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 | |||||
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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.
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
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%.
- Schunamann family- 52%
- Imperial Family- 6%
- Hortalez et Cie- 6%
- Other Corporations- 24%
- Private Investors- 7%
- Other Investors- 6%
Subsidiaries
Best Known Products & Services
This business is best known for:
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
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.
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
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