[size=larger]Stellvia Corporation Report to the Shareholders, Fiscal Year 2021-2022[/size]
What's happened with StellviaCorp?
Over the second decade of the 21st centruy, StellviaCorp decided to concentrate on their core strengths - trade (through Stellvia Trading), astronomical research (through the Artemis Foundation), and philanthropic work (through the Nikaido Foundation), in that order. They announced in May 2016 that they "support the efforts of the Clarke Group of Central Station to coordinate activities of interest to everyone in the Earth-Luna L5 area," substantially reducing their own political power in the process. A month later, the company announced the purchase of 10% of Hermes Universal Deliveries and 25% of the Solomon Space Agency. Analysts believe that the HUD purchase was intended to keep CHOAM from gaining a stranglehold on interplanetary trading by injecting cash into one of that company's largest rivals. The SSA purchase gave StellviaCorp (and, by extension, HUD) preferred access to a launch facility on what is quickly becoming one of the busiest trade routes between Earth and cislunar space.
Construction of station Ultima began in June 2016, after the return of the first Zeta Tucanae Exploration Mission to the Solar System. That expedition found little of material or biological interest, but they did establish a reliable communications line from Sol to ? Tucane, and the station was designed to be the Sol end of that line.
Once Ultima was completed in 2019, Miyuri Akisato was assigned as its commander and Yuu Inagawa became the manager of the station's hotel. While this was widely seen as good for the station and StellviaCorp as a whole, Noah Scott's closest friends wonder why he sent two of his most trusted companions to a place where they couldn't speak with him on a moment's notice.
The Rinna Kazamatsuri (nicknamed "Hanger Queen Rinna" by the Starfleet engineers who built her) was finally completed in 2022. Noah Scott surprised everyone by not transferring it to the Artemis Foundation, instead putting his aide-de-camp Safety in command of the ship and giving her orders to recruit a crew and go explore and map the Beta Hydri system. This has widely been seen as Noah's emotions getting the better of him - assigning the ship to Artemis would have meant partially "giving up" control of it to the VVS, a faction with which StellviaCorp's relations had been cooling for a number of years. However, it is carrying out valuable astronomical research - ß Hydri is the closest red giant to Sol, and there were more qualified applicants for the ship's astrophysics department than there were positions available in the ship's entire scientific complement.
The Nikaido Foundation has become the smallest of StellviaCorp's concerns, finding more in common with the Blue Blazers and the Sailor Armed Militia than with their corporate parents. They aren't in any financial difficulty, but they aren't receiving the moral support that they used to be able to rely on from StellviaCorp.
How is StellviaCorp getting along with the other factions?
In a word: Poorly.
In more than one word: Things aren't nearly as bad as they were right after IslandCon, but they're worse than they were in the mid-2010s.
They're still staunch allies of the Crystal Millennium - Crystal Titusville is very good to both groups - but this is becoming less a partnership and more an alliance of convenience every year.
While they're still friendly with the Galactic Republic and the VVS on paper, relations with both groups have cooled significantly in the last half-decade. Publicly this is because of the redacted portions of the Whole Fenspace Catalog; the other factions are no longer willing to trust the Stellvians to be completely open in its dealings with them.
Interestingly, the company has been forming closer ties with the Mars Terraforming Project as its ties with the Warsies and the Soviets have loosened.
While JMC has common cause with StellviaCorp in their efforts to keep CHOAM from dominating interplanetary trade, the two companies don't have any formal agreements to work together.
What's going on with the Stellvians?
Noah Scott is, of course, still in charge of StellviaCorp. He's becoming more set in his ways as he approaches his 60th birthday, finding more in common with financial groups on Earth than with the other SMOFs. He resigned his Troubleshooter rank a few months after the Quattro incident. While he's thrown himself into his StellviaCorp work more than ever before - some of his friends say he's done this to avoid looking at what's happened in the last five years - he can always find time for his daughter Helen. [size=smaller](Noah has, very very occasionally, been seen to be looking at a photo of himself and Sora Hasegawa aboard Grover's Corners the day it launched while listening to the song "Margaritaville" - those episodes always end with him needing to replace the picture frame and a speaker.)[/size]
Leda Swansen is busy with original genetic research, trying her best to avoid relying on the Whole Fenspace Catalog. Her work on genetic therapy techniques to treat low-gravity disorders is showing great promise. Currently, she's slightly distant from Noah, but still loves and stands by him; these things happen in even the happiest of marriages.
Helen Scott attends classes at PS238, and is worried because her father is "angry all the time." Her parents and her aunt Yayoi are careful to make sure Helen knows it isn't her fault.
Yayoi Fujisawa, as Vice-President of StellviaCorp, serves as the public face of the company more often than Noah does. She's very busy keeping the SMOFs' opinion of StellviaCorp from hitting rock-bottom altogether, and wishes she had time to fly more often - she hasn't played astroball since 2017.
Kelly Harrison is in charge of the entire Stellvia Hotels chain. She splits her time between her offices in the Hotel Stellvia, the Hotel Odyssey, the Hotel Ultima, and the Hotel Choiseul (located just outside the SSA's ground facility).
Takami Sakuragi is StellviaCorp's infomation-security chief, responsible for keeping the company's secrets secret. She's become Noah's confidant almost by default (considering how busy Yayoi has become), and is dating Jake Hansen.
Jake Hansen spends most of his time commanding Stellvia, and the rest of his time trying to figure out how to tell Noah he's being a damned fool. Takami is 100% behind Noah, and this has become a point of contention in their relationship.
Kagome Mishima has taken Miyuri's role as second-in-command of Stellvia. Her organizational skills make her a natural for the position. She's maturing; she hasn't developed a crush on Jake.
The original senior management of Wonderland - Micheline Rouleau, Jerry Freedman, Lea Meadows, and Dr. Sergy Gudanov - are still in their jobs on Wonderland, keeping their heads down. They're very careful to remain neutral in all the politics, being unwilling to place "L5's breadbasket" [size=smaller](yes, they know how hollow a boast that is)[/size] in any difficulty that it doesn't need to be in.
Patty O'Neill remains in charge of Odyssey. She's been forming ties with the Mars Terraforming Project and the UFP over the last few years, and improving the station to the point where it's beginning to be considered as having the potential to be a possible rival to Starbase 1 as a vacation spot.
As has already been mentioned, Miyuri Akisato is the commander of station Ultima and Yuu Inagawa runs the station's hotel. Safety is in command of the Rinna Kazamatsuri They're all busy, and on the whole "out of the loop" when it comes to how StellviaCorp fits into the modern political landscape.
Then there are the people who've left the company...
Sora Hasegawa is happy with the VVS and is not currently on speaking terms with her father.
Yomiko Readman sold her shares back to StellviaCorp two months after she received them, moved to Grover's Corners, and took full-time employment at PS238. She is building a one-room apartment and a library beside the school, with the help of the Corners' original residents; Gaia keeps voting against Yomiko's expansion plans for the still-unfinished library.
Star sold her shares back to StellviaCorp in 2017, bought the Concorde that serves as her body, and is now running her own passenger business on the Earth/Luna/L5 triangle (on the same model as Orbital Air). The parting was friendly; Star's company is named "Route à les étoiles."
The biggest surprise came in 2018, when Kohran Li sold her shares back to StellviaCorp, moved to Deimos, and started doing pyrotechnic work for the Clark Savage, Jr. Memorial Stadium and Music Complex when not performing there in her "Red Lad Revue." Kohran's the only person still on speaking terms with both Sora and Noah, and has struck up a slightly-distant friendship with Natsuko Aki. She is living with a young woman (apparently Kohran's bodyguard) known by the name Makoto Miyadera.
Natsuko Aki is reconciling with the Stellvians - well, at least, with Kohran - but isn't giving up anything she's worked to achieve. She's still proud of being the Best Damn Cop on Mars.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
What's happened with StellviaCorp?
Over the second decade of the 21st centruy, StellviaCorp decided to concentrate on their core strengths - trade (through Stellvia Trading), astronomical research (through the Artemis Foundation), and philanthropic work (through the Nikaido Foundation), in that order. They announced in May 2016 that they "support the efforts of the Clarke Group of Central Station to coordinate activities of interest to everyone in the Earth-Luna L5 area," substantially reducing their own political power in the process. A month later, the company announced the purchase of 10% of Hermes Universal Deliveries and 25% of the Solomon Space Agency. Analysts believe that the HUD purchase was intended to keep CHOAM from gaining a stranglehold on interplanetary trading by injecting cash into one of that company's largest rivals. The SSA purchase gave StellviaCorp (and, by extension, HUD) preferred access to a launch facility on what is quickly becoming one of the busiest trade routes between Earth and cislunar space.
Construction of station Ultima began in June 2016, after the return of the first Zeta Tucanae Exploration Mission to the Solar System. That expedition found little of material or biological interest, but they did establish a reliable communications line from Sol to ? Tucane, and the station was designed to be the Sol end of that line.
Once Ultima was completed in 2019, Miyuri Akisato was assigned as its commander and Yuu Inagawa became the manager of the station's hotel. While this was widely seen as good for the station and StellviaCorp as a whole, Noah Scott's closest friends wonder why he sent two of his most trusted companions to a place where they couldn't speak with him on a moment's notice.
The Rinna Kazamatsuri (nicknamed "Hanger Queen Rinna" by the Starfleet engineers who built her) was finally completed in 2022. Noah Scott surprised everyone by not transferring it to the Artemis Foundation, instead putting his aide-de-camp Safety in command of the ship and giving her orders to recruit a crew and go explore and map the Beta Hydri system. This has widely been seen as Noah's emotions getting the better of him - assigning the ship to Artemis would have meant partially "giving up" control of it to the VVS, a faction with which StellviaCorp's relations had been cooling for a number of years. However, it is carrying out valuable astronomical research - ß Hydri is the closest red giant to Sol, and there were more qualified applicants for the ship's astrophysics department than there were positions available in the ship's entire scientific complement.
The Nikaido Foundation has become the smallest of StellviaCorp's concerns, finding more in common with the Blue Blazers and the Sailor Armed Militia than with their corporate parents. They aren't in any financial difficulty, but they aren't receiving the moral support that they used to be able to rely on from StellviaCorp.
How is StellviaCorp getting along with the other factions?
In a word: Poorly.
In more than one word: Things aren't nearly as bad as they were right after IslandCon, but they're worse than they were in the mid-2010s.
They're still staunch allies of the Crystal Millennium - Crystal Titusville is very good to both groups - but this is becoming less a partnership and more an alliance of convenience every year.
While they're still friendly with the Galactic Republic and the VVS on paper, relations with both groups have cooled significantly in the last half-decade. Publicly this is because of the redacted portions of the Whole Fenspace Catalog; the other factions are no longer willing to trust the Stellvians to be completely open in its dealings with them.
Interestingly, the company has been forming closer ties with the Mars Terraforming Project as its ties with the Warsies and the Soviets have loosened.
While JMC has common cause with StellviaCorp in their efforts to keep CHOAM from dominating interplanetary trade, the two companies don't have any formal agreements to work together.
What's going on with the Stellvians?
Noah Scott is, of course, still in charge of StellviaCorp. He's becoming more set in his ways as he approaches his 60th birthday, finding more in common with financial groups on Earth than with the other SMOFs. He resigned his Troubleshooter rank a few months after the Quattro incident. While he's thrown himself into his StellviaCorp work more than ever before - some of his friends say he's done this to avoid looking at what's happened in the last five years - he can always find time for his daughter Helen. [size=smaller](Noah has, very very occasionally, been seen to be looking at a photo of himself and Sora Hasegawa aboard Grover's Corners the day it launched while listening to the song "Margaritaville" - those episodes always end with him needing to replace the picture frame and a speaker.)[/size]
Leda Swansen is busy with original genetic research, trying her best to avoid relying on the Whole Fenspace Catalog. Her work on genetic therapy techniques to treat low-gravity disorders is showing great promise. Currently, she's slightly distant from Noah, but still loves and stands by him; these things happen in even the happiest of marriages.
Helen Scott attends classes at PS238, and is worried because her father is "angry all the time." Her parents and her aunt Yayoi are careful to make sure Helen knows it isn't her fault.
Yayoi Fujisawa, as Vice-President of StellviaCorp, serves as the public face of the company more often than Noah does. She's very busy keeping the SMOFs' opinion of StellviaCorp from hitting rock-bottom altogether, and wishes she had time to fly more often - she hasn't played astroball since 2017.
Kelly Harrison is in charge of the entire Stellvia Hotels chain. She splits her time between her offices in the Hotel Stellvia, the Hotel Odyssey, the Hotel Ultima, and the Hotel Choiseul (located just outside the SSA's ground facility).
Takami Sakuragi is StellviaCorp's infomation-security chief, responsible for keeping the company's secrets secret. She's become Noah's confidant almost by default (considering how busy Yayoi has become), and is dating Jake Hansen.
Jake Hansen spends most of his time commanding Stellvia, and the rest of his time trying to figure out how to tell Noah he's being a damned fool. Takami is 100% behind Noah, and this has become a point of contention in their relationship.
Kagome Mishima has taken Miyuri's role as second-in-command of Stellvia. Her organizational skills make her a natural for the position. She's maturing; she hasn't developed a crush on Jake.
The original senior management of Wonderland - Micheline Rouleau, Jerry Freedman, Lea Meadows, and Dr. Sergy Gudanov - are still in their jobs on Wonderland, keeping their heads down. They're very careful to remain neutral in all the politics, being unwilling to place "L5's breadbasket" [size=smaller](yes, they know how hollow a boast that is)[/size] in any difficulty that it doesn't need to be in.
Patty O'Neill remains in charge of Odyssey. She's been forming ties with the Mars Terraforming Project and the UFP over the last few years, and improving the station to the point where it's beginning to be considered as having the potential to be a possible rival to Starbase 1 as a vacation spot.
As has already been mentioned, Miyuri Akisato is the commander of station Ultima and Yuu Inagawa runs the station's hotel. Safety is in command of the Rinna Kazamatsuri They're all busy, and on the whole "out of the loop" when it comes to how StellviaCorp fits into the modern political landscape.
Then there are the people who've left the company...
Sora Hasegawa is happy with the VVS and is not currently on speaking terms with her father.
Yomiko Readman sold her shares back to StellviaCorp two months after she received them, moved to Grover's Corners, and took full-time employment at PS238. She is building a one-room apartment and a library beside the school, with the help of the Corners' original residents; Gaia keeps voting against Yomiko's expansion plans for the still-unfinished library.
Star sold her shares back to StellviaCorp in 2017, bought the Concorde that serves as her body, and is now running her own passenger business on the Earth/Luna/L5 triangle (on the same model as Orbital Air). The parting was friendly; Star's company is named "Route à les étoiles."
The biggest surprise came in 2018, when Kohran Li sold her shares back to StellviaCorp, moved to Deimos, and started doing pyrotechnic work for the Clark Savage, Jr. Memorial Stadium and Music Complex when not performing there in her "Red Lad Revue." Kohran's the only person still on speaking terms with both Sora and Noah, and has struck up a slightly-distant friendship with Natsuko Aki. She is living with a young woman (apparently Kohran's bodyguard) known by the name Makoto Miyadera.
Natsuko Aki is reconciling with the Stellvians - well, at least, with Kohran - but isn't giving up anything she's worked to achieve. She's still proud of being the Best Damn Cop on Mars.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012