Probably somewhat similar to mine when someone from Sligo called asking for a hundred grand's worth of PV gear. A bank denied the company the credit it needed to fill the order, however. That went to someone who's brother was a bank manger, IIRC.
Ford feels she's taking a lot of risk with an order that large and public, bu the manufactory is worth it. If there're any weak points in the carbines or FR-15 rifles, they're going to come out in a big and public way in which a single faulty weapons sold to a single collector - and repaired - wouldn't. Something like that would ruin her nascent reputation very quickly. That's the risk when playing with BNF's. If they're happy, they may tell everyone about it giving a quick reputation boost. If they're unhappy, they will tell everyone about it, ruining a reputation just as fast. And most Fen do their business on foot of their reputation, as much as on their money.
Most of what's happening on Frigga was expected to be small-scale 'garage' style work, with no real proper corporate structure, front or branding. Survival Shot's successful in that it pays the bills. Everything else... less so. A lot of it is just an excuse to do something they enjoy doing rather than get rich. There's no corporate entities or the like owned by anyone- most of it's just a brand put on a maker's plate. Ford set her pricing based on an order rate of maybe 2-3 weekly, at most - just to give an idea of the scale she was expecting to operate at. Asagiri - what Jet and Daryl are doing - is really just a way to try an offset the cost of aerosport as much as possible and try to get it to partly pay for itself, while scoring a few wins and trophies before the pack roars ahead. They think they might sell between 7-10 items annually - at most. Kotono wants to run her own gym - mostly just catering for people who live there.
The only truly 'successful' business owned by anyone would be Stingray Motor company, which is mostly run by its employees and exists solely to launder money for the Knight Sabers and facilitate black payments.... anything not directly needed for Saber payments is left to the company and its employees to use for benefits, or expansion as the management sees fit. Sylia's sole input into the whole arrangement is keeping them in line, and dropping unusual patents on their laps with instructions to figure out how to use it. If SMC turns a profit, nobody on Frigga will ever see that money.
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Ford feels she's taking a lot of risk with an order that large and public, bu the manufactory is worth it. If there're any weak points in the carbines or FR-15 rifles, they're going to come out in a big and public way in which a single faulty weapons sold to a single collector - and repaired - wouldn't. Something like that would ruin her nascent reputation very quickly. That's the risk when playing with BNF's. If they're happy, they may tell everyone about it giving a quick reputation boost. If they're unhappy, they will tell everyone about it, ruining a reputation just as fast. And most Fen do their business on foot of their reputation, as much as on their money.
Most of what's happening on Frigga was expected to be small-scale 'garage' style work, with no real proper corporate structure, front or branding. Survival Shot's successful in that it pays the bills. Everything else... less so. A lot of it is just an excuse to do something they enjoy doing rather than get rich. There's no corporate entities or the like owned by anyone- most of it's just a brand put on a maker's plate. Ford set her pricing based on an order rate of maybe 2-3 weekly, at most - just to give an idea of the scale she was expecting to operate at. Asagiri - what Jet and Daryl are doing - is really just a way to try an offset the cost of aerosport as much as possible and try to get it to partly pay for itself, while scoring a few wins and trophies before the pack roars ahead. They think they might sell between 7-10 items annually - at most. Kotono wants to run her own gym - mostly just catering for people who live there.
The only truly 'successful' business owned by anyone would be Stingray Motor company, which is mostly run by its employees and exists solely to launder money for the Knight Sabers and facilitate black payments.... anything not directly needed for Saber payments is left to the company and its employees to use for benefits, or expansion as the management sees fit. Sylia's sole input into the whole arrangement is keeping them in line, and dropping unusual patents on their laps with instructions to figure out how to use it. If SMC turns a profit, nobody on Frigga will ever see that money.
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