The Basra Overseas Trading Company, a Lords of the Earth Campaign 10 position
Shall I show you a commerce that will save you from a painful doom ?
Shall I lead you to a merchandise which may deliver you from a painful chastisement ?"
The Holy Quran, Surah 60, verse 10
Please enjoy your visit, and contact us in Basra by sending your messenger to: [email protected]
- Ruler: Captain-General Faruk Aslan, Kalifat Rasul Allah
- Host nations: The Yezidi Caliphate and the Empire of the Burning Sword (our Head Office is in Basra, Abadan).
- Customer base: 25 nations currently trade with us, on a direct or cartel basis, and more to come !
- Zones of operation: the Middle East (east to the Maldives), all of Africa, the Med basin through Necho's Canal and the eastern coast of South America. Plans are underway to establish trade routes to North America !
- Guild leadership over select monopolies of your nation's economy.
- Financing and licensing of Research and Development.
- Diplomatic services: when combat is too costly an option, let the crack SBB negotiating teams step in, charm the natives and then hand over the land to you !
- Our various office staff can also be commissioned for more discreet services in the field; please contact our Home Office for a quote...
- Interest-free financial services for third-party payments or short / long term project financing.
- Purchase and/or sale of food, military equipment (munitions export) and shipping vessels.
- Harboring and re-supply services for your ships, either on a per-visit basis (for exploration and special activities) or long-term contract.
- We prefer to manage your merchant navy; let us do the trade AND the navigation !
- While we are open to managing monopolies on a stand-alone basis, we prefer to optimize your profit (and ours) by associating such work with Cartel trade services.
- We do not wish to be involved in any project which is clearly or potentially at odds with the development of the Muslim faith, the Muslim Primacy in Jerusalem and our host nations, the Burning Sword and Yezidi Caliphate.
- We do not deal in slaves or goods of a religious nature (except for the Holy Quran).
- We accept payment for most services in gold, merchant shipping vessels or both.
