Aurora 4x

C# Aurora => C# Bureau of Design => Topic started by: vorpal+5 on May 10, 2020, 09:41:21 AM

Title: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: vorpal+5 on May 10, 2020, 09:41:21 AM

Has someone compiled (and want to share) a list of manufacturing companies? I often fall short on good names ... I mean plausible Earth companies like Boeing, Airbus, Rheinmetall, Chengdu Aerospace Corporation etc.

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: Pedroig on May 10, 2020, 10:52:05 AM

I have a couple of lists I use.  In general if you simply type in the type of component you are looking to build, you can come up with a list of manufacturers.  The U.S. has Thomas Manufacturing index which has an online presence.  Here is an example of what's on this workbook, sorry for this formatting:

Country   Weapon manufacturers and Arms & Defence Traders Argentina   Bersa    CITEDEF    INVAP    Fábrica Argentina de Aviones[1][2]    Fábricaciones Militares    FAdeA    Tandanor Australia   BAE Systems Australia    Boeing Australia    Thales Australia    Lithgow Arms    ASC Pty Ltd    EOS Electro Optic Systems Austria   Glock    Steyr Mannlicher Azerbaijan   MDI Azerbaijan

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: vorpal+5 on May 10, 2020, 11:15:35 AM

Thanks, this will prove useful! I'm playing the 'United Nations of Earth' (which has only half of the nations of Earth in truth, the rest being outside) and I need to use names from various countries.

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: Jarhead0331 on May 10, 2020, 11:27:50 AM

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Droid_manufacturers (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Droid_manufacturers)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Arms_manufacturing_companies (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Arms_manufacturing_companies)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Personal_gear_companies (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Personal_gear_companies)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Vehicle_manufacturing_companies (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Vehicle_manufacturing_companies)

I use these a lot.

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: macks on May 10, 2020, 11:46:06 AM

I use Raytheon for sensors, General Dynamics for power plants/engines, national bureaus of research and development for jump drives, stealth technology, stealth engines, and beam weapons, and Rheinmetall for turrets.

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: vorpal+5 on May 10, 2020, 12:53:40 PM

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 10, 2020, 11:27:50 AM

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Droid_manufacturers (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Droid_manufacturers)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Arms_manufacturing_companies (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Arms_manufacturing_companies)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Personal_gear_companies (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Personal_gear_companies)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Vehicle_manufacturing_companies (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Vehicle_manufacturing_companies)

I use these a lot.

I prefer to use real life manufacturers  ;)

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: kenlon on May 10, 2020, 01:01:33 PM

My goto is to smack the random company name button a few times, then come up with something based on that, keeping a list of the ones I use in my text file for that particular Aurora game. That way I can do things like have some companies expand their field of expertise over time, or have them merge, or things like that. (Works best if you have multiple name themes set up for your race, so you get a wider variety of output to work with.)

Yes, it's shameless RP fluff, but what the hell. ;D

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: Black on May 10, 2020, 01:15:00 PM

For engines:

Rolls-Royce
General Motors
Pratt & Whitney
Energomash

then there is

BAE Systems, maybe for weapons? Also Vickers, but I believe they are defunct now.

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: d.rodin on May 11, 2020, 08:17:24 AM

Quote from: Black link=topic=11363. msg132308#msg132308 date=1589134500

For engines:

Rolls-Royce
General Motors
Pratt & Whitney
Energomash

then there is

BAE Systems, maybe for weapons? Also Vickers, but I believe they are defunct now.

for engines also:
Snecma - part of SAFRAN - french industrial conglomerate.
NPO Saturn - main manufacturer of aircraft engines in Russia.

for electronic / weapons systems:
EADS (EU industrial conglomerate)
Almaz-Antey (Russian conglomerate focused on Anti-Air defence systems manufacturing)

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: liveware on May 13, 2020, 07:21:41 PM

Quote from: kenlon on May 10, 2020, 01:01:33 PM

My goto is to smack the random company name button a few times, then come up with something based on that, keeping a list of the ones I use in my text file for that particular Aurora game.

Hurrah for RNGsus.

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: Borealis4x on May 20, 2020, 02:07:19 AM

Shadowrun has some pretty cool corporations I use:

Saeder-Krupp Heavy Industries: Railguns, Power-plants and shipyards.

Wuxing Incorporated: Fire Controls and Sensors

Renraku Computer Systems: Fire Controls and Sensors

Shiawase Corporation: Lasers, Shields, and Jump-Drives

Ares Macrotechnology: Lasers, Railguns, Gauss Canons and shipyards.

Cross-Applies Technologies: Shields, Sensors,and Lasers

I also like using real and semi-real companies:

Lockheed-Boeing Aeronautics: Engines and shipyards

Rolls Royce Intergalactic: Engines and shipyards

BEA Systems: Beam point-defense and CIWS

Mitsubishi-Sugo (Actually from Cyberpunk): Engines and shipyards

Raytheon: Sensors, Fire Controls

I wish there was a way to store corp names and which technologies to apply them to so they'd appear automatically.

I'd like some more ideas since the US and Japan are over-represented IMO. Perhaps TaTa but I don't really know that they do outside of engines and I don't think they'd compete with Boeing an such.

Fictional mergers (Like Lockheed-Boeing) and fictional Space subsidiaries (Rolls Royce Intergalactic) of existing companies are my favorite, so if anyone has any ideas about that feel free to PM me so I can write them down.

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: vorpal+5 on May 20, 2020, 10:36:36 PM

As an European, I often use Airbus also (or Airbus Defence and Space, a subsidiary), the main competitor to Boeing. Formerly known as EADS but you can use this name too (European Aeronautic Defense and Space).

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: Borealis4x on May 20, 2020, 11:07:57 PM

Quote from: vorpal+5 on May 20, 2020, 10:36:36 PM

As an European, I often use Airbus also (or Airbus Defence and Space, a subsidiary), the main competitor to Boeing. Formerly known as EADS but you can use this name too (European Aeronautic Defense and Space).

Airbus just sounds goofy when applied to space EADS is great! Who doesn't like a good acronym? Calling it European also implies the 'merging' of nation-states into consolidated territories under a one-world government.

Title: Re: Any good list of manufacturers?
Post by: liveware on May 22, 2020, 06:44:09 PM

I like to pull stuff from the Borderlands universe, as that series features a considerable amount of futuristic corporate warfare and fits well with my old-west sci-fi conventional start RP universe.

Some examples:

Hyperion Corp. - Weapon systems
ATLAS Corp. - Weapon systems
Dahl - Weapon systems
Jakobs Munitions - Railguns, CIWS, and gauss cannons
Pangolin - Shields
Torgue - Missiles

There's others. Just can't think of them right now.

Edit - thought of some more:

Maliwan - Plasma carronades, microwave cannons, lasers
Vladof - CIWS, railguns, gauss cannons, cluster missiles
Eridian - Captured alien weapons/technology
Tediore - Anything with insufficient engineering spaces