Keawea Ftaowai’i
Corporation Overview
- Name: Keawea Ftaowai’i
- Translation: Claw of the Coin
- Founded By: Ka’tiyah Keawea Syoisuis
- Type: Financial Mega-Corporation
- Parent Clan: Syoisuis (Tlauku member clan)
- Sector Influence: Trojan Reach, Riftspan Reaches, Gateway Domain
- Base of Operations:Kusyu Home world of the Aslan but have banks all over the Hirate.
- Warbond Markets – Used to fund male-led conquest ventures.
- Matron-Led Credit Unions – Female-run merchant families use this to empower business without violating clan law.
- Honor-Debt Registry – An official record of debts upheld by the Tlauku courts.
- Colonial Investment Portfolios – Offers multi-clan backed options for colonization efforts near Drinax and the Reach.
- Vault-Chain Lending – Secure hypervaults across Hierate space back up loans with honor-sealed physical wealth.
- Interstellar Banking: Secure accounts, high-value transfers, currency exchange between Aslan and Imperial systems.
- Legal Enforcement: Backed by licensed mercenaries and private bounty hunters to collect unpaid debts with honor.
- Clan Arbitration: Provides neutral financial mediation in clan disputes (for a price).
Structure
Formal Structure:
Keawea Ftaowai’i is structured as a Matronal Honor-Ledger Guild, overseen by a Council of Claws (senior matriarchs from the Syoisuis clan and allied bloodlines).
Males (fihau) serve as Blade-Bearers of Contract, enforcers of debt retrieval and duel-led arbitration.
Culture
Structure & Culture
Keawea Ftaowai’i is rigidly hierarchical, in keeping with Aslan social norms, but incorporates a rare level of inter-clan staff from junior clans, ensuring they maintain ties to frontier markets and independent mercantile houses. However, all key leadership roles remain within Clan Syoisuis , whose senior males view themselves as the Ftaowai’i-Kei ("Claws of Value").
The organization also employs many female analysts, revered for their intelligence and calculation, who are permitted to sit on financial councils—another unusual practice that has drawn both admiration and criticism from conservative clans.
Public Agenda
Formal Statement (as presented in public registers on Kusyu and beyond):
- "To guard the Honor of Debt, to bind wealth to worthiness, and to ensure the rightful flow of tribute and compensation across all noble bloodlines, in accordance with the wisdom of the Matrons and the valor of the Clans."
- Preserve Honor Through Financial Stability
- Promote ritualized debt resolution as a peaceful alternative to unnecessary bloodshed.
- Enable wealth transfer and liquidity between Tlaukhu clans, minor vassals, and offworld allies, especially in the face of the Third Imperium's growing influence.
- Provide secure and honor-approved channels for interstellar trade and investment.
- Uphold the right of ahriy (matriarchs) to arbitrate debt and contract law within and between clans.
- Offer neutral ground for financial arbitration to reduce interclan feuding and the waste of honorable blood.
- Offer young fihau (males) of warrior lineages opportunities to prove themselves through debt enforcement, contract arbitration, and ritual dueling, earning prestige outside the battlefield.
- Train females in the ancient art of ledger-law and honor-accounting, expanding the prestige of matron-led leadership.
- Monitor and regulate all non-Aslan economic partnerships to ensure they do not erode traditional Aslan values.
- Require all major interspecies transactions to be witnessed and blessed by a Matron of Standing.
- A Sacred Custodian of Clan Debt
- A Ritual House of Obligation
- A Weapon of Peaceful Enforcement
Assets
Notable Assets
Akeah’rae Orbital Vault: A mobile fortress bank-station, known to contain the financial records and heirlooms of dozens of noble clans.
The Keawea Warbond Exchange: A regulated market for buying and selling clan-backed debts and future territory claims.
“Coin-Carrier” Couriers: Jump-4 courier ships designed for rapid, secured transport of contracts, currency, or VIP financial personnel.
The Claw Mercantile Guard: Paramilitary enforcement wing used to protect high-risk assets and enforce unpaid honor contracts.
History
Timeline of Keawea Ftaowai’i, Claw of the Coin
- Type: Aslan Megacorporation
- Industry: Interclan Banking, Debt-Ledger Management, Honor Bonding
- Ownership: Clan Syoisuis (Tlaukhu Rank: 3rd)
- Founded: 783–3I
- Headquarters: Ftaowai’i-ktiyu, Matron’s Ridge, Kusyu (0627, Dark Nebula)
- Founder: Ka’tiyah Keawea Syoisuis, a widowed matron from a junior branch of the Syoisuis clan.
- In the wake of several failed inheritance wars and rising debt disputes between clans, Ka’tiyah proposes a revolutionary idea: a centralized honor-ledger.
- The company is established as a matronal syndicate with the motto:
- “Keawea Ftaowai’i: Htyo Ftaowai’i Ktahe’a” “Claw of the Coin: Honor is Held in the Claw”
- The bank’s sacred vault-hall, Ftaowai’i-ktiyu, is constructed from obsidian basalt quarried from Mount Shyefru, using no offworld materials—a cultural statement of Aslan self-sufficiency.
- The building is consecrated by five high priestesses of the Matron Circle, each from a Tlaukhu clan.
- Keawea Ftaowai’i finalizes protocols for the Standardized Honor-Debt Index, accepted by eight Tlaukhu clans.
- The concept of debt-as-honor begins to replace brute tribute collection among female-dominated institutions.
- An assassination attempt on Ka’tiyah by a rival Tralyeaeawi faction results in the Duel of Matrons—a rare, formal blade-duel between two matriarchs.
- Ka’tiyah defeats her opponent and codifies Article IX of the Honor Ledger, protecting debt-bearers during arbitration.
- Public reaction causes the number of participating clans to rise to 13.
- The “Shielded Treasury” principle is born: no blood shall be shed in a place where debt is negotiated. This leads to the creation of neutral “Claw Chambers” in all major Hierate trade hubs.
- As the Hierate expands into the Trojan Reach and the Glorious Empire becomes a distant concern, Keawea Ftaowai’i enacts reforms that:
- Allow multi-clan arbitration councils
- Issue matron bonds for offworld commercial fleets
- Recognize non-Aslan limited partnerships (with caution)
- The smaller Htyao clan defaults on a major fleet-financing deal.
- Keawea Ftaowai’i liquidates five of their ancestral holdings—legally, and with full Tlauku approval.
- This marks the first time in Hierate history a Tlaukhu-aligned corporation exercises such power without direct military force.
- The first formal contact with Third Imperium Merchantile Guilds is established.
- Keawea Ftaowai’i opens a listening branch office on Vreibefger (Dark Nebula 0825) to monitor human economic behavior.
- A ceremonial vault in Ftaowai’i-ktiyu is sealed for 500 years, containing genealogical and financial records bound in honor by all 29 clans.
- Great-granddaughter of Ka’tiyah Keawea, Ka’aeriy returns the corporation to core matronal doctrine.
- Restricts all offworld debt contracts not backed by face-to-face ceremonial accord.
- Keawea Ftaowai’i is now the oldest functioning honor-bank in the Hierate, with holdings and arbitration rights involving:
- 26 of the 29 Tlaukhu clans
- Over 300 minor vassal clans
- 17 offworld trade houses (6 human-operated)
- Concerns rise that the corporation is using selective interest rates to influence interclan conflicts—effectively deciding the outcome of wars before a single blade is drawn.
“Keawea Ftaowai’i: Htyo Ftaowai’i Ktahe’a” “Claw of the Coin: Honor is Held in the Claw”
Founding Date
883-3I
Type
Corporation, Commerce
Alternative Names
Claw of the Coin
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