Halfvars Incorporated

Halfvars Incorporated (Halfvars Inc.) is the largest company in Pomerena. It has multiple branches, such as Halfvars Technologies, Halfvars Transit, Halfvars Defense, and Halfvars Motors.
Halfvars Air, Halfvars Armories, Halfvars Defense, Halfvars Entertainment, Halfvars Goods, Halfvars Machinery, Halfvars Motors, Halfvars Technologies, Halfvars Transit.

Chapter One; Air

Chapter Two; Armories

Chapter Three; Defense

Chapter Four; Entertainment

Chapter Five; Goods

Chapter Six; Machinery

Chapter Seven; Motors

Chapter Eight; Technology

Chapter Nine; Transit
Halfvars Transit is a household name, with it being a very successful trasit company. Many million people use this company every day to get to and from work, doctors' appointments, the store, and more.
History, Infrastructure, Vehicles, Contracts, Transit Lines.
Part One; History
Pre-Road Times, The First Paved Street and The Introduction of Trams, First Railway and Highway, The New Invention, The Close Call of The Suburbanite Trap, "Who Doesn't Have a Railway Station in Their Town?".
Pre-Road Times
In Hofors, 1604, the already powerful Halfvars Family saw an increase in horse-drawn carriages. Although, during this time, the roads were gravel at best. The Baaer Royals had other, more important matters at hand than roads being dirty and poor. Instead, they opted to team up with the Halfvars Family again, as it had done so, so many times before.

What the Halfvars Family did to fix this newfound problem was genious by those years' standards, but just another Tuesday for us. What they did was that they found a close river, that was aslo very powerful. Bastian Halfvars XI found an area called Korsån, which was close, but also had a powerful river. Perfect.

While transporting building material to the site, Bastian found himself in a pickle. The materials were too heavy to drag on normal wheels for horses. Bastian knew that there had to be a way to get to it. He sat at his study, his royal puppy on his lap. He went on to doodle solutions, before coming up with it; the wooden railroad. He ordered his men to test it, and it worked. Soon enough, the wheel was up and running.

After the giant wheel had been erected, and the materials were being produced, Bastian had to find a way to make it durable. He had been on trips all around, just to see what type of road worked. He saw that the best type was brick roads, but those would take too much time. He suddenly gets an idea; sap is sticky, but too thick. But, if we combine it with water, it would be perfect! He tried this simple hypothesis, and, sadly, it didn't work. He knew he had to be onto something, since the road had begun to harden a little. He went to his maids, asking them to boil a giant pot of water and sap, with there being four times the amount of water than sap.

At the debut of his first full-scale prototype, he had 10 horses with carriages ready. When the mixture had been poured, they waited for about an hour. Bastian walks up to the road, knocking on the road. Solid. It was even harder than the brick roads he had seen in the southern lands. He calls upon the horses, all of which walk across the newly laid road. No marks. Not even a dent or chip. Everyone who had been doubting the idea was now amazed. This was the time for a new era.

The First Paved Street and The Introduction of Trams
After her father's success with the paved road, Vivian Halfvars I begun to order more and more paving to be done. This not only helped with Hofors' connection to the capital, Gästrikvik, but also the development of rowhouses.

Vivian was not a normal woman, in a good way. She preferred being alone, but, to keep the bloodline of Halfvars going, she decided to hold a contest; the one who designs the best City Center for Hofors will get to impregnate her.Needless to say, she was a very passionate woman, about the people, that is. Her best friend, Charlotte Baaer VI, joked that if she held the same competition for Gästrikvik's city center, she would allow it. Vivian saw it as a challenge, however. Today, both the city centers of Gästrikvik and Hofors were designed by men who wanted to do the deed with a powerful woman.

You might think that these last to paragraphs might be usless, but there is a reason for it. You see, those two lustful men were not only lustful, but also free thinkers. The two who won are, no joke, siblings. This made it so that they could share their ideas. And share they did.

Harold and Kalle Sydslätt were both supporters of new modes of transport. Harold was big into rail, while Kalle was more of a Designer. When they heard of the contest, they decided to team up. How would they do that? Only one person could win Vivian's V-Card. Well, they decided that they would design two city centers. They told each other in beforehand that "If one of us loses, then it is what it is". They were certain they were going to win.

When they designed their cities, they went out to their own island, in the lake called Hyen. Today, that lake is 100% surrounded by Hofors and its developments. It's still a great place to bathe, though. To their island, they brought different rails; wooden, steel, copper, iron, and bronze. They also had brought a ton of sandbags. It was a total of around 59 metric tons. It took days to get it all there.

Kalle began to set up the rails, while Harold prepared the cart the sandbags would go on. After both were done, they did test no. 1, then no. 2, then no. 3, et cetera, et cetera. They found that steel tracks and car made the best combo, so they used that in their design for the city center.

This marked the start of trams in Pomerena.

First Railway and Highway
After the first tram was built, and the second tram, the poor class of Pomerena said that, yes, while the trams are useful for those in the cities, they couldn't get from city to city. The Baaer Royals and newly titled Halfvars Nobles set out to fix this problem. First, they tried longer carts on the roads. This worked for a few years (1612 - 1623), but they were soon overcrowded.

To fix this, the current Halfvars, Morgan Halfvars X, son of Vivian Halfvars I, begun to experiment with the tram tracks. After some work, he found that the guage the Syndslätt Brothers used could be widened. The guage was around 1,2 meters for both trams in Gästrikvik and Hofors, while Morgan thought a better guage for the trains between cities was 1,5. Simple.

The first train left the newly built Gästrikvik Centralstation, with stops at Gästrikvik Södra and Hofors Östra. The end station was Hofors Centralstation, and the trains were so popular that they had to build a second track in just two months!

After about four years, in 1627, the tracks were made quadrouple tracks, because more and more people wanted to use the train. The Halfvars Nobles saw the success in transport, so they finally opened Halfvars Transit.

After the railway, the middle class, the ones who could afford horses, wanted a wider road from Gästrikvik to Hofors, since the current one was just a 2-lane 2-way highway. Morgan's son, Billy, went on to design the system called Separated Two-One. This was the first modern highway variant we know of.

The layout was that you had two double-laned one-way roads with wide lanes (around 4-meter wide) that had a ten meter distance between them. The middle was planted with trees, and they put signs along the road, telling the people how long it is left.

The New Invention
After the success of the first railway and highway, multiple were built accross the country. But the game changed when, in 1798, Lotta Halfvars II invented the steam engine. Her design revolutionized the railroading industry, and caused transport to go faster than ever. The first steam locomotive was rolled out of Hofors Central Depot in 1799, and was built using wood.

The enigine was named Mollen, and went around 40 km/h. Its first journey went from Hofors Centralstation to Gästrikvik Centralstation. This made a wave of new locomotives getting built.

After this discovery, the Halfvars Nobles begun to make newer engines. This also made them try to better the railways, as they were too windy for higher speeds. And it worked perfectly.

Year 1812, Bella Halfvars V built the Halfvars Steam Motor MK. 6, an extremly powerful, but big, steam engine. Realizing that wood couldn't carry the massive engine, they switched to iron, which made the Halfvars Steam Locomotive MK. 7 the first iron locomotive. At speeds of an astonishing 150 km/h, it could drag rolling stock with weight of up to 1000 metric tons.

The Close Call of The Suburbanite Trap
In the 1960s, the car dependent mindset begun. For a while, there were plans of tearing up the 350 year old tram track in Gästrikvik, just to make more space for cars. Luckily, the plan never went through.

"Who Doesn't Have a Railway Station in Their Town?"
Today, every town in Pomerena has a railway station, although it might vary what type of rail. It might sound weird, but the railway system feels done. Everything has a railway connection for both passenger and cargo. But, now, with Groanislan as a part of Pomerena, the railway system can expand further.

Part Two; Infrastructure
The infrastructure of Halfvars Transit is intricate, and very good. There are many railways, highways, country roads, and much more.
Highways
P1 - Major Highway

Railways
Baltikumsbanan

Bergsbanan

Bergslagsbanan

Bergslagspendeln

Bergslagstvären

Botniabanan

Brittlandsbanan

Bäckne Kustbana

Part Three; Vehicles
Part Four; Contracts
Daughter Companies
Part Five; Transit Lines