Virgin Group

Distinctions:	Fortune 666
CEO:	Dr. Brandson
Country:	Meritocratic Republic of Trattoria
Website:	www.virgin.tr
Private Company	N/A

"Together, we can do anything."

Virgin is a leading international investment group and one of the galaxy's most recognised and respected brands. Conceived in G.R. 1970 by Dr. Richard Brandson, the Virgin Group has gone on to grow successful businesses in sectors ranging from mobile telephony, travel, financial services, leisure, music, holidays and health & wellness.

The Virgin Group had initially started as a mail-order records company and has since grown into the massive, multinational holding company it is today. Together, Virgin's businesses consist of more than 400 companies galaxy-wide.

Subsidiaries include:

Virgin Galactic

Bringing the galaxy to you.

Virgin Galactic is the Virgin Group's leading company, providing premium spaceline service throughout the BrikVerse. Starting at $399 USD for a cabin seat, Virgin Galactic is known as the industry leader in quality and speed. Robot flight hostesses serve complementary fine dining and champagne as well as fully reclinable seating. Those in need of business accomodations are free to use complementary Virgin Communications in-flight wifi and wireless chargers, as well as the best in hologram and galactic TV entertainment. Virgin also offers the fastest travel times in the industry for intragalactic travel- a flight from RARCom to the United Peach Alliance takes a mere eight hours.

For those desiring a more personalized experience, Virgin Galactic offers the chartering or purchase of private Cauchy shuttles for the jet-setting scientist, businessman, or government dignitary. Implementing a feathered wing configuration to obviate unreliable and inconvenient heat shields, the Cauchy is equipped with a state-of-the-art navigation AI, as well as VTOL fusion engines for orbital and planetside travel. To maximize the comfort of our passengers, these engines have cutting-edge noise-cancelling technology as well as minimal buffeting, keeping champagne glasses upright and unspilled even during atmospheric reentry. Cauchys also have the fastest intragalactic FTL in the BrikVerse, able to avoid complicated FTL routes by traveling above the galactic plane. If you are among your nation's wealthy elite, please considering purchasing a private shuttle starting from the affordable price of $250 million USD.

Virgin Defense

Building Trattoria's protection

Virgin Defense is the Virgin Group's military contracting firm. Dedicated to providing innovative solutions to defense technologies for tomorrow's battlefield, Virgin Defense is committed to ensuring the safety of all Trattorian Citizens. Virgin Defense holds many contracts with the Trattorian government's Armed Forces Department to build many of the latter's military vehicles and technology, including its navy.

Virgin Engineering

We can build anything, together.

Virgin Engineering is a leader in the Trattorian mega-structure engineering industry. Responsible for constructing many of the nation's super-high-rise skyscrapers planetside and the massive luxury tori that orbit many Trattorian worlds, almost every Trattorian Citizen has been in contact with a Virgin Engineering product at some point or another. Its most notable accomplishment was its commission to build the 500-story Bureaucracy tower in Conselia, Trattoria.

Virgin Engineering also constructed the Clairaut space yacht. The Clairaut features a swimming pool and fountain with a 360-degree view of space, a shuttle bay (a feature also on its military cousin, the Faraday), one of the most advanced Apple® navigation AIs in the BrikVerse, a fully automated robot staff, and all the other amenities you would expect a spoiled-rich super-spaceyacht to have. Plated with gold, the Clairaut is aimed at Virgin’s luxury market, with prices starting from ₮50 billion Trattorian dollars ($51.5 billion USA dollars).

Virgin Science

Virgin Science corporate scientists often collaborate with the government Science Department on creating the next innovations to proliferate the benefits of TL 7 to all of Trattorian society.

Virgin Health

Virgin Health provides healthcare treatment and insurance beyond the government's public option. It faces stiff competition from Acelera Pharmaceuticals, especially given the latter's patent on Miracle Cure and acquisition of Alexandria Insurance Corporation.

Virgin Communications

Virgin Communications provides one of the fastest wireless and internet connections in the galaxy, delivering information instantaneously along quantum-entanglement FTL relays. They are the favorite of Trattorian stockbrokers and other consumers where a few milliseconds of lag could cost millions.

Virgin Hospitality

Virgin Hospitality runs hotels in and out of Trattoria.

Virgin Transportation

Virgin Transportation controls much of the intra-planet transportation infrastructure in Trattoria, including the super-fast Hyperloop networks on the homeworld.

Virgin Shipping

Virgin Shipping controls much of the trade between Trattoria and the rest of the galaxy, possessing a fleet of Laissez-faire and Ricardo class freighters that could rival a star nation's fleet.

Virgin Money

Virgin Money serves as a bank/depository institution as well as a financial trading firm.

Virgin Media

Virgin Media runs several media and news outlets in Trattoria, including a newspaper and a TV channel.