Ceironian National Industrial Conglomerate

Ceironian National Industrial Conglomerate

File:Nimroy Tower.png The Conglomerate Headquarters in Kashini City, Kashini, also known as Nimroy Tower
Type	Public
Traded as	KSE: CNIC
Industry	Aerospace, Automotive, Arms, Computer, Energy, Film, Gambling, Hospitality, Leisure, Mining, News Media, Software, Sport, Transport
Predecessor	Ceironian National Arms Corporation
Founded	May 18, 2454, 45 years ago
Founder	Douglas T. Nimroy
Headquarters	Greater Kashini Metropolitan Region, Kashini, C.U.
Area served	Worldwide (Except Suton, Solan, Cralas, Erdelicht, Sinkayiah and Polereg).
Key people	Howard Stark Nimroy (Executive Chairman) Obadiah Stane (President & CEO)
Owner	Nimroy Family (33.62% voting power) The Prosperity Association (26.20%) Li-Fronestadt Group (29.80%) Other CNIC Shareholders (10.38%)

The Ceironian National Industrial Conglomerate (CNIC), is a Ceironian multinational, multi-industry military and consumer goods manufacturer headquartered in Kashini City, Kashini, Ceironian Union. It was created through a restructuring of the Ceironian National Arms Corporation on May 18, 2454, and became the parent company of Inron Armaments & Armoured Automobiles, Latango Arms and Spania Aeronautics. Later on, upon branching outside of military-industrial manufacturing, additional companies were either founded by or absorbed into the corporation, namely Nimroy-Hawkings Co, the Kashini Extraterrestrial Company, Svantara Fusion Inc and the Mass-Calculator Company, for the full list, see list of mergers and acquisitions by the CNIC. The Nimroy Family have remained as the controlling shareholders, board members, and employees at the CNIC for most of its history, aside from a hiccup in 2463 to 2475 generally known as the Volgov Period. The CNIC is the world's largest company by revenue and has secured that position for a majority of its existence.

Conglomerate History

2427-2451: Rise to Prominence

Founded in 2427 during the merger of the Latango Arms Incorporated (now the Kashini Corporation) and Spania General Arms (now Spania Aeronautics), the Ceironian National Industrial Conglomerate quickly became the largest Ceironian government military-industrial contractor. The CNIC prior to 2454 was known as the Ceironian National Arms Corporation (CNAC). Whilst currently serving as the head administrative and financial company within the CNIC, the Kashini Corporation used to be involved in the production of military equipment. However as of 2454 onward, those responsibilities were stripped and it became the conglomerate face. The SAC was merely renamed to a more suitable title due to it primarily serving within both the civilian and military aeronautics industries. Additional companies such as the Inron Arms Company and North Kashini Arms were renamed to Inron Armaments & Armoured Automobiles and the Kashini Extraterrestrial Kompany. The sudden change from arms to extraterrestrial is that the NKA evolved from being simply a missile production company, to a privatised space program initiative, which heavily increased CNIC public standing during the Nimroy Era.

From May 2427 to June 2441, the CNAC was led by CEP Arthur L. Maliokov, under his Executive Premiership the two companies extended as the largest military-industrial entities within the Ceironian Union in both their professions of small arms, combat vehicles, utility trucks, attack and fighter aircraft production. Most manufactory facilities produced by the two companies lied within the cities of Latango, Spania, Horyuxia and Jacan, providing employment to several dozen thousand workers within the formerly mentioned cities. Maliokov during this time period was ahead of his time in terms of worker treatment, safety standards and environmental regulations if there were any. Unlike other businesses during the time period, neither Latango or Spania cut corners to evade cost cuts, didn't partake in scamming workers out of their labour, or offshoring to countries such as Thraxia or Ginsukyo, which were common sources of offshoring by many Ceironian companies. This earnt the CNAC a reputation as being loyal to the nation and the people, with improved its reputation immensely despite being a war profiteer company, it also provided perks such as favourable taxes and and tax-cuts, which may have in turn allowed the CNAC to afford more and more lobbying abilities as a feedback loop. Maliokov in June of 2441 resigned from his Chief Executive President position having led the corporation from its founding, to the 2430s civil-war where the company first saw a major uptake in influence as a result of supporting the Tarasovites. Later providing the Premiership to Anton Churchill, leading the corporation during the 2440s towards a starlit future.

CEP Anton Churchill, who led the CNAC from June 2441 to March 2451, played a key part in ensuring near monopolisation of the armament industries within the internal market of the Ceironian Union. The Inron Arms Company & North Kashini Arms during his premiership in were both integrated into the CNAC which further brought about their control over the nation's armament production industries. The NKA was also the primary producer of the Skybreaker and Dawnbreaker missiles, and produced enormous amounts of nuclear capable ballistic missiles during the 2440s and 2450s at the company's peak prior to alteration into the KEK. By the end of Churchill's reign, the corporation stood tall as the most significant developer for military hardware, naval vessels, aircrafts and missile building. During the late 2440s, Douglas Tiberius Nimroy, who by 2451 would be elected leader of the CNAC, was serving in the navy, quickly rising throughout the naval staff corps in despite only being in his twenties. At the point of the foundation of the Government-Business-Cooperative between the CNAC and Ceironian Tarasovian Government in March 2451, he was already a Rear-Admiral, and had heavy influence within the CNAC as the cousin of Churchill and was a key instrument in ensuring that the Latango Arms Inc. remained the dominant producer of Ceironian Navy vessels. Churchill upon the establishment of the GBC, resigned from his position and talks of providing the position to Nimroy was in the air. Throughout most of 2451, numerous associations within the financial board concluded that politically and economically, Nimroy being thwarted into the position was a great idea. What many would consider a risky move, resulted in a relatively positive outcome, Douglas T. Nimroy as a exceptionally qualified Rear-Admiral, was also an extremely competent Chief Executive President. During the 2450s his premiership would be no less beneficial to the corporation and Ceironia than the works and efforts of his predecessors.

2451-2463: Government-Business-Cooperative

The Ceironian Government-Business Cooperative Association was the formalisation of the alliance between the Ceironian Union government and Ceironian National Arms Corporation. It was a solidification of the already existing benefits that the Tarasovites provided to the CNAC and vice versa, such as the famous subsidisation favouritism, cheaply priced contracting, and other agreements that would generally be viewed as corruption and preposterous by outside parties. However, neither High Marshal Georgiy Tarasov and Chief Executive President Anton Churchill believed it as such upon its signing on the 2nd of March, 2451. As of the beginning of the 26th century, the Government-Business-Cooperative is still in full effect, with relative little resistance by the public towards its existence. During the 2460s struggle period and immediate aftermath of John T. Nimroy's assassination of High Marshal Larionovich in 2481, the pacts continuation was threatened by other corporations and the public to an extent. In the 2460s due to corruption and mass embezzlement, and in 2481 because the leader of the CNIC had quite literally murdered the High Marshal and called for revolution. Though, due to several benefactors, it never dissolved.

Douglas T. Nimroy, the most well known figure who led the CNAC from 2451-2454 and the refurbished CNIC from then on until his death in 2480, during the 2450s proved himself a fitting successor to Anton Churchill. The extremely relaxed corporate tax that existed within the Ceironian Union, which became even lower upon the founding of the GBC, extensive government investment and subsidisation schemes, all led to the CNAC being able to snowball into making up over roughly fifty percent of all military-industrial production goods within Ceironia by 2452. With a magnitude of benefactors applied to the CNAC, Nimroy transformed the corporation into the Ceironian National Industrial Conglomerate, as the corporation began to alter into a multi-industry company. North Kashini Arms was reprogrammed into what millions know today as the world's largest private space company, the Kashini Extraterrestrial Kompany, or KEK. Spania General Arms was changed to Spania Aeronautics, a significant military and civilian plane producer. Latango Arms Incorporated morphed into the administrative and financial face of the newly founded conglomerate as the Latango Corporation. Whilst the Inron Arms Company became Inron Armaments & Armoured Automobiles, constructing armoured personnel carriers, armoured fighting vehicles and other land based military products. It was at this point that Nimroy and the Latango Corporation completely solidified the three subsidiary companies into the fold, now allowing for the expansion into industries that didn't involve military-industrialism. Confidence in the CNIC from the government and general public from 2454 to 2460 was at its all time high as of that point, with similar peaks in support for the conglomerate during Nimroy's Kashini Governorship and Obadiah Stane during the 2490s.

Upon the rebranding into the CNIC, Nimroy-Hawkings Co and the Mass-Calculator Company were founded, the former specialising in the civilian motorcar industry, and the latter at that point in 25th century, the new and revolutionary computer technologies. Nimroy-Hawkings Co by the end of the 50s had established itself as a major player in the automobile industry, with its extremely affordable line of Commons-Interplanetary cars, which were primarily purchased by the working classes of Ceironia, but also found a place in the middle and upper class due to the attractiveness of the vehicles. Due to Douglas Nimroy wishing to maintain the CNIC's high standard of safety in the workforce, the company was tasked with ensuring that the vehicle products were also safe for use. The Commons-Interplanetary Mark I thus became the establisher within Ceironia of setting the standard for features such as car seatbelts, airbags and crumple zones amongst other components that could be taken for granted. Another important benefactor was that the Mark I was the first Ceironian vehicle wherein the mileage generally exceeded the early six digits without requiring a major mechanical repairing on average. An unknown factor at the time of the Mark I releasing was the project being bankrolled somewhat by the Ceironian Government, Nimroy-Hawkings Co would not have afforded the competitor crippling cost of the prized vehicle without significant subsidies, however the funding from the government granted the company confidence inside and without in terms of being able to secure investments from the companies unknowing of the deal. The car company, as part of Nimroy's plan to turn Kashini from simply being one of the major cities of Ceironia, to the face of the nation, had most of its factories and organisational assets located inside Kashini. This would be one of the primary factors in changing the headquarters the Latango Corporation from Latango to the Kashini Central Financial District and rebranding it into the Kashini Corporation.

The Mass-Calculator Company was a much different story, primarily serving as a subservient company and technological workhorse behind the privatised Ceironian Space Program led by the KEK. The economics of the company was thrown out of the window, and more-so functioned as a collection of computer technology complexes primarily located in the Arasia and Tarasov National Space Centres.

The Prime Subsidiaries

Nimroy-Hawkings Co

Nimroy-Hawkings Co (NHCo), serves as a subsidiary for the Conglomerate as it's largest civilian vehicles production company. Leads as the subsidiary with the highest total revenue due to a combination of dominating the internal Ceironian market and producing roughly 8,500,000 vehicles annually.

Nimroy Entertainment

Nimroy Entertainment (NE), known in full as Nimroy Casinos, Cinema and Comical Entertainment (NCCCE), is the primary subsidiary of the Ceironian National Industrial Conglomerate for the theatrical, gambling entertainment and publication services.

Kashini Extraterrestrial Kompany

Design of the Starscreecher II rocket.

Kashini Extraterrestrial Kompany (KEK) is the Ceironian National Industrial Conglomerate's aerospace manufacturing, ballistic missiles, orbital communications, space transportation and development company, headquartered in Reino, Kashini. Founded in 2454 by Douglas Nimroy as a means to expand North Kashini Arm's influence and public reputation by not only focusing on weaponised rocketry, it has grown to be the most extensive and achieving space related company on Oikia as of 2499. With the primary goals of expanding Ceironian intrasolar influence and near-guarantee of harnessing the many billions of tons of resources found on other planets, moons and asteroids. Current accomplishments include performing a lunar landing on February 2 of 2484, constructing two Douglas type rotating circle stations, one possessing the capability to house over fifty astronauts, and a continued lunar effort with a colony allowing for a capacity also roughly fifty strong. Economic exploitation of lunar's natural resources is also taking place with industrial facilities having been constructed. KEK has generally lead the scientific development of all space related technologies, equalled only by the International City's IAP, which is almost entirely funded by the High Alaxian Kingdoms. The KEK is the world's first and foremost privatised space program, however during its history, at certain times it was either fully private or borderline nationalised, such as during the 2460s and early 70s due to numerous embezzlement scandals and the ousting of Douglas Nimroy by the Conglomerate Financial Board. As of 2499, the KEK is in a formalised partnership with the Ceironian Union government and acts as the sole contractor for the Interstellar Corps, Ceironia's space military branch, whose Chief in-Command is Obadiah Stane, the current CEP of the CNIC.

CNV McConaughey in Oikian orbit.

Notable missiles and rockets developed by NKA and KEK include the Dawnbreaker and Starbreaker missiles developed during the 2440s-50s, the Coneman rockets which sent the first Ceironians and animals into space prior to the 2470s. The current establishment of rockets include the Starscreechers, in-use by the KEK and Interstellar Corps since the 2470s, they have provided Ceironia with efficient payloads and steadily advancing and more capable launch systems, the the second generation of Starscreechers are also in full use and have been provided significant improvements in terms of fuel usage, and safer methods of recycling the boosters, thus lowering costs. The company is not without issues however, as many left-wing activists across Ceironia are often dumbfounded at the existence of the KEK, due to its position as a private company, yet receives almost all of its funding from the pockets of the annual budget and thus the tax payers. However, due to Ceironia's relatively extensive welfare program, extremely insignificant tax-rate, and stable budget, the $100B space budget is saved from scrutiny from most mainstream media or government representatives.

Illustration of the Ceironian Lunar Colony.

Historically, the programs of the KEK Project Soaring Eagle, which included testing the conditions of the Oikian body in zero gravity for extensive periods of time, including the psychological affects, this was also done on animal subjects including large rodents and chimpanzees. However, the primary purpose of Soaring Eagle was to accomplish a lunar landing. Although Soaring Eagle was officially started in September of 2460, the grounds for it had been worked on from 2456 onwards, with a man being launched into space in 2459. The set goal was a fully attempted landing in 2464, which would have beaten the International City's efforts by several months, it was extremely possible with the CNIC's extensive budget of $45B. Unfortunately internal constraints between bickering Financial Board committees from 2460-63 would lead to the KEK's program grinding to an utter halt. The result would be a 5:1 vote in favour of blocking Douglas Nimroy from any decision making processes within all Conglomerate companies, effectively rendering the position of Chief Executive President worthless. During the 2470s after Nimroy seized control over the company once more after backing from the Tarasovite government, numerous journalists have promoted the idea that it was a personal favour from Georgiy Tarasov to Nimroy. As a result the program was rekindled in 2475 and the program was essentially factory reset, by 2480 several chimps and Humans were sent into orbit once more, and on February 2 of 2484 the moon landing would be accomplished with astronauts Danny Suns, Brandy Philips, Hank Howards, Daniel Vegas and Rupert Kirk (who would remain in the command module).

During the late 2470s the draw plans for another program would begin, Project Duality, which primarily served as a space colonisation mission and mass improvement of safety standards and rocket efficiency. Starscreechers, Douglas spin stations, lunar colonies, Adelfi orbital satellites and other important creations would be developed by this program. The two primary concoctions from this program as of 2499 have been the CNV McConaughey, which went through well over a decade and a-half of development, a fifty man 65m diameter two-wheeled spin station, powered by a nuclear reactor and containing multiple scientific and civilian facilities. The other creation has been the equally significant Ceironian Lunar Facility, also fission reliant, it allows for a similar number inhabitants as the spin station, and contains industrial facilities, which are planned to be expanded to allow for non-CNIC companies to exploit the lunar surface, similar to the IC's moon colony.

Future projects include the Starscreechers IIb project, wherein the entire rocket is able to vertically touchdown via powered landings, which is predicted to be a far better alternative to the questionable gliding, parachute and helicopter acquisition systems currently in place. The Enterprise Program, which has the goal of producing all-purpose intrasolar SSTO space shuttles equipped with an encircling spin station, destined to reach the orbits of Adelfi, the asteroid belt and other planets and moons with a crew of up to twelve astronauts. Starnet, an extensive satellite network which will provide internet to the masses, however this will most likely be shelved due to the cost being uneconomical at the current time period. Other ideas include the eventual acquisition of asteroids to be put on a trajectory toward the orbit of Oikia or lunar, for lucrative mining profits constructing starships such as the Enterprise on the lunar surface or in orbit entirely using resources garnered from space, aside from a number of rare-Oikia-materials.

Mass-Calculator Company

Founded initially as the computer research & development department for the Ceironian Space Program, the Mass-Calculator Company (MCO) evolved into a business with economics in mind. This transition from R&D department to work and family computers occurred during the 2470s when economic means of selling computers became more wildly available.

Svantara Fusion Incorporated

Svantara Fusion Incorporated (SFI), is the first energy company to be provided with executive subsidiary status within the Conglomerate,

Cultural, Economic & Political Influences

Ceironian Futurism

Main Article: Ceironian Futurism