Right, so I've been working on the support infrastructure- mostly food production. There's a bewildering variety of things what need making, even there, and I'm not nearly done. PLEASE add details/companies/questions on what I've got, which will be edited as I come up with more.
Food Production:
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Food Production:
Quote:The Daikoku Group:Location: Multiple colony cylinders, primarily in the corporate SidesProducts: Asian staple foods: primarily rice, soy, seaweeds, fish, and the likeFounded: 2104Likes: Space colonization (a captive market), All megacorps (the keiretsu are some of their best customers).Ambivalent Towards: Earth (they grow their own food), Zeon/Spacenoid Independence (doesn't matter who rules- people need food)Dislikes: SynthPaste (for intruding on their market share), Soylens Fuscus (none of the agricorps like reprocessed organics)Liked By: Culturally Asian spacenoids (for providing good, cheap food), most keiretsu (same), Kubota-Deere (for buying so much harvesting equipment)Disliked By:
Likelihood of Screwing Shadowrunners: Schizophrenic. One must remember that Daikoku is still very strongly tied to the businesses that founded it, even though they no longer own shares in it. If you attempt to harm those businesses, Daikoku will be your worst enemy. Otherwise (if you're no threat to the company or its interests), they have no reason to mess with you.
History: The Japanese keiretsu always had a strong relationship with the national government. When nations around the world began to covet the wealth of the corporations they'd ceded power to in the 2060s, Japan was not one of them. The keiretsu and the government simply came to a deal, and business went on as usual.
At the start of the Universal Century, the keiretsu looked to space, and saw opportunity. Japan had always depended on other lands for its natural resources- now they could mine their own metals. The Japanese people looked up to space, and saw a chance to expand- to move out of the capsule apartments of the great Earth cities, and have rooms of their own in the colonies. Instead of rushing straight into colony production, though, Japan went about their push to space slowly and deliberately. Studies were done, and requirements collected. One of those requirements, one that all the right people agreed upon, was the need for an independent food source.
The Daikoku Group was founded as a collaborative venture between the Japanese government and the major keiretsu in 2104- UC 0004. They were given control of the first Japanese space cylinder, Takusan, upon its completion in 0012. Two years of experimentation and one year of preparation later, Takusan was converted over to full-scale production, and construction was started on the first two corporate colonies.
Over the next fifty years, the Daikoku Group focused on expanding to match demand for its products, and buying out its investors' stakes in the company. The last shares were transferred into company hands on June 5th, 0064- the company's sixtieth anniversary- in a ceremony attended by hundreds of dignitaries from across the Earth Sphere.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.