SuSAG

Schunamann und Sohn AG (SuSAG) concentrates on chemical, pharmaceutical, biological, and geneering industries. The company has expanded beyond healthcare to industrial processes and even military contracts, often to the detriment of its public image.

• SuSAG is an Imperial megacorporation.
• It primarily operates within Charted Space.

Market Ticker Code

This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market code/s:

Market Ticker Code
Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
SuSAG	TBD	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	LIC	None

Description (Portfolio)

SuSAG is one of the thirteen Imperial MegaCorporations in operation in 1116.

One of the other symbols used by the megacorporation, particularly within the Imperial core.

Commercial Competencies

• Biotechnology
  • Geneering
• Chemicals
• Pharmaceuticals
  • Anagathics
  • Psi Drugs

Schunamann und Sohn AG, LIC: SuSAG engages in a wide range of chemical, pharmaceutical, and geneering activities. SuSAG is the primary manufacturer of anagathics for the Imperium, and maintains psi drug manufacturing plants in certain client states outside Imperial borders.

Governance & Organization

President, Board of Directors

Departments

Corporate Security

Advertising

Public Relations

Divisions

Each Division is headed by a Vice-President and activities are controlled by Regional General Managers in each Division.

• Pharmaceuticals
• Medical and Surgical Products
• Industrial Chemicals
• Geneering
• Chemical and Biological Warfare
• Research
• Extra-Imperial

Stockholders

Stock ownership: 1105

• Schunamann family — 52%
• Imperial family— 2½%
• Hortalez et Cie — 9%
• Other corporations — 23½%
• Private ownership — 7%
• Other— 6%.

Stock ownership: 1126

• Schunamann family- 52%
• Imperial Family- 6%
• Hortalez et Cie- 6%
• Other Corporations- 24%
• Private Investors- 7%
• Other Investors- 6%

Subsidiaries

• Dashi Combine: SuSAG is one of the participating corporations.
• Pharmacon: A pharmaceuticals research and manufacturing corporation based at Enaaka.
• Quicksilver Group Technologies
• Raphael Technology
• Seaharvester

Best Known Products & Services

This business is best known for:

1. TBD

History & Background (Dossier)

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 the disaster at Irshe in 443.

• 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).
• With the Psionics Suppressions in 800, psi drugs were declared illegal, all plants engaged in their manufacture within the Imperium closed, and all stocks confiscated and destroyed.
• Fortunately for SuSAG, the firm had by then expanded into other operations, and although badly damaged, managed to survive and prosper.
• SuSAG often engages in clandestine military ventures (using mercenary units) to protect their extra-Imperial interests.

Trade Partners

• Ginshar: Anagathics trade in particular.
• Ral Ranta: Illegal pleasure drugs.

Trade Competitors

No information yet available.

History-Era: New Era

The New Era (Click Expand to reveal)

The surviving Post-Collapse part of SuSAG has an equally spectacled past, with run-ins with Regency and Spinward Hinter governments over smuggling, production of contraband and illegal materials, and often boorish behavior by its management and private security services. In recent decades the company has been hurt by increasing competition; a failure to adjust to new technology and fund basic R&D has caused its profits and market share to slip, and its dominance has been eclipsed by rivals like General Mechanics and Sternmetal Horizons. The company maintains its headquarters at Glisten, and regional headquarters at Pretoria, Pikha and Neumann.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

Alpha Crucis Sector

SuSAG owns the world of Phaedrus, and operates an underwater science station on the planet, identified as Research Facility 33.

Deneb Sector

SuSAG has moved its largest facility in the Deneb Sector to the metroplex of Markel on Vincennes, where it employs almost half of the population.

Reaver's Deep Sector

SuSAG maintains a regional headquarters on St. George. Although it has relatively few operations in the region, the megacorporation is carefully assessing independent worlds for natural products and potential markets. On Daken, an independent world, SuSAG is investigating goldsand, a desert lifeform similar to Terran corals with potential pharmaceutical uses.

Spinward Marches Sector

SuSAG has an agreement with the government of Tarsus, established in 860, to maintain a base on the north polar cap of Rond, the planet's moon. SuSAG pays an annual lease fee of MCr2.5 for its landhold. The SuSAG base is private, and fully marked with warnings and sensors against intrusion. No provision is made for landings at the base by non-SuSAG vessels.

World Listing: 1105

29 of 29 World articles in SuSAG

Abir  •  Adakhem  •  Cambria  •  Chansingol  •  Collace  •  Daken  •  Darkmoon  •  Dashi  •  Drayrk  •  Drolraw  •  Dug  •  Dunant  •  Inidu  •  Irshe  •  Jode  •  Jonkeer  •  Kerek  •  Kurkhi  •  Malory  •  Mashaddun  •  Nakege  •  Neumann  •  Northammon  •  Phaedrus  •  Pylkah  •  Tarsus (SM 1138)  •  Toraago  •  Vantage  •  Zamine  •  

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

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