Southern Buraccan Shipping Company

Grrust-Buracca Taupleit Hossenleider

"GBTH"

Overview

The Grrust-Buracca Taupleit Hossenleider (GBTH), also known as the Distinguished Southern Buraccan Company (DSBC) or the Aerahwut Southern Buraccan Company and informally as Karl-Helbert Company, was an Aerah and later Aerah joint-stock company, which was formed to pursue trade with the Buracca but ended up trading mainly with other countries.

Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of Nimskraus trading into the Southern Rich lands", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpeter, tea, coal, copper, and opium. Also, the company had control over Buraccan folk in the early years of the Aerah Empire.

The company received Imperial Charter from Kaiser Heinrich II on the 24th of December 1611, making it the oldest among several similarly formed trade companies. Wealthy merchants and aristocrats owned the Company's shares. Initially, the government owned no shares and had only indirect control.

During its first century of operation, the focus of the Company was trade, not the destruction of the Kingdoms in Buracca. Company interests turned from trade to territory and the free labor for the mines they owned during the 18th century as the Buraccan Empire, it then declined in power and GBTH struggled with its Caesulen counterpart, the Suton Southern Trading Company (Sutina Meridionali amet Lorem) during the Buraccan Wars of the 1740s and 1750s. The Battle of Fahr and Battle of Opitz, which saw the Aerah, led by Ansgar Klinghoffer, defeat the Buraccan powers, left the company in control of Southern Buracca and a major military and political power in Southern Cleotacith. In the following decades, it gradually increased the extent of the territories under its control, ruling either directly or indirectly via local puppet rulers under the threat of force by its Presidency armies, much of which were composed of native Buraccan EyiQhawe. GBTH made a huge slave trade of Buraccan people with the Imperial Caesulen Empire around the 1740s, 1750s, and the 1760s.

The company eventually came to rule large areas of Buracca with its own private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions. Company rule in Buracca effectively began in 1759 and lasted until 1792 when, following the Buraccan Rebellion of 1792, the clans came together and made a new government led by Bhekizizwe and Duma Siphosethu, this led to the formation of the Buraccan Kingdom.

Despite frequent government intervention, the company had recurring problems with its finances. The company even caused the end of the Buraccan Kingdom during the Aerahwut-Buraccan War in 1889, as well as many conflicts that followed including the War of the Bloody Hollows. GBTH during its later years started GBTH Line and bought the new Liner, SS Kaiser Leonard. The Liner sunk after a collision with a rogue wave early in 1941. The company finally dissolved in 1941 as a result of no money and them losing their exports from the involvement of the Aerah Government.