Verne Company (ヴェルヌ社) is a massive company headquartered in Calvard and its biggest manufacturer.
Background[]
Like its industrial rival, the Reinford Company, the Verne Company was a storied arms manufacturer that expanded into orbal research and development after the Orbal Revolution. The Verne Company is the Republic's largest business. It is noted middle eastern scholars have been contributing to Calvard's technology and science for a long time, and have a massive influence over institutions such as Verne. Latoya Hamilton is one such individual, who sat on Verne's board of directors for a long time before departing her position to head east. Elsaim is one of the primary shareholders and have a large sway, but are not the largest.
The Basel Institute of Science and Craftsman's Guild co-founded the Verne Company following the arrival of orbal technology brought by Hamilton to the city ofBasel, where the company is based. Large regions of the city, known as New Town have sprung up around it in response, 45 years prior to the start of Trails through Daybreak. Thier influence is such that Verne can use their emergency administrative authority to enact traffic restrictions in the area. The Institute and Verne largely let each other do what they want.
Internationally, they are particularly known for their innovative approaches to the development of orbal vehicles such as orbal cars and buses.
Trails of Cold Steel IV[]
In July S.1206, the Republic Army of Calvard's special force Hercules infiltrates Heimdallr. They carry Verne-made weaponry and RAMDA, the tactical orbment featuring cutting-edge technology. One of the weapons they dropped was picked up by Ash Carbide, which he used for the attempted assassination of Emperor Eugent Reise Arnor III. The weapon was found and the imperial government interpreted the attack as a declaration of war, leading them to respond with Operation Jormungand.
Trails into Reverie[]
After the peace and independence were restored in Crossbell, Erika Rusell paid visit to the company as a representative of Zeiss Central Factory and asked if Verne would join the West Zemuria Technological Alliance. It was expected that the proposal was rejected. However, the company made an announcement that they would develop the next generation of tactile orbment, excluding the Epstein Foundation in the development team. This was a controversial decision as the Epstein Foundation, which had jointly developed each previous iteration of combat orbment, had been viewed as having exclusive rights. After numerous failures to negotiate, and seeing a threat to its monopoly, the Epstein Foundation decided to file a lawsuit against Verne. Verne had the upper hand in the court.
Trails through Daybreak[]
Verne's technological line up has seriously increased these past two years in part due to their trade deals with the Reinford Group, in Erebonia.
Verne's stocks are fluctuating during this time period, following the speculation of a new patent lawsuit and despite a massive cash injection from Elsaim. The Patriot party, head by president Roy Gramheart is said to have a contract with Verne. The funding is stable but they are behind schedule on a number of projects, including the latest generation of Calvard's military technology- a secret project. Their other major project is rolling out the Xipha technology to the public.
The Verne Company is one of three major powers governing the city of Basel where their headquarters is based. Alongside the Craftman's Guild and the Basel Institute of Science, CEO Bill Tausend is one of the key people who can grant access to the different tiers of the city by authorising security clearance. With the lawsuit being a prominent issue, and frequent power fluctuations in the city, Tausend attempts to cover up any irregularities, arousing the suspicion and concern of some of the companies major stakeholders, resulting in the Arkride Solutions Office being dispatched to investigate. Tausend is not very cooperative.
Under approval by by the president, Verne conduct technological exchange with the Marduk Company to develop technology such as a super low orbit comms satellite, travelling about 900 selge above ground, but not in outer space.
With his recent failures taken into account, president Gramheart wonders if it is time for Tausend to step down as the CEO.
Kuro no Kiseki II: CRIMSON SiN[]
Following the incident with Almata, Bill Tausend is no longer the CEO of Verne due to his constant failures.
Notable Developments[]
The Verne Company is known to have developed, or contributed to the development of:
- Orbal firearms, including those impervious to metal detectors such as the one used by Ash Carbide or Quatre's pulse gun.
- RAMDA- The fifth generation combat orbment, developed jointly with the Epstein Foundation and its integrated stealth technology.
- Xipha- The sixth generation combat orbment, developed independently following funding from Valis Investments bank. Designed to worked with AI such as the hollow cores.
- Artificial Intelligence such as that found in drones like FIO or XEROS
- Glare series camera- a state of the art camera
- Orbal bike - following their widespread usage in the Empire.
- Orbal cars, with four major licensees created to manufacturer them: Leno, ETWS, Ingert and Red Star. Verne directly run the motor pavilion in the city.
- Verne use their considerable manufacturing power to create medicines and drugs developed by Remiferia, which are then sold by pharmaceutical companies.
- Low orbit communication satellites (in partnership with Marduk)
- Latest generation of Calvardian miliary technology, co developed with Marduk, including the IX-Alba Class Air Cruiser, Assault frame- a humanoid weapon system and spiritual successor to the Panzer Soldat, and Schedar series tank. Yang Cronkite led the development of this.
Notable Individuals[]
The following people are key figures associated with the Verne Company:
- Bill Tausend- CEO (formerly)
- Latoya Hamilton - Special advisor
- Quatre Salision - Assistant to CEO (formerly)
- Barnaby - works in Verne's supply department, where research funds are allocated to develop new products and has the Institute conduct said research
- Radard - manager of the Verne Store
- Harrison - Works in Verne Arms, Verne's weapon development division.
