About
Viraxo is a transport group which merges the brand-name recognition and history of the Viraxo Shipping line and the strength of an emerging leader in the industry, Galactic Freightways.
Founded in in Year 10 by Jaghatai Khan and Slai`fon Zih, Galactic Freightways (GF) began humbly as a sentient transport business, but quickly became a premier multi-modal transport service provider with an extensive team of pilots and logistics personnel operating out of the Abrion Sector. To offer further value to their clients, GF invested in its own ship production and repair facilities to further its range and transport capacity. Soon enough, Mecrosa, a trading and transport group led by Dac Kain, began sub-contracting with GF to handle smaller transport duties and the two companies found the arrangement was exceedingly beneficial to both of their businesses.
While Galactic Freightways star was rising, Viraxo Shipping's was fading. Though it once dominated multiple markets, decades of inept leadership and neglect saw Viraxo bleed clients and pilots. Its CEO, K'Armyn Viraxo, hoarded his inherited wealth and the company's dwindling profits. His daughter, Grace Viraxo, became disgusted with her father's mismanagement of the family's legacy. Declining a role in upper-management upon maturity, she set out to pursue her own destiny.
While working in a prominent hotel in Crevasse City, Grace met and married Jonathon Logan, who was a stakeholder in what was to become a very successful mining operation. Though K'Amryn had refused to meet his new son-in-law, he disapproved of the union and viewed it as an intolerable disrespect to the family. When Grace refused her father's demands to have the marriage annulled, K'Amryn publicly disowned his only heir. However, after a sudden heart attack took him two decades later, it was revealed that the shipping magnate had failed to update his will; Grace was still the sole heir of what little remained of the once lucrative Viraxo Shipping business and her father's much more substantial cash reserves. Approaching their retirements, the Logans were not inclined to take on the management of a failing business far from their home on Corellia. Their daughter Alysia, however, had recently married Dac Kain, and as the newly weds worked together to build up a successful business empire, Grace saw that Viraxo could be a new opportunity for her daughter.
Grace gave the Viraxo legacy to Alysia Kain, along with the inherited credits from K'Amryn Viraxo's personal accounts, but little remained of the actual shipping business beyond its name. Galactic Freightways, meanwhile, approached Dac Kain about finding investors to help the group achieve its goal of serving the vast markets outside their sector. A deal was drawn that would have Alysia provide that investment, in exchange for a controlling share of the group's stock. In Year 11, Galactic Freightways officially became part of the Mecrotica Conglomerate under the new, and old name of Viraxo.
Combing the experienced pilots and fleet of Galactic Freightways, the investment and clientele of Viraxo Shipping, and the guidance of Mecrosa, Viraxo aims to serve the transport market with speed and reliability.