C.A.I.S

**Coopérative Aéronautique Industrielle de Scippia (CAIS)** is the largest designer and manufacturer of airships on Unus Solum. Three of the largest airship yards in Arcea are a member of the Federation, including Scippia and Vanlewisporte. The Federation undertakes a wide variety of maintenance and repair work on both military and commercial airships. Projects range from design to construction. 50% of all airships either contain C.A.I.S designed parts, have undergone repairs at C.A.I.S yards, or were constructed by C.A.I.S entirely.

### History

Scippia has historically been the home of Sudfells shipping industry. The construction of the Guillaume - Blanqui SansRes Steel Foundry however converted Scippia from a shipbuilding town into the center of Sudfellian industrialization. However, this also made the city a center of labour activism through the 1600s. The Fraternité des Travailleurs Sudfellien formed in Scippia as an alliance between dockworkers, shipbuilders, and steel workers. Upon the Third Empire's invasion of Sudfell, the Fraternité was forced underground, however, it remained a major player within the growing resistance movement. By the eve of the Sudfeillian Revolution and the Arcean Civil War, the Fraternité had grown from a union focused on industry concerns to a much broader left wing nationalist organisation.

During the Arcean Civil War, the Fraternité would be the largest member of the Red Wood Aequalists, with membership promoting Rose Fanon as their spokesperson. After the Civil War, the Red Wood Aequalists formed the Syndicat National Sudfellian (Sudfellian National Labour Union) as the new Sudfellian governing body. The Fraternité and its membership found itself the dominant members in the organisation. Pushing through Sanstyran Reforms inspired by Rose Fanon, they also supported her in having Sudfell join the wider ANLU. However, within the framework of the Syndicat, the broad Fraternité began to splinter. Coopérative Aéronautique Industrielle de Scippia became the largest successor organisation, being built as an alliance of the very same workers that had founded the original Fraternité.

In the early years of the Arcean Union, C.A.I.S. would expand rapidly across Sudfell. With Arcea needing to re-buid its airforce, C.A.I.S.'s unique alliance of workers made it able to ramp up production faster than most other airyards. It's first Airfortress, the *Efforcer* class (*Endeavour*) would cement C.A.I.S. as the ARAF's preferred builder for heavy airships.

### Products and Services

C.A.I.S. builds more airships than all other Arcean shipyards combined. Internationally, it is only rivalled by Chatham Imperial Ironworks and Akachi. CAIS's series of Merchant Marine airships remain popular, as do their support and repair services. Even outside of the INLU, C.A.I.S.'s *Pivot* series remains the most common trading airships in Unus Solum. C.A.I.S.'s scale and vertical integration make it difficult to compete against in terms of both cost and speed in terms of constructing airships.

The ARAF's heavy military airships are designed and produced by C.A.I.S. This includes the *Vanguard* and *Treatise* class. C.A.I.S. also provides many components and materials to other Arcean independent airship building unions and federations, such as Clarve - Grove, Ironmaster, and Pembroke - Billing. They have also have a technical alliance with Zeretti-Aerono Technologie, Eisenarbeiten Arnd and Maldrecoy Schiffswerften, providing training, safety equipment, and prefab parts.