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Fod Kay Corporation
Presenting from Kay Medical Conglomerate

Fod Kay Corporation Interstellar Shipping Storefront

Hullo, and welcome to Kay Medical. Previously only dabbling in State Arms, Medicine, and Shipping, Kay Medical is now expanding to a Universal Conglomerate reaching into industries from Outsourced Diplomatic Services, to ISP Service, to Automobile Production. The first step to introducing Kay Medical as a Universal Conglomerate, is for us to expand our Shipping Services. Specifically to you, the Interstellar Consumer.

On behalf of Fod Kay Corporation, I personally wish you a productive and efficient fiscal year.

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Jordan Lion
Acting CEO of Kay Medical

Undersigned and Approved by the Fod Kay Corp. Committee.

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A Company will secure a trade of goods, sign off on it and cement it, insuring that they will make a return for what is received. A Contract, as this is commonly known as, is infallible to any CEO. However, what does one do if they are required, by Contract, to provide goods to those half a galaxy away? Do they embark on the costly endeavor of manufacturing their own Shipping line, Ports, Vessels, and so forth? While every Company strives to create a monopoly in what is specializes in, every Company also strives to act in a cost effective manner.

For Coca Cola to create its own Shipping Business to provide Coke Products for Epsilon Eridani... That's not entirely cost effective. It would serve them better, even, to focus only on the Terran market. Well, that doesn't have to be so anymore. With Fod Kay Corp. Shipping, Coke can move their goods quickly, and cost effectively. Outsourcing, contracting, whatever you call it, when it comes down to the bottom line- It saves money.

Now you may ask, why Fod Kay Corp. Shipping? Of course there are others, but with Fod Kay Corp., we insure the best. We guarantee the fastest, most secure service within the Interstellar Community. So now, without further Marketing, I present to you, the Consumer, Fod Kay Corp. Shipping.

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Fod Kay Corp. Shipping Lease

Contract for a Hub within the orbit of ___ is effective for Six Months. In this Six Month period, the Company Contracting our services, ___, has the right to schedule Shipping times, route Shipping, load and unload Shipping Vessels in the Contractors Sector, ___, of the ___ Hub. Renewal of Hub Contract can be executed at the termination of present Contract after the effective Six Months. Termination of present Contract before the effective Six Months will lead to penalties of ___, on behalf of the Contractor, ___.


[ ] Renew Contract Automatically [ ] Terminate Contract at Expiration


The ammount of payment to Fod Kay Corp. to be doled out in a period of ___, with the ammount of ____ every ___ ___, which has been decided upon by the Contractor and Fod Kay Corp. in previous Meetings will be the ammount of: ______.


[ ] Existing Conditions and Modified Terms of Service

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The following terms and regulations have been decided upon by the Fod Kay Corp. and the Contracting Company ___.



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][ Reserved for a reason unknown to myself. :D ][

Dark Coast News...Buisness Edition

"Today with announcements by the Fog Kay Group that it would begin intergalatic shipping services, speculation as to what this new competition might mean to Amos and Andy Universal. We bring you Marion Loveneck, Intergalatic Trade Analyist...Good Morining Mr. Loveneck..."
L: "Good Morning Tina..."
T: "Tell us Mr. Loveneck what are your predictions on this new Kay Industries enterprise."
L: "Not really that good. The problem is that you have two types of buisness models doing intergalatic shipping. Those that regularly run material from one planet to another and those that only intermittantly sell products to off world consumers."

T:"Well obviously their contracts reflect a long term shipping stratagy of at least six months contract time...."

L:"Correct, the problem is that most off world consumption occurs by nations which already have some form of intergalatic shipping and contacts on earth. So in general long term contracts usually go through national shipping companies rather than a thrid party shipper."

T:" So what about intermittant shipments?"

L:"Well most of the companies that only make intermittant shipments are not going to want to set up long term contracts. Especially without any obvious form of insurance. This is one of the core areas of Andy and Amos Universal they have long acted as a sort of the UPS of space of course their intergalatic pizza delivery chain and their catering services are also well in the black."

T:"So how will this affect Amos and Andy Universals bottom line..."

L:"Not that much, really Fog Kay is looking for short term contracts as a third party shipper. So their major competition comes from the national shipping companies of the various plantary nations, who likely already have insurance and agreements in place. I really don't see Fog Kay making any headway in this area..."

T:"It doesn't help that their last CEO was a raving lunatic..."

L:"No...people don't send valuable cargo in ships being ordered about by women who think they are a large gasous body in space. Or who might just decide said cargo is hers because she owns everything. I am afraid the new CEO of Kay Medical has her work cut out for her in regaining the trust of the intergalatic community..."

T:"Well that's all the time we have today folks...I want to thank Mr. Loveneck for his insightful comments..."

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"Miss Lion, the critics didn't waste anytime jumping on this new venture, have they?"

"Well, of course not, Rosa. They have every right to speculate as to our actions after the... Sun. Incident. But I can assure any clients that is well behind us."

"Well, that would be a given to anyone who pays attention to Corporate Politics, Miss Lion. Tell us, though, do you have anything to say on the accusations of Amos and Andy Universal that the new venture won't see profit?"

"How could I not? The thing Amos and Andy Universal does not understand is that we're not looking for a hit and run approach with these contracts... In fact, we push the automatic renewal of them."

"And on the profitability? Amos and Andy Universal mentioned something about the Fod Kay Corp. actually selling off the products of Contractors?"

"Well,. Trading Fleets are expensive to maintain, let alone an Interstellar Trading Fleet. The mission statement of Fod Kay Corp. is to, verbatim, Provide fast, safe service to Interstellar consumers and producers. We allow them to focus on the business of their Company, and not have to worry about Shipping. Honestly, we believe a Company needn't worry of getting their product from point A to point B. What we predict is that other Corporations don't want to spend the time, nor money, in upkeep of a Trading Fleet. As for Fod Kay Corp. acting as a middle man, that's ridiculous. We don't sell the product, we just move it to where the Contractor wants."

"So the aim of Fod Kay Corp.... Is to provide the Contractor, with a constant stream of influence into a Market a Galaxy away?"

"Precisely. We guarantee only the best."

"And accusations on insurance coverage?"

"Do we not have a money back guarantee? We cover everything. If a goods are damaged, we'll scavenge what we can from the vessel and pay the Contractor the worth of our Contract."

"I think this is a good point to bring up, as it was announced only obscurely in the Advertisement. The security?"

"Ah, yes, the security. We operate much like a Swiss Bank. Completely anonymous. All accounts are numbered for payment, and nothing more. We don't ask what you Ship, only where you're shipping to. And the later is for obvious reasons."

"Ah. More to come on Kay Medical's new Front after this commercial. Thank you for speaking with us Miss Lion."

Up.

Up.

Up!

Up! Up! And away!

Up! Up! And away!
Ditto.

Torrhall Trading News
Spiders including Fod Kay Corp derivities and stock were down severly today with reports of heavy investiments into their shipping venture was gaining no ground with intergalatic Shippers.

Also down was Amos and Andy Universal due to massively poor performance of their Pizza Deleivery Unit.

(Der' be a lot ah bumpage...here)

Oh shush. And don't you be playing my stock! Godmode...! [ TIOR's Bumping habit has rubbed off on me. ] Where are all the Future Techers, eh?

OOC: Spiders are not stock...so I haven't said your stock has fallen, just speculation in your stock (and you do get weird situations where 'stock' equivilants traded in one nation that are actually listed in another will swing out of phase with the actual stock or bonds. Hell there is an entire type of trading devoted to making money off these irregularities.)

A bit technical I know but not godmod...or really intentional.

Actually I thought it was a nice idea...but II isn't the place for this...if it doesn't go boom or put holes into things or make you an uber state of doom no one around here cares.
That rule isn't quite true actually. But the 'traders' have sort of retired to N.S. more than I.I.
And real 'trading' nations, those that spend time on this type of concept have become somewhat rare recently.

Actually cars and motor bikes used to sell well sometimes. Your auto division might do well. I've only seen a med site do well once out here and that was when I was a newb.

*Shrugs* Yup I was being critical, but that was more I.C. than OOC.

Crush my dreams why don't you! :D I was kidding with the Godmode bit, silly. Although I might as well try something else. It takes a Genetically Mutated Army of Laser Beavers numbering in the Billions for someone to be accused of Godmodery by me... And even then, if its within reason somehow. -Shrug- So who wants a month long free trial...!

No, although if you want you can export some of my Vampir Hassen as guard rabbits. Just don't let their muzzles off until you want them to bite, or drink Pink Bunny Cola (One of the greatest trade threads in history there...) before use.

Really you are quite creative. But you forgot the first rule of advertisement "Know your Audience" Of course I once was able to sell Pizza to about half the world's known leaders back in the day.

Now...pizza no sell.

Hell Pink Bunny Cola wouldn't likely sell :/ these days.

Oi. Up... Then I'm done with this. Not even one contract.

Hmm. So you'll ship stuff around? I may have some business for you.

Well don't hold back now.

We have some surplus weapons that we're attempting to sell, but we're planning to put them on a carrier, the T.D.F McWooty. Our spaceport has been shut down due to some power troubles, so we were wondering if you could possibly ship them to the carrier?

~Admiral Bob