Byblos Drive Yards

Byblos Drive Yards
General Information
Motto	"Born to perform"
Status	Active
Leader	Neria Derycke
2IC	none
Owner	Anax Noctru
Historical Information
Founded	Year 13 Day 53
Political Information
Affiliation	neutral
Industry	Production, Category:Ship Manufacturers
Holosite	Byblos Drive Yards

History

Byblos Drive Yards is an archaic corporation nestled among countless other factions all vying for pride of place in the galactic markets. The many aging and mothballed factories of the Byblos' ship builders hold the unenviable reputation for producing vessels of questionable quality, however they have carved a niche out of being exceptionally flexible with regards to their clients' needs.

It is no secret that the palms of the decision makers in Byblos Drive Yards are easily greased, and that for the right price they'll make any adjustments you desire. These dubious practices set BDY apart from the majority of their competition, and it is the revenue from these less altruistic practices which subsidises the continued production of much needed spacecrafts for the hardworking peoples of the galaxy.

Irrespective of the casual slander levelled against the company due to its many failures, Byblos Drive Yards have nevertheless produced some or the more widely adopted fighter and freighter designs in the galaxy today. Designs such as the freighter Asteroid Mining Platform E-2 and the G1-A Transport fighter frame.

Once fat on royalties from the few successes Byblos Drive Yards can claim, the corporation is now little more than a footnote in a competitive marketplace. Under new leadership it is the hope of major stakeholders that the shipyards can rekindle its former glory and produce some much needed innovation within the stagnant research and development fields.

Noctru Corporation buys Byblos Drive Yards

After setting up the Noctru Corporation, a construction business which was very successful and earned millions of credits, The Nautolan, Anax Noctru wanted to expand his activity to other fields.

With this idea in mind, he looked around the various companies that had the best potential and that were affordable to him. However none convinced him fully. Then, for a series of events that some would call casuality, Anax came to know that Byblos Drive Yards was going through problems with its ownership.

His offer to buy the company out was initially discarded, but subsequent negotiations worked the magic: Anax managed to prove the validity of his plans for the future of the company and Byblos Drive Yards' management understood that the take over would have been in the best interests of all parties. When asked about the deal, Anax stated: "I'm not a perfect trader. I'm just always on the right place."

Now located in Polis Massa, this shipyard business has given and still gives new opportunities to his new owner. The yards are currently producing large ships such as Quasars, YV-666 and Tabders, freighters such as the well-known BFF-1 bulk as well as ships on-demand.

Future plans are always being devised to increase the catalogue of available ships.

On year 13 day 53 BDY operates under the wings of Anax Noctru with some key figures in the reformation of the company: Anax Noctru faction owner Alvin Cool 2 IC, Neria Derycke Head of Sentient Resources, Hemi Cuda Director of Prospection, Kendin Ragno Director of operations.

Growing too fast

In the first few months the company grew fast, the member count whent up to more then 40 key figures in the first 4 months, wich was welcome because of the orders coming in fast. But it also gave HC little time to organize everything in a proper way, especial in the structure Byblos operated, Alvin Cool dealt with the sales and running the faction in a whole. while Neria Derycke was supervising the members and dealt with flight training and assist the other departments, and stood in between High-Command and the lower ranks of Byblos. After 3 months since the overtake of Noctru Corporation of Byblos Drive Yards, plans where set in motion to devolp the planet Spindrift III in the Rseik sector. At that moment, the lower ranks started to complain about the leadership struggle between Alvin Cool and Anax Noctru, while Neria Derycke did her best to keep the members happy she became frustrated as more and more work was pushed into her hands, the promotion that should follow the amount of work she was pushed on made her leave the company, with her 4 others left Byblos and followed her to Tresario.

Declining

Soon after Neria left with a few others, more members decided to leave Byblos and look for a new home. Some became leaders or directors of other company's, most returned back to their home from a broken dream, and never heard from again. After two months 25 of 40 members had left the company, leadership was still strugglin and the company kept declining till onley 10 members where left.

SpindriftIII

Despite the internal problems of the company, Byblos had one major victory. Under the command of Wul Ujmuf Byblos managed to devolp Spindrift III making the citizens of the planet to apoint Byblos as leader of the planet. Spindrift III is now filled with factory's, hangars, appartments and many more.

Byblos relives

After almost a year, Byblos is now a slumbering company, production is slow and those that are still in Byblos do their best to keep the company running. Anax decides to offer leadership to Neria Derycke and led her get Byblos back on track the way she see best. Neria accepts the offer and heads back to Polis Masa, once arrived she starts to restructure the company: She brings central command of HC and the department offices in one building, making communitcation easier, allowing the order progres to run smoother. She scraps the old wage and ranking system and ceates a new, much simpler system in place. Scrapping the bonus system and brings a more rewarding in place. She brings in new ppl and places them in command possitions allong with some of the older employee's, giving them more room to improve their own methods in the local departments and holds a open policie towards all the employers regarding long term, mid term and short term goals of the company. Neria quickley gains the trust of the members who stayed and of the one's she brings into the company. She creates a system where leadership struggle is kept to a minimum. After 30 days since Neria is the new leader, sales, work and member count starts to improve.