Braxian Meat Company

The Braxian Meat Company trading company formed at Ely on Naya Island on 22.XV.1722 AN. Proprietors Merton Villeneuve and Nelson Collingwood, subjects both of the Bovic Empire, originally from the Florian Free State, established the enterprise upon the inspiration of perusing the label of a can of Superabundance Foods tinned meat, where an early depiction of a Braxian was prominently featured.

Having taken a suite of rooms in the Compton Hotel, the pair applied for a licence to trade from the local demesnal government, and submitted a petition to the Trans-Euran Command of the Raspur Pact to obtain a razzia permit authorising them to conduct expeditions to the Corum mainland. Whilst they awaited acknowledgement of these missives, they set themselves to recruiting a secretary, discovering what they could regarding the mysterious Braxians in the taverns and alehouses of the nearest docks, and raising the necessary capital with which to bribe officials in order to obtain the requested permits.

Their application was refused, and the pair were subsequently arrested by the local contingent of the General Inspectorate of Eura and Corum on the suspicion of proposing a cannibalistic atrocity. In the meantime the territory wherein they had proposed to conduct their expedition had passed under the sovereignty of Çakaristan, invalidating the original premise.

Having entered receivership for the time being, the company was purchased for an undisclosed sum, paid to the recruited secretary as the sole remaining representative of the business, by the Natopian subsidiary of Superabundance Foods. Thereafter renamed as the Naya Island Meat and Fish Company, it endeavored to continue with the distribution and marketing business of the products of its mother company, for Naya Islanders and its more pecuniary-situated itinerant military and naval transient residents.