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Ker-Plak-Er-Shtat.
Important NPC corps in lore:
Caldari State
Financial Institutions
Caldari Funds Unlimited
Caldari Funds Unlimited is the largest financial institution in the Caldari State, forming the foundation for much of the Caldari State's banking and investment infrastructure. The corporation is owned by the 8 largest megacorporations and has two primary functions: it is the State's largest provider of pension management services and also provides the State's largest pool of ISK available to the megacorporations for short and long term loans. It also performs a variety of other services and has holdings in a variety of other powerful corporations, giving it far more influence than its sub-megacorporate size might indicate.
Modern Finances
The largest investment company in the cluster, Modern Finances, one of the Caldari State's largest non-aligned financial institutions, is a progressive corporation willing to take chances and bet on high risk projects. The company has helped many prominent Caldari companies break out of the Caldari State and establish markets elsewhere, but Modern Finances are also heavily involved in foreign investment, especially in the Khanid Kingdom and the Amarr Empire, helping facilitate Lai Dai's establishment of both the Carthum Conglomerate and Khanid Innovation
Megacorporations
Ishukone
The Ishukone Corporation is one of the smallest of the "Big Eight" megacorporations in the Caldari State, and indeed for a long time Ishukonethe was the feeblest of the Caldari megacorporations, but contact with the Jovians changed that. Ishukone was the first company to establish trade links with the Jovians and received the capsule technology from the Jovians, which made Ishukone billions of ISK in revenue before other companies could catch up. Ishukone is still reaping the rewards of their good relations with the Jovians and it possesses the most advanced technology outside Jove space.
Ships designed by Ishukone typically fit railguns, and include:
Kaalakiota Corporation
The largest of the Caldari megacorporations, Kaalakiota has its fingers in most everything, though after the fall of Tibus Heth, Kaalakiota has found itself in need of a new CEO and major reorganisation. They are manufacturers, distributors, retailers and researchers, as well as being a formidable voice in Caldari politics. Their great rivals in both business and politics is the Sukuuvestaa Corporation.
Ships designed by Kaalakiota include:
Lai Dai Corporation
Lai Dai has always advocated quality over quantity and their products have always been of the highest standard. Lai Dai has an energetic research program and rivals the great Ishukone in technological achievements.
The Lai Dai Corporation is the primary corporation that makes up the Lai Dai Megacorporation. While the megacorporation is involved in just about every aspect of business from starships to real estate to entertainment, the core Lai Dai Corporation conducts technology research and development and manufactures the products of its research programs. From its research programs and manufacturing lines, Lai Dai has produced some now common quality products. The Lai Dai corporation also has its fingers in many pies, owning large amounts of shares in corporations outside the Caldari State such as the Carthum Conglomerate and Khanid Innovation.
Ships designed by Lai Dai typically fit missile launchers, and include:
Amarr Empire
Khanid Innovation
Khanid Innovation is a hi-tech research firm that has come up with many astounding discoveries in the past few decades. The company has always been at the forefront of weapon research thanks to the urgency in combating the threat of an Amarrian invasion. Due to strong ties with the Caldari State, a bi-product of its establishment buy the Lai Dai megacorporation, ships designed by Khanid Innovation have some of the most advanced missile systems outside of Caldari space, while retaining the Amarr tradition of fitting state-of-the-art armor plating for defense.
Ships designed by Khanid Innovation include:
Carthum Conglomerate
The Carthum Conglomerate is a fairly new company that was formed with aid from the Caldari Lai Dai megacorporation, which now owns a considerable share in the company. Carthum brought much needed vitality into the stale field of research and development and, along with Viziam, has been responsible for the respectable hi-tech gadgetry in many recent Amarrian space ships.
Ships designed by the Carthum Conglomerate include:
Viziam
Viziam is only a few years old, having been founded around the remnants of a hi-tech company that floundered. Viziam received support from the Carthum Conglomerate and has quickly risen to prominence in the industrial sector of the Amarr Empire.
Ships designed by the Viziam include:
