Brindle Star, Ltd. was a Solarian business conglomerate based in the Hirochi System. They and Newman & Sons divided most of the Madras Sector between themselves as de-facto private possessions. Brindle Star controlled the sector's interstellar shipping and financial transactions, while Newman & Sons controlled resource extraction and consumer manufacturing and distribution. Brindle Star's senior representative in the Sector as of 1922 PD was System Manager Saverio Palgani, operating from the Meyers System. (HH14)