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Iupiter
"Every ledger is a map, and every map is a rumour of fortune."
— Cmdr. Isolde Vey, Annals of the Second Concession, CXXIV
Since the formal chartering of the Guild in MMCXLVII, this house has brokered mineral rights, solar corridor leases, and private colonial ventures from the inner reaches of Sol to the frost-bound commons beyond Ceres. Our ledger is hand-kept. Our introductions are discreet. Our bonds outlive the signatories.
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Active concessions, sealed manifests, and open subscriptions of the year MMCCXIII. All values quoted in Guild Ducats.
Concession MMCCXIII · N° 0417
A forty-year lease on the northern flank of Olympus Mons, underwritten by the Arsian Mining Consortium. Subsurface hydrothermal veins yield rare magnesium trioxide at a grade unseen since the Elysium strike of MMCLXXXII. Quiet subscription is open to sealed partners only.
LEASE · 40 YR YIELD · 2.3kt/yr SUBSCRIPTION · SEALED
Corridor MMCCXIII · N° 0418
A private corridor between the Enceladus ice fields and the inner trade ports, chartered for three seasons. The route threads the A-Ring shepherd moons, passing through the Cassini Division under the Concession's solar-sail protocol. Rare commodities only: Enceladus blue-water, Titanian tholin lacquers, ring-ice for the preservation of manuscripts.
LANES · 3 CROSSINGS · XII / SEASON BOND · IX FIGURES
Charter MMCCXIII · N° 0419
A syndicated shareholding in the first permanent orbital foundry to be sunk into Vesta's iron core. The Compact supplies high-grade meteoric nickel-iron to the shipyards of Io and the Lunar Reach. Subscription is closed to all save the eighty-one founding merchant houses, though a single lot remains in estate probate and may be brokered by discreet enquiry.
SHARES · I / LXXXI OUTPUT · 480kt/yr ESTATE LOT · UNSPOKEN
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An index of the principal bodies under Guild protection, with standing trade values current to the third quarter of MMCCXIII.
Mars
Distance1.52 AU
PortArsian Gate
CommodityHydrates · Iron
ValueDC 4.70 · STRONG
Venus
Distance0.72 AU
PortCloud-City Aphrodite
CommoditySulphuric tinctures
ValueDC 3.12 · STEADY
Saturn
Distance9.54 AU
PortEnceladus Quays
CommodityBlue-water · Ring-ice
ValueDC 11.08 · RARE
Mercury
Distance0.39 AU
PortCaloris Basin
CommoditySolar alloys · Helium-3
ValueDC 6.44 · RISING
Iupiter
Distance5.20 AU
PortCallisto High Concession
CommodityDeuterium · Galilean dust
ValueDC 8.92 · STRONG
Uranus
Distance19.2 AU
PortMiranda Station
CommodityMethanic ices · ammonia
ValueDC 14.60 · SPECUL.
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Annotations and footnotes to the central map. Each house is entered in seniority of charter.
The House of Vey, Arsian
Founding house. Retains perpetual brokerage of the Olympus and Tharsis veins. Shield: argent, a tholus gules.
The House of Okafor-Lien
Holds the Lunar-Lagrange corridor charters under a sealed bond with the Guild. Shield: sable, a crescent or.
The House of Saenz-Marek
Proprietors of the first permanent Vestan foundry. Shield: purpure, a forge reversed between two stars argent.
The House of Ishii-Ptah
Sole holders of the Enceladus blue-water patent. Known for their austere seal and the quiet conduct of their couriers.
The House of Voronova, Titanian
The youngest of the senior houses. Champions of the tholin-lacquer revival; their crimson stamps appear on every manuscript bound this season.
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Footnotes, marginalia, and extracts from the bound ledgers of prior seasons. Quoted in the original hand where legible.
MMCXCIX · III · XIV
"The sealed manifest of the Ebon Kestrel returned from the outer commons bearing seventeen kegs of ring-ice and a single folio of Titanian lacquer samples. The lacquer was entered into the Vey portfolio under the ordinary seal."
— Master Clerk Anh, Entry of the Third Decade
MMCCV · VII · II
"It must be noted, for the record of those who come after, that the Guild's first rule is not profit but patience. Any house that sends a courier before the stars are read will, in time, find its couriers lost."
— Cmdr. Isolde Vey, preface to the MMCCV Register
MMCCXI · XI · XXVIII
"A strange anomaly observed in the Cassini Division, described by the pilots as 'a silence, of the kind that follows a knock upon a door no one remembers building.' The matter is referred to the Cartographers."
— Pilots' Bench, Corridor Log N° 418
Est. MMCXLVII.