Takanashi Antimatter
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Template:Infobox CompanyTakanashi Antimatter is a human-run mega-corporation responsible for the vast majority of Antimatter production in the Local Group. The company is owned by the Takanashi Family, and the largest source of revenue for them.
Founding
Itsuki Takanashi developed a highly compact particle accelerator in 2111. The device created antimatter efficiently and at a much faster rate than any other production method at the time. Takanashi took out a loan and founded his start-up company in 2121. His start-up quickly grew as orders for antimatter began to flow in. The company went public in 2142 with Takanashi as the CEO and majority shareholder.
History
After going public, the company quickly expanded, creating dozens of production facilities across Japan. Due to the destructive nature of antimatter, the company was mandated to build its facilities in orbital factories, or on baren areas of the then unterraformed moon. Over time the company would absorb rivaling companies. Booker Accelerators and Twórca Antymaterii were two companies that were bought out by Takanashi Antimatter.
After the death of Takanashi his son, Hiroki Sakagami became the CEO in 2201.
The company expanded and spread with humanity. Selling to colonists, governments, private citizens, weapons manufacturers, and energy production companies. Several alien states also began to purchase antimatter from Takanashi Antimatter.
When aliens were first admitted to the Confederacy, many became part of the board of directors, with several even becoming the CEO for a time.
In 12983, Takanashi Antimatter purchased the planet Jophtio and the system it was in. This planet became the main storage facility for Takanashi Antimatter's then legal Strange Matter. In 15003, an accident resulted in the entire planet being consumed by Strange Matter. This accident resulted in an international ban on the production of Strange matter, however this did little to stop Takanashi Antimatter's production. The company began selling it in secret to many individuals and even governments, with their largest customer being The Supreme.
Eventually, the company took an interest in the production of exotic matter, because of its uses in artificial gravity and wormhole construction. The company began to buy every mining facility it could, eventually owning the vast majority of production in the universe.
In 9874, Riki Takanashi refused to become the next CEO of the company. The various aliens, acting because of Misanthropy, decided to try to wrestle the company away from human control. They attempted to kill the human board members to seize power for themselves. Senku Takanashi I and Yukari Sakagami fled the Milky Way to escape.
The company war renamed to Standard Antimatter until 9901, when Senku I managed to bankrupt the company by bombing their ships, and bought up the company with intimidation and the money he got from piracy.
After this, the company would sell to any side in a conflict and would pledge a strict stance of neutrality. Any attempt to prevent the neutrality was met with strict antimatter sanctions on the offending entity. Takanashi Antimatter has a virtual monopoly on antimatter production, so if they were to stop selling antimatter to an entity, it would quickly run out and would have nowhere else to go for their antimatter needs.
Philosophy
Takanashi Antimatter has three main philosophies. One is to sell cheap antimatter, strange matter, and exotic matter. Two is to be the only company doing this. Three is to be neutral above all else. All of these philosophies are better described as goals and have been consistently achieved for thousands of years.
Operations
Revenue
Takanashi Antimatter is one of the largest companies in the Borealis Cluster, and has consistently been in the top 15 largest companies since the year 3076. Currently, the company has a revenue of 201 Octillion C-Units.
While having a virtual monopoly (95%) in the Local Group, the company only makes up 31% of all antimatter production in the Borealis Cluster. They are still the largest by far, however. With no other company even controlling a single percentage of the industry.
The company does everything in it's power to buy out smaller companies. In 199946, they had begun a hostile takeover of twenty smaller companies. At this point in time, the progress is ongoing, and the company is receiving stiff resistance from them.
Secret deals
Just like any secretive organization, Takanashi Antimatter has many secretive deals with various entities.
Takanashi Antimatter does not know that it is dealing with an Artifical Intelligence, the company thinks that it is dealing with the Tloinan Empire (a pseudonym for The Supreme). The deal is that the Supreme supplies cheap construction drones or satellites and in return receives large amounts of Strange matter from Takanashi Antimatter. The deal is a secret to prevent the public from knowing about the company's Strange matter.
The inhabitants of this empire are so widely disgusted and hated, that Takanashi Antimatter had to sell to them in secret. Their business deals had to be secret, or the company would lose a large amount of credibility and have its reputation nearly destroyed. "These Shinja are a disgrace to Japan. I would never speak to one, nor would I ever want to know one. However, they have money and are willing to give it to us. Therefore we will gladly sell to them, for a slightly increased price of course." -Rikka Takanashi CEO
The Templars are a race of robots inhabiting the Andromeda I galaxy. Most corporations refuse to do business with them due to humanity's general distrust of artificial intelligence. This stigma does not stop Takanashi antimatter from selling to them, however. The Templars do not have much money, so instead, they trade things like drones and raw materials for the antimatter. Which Takanashi antimatter can then resell for a higher price.
Surprisingly, Takanashi Antimatter has made countless deals with private companies in The Commonwealth. This has given them a large surplus of exotic matter, and makes them a high importer of antimatter. Strange matter is also being sold to the military, in order to gain more power in remote regions.
Security Force
Antimatter is a very valuable substance, at about 500 C-Units per kilogram, so it is natural that pirates would want to steal it. When the company first started shipping antimatter, it had to hire private security forces to protect the valuable shipments. This went on for millennia, until the current CEO, Masuyo Takanashi, purchased large amounts of surplus ships at the time of theWar of the Ancients. These ships defend the antimatter freighters from pirates and occasionally their competitors.
The fleet currently is made up of this number of ships.
- 1.2 Billion Starfighters
- 1 Billion Corvettes
- 500 Million Frigates
- 100 Thousand Destroyers
- 107 Cruisers
- 10 Battleships
- 40 Trillion Freighters
- 302 Billion Super Freighters
- 3 Titan Freighters