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JVP · 5.20 AU GRS · storm rot · 9h 55m

Iupiter

Gas Giant · Ward of the Galilean Concession

"Every ledger is a map, and every map is a rumour of fortune."

— Cmdr. Isolde Vey, Annals of the Second Concession, CXXIV

The quiet trade between worlds.

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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Current Ventures

Active concessions, sealed manifests, and open subscriptions of the year MMCCXIII. All values quoted in Guild Ducats.

Concession MMCCXIII · N° 0417

The Olympus Tholus Extraction

Mars · volatile silicates · 14.7° N · 133.9° W

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

The Saturnian Ring Corridor

Saturn · ice-harvest & solar sail lanes · 9.54 AU

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

The Vesta Foundry Compact

4 Vesta · metallic asteroid forge · 2.36 AU

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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Planetary Prospectus

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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Guild Registry

Annotations and footnotes to the central map. Each house is entered in seniority of charter.

  1. The House of Vey, Arsian

    MMCLXI · Mars · mineral concessions

    Founding house. Retains perpetual brokerage of the Olympus and Tharsis veins. Shield: argent, a tholus gules.

  2. The House of Okafor-Lien

    MMCLXXIV · Luna · corridor charters

    Holds the Lunar-Lagrange corridor charters under a sealed bond with the Guild. Shield: sable, a crescent or.

  3. The House of Saenz-Marek

    MMCLXXXI · Vesta · metallurgy

    Proprietors of the first permanent Vestan foundry. Shield: purpure, a forge reversed between two stars argent.

  4. The House of Ishii-Ptah

    MMCXCV · Enceladus · ice exporters

    Sole holders of the Enceladus blue-water patent. Known for their austere seal and the quiet conduct of their couriers.

  5. The House of Voronova, Titanian

    MMCCVII · Titan · tholin lacquers

    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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The Archives

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

· SIGILLVM · GILDAE · COMMERCII · INTERPLANETARII · PER·SOL·PER·LVNAS·PER·STELLAS·MMCXLVII·SIGILLATVR

Est. MMCXLVII.