The Independent Miners Guild has announced a partnership with Sirius Robotics, that, combined with recent developments in the industry, such as Deep Space Engineering's recent withdrawal from the robotics manufacturing industry, and Sirius Robotics announcement of their new I-2 Combat mech, have shaken the robotics industry.
Not only has Sirius Robotics agreed to build a new manufacturing plant on Aland shipyard, located in the Omega-Three system, but they are selling the Independent Miners Guild fourty-eight percent of their stock, an investment that will benefit both parties, at the cost of their competitors in the robotics industy.
"This investment, and strategic partnership is extremely beneficial to the IMG, and Sirius Robotics. our existing manufacturing plants, and their outstanding innovations and inventions in the robotics field will be a formidable combination. And under the terms of our investment, the IMG will be allowed to use many of Sirius Robotics innovations in modifications to existing, and future ships, some of which will end up filtering down into our civilian line of ships, such as the spatial explorer. "
Said Ron Matterson, the newly appointed directer of research for the Independent Miners Guild when asked about the partnership.
Walter Daumann, the CEO of Daumann Heavy Construction, was worried, but unconcerned, hoping that this partnership was a sign of desperation by the Independent Miners Guild.
"This partnership has reached our desks and put several high executives to think of what repercussions this will have in the long term. I see partnership as the evidence of a weakness to a corporation, or one of them; the IMG is a powerful group though, and that has been the source of many of the high executives headaches lately.
We find this new partnership interesting, and have yet to see what use will the IMG make of those units."
Several industry experts who declined to be named, said that this, and a few forthcoming moves by Sirius Robotics, could begin to cut into Samura, and Kishiros profits in the robotics industry, something that they feel could possibly open up the isolated Kusarian markets, a new era of interdependence between the colonies. several of Samura's regional executives in liberty dismissed this as unlikely, and that Samura intended to retain it's market share in the Kusarian robotics industry, and that they would be retaining all of their contracts with the imperial throne.
