Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc.

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Hoersch-Kessel Driveyards is the ship faction of the Corporate Alliance Conglomerate. Based out of the Oseon System, HKD is the primary ship producer of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

History of Hoersch-Kessel Drive

Humble Beginnings

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Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc was founded late in Year 9 by a small time trader named Seijin Ackmin. With help from the Intergalactic Banking Clan. Mr. Ackmin gathered the necessary funds to start the Production faction and appointed himself leader. Brought together after unsatisfactory conditions at other jobs, Hoersch Kessel Drive was united against what it saw as other ship factions joining conglomerates and losing what makes them unique. Wanting to feel more like a community than a hive-mind, they purposefully fought against the common and strove to be different. After some initial recruiting, Xedillian Vordesh was appointed to lead the faction. Mr. Vordesh brought experience, some credits, and a good reputation to the faction, and, under him, the faction prospered.

Where other ship factions adapted old designs to meet their customers needs, HKD employees vowed to create new ships designs. While other factions chose build planets up only to reap the rewards, HKD vowed to build them up and use money to better the lives of the workers living there. Their goal was not to make as much money as possible but to better their lives and those of the friends, family, and colleagues. United by a common goal, they felt like nothing could stop them. After a few good months, and some sketch decisions and trades later, the faction fell on hard times. Contracts became more difficult to get, and the stress started to get to Vordesh. Even with Mr. Ackmins help, the faction began to slowly crumble.

Increases in prices and decreases in demand lead to the shipbuilding company to offer preorder after preorder, but rarely will one see a complete ship. While HKD had a strong policy against this practice, it found itself struggling to complete the orders and coming very close to breaking the promise it made to avoid committing a heinous crime against the public.

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Times were rough for HKD, and Leader Xedillian Vordesh left the faction, taking much of his assets with him. This put the Owner, and recently reappointed Leader, Mr. Ackmin into a bind. To gain a stimulus of credits, stock in the company was sold off. The idea seemed to work, as the faction stabilized, but with little incoming credits, the problems started to show a few weeks later. That is when Xabia Dementos joined the faction. Mr. Dementos was a know pirate, but Mr. Ackmin enjoyed his enthusiasm and hired him on to help him revitalize the faction. Everything seemed to work, as some contracts started to trickle in for Station construction and production were filed with the faction leadership. While everything seemed good, it in fact was not. The faction was in danger, and when Mr. Dementos had the chance, he took it. While

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organizing an order for a large capital ship, Mr. Dementos gained control of the faction. Now details were sketchy, but evidence poitns to Mr. Ackmin himself giving the Pirate these privileges. Mr. Dementos stole all of the money for the Construction Preorders, all the factions facilities, raw materials and kicked out all of the members. This put the faction in immediate Danger of dissolution. With no place to turn, Mr. Ackmin sold the Faction to the Nautolan Siejo Kutol.

Mr. Kutol had a bright reputation for leadership and turning factions around, having lead the Nautolan Society out of Darkness, and bringing the Corporate Alliance back from the brink of being dissolved. Using his connections, he threw everything he could into Hoersch-Kessel Drive, saving it from falling apart. Soon after, he signed a contract with the Corporate Alliance. This contract outlined a partnership in business and solidified the factions survival. With this partnership, the faction would always have contracts, which is vital for its survival.

New Life

Left With Hoersch-Kessel Drive stable, Mr. Kutol assigned Corporate Alliance Security Admiral Marid Sol to lead the faction, moving much of the Alliances Security team to Hoersch-Kessel Drive. The Security team would watch over the Alliances investments in Dolomar, and work on ship production and station construction for the Alliance.

Using some of his past connections, Siejo Kutol hired Krayt Fel, retired Leader of the Techno Union to lead the Production aspect of the faction. Shipyards began to spring up in Dolomar and production began a few months after the Faction was stable. With contracts from both the private sector, Nautolan Society and the Trade Federation, HKD was well on its way of becoming a respectable company once again.

In Year 10, with the help of the Trade Federation, HKD and the CA worked to secure the Oseon system for a new production complex for Hoersch Kessel Driveyards. After the initial construction of many large shipyards, HKD was set to build anything in the galaxy it could get its hands on the blueprints for. Shipyard rental for Alliance members became a norm and the faction began to offer Shipyard Rental services to clients outside the Corporate Alliance. Kran Chan, retired leader of the Commerce Guild, was appointed Leader of HKD after Krayt Fel stepped down. Kran had extensive experience in faction management and was a good friend of both the Trade Federation and Siejo Kutol.

As the Corporate Alliance, and in turn HKD grew, most of the work from the HKD production lines was fed to the Corporate Alliance Logistics departments. Specialty production employees became hard to come by and lead to a slow but steady descent in production until most of the HKD Yards. In Year 11, HKD had found it had turned into the one thing that it swore it never would, a Conglomerate Blob completely dependent on its host facton. Things had to change or the faction would die

Reclaiming Destiny

In Year 11 the Corporate Alliance disbanded its Conglomerate, allowing each of the 5 factions to work completely independently of each other. This meant that each faction, in order to survive and regain their stride, had to work hard or die trying. Not all factions made it, as Chiewab Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals Company and Order of the Progenitor soon dissolved without the steady leadership they required. The rest, grew much stronger. Hoersch-Kessel Drive, first under Tyrie Dajek and then under Lidrah Kinav looked to making completion of client contracts priority 1. Ship production lines were set, raw materials flowing, they just needed a good dedicated team to keep it at work. Recruiting picked up and the production lines began to slowly make it back to full capacity.

Mid Year 11, HKD joined the Corporate Alliance and Haven Recycling Corporation in refounding the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and served as the primary ship producer of the CIS fleet.