They'd probably be a subsidiary of one of the food megacorps, whether Daikoku or a competitor, but -
Name: FungiMonkey
Location: Luna
Signature Products: Moon Cheez Munky Munchies, Piya Popo (The Snack That Flies Through Space,) Luna beef
Other Products: mushrooms, milk, cheese, yoghurt, ice cream, genemod seed stock
Logo: Monkey riding a cow jumping over a crescent moon, waving a cowboy hat
Yerwot?: One of the things that's expensive and difficult to transport up to space is animal-based food products. The animals themselves typically take up large amounts of space and require lots of resources, so even with cyberwombs for cloning them rather than loading cattle onto a rocket, having them aboard a colony cylinder is troublesome. The moon at least has plenty of space once appropriate workbots are set to mixing up mooncrete and forming it into habitats, and they can easily be kept separate from the other environmental systems to avoid having a whole colony smelling of methane and ammonia. Some modification was necessary to adapt a breed of dwarf milk cattle to the lower gravity, and to produce high-yield, energy dense feed for them as well. FungiMonkey's genuine meat and dairy products remain high-priced luxury items similar to Kobe beef, but their mushrooms and the soy and rice grown from their seed stock are staples of the spacenoid diet and their artificially flavored snacks (formulated not to leave crumbs and cheez dust to gum up equipment while tasting like the familiar snacks of Earth) can be found in every vendobot and res-deck corner shop.
How Likely to Screw Shadowrunners: Forget their cute image, the geeks who originally pitched the idea may have been good sorts but that stuff's just for the rubes these days. If you go to a meeting with an FM rep, leave your wallet at home, count your fingers, toes, eyeballs and kidneys before and after, and have a toxmask and chemsniffer on your belt. God help you if you actually hire on for a job. They have in-house security (and a parent corp's Black Ops group, most likely) and outsiders are only hired to be disposable.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Name: FungiMonkey
Location: Luna
Signature Products: Moon Cheez Munky Munchies, Piya Popo (The Snack That Flies Through Space,) Luna beef
Other Products: mushrooms, milk, cheese, yoghurt, ice cream, genemod seed stock
Logo: Monkey riding a cow jumping over a crescent moon, waving a cowboy hat
Yerwot?: One of the things that's expensive and difficult to transport up to space is animal-based food products. The animals themselves typically take up large amounts of space and require lots of resources, so even with cyberwombs for cloning them rather than loading cattle onto a rocket, having them aboard a colony cylinder is troublesome. The moon at least has plenty of space once appropriate workbots are set to mixing up mooncrete and forming it into habitats, and they can easily be kept separate from the other environmental systems to avoid having a whole colony smelling of methane and ammonia. Some modification was necessary to adapt a breed of dwarf milk cattle to the lower gravity, and to produce high-yield, energy dense feed for them as well. FungiMonkey's genuine meat and dairy products remain high-priced luxury items similar to Kobe beef, but their mushrooms and the soy and rice grown from their seed stock are staples of the spacenoid diet and their artificially flavored snacks (formulated not to leave crumbs and cheez dust to gum up equipment while tasting like the familiar snacks of Earth) can be found in every vendobot and res-deck corner shop.
How Likely to Screw Shadowrunners: Forget their cute image, the geeks who originally pitched the idea may have been good sorts but that stuff's just for the rubes these days. If you go to a meeting with an FM rep, leave your wallet at home, count your fingers, toes, eyeballs and kidneys before and after, and have a toxmask and chemsniffer on your belt. God help you if you actually hire on for a job. They have in-house security (and a parent corp's Black Ops group, most likely) and outsiders are only hired to be disposable.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows