{"data":{"id":17419,"title":"Portfolio: Chemline Solutions","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/17419-Portfolio-Chemline-Solutions","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/17419","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/17419","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":14009,"name":"Portfolio_Chemline.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/x2tr3d7j8ohm1r\/source\/Portfolio_Chemline.jpg","alt":"","size":4418403,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2020-01-07T00:55:04+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/14009","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/14009\/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":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 5.12.\nTo quote famed businessman Engel Nordigan, \u201ca good business is blessed by the public. Profits can be spectacular, but if the public dislikes or even worse, distrusts a company, they will face an uphill battle.\u201d Few corporations understand that mantra more than Chemline Solutions.\n\nHumble Beginnings\nVictor and Adorai Zahid didn\u2019t have what many would consider a \u2018normal\u2019 childhood. Their parents, both employees at Kel-To ConStores, were part of the internal inspection teams making sure the various branches adhered to the corporate safety mandates, which required the family to be constantly on the move.\n\nIn Victor Zahid\u2019s memoir, Titan, he recounted that the family would rarely stay in one place for more than a month, as they rotated through the thousands of Kel-To ConStores located throughout the UEE. For Victor and his twin sister, Adorai, this left little opportunity for any kind of stable home. They spent their entire childhood racing around various transport ships and Housing Exchanges while their parents worked. At night, their parents taught them from a meticulously constructed education curriculum, designed to allow them to test for Equivalency early. Their assignment during the day was simple: learn. They were encouraged to find out about the area they were living in, the people around them, anything. Each night, the children would need to present what they learned that day and then the parents would discuss the information.\n\n\u201cI didn\u2019t get it at the time,\u201d Victor wrote in Titan. \u201cBut in retrospect, talking about why this HEX was in a sad economic state or why that hauler we talked to was doing the things he was doing was their way to teach us empathy, to understand that everybody had a story.\u201d\n\nAlthough both of the twins were equally studious, their interests began to diverge as they got older. Victor developed a taste for commodity trading, often using his allowance to purchase small quantities of goods to trade at other stations. When he wasn\u2019t actively buying or selling, he kept meticulous notes about prices from the TDD and local traders. Meanwhile, his sister Adorai became fascinated with the world of mathematics and engineering and studied all the various stations and ships that they encountered throughout their travels.\n\nBoth of the Zahid twins achieved Equivalency at sixteen and received partial scholarships to Terra University. Victor graduated with a dual-degree in economics and business management, which led to an immediate position at Clifton Brothers in Prime. Adorai stayed in school a little longer to earn a degree in geological engineering. During her final year, she was approached by reps from Edo Inc., a small mining and exploration exchange based out of Lo in the Corel system, to work in their planetary development division.\n\nAlthough they spoke often, the twins did not see each other for almost ten years. Adorai stayed in one spot and progressed through the ranks at Edo. Victor, however, seemingly was unable to shake the transitory lifestyle of their youth. During that time, he left Clifton Brothers and went on to start a number of business ventures of his own, including an event planning company and a brief foray into band management.\n\nIn 2889, while Victor and Adorai caught up at their father\u2019s 98th birthday party, Adorai told Victor about the experimental extraction technology she was trying to develop for Edo. Although the research was promising, financial projections as to the cost to implement these upgrades outweighed the potential profit margin, so the board of directors were moving to cancel the project. While she lamented having to abandon the research, Victor could see the potential. If successful, this technology could revitalize old dig sites. About two hours of intense discussion later, he proposed an idea: why not develop the technology on their own?\n\nAn Idea Into An Institution\nWithin the year, Chemline Solutions was born. Although its primary business would be as a provider of industrial chemicals (referred to as \u2018the cash flow\u2019 by Victor), Adorai was able to convince Edo\u2019s board to sell her research to the fledgling company. As she got back to work, Victor tapped into the various connections he\u2019d developed over the years to build the company\u2019s initial client list. His goal was to build enough capital not only to support Adorai\u2019s research, but also to have credits on hand by the time she completed it.\n\nBetween Adorai\u2019s work behind the scenes and Victor\u2019s business acumen, the company grew at a remarkable rate. Within five years, they operated out of six distribution hubs strategically placed throughout the UEE.\n\nBy the end of the 29th century, Adorai had completed her first functioning prototype of her new extraction process. Utilizing low-frequency seismic vibrations, the project (codenamed Resurrection within the company) delivered on its promise of unlocking previously inaccessible gas pockets for collection. With the company already making a steady profit, Victor was convinced that this would take the company to the next level.\n\nVictor began scouring the UEE for potential dig sites. The answer was a small moon in a distant system.\n\nSituated near the remnants of the first planet in the system (destroyed when the star went nova), Odin 1a had been extensively mined by a variety of companies for almost twenty years until it was finally abandoned in 2865. The moon, known as Gainey, turned out to have a significant quantity of gas pockets, and the lack of a local population made it an ideal site for the new tech. The only shortcoming was that twenty years of intensive resource harvesting had left a shocking amount of abandoned buildings, satellites and trash around the tiny moon, the cleanup of which pushed out their timetable.\n\nThanks to the condition of the moon as well as its remote location, the company was able to secure extraction rights at a bargain rate from the Planetary Development Bureau and immediately began construction on the extensive network of structures that needed to be positioned around the moon to house the seismic actuators that would extract the gas. By 2904, Chemline Solutions activated their first gas extraction facility.\n\nAdorai\u2019s theories started paying off almost immediately, but over the course of several years, she became increasingly worried about the increasing seismic events on the moon. Fissures began to open up unexpectedly in seemingly random places, which made it difficult for Adorai to confirm that her machine was causing them.\n\nAccording to Adorai, soon after she began to investigate these seismic events, Victor entered into negotiations to build another extraction facility on a populated world. Still nervous that her technology might be dangerous to a local population, she protested the expansion, but he refused outright, citing the massive profits the new facility could generate. When presented with her findings, Victor claimed that her \u2018evidence\u2019 was a collection of inconsistencies and assumptions.\n\nThe ensuing argument escalated over the next few months and ultimately resulted in Victor firing Adorai from the company. The twins, inseparable through their childhood, were now locked in a bitter legal dispute. Adorai sued Chemline Solutions and her brother for the rights to her technology, but the initial company doctrine signed when the company was formed specifically stipulated the extraction technology as a company asset. Regardless, the string of lawsuits and countersuits spanned nearly a decade.\n\nBy 2919, Chemline Solutions couldn\u2019t maintain the Gainey facility anymore. Due to the fallout from Adorai\u2019s very public battle with the company, the UEE was reticent to provide any more licenses for the technology.\n\nVictor tried for years to find a buyer to take over the Gainey facility to help offset the legal costs, but no one was willing to assume responsibility for the property. By 2923, Victor removed as much equipment as he could and permanently sealed up the facility.\n\nThe Path Forward\nThese days Chemline Solutions has pivoted back into primarily serving as an industrial chemical distributor. Victor Zahid has attempted to obtain extraction licenses since, but the initial cost requirement to construct the vast array of structures needed to fully utilize the technology has now become a larger obstacle than the government\u2019s reticence to sanction it. In 2938, Victor instituted an \u2018open door policy\u2019 for geological and mining inventors to pitch their ideas, hoping to strike it rich with another genius design.\n\nAdorai Zahid receded from the public after the series of trials was settled, becoming a professor of Geological Studies at Terra University. In 2940, she released an educational textbook about surveying ethics, but has never spoken publicly about her experience with Chemline Solutions.\n\nIt\u2019s unknown whether the twins have ever spoken directly since.","de_DE":"Dieses Portfolio erschien urspr\u00fcnglich in Jump Point 5.12.\nUm den ber\u00fchmten Gesch\u00e4ftsmann Engel Nordigan zu zitieren, \"ein gutes Gesch\u00e4ft wird von der \u00d6ffentlichkeit gesegnet. Die Gewinne k\u00f6nnen spektakul\u00e4r sein, aber wenn die \u00d6ffentlichkeit ein Unternehmen nicht mag oder, schlimmer noch, ihm misstraut, wird es einen schweren Kampf geben\". Nur wenige Unternehmen verstehen dieses Mantra mehr als Chemline Solutions.\n\nBescheidene Anf\u00e4nge\nVictor und Adorai Zahid hatten nicht das, was viele als eine \"normale\" Kindheit bezeichnen w\u00fcrden. Ihre Eltern, beide Mitarbeiter der Kel-To ConStores, waren Teil der internen Inspektionsteams, die die Einhaltung der Sicherheitsvorschriften des Unternehmens in den verschiedenen Filialen sicherstellten, was eine st\u00e4ndige Bewegung der Familie erforderte.\n\nIn Victor Zahids Memoiren, Titan, erz\u00e4hlte er, dass die Familie selten l\u00e4nger als einen Monat an einem Ort bleiben w\u00fcrde, da sie durch die tausenden Kel-To ConStores in der gesamten UEE rotieren. F\u00fcr Victor und seine Zwillingsschwester Adorai blieb damit nur wenig Gelegenheit f\u00fcr ein stabiles Zuhause. Sie verbrachten ihre gesamte Kindheit damit, auf verschiedenen Transportschiffen und in Wohnungsb\u00f6rsen herumzurennen, w\u00e4hrend ihre Eltern arbeiteten. Nachts unterrichteten sie ihre Eltern anhand eines sorgf\u00e4ltig ausgearbeiteten Lehrplans, der ihnen die M\u00f6glichkeit gibt, schon fr\u00fch auf Gleichwertigkeit zu testen. Ihre Aufgabe w\u00e4hrend des Tages war einfach: lernen. Sie wurden ermutigt, sich \u00fcber die Gegend, in der sie lebten, die Menschen um sie herum, alles M\u00f6gliche herauszufinden. Jeden Abend mussten die Kinder das, was sie an diesem Tag gelernt hatten, pr\u00e4sentieren, und dann besprachen die Eltern die Informationen.\n\n\"Damals habe ich es nicht verstanden\", schrieb Victor in Titan. \"Aber im R\u00fcckblick war es ihre Art, uns Einf\u00fchlungsverm\u00f6gen zu lehren, zu verstehen, dass jeder eine Geschichte hat, wenn wir dar\u00fcber sprechen, warum dieser HEX in einem traurigen wirtschaftlichen Zustand war oder warum der Spediteur, mit dem wir gesprochen haben, die Dinge tat, die er tat.\n\nObwohl beide Zwillinge gleich flei\u00dfig waren, begannen ihre Interessen mit zunehmendem Alter auseinander zu gehen. Victor entwickelte eine Vorliebe f\u00fcr den Warenhandel, wobei er oft seine Erlaubnis nutzte, kleine Mengen von Waren zu kaufen, um an anderen Stationen zu handeln. Wenn er nicht aktiv kaufte oder verkaufte, hielt er akribisch Notizen \u00fcber Preise von der TDD und lokalen H\u00e4ndlern. Inzwischen war seine Schwester Adorai fasziniert von der Welt der Mathematik und der Ingenieurwissenschaften und studierte all die verschiedenen Stationen und Schiffe, die sie auf ihren Reisen antrafen.\n\nBeide Zahid-Zwillinge erreichten mit sechzehn Jahren die \u00c4quivalenz und erhielten Teilstipendien f\u00fcr die Terra Universit\u00e4t. Victor schloss sein Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften mit einem Doppeldiplom ab, was zu einer sofortigen Anstellung bei Clifton Brothers in Prime f\u00fchrte. Adorai blieb etwas l\u00e4nger in der Schule, um einen Abschluss in Geologie-Ingenieurwesen zu machen. W\u00e4hrend ihres letzten Jahres wurde sie von Vertretern von Edo Inc., einer kleinen Bergbau- und Explorationsb\u00f6rse mit Sitz au\u00dferhalb von Lo im Corel-System, angesprochen, um in deren Abteilung f\u00fcr planetare Entwicklung zu arbeiten.\n\nObwohl sie oft sprachen, sahen sich die Zwillinge fast zehn Jahre lang nicht mehr. Adorai blieb auf einem Platz und schob sich in Edo durch die Reihen. Doch Victor konnte den verg\u00e4nglichen Lebensstil ihrer Jugend scheinbar nicht absch\u00fctteln. W\u00e4hrend dieser Zeit verlie\u00df er Clifton Brothers und gr\u00fcndete eine Reihe von eigenen Unternehmen, darunter eine Eventplanungsfirma und einen kurzen Ausflug ins Bandmanagement.\n\nIm Jahr 2889, w\u00e4hrend Victor und Adorai auf der 98. Geburtstagsfeier ihres Vaters auftauchten, erz\u00e4hlte Adorai Victor von der experimentellen Extraktionstechnologie, die sie f\u00fcr Edo zu entwickeln versuchte. Obwohl die Forschung vielversprechend war, \u00fcberstiegen die finanziellen Vorhersagen hinsichtlich der Kosten f\u00fcr die Umsetzung dieser Upgrades die potenzielle Gewinnmarge, so dass der Vorstand das Projekt absagen wollte. W\u00e4hrend sie beklagte, die Forschung aufgeben zu m\u00fcssen, konnte Victor das Potenzial sehen. Bei Erfolg k\u00f6nnte diese Technologie alte Ausgrabungsst\u00e4tten revitalisieren. Etwa zwei Stunden sp\u00e4ter schlug er in einer intensiven Diskussion eine Idee vor: Warum nicht die Technologie selbst entwickeln?\n\nEine Idee in eine Institution\nInnerhalb des Jahres wurde Chemline Solutions geboren. Obwohl ihr Hauptgesch\u00e4ft als Anbieter von Industriechemikalien (von Victor als \"der Cashflow\" bezeichnet) bestehen w\u00fcrde, konnte Adorai den Vorstand von Edo \u00fcberzeugen, ihre Forschung an das junge Unternehmen zu verkaufen. Als sie wieder an die Arbeit ging, zapfte Victor die verschiedenen Verbindungen an, die er \u00fcber die Jahre entwickelt hatte, um die erste Kundenliste der Firma aufzubauen. Sein Ziel war es, genug Kapital aufzubauen, um nicht nur Adorai's Forschung zu unterst\u00fctzen, sondern auch Kredite zu haben, wenn sie sie abgeschlossen hat.\n\nZwischen Adorai's Arbeit hinter den Kulissen und Victor's Gesch\u00e4ftssinn wuchs die Firma in einem bemerkenswerten Tempo. Innerhalb von f\u00fcnf Jahren operierten sie von sechs Vertriebszentren aus, die strategisch in der gesamten UEE platziert waren.\n\nEnde des 29. Jahrhunderts hatte Adorai den ersten funktionierenden Prototyp ihres neuen Extraktionsverfahrens fertig gestellt. Durch die Verwendung von niederfrequenten seismischen Schwingungen hat das Projekt (innerhalb des Unternehmens unter dem Codenamen Resurrection) sein Versprechen eingel\u00f6st, bisher unzug\u00e4ngliche Gastaschen f\u00fcr die Sammlung zu \u00f6ffnen. Da das Unternehmen bereits einen stetigen Gewinn erwirtschaftete, war Victor \u00fcberzeugt, dass dies das Unternehmen auf die n\u00e4chste Stufe bringen w\u00fcrde.\n\nVictor begann, die UEE nach potentiellen Ausgrabungsst\u00e4tten zu durchsuchen. Die Antwort war ein kleiner Mond in einem entfernten System.\n\nIn der N\u00e4he der \u00dcberreste des ersten Planeten im System (zerst\u00f6rt, als der Stern zur Nova wurde), wurde Odin 1a fast zwanzig Jahre lang von verschiedenen Firmen ausgiebig abgebaut, bis er 2865 schlie\u00dflich aufgegeben wurde. Der Mond, bekannt als Gainey, stellte sich heraus, dass er eine betr\u00e4chtliche Menge an Gastaschen hatte, und das Fehlen einer lokalen Bev\u00f6lkerung machte ihn zu einem idealen Standort f\u00fcr die neue Technologie. Das einzige Manko war, dass zwanzig Jahre intensiver Ressourcenernte eine schockierende Menge an verlassenen Geb\u00e4uden, Satelliten und M\u00fcll rund um den winzigen Mond hinterlassen hatten, deren S\u00e4uberung ihren Zeitplan in die L\u00e4nge zog.\n\nDank des Zustands des Mondes und seiner abgelegenen Lage konnte sich das Unternehmen die F\u00f6rderrechte zu einem g\u00fcnstigen Preis vom Planetary Development Bureau sichern und begann sofort mit dem Bau des ausgedehnten Netzes von Strukturen, die um den Mond herum positioniert werden mussten, um die seismischen Aktoren zur F\u00f6rderung des Gases unterzubringen. Im Jahr 2904 aktivierte Chemline Solutions ihre erste Gasf\u00f6rderanlage.\n\nAdorai's Theorien begannen sich fast sofort auszuzahlen, aber im Laufe der Jahre wurde sie immer besorgter \u00fcber die zunehmenden seismischen Ereignisse auf dem Mond. An scheinbar zuf\u00e4lligen Stellen begannen sich unerwartet Risse zu \u00f6ffnen, was es Adorai schwer machte, zu best\u00e4tigen, dass ihre Maschine sie verursachte.\n\nLaut Adorai, kurz nachdem sie begann, diese seismischen Ereignisse zu untersuchen, trat Victor in Verhandlungen ein, um eine weitere Extraktionsanlage auf einer bewohnten Welt zu bauen. Immer noch nerv\u00f6s, dass ihre Technologie f\u00fcr die lokale Bev\u00f6lkerung gef\u00e4hrlich sein k\u00f6nnte, protestierte sie gegen die Erweiterung, aber er lehnte sie unter Berufung auf die massiven Gewinne, die die neue Anlage generieren k\u00f6nnte, rundheraus ab. Als ihr die Ergebnisse vorgelegt wurden, behauptete Victor, dass ihre \"Beweise\" eine Sammlung von Ungereimtheiten und Annahmen seien.\n\nDer darauf folgende Streit eskalierte in den n\u00e4chsten Monaten und f\u00fchrte schlie\u00dflich dazu, dass Victor Adorai aus dem Unternehmen entlie\u00df. Die Zwillinge, unzertrennlich durch ihre Kindheit, waren nun in einen erbitterten Rechtsstreit verwickelt. Adorai verklagte Chemline Solutions und ihren Bruder auf die Rechte an ihrer Technologie, aber die urspr\u00fcngliche Firmendoktrin, die bei der Gr\u00fcndung des Unternehmens unterzeichnet wurde, legte die Extraktionstechnologie ausdr\u00fccklich als Firmenverm\u00f6gen fest. Unabh\u00e4ngig davon erstreckte sich die Kette von Klagen und Gegenklagen \u00fcber fast ein Jahrzehnt.\n\nIm Jahr 2919 konnte Chemline Solutions das Werk in Gainey nicht mehr unterhalten. Aufgrund der Auswirkungen von Adorai's sehr \u00f6ffentlichem Kampf mit der Firma, war die UEE zur\u00fcckhaltend, weitere Lizenzen f\u00fcr die Technologie zu vergeben.\n\nVictor versuchte jahrelang, einen K\u00e4ufer zu finden, der die Gainey-Anlage \u00fcbernimmt, um die Prozesskosten auszugleichen, aber niemand war bereit, die Verantwortung f\u00fcr die Immobilie zu \u00fcbernehmen. Im Jahr 2923 entfernte Victor so viel Ausr\u00fcstung, wie er konnte, und versiegelte die Anlage dauerhaft.\n\nDer Weg nach vorn\nHeutzutage hat sich Chemline Solutions wieder haupts\u00e4chlich auf den Vertrieb von Industriechemikalien spezialisiert. Victor Zahid hat seitdem versucht, Extraktionslizenzen zu erhalten, aber die anf\u00e4ngliche Kostenanforderung, um die riesige Anzahl von Strukturen zu bauen, die f\u00fcr die volle Nutzung der Technologie erforderlich sind, ist nun zu einem gr\u00f6\u00dferen Hindernis geworden als die Zur\u00fcckhaltung der Regierung, diese zu sanktionieren. Im Jahr 2938 f\u00fchrte Victor eine \"Politik der offenen T\u00fcr\" ein, in der geologische und Bergbau-Erfinder ihre Ideen einbringen konnten, in der Hoffnung, dass sie mit einem weiteren genialen Entwurf reichhaltig vertreten sein w\u00fcrden.\n\nAdorai Zahid zog sich nach Abschluss der Versuchsreihe aus der \u00d6ffentlichkeit zur\u00fcck und wurde Professor f\u00fcr geologische Studien an der Terra Universit\u00e4t. Im Jahr 2940 ver\u00f6ffentlichte sie ein Lehrbuch \u00fcber Vermessungsethik, hat aber nie \u00f6ffentlich \u00fcber ihre Erfahrungen mit Chemline Solutions gesprochen.\n\nEs ist unbekannt, ob die Zwillinge seitdem jemals direkt miteinander gesprochen haben.","zh_CN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 5.12.\nTo quote famed businessman Engel Nordigan, \u201ca good business is blessed by the public. Profits can be spectacular, but if the public dislikes or even worse, distrusts a company, they will face an uphill battle.\u201d Few corporations understand that mantra more than Chemline Solutions.\n\nHumble Beginnings\nVictor and Adorai Zahid didn\u2019t have what many would consider a \u2018normal\u2019 childhood. Their parents, both employees at Kel-To ConStores, were part of the internal inspection teams making sure the various branches adhered to the corporate safety mandates, which required the family to be constantly on the move.\n\nIn Victor Zahid\u2019s memoir, Titan, he recounted that the family would rarely stay in one place for more than a month, as they rotated through the thousands of Kel-To ConStores located throughout the UEE. For Victor and his twin sister, Adorai, this left little opportunity for any kind of stable home. They spent their entire childhood racing around various transport ships and Housing Exchanges while their parents worked. At night, their parents taught them from a meticulously constructed education curriculum, designed to allow them to test for Equivalency early. Their assignment during the day was simple: learn. They were encouraged to find out about the area they were living in, the people around them, anything. Each night, the children would need to present what they learned that day and then the parents would discuss the information.\n\n\u201cI didn\u2019t get it at the time,\u201d Victor wrote in Titan. \u201cBut in retrospect, talking about why this HEX was in a sad economic state or why that hauler we talked to was doing the things he was doing was their way to teach us empathy, to understand that everybody had a story.\u201d\n\nAlthough both of the twins were equally studious, their interests began to diverge as they got older. Victor developed a taste for commodity trading, often using his allowance to purchase small quantities of goods to trade at other stations. When he wasn\u2019t actively buying or selling, he kept meticulous notes about prices from the TDD and local traders. Meanwhile, his sister Adorai became fascinated with the world of mathematics and engineering and studied all the various stations and ships that they encountered throughout their travels.\n\nBoth of the Zahid twins achieved Equivalency at sixteen and received partial scholarships to Terra University. Victor graduated with a dual-degree in economics and business management, which led to an immediate position at Clifton Brothers in Prime. Adorai stayed in school a little longer to earn a degree in geological engineering. During her final year, she was approached by reps from Edo Inc., a small mining and exploration exchange based out of Lo in the Corel system, to work in their planetary development division.\n\nAlthough they spoke often, the twins did not see each other for almost ten years. Adorai stayed in one spot and progressed through the ranks at Edo. Victor, however, seemingly was unable to shake the transitory lifestyle of their youth. During that time, he left Clifton Brothers and went on to start a number of business ventures of his own, including an event planning company and a brief foray into band management.\n\nIn 2889, while Victor and Adorai caught up at their father\u2019s 98th birthday party, Adorai told Victor about the experimental extraction technology she was trying to develop for Edo. Although the research was promising, financial projections as to the cost to implement these upgrades outweighed the potential profit margin, so the board of directors were moving to cancel the project. While she lamented having to abandon the research, Victor could see the potential. If successful, this technology could revitalize old dig sites. About two hours of intense discussion later, he proposed an idea: why not develop the technology on their own?\n\nAn Idea Into An Institution\nWithin the year, Chemline Solutions was born. Although its primary business would be as a provider of industrial chemicals (referred to as \u2018the cash flow\u2019 by Victor), Adorai was able to convince Edo\u2019s board to sell her research to the fledgling company. As she got back to work, Victor tapped into the various connections he\u2019d developed over the years to build the company\u2019s initial client list. His goal was to build enough capital not only to support Adorai\u2019s research, but also to have credits on hand by the time she completed it.\n\nBetween Adorai\u2019s work behind the scenes and Victor\u2019s business acumen, the company grew at a remarkable rate. Within five years, they operated out of six distribution hubs strategically placed throughout the UEE.\n\nBy the end of the 29th century, Adorai had completed her first functioning prototype of her new extraction process. Utilizing low-frequency seismic vibrations, the project (codenamed Resurrection within the company) delivered on its promise of unlocking previously inaccessible gas pockets for collection. With the company already making a steady profit, Victor was convinced that this would take the company to the next level.\n\nVictor began scouring the UEE for potential dig sites. The answer was a small moon in a distant system.\n\nSituated near the remnants of the first planet in the system (destroyed when the star went nova), Odin 1a had been extensively mined by a variety of companies for almost twenty years until it was finally abandoned in 2865. The moon, known as Gainey, turned out to have a significant quantity of gas pockets, and the lack of a local population made it an ideal site for the new tech. The only shortcoming was that twenty years of intensive resource harvesting had left a shocking amount of abandoned buildings, satellites and trash around the tiny moon, the cleanup of which pushed out their timetable.\n\nThanks to the condition of the moon as well as its remote location, the company was able to secure extraction rights at a bargain rate from the Planetary Development Bureau and immediately began construction on the extensive network of structures that needed to be positioned around the moon to house the seismic actuators that would extract the gas. By 2904, Chemline Solutions activated their first gas extraction facility.\n\nAdorai\u2019s theories started paying off almost immediately, but over the course of several years, she became increasingly worried about the increasing seismic events on the moon. Fissures began to open up unexpectedly in seemingly random places, which made it difficult for Adorai to confirm that her machine was causing them.\n\nAccording to Adorai, soon after she began to investigate these seismic events, Victor entered into negotiations to build another extraction facility on a populated world. Still nervous that her technology might be dangerous to a local population, she protested the expansion, but he refused outright, citing the massive profits the new facility could generate. When presented with her findings, Victor claimed that her \u2018evidence\u2019 was a collection of inconsistencies and assumptions.\n\nThe ensuing argument escalated over the next few months and ultimately resulted in Victor firing Adorai from the company. The twins, inseparable through their childhood, were now locked in a bitter legal dispute. Adorai sued Chemline Solutions and her brother for the rights to her technology, but the initial company doctrine signed when the company was formed specifically stipulated the extraction technology as a company asset. Regardless, the string of lawsuits and countersuits spanned nearly a decade.\n\nBy 2919, Chemline Solutions couldn\u2019t maintain the Gainey facility anymore. Due to the fallout from Adorai\u2019s very public battle with the company, the UEE was reticent to provide any more licenses for the technology.\n\nVictor tried for years to find a buyer to take over the Gainey facility to help offset the legal costs, but no one was willing to assume responsibility for the property. By 2923, Victor removed as much equipment as he could and permanently sealed up the facility.\n\nThe Path Forward\nThese days Chemline Solutions has pivoted back into primarily serving as an industrial chemical distributor. Victor Zahid has attempted to obtain extraction licenses since, but the initial cost requirement to construct the vast array of structures needed to fully utilize the technology has now become a larger obstacle than the government\u2019s reticence to sanction it. In 2938, Victor instituted an \u2018open door policy\u2019 for geological and mining inventors to pitch their ideas, hoping to strike it rich with another genius design.\n\nAdorai Zahid receded from the public after the series of trials was settled, becoming a professor of Geological Studies at Terra University. In 2940, she released an educational textbook about surveying ethics, but has never spoken publicly about her experience with Chemline Solutions.\n\nIt\u2019s unknown whether the twins have ever spoken directly since."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":20,"created_at":"2020-01-08T03:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"6 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-07 21:35:32","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":17417,"next_id":17422}}