The Secret History of Stellvia Corporation

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So, you want to know the secrets of the Richest S.O.B. in Fenspace? You've come to the right place...

The Secret History

September 2007: On the same day, Noah Scott Anderson stumbles across a small cache of handwavium solids while geocaching and wins the largest lottery jackpot awarded to a single person to date. He uses his two given names - Noah Scott - when claiming the winnings in order to protect his family's privacy.

December 2007: After following instructions posted anonymously on the Internet and dissolving one of the solids to create his first batch of liquid 'wavium, Noah 'waves his old laptop PC in order to find out what would happen. The result is Eimi, Noah's first AI.

January-March 2008: Noah, Eimi, and Noah's nephew Charles (over the objections of Charles' father Gerald) build what is believed to be the first purpose-built Fenship, the Epsilon Blade. Everyone involved denies trying to "one-up" the Delta Flyer from Star Trek: Voyager, despite the similarity in names and design philosophies. Meanwhile, Noah negotiates with NASA (through his father's contacts) to purchase a half-dozen Shuttle main booster tanks to use as the basic skeleton of a space station. He decides to create AIs for his crew, discovers A.C. Peters through the informal online community that would later become the SMOF mailing list, and asks A.C. to design bodies for the AIs.

21 March 2008: Noah, Charles, and Eimi successfully test-fly the Epsilon Blade into orbit. Upon their return, Charles is grounded by his father, forcing Noah to look for other help. (Charles mentions the test-flight in his blog; as a result, he starts an on-line relationship with the only person who left non-mocking comments, Minerva Swansen.)

22 March 2008: A.C. delivers the first batch of android bodies for Noah's AIs.

4 April 2008: Noah starts building the station that would become known as Stellvia.

21-23 May 2008: Six of Noah's AIs - Sora Hasegawa, Agatha Clay, Natsuko Aki, Kohran Li, Yoriko Nikaido, and Yayoi Fujisawa - "wake up". Agatha and Natsuko immediately leave. (See Log of the Long-Term Autonomous AI Experiment for details.)

June 2008: Noah asks Yayoi and Kohran to put together a plan to gather all the easily-accessible fissionables they can reach, before somebody else can grab them and use handwavium to turn them into atomic weaponry. Kohran agrees, then spends a week convincing Noah to let her try building her own nuke. Noah finally allows the Kaboomite Project to proceed after getting some information from his father.

June-July 2008: Doug Sangnoir, a visitor from another reality, helps build Stellvia and socialize the AIs. Doug teaches Kohran and Sora gravity control theory, which Noah immediately declares even more secret than the Kaboomite Project. (See the prologue of Legend of Galactic Girls for details.) Eimi leaves Stellvia and Fenspace with Doug. Upon their departure, Noah and Kohran immediately begin preparing for the people they hope wouldn't be following Doug eventually.

Autumn 2008: Noah sees the first great exodus of Fen into space, and realizes there's money to be made in the luxury-goods business. He redesigns one of Stellvia's old shuttle tanks to be a "general store".

Spring 2009: Noah opens Meg's, a Middle-American-style lunch counter, in the store. The tollhouse cookies quickly become Meg's' best sellers.

1 July 2009: Noah founds Stellvia Corporation and Stellvia Trading, formalizing his business of selling luxury items to other Fen.

Autumn 2009: Kohran causes the Kaboomite Incident at Worldcon Floating Island. As a result, Fen take their business elsewhere, leaving Stellvia Trading facing bankrupcy. Noah turns his attention Earthward, promoting the space tourist trade. He purchases and refurbishes one of Air France's Concordes, christening it Ad Astra during its relaunch 6 October. Yayoi is the ship's first pilot, but Noah quickly hires a Fendane crew for the ship when personality issues between Yayoi and Ad Astra's AI Star become evident.

2010: blah blah Stellvia expansion... and Minerva's oldest sister Leda graduates at the top of the first class at the Vesta Institute of Biochemistry

first half 2011: undefined blah blah

1 July 2011: Noah and his "angels" act to prevent a runaway fenship from destroying Aukland, using an overpowered hardtech gravity generator as a black-hole bomb. When asked later, he claims the device is a ship's gravity drive adapted to catastrophic overload. (See We don't need that hammer, Lucifer... for details.)

second half 2011: more blah blah - Stellvia expansion, Hotel Stellvia opens, Meg's moves to its own oversized module and becomes a full restaurant and dancehall, Stan's Kwalitee Danegoods opens and closes shop on the Main Concourse on the same day, Noah and Leda first meet

2012: blah blah - Grovers' Corners launch, Noah and Leda become friends, SOS-con (where Noah and Katz Schrödinger meet for the first time, and Operation Great Justice is founded), start of the Boskone War (many battles take place, Kohran's "Red Lad" radio show goes on the air, The 2012 Season of Astroball is played)

2013: more blah blah - Boskone War continues all year, Crystal Osaka falls (Noah rescues Leda from the disaster), OGJ schism becomes public, Interdimensional Incursion Incident takes place, Yoriko leaves, Sora leaves to join the Soviet Air Force, Noah founds the Nikaido Foundation, the Nikaido Foundation founds the Space Patrol, Noah goes on a bot-building spree (Safety wakes up 9 October, Miyuri Akisato wakes up 9 November, Takami Sakuragi wakes up 10 November)

2014: still more blah blah - Noah's bot-building spree tapers off with Kagome Mishima waking up on 1 January, Fall of Boskone Prime ends the Boskone War late-January, the Big Wedding (Noah and Leda marry, Charles and Minerva meet face-to-face, Yuu Inagawa first appears - see With This Station-Ring) in February, the April Fool's Purchase that creates the Artemis Foundation on 1 April, first Cosmic Party is held at Meg's on 31 May, Yomiko Readman wakes up on 15 June, Helen Swansen-Scott is born on 10 October

Anything after this falls under the realm of Fenspace Infinities - including The Last Noah Scott Story on 13-15 April 2029 (which involves the Sons of Rome trying to get their 2014 terrorism operation right this time, using near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis).