MOD:WCU:bgCorporations

The following list of companies in Gemini can be useful when mining for company names for the plot. Most of them appear in the base computers or in ads for missions at the guilds, but some are special companies mentioned in the game. I've tried to categorize them by business line. There's a big list of them whose names aren't indicative of business concerns. There's also a list of non-Gemini, WC companies at the end.

I highlighted some of the names in boldface to call attention to peculiarities. Four companies have the name Lynch in them. (Sorely missing: Lynch Trust.. :-)) Anyhow, note also 3 companies have "Omni" in them. We could have it that Omniscan makes ultra high quality scanners you can only get at their HQ. B&S decided to call their top model "Omni", confusing buyers into thinking that Omniscan products are just models of B&S, or that Omniscan was somehow bought by B&S which is not the case. Omniscan took them to court, and what B&S did was have a friend file a company called Omni Incorporated. B&S then took Omni to court for using the name of their top model scanner. Their friend, the owner of Omni, pleaded guilty, but all B&S asked for was a laughable sum: 240,000 credits for damages, and did not press a demand for a change of company name. This ruse set a court precedent that impedes Omniscan's suit from resulting in more than 240,000 credits in damages without extending the suit to Omni Incorporated, which now can't be sued for the same reason twice. All that Omniscan can do now is hire Burrows to bomb Omni Incorporated to implicate B&S. After success of the mission, Omniscan puts Burrows in touch with their partner company, Skybird Scanners, whose headquarters are in Firekka. After a few missions for Skybird, Burrows gets a lead into a Firkkan shipyard...

Banking, investment, financing

• Capital Investments
• First Bank of Gemini
• Gemini Savings and Loan
• MegaCrunch Credit
• Middleton Securities

Food, pharmaceuticals, medical

• Beto's Foodcorp Unlimited
• Big Bang Pharmaceuticals
• Brainwave Instruments

(See also Bronte and Rondell under special companies)

Mining and refining

• Abyss Minerals
• Capri Mining
• Confederated Mining
• Deep Space Asteroid Mining
• Dell Refineries
• Hendershot Mining
• Lynch Mining
• Mycroft Mining
• Nexus Mining
• Nicholson Refineries
• Parsec Mining
• Saturn Mining
• Taurus Mining

(See also Corcoran Corporation under special companies)

Ships, equipment and weapons

• AntiStealth Limited
• AutoNav
• Averson Dynamics
• Azuma Weapons
• Cannon Research Group
• First Strike Incorporated
• Manners Arms and Shielding
• Omniscan Incorporated (Competitor of Iris, Hunter and B&S?)
• Skybird Scanners (Competitor of Iris, Hunter and B&S?)
• Tactical Micro Devices
• Thermal Optics
• Total Eclipse
• TransComm

(See also AVR-Ships, B&S, Hunter & Iris under special companies)

Shipping, transport, courier, distribution

• Cerberus Shipping
• Cerebus Shipping
• Gemini Export
• Lynch Shipping
• Tetsuo Distribution Limited
• Transector Plus
• United Distribution
• Universal Imports

Travel, entertainment and pleasure

• Austin Entertainment Group
• Delta Resorts
• Electronic Arts Incorporated
• Martin Swig Distillery
• Maximum Pleasure
• Starfield Cruises
• TransSector Spacelines
• Ultima Resorts
• Universal Charter

Miscellaneous

• Frake Packaging
• Hawkeye Security
• Lynch Security
• Russo Disposal Systems
• Terraform Corporation
• Izanami Corporation Computers, software, robots...

Note: Izanami corp. (rememberd from Original Pr) usually delivers computers, software, robots and stuff like that, often to Oxford. -- Captin Cocksniff

Special companies

• AVR Ships Ship dealer New Detroit
• B&S produces the top-of-the-line scanners for private ships in the Gemini sector. Their products can be sound in software booths in any location with a ship dealer. Their products, which include the B&S Eye, B&S Tripwire, and B&S Omni sell for anything between 40,000 and 100,000 when new.
• Bronte Corporation exports food products from Palan in the Gemini sector. In 2669 the company blockaded Palan to prevent its rival company Rondell from exporting their own products.
• Corcoran Corporation runs the biggest operation on the Liverpool refinery in Newcastle system.
• Hunter produces middle-class ship scanners for civilian craft in the Gemini sector. Their products, which include the Hunter AW 6, Hunter AW 6i and the Hunter AW Infinity, can be sound in software booths in any location with a ship dealer. Their products sell for anything between 30,000 and 80,000 when new.
• Iris produces bottom of the line ship scanners for civilian craft in the Gemini sector. Their products, which include the Iris Mk I, Iris Mk II and the Iris Mk III, can be sound in software booths in any location with a ship dealer. Their products sell for anything between 10,000 and 60,000 when new.

Unknown business

• AllSafe Retrograde
• Apex
• Black Hole Retrievals
• Blankenstaff Limited
• Borderline Incorporated
• Bridesmaid Enterprises
• Castro Memorial Foundation
• Citation
• CyberSoft
• FibreLink
• Frontier Enterprises
• Galaxy Resources Incorporated
• Gamma-Way
• Grim Reaper Systems
• Hydroshock Manufacturing
• Infra-red Detection Systems
• Jefferson Confederal
• Johnson and Cafrelli Limited
• Lehman Carbonshares
• Lynch Enterprises
• Merry Rover
• MetroScan
• MicroDeath Delivery
• Obsession Incorporated
• Omni Incorporated
• Origin Systems Incorporated
• Oxford Research Foundation
• Russo Incorporated
• Scorpio Consulting
• Second Star
• Tanya/Sepree Incorporated
• TDR Symposium
• The Cardann Group
• The McLaughlin Company
• The Outskirt Consortium
• TipTop Systems
• Trebor Corporation
• Triple Play Enterprises
• Tsunami/Azuma Incorporated
• Valle Brothers
• Voight Incorporated

Note: There is also some guy called M Jolnar, who employes in the hunters guild. -- Captin Cocksniff Maybe Lyn Murphy's full name is Lynn Murphy Jolnar? -- chuck starchaser

Non-Gemini

• Aurora Bernal Travel Company lodged a complaint against the patrol/escort division of Krieger operations in 2681, claiming negligence in providing fighter escort to two commercial transports ferrying colonists from Gonzero Tercera to outer Krieger. Both transports and the escort group (six Excaliburs and four Thunderbolts) were destroyed by unknown hostiles.
• Bartok Enterprises is the company responsible for the design and production of Confederation military technology, include the Hades class Quick Strike Assault Cruisers.

Executives from the company were present at the Midway's reception on Venus to discuss the launch of the TCS Cerberus on 2681.055.

• CycleCraft is a Venusite company that manufactures hover-bikes. Stock price in the UNXhange eventually soared when they caught on.
• The Guinterin Combine is a Terran Confederation preferred travel corporation. It went against TC travel warnings, resulting in the loss of the luxury liners Ana Maria Alberghetti, Blue Horizon, and almost the Twilight Purchase as well.
• Marscorp is the company that produces the MPR-27 weapon.
• Remin-Krug was a weapons consortium. Most of their facilities were destroyed in the Battle of Earth.

-- chuck_starchaser

The info comes from CIC Encyclopedia -- Miscellaneous.