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OUT, short for Outer Space Industries and Exploration, was the first privately owned Weird-Field Shipyard. In the mid 2090s the number of WF Ship instruction sets received increased substantially. The UN shipyards couldn't build the ships, and UN sanctioned exploration was still slow to get going, so private industry stepped in.

OUT was founded by Lucas Rasmussen, a Danish technology and engineering billionaire, who had made his money from industrialising the only viable form of carbon capture and storage. When global leadership eventually led to a rapid take-up of green initiatives, Rasmussen cornered the market in CC&S. 

When the UN offered licences to individuals and corporations to build WF ships, Rasmussen was in perfect position to take them up on it. Building his shipyard on the Danish island of Bredholm (which  he had bought many years before as a research and development retreat, Rasmussen founded the corporation which quickly became known as OUT.

OUT's first ship was christened the Niels Bohr, after the famous Danish nobel laureate. OUT was the first shipyard, UN or otherwise, that really set out to understand the fundamentals of WF technology, and it was this, long after the launch of the Niels Bohr, that really made Out and Rasmussen major players in the exploration and commercialisation of the solar system.