SuSAG, LIC (Schunamann und Sohn AG, LIC)
SuSAG
engages in a wide range of chemical, pharmaceutical, and gene
engineering
activities. SuSAG is the primary manufacturer of anagathics for
the Imperium,
and maintains psionic drug
manufacturing plants in client
states outside Imperial borders.
Because of the bad reputation for safety of its chemical/biological
warfare division, the firm is not
well liked in many regions, even though
all of SuSAG's dangerous manufacturing plants and experimental stations
are located on remote, uninhabited planetoids. Since sabotage of
its plants
is widespread and its products extremely valuable, the firm maintains a
large paramilitary security force, equipped to tech level 12-14
standards.
SuSAG was founded in 252 by Gustav Schunamann, financed
from royalties received for his purification process for various psi
drugs, and using the shell of a bankrupt Sylean firm (hence the
archaic
AG in its name). In 800, psi drugs were declared illegal, all
plants engaged
in their manufacture within the Imperium closed, and all stocks were
confiscated
and destroyed. Fortunately for SuSAG, the firm had by then
expanded into
other operations; although badly damaged, it managed to survive and
prosper. SuSAG often engages in clandestine military ventures
(using mercenary
units) to protect their extra-Imperial interests.
Stock Ownership: Schunamann family, 52 percent;
Imperial family, 2.5 percent; Hortalez
et Cie, 9 percent; other corporations, 23.5 percent; private
ownership,
7 percent; other, 6 percent.
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-NWO ld