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The Blackship Trading Company is the largest trading and manufacturing entity in the known world, partaking in any and every kind of business and can operate as the de facto independent naval power. Originating as a small furniture manufacturer, in the last hundred years, they have expanded into every possible business, from gun manufacturing to the trading of tea. While Blackship holds many properties and buildings in various countries after the Opium War realized the need to be independent of any one country but at the same time maintain political and economic sway over the countries it resides in. The result was the creation of Blackship's headquarters, a gargantuan flotilla in the middle of the Sunset Sea known as the BTC Blackport. The BTC Blackport is an amalgamation of three Blackships to create a gargantuan and immobile, flotilla in the Sunset Sea. The BTC Blackport lies off the coast of it's profitable Black Isles, the only known source of the mysterious metal that is used to create the company's infamous Blackships.