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'''Elite Travel''' is an international ice highway construction company started on | '''Elite Travel''' is an international ice highway construction company started on 16 December 2019 by [[BetaPlain]]. The company opened operations for [[Terra Aurora]] on 9 May 2020 and is currently pursuing a merger with the [[Bristol Bay Company]]. | ||
== Early History == | == Early History == | ||
Elite Travel was founded as the solution to the gold issue which prevented [[BetaPlain]] from reaching his [[List of proposed nations by BetaPlain|various nation founding endeavors]]. [[BetaPlain]] had been searching for a new industry to begin a business in and found that there was little competition in the ice highway construction business. [[BetaPlain]] had little money and had recently moved to the town of [[Nova:Bend (Chrysoprasus)|Portland]] (later Bend), and was in need of a large sum of gold to found the nation of [[Nova:Oregon (BetaPlain)|Oregon]]. It was under these conditions that Elite Travel was founded on | Elite Travel was founded as the solution to the gold issue which prevented [[BetaPlain]] from reaching his [[List of proposed nations by BetaPlain|various nation founding endeavors]]. [[BetaPlain]] had been searching for a new industry to begin a business in and found that there was little competition in the ice highway construction business. [[BetaPlain]] had little money and had recently moved to the town of [[Nova:Bend (Chrysoprasus)|Portland]] (later Bend), and was in need of a large sum of gold to found the nation of [[Nova:Oregon (BetaPlain)|Oregon]]. It was under these conditions that Elite Travel was founded on 16 December 2019. | ||
[[File:Elite Travel Station.png|left|thumb|Early design for an Elite Travel Ice Highway Station]] | |||
Elite Travel underwent extensive planning by [[BetaPlain]] to ensure every detail of Elite Travel's business model was optimized. [[BetaPlain]] envisioned a premium transportation system, which was to be accessible only by subscribers to Elite Travel. Subscriptions were to cost somewhere higher than 6 gold, and were to serve as Elite Travel's primary income. New subscribers were to be given keycards with a specific name, which could be dropped into a [https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Hopper#Item_sorter keycard reader] at an Elite Travel Ice Highway Station to gain access to the ice highway. | |||
[[BetaPlain]] began developing an appropriate logo for Elite Travel sometime | [[BetaPlain]] contacted close friend [[EstiQT]] to assist in the start of the company. [[EstiQT]] was immediately hired as an employee of Elite Travel, forgoing the entire application and vetting process. [[EstiQT]] assisted [[BetaPlain]] in the development of the discord server and brought much needed criticism for Elite Travel's experimental business model. | ||
[[BetaPlain]] began developing an appropriate logo for Elite Travel sometime before 23 December 2019. [[BetaPlain]] initially selected a gray, three-dimensional block as the first potential logo for the company. [[BetaPlain]], very dissatisfied with the design, hired an unknown professional logo maker to create an original logo for the company. It was shortly after this time that [[BetaPlain]] decided to use an image of an ice block as a potential logo for Elite Travel. | |||
[[BetaPlain]], indecisive about which logo to use, and desiring to give the original logo a chance, decided to post a poll on the Elite Travel discord server on 23 December 2019. BetaPlain cut | |||
[[Category:Businesses (Nova)]] | [[Category:Businesses (Nova)]] | ||