Quicksilver Industries: Difference between revisions

Quicksilver Industries conducts 90% of its business activities and dealings through five primary domestic organizations. They cover a wide range of industries from the direct military industry (military or civilian aircraft, ships, vehicles, weaponry, and electronic systems) to the indirect military (logistics, technical support and training, communications support, and engineering support), to direct support of military operations, and consumer and professional electronics, entertainment and financial services.

====Shockwave Industrial====

<br />[[Shockwave Industrial]] is a global defense, security, weapons manufacturer, and advanced technology company. It is the largest subsidiary of Quicksilver Industries and is one of the world's largest defense contractors, with 82% of its annual revenue coming from direct military sales. Before it was acquired by QSI in 1997, Shockwave Industrial was a pioneer during the Great War, becoming the first company in Caphiria to successfully test nuclear weaponry as well as going on to be the first and only user of a nuclear bomb on another country.

Lansing-Mitchell Weaponeering was acquired by Quicksilver Industries in 2002 for $35.7 billion in an attempt for Lansing-Mitchell to have access to new markets outside of Burgundie. Approximately 80% of Lansing-Mitchell's business is from the Burgundian Armed Forces and Police Services.

====The O'Shea Corporation====

[[File:Oshea-logo.png|thumb|The logo for the O'Shea Corporation]]

The O'Shea Corporation employs close to 100,000 people across all of its companies and operates over 1,500 ships and has a capacity of 6.1 million TEU.

====Silver Lineworks====

[[Silver Lineworks]] is a holding company representing QSI's holdings and assets in robotics, engineering, and automation. In addition to manufacturing hardware, Silver Lineworks also develops software and vision guidance tools for military and civilian use. Composed of several highly autonomous companies and teams, Silver Lineworks builds robots for defense, energy, and hazardous activity support as well as mobile robotic fulfillment systems for use across other QSI divisions. It also produces machines of varying degrees of autonomy under contract from military drones to advanced artificial intelligence for tech companies and 3D simulations.  

One of the most secretive and ambitious projects being developed by Silver Lineworks is the Templar Project, a multi-faceted engineering project that aims to create the world's first synthetic organism with true full artificial intelligence.

===Mergers and acquisitions===

In addition to its core businesses, Quicksilver Industries maintains a concentrated portfolio of equities and investments and engages in an aggressive mergers and acquisitions approach to business. Since the second major corporate restructure in 2011, this has been done through Venio Finance Solutions. VFS acts as the financial services holding company of QSI. It operates a private equity fund, and customer-oriented, financial products and services to individual customers and businesses. VFS currently has $4.5 trillion AUM and $400 billion in assets.