[FH] Terraforming ships

The Alarishi-based corporation Imperial Tactical
Technologies was initially formed from a subsidiary of the
Prince Henry Corporation, which had as its original function
was terraforming planets (or small sections thereof)  for
anyone who wished to foot the bill.  The idea was to get one
planet started, go on to another and start that one, and
continue from there, making "house calls" as needed to
implement the next phase.  The idea was successful in the
sense that viable ecologies were created on several planets;
financially, however, it was a disaster.  The subsidiary,
Continental Design Ltd, eventually spun off its biological
division (sold to the Islamic Federation), its genetic
engineering section (sold to a German pharmaceuticals firm),
and its instrument shop (became Imperial Tactical
Technologies), auctioned off their ships (the bigger ones
were so expensive to operate that they had to go to the
breakers), and declared bankruptcy.  Rumors persist,
however, that one ship was abandoned on the frontier as too
expensive to be worth bringing back, and that somewhere a
working starship (with functional bio-genetics labs) is
available for the first comer.

(If you want to work in George RR Martin's book Tuf
Voyaging, go ahead).

ITT now designs infantry and warship instruments, weapons
and equipment.
--Chris  DeBoe
Quixtar IBO#706882
http://www.quixtar.com