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Sunvalley Industries
The Sunvalley Industries (S.I.) is a Terran corporation. Named after the eponymous region in Rim Billiton, it is a mega-conglomeration that operates independently from the Billitonian corporation union and expands its business outside of its border, notably in Sargon, Columbia, and Bolívar.
Background[edit]
The Sunvalley Industries was originally a mere workshop run by a Cautus family dwelling in the Sun Valley, a region famous for its high-quality Originium deposits. The region is unique in a sense that local miners uncover its unusual geothermal energy and its shining Originium crystals even during the night, leading to the locals describing the place having "an underground sun," hence its name. Entering the modern era as the locals no longer fear the underground heat, the Sun Valley becomes a competition hotspot in which various families fight against each other for ownership. After years of business conflicts, a larger family unified the smaller ones, negotiated their shares in the region, and set up the Sunvalley Mining Association.[1]
In its early years, Sunvalley was just an ordinary corporation with only some highlights of several local sports events. Furthermore, Rim Billiton has the custom of grouping their corporations under one banner, and Sunvalley was just one of these many companies. But in the last few decades Sunvalley slowly expanded its business field from mining association to a conglomeration spanning in all fields, leading to the modern S.I. that is able to separate itself independently from the Billitonian corporation union. The conglomeration mainly focuses on heavy industries such as quarries, refineries, and agricultural machineries and includes the services of entrepreneurship and machinery maintenance, but it also includes various subsidies like weather forecasts and even toy production. Furthermore, its high-quality production at a very cheap cost brings attention to many foreign businesses, allowing S.I. to quickly expand their businesses outside the Billitonian border. Back in their homeland, S.I. actively incorporates other businesses under its wings, and the corporation sets up strict rules to treat every family within its wings equally while encouraging their staff to "live their lives like the Sun Valley."[1]
Organization[edit]
S.I. has some strange features in which it does not operate in a usual way as a company. Rather, it is composed of various scattered autonomous departments and factories united under a common brand name. These departments are:[2]
- The General Secretariat that is run by the S.I. shareholders, the large Cautus family who has founded the conglomeration.
- The General Headquarters which is responsible for S.I.'s executive section.
- The General Planning Department that oversees their factories across Terra and distributes their supplies equally.
- The General Services Department that takes care of their management offices and oversees their factories' infrastructures and workers' welfare.
One of S.I.'s labor welfare is their provision of settlements for their workers and their families in exchange for their services. These worker settlements or communes act as an independent community like a traditional Rim Billitonian family community. They use coupons for trading, and essential public services will be provided to the workers and their families such as public baths and canteens by showing their coupons to the welfare staff. Even their children will have free public education before entering their factories upon adulthood.[3]
S.I. focuses more on production of labor rather than gaining profit like Columbian corporations. As such, local offices conduct daily contact with other departments. S.I. upholds its creed in which they encourage their workers to "work for a better life."[2]
Notable staff[edit]
| Character | Information
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Status
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| An S.I. staff active in Sargon, acting as their salesman and liaison for Ibut insurgents in Fire Within the Sand and Rhodes Island in Tales Within the Sand. | Alive
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