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San Jorge Industries Description
| San Jorge
Industries |
| Industry | HIgh tech starhip
systems,
weapons, equipment.
Some starships and outcraft. |
| Founded | Antiquity |
| Headquarters | Anabasis, Prodigal Void |
| Area Served | Prodigal Void,
Kharkosanth Frontier, the Farrago |
| Structure | Centralized
Consortium |
| Function | Efficient |
| Products | Weapons
Starship systems
Equipment
Specialized starships & outcraft |
| Size | Moderate |
| Quality | Exceptional |
| Divisions | Distribution
Administrative
Harvest
Realization
Paragon
Laureate
Anziori |
San Jorge Industries is a design and manufacture corporation
that specializes in high-science equipment. They develop and manufacture
scientific instrumentation, cutting-edge weapons and systems for starships,
and various high-tech equipment. They produce only a few actual models of
starships, outcraft, and vehicles. These tend to be highly specialized
military or science platforms that show off the latest in their equipment,
such as the Abdicat class Deep Research Vessel and Laerinet class Situational
Command Cruiser.
San Jorge Industries was originally the brain
child of business visionary San Jorge. He saw dozens of small, specialized
businesses with exceptional potential but no market share, distribution
network, or capital to compete with mega-corporations capable of flooding the
market with cheap, run-of-the-mill products. He began forging strategic
business alliances between exceptional small interests, slowly leveraging each
with the strengths of the others. With the profits he
made along the way, he quietly acquired key businesses within the growing
consortium.
San Jorge would make his head office in the bleak
Anabasis system, which was little more than an enormous asteroid belt orbiting
twin suns. He would coordinate a half dozen businesses in a project involving the
excavation of several enormous asteroids, the selling of the resultant
minerals, and the construction of massive office, refining, and manufacturing
facilities within their hollow shells. Members of the consortium were offered access to
the new facilities and the services of the other members in exchange for their own
services in return. The result was an incredible financial synergy that
churned out exceptional, innovative product and spread it quickly to retailers
throughout the Core Commonwealth and Bjaki Federation.
The businesses would, for many years, run
semi-autonomously under the guidance of San Jorge Industries. Eventually, the
duplicated overhead and administration would become too clumsy and expensive
to maintain and San Jorge would consolidate as a single, sleek business
entity.
The Anabasis system itself is located within close
proximity to the Bjaki Federation, Core Commonwealth, Makkuth Dynasty, and
Kharkosanth Empire. This makes it practical to maintain much of the production
facilities within the single system, shipping to nearby markets. In the past
this proximity has lead to unfortunate conflict with the Kharkos and an
outright invasion by the Makkuth. San Jorge resolved their differences with
the Kharkosanth Empire diplomatically and drove out the Makkuth rapidly with
the help of both the Core Commonwealth and Bjaki Federation. They trade
extensively with the Commonwealth and Bjaki and to a smaller degree with the
Kharkosanth Empire.
San Jorge industry is currently the only private-sector organization capable of
successfully installing and calibrating a transportation wormhole. They don't do
it lightly, as the difficulty and costs involved are prohibitive.
Functional
San Jorge is composed of functional departments that
compliment and actively assist each other but are essentially able to stand on
their own as business entities. Each department contains the essential design,
testing, and market research capabilities to bring product to market on their
own. Communications officers within each department, in coordination with
supervisors from the Administrative department, ensure that technological
innovation and
systems are shared throughout the company. The Distribution department finds
suitable resellers to move San Jorge's product and develops local outlets
where necessary.
Specialized
Departments
Harvest is the division that runs the mining and refining
portion of San Jorge, predominantly within Anabasis for San
Jorge use. They develop and market a line of refining, mining,
and construction equipment and are also in charge of the
construction and expansion of the physical San Jorge
facilities.
The Realization department is
in charge of integrating proprietary and third party systems
into Starships and outcraft marketed under the "San Jorge"
brand. They produce a relatively limited line of ships,
focusing on effectively integrating Laureate and
Paragon systems into a
few exceptionally functional examples of starship design.
The department in charge of the
development of weapons and defensive systems for San Jorge is
called Paragon. They develop and market starship grade,
vehicular, and hand held weapons systems.
The Scientific department
develops and markets a variety of cutting edge sensors,
scanners, control and analysis systems and equipment the brand
name Laureate.
Anziori develops planetary
vehicles and systems. They integrate proprietary and third
party systems to produce in-atmosphere land and air vehicles.
The Distribution department is
in charge of bringing San Jorge product to market and selling
it. They most often sell in quantity to local distributors but will work
with the Harvest department to build local sales facilities
where necessary.
Administration is in charge of
coordinating development and communication between
departments, overseeing cash flow and resource allocation, and
providing appropriate security for all the San Jorge business
interests.
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