{"data":{"id":15201,"title":"Portfolio: Terra Mills","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/15201-Portfolio-Terra-Mills","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15201","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15201","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":4610,"name":"TerraMills-Logo_v5.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/b85n5gnl7gd0jr\/source\/TerraMills-Logo_v5.jpg","alt":"","size":3261950,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2016-01-26T17:45:07+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4610","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4610\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"}],"images_count":7,"translations":{"en_EN":"A Business Takes Root\nMillions of people consume their wide range of products everyday, but to the surprise of many who enjoy these drinks, snacks and meals, Terra Mills did not get its start in Terra at all. In fact, for the first century of its existence, Terra Mills was exclusively located in Bremen.\n\nThough settlement began in the 25th century, it wasn\u2019t until the outbreak of the Second Tevarin War in 2603 that Bremen, and more specifically Rytif, began to really take off. The Navy turned to the small agrarian planet to help feed their largest ever fighting force of starmen to date. As demand skyrocketed, farmers were eager for the influx of government credits but lacked the infrastructure needed to take full advantage of the subsidies, so they began to pool their resources. Under the leadership of de facto Governor Arcturus Koerner, the major landholders on Rytif banded together to form the Bremen Milling, Processing & Farming Association, more commonly and simply known as Bremen Mills. This collective of farms, processing centers and mills allowed its members to cut costs by sharing the overhead of expensive large-scale production, as well as providing them a united front through which they could set higher prices through collective bargaining.\n\nIn just a few short years, Bremen Mills become an economic powerhouse, and for the next several decades saw its shareholders becoming extremely wealthy. However, due to a lack of diversification, when the grain market crashed in 2640, Rytif, and with it Bremen Mills, fell on hard times.\n\nAshes\nThough profits were down, Bremen Mills managed to hang on. The Empire still needed grain, and though margins were slim, the established network of transport, milling and processing allowed Bremen Mills to succeed where other farmers were forced to close shop. During this period, many of the farms consolidated ownership and by the turn of the 28th century, Bremen Mills boasted the largest agricultural holding on Rytif and changed from an association into a corporate entity in its own right. Through further standardization and streamlining, it began to look like things could finally be turning around for the once-struggling group. Then disaster struck.\n\nIn 2716, the main Bremen Mills grain facilities just outside of Stalford exploded, killing hundreds, injuring hundreds more and sending a plume of fire into the sky that could be seen from orbit. Known today as the Great Stalford Disaster, official reports state that a broken filtration unit in a mixing area allowed airborne flour dust particles to accumulate to dangerous concentration levels. A single spark was all it took to ignite the air. The fire that raged afterwards burned tens of thousands of cultivated acres surrounding the facilities. It was days before it could be fully contained. As the people of Rytif sorted through the wreckage, very little hope remained that the struggling collective would be able to recover from such a crippling catastrophe.\n\nGrowing an Empire\nMeanwhile, a few jumps away, another agricultural conglomerate was experiencing its own, if less grisly, difficulties.\n\nTerragra, Inc., founded in 2665 on Terra, had made its mark on the system with its range of salty and sweet snacks. The most popular of these, Prallies (a wheat snack stick covered in a spicy caramel coating)n, was starting to gain notice across the Empire. As orders from stores and stations wishing to stock the snack grew, Terragra could not find a affordable source of wheat that they could use to reliably expand their production.\n\nThe solution to the company\u2019s supply problems presented itself after the catastrophe at Stalford. Seeing an opportunity to guarantee their own secure source, Terragra offered to provide Bremen Mills with the capital needed to rebuild their destroyed facilities in exchange for controlling interest. The two companies were able to resolve terms for a mutually agreeable merger and, in the summer of 2717, they revealed their new corporate identity as Terra Mills, headquartering production on the more affordable Rytif.\n\nThanks to the combined resources of the two companies, Terra Mills was able to meet demand and launched Prallies across the Empire to soaring popularity. Within a decade the processing facilities on Rytif had surpassed their previous capacity and soon Terra Mills was making an ever expanding product line, from cereals like Dappers to the perennial holiday cookie favorite Ringalings, and even eventually expanding into the drink market.\n\nReady to Pop\nWhereas the snacks Terra Mills introduced over the last two centuries usually met with positive reaction from the public (or at the very worst indifference), this was not the case with their initial beverage offerings. Today, everybody is familiar with Terra Mills\u2019 assorted beverages \u2014 from Pips, to Fieldsbury, to Clash \u2014 but their first attempt, Braga Malt, a malted fruit drink created as a way to find a use for surplus barley, was universally despised. Terra Mills actually received hate comms after the launch of Braga. The complaints described a drink that tasted stale and bitter. The flavor scientists were stumped; everything they had tasted off the factory floor was delicious. It took a marketing director bringing back a case from Horus for them to get to the bottom of the issue.\n\nCracking open the can and tasting the drink that had been shipped out for themselves, they immediately saw what the complaining was about: it tasted terrible. Something was happening to the Braga from the time it left the factory to the time it arrived on store shelves. Careful research revealed that their bottling plant was using a grade of aluminum composite that wasn\u2019t up to the rigors of space travel. At first, it seemed that the only solutions available were switching to more expensive containers, which would severely hamper their profit margin, or changing the drink formula to overcompensate for the effects of shipping. Unsatisfied with choosing between two lackluster options, the scientists in the Terra Mills lab managed to formulate a completely different solution. They devised a method to store carbonation inside nanobeads which would remain intact until the surrounding pressure was fully released. This process insured that a drink would never go flat and could survive decades in space without any adverse effects. Braga Malt was redesigned with this revised formula and repackaged under the new name Snazzle. The drink was a huge hit and continues to be so, with a dozen popular flavors to be found on store shelves throughout the Empire.\n\nBig Benny\u2019s\nThe most recent addition to the Terra Mills family may be their most audacious yet. After conquering snacks and drinks, they have decided to pursue a position in the fast meals sector. In 2943, they purchased a small restaurant franchise from Lo that, since its opening three years prior, had gone from a single location to over a hundred.\n\nBenicio Lewis, Jr. had grown up on a fringe transfer station in Corel eating his father\u2019s homemade kacho, a ramen-like combination of noodles and broth that was heavily spiced to combat the taste bud numbing that occurs with long exposure to pressurized environments. As Lewis quoted his father, \u201cIf I have to live in a tin can, I\u2019m sure as hell not going to eat food that tastes like it came from one.\u201d Years later when living on Lo, Little Benny himself made kacho for his friends, who began to rave to their friends. Their encouragement convinced him to open up a small stall at a commercial spaceport. He named his foodstall Big Benny\u2019s in honor of his father. With its cheap and satisfying fare, the stand was crowded all the time.\n\nFrom that humble beginning, Lewis quickly opened new franchises as the \u201ckacho kraze\u201d spread like wildfire. It wasn\u2019t long before he was approached by Terra Mills with an offer to introduce his kacho from Lo to the rest of the universe. Despite protests from the franchise\u2019s loyal fans, Lewis was happy to sell, explaining, \u201cMy dad would have loved to know that people across the \u2019verse can have something good to eat when they need it. Plus, he loved making money.\u201d Today, Big Benny\u2019s stalls and vending units can be found everywhere people are looking to stretch their credits and eat a warm meal.\n\nTo the surprise of no one, Terra Mills is not stopping there. With one successful ready meal launch under their belt, they recently revealed their newest brand, TipTop, at the 2946 Vendor Association Conference. Offering a variety of bite-sized tapioca-wrapped dumplings, TipTop is anticipated to soon be as ubiquitous as the Mills\u2019 other creations.\n\nAs a result of these successes, Terra Mills continues to be the largest employer in the Bremen system and it shows no sign of slowing down. What started out as a collection of farms has grown into one of the biggest food manufacturers in the Empire, with products that can be found in every system where Humans live.","de_DE":"Ein Unternehmen erobert die Wurzeln\nMillionen von Menschen konsumieren t\u00e4glich ihre breite Produktpalette, aber zur \u00dcberraschung vieler, die diese Getr\u00e4nke, Snacks und Mahlzeiten genie\u00dfen, ist Terra Mills in Terra \u00fcberhaupt nicht gestartet. Tats\u00e4chlich befand sich Terra Mills im ersten Jahrhundert seines Bestehens ausschlie\u00dflich in Bremen.\n\nObwohl die Besiedlung im 25. Jahrhundert begann, begann Bremen, genauer gesagt Rytif, erst mit dem Ausbruch des Zweiten Tevarinkrieges im Jahr 2603 richtig zu starten. Die Marine wandte sich an den kleinen agrarischen Planeten, um ihre bisher gr\u00f6\u00dfte Kampftruppe von Starmen zu versorgen. Als die Nachfrage in die H\u00f6he schoss, waren die Landwirte begierig auf den Zufluss staatlicher Kredite, verf\u00fcgten aber nicht \u00fcber die n\u00f6tige Infrastruktur, um die Subventionen voll auszusch\u00f6pfen, so dass sie begannen, ihre Ressourcen zu b\u00fcndeln. Unter der Leitung von De-facto-Gouverneur Arcturus Koerner schlossen sich die wichtigsten Grundbesitzer von Rytif zum Bremer M\u00fchlen-, Veredelungs- und Landwirtschaftsverband zusammen, der allgemein und einfach als Bremen Mills bekannt ist. Dieses Kollektiv aus landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben, Verarbeitungszentren und M\u00fchlen erm\u00f6glichte es seinen Mitgliedern, die Kosten zu senken, indem sie sich die Gemeinkosten der teuren Gro\u00dfproduktion teilten, und ihnen eine einheitliche Front boten, durch die sie durch Tarifverhandlungen h\u00f6here Preise setzen konnten.\n\nIn nur wenigen Jahren wurden die Bremer Werke zu einem Wirtschaftsmotor, und in den n\u00e4chsten Jahrzehnten wurden die Aktion\u00e4re \u00e4u\u00dferst wohlhabend. Aufgrund mangelnder Diversifikation, als der Getreidemarkt 2640 zusammenbrach, fiel Rytif und damit die Bremer M\u00fchlen jedoch in schwere Zeiten.\n\nAsche\nTrotz r\u00fcckl\u00e4ufiger Gewinne gelang es den Bremer Werken, durchzuhalten. Das Reich brauchte noch Getreide, und obwohl die Margen schlank waren, erm\u00f6glichte das etablierte Transport-, Mahl- und Verarbeitungsnetz den Erfolg der Bremer M\u00fchlen, wo andere Bauern gezwungen waren, ihre Gesch\u00e4fte zu schlie\u00dfen. In dieser Zeit konsolidierten viele der Betriebe ihren Besitz und bis zur Wende des 28. Jahrhunderts verf\u00fcgten die Bremer Werke \u00fcber den gr\u00f6\u00dften landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb auf Rytif und wandelten sich von einem Verein in eine eigenst\u00e4ndige K\u00f6rperschaft. Durch weitere Standardisierung und Straffung sah es so aus, als k\u00f6nnte sich die Situation f\u00fcr die einst k\u00e4mpfende Gruppe endlich \u00e4ndern. Dann geschah eine Katastrophe.\n\n2716 explodierten die wichtigsten Getreideanlagen der Bremer M\u00fchlen vor den Toren Stalfords, t\u00f6teten Hunderte, verletzten Hunderte und schickten eine Feuerfont\u00e4ne in den Himmel, die man vom Orbit aus sehen konnte. Offizielle Berichte, die heute als Great Stalford Disaster bekannt sind, besagen, dass eine defekte Filtereinheit in einem Mischgebiet es erm\u00f6glicht hat, dass sich Staubpartikel aus Mehl in der Luft zu gef\u00e4hrlichen Konzentrationen ansammeln. Ein einziger Funke gen\u00fcgte, um die Luft zu entz\u00fcnden. Das Feuer, das danach w\u00fctete, verbrannte Zehntausende von kultivierten Hektar rund um die Anlagen. Es dauerte Tage, bis sie vollst\u00e4ndig einged\u00e4mmt werden konnte. Als die Menschen von Rytif die Tr\u00fcmmer durchsahen, blieb nur wenig Hoffnung, dass sich das k\u00e4mpfende Kollektiv von einer so l\u00e4hmenden Katastrophe erholen k\u00f6nnte.\n\nEin Imperium wachsen lassen\nIn der Zwischenzeit, ein paar Spr\u00fcnge entfernt, erlebte ein anderer Agrarkonzern seine eigenen, wenn auch weniger grausamen, Schwierigkeiten.\n\nTerragra, Inc. wurde 2665 auf Terra gegr\u00fcndet und hatte das System mit seinem Angebot an salzigen und s\u00fc\u00dfen Snacks gepr\u00e4gt. Die beliebteste von ihnen, Prallies (ein Weizen-Snack-Stick, der mit einer w\u00fcrzigen Karamellschicht \u00fcberzogen ist)n, begann im ganzen Reich Aufmerksamkeit zu erregen. Als die Bestellungen von Gesch\u00e4ften und Stationen, die den Snack lagern wollten, wuchsen, konnte Terragra keine erschwingliche Weizenquelle finden, mit der sie ihre Produktion zuverl\u00e4ssig ausbauen konnten.\n\nDie L\u00f6sung der Versorgungsprobleme des Unternehmens bot sich nach der Katastrophe von Stalford. Terragra sah die M\u00f6glichkeit, ihre eigene sichere Quelle zu gew\u00e4hrleisten und bot den Bremer Werken das Kapital an, das sie f\u00fcr den Wiederaufbau ihrer zerst\u00f6rten Anlagen im Austausch gegen eine Mehrheitsbeteiligung ben\u00f6tigten. Die beiden Unternehmen konnten die Bedingungen f\u00fcr eine einvernehmliche Fusion festlegen und pr\u00e4sentierten im Sommer 2717 ihre neue Corporate Identity als Terra Mills mit Sitz in der Produktion auf dem erschwinglicheren Rytif.\n\nDank der gemeinsamen Ressourcen der beiden Unternehmen konnte Terra Mills die Nachfrage decken und f\u00fchrte Prallies im ganzen Reich ein, um die Popularit\u00e4t zu steigern. Innerhalb eines Jahrzehnts hatten die Verarbeitungsanlagen auf Rytif ihre bisherige Kapazit\u00e4t \u00fcbertroffen, und bald entwickelte Terra Mills eine st\u00e4ndig wachsende Produktlinie, von Getreide wie Dappers \u00fcber den mehrj\u00e4hrigen Ferienkeks-Favoriten Maybelles bis hin zur Expansion in den Getr\u00e4nkemarkt.\n\nBereit f\u00fcr den Pop\nW\u00e4hrend die in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten eingef\u00fchrten Snacks Terra Mills in der Regel auf positive Resonanz in der \u00d6ffentlichkeit stie\u00dfen (oder im schlimmsten Fall auf Gleichg\u00fcltigkeit), war dies bei ihren ersten Getr\u00e4nkeangeboten nicht der Fall. Heute ist jeder mit den verschiedenen Getr\u00e4nken von Terra Mills vertraut - von Pips \u00fcber Fieldsbury bis Clash -, aber ihr erster Versuch, Braga Malt, ein gem\u00e4lztes Fruchtgetr\u00e4nk, das als Mittel zur Verwendung f\u00fcr \u00fcbersch\u00fcssige Gerste entwickelt wurde, wurde allgemein verachtet. Terra Mills erhielt nach dem Start von Braga tats\u00e4chlich Hass-Kommandos. Die Beschwerden beschrieben ein Getr\u00e4nk, das schal und bitter schmeckte. Die Geschmacksforscher waren verbl\u00fcfft; alles, was sie aus der Fabrik geschmeckt hatten, war k\u00f6stlich. Es brauchte einen Marketingdirektor, der einen Fall von Horus zur\u00fcckbrachte, damit sie das Problem auf den Punkt bringen konnten.\n\nSie knackten die Dose auf und probierten das Getr\u00e4nk, das f\u00fcr sich selbst versandt worden war, und sahen sofort, worum es bei der Beschwerde ging: Es schmeckte schrecklich. Von der Zeit, als sie die Fabrik verlie\u00df, bis zur Ankunft in den Verkaufsregalen geschah etwas mit der Braga. Sorgf\u00e4ltige Untersuchungen ergaben, dass ihre Abf\u00fcllanlage eine Aluminium-Verbundwerkstoffqualit\u00e4t verwendete, die den Anforderungen der Raumfahrt nicht gerecht wurde. Zuerst schien es, dass die einzigen verf\u00fcgbaren L\u00f6sungen die Umstellung auf teurere Beh\u00e4lter waren, was ihre Gewinnspanne stark beeintr\u00e4chtigen w\u00fcrde, oder die \u00c4nderung der Getr\u00e4nkeformel, um die Auswirkungen der Schifffahrt \u00fcberkompensieren zu k\u00f6nnen. Unzufrieden mit der Wahl zwischen zwei glanzlosen Optionen gelang es den Wissenschaftlern im Labor von Terra Mills, eine v\u00f6llig andere L\u00f6sung zu formulieren. Sie entwickelten ein Verfahren zur Speicherung der Karbonatisierung in Nanoperlen, die intakt bleiben sollten, bis der Umgebungsdruck vollst\u00e4ndig abgebaut war. Dieser Prozess stellte sicher, dass ein Getr\u00e4nk niemals flach wird und Jahrzehnte im Weltraum ohne Nebenwirkungen \u00fcberstehen kann. Braga Malt wurde mit dieser \u00fcberarbeiteten Formel neu gestaltet und unter dem neuen Namen Snazzle neu verpackt. Das Getr\u00e4nk war und ist ein gro\u00dfer Hit, mit einem Dutzend beliebter Geschmacksrichtungen, die in den Verkaufsregalen des gesamten Imperiums zu finden sind.\n\nBig Benny's\nDer j\u00fcngste Zuwachs in der Familie der Terra Mills ist vielleicht der bisher k\u00fchnste. Nach der Eroberung von Snacks und Getr\u00e4nken haben sie sich entschieden, eine Position im Bereich der Schnellgerichte einzunehmen. Im Jahr 2943 kauften sie von Lo ein kleines Restaurant-Franchise, das seit seiner Er\u00f6ffnung vor drei Jahren von einem einzigen Standort auf \u00fcber hundert gestiegen war.\n\nBenicio Lewis, Jr. war auf einer Fransen-Transferstation in Corel aufgewachsen und a\u00df den hausgemachten Kacho seines Vaters, eine ramenartige Kombination aus Nudeln und Br\u00fche, die stark gew\u00fcrzt war, um die Bet\u00e4ubung der Geschmacksnerven zu bek\u00e4mpfen, die bei l\u00e4ngerer Exposition gegen\u00fcber unter Druck stehenden Umgebungen auftritt. Wie Lewis seinen Vater zitierte: \"Wenn ich in einer Konservendose leben muss, werde ich sicher kein Essen essen, das schmeckt, als ob es von einem kommt.\" Jahre sp\u00e4ter, als er auf Lo lebte, machte Little Benny selbst Kacho f\u00fcr seine Freunde, die begannen, ihren Freunden zu schw\u00e4rmen. Ihre Ermutigung \u00fcberzeugte ihn, einen kleinen Stand in einem kommerziellen Raumhafen zu er\u00f6ffnen. Er nannte seinen Lebensmittelladen Big Benny's zu Ehren seines Vaters. Mit seinem g\u00fcnstigen und zufriedenstellenden Preis war der Stand die ganze Zeit \u00fcberf\u00fcllt.\n\nVon diesem bescheidenen Anfang an er\u00f6ffnete Lewis schnell neue Franchise, da sich die \"kacho kraze\" wie ein Lauffeuer verbreitete. Es dauerte nicht lange, bis er von Terra Mills mit dem Angebot angesprochen wurde, seinen Kacho von Lo dem Rest des Universums vorzustellen. Trotz der Proteste der treuen Fans der Franchise war Lewis gl\u00fccklich zu verkaufen und erkl\u00e4rte: \"Mein Vater h\u00e4tte es geliebt zu wissen, dass die Menschen in der ganzen Strophe etwas Gutes essen k\u00f6nnen, wenn sie es brauchen. Au\u00dferdem liebte er es, Geld zu verdienen.\" Heute sind Big Bennys Verkaufsst\u00e4nde und Verkaufsautomaten \u00fcberall dort zu finden, wo Menschen ihren Kredit verl\u00e4ngern und eine warme Mahlzeit einnehmen wollen.\n\nZur \u00dcberraschung von niemandem h\u00f6rt Terra Mills dort nicht auf. Mit einer erfolgreichen Einf\u00fchrung von Fertiggerichten pr\u00e4sentierten sie k\u00fcrzlich ihre neueste Marke TipTop auf der 2946 Vendor Association Conference. Mit einer Vielzahl von mundgerechten, mit Tapioka umh\u00fcllten Kn\u00f6deln wird TipTop voraussichtlich bald so allgegenw\u00e4rtig sein wie die anderen Kreationen der M\u00fchlen.\n\nAufgrund dieser Erfolge ist Terra Mills weiterhin der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Arbeitgeber im Bremer System und zeigt keine Anzeichen einer Verlangsamung. Was als eine Sammlung von Farmen begann, hat sich zu einem der gr\u00f6\u00dften Lebensmittelhersteller des Reiches entwickelt, mit Produkten, die in jedem System zu finden sind, in dem die Menschen leben.","zh_CN":"A Business Takes Root\nMillions of people consume their wide range of products everyday, but to the surprise of many who enjoy these drinks, snacks and meals, Terra Mills did not get its start in Terra at all. In fact, for the first century of its existence, Terra Mills was exclusively located in Bremen.\n\nThough settlement began in the 25th century, it wasn\u2019t until the outbreak of the Second Tevarin War in 2603 that Bremen, and more specifically Rytif, began to really take off. The Navy turned to the small agrarian planet to help feed their largest ever fighting force of starmen to date. As demand skyrocketed, farmers were eager for the influx of government credits but lacked the infrastructure needed to take full advantage of the subsidies, so they began to pool their resources. Under the leadership of de facto Governor Arcturus Koerner, the major landholders on Rytif banded together to form the Bremen Milling, Processing & Farming Association, more commonly and simply known as Bremen Mills. This collective of farms, processing centers and mills allowed its members to cut costs by sharing the overhead of expensive large-scale production, as well as providing them a united front through which they could set higher prices through collective bargaining.\n\nIn just a few short years, Bremen Mills become an economic powerhouse, and for the next several decades saw its shareholders becoming extremely wealthy. However, due to a lack of diversification, when the grain market crashed in 2640, Rytif, and with it Bremen Mills, fell on hard times.\n\nAshes\nThough profits were down, Bremen Mills managed to hang on. The Empire still needed grain, and though margins were slim, the established network of transport, milling and processing allowed Bremen Mills to succeed where other farmers were forced to close shop. During this period, many of the farms consolidated ownership and by the turn of the 28th century, Bremen Mills boasted the largest agricultural holding on Rytif and changed from an association into a corporate entity in its own right. Through further standardization and streamlining, it began to look like things could finally be turning around for the once-struggling group. Then disaster struck.\n\nIn 2716, the main Bremen Mills grain facilities just outside of Stalford exploded, killing hundreds, injuring hundreds more and sending a plume of fire into the sky that could be seen from orbit. Known today as the Great Stalford Disaster, official reports state that a broken filtration unit in a mixing area allowed airborne flour dust particles to accumulate to dangerous concentration levels. A single spark was all it took to ignite the air. The fire that raged afterwards burned tens of thousands of cultivated acres surrounding the facilities. It was days before it could be fully contained. As the people of Rytif sorted through the wreckage, very little hope remained that the struggling collective would be able to recover from such a crippling catastrophe.\n\nGrowing an Empire\nMeanwhile, a few jumps away, another agricultural conglomerate was experiencing its own, if less grisly, difficulties.\n\nTerragra, Inc., founded in 2665 on Terra, had made its mark on the system with its range of salty and sweet snacks. The most popular of these, Prallies (a wheat snack stick covered in a spicy caramel coating)n, was starting to gain notice across the Empire. As orders from stores and stations wishing to stock the snack grew, Terragra could not find a affordable source of wheat that they could use to reliably expand their production.\n\nThe solution to the company\u2019s supply problems presented itself after the catastrophe at Stalford. Seeing an opportunity to guarantee their own secure source, Terragra offered to provide Bremen Mills with the capital needed to rebuild their destroyed facilities in exchange for controlling interest. The two companies were able to resolve terms for a mutually agreeable merger and, in the summer of 2717, they revealed their new corporate identity as Terra Mills, headquartering production on the more affordable Rytif.\n\nThanks to the combined resources of the two companies, Terra Mills was able to meet demand and launched Prallies across the Empire to soaring popularity. Within a decade the processing facilities on Rytif had surpassed their previous capacity and soon Terra Mills was making an ever expanding product line, from cereals like Dappers to the perennial holiday cookie favorite Ringalings, and even eventually expanding into the drink market.\n\nReady to Pop\nWhereas the snacks Terra Mills introduced over the last two centuries usually met with positive reaction from the public (or at the very worst indifference), this was not the case with their initial beverage offerings. Today, everybody is familiar with Terra Mills\u2019 assorted beverages \u2014 from Pips, to Fieldsbury, to Clash \u2014 but their first attempt, Braga Malt, a malted fruit drink created as a way to find a use for surplus barley, was universally despised. Terra Mills actually received hate comms after the launch of Braga. The complaints described a drink that tasted stale and bitter. The flavor scientists were stumped; everything they had tasted off the factory floor was delicious. It took a marketing director bringing back a case from Horus for them to get to the bottom of the issue.\n\nCracking open the can and tasting the drink that had been shipped out for themselves, they immediately saw what the complaining was about: it tasted terrible. Something was happening to the Braga from the time it left the factory to the time it arrived on store shelves. Careful research revealed that their bottling plant was using a grade of aluminum composite that wasn\u2019t up to the rigors of space travel. At first, it seemed that the only solutions available were switching to more expensive containers, which would severely hamper their profit margin, or changing the drink formula to overcompensate for the effects of shipping. Unsatisfied with choosing between two lackluster options, the scientists in the Terra Mills lab managed to formulate a completely different solution. They devised a method to store carbonation inside nanobeads which would remain intact until the surrounding pressure was fully released. This process insured that a drink would never go flat and could survive decades in space without any adverse effects. Braga Malt was redesigned with this revised formula and repackaged under the new name Snazzle. The drink was a huge hit and continues to be so, with a dozen popular flavors to be found on store shelves throughout the Empire.\n\nBig Benny\u2019s\nThe most recent addition to the Terra Mills family may be their most audacious yet. After conquering snacks and drinks, they have decided to pursue a position in the fast meals sector. In 2943, they purchased a small restaurant franchise from Lo that, since its opening three years prior, had gone from a single location to over a hundred.\n\nBenicio Lewis, Jr. had grown up on a fringe transfer station in Corel eating his father\u2019s homemade kacho, a ramen-like combination of noodles and broth that was heavily spiced to combat the taste bud numbing that occurs with long exposure to pressurized environments. As Lewis quoted his father, \u201cIf I have to live in a tin can, I\u2019m sure as hell not going to eat food that tastes like it came from one.\u201d Years later when living on Lo, Little Benny himself made kacho for his friends, who began to rave to their friends. Their encouragement convinced him to open up a small stall at a commercial spaceport. He named his foodstall Big Benny\u2019s in honor of his father. With its cheap and satisfying fare, the stand was crowded all the time.\n\nFrom that humble beginning, Lewis quickly opened new franchises as the \u201ckacho kraze\u201d spread like wildfire. It wasn\u2019t long before he was approached by Terra Mills with an offer to introduce his kacho from Lo to the rest of the universe. Despite protests from the franchise\u2019s loyal fans, Lewis was happy to sell, explaining, \u201cMy dad would have loved to know that people across the \u2019verse can have something good to eat when they need it. Plus, he loved making money.\u201d Today, Big Benny\u2019s stalls and vending units can be found everywhere people are looking to stretch their credits and eat a warm meal.\n\nTo the surprise of no one, Terra Mills is not stopping there. With one successful ready meal launch under their belt, they recently revealed their newest brand, TipTop, at the 2946 Vendor Association Conference. Offering a variety of bite-sized tapioca-wrapped dumplings, TipTop is anticipated to soon be as ubiquitous as the Mills\u2019 other creations.\n\nAs a result of these successes, Terra Mills continues to be the largest employer in the Bremen system and it shows no sign of slowing down. What started out as a collection of farms has grown into one of the biggest food manufacturers in the Empire, with products that can be found in every system where Humans live."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":62,"created_at":"2016-02-17T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"10 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 05:28:44","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":15200,"next_id":15203}}