The Universal Corporate Profile is a method to describe companies and other corporate entities in Traveller. It is represented by a string of hexidecimal digits as below:

000000-0000-000-0000-00000

Followed by a comments field to expand upon the raw UCP

The UCP is being developed as a part of the Imperial Ship Builders Association. And much of the discussion is taking place on the ISBA mailing list. Many of the concepts and ideas expressed here are from the fertile minds of the participants on that list and full credit must go to them.

Corporate information Start

• "Nationality" (abstract number - see below)
• Nature (abstract number - see below)
• Range (abstract number - see below)
• Employees (log scale)
• Turnover in MCr (log scale)
• Profit margin (straight scale)

Area of Operations (this section based on the real world Standard Industrial Classifications, and is thanks to Tim Reynolds And yes the real world does have 11 classifications which fits nicely with a 2d6 roll!) Start

• Agriculture
• Mining
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Transpiration, Communications, Utilities (power, gas, sanitation etc.)
• Wholesale trade
• Retail Trade
• Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
• Service
• Public Administrative
• Nonclassifiable (other)

Game Information Start

• Influence (abstract number - needs to be defined)
• Tradition (abstract number - needs to be defined)
• Public Relations (abstract number - needs to be defined)
• Company Politics (abstract number - needs to be defined)
• Corporate Paranoia (abstract number - needs to be defined)
• Research and Development (abstract number - see below)

"Nationality" Back Start

1. - Imperial
2. - Vilani
3. - Solomani
4. - Zhodani
5. - Julian Protectorate
6. - Aslan
7. - Vargr
8. - Hiver
9. - K'kree
10. - Droyne
11. - Minor Human
12. - Minor Non-Human

Corporation Nature - This is the way the corporation is "owned". These are some (my ideas): Back Start

1. - Public Listed Company
2. - Family Business
3. - Partnership
4. - Private non Limited Liability
5. - Mutual Company/Friendly Society
6. - Private Trust
7. - Employee Trust
8. - State Sponsored (semi state owned)
9. - State Owned Enterprise
10. - Self Owned

Corporate Range- This is how widely spread the companies operations are Back Start

1. - Village
2. - Town
3. - City
4. - Large City/Province
5. - National
6. - Continental
7. - Single lo pop World
8. - Single mid pop (6-8) world
9. - Single hi pop world
10. - Multi World/Cluster
11. - Single Subsector
12. - Multi Subsectors
13. - Sector
14. - Domain
15. - Imperial

R & D Back Start

1. - 1%
2. - 2%
3. - 3%
4. - 4%
5. - 5%
6. - 6%
7. - 7%
8. - 8%
9. - 9%
10. - 10%
11. - 15%
12. - 20%
13. - 25%
14. - 30%
15. - 40%

As an example I'll give Phoenix Corporation

• 11D548-0009-000-0100-D5794B

This gives a Publicly listed Imperial company, operating over a sector, with hundreds of thousand employees, turning over tens of billions of credits, returning 8%. The company is very heavily into manufacturing, with a minor interest in Service industry. Phoenix can exert a lot of influence, doesn't hold too much to tradition, has a large degree of internal infighting, is moderately paranoid, has good public relations and a heavy commitment to R&D.

The Comments field would include the information that the company's interests in manufacturing was mainly in shipbuilding with other capacity in power systems, electronics and small arms; and that its service industry interests was in the field of Chandler and Providor. It might go on to describe that it's R&D was focused on the unproven field of Stutterwarp Drives and that this is a cause of strife between the CEO and Board.

Obviously all this is **very** rough and still needs a lot of polishing (witness all those values still to be defined). But it is a start and I would really appreciate comments. The most obvious change likely in the final version is going to be that all the values will probably be ordered in a much more logical fashion.