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History

Whistler Services was founded as Whistler Orbital Services in 2009 when the Toy Box launched into orbit from Germany.

Within one month of operation Danni Koslowski, a former employee of EADS Astrium, aquired the first long term salvage and satellite maintenance contracts with SES Astra, marking the beginning of the actual operation of Whistler Orbital Services.

As Stellvia happened to be 'out of the way' from the primary operation area of the Toy Box it was decided to build a station, named KA Preiswert in Semi-synchronous earth orbit.

Until 2011 Whistler acquired further large maintenance contracts with Eutelsat S.A. and Hughes Communications, and minor salvage contracts and good relations with various national space organisations.

Usually any salvage that is obtained during normal operations is refurbished and sold to various fen and factions, while other salvage is shipped to clients.

While nominally unaligned with Operation Great Justice during the Boskone War the SS Toy Box and other Whistler craft rescued several stranded spacecraft pilots and larger space ships, increasing the standing with most factions. Only a Boskone attack on the Toy Box in the late stages of the war caused Whistler to align with Great Justice.

In early 2012 the Board of Directors (the four owners) decided that it would be a good idea to split the company into two branches, based on different areas of specialization.

So Whistler Deep Space Services was slit of from Whistler Orbital Services, with Whistler Services becoming the Mother company.

In mid 2014 Whistler Containment Services joined the two other branches as Cuno Station on 4183 Cuno came online and began to produce a varied array of Intermodal and other containers.

Whistler Services

Whistler Orbital Services

The first and original branch of Whistler Services.

With the Toy Box and KA Preiswert they mainly work in Cic-Lunar space, servicing satellites and in some cases stations as well as Fencraft with problems, as well as collecting orbital debris.

Orbital Debris Collection was the original intention for the Toy Box, but with several maintenance contracts with commercial satellite owners shifted the focus.

Whistler Deep Space Services

The second branch of Whistler Services.

Finishing the Thrillmaster lead to a larger area of opportunity for Whistler Services and the Thrillmaster left Cis-Lunar space very often for maintenance contracts for some Fen corporations. However the main focus of Whistler Deep Space Services is to provide help to any Fen who has problems while in Deep Space.

This lead to construction of the first Clemency class repair and salvage vessels.

Whistler Containment Services

With the Toy Box, the Thrillmaster and KA Preiswert being build largely from Intermodal containers, Earth prooved to be a relatively bad place to get these very useful standardized containers. So the Board of Directors decided that it would be prudent to build their own.

After finding a perfect candidate for the first fixed base in the Apollo class asteroid 4183 Cuno, they began to build a largely automated station with the help of Rockhounds, Inc and Hephaestus Mining and Metalworking, Unltd..

Cuno Station came online in mid 2014, and soon produced the first air tight and unwaved 20 foot Intermodal container. Since then Whistler Containment Services is one of the main suppliers of Intermodal containers as well as other sorts of containers through Fenspace.

Currently Cuno Station gets most of its raw materials from mining out 4183 Cuno.

Relations

Whistler Services is mainly aligned with a small Pulper faction, the Rhodanites.

Notable are good relations to various 'Dane corporations and space agencies as well as most of Fenspace.