Universal Household

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rattraveller
January 1, 2013 - 7:30am

Universal Households
(or UniHo, seriously UniHo)

UniHo specializes in three distinct areas: textiles and clothing, household furnishings, and buildings. Their synthetic apparel resists grime and wear and is inexpensive. Therefore UniHo made sure it controls the fashion industry; though made to last longer, their apparel goes out of style yearly. UniHo furnishings are usually made of plastic or plasteel and are modular in design. Any piece of valuable furniture, such as real wood pieces, are usually made by a sub-contractor. UniHo buildings are prefab dwellings, offices, industrial and professional facilities, and so forth. Specialty buildings are expansive and are designed and constructed by architectural engineers.

Headquarters: Hyyay, Hakosoar, Scree Fron

Chief Executive: K'an Ku (Vrusk)

Subsidiaries: Two massive ones: Planetary Structures Inc., and Kotiz Fashions Inc.

 

OK let’s start with an agreement. We are going to switch Trans Travel and UniHo. Trans Travel is HQed on the Vrusk world of Terledrom and led by Yazirians. These guys are led by a Vrusk on a Yazirian world. I am not prejudice and you can live and work where you want but Trans Travel is supposed to be a government sponsored megacorp. This way makes much more sense. Agreed. Great sign the documents and get them notarized.

 

I have another agreement to make with all of you. We’re are going to pick that little blurb to pieces and get us a correct entry.

Therefore UniHo made sure it controls the fashion industry; though made to last longer, their apparel goes out of style yearly

Yes bring on the run ways for clothes which are cheap and designed to last for years. Wait does that make sense? We are talking T-shirts and jeans that you need to replace yearly. Also which year are we talking about? The standard UPF year is not even a season change on some worlds? Do the humans on Gollywog a very wet world want the same cheap clothes as those on the desert world of Kraatar or the domed cities on Outer Reach?

UniHo furnishings are usually made of plastic or plasteel and are modular in design. Any piece of valuable furniture, such as real wood pieces, are usually made by a sub-contractor.

Going by the other entries we can begin to get a picture of what these guys are really like. All of their products are cheap and durable and modular and pre-fabricated. These guys are the Walmart of megacorps who took their profits and bought Versace and whoever does fancy furniture.

UniHo buildings are prefab dwellings, offices, industrial and professional facilities, and so forth.

Specialty buildings are expansive

They then took control of the building industry by putting up the low income housing and colony start ups. Then when things got settled beings came back to them to build bigger, nicer and fancier buildings, UniHo took the contract and they take the time for long view and start from scratch design. But when you want something really big; stadiums, spaceports, domed cities they will turn you over to their subsidiary Also that last word should be expensive not expansive.

Now for the different departments in the UniHo mega corp:

Clothing: The part UniHo directly controls makes the cheap and durable clothing. They let the subsidiary Kotiz Fashions Inc handle the upper end products. It works like this: your child needs a uniform to attend school in. They just moved to secondary school so they need a new one. You go to the nearest UniHo outlet and pick it up. Now it’s Prom time. They need fancy evening clothes. UniHo won’t have it but their subsidiary Kotiz Fashions Inc. will spoil you as they show you a wide array of clothing choices.

Buildings: We go three ways here. Need a new colony world built in two months for 10,000 colonists? Call in UniHo. Need a football stadium for your rabid fans or a spaceport to get them there, and then call in Planetary Structures Inc. But if you are looking for a town hall not a city hall UniHo will work with you through their design teams to make your dream come true.

Furniture: Pretty much like the building division except they don’t have a subsidiary to handle the really big stuff. They make the cheap stuff and will be your middle being to find the right sub-contractor for that four poster ebony bedroom set.

Last thought. Frankly as a provider of goods I see these guys as everywhere and a good background. Not seeing a whole lot of adventures here. Maybe some interesting fashion week run ins with the Victoria Secret Dralasites or some badly constructed buildings. If you can use them in an adventure then go for it.

Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?
Comments:

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JCab747
August 26, 2016 - 9:12am
UniHo = Sears of the old fashioned days... or Ikea/Walmart/Forever 21?

Food for thought.... Oh, wait, another mega corp does food!Undecided
Joe Cabadas