Ruehfusiah Corporation

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**Ruehfusiah Corporation**, also known as the **Ruehfusiah Group,** was one of the largest of the Imperial Special Provisions Conglomerates and one of the largest corporate groups in the galaxy.

Major companies in the group include Ruehfusiah Trading Co. (general trading company), Ruehfusiah Banking Trust, Sorath-Kuilox Industries, the Aekhiran Corporation, Cohron Holdings SPN., Ausaich & Runai Holdings, Mahlko Holdings SPN., Inreduen-Fund Holdings, UFU.H Industries, Ruehfusiah Engineering & Shipbuilding and Ruehfusiah Uerath\_KR Lines.

## History

> *"This company is steepled in tradition and prestige. I'll have you know we are as old as the Empire itself."*
> —Senhisa Korama
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### Early Hamartia Period Origins

Founded by Haisan Verkon, Koroih Negara and Eshten Runai, who opened a pawn shop in Sahsanyai, Vizodi just 2 months after Vega Sherom seized power. After a few months of good profit, the three opened a second shop selling consumer electronics in the same Vizodi district, called Ruehfusiah. During the Empire's rapid economic growth, sales skyrocketed, enabling Ruehfusiah's expansion to several other locations on Vizodi and also on Verkon. In UC 89, Ruehfusiah expanded their services to the banking industry, opening a loan provider service in Sherom's capital district called Cohron Finance.

#### Formation of the Ruehfusiah Conglomerate

In UC 83, Koroih Negara opened a metallurgy on Ibaris, amidst the planet's industrial boom.. Originally founded to extract and refine metals on the planet, the metallurgy became what is known today as Sorath-Kuilox Industries. During this time, Haisan Verkon and Eshten Runai continued to run their businesses in the Throne Worlds. In UC 84, the finance arm Cohron split from Ruehfusiah, under the leadership of Maine Suraht. In replacement, Verkon and Runai established the new Ruehfusiah Banking Trust and Ruehfusiah Finance, collectively known as Ruehfusiah Bank; the Empire's first private bank. Together with their astute corporate managers such as Chaiera Hanzohmon, Ruehfusiah and its founders managed to accurately forecast the coming political and economic situations of the Hamartia era, making several bold and profitable investments and exponentially growing the company. That year, Verkon, Runai and Negara decided to merge Ruehfusiah's entities under one corporate umbrella; envisioning their future of a company that would produce and offer everything from consumer products to military weapons technology. This marked the official formation of the Ruehfusiah Group.

### Transportation and Manufacturing

With the Empire's rapid territorial growth towards the west quadrant of the galaxy, demand for transportation flourished. The lawlessness and difficulty of law enforcement along the new frontiers, in particular, caused the high demand for secure transaction along the new trading routes, of goods such as minerals, weapons and money. It was this demand that Ruehfusiah hoped to capitalize, as part of their intense diversification efforts. The Imperial Court granted permission for "goods exchanges" to be established along the convoy routes, many of which were operated by Ruehfusiah and its associates, to mitigate risks like piracy. Alongside the new exchanges, Ruehfusiah facilitated travel by constructing new stargates and developing their own corporate security fleet to deter pirates in the western regions.

After the resources on Ibaris depleted in UC 129, Negara's metallurgy Sorath-Kuilox Industries sought to expand their operations to secondary manufacturing. Sorath-Kuilox began producing consumer appliances, but gradually progressed to heavy industry in their manufacturing of civilian vehicles and construction machinery. Sorath-Kuilox also built several more facilities in the Itropohr and Inreduen sectors, ranging from resource mines to assembly plants.

#### Sponsorship of development

Ruehfusiah also financially supported many new developments in the western regions of the expanding Empire, such as in establishing the Ehnpeiroh Development Authority to fund infrastructure construction in the sector. Ruehfusiah's other companies, like Ruehfusiah Trading and Uerath KR SPN., helped spur economic development through their transportation and transaction services.

#### Appointment as a Reserve Bank

Shortly after the creation of the Ehnpeiroh Development Authority, Ruehfusiah Finance was appointed as a bank of the Imperial Reserve. This made Ruehfusiah the first private reserve bank in the Empire. Their first Reserve location in Ehseni Supath on Duaeyer would be the 32nd Imperial Reserve location.

#### Recognition as a Special Provisions Conglomerate

Already having become one of the most successful and richest corporate groups in the Empire at the time, when the Provisions Act was constitutionalized in UC 2214, Ruehfusiah Corporation was among the first recipients of the special status, alongside companies like Tera Rho Conglomeration and Kaimar Heirohde SPN.. Now with access to massive subsidies and their own corporate jurisdiction, Ruehfusiah continued their growth, building uncountable factories and plants across hundreds of mining systems. Ruehfusiah also pioneered the usage of chemical weapons in the Crusades, starting with the development of Konsara-DX Gas by Ruehfusiah-subsidary Ausaiche ChemSynthS Bio, which was extensively utilised by the Imperial military during the fourth and fifth crusades.

### Role in the Imperial Crusades

#### Use of slave labour

The Ruehfusiah Group heavily benefited from slave labour during the annexation of worlds during the Crusades. Mainly put to work in the mines and certain factories, slaves were provided to the company consistently throughout its history by the Imperial military. Ruehfusiah also operated several labour camps under UFU.H and Sorath-Kuilox, most of which were munitions factories or mines supplying the Imperial war effort. Although many records of operations are unavailable, it is estimated that the group employed up to approximately 24 million slaves across their facilities at one point.

#### Role in genocide

According to the Corporate Atrocities Tribunal carried out after the fall of the Empire, the Ruehfusiah Corporation were among several of the large Imperial Conglomerates implicit in genocides carried out by the Imperial Military and Grand Virist Church during the crusades. Ruehfusiah Security troops assisted Navy and Army forces in suppressing local indigenous populations, even on non-industry focused worlds such as in the Siege of Ugeron, where an estimated 12 million Poloi civilians were killed by the Imperial mudrangers assisted by corporate security troopers.

### Seizure by the Galactic Federation

Following the fall of the Empire in UC 6312, the Galactic Federation announced seizure of Ruehfusiah Group, its subsidiaries, and its assets under the Core Worlds pursuant to Military Government Law Referendum General Order. The company reportedly began destroying files and records of operation across all their facilities. Many digital records were erased or corrupted beyond repair by the time Federation forces physically arrived. Physical copies were shredded or incinerated to mask the company's involvement in the Crusades.

#### Marshal-Lecour Corporate Atrocities Tribunal

> *⇒ Main article: Marshal-Lecour Corporate Atrocities Tribunal*
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In UC 6312, the Federation government put Ruehfusiah's directors on trial in the Corporate Atrocities Tribunal, along with other leading industrialists of the Empire. Ruehfusiah faced counts of:

* "the planning, preparation, initiation, and waging of wars of aggression and invasions of other nations;
* committing war crimes and crimes against civilisation through the plunder and spoliation of public and private property in countries and territories that came under Imperial occupation;
* "committing war crimes and crimes against civilisation through participating in the enslavement and deportation for slave labor of civilians from Imperial-occupied territories and of Federation and Human prisoners;
* "participation in a common plan or conspiracy to commit crimes against peace".

Of the 128 defendants arraigned, only 56 were managed to be brought to trial. Many key indicted directors escaped Federation capture by fleeing to remaining Imperial strongholds like in Corraldi, Ankgatis and Aoraki. Among the defendants who evaded conviction was Ihntahn Murak, chair of the Ruehfusiah supervisory board and chief advisor of the Aekhiran Corporation Chemical Board, who absconded to Aoraki to join Altha Akagaard's Imperial remnant.

### Liquidation

Following the end of the tribunal, what remained of the Ruehfusiah Group seized by the Federation was put into liquidation. Unlike other Imperial companies, Ruehfusiah was sufficiently large enough that the Federation recognised its complete dissolution would be nearly impossible and economically infeasible. Instead, the company was split into its individual divisions before being individually dealt with.

Listed are the fates of the major companies in the Ruehfusiah Group:

## Operating Facilities

At their height,the whole Ruehfusiah Group operated over 50,000 resource extraction facilities, 6000 manufacturing facilities (300 of which were munitions plants), and nearly 200 research laboratories. Ruehfusiah had 5 head offices located on Vizodi (the conglomerate headquarters), Ibaris (the operational headquarters), Acamar, Ithralis, and Duaeyer. Additionally, Aekhiran Corporation had its own headquarters on Vizodi and a head office on Acamar, and Mahlko Media Limited was exclusively headquartered on Sherom. The Ruehfusiah Bank also has over 18,000 consumer banking locations and over 2,500 offices across the Shroom worlds, with its headquarters attached to the main Ruehfusiah Headquarters on Vizodi, in a separate building known as the Korama Centre, named after ex-CEO Senhisa Korama. Cohron Finance is headquartered in Sherom's Capital District Shiaima, where the business first started.

Selected facility detail information:

* On Eracan, Adnelis, Ruehfusiah and Sorath-Kuilox operate over 2,500 extraction and manufacturing plants that integrate directly into the electronics and hardware supply chain. These facilities account for about 3 quadrillion Ш worth of production for the Conglomerate.
* Aekhiran Corporation operates the majority of its facilities in the systems of the Muhihe sector, centring all production around the head office on Acamar.
	+ KYD-mining worlds adjacent to Kydoateh produce large quantities of titanium and chromium alloy, which are processed in Ithralis manufacturing plants.
	+ Aekhiran Engineering operates a prototype Dyson sphere in the Ohkai-ITH6 system, alongside an Aekhiran Munitions explosive testing plant.
	+ Aekhiran Biometrics and Ausaiche ChemSynthS notably share many extraction plants in the ROH-worlds around Rohamu, where chemicals such as Noxene and Kseithain are extracted from planetary atmospheres and used in the production of chemical weaponry.
	+ The world ROH-2239 is invaluable in this respect as a major source of phosphorus used to manufacture white phosphorus munitions.
* Ausaiche ChemSynthS Bio is known to operate several chemical test sites on Ugeron and Lhunek, notoriously employing the native Poloi and Lharrn respectively in inhumane experiments. During the Corporate Atrocities Tribunal evidence from these facilities proved invaluable in exposing the deeds of the corporation.
* Ruehfusiah Finance holds three currency reserves across Imperial territory, each containing approximately 5 trillion Ш and in total making up around 2% of the Imperial Treasury Reserves. The Ruehfusiah reserves are located on Ehseni Supath, Duaeyer; Kuraman, Vizodi; and Acamarouma, Acamar.
* The Ankgatis Exchange on Ankgatis Prime is a stock exchange jointly owned by Ruehfusiah-Cohron and Aei Cohron Property. It is the third largest stock exchange in the Empire and notably, the only institution in the Empire that trades stock with non-Empire organisations, as part of the isolated overall Imperial economic system.