Arx Capital Exchange (also known as The Exchange) is a conglomerate that handles the financial and industrial apparatus' of the Arx System and The Council as a whole. While still in its infancy as a company, the nascent Exchange has been a functional arm of the Iron Throne since the beginning in various forms. Initially, The Exchange was a small investments holding company used to siphon funds in and out of the Iron Throne's coffers but due to growth and maturity of both financial assets and capital holdings under The Brotherhood's territories, a truly galactic-scale entity has grown in its wake. The Exchange has several branches and subsidiaries that fuel the industrial and economic capacity of The Brotherhood as a whole.
Corporate Structure
The conglomerate itself is headed by its current President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Zxyl Bes'uliik Taldrya. The position is typically fielded by a trusted operative outside The Council, unless extenuating circumstances require the Regent to step in and fill the role themselves temporarily. The CEO is assisted in day-to-day administration of the massive corporation by the various Executive Vice Presidents of the subsidiaries, as well as other assistants and agents of The Exchange. The Executive Vice Presidents of each subsidiary make up the Corporate Steering Committee, responsible for ensuring the conglomerate flourishes.
Untold amounts of agents, negotiators, clandestine saboteurs, and corporate spies work for The Exchange. Regular agents and negotiators are part of The Exchange's main operations team, frequently sent out on assignment to procure new assets and secure deals to grow the business and increase holdings or stakes in other companies. Clandestine saboteurs and corporate spies work from the shadows and excel at ensuring the conglomerate's longevity through less than legal means.
The Exchange's corporate headquarters is centered in the largest of its assets, Mattock Station. Each of the company's subsidiaries has a dedicated office suite embedded within the shipyard, as well as their own operations hubs located throughout the Arx System and galaxy at large depending on the subsidiaries business holdings. The total amount of The Exchange's workforce is known to few, but at least fifty thousand civilians work for the company through the main conglomerate or through its holdings and ownership in various other entities. A joke often employed is that all residents of the Arx System work for The Exchange, they simply do not know it yet.
History
Infancy
The pseudo entity that became Arx Capital Exchange began at the very start of the rule of the Iron Throne. Credits are supply are the life blood of any organization, and the Iron Throne and The Council recognized this from the onset. Starting as a small support staff responsible for raising taxes and stocking critical materials, it rapidly became apparent a major professional staff of accountants, stock experts, financiers, and industrialists would be needed.
ACE Shipyard Assembly Bay XI
The first step in this direction was what became the subsidiary ACE Shipyards. While the Iron Throne always had some industrial capacity at Antei and beyond, the scope and capacity was always somewhat limited. Owing to the need for financing, the next unit established was ACE Financial Services. Once this organic off-shoot became fiscally self sustaining a need to invest the flow of credits was necessary. As such, ACE Holding Corporation we developed to send agents across the galaxy to invest in companies and slowly acquiring ownership and majority stakes without arousing suspicion. The final piece of the portfolio was bringing online the Commodities Limited subsidiary. This company was needed as events such as the assault by the Collective against The Brotherhood made it clear the Arx System must be self sufficient as possible to feed the industrial might of the Iron Forces.
Homefront
During The Collective's attack on Arx, several holdings and Mattock Station were damaged by the tri-headed military organization's assault on the center of The Brotherhood's power. Eos City, a major piece of The Exchange's puzzle, and several of ACE Commodities Limited's assets were heavily damaged during the planetary assault. Former CEO Rhent Ghosan also perished during this time, leading to the Regent to take full management of The Exchange until he could find a suitable replacement. After driving the invaders from the planet's surface and dealing a crippling blow, The Exchange's various apparatus' did a thorough examination of their portfolio and assets on the planet's surface to eliminate unnecessary hindrance on resources and expansion.
Shortly afterward and during a time of rebuilding in the Arx System, The Exchange sought to take advantage of the reconstruction process and turn an additional profit. It founded ACE Procurements, a new subsidiary focused on procuring everything from arms and planetary defenses to ground vehicles and personnel recruitment.
Subsidiaries
ACE Shipyards
The crown jewel and flagship enterprise of The Exchange and the most recognizable asset under its management is ACE Shipyards. It employs tens of thousands of employees and operates an additional contingent of construction droids. Mattock Station is the subsidiaries primary asset, though four Telgorn Corporation Shipyards situated around the main station were recently added to its portfolio to increase manufacturing capacity and output. Together, they are known as the subsidiary ACE Shipyards. In total, ACE Shipyards is capable of manufacturing two Imperial-class Star Destroyers and two support fleets simultaneously, while meeting the needs of The Brotherhood's individual members. The shipyards themselves are the most technologically advanced and costly industrial works within the Arx System and the Brotherhood territories as a whole, and are the only full shipyard capable of manufacturing vessels more than 600 meters in length in the totality of The Brotherhood. Thanks to technical data shared with and procured by Kuat-Entralla, the Corellian Engineering Corporation, and Sienar-Jaemus, ample funding from ACE Finfancial Services has made ACE Shipyards a truly marvelous venture that allows the Iron Throne to build and sustain its war machine internally, while providing construction and repair services to the seven clans.
ACE Shipyards is also directly responsible for servicing, repairing, and manufacturing all craft operated by The Exchange or its subsidiaries, with The Exchange's main flotilla of starships housed at Mattock Station.
ACE Financial Services
ACE Financial Services is a full fledged banking house with hundreds of offices throughout the Mid and Outer Rim Territories. Major operating hubs exist within the Corporate Sector, Hutt Space, and as far afield as the Deep Core. ACE Financial Services serves as the main financial clearing house to fund the internal production of the ACE Shipyards to build warships and support vessels for the Iron Forces, the Clans of The Brotherhood, as well as providing loans and startup capital to outside enterprises. Specifically, ACE Financial Services has opportune arrangements for easy financing and access to capital for companies owned part or wholly by ACE Holding Corporation to sustain growth and spur development. It is also responsible for dissemination of credits among The Brotherhood's own, funding various salaries and seeding money to each of the clans as required.
ACE Holdings Corporation
ACE Holdings Corporation is the shell company that acts as a clearing-house for the investments of the Iron Throne. To this end, the subsidiary buys stock in hundreds of organizations and either owns fully or seeks majority stake. The holdings are fully diversified across the known galaxy, although they are specifically heavily vested in minerals, pharmaceuticals, research and development, and military industrial firms. While the full extent of the corporations owned or heavily invested is unknown, some premier firms such as Kuat-Entralla, the Corellian Engineering Corporation, and Sienar-Jaemus have a member of the ACE Holdings Corporation or a proxy sitting on their Board of Directors.
ACE Commodities Limited
ACE Commodities Limited is the conglomerate's resource and logistics brokerage subsidiary. It is directly responsible for mining operations owned or operated by The Exchange and sources raw materials that feed the industrial capacity of ACE Shipyards as well as stockpiling critical war material for the Iron Forces. ACE Commodities Limited is uniquely positioned for this function, as the segment owns mineral rights for doonium on Lothal, Umbara, Samovar, and the Socorro Asteroid Belt. Likewise, ACE Limited is heavily invested in the exploration and extraction of kyberite veins in order to mine and utilize kyber crystals. Between this stock of doonium and kyberite, whose stock is only known by the current CEO and the Regent of the Brotherhood, ACE is prepared to be self sufficient if need be in keeping the military industrial complex operational even if Arx herself was under a full-scale blockade.
ACE Procurements
ACE Procurements is the asset and dissemination subsidary of The Exchange. It ensures the procurement of various arms, land vehicles, starships, and other assets required by The Brotherhood, its clans, or other corporations owned by ACE Holdings Corporation. Its main hub is located within Mattock Station. ACE Procurements is directly responsible for managing and procuring sales of these various goods and services, including those manufactured by ACE Shipyards, operating over a dozen ventures that ensure credits continue to flow to and from ACE Financial Services. These ventures include Antares Consolidated Armorers, Antei Armaments, Arx Starship Acquisitions, the Brotherhood Trading Company, the Iron Menagerie, Ornamental Oddments, The Iron Garage, Utilis Innovations, the Eos Exotic Kyber Bazaar, the Mandalorian Forge, Synergy Starship Outfitters, Antares Construction Group, Arx Armor Workshop, Arx Fleet Systems, and management of the Atrophos Military Academy.