...I like it. Clever, fills a niche, and I hadn't gotten to meat/dairy products yet, so that's perfect.
Daikoku doesn't really have much competition, though. They fill one fundamental niche- Asian foods- which the other 'corps don't generally touch. If anything, most of the other agricorps out there are closer to cultural counterparts than competition. Most of them.
This one isn't... and would work as a FungiMonkey parent company.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
Daikoku doesn't really have much competition, though. They fill one fundamental niche- Asian foods- which the other 'corps don't generally touch. If anything, most of the other agricorps out there are closer to cultural counterparts than competition. Most of them.
This one isn't... and would work as a FungiMonkey parent company.
Quote:Consolidated Consumables, Inc.:Location: Three installations in the asteroid belt, roughly equidistant from each otherProducts: Preprocessed food. All of it.Founded: 2123Likes: Asteroid Mining (local customers), wage slaves (their colonial customer base), armed forces (for rations), Jupiter Energy (CCI is the closest supplier they have)Ambivalent Towards: Earth (they grow their own food), Zeon/Spacenoid Independence (doesn't matter who rules- people need food)Dislikes: SynthPaste (CCI and SP directly target low-income spacenoids), Soylens Fuscus (none of the agricorps like reprocessed organics)Liked By: People who need cheap food that lasts (armies, miners, the lower class)Disliked By: SynthPaste, Soylens Fuscus (competition, see above), all other agricorps (for being 'the cheaper option' when compared to them), every gourmand in spaceLikelihood
of Screwing Shadowrunners: Entirely tied to one question- "How much does it cost?" If it's cheaper to kill you than to work with you, they'll kill you.
History: The colonial boom that took place early in the Universal Century both created and required unprecedented levels of extraterrestrial industry. Colonies needed to be built- before that, the tools and ships used to create the colonies needed to be built, and the resources needed for all that construction needed to be acquired. That meant mining, and lots of it.
CCI was founded early in the rise of asteroid mining, as a conglomeration of twenty-seven smaller companies. The founding members of CCI saw the growth of asteroid industry, and envisioned the creation of a company that could provide affordable food to that captive market... and they knew just how to do it. They secured rights to two carbonaceous asteroids of significant size, and began to dig. While useless for mining, C-type asteroids contain large amounts of carbon and phosphorous, making them natural sources of nutrients for farming applications.
In time, the demand for new colonies began to taper off, and with it, the need for cosmic quantities of metals. CCI knew there would always be some need for asteroid mining, but their board of directors had their eyes set on a greater prize- the Earth Sphere. They purchased three industrial mass drivers- industrial surplus, from mining groups that had gone bust- and repurposed them to send cargoes to the various Sides. Back in the Sphere, CCI executives were busy making deals- securing distributors in the civilian markets, contracts in the government ones, and diplomatic channels to the Jupiter Fleets. By UC 0052, CCI had climbed out of its slump, and was seeing its greatest profits for twenty years.
This was not without cost, however. By wedging itself firmly in the lower-middle-class market, CCI had made enemies of both the reprocessed food corps and the unprocessed food corps, starting a series of skirmishes, vendettas, and economic wars that would last decades.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.