Apex Industries

**Apex Industries** is a large corporation based out of Earth that provides a wide number of good and services, such as space transportation, starship construction, industrial manufacturing, and private security. They are well known for their large number of contracts to smaller independent systems and governments that do not have large industrial
or technological bases.

Despite being an Earth based corporation, Apex Industries takes a neutral stance in galactic politics and often sells their goods and services to anyone willing to pay, though Apex Industries does maintain a policy of not selling to criminals and pirates.

## Organization

Apex Industries is a very large corporation with many subsidiaries either created by Apex, or merged into Apex through buyouts. Apex Industries Inc. is the official parent company for the corporation.

### **Subsidiaries**

The total list of subsidiary corporations and brands owned by Apex Industries is in the hundreds, each belonging to a major subsidiary based on the goods and services they can provide. The following list is of the major subsidiares and represents all of the areas that Apex Industries has invested into.

Apex Industrial Supplies

AIS represents the primary manufacturing arm of Apex Industries, producing everything from raw duranium to starship warp cores. AIS is one of the many suppliers that feeds Federation and other shipyards with finished components vital for starship construction. AIS owns hundreds of manufacturing and mining plants around and outside of Alliance space, and is actively investing in improved manufacturing technology.

Apex Transportation Solutions

ATS is the primary logistics arm of Apex Industries, and handles all forms of transportation from space freight hauling to courier services. ATS actively searches for and hires independent ship captains, and often extends lucrative contracts to the best and most reliable ones. Compared to the amount of freight that ATS is responsible for, they operate very few of their own ships, and one of the largest aspects to their success is offering independent captains well paying contracts without requiring exclusivity contracts. As captains complete more contracts for Apex, they can take on higher and higher paying freight, which effectively seals company loyalty without ATS having to bear the expense of operating starships themselves.

Apex Shipyards

Apex Shipyards is, as the name suggests, the primary ship building arm of Apex Industries. Apex Shipyards specializes in constructing large starships for governments or private industries that do not have the ability to build starships themselves because of either industrial or technological shortcomings. Apex Shipyards is primarily based outside of Federation space in order to avoid too much scrutiny over the ships they build. The Shipyards are capable of constructing high tech cruisers capable of matching their Alliance equivalents, and can posses advanced technology such as cloaking devices, and as a result are required to stay out of sight to avoid too much trouble from Alliance officials.

Apex Arms

Apex Arms is the primary in house arms manufacturer for Apex Industries. They produce everything from highly concealable palm weapons, to starship grade torpedo launchers. They mostly only manufacture weaponry exclusively for Apex flagged ships and security, though they do occasionally market handheld weapons for private and government purchase. Weapons manufactured by Apex Arms are very high quality, and are competitive with most high tech weaponry produced by Alliance powers, making their weapons highly coveted, as most independent arms manufacturers are often restricted in the weapons they can sell.

Apex Defense Solutions

ADS serves as the primary form of both armed and unarmed corporate security force of Apex Industries. All ADS personnel are trained in house, and a large percentage of them have military or similar experience. ADS covers everything from simple front door security guards to high tech, highly trained, and heavily armed tactical response teams that are often on standby to deal with pirate raids on Apex property. ADS also offers private security for hire to governments and private institutions, generally enjoying a good reputation for their professionalism and skill.