: 450px"<br />
|- style=text-align:center<br />
! rowspan=3 style="width: 120px" | [[File:SorayaOP.png]]<br />
[[File:SorayaOPb.png]]<br />
! <span id="Soraya_Octavius-Parini">Soraya Octavius-Parini</span><br />
|-<br />
! Voice of Aiomide<br />
|-<br />
| <small>''Soraya II:''<br />
* Voice of Aiomide, 1637-1651 AN<br />
* Chamberlain of the Imperial Household, 1651-''Present'' AN<br />
* Count Palatine of Kezan, 1663-''Present'' AN</small><br />
<small>''Soraya III:''<br />
* Voice of Aiomide, 1651-''Present'' AN</small><br />
<small>''Soraya IV: ''</small><br />
|}<br />
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{| class=wikitable style="width: 450px"<br />
|- style=text-align:center<br />
! rowspan=3 style="width: 120px" | [[File:IsidoraOT.png]]<br />
! <span id="Isidora_Octavius-Teleni">Isidora Octavius-Teleni</span><br />
|-<br />
! Chief of the General Staff of the Kezan Militia<br />
|-<br />
| <small>''Isidora I:''</small><br />
<br />
<small>''Isidora II:''</small><br />
<br />
<small>''Isidora III:''</small><br />
<br />
<small>''Isidora IV: ''<br />
* Personal Secretary to the [[Kaiser Ayreon IV|Kaiser]], 1663-''Present AN''<br />
* [[Kaiser Ayreon IV]]'s concubine, 1664–''Present AN''</small><br />
|}<br />
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[[category: Antica]]<br />
[[category: People]]</div>Primo de aguilarhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=ESB-J%C3%B6rmungandr_Group&diff=36790ESB-Jörmungandr Group2018-08-19T08:18:57Z<p>Primo de aguilar: /* Current contracts */</p>
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<div>The '''ESB-Jörmungandr Group''' of [[Teldrin]] of [[Ynnraile]] (formerly [[Lunaris]]) is a trading company under warrant of the Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]. The ESB Group's ostensible remit is to serve as a Joint Stock Company trading in goods, commodities and services on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] Continent.<br />
[[File:ESB.png|600px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Logo of the ESB-Jörmungandr Group</div> ]]<br />
The company was established by articles of association signed by [[Ardashir|Thorgils Tarjeisson, Daniel Dravot & Dr Ernst Cryptsinger]] on Izillare, 2 Gevrader 1634, at the saloon bar of the Bethlem Hotel, Teldrin.<br />
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One tenth of all profits derived by the activities of the ESB Group are remitted to the King of Goldshire, [[Ryker Everstone]].<br />
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Merger of Einhorn–Silverman–Bochs Group and Jörmungandr A/S.<br />
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== Headquarters ==<br />
The Seat of the Board of Directors is stipulated to be in Teldrin, Ynnraile and corporate offices were originally established in the suites of the the Bethlem Hotel (Formerly Bethlem Lunatic Asylum). <br />
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In 1635 the Group commenced the construction of the ''''Sanitorium'''' in Teldrin as a fortified residential cantonment for employees based in Lunaris who wished to retain their sanity in the midst of a population of habitual lunatics. The company offices were relocated to the Sanitorium upon its completion in 1637. Since then the site has successfully withstood two sieges, the first by the [[Army of the Golden Dawn]] during the [[Civil War in Goldshire]] and the second by the supporters of [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Lord Adam]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]].<br />
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The Sanitorium, so named as a pun to imply a sanctuary from the lunacy of the surrounding countryside, is fortified by three walls with the fourth side being bounded against the Red Elwynn itself, where an artificial ferroconcrete platform projecting out into the slow flowing waters of the Benacian mega-river constitutes the fourth wall in all but name. The cantonment itself was built on a terraced raised platform of 310,000 cubic metres of concrete, clad with imported limestone, enclosing an area of thirty-eight acres, filling the gap between two mounds, confirmed by archaeologists to be the remnants of ancient settlements dating back 3,000 years pre-Norton. <br />
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The walls, formed of ferroconcrete segments faced and clad by gleaming silver-gilded limestone, reached a height of ten metres capped with an extra two metres of crenellations on top, over each gate set in the walls, corresponding to the points of the compass, north, east, and south, had been set ferroconcrete barbicans clad this time in granite so as to give them an ominous distinction from the walls set behind them. These barbicans rose to a height of twenty-five metres, which is roughly equivalent to three Shirekeep omnibuses stacked one atop of another. It should be recalled however that these walls have been set atop of the retaining walls of the Sanatorium's raised platform which continue for another thirty metres below ground level. <br />
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The dressed stones of the walls, silvered and finely chiselled, have been decorated with a variety of Euran and Benacian cultural motifs, including depictions of the World Serpent, the Benac, the Cedrist Pantheon, and various Shahs and Kaisers shown in the act of ritually dispatching myriads of opponents, usually human or daemonic, thus earning the favour of the gods, whose winged servitors are depicted overhead offering gestures of benediction whilst stylised representations of the various nations of the world prostrate themselves in homage before the fearsome scene of carnage. The barbicans, by contrast, break up the monotony of black granite with veins of gold-leaf laid out in a variety of geometric patterns radiating from the archway of the gate and spiralling upwards along the base of the circular towers. Although the walls and their various towers are mostly decorative rather than practical fighting platforms they do however serve a useful purpose in providing a vantage point for observation over the town and surrounding countryside, as well as facilitating the installation of surveillance equipment, including close-circuit TV cameras, signals monitoring equipment and radio direction finders, along with masts, apparatus, arrays, and apertures belonging to various other undeclared devices.<br />
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Set into the two landward corners of the walls are however two functional buildings particular to the Euran cultural mindset – the circular flaktowers “Dominus” and “Aurangzeb” stand at a height of fifty three metres and mount eight point defence autocannons alongside a vertical launch system for twenty-four interceptor missiles. Each tower has a multi-function dual-face active electronically scanned array radar which can be retracted behind a thick concrete and steel dome for protection. The walls of the towers are four metres thick.<br />
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Although denied, rumours persist, that the visible portion of the Sanatorium is in fact merely the tip of a vast buried ziggurat. These rumours are typically described as fanciful by ESB representatives who point out, not unreasonably, that the Group is not blessed with unlimited cash reserves to splash on dubious vanity projects. <br />
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The internal portion of the Sanatorium, known as the Cantonment, is divided into four portions. The first, comprised of the western projecting platform, is reserved for storage facilities, security offices, and the landing pads for gravimetric vehicles and helicopters. The remainder is organised into concentric layers, the outermost being the residential area comprised of fifteen terraced blocks set amidst a landscaped zone of water features and green squares. The main buildings rise up to seven floors above a podium level which forms a pedestrian concourse connecting the residential area, progressing inwards, to the cultural zone. The heart of the cultural zone is the Noor Madrassa, a school for the children of ESB employees built in the Neo-Babkhan style favoured in Alalehzamin, which also serves as a venue for arts and cultural activities for the entertainment of adult residents. The cultural zone also includes a finishing school for Loyal Subjects of the company, from where ESB employees can identify and select prospective marriage partners upon graduation.<br />
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A portico or colonnaded covered walkway divides the cultural zone from the administrative district, a palace complex built as a basilica with four rows of columns running lengthwise, each made of 40 columns, thus creating three parallel halls, with a central fourteen metres wide hall and two flanking nine metres wide halls, with the central hall being twice as tall as the aisles, at nearly thirty-three metres in height. The whole structure was set amidst walled paradise gardens with discrete alcoves reserved for the pleasures of senior ESB employees.<br />
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==Organisation==<br />
The Group is organised into ten Directorates subordinate to the Board of Directors, these being:<br />
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|'''Secretariat:'''|| Reports to the Secretary to the Board of Directors. Supporting the Board of Directors of the ESB Group in following the obligations enjoined by the Articles of Association and the Grand Ducal Warrant upon the aforesaid board. Additional duties include the Organisation and Internal Governance of the Group and it's directorates. Prospectors and Observers, both resident and itinerant, report directly to the Secretary of the Board of Directors and thus belong under the Secretariat's Pay-Roll.||1,802<br />
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|'''[[Directorate of Security]]'''||Close Protection of ESB Group corporate officers, personnel and property||14,440<br />
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| '''Directorate of Apollonian Operations'''|| Provision of commodity, logistic, and outsourcing services in Arboria, Saint Andre, and Oranje||12,873<br />
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|'''Directorate of Benacian Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistic, industrial, and outsourcing services in Shireroth, and military and technical advisory support in Kasterburg|| 106,882<br />
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| '''Directorate of Euran Operations''' || Provision of military, logistic, technical, and industrial support services in Constancia and Raspur || 42,904<br />
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|'''Directorate of Keltian Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistical, industrial, military, outsourcing, and technical support services in Caputia, Elijah's Rest (Normark), and Wechua||92,871<br />
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|'''Directorate of Tapferite Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistic, and outsourcing services in Natopia||470<br />
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|'''Tarjeisson Trust'''||Administering the estate and endowments of the late [[Kaiser Dominus]]||804<br />
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|'''Tarjeisson Complex Marriage Trust'''||Administering the estate bestowed upon the wives and children of the late [[Kaiser Dominus]]||30<br />
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|'''Directorate of Financial and Legal Services'''||Provision of financial and legal services, as well as associated consulting services, internally to the Group and externally to select clients||200<br />
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Former directorates of Commodity Services, Logistic Services, and Outsourcing Services were disbanded in 1662 with their functions being reassigned to the continental operations directorates. <br />
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==Personnel==<br />
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As of 1662 the ESB Group employed 273,076 members of staff, not counting contractors, sub-contractors and short-term hires. <br />
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===Board of Directors===<br />
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! scope="col" | Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Number<br />
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|||[[Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion]]|| Chairman, Director of Benacian Operations & Director of the Tarjeisson Trust ||Modan Hamlet, [[State of Modan]] ||1662-273069<br />
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|||[[Roy Stone]]||Secretary to the Board of Directors||[[Goldshire]]||1662-273070<br />
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|||Timūr al-Osman Taraghay||Director of Security||Raspur||1662-273071<br />
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|[[File:PdA-126.jpg]]||Jaime Augustin Joaquin Primo de Aguilar||Director of Financial and Legal Services||Vey, Constancia||1662-273075<br />
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|||Michael Humphrey||Director of Apollonian Operations||Port Saint Andre, Natopia||1662-273072<br />
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|[[File:S Dravot 1652-23051.png]]||[[Sarah Dravot]]||Director of Euran Operations||Constancia||1652-34051<br />
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|[[File:Merrick 1645-2214.png]]||[[Royston Merrick the Younger]]|| Director of Keltian Operations||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||1645-22140<br />
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|||[[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]]||Director of Tapferite Operations||Lindstrom, Natopia||1662-273073<br />
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|||[[Eliza Carstens]]||Director of the Tarjeisson Complex Marriage Trust||Mohamedion, Alalehzamin||1662-273074<br />
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|[[File:L Dravot 1645-23450.png]]||[[Liv Djupvik|Liv Dravot-Osman]]|| Non-Executive Director ||[[Ardashirshahr]]||1645-23450<br />
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|[[File:R Everstone 1651-13002.png]]||[[Ryker Everstone]]||Non-Executive Director||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1651-33002<br />
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|||[[Ayreon IV|Ayreon IV Kalirion]]||Non-Executive Director||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1662-273068<br />
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|}<br />
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===Notable Employees===<br />
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===Notable Former Employees===<br />
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The mortality rate of the ESB Group has been somewhat higher than might otherwise be expected of a large-scale corporation.<br />
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Reginald Smythe (Employee Number 1635-346), a prospector assigned to the [[Yardistan|Southern Islands]] was kidnapped by the Tegong of [[Jingdao]] and his body mutilated in a manner consistent with an internal bomb blast before his remains were deposited at the scene of a staged suicide bombing in the Imperial Assembly of Epoli. As a consequence of the abduction and murder of one of its employees the ESB Group in late 1635 created the Security Directorate to improve the safety of its workforce, at home and overseas.<br />
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[[Ernst Cryptsinger]] (Employee Number 1634-003), one of the founding partners of the company, Doctor Cryptsinger served as Director of Finance and Outsourcing before becoming [[Martial Law in Goldshire|Martial Law Administrator]] of Goldshire. He was caught in [[Goldshire Hamlet]] when a [[Civil War in Goldshire#Mutiny of the Regulars|mutiny swept the Goldshire Regulars]] and died defending the [[Palace at Goldshire Hamlet]] whilst various heirlooms and artefacts were evacuated by order of [[Queen Noor]].<br />
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In 1641 [[Deimos Jasonides]] (1634-004), Secretary to the Board of Directors and an Admiral in the [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Navy]], perished in a contrived rebel suicide attack[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=538&p=145301#p145301(1)] on the cruiser [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Stricken Ships|ZNS Kaiser Agni I]] as it laid at anchor in [[Imperial Forces#MoMA Station Sabatini|MoMA Station Sabatini]]. [[Thorgils Tarjeisson]], Deimos' employer twice over as Chairman of the ESB and [[MoMA]] of the Ministry of Military Affairs, spared no expense in hiring necromancers in an attempt to resurrect his formerly indispensable factotum; some say it was in order to punish his negligence in leaving a crucial naval base unsecured, others maintain that it was in order to torture from him the details of the secret accounts into which the Secretary had been siphoning misappropriated revenues that rightfully belonged to the ESB group. Both accounts are correct but the attempt was unsuccessful and the bodily remains of Admiral Jasonides were released in preparation of a state funeral, to be held in Shirekeep during the year 1642 AN.<br />
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[[Thorgils Tarjeisson]] (1634-001), the founder and chairman of the ESB Group, rose to fame and power as Kaiser Dominus, however he remained blind to the dangers posed by his allies [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] until virtually the last moment and thus perished miserably, digested into the corporeal form of a [[House of Slurpgurgle|newly manifested daemon]], during the [[Oustfest Massacre]].<br />
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[[Laqi Hyrrion]] (dec'd) (1634-902), notable, if not infamous, as the Itinerant Observer dispatched by the ESB Group to gather and transmit back to Teldrin any designs and or discoveries that might advance the economic interests of the Group. Although he scored notable early successes that advanced Shirerithian submarine designs by a generation, he was quickly discovered and compromised by the Minarborian authorities. Although useless for the purposes of corporate espionage, Laqi was nonetheless able to establish himself on the fringes of Minarborean polite society, obtaining a certain degree of notoriety as the first Revenant to install a putrefact into his own body for the purpose of rediscovering the joys of digestion. Subsequently dispatched to [[Dietsland]] on Imperial Service where he rose to the rank of Dux in the Imperial Army and advising the Confederacy of Puritanian States through the offices of the [[Puritanian Guidance Authority]] which he was instrumental in creating. Deposed in a local coup organised by [[Waldemar Zinkgraven]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]] he was butchered and decapitated by the mutineers; subsequently his head was retained by Waldemar as a memento of the occasion. It is unknown whether Laqi, as a Revenant rather than a Lich, will ever regenerate.<br />
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[[Marcellus Paixhans]] (1635-01003), First Director of the groups Euran Directorate, a noted inventor and naval engineer - responsible for the design and manufacture of improvised weapons systems such as the ''infernal machines'' (floating mines) and armoured land cruisers which helped the Constancian Home Guard to successfully resist the full onslaught of a Jingdaoese invasion. Murdered along with his wife in separatist riots which swept Nivardom in 1648.<br />
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The company's typing pool is rumoured to be running a sweepstake on which of the directors will survive to retirement or die of natural causes.<br />
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[[Daniyal Dravot]] (1634-002), Thorgil's successor as Chairman, succumbed to the effects of a severe intracerebral haemorrhage whilst praying in the Sanctum of Malabor, located in the [[Yoni Temple]] complex of [[Modan-Lach]]. His retainers were able to rush the stricken Chairman to the temple's on-site clinic, but Dravot was declared clinically dead whilst doctors were attempting a dural puncture in order to conduct an extraventricular drain.<br />
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[[Huldah Llynadorion]] (1634-148), former Resident Observer in the then Duchy of Raikoth, and subsequently Secretary to the Board of Directors and Director of Financial Services, was the first notable employee of the Group to reach an age where she could, prudently perhaps, elect for early retirement. A discrete and remarkably uncontroversial servant of the company it is said that she learned from the example of Laqi Hyrrion at an early stage the importance of maintaining a low profile. Her refusal to engage in the internecine factional in-fighting so beloved of other members of the board enabled her to maintain her position as secretary to the board. Similarly her discretion ensured that she continued to be entrusted with the Group's complex and deliberately opaque finances. A trusted confident of Daniyal Dravot during his lifetime, based on shared reminiscences of their respective experiences of working alongside the ''"characterful"'' revenant Laqi Hyrron, Huldah was known to disapprove of his second wife and found the tenure of Liv as Chairwoman of the Group to have been an ordeal. Llynadorion's success in transferring the title deeds to key assets offshore, via financial vehicles such as the Gainshare Capital Holdings company registered in Raspur, proved instrumental, along with a series of gun battles between the ESB Security Directorate and Imperial Marshals in Teldrin and Shirekeep, in thwarting an attempt by the [[Ministry of the Interior]] to confiscate the capital and infrastructure assets of the company during the [[Elwynnese Civil War]]. For this diligence she received a commendation from the board and the keys to a villa on the island of [[Amity]] to where she retired in 1662 following twenty-eight years in company service.<br />
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==Subsidiaries==<br />
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! scope="col" |Company Name<br />
! scope="col" |Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" |Activity<br />
! scope="col" |Estimated revenues<br />
! scope="col" |Parent Directorate<br />
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|Amity Shipyards Ltd||[[Erudition]], [[Jadid Khaz Modan]]||Shipbuilding||.||.<br />
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|Teldrin Mint||.||.||.||.<br />
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|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin and Constancia||Eura||Universal and commercial banking, financial services||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
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|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
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|The Tarjeisson Foundation||.||.||.||.<br />
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|ESB Group (Keltia)||.||.||.||.<br />
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|Atacama Corporation||Eura||Consulting and property management||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate in partnership with Oranjesion Private Equity Capital & Thema Oranjesion<br />
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|Raspur Airport Ltd||Eura||Airport operations and facilities management||.||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
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|ESB-MPFR Fisheries & Commerce Protection Squadron||Eura||Inspection, verification, testing and certification services, fisheries and commerce protection||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
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|}<br />
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==Current contracts==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
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! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
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|Teldrin Trade Monopoly||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||Kingdom of Goldshire||Monopoly on all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin||1634||In perpetuity subject to per annum remittance of ten percent of all profits to the Crown<br />
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|Royal Government of Goldshire||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]||Public Administration||1635||In perpetuity, subject to Royal discretion<br />
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|Amity Ports Authority Ltd||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Emirate of [[MASS|Amity, Mirioth & So-Sara]]||Construction and civil administration of the dockyards operated by the Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||1635||12 Elw Years with options to lease back facilities. Now operated in partnership with [[House of Osman|House of Osman GmBH]]. <br />
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|Shrubway (Shireroth) Ltd||No Fixed Value||Financial Services ||Church of Minarbor/Third State Arbour (Empire of Minarboria)||Franchising authority for vendors of the Shrubway fast-food chain in the Imperial Republic of Shireroth||1635||Wholly owned following the demise of the Church of Minarbor.<br />
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|Port and Harbour Operations and Management, Eura||No Fixed Value||Euran Operations Directorate||Government of the Free and Associative Kingdom of [[Constancia]]||Construction, Operations Management, and devolved Customs and Excise Services||1655||20 Elw Years<br />
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|}<br />
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==Former business activities==<br />
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|-<br />
! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
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|Teldrin Mint|| 12.2M Teldrin Thalers (Th)||Financial Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin|| Production and Circulation of [[Teldrin Thaler|Teldrin Thalers]] ||1634|| Expired 1644. Continues as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Teldrin Transport Docks Board Ltd||2.795M Th||Logistic Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin||Management of Teldrin Dock & Associated Warehouses||1634||Expired 1641. Reverted to local authority control.<br />
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|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||400M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]||Banking Services to the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia||1634|| Expired 1644. Operated as wholly owned subsidiary. Divested in 1661 to [[Gainshare Capital Holdings]]. <br />
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|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||16M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of Alalehzamin & Utasia||Management of the 400M Th Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Emirate||1634||Contract expired 1654. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Boat Yards of Teldrin Ltd||3.96B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]|| In-Service Maintenance of the eleven [[Duchy Class Destroyer|Duchy Class]] Destroyers of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1655.<br />
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|Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||3.48B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]||Construction and In-Service Maintenance of the three [[Poltroon Class Submarines]] of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1647<br />
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|County of Ran Public Insurance & Cudgelling Ltd||2M Th||Outsourcing Services||[[Thorgils Tarjeisson|Count of Ran]]||Property Insurance, Public Administration, Emergency Services and Law Enforcement||1636||Ended in 1640 with loss of Ran to rebel forces during [[Civil War in Goldshire]].<br />
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|South Sea (Ura'Bos) Company Ltd ||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||The [[Kaiser]]||Plantation of a Colony onto the Imperial Dominion of [[Ura'Bos]] for the purpose of trade with [[Natopia]]||1636||In perpetuity, subject to Imperial oversight.<br />
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|ESB Imports||17.9B Th||Commodity Services||[[Imperial Forces]]<br>[[Union Defence Force]]<br>[[Goldshire Regulars]]||The reassembly, reverse engineering and unlicensed reproduction of military hardware acquired from [[wikipedia:wikipedia|sources of dubious veracity]].||1649||Terminated by [[Shirerithian Supplies Service]] following anti-corruption investigation conducted by the [[Chamber of the Crypteia]].<br />
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|[[Cedrocomando S.A.]]||39.5B Erb||Outsourcing Services||[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]||The creation of the Cedrocomando Security Force within the Shirerithian Condominium of Greater Tellia.||1641||Ended 1651. Incorporated into [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
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|}<br />
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==History==<br />
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Some jurisdictions have questioned the presence of paid Observers in their ports - considering them to be either a nuisance on a par with impertinent news correspondents or else as poorly disguised practitioners of industrial espionage. <br />
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Although the ESB-Jörmungandr Group has no openly declared rivals its monopoly on trade with Teldrin is not favourably thought of by would-be competitors. This, together with encouraging the River Trade bound between Shirekeep and Musica on the Red Elwynn to accept hospitality at Teldrin and for their [[Erb]] to be exchanged for Thalers in the pubs, hotels and brothels of the town whilst the goods they carried were repackaged for export under the ESB label, for which a fee was charged, has been considered by some to amount to sharp practice.<br />
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By operating the Teldrin Mint the ESB-Jörmungandr Group is also reported to have incurred the enmity of the [[Assayers]] of the Avakair Mint who consider the project to be little more than a systematic attempt to debase and supplant the hallowed gold-standard of currencies with worthless fiat money.<br />
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===Operation Ithaca===<br />
[[File:Vey Expedition.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">A ESB-Jörmungandr chartered cargo plane landing at Vey International Airport</div> ]]<br />
Operation Ithaca commenced in 1636 when the ESB-Jörmungandr Group received a licence from the Basileusa of Constancia to mount an expedition to the city of Vey in the interior of the Euran Continent, for the purposes of examining a ruined Babkhan ziggurat as part of the Secretariat's ongoing Industrial Archaeology Programme - which focused primarily on salvaging technology from the many ruined civilisations of Micras. This expedition also marked the first overseas deployment of the Directorate of Security, to provide close protection for the archaeologists, at a time of heightened tensions between [[Jingdao]] and Constancia.<br />
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There were however critics of the operation who maintained that it served primarily as a cover for quasi-covert deliveries of weapons, munitions and spares, as well as technical experts and advisers to prop-up the Constancian Armed Forces during their war with the Empire of Jingdao.[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Arms_imports(1)]<br />
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Furthermore the Euran War had, during the course of 1636, to eat away at the otherwise very healthy profit margins of the organisation. Leading to some internal discussion within the organisation as to whether the growth orientated business model was being undermined by increasingly political considerations. <br />
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The ESB Group neither confirmed nor denied that the disturbances on Walstadt in 1636[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Disturbances_in_Walstadt(2)], which resulted in the sinking of an ESB owned barque - the Seahawk, was a cover for an attempt on the life of the Jingdaoese Emperor. The Emperor, it should be noted, was siezed by a mob and decapitated by persons unknown, during the course of the brief tumult.<br />
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===Paramilitary Activities===<br />
[[File:ESB Security.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Contractors from the ESB's [[Directorate of Security]] on patrol in downtown [[Teldrin]]. </div> ]]<br />
After rivalries with the Assayers degenerated into [[Civil War in Goldshire|open warfare]], the ESB Group became heavily involved with trying to prop up the Royal Government after it lost control of [[Lunaris]], [[Elsenar]] and [[Ran]]. In so doing it was also directly implicated in the takeover of [[Amity]] and [[Yardistan]] by the faction of the [[Political Parties of Elwynn|Nationalist & Humanist Party]] led by [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]] and the foundation of the [[Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan]].<br />
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In addition to the Directorate of Security, the ESB has also been involved in providing logistical and tactical support to the [[Jaysh al-Sathrati]] and in establishing the [[Cedrocomando S.A.|''Cedrocomando'']] private military company (PMC).<br />
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===The Kaisership===<br />
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The apogee of the ESB Group's power and influence in the Imperial Republic was seemingly reached in 1642 when its Chairman, ideally positioned after a relatively successful tenure as [[Minister of Military Affairs]], unexpectedly acceded to the throne as [[Kaiser Dominus]].<br />
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===After the Oustfest===<br />
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In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], the position of chairman of the Group was passed, in accordance with the Kaiser's last will and testament, to [[Daniyal Dravot]], the surviving director from the founding trio of the company.<br />
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After the death of Daniyal in 1656 effective control of the Group passed to his wife [[Liv Dravot]] after a bare minimum of skulduggery amongst the directors.<br />
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In 1659 the ESB Group negotiated the largest slave purchase in history, purchasing the right to the entire [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Black_Travellers#Foreign_interest Black Traveller] community from the [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Krasnarus Khanate of Krasnarus] for four trillion Erb ($62M). The entire debt servicing edifice of the Group strained to absorb the cost of the acquisition, but, at the stroke of a pen, the ESB Group had found the pool of manual labourers required for its programme of works on the Euran Continent. <br />
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[[Category:Goldshire]][[Category:Elwynn]][[Category:Shirekeep]][[Category:ESB-Jörmungandr Group]][[Category:Companies]]</div>Primo de aguilarhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=ESB-J%C3%B6rmungandr_Group&diff=36629ESB-Jörmungandr Group2018-08-05T16:50:31Z<p>Primo de aguilar: </p>
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<div>The '''ESB-Jörmungandr Group''' of [[Teldrin]] of [[Ynnraile]] (formerly [[Lunaris]]) is a trading company under warrant of the Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]. The ESB Group's ostensible remit is to serve as a Joint Stock Company trading in goods, commodities and services on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] Continent.<br />
[[File:ESB.png|600px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Logo of the ESB-Jörmungandr Group</div> ]]<br />
The company was established by articles of association signed by [[Ardashir|Thorgils Tarjeisson, Daniel Dravot & Dr Ernst Cryptsinger]] on Izillare, 2 Gevrader 1634, at the saloon bar of the Bethlem Hotel, Teldrin.<br />
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One tenth of all profits derived by the activities of the ESB Group are remitted to the King of Goldshire, [[Ryker Everstone]].<br />
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Merger of Einhorn–Silverman–Bochs Group and Jörmungandr A/S.<br />
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== Headquarters ==<br />
The Seat of the Board of Directors is stipulated to be in Teldrin, Ynnraile and corporate offices were originally established in the suites of the the Bethlem Hotel (Formerly Bethlem Lunatic Asylum). <br />
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In 1635 the Group commenced the construction of the ''''Sanitorium'''' in Teldrin as a fortified residential cantonment for employees based in Lunaris who wished to retain their sanity in the midst of a population of habitual lunatics. The company offices were relocated to the Sanitorium upon its completion in 1637. Since then the site has successfully withstood two sieges, the first by the [[Army of the Golden Dawn]] during the [[Civil War in Goldshire]] and the second by the supporters of [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Lord Adam]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]].<br />
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==Organisation==<br />
The Group is organised into ten Directorates subordinate to the Board of Directors, these being:<br />
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|'''Secretariat:'''|| Reports to the Secretary to the Board of Directors. Supporting the Board of Directors of the ESB Group in following the obligations enjoined by the Articles of Association and the Grand Ducal Warrant upon the aforesaid board. Additional duties include the Organisation and Internal Governance of the Group and it's directorates. Prospectors and Observers, both resident and itinerant, report directly to the Secretary of the Board of Directors and thus belong under the Secretariat's Pay-Roll.||1,802<br />
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|'''[[Directorate of Security]]'''||Close Protection of ESB Group corporate officers, personnel and property||14,440<br />
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| '''Directorate of Apollonian Operations'''|| Provision of commodity, logistic, and outsourcing services in Arboria, Saint Andre, and Oranje||12,873<br />
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|'''Directorate of Benacian Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistic, industrial, and outsourcing services in Shireroth, and military and technical advisory support in Kasterburg|| 106,882<br />
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| '''Directorate of Euran Operations''' || Provision of military, logistic, technical, and industrial support services in Constancia and Raspur || 42,904<br />
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|'''Directorate of Keltian Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistical, industrial, military, outsourcing, and technical support services in Caputia, Elijah's Rest (Normark), and Wechua||92,871<br />
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|'''Directorate of Tapferite Operations'''||Provision of commodity, logistic, and outsourcing services in Natopia||470<br />
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|'''Tarjeisson Trust'''||Administering the estate and endowments of the late [[Kaiser Dominus]]||804<br />
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|'''Tarjeisson Complex Marriage Trust'''||Administering the estate bestowed upon the wives and children of the late [[Kaiser Dominus]]||30<br />
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|'''Directorate of Financial and Legal Services'''||Provision of financial and legal services, as well as associated consulting services, internally to the Group and externally to select clients||200<br />
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Former directorates of Commodity Services, Logistic Services, and Outsourcing Services were disbanded in 1662 with their functions being reassigned to the continental operations directorates. <br />
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==Personnel==<br />
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As of 1662 the ESB Group employed 273,076 members of staff, not counting contractors, sub-contractors and short-term hires. <br />
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===Board of Directors===<br />
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|||[[Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion]]|| Chairman, Director of Benacian Operations & Director of the Tarjeisson Trust ||Modan Hamlet, [[State of Modan]] ||1662-273069<br />
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|||[[Roy Stone]]||Secretary to the Board of Directors||[[Goldshire]]||1662-273070<br />
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|||Timūr al-Osman Taraghay||Director of Security||Raspur||1662-273071<br />
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|[[File:PdA-126.jpg]]||Jaime Augustin Joaquin Primo de Aguilar||Director of Financial and Legal Services||Vey, Constancia||1662-273075<br />
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|||Michael Humphrey||Director of Apollonian Operations||Port Saint Andre, Natopia||1662-273072<br />
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|[[File:S Dravot 1652-23051.png]]||[[Sarah Dravot]]||Director of Euran Operations||Constancia||1652-34051<br />
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|[[File:Merrick 1645-2214.png]]||[[Royston Merrick the Younger]]|| Director of Keltian Operations||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||1645-22140<br />
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|||[[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]]||Director of Tapferite Operations||Lindstrom, Natopia||1662-273073<br />
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|||[[Eliza Carstens]]||Director of the Tarjeisson Complex Marriage Trust||Mohamedion, Alalehzamin||1662-273074<br />
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|[[File:L Dravot 1645-23450.png]]||[[Liv Djupvik|Liv Dravot-Osman]]|| Non-Executive Director ||[[Ardashirshahr]]||1645-23450<br />
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|[[File:R Everstone 1651-13002.png]]||[[Ryker Everstone]]||Non-Executive Director||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1651-33002<br />
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|||[[Ayreon IV|Ayreon IV Kalirion]]||Non-Executive Director||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1662-273068<br />
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===Notable Employees===<br />
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===Notable Former Employees===<br />
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The mortality rate of the ESB Group has been somewhat higher than might otherwise be expected of a large-scale corporation.<br />
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Reginald Smythe (Employee Number 1635-346), a prospector assigned to the [[Yardistan|Southern Islands]] was kidnapped by the Tegong of [[Jingdao]] and his body mutilated in a manner consistent with an internal bomb blast before his remains were deposited at the scene of a staged suicide bombing in the Imperial Assembly of Epoli. As a consequence of the abduction and murder of one of its employees the ESB Group in late 1635 created the Security Directorate to improve the safety of its workforce, at home and overseas.<br />
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[[Ernst Cryptsinger]] (Employee Number 1634-003), one of the founding partners of the company, Doctor Cryptsinger served as Director of Finance and Outsourcing before becoming [[Martial Law in Goldshire|Martial Law Administrator]] of Goldshire. He was caught in [[Goldshire Hamlet]] when a [[Civil War in Goldshire#Mutiny of the Regulars|mutiny swept the Goldshire Regulars]] and died defending the [[Palace at Goldshire Hamlet]] whilst various heirlooms and artefacts were evacuated by order of [[Queen Noor]].<br />
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In 1641 [[Deimos Jasonides]] (1634-004), Secretary to the Board of Directors and an Admiral in the [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Navy]], perished in a contrived rebel suicide attack[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=538&p=145301#p145301(1)] on the cruiser [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Stricken Ships|ZNS Kaiser Agni I]] as it laid at anchor in [[Imperial Forces#MoMA Station Sabatini|MoMA Station Sabatini]]. [[Thorgils Tarjeisson]], Deimos' employer twice over as Chairman of the ESB and [[MoMA]] of the Ministry of Military Affairs, spared no expense in hiring necromancers in an attempt to resurrect his formerly indispensable factotum; some say it was in order to punish his negligence in leaving a crucial naval base unsecured, others maintain that it was in order to torture from him the details of the secret accounts into which the Secretary had been siphoning misappropriated revenues that rightfully belonged to the ESB group. Both accounts are correct but the attempt was unsuccessful and the bodily remains of Admiral Jasonides were released in preparation of a state funeral, to be held in Shirekeep during the year 1642 AN.<br />
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[[Thorgils Tarjeisson]] (1634-001), the founder and chairman of the ESB Group, rose to fame and power as Kaiser Dominus, however he remained blind to the dangers posed by his allies [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] until virtually the last moment and thus perished miserably, digested into the corporeal form of a [[House of Slurpgurgle|newly manifested daemon]], during the [[Oustfest Massacre]].<br />
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[[Laqi Hyrrion]] (dec'd) (1634-902), notable, if not infamous, as the Itinerant Observer dispatched by the ESB Group to gather and transmit back to Teldrin any designs and or discoveries that might advance the economic interests of the Group. Although he scored notable early successes that advanced Shirerithian submarine designs by a generation, he was quickly discovered and compromised by the Minarborian authorities. Although useless for the purposes of corporate espionage, Laqi was nonetheless able to establish himself on the fringes of Minarborean polite society, obtaining a certain degree of notoriety as the first Revenant to install a putrefact into his own body for the purpose of rediscovering the joys of digestion. Subsequently dispatched to [[Dietsland]] on Imperial Service where he rose to the rank of Dux in the Imperial Army and advising the Confederacy of Puritanian States through the offices of the [[Puritanian Guidance Authority]] which he was instrumental in creating. Deposed in a local coup organised by [[Waldemar Zinkgraven]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]] he was butchered and decapitated by the mutineers; subsequently his head was retained by Waldemar as a memento of the occasion. It is unknown whether Laqi, as a Revenant rather than a Lich, will ever regenerate.<br />
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[[Marcellus Paixhans]] (1635-01003), First Director of the groups Euran Directorate, a noted inventor and naval engineer - responsible for the design and manufacture of improvised weapons systems such as the ''infernal machines'' (floating mines) and armoured land cruisers which helped the Constancian Home Guard to successfully resist the full onslaught of a Jingdaoese invasion. Murdered along with his wife in separatist riots which swept Nivardom in 1648.<br />
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The company's typing pool is rumoured to be running a sweepstake on which of the directors will survive to retirement or die of natural causes.<br />
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[[Daniyal Dravot]] (1634-002), Thorgil's successor as Chairman, succumbed to the effects of a severe intracerebral haemorrhage whilst praying in the Sanctum of Malabor, located in the [[Yoni Temple]] complex of [[Modan-Lach]]. His retainers were able to rush the stricken Chairman to the temple's on-site clinic, but Dravot was declared clinically dead whilst doctors were attempting a dural puncture in order to conduct an extraventricular drain.<br />
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[[Huldah Llynadorion]] (1634-148), former Resident Observer in the then Duchy of Raikoth, and subsequently Secretary to the Board of Directors and Director of Financial Services, was the first notable employee of the Group to reach an age where she could, prudently perhaps, elect for early retirement. A discrete and remarkably uncontroversial servant of the company it is said that she learned from the example of Laqi Hyrrion at an early stage the importance of maintaining a low profile. Her refusal to engage in the internecine factional in-fighting so beloved of other members of the board enabled her to maintain her position as secretary to the board. Similarly her discretion ensured that she continued to be entrusted with the Group's complex and deliberately opaque finances. A trusted confident of Daniyal Dravot during his lifetime, based on shared reminiscences of their respective experiences of working alongside the ''"characterful"'' revenant Laqi Hyrron, Huldah was known to disapprove of his second wife and found the tenure of Liv as Chairwoman of the Group to have been an ordeal. Llynadorion's success in transferring the title deeds to key assets offshore, via financial vehicles such as the Gainshare Capital Holdings company registered in Raspur, proved instrumental, along with a series of gun battles between the ESB Security Directorate and Imperial Marshals in Teldrin and Shirekeep, in thwarting an attempt by the [[Ministry of the Interior]] to confiscate the capital and infrastructure assets of the company during the [[Elwynnese Civil War]]. For this diligence she received a commendation from the board and the keys to a villa on the island of [[Amity]] to where she retired in 1662 following twenty-eight years in company service.<br />
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==Subsidiaries==<br />
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! scope="col" |Company Name<br />
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! scope="col" |Activity<br />
! scope="col" |Estimated revenues<br />
! scope="col" |Parent Directorate<br />
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|Amity Shipyards Ltd||[[Erudition]], [[Jadid Khaz Modan]]||Shipbuilding||.||.<br />
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|Teldrin Mint||.||.||.||.<br />
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|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin and Constancia||Eura||Universal and commercial banking, financial services||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
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|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
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|The Tarjeisson Foundation||.||.||.||.<br />
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|ESB Group (Keltia)||.||.||.||.<br />
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|Atacama Corporation||Eura||Consulting and property management||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate in partnership with Oranjesion Private Equity Capital & Thema Oranjesion<br />
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|Raspur Airport Ltd||Eura||Airport operations and facilities management||.||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
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|ESB-MPFR Fisheries & Commerce Protection Squadron||Eura||Inspection, verification, testing and certification services, fisheries and commerce protection||Classified||Euran Operations Directorate<br />
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|}<br />
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==Current contracts==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
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! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
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|Teldrin Trade Monopoly||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||Kingdom of Goldshire||Monopoly on all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin||1634||In perpetuity subject to per annum remittance of ten percent of all profits to the Crown<br />
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|Royal Government of Goldshire||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]||Public Administration||1635||In perpetuity, subject to Royal discretion<br />
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|Amity Ports Authority Ltd||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Emirate of [[MASS|Amity, Mirioth & So-Sara]]||Construction and civil administration of the dockyards operated by the Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||1635||12 Elw Years with options to lease back facilities. Now operated in partnership with [[House of Osman|House of Osman GmBH]]. <br />
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|Shrubway (Shireroth) Ltd||No Fixed Value||Financial Services ||Church of Minarbor/Third State Arbour (Empire of Minarboria)||Franchising authority for vendors of the Shrubway fast-food chain in the Imperial Republic of Shireroth||1635||Wholly owned following the demise of the Church of Minarbor.<br />
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|Port and Harbour Operations, Eura||No Fixed Value||Euran Operations Directorate||Thema Oranjesion||Construction, Operations and Management Services||1655||Classified<br />
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|}<br />
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==Former business activities==<br />
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! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
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|Teldrin Mint|| 12.2M Teldrin Thalers (Th)||Financial Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin|| Production and Circulation of [[Teldrin Thaler|Teldrin Thalers]] ||1634|| Expired 1644. Continues as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Teldrin Transport Docks Board Ltd||2.795M Th||Logistic Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin||Management of Teldrin Dock & Associated Warehouses||1634||Expired 1641. Reverted to local authority control.<br />
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|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||400M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]||Banking Services to the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia||1634|| Expired 1644. Operated as wholly owned subsidiary. Divested in 1661 to [[Gainshare Capital Holdings]]. <br />
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|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||16M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of Alalehzamin & Utasia||Management of the 400M Th Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Emirate||1634||Contract expired 1654. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Boat Yards of Teldrin Ltd||3.96B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]|| In-Service Maintenance of the eleven [[Duchy Class Destroyer|Duchy Class]] Destroyers of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1655.<br />
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|Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||3.48B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]||Construction and In-Service Maintenance of the three [[Poltroon Class Submarines]] of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1647<br />
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|County of Ran Public Insurance & Cudgelling Ltd||2M Th||Outsourcing Services||[[Thorgils Tarjeisson|Count of Ran]]||Property Insurance, Public Administration, Emergency Services and Law Enforcement||1636||Ended in 1640 with loss of Ran to rebel forces during [[Civil War in Goldshire]].<br />
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|South Sea (Ura'Bos) Company Ltd ||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||The [[Kaiser]]||Plantation of a Colony onto the Imperial Dominion of [[Ura'Bos]] for the purpose of trade with [[Natopia]]||1636||In perpetuity, subject to Imperial oversight.<br />
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|ESB Imports||17.9B Th||Commodity Services||[[Imperial Forces]]<br>[[Union Defence Force]]<br>[[Goldshire Regulars]]||The reassembly, reverse engineering and unlicensed reproduction of military hardware acquired from [[wikipedia:wikipedia|sources of dubious veracity]].||1649||Terminated by [[Shirerithian Supplies Service]] following anti-corruption investigation conducted by the [[Chamber of the Crypteia]].<br />
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|[[Cedrocomando S.A.]]||39.5B Erb||Outsourcing Services||[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]||The creation of the Cedrocomando Security Force within the Shirerithian Condominium of Greater Tellia.||1641||Ended 1651. Incorporated into [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
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|}<br />
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==History==<br />
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Some jurisdictions have questioned the presence of paid Observers in their ports - considering them to be either a nuisance on a par with impertinent news correspondents or else as poorly disguised practitioners of industrial espionage. <br />
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Although the ESB-Jörmungandr Group has no openly declared rivals its monopoly on trade with Teldrin is not favourably thought of by would-be competitors. This, together with encouraging the River Trade bound between Shirekeep and Musica on the Red Elwynn to accept hospitality at Teldrin and for their [[Erb]] to be exchanged for Thalers in the pubs, hotels and brothels of the town whilst the goods they carried were repackaged for export under the ESB label, for which a fee was charged, has been considered by some to amount to sharp practice.<br />
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By operating the Teldrin Mint the ESB-Jörmungandr Group is also reported to have incurred the enmity of the [[Assayers]] of the Avakair Mint who consider the project to be little more than a systematic attempt to debase and supplant the hallowed gold-standard of currencies with worthless fiat money.<br />
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===Operation Ithaca===<br />
[[File:Vey Expedition.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">A ESB-Jörmungandr chartered cargo plane landing at Vey International Airport</div> ]]<br />
Operation Ithaca commenced in 1636 when the ESB-Jörmungandr Group received a licence from the Basileusa of Constancia to mount an expedition to the city of Vey in the interior of the Euran Continent, for the purposes of examining a ruined Babkhan ziggurat as part of the Secretariat's ongoing Industrial Archaeology Programme - which focused primarily on salvaging technology from the many ruined civilisations of Micras. This expedition also marked the first overseas deployment of the Directorate of Security, to provide close protection for the archaeologists, at a time of heightened tensions between [[Jingdao]] and Constancia.<br />
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There were however critics of the operation who maintained that it served primarily as a cover for quasi-covert deliveries of weapons, munitions and spares, as well as technical experts and advisers to prop-up the Constancian Armed Forces during their war with the Empire of Jingdao.[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Arms_imports(1)]<br />
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Furthermore the Euran War had, during the course of 1636, to eat away at the otherwise very healthy profit margins of the organisation. Leading to some internal discussion within the organisation as to whether the growth orientated business model was being undermined by increasingly political considerations. <br />
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The ESB Group neither confirmed nor denied that the disturbances on Walstadt in 1636[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Disturbances_in_Walstadt(2)], which resulted in the sinking of an ESB owned barque - the Seahawk, was a cover for an attempt on the life of the Jingdaoese Emperor. The Emperor, it should be noted, was siezed by a mob and decapitated by persons unknown, during the course of the brief tumult.<br />
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===Paramilitary Activities===<br />
[[File:ESB Security.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Contractors from the ESB's [[Directorate of Security]] on patrol in downtown [[Teldrin]]. </div> ]]<br />
After rivalries with the Assayers degenerated into [[Civil War in Goldshire|open warfare]], the ESB Group became heavily involved with trying to prop up the Royal Government after it lost control of [[Lunaris]], [[Elsenar]] and [[Ran]]. In so doing it was also directly implicated in the takeover of [[Amity]] and [[Yardistan]] by the faction of the [[Political Parties of Elwynn|Nationalist & Humanist Party]] led by [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]] and the foundation of the [[Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan]].<br />
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In addition to the Directorate of Security, the ESB has also been involved in providing logistical and tactical support to the [[Jaysh al-Sathrati]] and in establishing the [[Cedrocomando S.A.|''Cedrocomando'']] private military company (PMC).<br />
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===The Kaisership===<br />
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The apogee of the ESB Group's power and influence in the Imperial Republic was seemingly reached in 1642 when its Chairman, ideally positioned after a relatively successful tenure as [[Minister of Military Affairs]], unexpectedly acceded to the throne as [[Kaiser Dominus]].<br />
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===After the Oustfest===<br />
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In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], the position of chairman of the Group was passed, in accordance with the Kaiser's last will and testament, to [[Daniyal Dravot]], the surviving director from the founding trio of the company.<br />
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After the death of Daniyal in 1656 effective control of the Group passed to his wife [[Liv Dravot]] after a bare minimum of skulduggery amongst the directors.<br />
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In 1659 the ESB Group negotiated the largest slave purchase in history, purchasing the right to the entire [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Black_Travellers#Foreign_interest Black Traveller] community from the [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Krasnarus Khanate of Krasnarus] for four trillion Erb ($62M). The entire debt servicing edifice of the Group strained to absorb the cost of the acquisition, but, at the stroke of a pen, the ESB Group had found the pool of manual labourers required for its programme of works on the Euran Continent. <br />
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[[Category:Goldshire]][[Category:Elwynn]][[Category:Shirekeep]][[Category:ESB-Jörmungandr Group]][[Category:Companies]]</div>Primo de aguilarhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:PdA-126.jpg&diff=36628File:PdA-126.jpg2018-08-05T16:32:47Z<p>Primo de aguilar: Jaime Augustin Joaquin Primo de Aguilar</p>
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<div>Jaime Augustin Joaquin Primo de Aguilar</div>Primo de aguilarhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=ESB-J%C3%B6rmungandr_Group&diff=36250ESB-Jörmungandr Group2018-06-14T13:07:13Z<p>Primo de aguilar: /* Subsidiaries */</p>
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<div>The '''ESB-Jörmungandr Group''' of [[Teldrin]] of [[Ynnraile]] (formerly [[Lunaris]]) is a trading company under warrant of the Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]. The ESB Group's ostensible remit is to serve as a Joint Stock Company trading in goods, commodities and services on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] Continent.<br />
[[File:ESB.png|600px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Logo of the ESB-Jörmungandr Group</div> ]]<br />
The company was established by articles of association signed by [[Ardashir|Thorgils Tarjeisson, Daniel Dravot & Dr Ernst Cryptsinger]] on Izillare, 2 Gevrader 1634, at the saloon bar of the Bethlem Hotel, Teldrin.<br />
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One tenth of all profits derived by the activities of the ESB Group are remitted to the King of Goldshire, [[Ryker Everstone]].<br />
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Merger of Einhorn–Silverman–Bochs Group and Jörmungandr A/S.<br />
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== Headquarters ==<br />
The Seat of the Board of Directors is stipulated to be in Teldrin, Ynnraile and corporate offices were originally established in the suites of the the Bethlem Hotel (Formerly Bethlem Lunatic Asylum). <br />
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In 1635 the Group commenced the construction of the ''''Sanitorium'''' in Teldrin as a fortified residential cantonment for employees based in Lunaris who wished to retain their sanity in the midst of a population of habitual lunatics. The company offices were relocated to the Sanitorium upon its completion in 1637. Since then the site has successfully withstood two sieges, the first by the [[Army of the Golden Dawn]] during the [[Civil War in Goldshire]] and the second by the supporters of [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Lord Adam]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]].<br />
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==Organisation==<br />
The Group is organised into seven Directorates subordinate to the Board of Directors, these being:<br />
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|'''Secretariat:'''|| Reports to the Secretary to the Board of Directors. Supporting the Board of Directors of the ESB Group in following the obligations enjoined by the Articles of Association and the Grand Ducal Warrant upon the aforesaid board. Additional duties include the Organisation and Internal Governance of the Group and it's directorates. Prospectors and Observers, both resident and itinerant, report directly to the Secretary of the Board of Directors and thus belong under the Secretariat's Pay-Roll.||997<br />
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|'''Directorate of Commodity Services:''' || Production, import and export of all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin as well as supplementary trades in any and all jurisdictions.||4,324<br />
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|'''Directorate of Logistic Services:'''|| Maintenance of Harbour and Transport Facilities.||2,723<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Outsourcing Services & Goldshire:'''|| Administration of public bodies on behalf of Government & the administration of the Royal Chancellery-in-Commission of [[Goldshire]].||25,623<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Financial Services:'''|| Administration of revenues, banking for clients & and the allocation of capital within the ESB-Jörmungandr Group.||3,625<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Directorate of Security]]'''||Close Protection of ESB Group corporate officers, personnel and property||1,002<br />
|-<br />
| '''Euran Directorate''' || Formerly Military and political aid to the Kingdom of Constancia, now classified || Classified<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Personnel==<br />
<br />
As of 1635 the ESB Group employed 12,828 members of staff, not counting contractors, sub-contractors and short-term hires. 9,046 were reported to be resident in Goldshire. 3,601 were domiciled in the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia. 181 members of staff were reported as domiciled in Shirekeep for tax purposes.<br />
<br />
===Board of Directors===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | File Photograph<br />
! scope="col" | Director's Name<br />
! scope="col" | Post<br />
! scope="col" | Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Number<br />
|-<br />
|n/a||''Position Vacant''|| Chairman & Director of Commodity Services||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||n/a<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:L Dravot 1645-23450.png]]||[[Liv Djupvik|Liv Dravot]]|| Director of Outsourcing ||[[Shirekeep]]||1645-23450<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:Merrick 1645-2214.png]]||[[Royston Merrick the Younger]]|| Director of Security||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||1645-22140<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:Llynadorion 1634-148.png]]||[[Huldah Llynadorion]]|| Secretary to the Board of Directors, Director of Financial Services ||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]]|| 1634-148<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:R Everstone 1651-13002.png]]||[[Ryker Everstone]]||Director of Logistic Services & Goldshire||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1651-33002<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:S Dravot 1652-23051.png]]||[[Sarah Dravot]]||Director of Euran Operations||Constancia||1652-34051<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Notable Employees===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Name<br />
! scope="col" | Post<br />
! scope="col" | Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Number<br />
|-<br />
|[[Huldah Llynadorion]] (f.)|| Resident Observer || Duchy of [[Raikoth]] ||1634-148<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Notable Former Employees===<br />
<br />
The mortality rate of the ESB Group has been somewhat higher than might otherwise be expected of a large-scale corporation.<br />
<br />
Reginald Smythe (Employee Number 1635-346), a prospector assigned to the [[Yardistan|Southern Islands]] was kidnapped by the Tegong of [[Jingdao]] and his body mutilated in a manner consistent with an internal bomb blast before his remains were deposited at the scene of a staged suicide bombing in the Imperial Assembly of Epoli. As a consequence of the abduction and murder of one of its employees the ESB Group in late 1635 created the Security Directorate to improve the safety of its workforce, at home and overseas.<br />
<br />
[[Ernst Cryptsinger]] (Employee Number 1634-003), one of the founding partners of the company, Doctor Cryptsinger served as Director of Finance and Outsourcing before becoming [[Martial Law in Goldshire|Martial Law Administrator]] of Goldshire. He was caught in [[Goldshire Hamlet]] when a [[Civil War in Goldshire#Mutiny of the Regulars|mutiny swept the Goldshire Regulars]] and died defending the [[Palace at Goldshire Hamlet]] whilst various heirlooms and artefacts were evacuated by order of [[Queen Noor]].<br />
<br />
In 1641 [[Deimos Jasonides]] (1634-004), Secretary to the Board of Directors and an Admiral in the [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Navy]], perished in a contrived rebel suicide attack[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=538&p=145301#p145301(1)] on the cruiser [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Stricken Ships|ZNS Kaiser Agni I]] as it laid at anchor in [[Imperial Forces#MoMA Station Sabatini|MoMA Station Sabatini]]. [[Thorgils Tarjeisson]], Deimos' employer twice over as Chairman of the ESB and [[MoMA]] of the Ministry of Military Affairs, spared no expense in hiring necromancers in an attempt to resurrect his formerly indispensable factotum; some say it was in order to punish his negligence in leaving a crucial naval base unsecured, others maintain that it was in order to torture from him the details of the secret accounts into which the Secretary had been siphoning misappropriated revenues that rightfully belonged to the ESB group. Both accounts are correct but the attempt was unsuccessful and the bodily remains of Admiral Jasonides were released in preparation of a state funeral, to be held in Shirekeep during the year 1642 AN.<br />
<br />
[[Thorgils Tarjeisson]] (1634-001), the founder and chairman of the ESB Group, rose to fame and power as Kaiser Dominus, however he remained blind to the dangers posed by his allies [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] until virtually the last moment and thus perished miserably, digested into the corporeal form of a [[House of Slurpgurgle|newly manifested daemon]], during the [[Oustfest Massacre]].<br />
<br />
[[Laqi Hyrrion]] (dec'd) (1634-902), notable, if not infamous, as the Itinerant Observer dispatched by the ESB Group to gather and transmit back to Teldrin any designs and or discoveries that might advance the economic interests of the Group. Although he scored notable early successes that advanced Shirerithian submarine designs by a generation, he was quickly discovered and compromised by the Minarborian authorities. Although useless for the purposes of corporate espionage, Laqi was nonetheless able to establish himself on the fringes of Minarborean polite society, obtaining a certain degree of notoriety as the first Revenant to install a putrefact into his own body for the purpose of rediscovering the joys of digestion. Subsequently dispatched to [[Dietsland]] on Imperial Service where he rose to the rank of Dux in the Imperial Army and advising the Confederacy of Puritanian States through the offices of the [[Puritanian Guidance Authority]] which he was instrumental in creating. Deposed in a local coup organised by [[Waldemar Zinkgraven]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]] he was butchered and decapitated by the mutineers; subsequently his head was retained by Waldemar as a memento of the occasion. It is unknown whether Laqi, as a Revenant rather than a Lich, will ever regenerate.<br />
<br />
[[Marcellus Paixhans]] (1635-01003), First Director of the groups Euran Directorate, a noted inventor and naval engineer - responsible for the design and manufacture of improvised weapons systems such as the ''infernal machines'' (floating mines) and armoured land cruisers which helped the Constancian Home Guard to successfully resist the full onslaught of a Jingdaoese invasion. Murdered along with his wife in separatist riots which swept Nivardom in 1648.<br />
<br />
The company's typing pool is rumoured to be running a sweepstake on which of the directors will survive to retirement or die of natural causes.<br />
<br />
[[Daniyal Dravot]] (1634-002), Thorgil's successor as Chairman, succumbed to the effects of a severe intracerebral haemorrhage whilst praying in the Sanctum of Malabor, located in the [[Yoni Temple]] complex of [[Modan-Lach]]. His retainers were able to rush the stricken Chairman to the temple's on-site clinic, but Dravot was declared clinically dead whilst doctors were attempting a dural puncture in order to conduct an extraventricular drain.<br />
<br />
==Subsidiaries==<br />
{|border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" |Company Name<br />
! scope="col" |Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" |Activity<br />
! scope="col" |Estimated revenues<br />
! scope="col" |Parent Directorate<br />
|-<br />
|Amity Shipyards Ltd||[[Erudition]], [[Jadid Khaz Modan]]||Shipbuilding||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Mint||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|The Tarjeisson Foundation||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|ESB Group (Keltia)||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Atacama Corporation||.||Consulting and property management||Classified||Euran Directorate in partnership with Oranjesion Private Equity Capital & Thema Oranjesion<br />
|-<br />
|Raspur Airport Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|ESB-MPFR Fisheries & Commerce Protection Squadron||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Current contracts==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Trade Monopoly||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||Kingdom of Goldshire||Monopoly on all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin||1634||In perpetuity subject to per annum remittance of ten percent of all profits to the Crown<br />
|-<br />
|Royal Government of Goldshire||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]||Public Administration||1635||In perpetuity, subject to Royal discretion<br />
|-<br />
|Amity Ports Authority Ltd||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Emirate of [[MASS|Amity, Mirioth & So-Sara]]||Construction and civil administration of the dockyards operated by the Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||1635||12 Elw Years with options to lease back facilities. Now operated in partnership with [[House of Osman|House of Osman GmBH]]. <br />
|-<br />
|Shrubway (Shireroth) Ltd||No Fixed Value||Financial Services ||Church of Minarbor/Third State Arbour (Empire of Minarboria)||Franchising authority for vendors of the Shrubway fast-food chain in the Imperial Republic of Shireroth||1635||Wholly owned following the demise of the Church of Minarbor.<br />
|-<br />
|Port and Harbour Operations, Eura||.||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Former business activities==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Mint|| 12.2M Teldrin Thalers (Th)||Financial Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin|| Production and Circulation of [[Teldrin Thaler|Teldrin Thalers]] ||1634|| Expired 1644. Continues as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Transport Docks Board Ltd||2.795M Th||Logistic Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin||Management of Teldrin Dock & Associated Warehouses||1634||Expired 1641. Reverted to local authority control.<br />
|-<br />
|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||400M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]||Banking Services to the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia||1634|| Expired 1644. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
|-<br />
|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||16M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of Alalehzamin & Utasia||Management of the 400M Th Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Emirate||1634||Contract expired 1654. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
|-<br />
|Boat Yards of Teldrin Ltd||3.96B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]|| In-Service Maintenance of the eleven [[Duchy Class Destroyer|Duchy Class]] Destroyers of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1655.<br />
|-<br />
|Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||3.48B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]||Construction and In-Service Maintenance of the three [[Poltroon Class Submarines]] of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1647<br />
|-<br />
|County of Ran Public Insurance & Cudgelling Ltd||2M Th||Outsourcing Services||[[Thorgils Tarjeisson|Count of Ran]]||Property Insurance, Public Administration, Emergency Services and Law Enforcement||1636||Ended in 1640 with loss of Ran to rebel forces during [[Civil War in Goldshire]].<br />
|-<br />
|South Sea (Ura'Bos) Company Ltd ||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||The [[Kaiser]]||Plantation of a Colony onto the Imperial Dominion of [[Ura'Bos]] for the purpose of trade with [[Natopia]]||1636||In perpetuity, subject to Imperial oversight.<br />
|-<br />
|ESB Imports||17.9B Th||Commodity Services||[[Imperial Forces]]<br>[[Union Defence Force]]<br>[[Goldshire Regulars]]||The reassembly, reverse engineering and unlicensed reproduction of military hardware acquired from [[wikipedia:wikipedia|sources of dubious veracity]].||1649||Terminated by [[Shirerithian Supplies Service]] following anti-corruption investigation conducted by the [[Chamber of the Crypteia]].<br />
|-<br />
|[[Cedrocomando S.A.]]||39.5B Erb||Outsourcing Services||[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]||The creation of the Cedrocomando Security Force within the Shirerithian Condominium of Greater Tellia.||1641||Ended 1651. Incorporated into [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
Some jurisdictions have questioned the presence of paid Observers in their ports - considering them to be either a nuisance on a par with impertinent news correspondents or else as poorly disguised practitioners of industrial espionage. <br />
<br />
Although the ESB-Jörmungandr Group has no openly declared rivals its monopoly on trade with Teldrin is not favourably thought of by would-be competitors. This, together with encouraging the River Trade bound between Shirekeep and Musica on the Red Elwynn to accept hospitality at Teldrin and for their [[Erb]] to be exchanged for Thalers in the pubs, hotels and brothels of the town whilst the goods they carried were repackaged for export under the ESB label, for which a fee was charged, has been considered by some to amount to sharp practice.<br />
<br />
By operating the Teldrin Mint the ESB-Jörmungandr Group is also reported to have incurred the enmity of the [[Assayers]] of the Avakair Mint who consider the project to be little more than a systematic attempt to debase and supplant the hallowed gold-standard of currencies with worthless fiat money.<br />
<br />
===Operation Ithaca===<br />
[[File:Vey Expedition.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">A ESB-Jörmungandr chartered cargo plane landing at Vey International Airport</div> ]]<br />
Operation Ithaca commenced in 1636 when the ESB-Jörmungandr Group received a licence from the Basileusa of Constancia to mount an expedition to the city of Vey in the interior of the Euran Continent, for the purposes of examining a ruined Babkhan ziggurat as part of the Secretariat's ongoing Industrial Archaeology Programme - which focused primarily on salvaging technology from the many ruined civilisations of Micras. This expedition also marked the first overseas deployment of the Directorate of Security, to provide close protection for the archaeologists, at a time of heightened tensions between [[Jingdao]] and Constancia.<br />
<br />
There were however critics of the operation who maintained that it served primarily as a cover for quasi-covert deliveries of weapons, munitions and spares, as well as technical experts and advisers to prop-up the Constancian Armed Forces during their war with the Empire of Jingdao.[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Arms_imports(1)]<br />
<br />
Furthermore the Euran War had, during the course of 1636, to eat away at the otherwise very healthy profit margins of the organisation. Leading to some internal discussion within the organisation as to whether the growth orientated business model was being undermined by increasingly political considerations. <br />
<br />
<br />
The ESB Group neither confirmed nor denied that the disturbances on Walstadt in 1636[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Disturbances_in_Walstadt(2)], which resulted in the sinking of an ESB owned barque - the Seahawk, was a cover for an attempt on the life of the Jingdaoese Emperor. The Emperor, it should be noted, was siezed by a mob and decapitated by persons unknown, during the course of the brief tumult.<br />
<br />
===Paramilitary Activities===<br />
[[File:ESB Security.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Contractors from the ESB's [[Directorate of Security]] on patrol in downtown [[Teldrin]]. </div> ]]<br />
After rivalries with the Assayers degenerated into [[Civil War in Goldshire|open warfare]], the ESB Group became heavily involved with trying to prop up the Royal Government after it lost control of [[Lunaris]], [[Elsenar]] and [[Ran]]. In so doing it was also directly implicated in the takeover of [[Amity]] and [[Yardistan]] by the faction of the [[Political Parties of Elwynn|Nationalist & Humanist Party]] led by [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]] and the foundation of the [[Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan]].<br />
<br />
In addition to the Directorate of Security, the ESB has also been involved in providing logistical and tactical support to the [[Jaysh al-Sathrati]] and in establishing the [[Cedrocomando S.A.|''Cedrocomando'']] private military company (PMC).<br />
<br />
===The Kaisership===<br />
<br />
The apogee of the ESB Group's power and influence in the Imperial Republic was seemingly reached in 1642 when its Chairman, ideally positioned after a relatively successful tenure as [[Minister of Military Affairs]], unexpectedly acceded to the throne as [[Kaiser Dominus]].<br />
<br />
===After the Oustfest===<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], the position of chairman of the Group was passed, in accordance with the Kaiser's last will and testament, to [[Daniyal Dravot]], the surviving director from the founding trio of the company.<br />
<br />
After the death of Daniyal in 1656 effective control of the Group passed to his wife [[Liv Dravot]] after a bare minimum of skulduggery amongst the directors.<br />
<br />
In 1659 the ESB Group negotiated the largest slave purchase in history, purchasing the right to the entire [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Black_Travellers#Foreign_interest Black Traveller] community from the [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Krasnarus Khanate of Krasnarus] for four trillion Erb ($62M). The entire debt servicing edifice of the Group strained to absorb the cost of the acquisition, but, at the stroke of a pen, the ESB Group had found the pool of manual labourers required for its programme of works on the Euran Continent. <br />
<br />
[[Category:Goldshire]][[Category:Elwynn]][[Category:Shirekeep]][[Category:ESB-Jörmungandr Group]][[Category:Companies]]</div>Primo de aguilarhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=ESB-J%C3%B6rmungandr_Group&diff=36249ESB-Jörmungandr Group2018-06-14T13:00:56Z<p>Primo de aguilar: /* Operation Ithaca */</p>
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<div>The '''ESB-Jörmungandr Group''' of [[Teldrin]] of [[Ynnraile]] (formerly [[Lunaris]]) is a trading company under warrant of the Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]. The ESB Group's ostensible remit is to serve as a Joint Stock Company trading in goods, commodities and services on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] Continent.<br />
[[File:ESB.png|600px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Logo of the ESB-Jörmungandr Group</div> ]]<br />
The company was established by articles of association signed by [[Ardashir|Thorgils Tarjeisson, Daniel Dravot & Dr Ernst Cryptsinger]] on Izillare, 2 Gevrader 1634, at the saloon bar of the Bethlem Hotel, Teldrin.<br />
<br />
One tenth of all profits derived by the activities of the ESB Group are remitted to the King of Goldshire, [[Ryker Everstone]].<br />
<br />
Merger of Einhorn–Silverman–Bochs Group and Jörmungandr A/S.<br />
<br />
== Headquarters ==<br />
The Seat of the Board of Directors is stipulated to be in Teldrin, Ynnraile and corporate offices were originally established in the suites of the the Bethlem Hotel (Formerly Bethlem Lunatic Asylum). <br />
<br />
In 1635 the Group commenced the construction of the ''''Sanitorium'''' in Teldrin as a fortified residential cantonment for employees based in Lunaris who wished to retain their sanity in the midst of a population of habitual lunatics. The company offices were relocated to the Sanitorium upon its completion in 1637. Since then the site has successfully withstood two sieges, the first by the [[Army of the Golden Dawn]] during the [[Civil War in Goldshire]] and the second by the supporters of [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Lord Adam]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]].<br />
<br />
==Organisation==<br />
The Group is organised into seven Directorates subordinate to the Board of Directors, these being:<br />
{|border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" |Directorate<br />
! scope="col" |Function<br />
! scope="col" |Employees<br />
|-<br />
|'''Secretariat:'''|| Reports to the Secretary to the Board of Directors. Supporting the Board of Directors of the ESB Group in following the obligations enjoined by the Articles of Association and the Grand Ducal Warrant upon the aforesaid board. Additional duties include the Organisation and Internal Governance of the Group and it's directorates. Prospectors and Observers, both resident and itinerant, report directly to the Secretary of the Board of Directors and thus belong under the Secretariat's Pay-Roll.||997<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Commodity Services:''' || Production, import and export of all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin as well as supplementary trades in any and all jurisdictions.||4,324<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Logistic Services:'''|| Maintenance of Harbour and Transport Facilities.||2,723<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Outsourcing Services & Goldshire:'''|| Administration of public bodies on behalf of Government & the administration of the Royal Chancellery-in-Commission of [[Goldshire]].||25,623<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Financial Services:'''|| Administration of revenues, banking for clients & and the allocation of capital within the ESB-Jörmungandr Group.||3,625<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Directorate of Security]]'''||Close Protection of ESB Group corporate officers, personnel and property||1,002<br />
|-<br />
| '''Euran Directorate''' || Formerly Military and political aid to the Kingdom of Constancia, now classified || Classified<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Personnel==<br />
<br />
As of 1635 the ESB Group employed 12,828 members of staff, not counting contractors, sub-contractors and short-term hires. 9,046 were reported to be resident in Goldshire. 3,601 were domiciled in the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia. 181 members of staff were reported as domiciled in Shirekeep for tax purposes.<br />
<br />
===Board of Directors===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | File Photograph<br />
! scope="col" | Director's Name<br />
! scope="col" | Post<br />
! scope="col" | Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Number<br />
|-<br />
|n/a||''Position Vacant''|| Chairman & Director of Commodity Services||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||n/a<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:L Dravot 1645-23450.png]]||[[Liv Djupvik|Liv Dravot]]|| Director of Outsourcing ||[[Shirekeep]]||1645-23450<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:Merrick 1645-2214.png]]||[[Royston Merrick the Younger]]|| Director of Security||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||1645-22140<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:Llynadorion 1634-148.png]]||[[Huldah Llynadorion]]|| Secretary to the Board of Directors, Director of Financial Services ||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]]|| 1634-148<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:R Everstone 1651-13002.png]]||[[Ryker Everstone]]||Director of Logistic Services & Goldshire||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1651-33002<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:S Dravot 1652-23051.png]]||[[Sarah Dravot]]||Director of Euran Operations||Constancia||1652-34051<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Notable Employees===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Name<br />
! scope="col" | Post<br />
! scope="col" | Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Number<br />
|-<br />
|[[Huldah Llynadorion]] (f.)|| Resident Observer || Duchy of [[Raikoth]] ||1634-148<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Notable Former Employees===<br />
<br />
The mortality rate of the ESB Group has been somewhat higher than might otherwise be expected of a large-scale corporation.<br />
<br />
Reginald Smythe (Employee Number 1635-346), a prospector assigned to the [[Yardistan|Southern Islands]] was kidnapped by the Tegong of [[Jingdao]] and his body mutilated in a manner consistent with an internal bomb blast before his remains were deposited at the scene of a staged suicide bombing in the Imperial Assembly of Epoli. As a consequence of the abduction and murder of one of its employees the ESB Group in late 1635 created the Security Directorate to improve the safety of its workforce, at home and overseas.<br />
<br />
[[Ernst Cryptsinger]] (Employee Number 1634-003), one of the founding partners of the company, Doctor Cryptsinger served as Director of Finance and Outsourcing before becoming [[Martial Law in Goldshire|Martial Law Administrator]] of Goldshire. He was caught in [[Goldshire Hamlet]] when a [[Civil War in Goldshire#Mutiny of the Regulars|mutiny swept the Goldshire Regulars]] and died defending the [[Palace at Goldshire Hamlet]] whilst various heirlooms and artefacts were evacuated by order of [[Queen Noor]].<br />
<br />
In 1641 [[Deimos Jasonides]] (1634-004), Secretary to the Board of Directors and an Admiral in the [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Navy]], perished in a contrived rebel suicide attack[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=538&p=145301#p145301(1)] on the cruiser [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Stricken Ships|ZNS Kaiser Agni I]] as it laid at anchor in [[Imperial Forces#MoMA Station Sabatini|MoMA Station Sabatini]]. [[Thorgils Tarjeisson]], Deimos' employer twice over as Chairman of the ESB and [[MoMA]] of the Ministry of Military Affairs, spared no expense in hiring necromancers in an attempt to resurrect his formerly indispensable factotum; some say it was in order to punish his negligence in leaving a crucial naval base unsecured, others maintain that it was in order to torture from him the details of the secret accounts into which the Secretary had been siphoning misappropriated revenues that rightfully belonged to the ESB group. Both accounts are correct but the attempt was unsuccessful and the bodily remains of Admiral Jasonides were released in preparation of a state funeral, to be held in Shirekeep during the year 1642 AN.<br />
<br />
[[Thorgils Tarjeisson]] (1634-001), the founder and chairman of the ESB Group, rose to fame and power as Kaiser Dominus, however he remained blind to the dangers posed by his allies [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] until virtually the last moment and thus perished miserably, digested into the corporeal form of a [[House of Slurpgurgle|newly manifested daemon]], during the [[Oustfest Massacre]].<br />
<br />
[[Laqi Hyrrion]] (dec'd) (1634-902), notable, if not infamous, as the Itinerant Observer dispatched by the ESB Group to gather and transmit back to Teldrin any designs and or discoveries that might advance the economic interests of the Group. Although he scored notable early successes that advanced Shirerithian submarine designs by a generation, he was quickly discovered and compromised by the Minarborian authorities. Although useless for the purposes of corporate espionage, Laqi was nonetheless able to establish himself on the fringes of Minarborean polite society, obtaining a certain degree of notoriety as the first Revenant to install a putrefact into his own body for the purpose of rediscovering the joys of digestion. Subsequently dispatched to [[Dietsland]] on Imperial Service where he rose to the rank of Dux in the Imperial Army and advising the Confederacy of Puritanian States through the offices of the [[Puritanian Guidance Authority]] which he was instrumental in creating. Deposed in a local coup organised by [[Waldemar Zinkgraven]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]] he was butchered and decapitated by the mutineers; subsequently his head was retained by Waldemar as a memento of the occasion. It is unknown whether Laqi, as a Revenant rather than a Lich, will ever regenerate.<br />
<br />
[[Marcellus Paixhans]] (1635-01003), First Director of the groups Euran Directorate, a noted inventor and naval engineer - responsible for the design and manufacture of improvised weapons systems such as the ''infernal machines'' (floating mines) and armoured land cruisers which helped the Constancian Home Guard to successfully resist the full onslaught of a Jingdaoese invasion. Murdered along with his wife in separatist riots which swept Nivardom in 1648.<br />
<br />
The company's typing pool is rumoured to be running a sweepstake on which of the directors will survive to retirement or die of natural causes.<br />
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[[Daniyal Dravot]] (1634-002), Thorgil's successor as Chairman, succumbed to the effects of a severe intracerebral haemorrhage whilst praying in the Sanctum of Malabor, located in the [[Yoni Temple]] complex of [[Modan-Lach]]. His retainers were able to rush the stricken Chairman to the temple's on-site clinic, but Dravot was declared clinically dead whilst doctors were attempting a dural puncture in order to conduct an extraventricular drain.<br />
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==Subsidiaries==<br />
{|border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" |Company Name<br />
! scope="col" |Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" |Activity<br />
! scope="col" |Estimated revenues<br />
! scope="col" |Parent Directorate<br />
|-<br />
|Amity Shipyards Ltd||[[Erudition]], [[Jadid Khaz Modan]]||Shipbuilding||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Mint||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|The Tarjeisson Foundation||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|ESB Group (Keltia)||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Atacama Corporation||.||.||.||Euran Directorate in partnership with Oranjesion Private Equity Capital & Thema Oranjesion<br />
|-<br />
|Raspur Airport Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|ESB-MPFR Fisheries & Commerce Protection Squadron||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Current contracts==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Trade Monopoly||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||Kingdom of Goldshire||Monopoly on all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin||1634||In perpetuity subject to per annum remittance of ten percent of all profits to the Crown<br />
|-<br />
|Royal Government of Goldshire||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]||Public Administration||1635||In perpetuity, subject to Royal discretion<br />
|-<br />
|Amity Ports Authority Ltd||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Emirate of [[MASS|Amity, Mirioth & So-Sara]]||Construction and civil administration of the dockyards operated by the Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||1635||12 Elw Years with options to lease back facilities. Now operated in partnership with [[House of Osman|House of Osman GmBH]]. <br />
|-<br />
|Shrubway (Shireroth) Ltd||No Fixed Value||Financial Services ||Church of Minarbor/Third State Arbour (Empire of Minarboria)||Franchising authority for vendors of the Shrubway fast-food chain in the Imperial Republic of Shireroth||1635||Wholly owned following the demise of the Church of Minarbor.<br />
|-<br />
|Port and Harbour Operations, Eura||.||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Former business activities==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Mint|| 12.2M Teldrin Thalers (Th)||Financial Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin|| Production and Circulation of [[Teldrin Thaler|Teldrin Thalers]] ||1634|| Expired 1644. Continues as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Transport Docks Board Ltd||2.795M Th||Logistic Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin||Management of Teldrin Dock & Associated Warehouses||1634||Expired 1641. Reverted to local authority control.<br />
|-<br />
|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||400M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]||Banking Services to the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia||1634|| Expired 1644. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
|-<br />
|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||16M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of Alalehzamin & Utasia||Management of the 400M Th Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Emirate||1634||Contract expired 1654. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
|-<br />
|Boat Yards of Teldrin Ltd||3.96B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]|| In-Service Maintenance of the eleven [[Duchy Class Destroyer|Duchy Class]] Destroyers of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1655.<br />
|-<br />
|Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||3.48B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]||Construction and In-Service Maintenance of the three [[Poltroon Class Submarines]] of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1647<br />
|-<br />
|County of Ran Public Insurance & Cudgelling Ltd||2M Th||Outsourcing Services||[[Thorgils Tarjeisson|Count of Ran]]||Property Insurance, Public Administration, Emergency Services and Law Enforcement||1636||Ended in 1640 with loss of Ran to rebel forces during [[Civil War in Goldshire]].<br />
|-<br />
|South Sea (Ura'Bos) Company Ltd ||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||The [[Kaiser]]||Plantation of a Colony onto the Imperial Dominion of [[Ura'Bos]] for the purpose of trade with [[Natopia]]||1636||In perpetuity, subject to Imperial oversight.<br />
|-<br />
|ESB Imports||17.9B Th||Commodity Services||[[Imperial Forces]]<br>[[Union Defence Force]]<br>[[Goldshire Regulars]]||The reassembly, reverse engineering and unlicensed reproduction of military hardware acquired from [[wikipedia:wikipedia|sources of dubious veracity]].||1649||Terminated by [[Shirerithian Supplies Service]] following anti-corruption investigation conducted by the [[Chamber of the Crypteia]].<br />
|-<br />
|[[Cedrocomando S.A.]]||39.5B Erb||Outsourcing Services||[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]||The creation of the Cedrocomando Security Force within the Shirerithian Condominium of Greater Tellia.||1641||Ended 1651. Incorporated into [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
Some jurisdictions have questioned the presence of paid Observers in their ports - considering them to be either a nuisance on a par with impertinent news correspondents or else as poorly disguised practitioners of industrial espionage. <br />
<br />
Although the ESB-Jörmungandr Group has no openly declared rivals its monopoly on trade with Teldrin is not favourably thought of by would-be competitors. This, together with encouraging the River Trade bound between Shirekeep and Musica on the Red Elwynn to accept hospitality at Teldrin and for their [[Erb]] to be exchanged for Thalers in the pubs, hotels and brothels of the town whilst the goods they carried were repackaged for export under the ESB label, for which a fee was charged, has been considered by some to amount to sharp practice.<br />
<br />
By operating the Teldrin Mint the ESB-Jörmungandr Group is also reported to have incurred the enmity of the [[Assayers]] of the Avakair Mint who consider the project to be little more than a systematic attempt to debase and supplant the hallowed gold-standard of currencies with worthless fiat money.<br />
<br />
===Operation Ithaca===<br />
[[File:Vey Expedition.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">A ESB-Jörmungandr chartered cargo plane landing at Vey International Airport</div> ]]<br />
Operation Ithaca commenced in 1636 when the ESB-Jörmungandr Group received a licence from the Basileusa of Constancia to mount an expedition to the city of Vey in the interior of the Euran Continent, for the purposes of examining a ruined Babkhan ziggurat as part of the Secretariat's ongoing Industrial Archaeology Programme - which focused primarily on salvaging technology from the many ruined civilisations of Micras. This expedition also marked the first overseas deployment of the Directorate of Security, to provide close protection for the archaeologists, at a time of heightened tensions between [[Jingdao]] and Constancia.<br />
<br />
There were however critics of the operation who maintained that it served primarily as a cover for quasi-covert deliveries of weapons, munitions and spares, as well as technical experts and advisers to prop-up the Constancian Armed Forces during their war with the Empire of Jingdao.[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Arms_imports(1)]<br />
<br />
Furthermore the Euran War had, during the course of 1636, to eat away at the otherwise very healthy profit margins of the organisation. Leading to some internal discussion within the organisation as to whether the growth orientated business model was being undermined by increasingly political considerations. <br />
<br />
<br />
The ESB Group neither confirmed nor denied that the disturbances on Walstadt in 1636[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Disturbances_in_Walstadt(2)], which resulted in the sinking of an ESB owned barque - the Seahawk, was a cover for an attempt on the life of the Jingdaoese Emperor. The Emperor, it should be noted, was siezed by a mob and decapitated by persons unknown, during the course of the brief tumult.<br />
<br />
===Paramilitary Activities===<br />
[[File:ESB Security.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Contractors from the ESB's [[Directorate of Security]] on patrol in downtown [[Teldrin]]. </div> ]]<br />
After rivalries with the Assayers degenerated into [[Civil War in Goldshire|open warfare]], the ESB Group became heavily involved with trying to prop up the Royal Government after it lost control of [[Lunaris]], [[Elsenar]] and [[Ran]]. In so doing it was also directly implicated in the takeover of [[Amity]] and [[Yardistan]] by the faction of the [[Political Parties of Elwynn|Nationalist & Humanist Party]] led by [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]] and the foundation of the [[Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan]].<br />
<br />
In addition to the Directorate of Security, the ESB has also been involved in providing logistical and tactical support to the [[Jaysh al-Sathrati]] and in establishing the [[Cedrocomando S.A.|''Cedrocomando'']] private military company (PMC).<br />
<br />
===The Kaisership===<br />
<br />
The apogee of the ESB Group's power and influence in the Imperial Republic was seemingly reached in 1642 when its Chairman, ideally positioned after a relatively successful tenure as [[Minister of Military Affairs]], unexpectedly acceded to the throne as [[Kaiser Dominus]].<br />
<br />
===After the Oustfest===<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], the position of chairman of the Group was passed, in accordance with the Kaiser's last will and testament, to [[Daniyal Dravot]], the surviving director from the founding trio of the company.<br />
<br />
After the death of Daniyal in 1656 effective control of the Group passed to his wife [[Liv Dravot]] after a bare minimum of skulduggery amongst the directors.<br />
<br />
In 1659 the ESB Group negotiated the largest slave purchase in history, purchasing the right to the entire [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Black_Travellers#Foreign_interest Black Traveller] community from the [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Krasnarus Khanate of Krasnarus] for four trillion Erb ($62M). The entire debt servicing edifice of the Group strained to absorb the cost of the acquisition, but, at the stroke of a pen, the ESB Group had found the pool of manual labourers required for its programme of works on the Euran Continent. <br />
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<div>The '''ESB-Jörmungandr Group''' of [[Teldrin]] of [[Ynnraile]] (formerly [[Lunaris]]) is a trading company under warrant of the Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]. The ESB Group's ostensible remit is to serve as a Joint Stock Company trading in goods, commodities and services on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] Continent.<br />
[[File:ESB.png|600px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Logo of the ESB-Jörmungandr Group</div> ]]<br />
The company was established by articles of association signed by [[Ardashir|Thorgils Tarjeisson, Daniel Dravot & Dr Ernst Cryptsinger]] on Izillare, 2 Gevrader 1634, at the saloon bar of the Bethlem Hotel, Teldrin.<br />
<br />
One tenth of all profits derived by the activities of the ESB Group are remitted to the King of Goldshire, [[Ryker Everstone]].<br />
<br />
Merger of Einhorn–Silverman–Bochs Group and Jörmungandr A/S.<br />
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== Headquarters ==<br />
The Seat of the Board of Directors is stipulated to be in Teldrin, Ynnraile and corporate offices were originally established in the suites of the the Bethlem Hotel (Formerly Bethlem Lunatic Asylum). <br />
<br />
In 1635 the Group commenced the construction of the ''''Sanitorium'''' in Teldrin as a fortified residential cantonment for employees based in Lunaris who wished to retain their sanity in the midst of a population of habitual lunatics. The company offices were relocated to the Sanitorium upon its completion in 1637. Since then the site has successfully withstood two sieges, the first by the [[Army of the Golden Dawn]] during the [[Civil War in Goldshire]] and the second by the supporters of [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Lord Adam]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]].<br />
<br />
==Organisation==<br />
The Group is organised into seven Directorates subordinate to the Board of Directors, these being:<br />
{|border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" |Directorate<br />
! scope="col" |Function<br />
! scope="col" |Employees<br />
|-<br />
|'''Secretariat:'''|| Reports to the Secretary to the Board of Directors. Supporting the Board of Directors of the ESB Group in following the obligations enjoined by the Articles of Association and the Grand Ducal Warrant upon the aforesaid board. Additional duties include the Organisation and Internal Governance of the Group and it's directorates. Prospectors and Observers, both resident and itinerant, report directly to the Secretary of the Board of Directors and thus belong under the Secretariat's Pay-Roll.||997<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Commodity Services:''' || Production, import and export of all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin as well as supplementary trades in any and all jurisdictions.||4,324<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Logistic Services:'''|| Maintenance of Harbour and Transport Facilities.||2,723<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Outsourcing Services & Goldshire:'''|| Administration of public bodies on behalf of Government & the administration of the Royal Chancellery-in-Commission of [[Goldshire]].||25,623<br />
|-<br />
|'''Directorate of Financial Services:'''|| Administration of revenues, banking for clients & and the allocation of capital within the ESB-Jörmungandr Group.||3,625<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Directorate of Security]]'''||Close Protection of ESB Group corporate officers, personnel and property||1,002<br />
|-<br />
| '''Euran Directorate''' || Formerly Military and political aid to the Kingdom of Constancia, now classified || Classified<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Personnel==<br />
<br />
As of 1635 the ESB Group employed 12,828 members of staff, not counting contractors, sub-contractors and short-term hires. 9,046 were reported to be resident in Goldshire. 3,601 were domiciled in the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia. 181 members of staff were reported as domiciled in Shirekeep for tax purposes.<br />
<br />
===Board of Directors===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | File Photograph<br />
! scope="col" | Director's Name<br />
! scope="col" | Post<br />
! scope="col" | Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Number<br />
|-<br />
|n/a||''Position Vacant''|| Chairman & Director of Commodity Services||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||n/a<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:L Dravot 1645-23450.png]]||[[Liv Djupvik|Liv Dravot]]|| Director of Outsourcing ||[[Shirekeep]]||1645-23450<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:Merrick 1645-2214.png]]||[[Royston Merrick the Younger]]|| Director of Security||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]] ||1645-22140<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:Llynadorion 1634-148.png]]||[[Huldah Llynadorion]]|| Secretary to the Board of Directors, Director of Financial Services ||[[Teldrin]], [[Goldshire]]|| 1634-148<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:R Everstone 1651-13002.png]]||[[Ryker Everstone]]||Director of Logistic Services & Goldshire||[[Goldshire Hamlet]], [[Goldshire]]||1651-33002<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:S Dravot 1652-23051.png]]||[[Sarah Dravot]]||Director of Euran Operations||Constancia||1652-34051<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Notable Employees===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Name<br />
! scope="col" | Post<br />
! scope="col" | Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" | Employee Number<br />
|-<br />
|[[Huldah Llynadorion]] (f.)|| Resident Observer || Duchy of [[Raikoth]] ||1634-148<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Notable Former Employees===<br />
<br />
The mortality rate of the ESB Group has been somewhat higher than might otherwise be expected of a large-scale corporation.<br />
<br />
Reginald Smythe (Employee Number 1635-346), a prospector assigned to the [[Yardistan|Southern Islands]] was kidnapped by the Tegong of [[Jingdao]] and his body mutilated in a manner consistent with an internal bomb blast before his remains were deposited at the scene of a staged suicide bombing in the Imperial Assembly of Epoli. As a consequence of the abduction and murder of one of its employees the ESB Group in late 1635 created the Security Directorate to improve the safety of its workforce, at home and overseas.<br />
<br />
[[Ernst Cryptsinger]] (Employee Number 1634-003), one of the founding partners of the company, Doctor Cryptsinger served as Director of Finance and Outsourcing before becoming [[Martial Law in Goldshire|Martial Law Administrator]] of Goldshire. He was caught in [[Goldshire Hamlet]] when a [[Civil War in Goldshire#Mutiny of the Regulars|mutiny swept the Goldshire Regulars]] and died defending the [[Palace at Goldshire Hamlet]] whilst various heirlooms and artefacts were evacuated by order of [[Queen Noor]].<br />
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In 1641 [[Deimos Jasonides]] (1634-004), Secretary to the Board of Directors and an Admiral in the [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Navy]], perished in a contrived rebel suicide attack[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=538&p=145301#p145301(1)] on the cruiser [[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Stricken Ships|ZNS Kaiser Agni I]] as it laid at anchor in [[Imperial Forces#MoMA Station Sabatini|MoMA Station Sabatini]]. [[Thorgils Tarjeisson]], Deimos' employer twice over as Chairman of the ESB and [[MoMA]] of the Ministry of Military Affairs, spared no expense in hiring necromancers in an attempt to resurrect his formerly indispensable factotum; some say it was in order to punish his negligence in leaving a crucial naval base unsecured, others maintain that it was in order to torture from him the details of the secret accounts into which the Secretary had been siphoning misappropriated revenues that rightfully belonged to the ESB group. Both accounts are correct but the attempt was unsuccessful and the bodily remains of Admiral Jasonides were released in preparation of a state funeral, to be held in Shirekeep during the year 1642 AN.<br />
<br />
[[Thorgils Tarjeisson]] (1634-001), the founder and chairman of the ESB Group, rose to fame and power as Kaiser Dominus, however he remained blind to the dangers posed by his allies [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] until virtually the last moment and thus perished miserably, digested into the corporeal form of a [[House of Slurpgurgle|newly manifested daemon]], during the [[Oustfest Massacre]].<br />
<br />
[[Laqi Hyrrion]] (dec'd) (1634-902), notable, if not infamous, as the Itinerant Observer dispatched by the ESB Group to gather and transmit back to Teldrin any designs and or discoveries that might advance the economic interests of the Group. Although he scored notable early successes that advanced Shirerithian submarine designs by a generation, he was quickly discovered and compromised by the Minarborian authorities. Although useless for the purposes of corporate espionage, Laqi was nonetheless able to establish himself on the fringes of Minarborean polite society, obtaining a certain degree of notoriety as the first Revenant to install a putrefact into his own body for the purpose of rediscovering the joys of digestion. Subsequently dispatched to [[Dietsland]] on Imperial Service where he rose to the rank of Dux in the Imperial Army and advising the Confederacy of Puritanian States through the offices of the [[Puritanian Guidance Authority]] which he was instrumental in creating. Deposed in a local coup organised by [[Waldemar Zinkgraven]] during the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]] he was butchered and decapitated by the mutineers; subsequently his head was retained by Waldemar as a memento of the occasion. It is unknown whether Laqi, as a Revenant rather than a Lich, will ever regenerate.<br />
<br />
[[Marcellus Paixhans]] (1635-01003), First Director of the groups Euran Directorate, a noted inventor and naval engineer - responsible for the design and manufacture of improvised weapons systems such as the ''infernal machines'' (floating mines) and armoured land cruisers which helped the Constancian Home Guard to successfully resist the full onslaught of a Jingdaoese invasion. Murdered along with his wife in separatist riots which swept Nivardom in 1648.<br />
<br />
The company's typing pool is rumoured to be running a sweepstake on which of the directors will survive to retirement or die of natural causes.<br />
<br />
[[Daniyal Dravot]] (1634-002), Thorgil's successor as Chairman, succumbed to the effects of a severe intracerebral haemorrhage whilst praying in the Sanctum of Malabor, located in the [[Yoni Temple]] complex of [[Modan-Lach]]. His retainers were able to rush the stricken Chairman to the temple's on-site clinic, but Dravot was declared clinically dead whilst doctors were attempting a dural puncture in order to conduct an extraventricular drain.<br />
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==Subsidiaries==<br />
{|border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" |Company Name<br />
! scope="col" |Area of Operations<br />
! scope="col" |Activity<br />
! scope="col" |Estimated revenues<br />
! scope="col" |Parent Directorate<br />
|-<br />
|Amity Shipyards Ltd||[[Erudition]], [[Jadid Khaz Modan]]||Shipbuilding||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Mint||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|The Tarjeisson Foundation||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|ESB Group (Keltia)||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Atacama Corporation||.||.||.||Euran Directorate in partnership with Oranjesion Private Equity Capital & Thema Oranjesion<br />
|-<br />
|Raspur Airport Ltd||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|ESB-MPFR Fisheries & Commerce Protection Squadron||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Current contracts==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
|-<br />
|Teldrin Trade Monopoly||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||Kingdom of Goldshire||Monopoly on all goods, commodities and services to and from Teldrin||1634||In perpetuity subject to per annum remittance of ten percent of all profits to the Crown<br />
|-<br />
|Royal Government of Goldshire||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Kingdom of [[Goldshire]]||Public Administration||1635||In perpetuity, subject to Royal discretion<br />
|-<br />
|Amity Ports Authority Ltd||No Fixed Value||Outsourcing Services||Emirate of [[MASS|Amity, Mirioth & So-Sara]]||Construction and civil administration of the dockyards operated by the Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||1635||12 Elw Years with options to lease back facilities. Now operated in partnership with [[House of Osman|House of Osman GmBH]]. <br />
|-<br />
|Shrubway (Shireroth) Ltd||No Fixed Value||Financial Services ||Church of Minarbor/Third State Arbour (Empire of Minarboria)||Franchising authority for vendors of the Shrubway fast-food chain in the Imperial Republic of Shireroth||1635||Wholly owned following the demise of the Church of Minarbor.<br />
|-<br />
|Port and Harbour Operations, Eura||.||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Former business activities==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" | Contract<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Value<br />
! scope="col" | ESB Directorate<br />
! scope="col" | Awarding Authority<br />
! scope="col" | Activity<br />
! scope="col" | Year Awarded<br />
! scope="col" | Contract Duration<br />
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|Teldrin Mint|| 12.2M Teldrin Thalers (Th)||Financial Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin|| Production and Circulation of [[Teldrin Thaler|Teldrin Thalers]] ||1634|| Expired 1644. Continues as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Teldrin Transport Docks Board Ltd||2.795M Th||Logistic Services||Worshipful Corporation of Aldermen for the City of Teldrin||Management of Teldrin Dock & Associated Warehouses||1634||Expired 1641. Reverted to local authority control.<br />
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|Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin||400M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]||Banking Services to the Emirate of Alalehzamin & Utasia||1634|| Expired 1644. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Bountiful Harvest Ltd||16M Th||Financial Services||Emirati Government of Alalehzamin & Utasia||Management of the 400M Th Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Emirate||1634||Contract expired 1654. Operates as wholly owned subsidiary.<br />
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|Boat Yards of Teldrin Ltd||3.96B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]|| In-Service Maintenance of the eleven [[Duchy Class Destroyer|Duchy Class]] Destroyers of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1655.<br />
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|Boat Yards of Amity Ltd||3.48B Th||Logistic Services||[[MoMA]]||Construction and In-Service Maintenance of the three [[Poltroon Class Submarines]] of the [[Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Shirerithian Navy]]||1635||Ended 1647<br />
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|County of Ran Public Insurance & Cudgelling Ltd||2M Th||Outsourcing Services||[[Thorgils Tarjeisson|Count of Ran]]||Property Insurance, Public Administration, Emergency Services and Law Enforcement||1636||Ended in 1640 with loss of Ran to rebel forces during [[Civil War in Goldshire]].<br />
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|South Sea (Ura'Bos) Company Ltd ||No Fixed Value||Commodity Services||The [[Kaiser]]||Plantation of a Colony onto the Imperial Dominion of [[Ura'Bos]] for the purpose of trade with [[Natopia]]||1636||In perpetuity, subject to Imperial oversight.<br />
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|ESB Imports||17.9B Th||Commodity Services||[[Imperial Forces]]<br>[[Union Defence Force]]<br>[[Goldshire Regulars]]||The reassembly, reverse engineering and unlicensed reproduction of military hardware acquired from [[wikipedia:wikipedia|sources of dubious veracity]].||1649||Terminated by [[Shirerithian Supplies Service]] following anti-corruption investigation conducted by the [[Chamber of the Crypteia]].<br />
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|[[Cedrocomando S.A.]]||39.5B Erb||Outsourcing Services||[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]||The creation of the Cedrocomando Security Force within the Shirerithian Condominium of Greater Tellia.||1641||Ended 1651. Incorporated into [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
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|}<br />
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==History==<br />
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Some jurisdictions have questioned the presence of paid Observers in their ports - considering them to be either a nuisance on a par with impertinent news correspondents or else as poorly disguised practitioners of industrial espionage. <br />
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Although the ESB-Jörmungandr Group has no openly declared rivals its monopoly on trade with Teldrin is not favourably thought of by would-be competitors. This, together with encouraging the River Trade bound between Shirekeep and Musica on the Red Elwynn to accept hospitality at Teldrin and for their [[Erb]] to be exchanged for Thalers in the pubs, hotels and brothels of the town whilst the goods they carried were repackaged for export under the ESB label, for which a fee was charged, has been considered by some to amount to sharp practice.<br />
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By operating the Teldrin Mint the ESB-Jörmungandr Group is also reported to have incurred the enmity of the [[Assayers]] of the Avakair Mint who consider the project to be little more than a systematic attempt to debase and supplant the hallowed gold-standard of currencies with worthless fiat money.<br />
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===Operation Ithaca===<br />
[[File:Vey Expedition.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">A ESB-Jörmungandr chartered cargo plane landing at Vey International Airport</div> ]]<br />
Operation Ithaca commenced in 1636 when the ESB-Jörmungandr Group received a licence from the Basileusa of Constanica to mount an expedition to the city of Vey in the interior of the Euran Continent, for the purposes of examining a ruined Babkhan ziggurat as part of the Secretariat's ongoing Industrial Archaeology Programme - which focused primarily on salvaging technology from the many ruined civilisations of Micras. This expedition also marked the first overseas deployment of the Directorate of Security, to provide close protection for the archaeologists, at a time of heightened tensions between [[Jingdao]] and Constanica.<br />
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There were however critics of the operation who maintained that it served primarily as a cover for quasi-covert deliveries of weapons, munitions and spares, as well as technical experts and advisers to prop-up the Constancian Armed Forces during their war with the Empire of Jingdao.[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Arms_imports(1)]<br />
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Furthermore the Euran War had, during the course of 1636, to eat away at the otherwise very healthy profit margins of the organisation. Leading to some internal discussion within the organisation as to whether the growth orientated business model was being undermined by increasingly political considerations. <br />
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The ESB Group neither confirmed nor denied that the disturbances on Walstadt in 1636[http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Euran_War#Disturbances_in_Walstadt(2)], which resulted in the sinking of an ESB owned barque - the Seahawk, was a cover for an attempt on the life of the Jingdaoese Emperor. The Emperor, it should be noted, was siezed by a mob and decapitated by persons unknown, during the course of the brief tumult.<br />
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===Paramilitary Activities===<br />
[[File:ESB Security.png|300px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Contractors from the ESB's [[Directorate of Security]] on patrol in downtown [[Teldrin]]. </div> ]]<br />
After rivalries with the Assayers degenerated into [[Civil War in Goldshire|open warfare]], the ESB Group became heavily involved with trying to prop up the Royal Government after it lost control of [[Lunaris]], [[Elsenar]] and [[Ran]]. In so doing it was also directly implicated in the takeover of [[Amity]] and [[Yardistan]] by the faction of the [[Political Parties of Elwynn|Nationalist & Humanist Party]] led by [[Tokaray al-Osman]] and [[Isabella Simrani-Kalirion]] and the foundation of the [[Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan]].<br />
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In addition to the Directorate of Security, the ESB has also been involved in providing logistical and tactical support to the [[Jaysh al-Sathrati]] and in establishing the [[Cedrocomando S.A.|''Cedrocomando'']] private military company (PMC).<br />
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===The Kaisership===<br />
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The apogee of the ESB Group's power and influence in the Imperial Republic was seemingly reached in 1642 when its Chairman, ideally positioned after a relatively successful tenure as [[Minister of Military Affairs]], unexpectedly acceded to the throne as [[Kaiser Dominus]].<br />
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===After the Oustfest===<br />
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In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], the position of chairman of the Group was passed, in accordance with the Kaiser's last will and testament, to [[Daniyal Dravot]], the surviving director from the founding trio of the company.<br />
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After the death of Daniyal in 1656 effective control of the Group passed to his wife [[Liv Dravot]] after a bare minimum of skulduggery amongst the directors.<br />
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In 1659 the ESB Group negotiated the largest slave purchase in history, purchasing the right to the entire [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Black_Travellers#Foreign_interest Black Traveller] community from the [https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Krasnarus Khanate of Krasnarus] for four trillion Erb ($62M). The entire debt servicing edifice of the Group strained to absorb the cost of the acquisition, but, at the stroke of a pen, the ESB Group had found the pool of manual labourers required for its programme of works on the Euran Continent. <br />
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<div>The '''Norton calendar''' (also known as the '''[[Elwynn]]ese calendar''', the '''[[Elw]] calendar''' and the '''[[Elwynnese–Natopian calendar]]''') is the official calendar of Shireroth. Based on the Treesian calendar, the length of the year differentiates on a twelve-year cycle. The rotation of the planet fluctuates, through regularly. The only fixed celestial event on the calendar, that is to say, the same date for the same event every year, is Summer solstice (for the northern hemisphere, winter solstice for the southern). The first day of Elroqpin is that day.<br />
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==History==<br />
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Years are counted after the death of Norton (Ab Nortone, AN; μετά θάνατον Νόρτου, μΝ). His year of death is accordingly AN 0. The first year after the death is AN 1. Years before his death are counted before the death of Norton (bN; προ θάνατου Νόρτου, πΝ).<br />
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The Norton calendar derives its name from [[Norton|Nor'Ton the Undying]], whose disappearance (probable death) in the cataclysm that destroyed the old empire of [[Khaz Modan]] presaged the birth of [[Raynor I]] and the foundation of [[Shireroth]].<br />
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== Months ==<br />
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All months are 24 days long, except Qinamu (XIV) which varies. In a long year (372 days), Qinamu is 36 days long. In a normal year (360 days), Qinamu is 24 days long. In a Biternion year (348 days), it is 12 days long. In a Qarbinion year, the month is skipped. In such years, Rugaall (XIV) is followed by Silnuai (I).<br />
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{| {{table}}<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Ordinal'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Præta name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Elw name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Natopian name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Babkhi name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Florian name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Constancian name'''<br />
|-<br />
| I||||Silnuai||Novaber||Nawruz||adoltho||Phoinikaios<br />
|-<br />
| II||||Kuspor||Liebluary||Azar||elithagi||Kraneios<br />
|-<br />
| III||||Gevraquun||Grunil||Dey||umoke||Lanotropios<br />
|-<br />
| IV||||Gevrader||Ragnuary||Bahman||yaborudo||Heliotropios<br />
|-<br />
| V||||Filadin||Blumuar||Esfand||Yli||Haliotropios<br />
|-<br />
| VI||||Fasmas||Sonnuber||Farvardin||pexenawa||Machaneus<br />
|-<br />
| VII||||Nomeziooq||Friedeber||Ordibehesht||alel||Dodekateus <br />
|-<br />
| VIII||||Laemill||Natopuary||Khordad||Vathe||Eukleios <br />
|-<br />
| IX||||Araroqpin||Cowtide||Tir||yeka||Artemisios<br />
|-<br />
| X||||Elroqpin||Bulltober||Rokhpin||arugva||Psydros<br />
|-<br />
| XI||||Vixaslaa||Butterary||Mordad||weavigi||Gamilios <br />
|-<br />
| XII||||Oskalteq||Konil||Shahrivar|| ehezu||Agrianios<br />
|-<br />
| XIII||||Muunlantooq||Tasnember||Mehr||wixena ||Panamos <br />
|-<br />
| XIV||||Rugaall||Dankember||Aban||weeyof||Apellaios<br />
|-<br />
| XV||||Qinamu||Geburtsber||Kanam||Xeeria||Dioscouros<br />
|}<br />
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== Dates ==<br />
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Dates are usually written day–month–year. Often, the month is for linguistically neutral reasons written by its ordinal (using Latin or Arabic numbers), e.g. 10.XIV.1650 for 10 Rugaall 1650.<br />
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== Cycle ==<br />
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The years of the cycle correspond to a number and a Shirerithian zodiac name (the years are named after the months of the Raynorian calendar, which is no longer in use). Biternion is a special case. Once every four cycles, Biternion (named after the Cedrist god of improbability) is 12 days longer, having only 348 days. In those cases it is called Qarbinion (named after the Cedrist god of numbers).<br />
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{| {{table}}<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Year'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Days'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Shirerithian zodiac name'''<br />
|-<br />
| 1||372||Viviantiana<br />
|-<br />
| 2||336*||Biternion*<br />
|-<br />
| 3||372||Mo'lluk<br />
|-<br />
| 4||360||Semisa<br />
|-<br />
| 5||372||Ifnin<br />
|-<br />
| 6||360||Agnifiero<br />
|-<br />
| 7||372||Krondokin<br />
|-<br />
| 8||372||Ikol<br />
|-<br />
| 9||360||Breizan<br />
|-<br />
| 10||372||Anandjan<br />
|-<br />
| 11||360||Vanchauslurk<br />
|-<br />
| 12||372||H'graasreign<br />
|}<br />
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== The year ==<br />
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[[File:Elwyear.png]]<br />
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The only fixed celestial event on the calendar, that is to say, the same date for the same event every year, is Summer solstice (for the northern hemisphere, winter solstice for the southern). The first day of Elroqpin is that day.<br />
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For below, it is assumed to be for the northern hemisphere:<br />
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The autumn equinox varies between the following dates<br />
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*12 Muulantooq (336-day year)<br />
*15 Muulantooq (348-day year)<br />
*18 Muulantooq (360-day year)<br />
*21 Muulantooq (372-day year)<br />
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Winter solstice varies:<br />
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*24 Kuspor (336-day year)<br />
*18 Kuspor (348-day year)<br />
*12 Kuspor (360-day year)<br />
*6 Kuspor (372-day year)<br />
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Spring equinox:<br />
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*12 Fasmas (336-day year)<br />
*9 Fasmas (348-day year)<br />
*6 Fasmas (360-day year)<br />
*3 Fasmas (372-day year)<br />
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The year begins, by tradition on the first of Silnuai, and ends in the 336-day year on the 24th of Rugaall, while all other years the year ends on the last day of the leap month Qinamu (which is the 12th in a 348-day year, the 24th in a 360-day year or the 36th in a 372-day year).<br />
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The most common length of a year is 372 days and that year always has a full Qinamu, 36 days and thereby is the longest month of the year, half as long as all others).<br />
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Silnuai - Kuspor - Gevraquun - Gevrader - Filadinu - Fasmas - Nomeziooqu - Laemill - Araroqpinu - Elroqpinu - Vixaslaa - Oskaltequ - Muulantooqu - Rugaall - Qinamu<br />
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Or the order from Midsummer: Elroqpinu - Vixaslaa - Oskaltequ - Muulantooqu - Rugaall - Qinamu - Silnuai - Kuspor - Gevraquun - Gevrader - Filadinu - Fasmas - Nomeziooqu.<br />
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== OOC characteristics ==<br />
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[[File:Elw Calendar 1.png|200px|thumb|left|Click for conversion table between Gregorian and Natopian dates and times]]<br />
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The '''Elwynnese Calendar''' (Also known as ''Ab [[wikipedia:Emperor Norton|Nortone]]'') is a "month per year" method for simulating the passage of years within the geofictional construct of [[Micras]].<br />
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The relationship between the Elw calendar and the [[ASC]] calendar is more straightforward than it seems.<br />
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1 ASC period equals two Elw weeks or 12 days.<br />
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The years of the Norton cycle correspond to the following Gregorian months (note that a leap-day February corresponds to a Qarbinion year (348 days)<br />
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{| {{table}}<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Year'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Days'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Shirerithian zodiac name'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Gregorian month'''<br />
|-<br />
| 1||372||Viviantiana||January<br />
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| 2||336*||Biternion||February<br />
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| 3||372||Mo'lluk||March<br />
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| 4||360||Semisa||April<br />
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| 5||372||Ifnin||May<br />
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| 6||360||Agnifiero||June<br />
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| 7||372||Krondokin||July<br />
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| 8||372||Ikol||August<br />
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| 9||360||Breizan||September<br />
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| 10||372||Anandjan||October<br />
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| 11||360||Vanchauslurk||November<br />
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| 12||372||H'graasreign||December<br />
|}<br />
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A [[Elwynnese-Natopian calendar|variant]] of the Elwynnese Calendar is used in [[Natopia]].<br />
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