One-Stop

Established	PA226	Type	Supermarkets, Convenience Stores Spacecraft and Aftermarket Parts
Headquarters	One-Stop HQ In Aleph Cluster, orbiting Albion
Affiliate Organisations	On Albion	York and Peldt Packaging Zippy Logistics and Distribution Jotun Parts Fabrication Willamette Farm
	On Donalbain	Mining Section Theta
	On Sargasso	Greene Steelworks Hammerstone Industrial
	On Shade	Wright Foods Incorporated Golden Fresh Fields
	Orbiting Albion	One-Stop Megamart One-Stop Secondhand Spacecraft
	Orbiting Traveller	One-Stop Qwik-Med1) One-Stop Servo
Societal Affiliations	Planet Albion, Unity Protocol
Chair Persons	Dorian Greene - Owner Greta Alruco - CEO Joh van Peldt - Head of Logistics
Slogan	“One Stop, for all your needs.”
Mascot	Zippy the Quickie

One-Stop is a convenience store and transportation conglomerate operating throughout the Aleph Cluster, providing convenient consumables and other goods throughout a chain of distributors ranging from space station sized trade halls, to corner shops stocking the essentials.

In addition, they are responsible for designing, manufacturing, and assembling personal spacecraft seen throughout the Aleph Cluster, entering the market for aftermarket spacecraft parts and upscaling after acquiring further manufacturing capacity and expertise.

• One-Stop Restaurant Franchises - One-Stop is responsible for creating, marketing, supplying, and managing the following fast-food franchises in the Aleph Cluster.
  • One-Stop Sandwiches - It's Stop And Go! - A retail chain of sandwich carts and small cafes, selling sandwiches to workers and space pilots on the go. The oldest of One-Stop's retail franchises, One-Stop had its start selling sandwiches to locals and growing from there; One-Stop diversified into wraps, kebabs, burritos, and other easily graspable meals. All sandwiches are created and on the same day, and most of them can be sold as a wrapped, packaged, and oven reheatable meal.
  • Billy Boy's Burgers - Oh, Billy Boy~! - A burger joint with large selection of burgers, fries, sugary drinks, and other greasy snackables. Every Billy Boy's has a little dance floor in or just outside the venue, and a jukebox for thumping tunes. Bigger venues get stages, and it isn't uncommon to see the waiters on rollerskates.
  • Angel's Hair Noodles - Divine! - A franchise of traditional-styled noodle bars, carts, and food trucks. They offer hearty noodle soups. Toppings can include meats, spring onion, pepper, and dried seaweed to name a few - and the noodles can be served soft and silky, or tough and chewy.
• One-Stop Supermarkets and Convenience Stores - Carried by its logistics game, One-Stop's supermarkets serve the public at large in space, and on the ground in shopping centres and standalone. They offer home deliveries via courier or drone for affluent clients, and stock just about everything you could need, and get over the counter.
  • Stop-Mart - The smaller convenience store, dotted here and there throughout urban centres and out in smaller villages. With a clean, functional interior, the Stop Mart is the place for anyone on the go to stock up. Stop Mart sells magazines, sweets, snacks, tobacco, stationery, and frozen foods. Some Stop-Marts also provide a refuelling area for local vehicles and light spacecraft.
• One-Stop Garage and Parts - Every decent space station has a One-Stop Garage in it for refitting vessels. They are also capable of refuelling craft, in addition to providing service and maintenance.
  • Spacecraft Outfitting - One-Stop's bread and butter for placing and replacing internal ship parts and components, and modifying items on the ship's hardpoints. They also offer cosmetics options for the fanciful.
  • Alruco's Aftermarket Parts - Responsible for selling parts for personal spacecraft, Alruco's is a machine shop and printer for a variety of replacement bits and pieces for a wide range of models. They are also capable of restructuring and decorating the interiors of cockpits and other personal compartments in the ship.
  • One-Stop's Shipyards - Spacecraft are traded in these large, planetside and stationside shipyards. They run the gamut from showy floor rooms for luxury conveyances, to dingy hangars out in the boonies staffed by someone in a loud suit. Secondhand ships undergo thorough inspections before being put on the lot, as a requirement to portray the One-Stop franchise as being a cut above its competitors.
• Spacecraft - Spacecraft designed and manufactured by One-Stop.
  • OS-300 Fantail - Light Multi-Purpose Ship. Cheap and easily modifiable, with powered landing gears for land travel.
  • OS-350 Shrike - Light Fighter craft. Sleek and aerodynamic in addition to cutting down on weight. Optimised towards dogfighting and bounty hunting over comfort or unnecessary parts.
  • OS-70C Magpie - The entry-level craft of the medium-sized all-arounders, often used for 'houseboats' of space exploring teams and families.
  • OS-1045 Rockhopper - Medium sized cargo hauler with ample space and security. A staple craft of merchants used to conduct day-to-day trade between planets.

The heart of the company lies in its organisational and logistics capacity. As they design new products for their branches, One-Stop figures out how they'll store it and ship it ahead of time. This is so the product, once completed and sufficiently advertised can travel to market as quickly as possible for quicker profits. Management undergoes a similarly swift transmission of messages from HQ to the franchisees, keeping as little paperwork between directions as possible, and automating systems of accountability.

This speed, combined with the delivery of quality products at reasonable prices, is what defines One-Stop's reputation, which entirely at odds with their image and portrayal as down-to-earth Greaseheart everymen more likely to be spotted as tradesmen than businesspeople. Their name and boorish-seeming image is widespread, and loved for its self-awareness.

One-Stop's design process for food products generally starts with a common recipe, made to be appealing, and easily produced while remaining nutritious. Once the foodstuff is decided and its production methods are devised, marketing and advertising step in and begin drafting a way to package and present the food. The farms they are grown in are also architected to be as productive and long lasting as possible.

The core of their design team for spacecraft is drawn from Greaseheart engineers, working in tandem with designers, and most notoriously: test pilots. One-Stop has had a reputation for picking up notorious privateers and ace dogfighters as test pilots for their new spacecraft, putting through rigorous tests. In short, if One-Stop's stock is doing a test flight in a corner of space, its not a bright idea to intervene.

The company prides itself on timely delivery of freshly cultivated fruit, vegetables, and livestock produce from the moon colony of Shade, and farms around Albion. To this end, One-Stop specialises in refrigerated storage and distribution, paying dividends to farmers to grow for them, managed hands-on by accounts teams. Perishable produce is on the shelves or at the relevant factory within 24 hours of being picked and cleaned, and on a shelf in one of the many supermarkets or corner stores around the Aleph Cluster within 48 hours.

In its Spaceship design area, One-Stop has a mining holding on Donalbain, mining minerals and sending them to refineries on Albion and Sargasso, creating the materials and parts necessary to assemble a spacecraft. Once fabricated, the items are sent to space factories to create new spacecraft, and the finished products are sold on planetside or spaceport shipyards.

One-Stop has an avid recycling component, believing that nothing should go to waste with their products, organic and otherwise. They are responsible for lobbying for both biodegradable (where possible) and sustainable recycling practices in food and spacecraft parts. In particular within the Unity Protocol, One-Stop works openly alongside the Units to ensure nothing goes to waste.

In addition to making their own produce and parts, One-Stop is willing to work with other producers to let their products into the market, reselling their goods throughout the Aleph Cluster.

One-Stop prefers a high-intensity, high exposure marketing ethos, being noted for using bold colours. For high-end foodstuff brands, One-Stop is often able to wrangle celebrity endorsement from sports stars or high-profile actors. For the spaceships and middle-range foodstufs, less sophisticated and cruder marketing is employed. The company is notorious for incorporating loud, in-your-face advertising commonly referred to as 'shouty ads'²⁾. Despite the brashness in this form of advertising, it finds traction among the target Greaseheart audience.

In its colouring, One-Stop uses red and gold, with black-and-white chequered flag patterns. Racing stripes are also a common motif, in addition to metal paints, and loud voices.

One-Stop has the following holdings, by location.