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<div style="float:left;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:Daobac_Space_Corporation_Logo.png|150px]]</div> The '''Daobac Space Corporation''' ({{wp|Vietnamese language|Daoan}}: ''Công ty Vũ trụ Đảo Bắc''), commonly abbreviated as the '''DSC''' (CVD in native spelling), is a {{wp|privately held company|private}} {{wp|joint venture}} company based in [[Daobac]] that provides commercial {{wp|launch service provider|launch services}} member states of the [[Association of Ozeros Nations]] as part of the [[International Aeronautical Union]], as well as other foreign governments or institutions that are willing to pay for the DSC's services. The company was established with the express purpose of reducing the cost of transporting goods into space. The DSC also manufactures and operates two families of {{wp|launch vehicle|launch vehicles}}, each utilized for different purposes. Its fleet of Dragon rockets classified as {{wp|small-lift launch vehicle|small-lift launch vehicles}} (SLVs) are geared primarily for payloads as small as 25 and up to 1,000 kilograms. Meanwhile its fleet of Phoenix rockets are, depending on the rocket's configuration for launch, can be categorized as either a {{wp|medium-lift launch vehicle}} (MLV) and {{wp|heavy-lift launch vehicle}} (HLV). The Phoenix 1 MLV is capable of delivering payloads up to 16,800 kilograms whereas the Phoenix X HLV is capable of payloads of up to 63,800 kilograms. The Phoenix's nature as a (partially) reusable vehicle and Daobac's location in the equator allows the DSC to launch rockets with much greater payloads with the same fuel consumption as rockets launched outside of the equator that requires more fuel usage. These two factors combined gives the DSC a unique competitive edge. The DSC is the successor organization to the Daoan Aeronautical Institute (DAI), an independent government agency of Daobac that was responsible for  the country's civilian space program. The Daoan government invited both domestic and foreign companies to invest and partake ownership of the company. The strategy was two fold: by privatizing and commercializing the DAI the Daoan government would both reduce government expenditure as it no longer needed to provide funding for the organization and also generate revenue through the new commercial entity. It would also preserve Daobac's space launch capability. After a period of negotiations the DSC was established on June 11th, 2006. Currently 81.5% of the company's shares are owned by members of the [[Association of Ozeros Nations]] whereas the remaining 19.5% are distributed among foreign shareholders. ('''[[Daobac Space Corporation|See more...]]''')
<div style="float:left;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:USAT Thomas H. Barry (AP-45).jpg|150px]]</div> The '''SS ''Steja djal Scipia''''' was a [[Tyreseia|Tyreseian]] {{wp|ocean liner}} that caught fire and ran aground in the late evening hours of August 17th, 1938, en route from [[Leonople]], [[Perateia]] to [[New Tyria]], [[Tyreseia]] via Pelias, [[Vardana]]. Of the 941 passengers and crew aboard, 472 perished, making the fire the worst maritime disaster in Tyreseian history up to that point. Despite being manufactured as a tourism-based passenger vessel, the ''Steja djal Scipia'' was almost immediately pressed into service as an emigrant liner as a result of civil conflict and ethnic tension along her route. The vessel gained a reputation for dedication to reliably transporting ethnic Perateians and other refugees away from Vardana to safety in Perateia or Tyreseia. Along with this reputation came a series of dubiously-safe modifications to increase passenger capacity. Such modifications likely greatly endangered the ship, turning her into a floating matchbox. While on a routine voyage back to New Tyria, the ''Steja djal Scipia'' caught alight off the city of Oñulba on the night of August 17, 1938, with the loss of over half of her passengers and crew thanks to mass confusion, poor modifications, years of neglect and faults in her original design. What started the fire was never determined by authorities; as such, theories abound. Causes from Invictist sabotage to faulty construction and even freak weather conditions have been blamed. Regardless, the disaster was instrumental in forcing Tyreseian maritime safety standards to change in coming years. The high death toll, in spite of the ship's proximity to shore, was blamed on faulty design and crew incompetence. In the wake of the fire, the Tyreso-Periclean Line was investigated by the Tyreseian government and the League of Neptune was forced to reconstruct it under a new name, Tanit Line. ('''[[SS Steja djal Scipia (1932)|See more...]]''')


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The SS Steja djal Scipia was a Tyreseian ocean liner that caught fire and ran aground in the late evening hours of August 17th, 1938, en route from Leonople, Perateia to New Tyria, Tyreseia via Pelias, Vardana. Of the 941 passengers and crew aboard, 472 perished, making the fire the worst maritime disaster in Tyreseian history up to that point. Despite being manufactured as a tourism-based passenger vessel, the Steja djal Scipia was almost immediately pressed into service as an emigrant liner as a result of civil conflict and ethnic tension along her route. The vessel gained a reputation for dedication to reliably transporting ethnic Perateians and other refugees away from Vardana to safety in Perateia or Tyreseia. Along with this reputation came a series of dubiously-safe modifications to increase passenger capacity. Such modifications likely greatly endangered the ship, turning her into a floating matchbox. While on a routine voyage back to New Tyria, the Steja djal Scipia caught alight off the city of Oñulba on the night of August 17, 1938, with the loss of over half of her passengers and crew thanks to mass confusion, poor modifications, years of neglect and faults in her original design. What started the fire was never determined by authorities; as such, theories abound. Causes from Invictist sabotage to faulty construction and even freak weather conditions have been blamed. Regardless, the disaster was instrumental in forcing Tyreseian maritime safety standards to change in coming years. The high death toll, in spite of the ship's proximity to shore, was blamed on faulty design and crew incompetence. In the wake of the fire, the Tyreso-Periclean Line was investigated by the Tyreseian government and the League of Neptune was forced to reconstruct it under a new name, Tanit Line. (See more...)

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