RE: Neo-Punic Wars, was Re: [FAQ] FH what? ...
From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:29:13 +0100
Subject: RE: Neo-Punic Wars, was Re: [FAQ] FH what? ...
Noam replied to Laserlight:
>>>...now that I think of it, there are already at least two or three
>>>different non-canon (and officially non-state) powers which are
described
>>>in very similar terms <g> IIRC none of them has Lebanese origins
though, so
>>>there's obviously room for at least one more trade-based,
militaristic
>>>megacorp founded by Lebanese emigrants ;-)
>>
>>ITTT is one...who else?
>
>The 'affiliation' of L-7 Interstellar and the Actuarial Nightmares is a
>similar relationship, though smaller in scale than what Oerjan
describes.
No, I wasn't thinking about L-7 Interstellar <g>
The ones I was thinking of (apart from ITTT, that is) were the
Dutch-based
VRC (Verenigde Randwaartse Compagnie, ie. "United Rimward Company") and,
more questionably, the Texaco Free Trade Zone.
Later,
Oerjan
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