Blue Sun Corporation
Without doubt, the ubiquitous Blue Sun is the
richest and most politically connected corporation
in the system. Blue Sun is on every planet, in every
home—rich and not so rich alike. For all its fame,
it is one of the most shadowy institutions in the
‘Verse.
The Blue Sun logo is everywhere: on T-shirts,
billboards, posters, food cans, etc. The logo has
become so much a part of daily life that people
don’t even notice it anymore. Blue Sun products are
considered essential to a person—like water and
breathing. Just look for the Blue Sun label. It’s never
difficult to find. The company doesn’t operate retail
outlets, but every shop stocks its products. While
not the best on the market, Blue Sun products are
the most reliable. If you buy Blue Sun, you always
know what you’re going to get. There are never any
surprises—good, bad, or otherwise.
Blue Sun produces a lot of different things, but
the company concentrates mainly on the basics
of life. Folk will always need food and drink, and
Blue Sun is there to sell it. They hold the monopoly
on packaged foodstuffs, and their products
have become essential to people on the newly
terraformed worlds. Many new settlers wouldn’t
have made it through their first year without Blue
Sun packaged food.
Like all corporations, Blue Sun didn’t get into
business out of love for their fellow man. They
started the company to make a profit. No one
begrudged them that. Profit pays the bills and folk’s
salaries. But then, as the company grew bigger and
bigger, and became more and more powerful, greed
and corruption took over. Profit was the only thing
those running Blue Sun could think about. They set
out to make more and more money by extending
their power as far as they could mange.
It’s an open secret that Blue Sun engages in
deadly corporate espionage and then calls in favors
from powerful government officials to cover their
tracks. Its subsidiaries and shell corporations have
branched out far from food and service industries,
technology, and even spaceship design, along with
the biotech industry—even going so far (some
whisper) as to conduct experiments involving living
humans. Only top executives have a good grasp
on what the “big picture” is when it comes to this
mega-corporation. Its research and development
division is a mysterious place guarded by security
equal to top secret Alliance military projects.
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