Cliffton Trading Company

The Cliffton Trading Company, also known as the CTC is the only major corporation in Aeryon. It owns a large area of land in the Klerk-Seaforth docks where it exports and imports goods from all across Rathnir and generates untold millions. The CTC has been very controversial for its harsh treatment of workers and suspected bribery of the province’s politicians.

The Origins of the Company
It was a late night in the then Klerksdorp, now Klerkenshoop tavern when the CTC was formed. Not with a grand parade and cheers, but with two men signing a charter quietly. in the early days of the company it was only the two unknown businessmen operating an unassuming market stall along Wilkinson Street, where they sold bread they imported from Kastollia. However after a few years the plague hit Klerkenshoop and immediately the two men saw a golden opportunity, and within the day they were selling a ‘miracle cure’ for the plague. This was perhaps the most detested moment in the companies history, however (and rather suspiciously) the Clifftonic government never issued any punishment…

After the money they made from selling the snake oil the CTC purchased its first ship and begun to import luxury goods from around the world, from that point on the company grew alongside Klerkenshoop.

Corruption Scandal
By the point of the Corruption Scandal, the CTC had grown to unprecedented levels, at the time it was estimated a fifth of the Klerkenshoop population and a tenth of the Silverhill population relied on them for work, they recorded record breaking profts every month and it seemed like nothing could stop the rapid growth.

Until the point of the corruption scandal every single person in Klerk, Silverhill and the surrounding estates were nothing less than content with the companies overwhelming presence. They sold just about everything, from fish to jewellery, and it was said the Clifftonic economy would shrink by 60% if the CTC left. But one day something changed, the local newspaper (previously a major supporter of the CTC) published an article exposing the previously repressed low wages and rampant corruption which had by now spread to every sector of the corporation. It is still theorised why the Klerkenshoop times switched its opinions, but nonetheless the public now knew.

In an instant the public opinion turned, not only against the CEOs and executives but against the local government, who had been proved to be accepting bribes by the CTC. A day later an informal strike begun and lasted for only three days until the executives and company managers finally conceded,