General Development Company

GeDeCo, as it is commonly known, is much more than a trading company. It was founded in the Year 700, in the wake of the Civil War, with a mandate to foster trade and development in the wild space along the Reft and Trojan Reach sectors. The company was formed by nobles in Deneb, who purchased several failing shipping lines and combined them into the new business. GeDeCo began by ‘bootstrapping’ backwards and underdeveloped worlds along Reft, selling them progressively more advanced technology in exchange for raw materials.
By the year 800, the standard GeDeCo contract had evolved. Sign the contract, and your world will be provided with a Class C or Class B starport, technical knowledge, equipment and training to raise your world’s Tech Level at a stable and non-disruptive rate, and a market for your planet’s raw materials, ores, textiles and other low-tech goods. All it costs you is a percentage of those low-tech goods, giving a seat on your ruling body to GeDeCo, and obeying various customs such as safe passage for Travellers, the Imperial rules of war and so forth. GeDeCo made a moderately good return and brought civilisation to dangerous regions of the galaxy.
The Trojan Reach directorate of GeDeCo is based on Vorito, and is largely independent from the main office on Deneb. The company is responsible for building and maintaining starports all over the sector, especially along the The Florian Route, and for sending trade missions out to minor worlds, drawing them into the web of galactic commerce. GeDeCo has been accused of questionable and even unethical policies in the past; the influential Ahroay’if Clan has accused GeDeCo of espionage, piracy and anti-Aslan propaganda, and now refuses to trade directly with the megacorporation.

Structure

Home Port: Vorito (in the Reach) and Deneb (main office) Territory: Deneb, Reft, Trojan Reach, Beyond

The General Development Company (GeDeCo) is not the largest Imperial corporation operating in the Reach, but it is one of the most widespread. The company was originally founded to improve conditions in colonies and independent worlds throughout the Reach, but has become a major political player. GeDeCo advisors have the ear of many rulers of the independent worlds.

Founding Date

700

Type

Megacorporation

Alternative Names

GeDeCo

Parent Organization

Third Imperium

Location

Vorito

Controlled Territories

• Exe

Related Species

• Human - Vilani - Obsolete