Cryer Corporation

[Reverend Del]

Getting Things Done

This one’s mainly for the Xeno guys and gals, a little guide to the subsidiary corps that Cryer owns, and there’s quite a few, even for a tier 2 corp. They certainly run higher than Universal. I’ll start out with the obvious ones, then onto some of the much less public companies.



Well this is the one all you space aces will know, this is Cryers spacebourne division. At the moment its Cryers biggest money spinner, bringing in trillions of credits a year. Pushing out various types of pharmaceuticals from simple nutrients to the highly illegal and never admitted, Kamikaze. Of course Cryer Pharm is best know for its current attempts at producing a synthetic version of the Outcasts favourite sniffle, but as yet they’ve been unsuccessful. Recently Cryer has lost out on some very lucrative contracts; most notably the contract for producing combat drugs for Rheinland land based army, losing out to Daumanns up and coming pharmacom. Although this could have as much to do with the rising tensions between Rheinland and Liberty as to do with Daumann actually being better at producing combat drugs. Whatever the reasons Cryer Pharmaceuticals needs to get itself back in gear before the Media division takes its place.

Known Subsidiaries: None

Cryer Pharmaceuticals doesn’t actually have any subsidiaries; everything it does is produced under its name.

>>Well, I'm a right reputable shipper for the eggheads at Cryer, and they've been comin' up with some awesome 'alternative medication', which they were based off of when Max Cryer, a Rheinland-flavoured gringo, founded the business, if you catch my drift, right?

Asides from that, amigo, they're quite the reputable research institute too, trying to cure the poor buggers that have hard drug habits, particularly those hooked on 'C', si?

Anyways, synthetic alternative meds as well as safe recreational depressants and stimulants whilst hammerin' down on the causes of crime... asides from hunger... but I'm a-plannin' on sortin' that out with profits from good ole munchy-inducin' Synth Mary J-...
>>’Doctor’ Afonso Enrique




Cryer Media is the next largest division of Cryer Corp and operates multiple subsidiary companies throughout Sirius, whilst it’s not as big a player in the media business as Ageira or Samura, it’s still well known enough. Cryer Media also runs a number of propaganda features especially since losing out to Daumann in Rheinland.

Known Subsidiaries:

Konetsu Media Productions

Cryer recently procured this Kusari outfit and has since been using it to produce well made programs that attempt to highlight some of the social irregularities in Kusari. Making programmes with strong female leads bucking the system. It’s not a popular brand amongst the conservatives but the youth population of Kusari is lapping it up. However this has made it a target of Hogosha shadow operations, so it always pays to see what the local yaks are offering as a prize for this week’s efforts against this upstart.

Aricent Productions

Cryers Bretonian media wing, Aricent holds a special place in Bretonias heart if only because of its most popular show. Whilst trid critics rubbish Aricent’s shows, the public love them, which just goes to show how much the critics know. Although having watched some of the shows, I reckon Bretonias policy on marijuana use may be having more of an impact than claimed.

>>Unknown Subsidiaries

Whilst this might seem like an oxymoron, Cryer Media does have one unknown subsidiary in Rheinland, it’s a pirate affair operating, some believe, off the Augsburg Orbital Colony, it produces inflammatory cartoons and satirical programmes designed to target the Gottkanzler and his various minions, displaying them as corrupt and inept.
So far attempts at shutting them down have proven to be less than effective as they just seem to rise elsewhere when found.
>>Theremin

Cryer Public Relations

This is the actual corporate arm of Cryer’s marketing division; it’s a stand alone affair much like Cryer Pharm. Cryer P.R. handles the rest of Cryers marketing, putting the spin on anything the mega puts out. It has to work very hard to keep Cryers image from falling in light of recent bad news.

Known Subsidiaries: None

Cryer Research and Development

Cryer R&D is Cryers fastest growing division; its recent years have been studded with exceptional breakthroughs in Neural Net technologies and some truly epic cyber and bio mods. Headquartered in the research facility on Denver, Cryer R&D is probably the one division keeping Cryers flagging rep up.

Known Subsidiaries:

InfiniTech

InfiniTech is Cryers cyber and bio studios catering to all manner of the style conscious and those just in need of repair. They produce good quality cutting edge stuff, but it’s not a patch on what the big players put out, Ageira and Kishiro really take them to town. But the stuff that InfiniTech does put out is good quality and cheap to boot. Of course there are rumours that InfiniTech ahs some secret contracts with the Liberty government but nothing substantiated.

>>I can substantiate this claim; I know that InfiniTech has small holdings on both Willard and the Fairbanks Prison Station. Where’s Fairbanks, you ask? I like my brain so figure it out for yourselves…
>>Hastur


>>A wise choice.
>> Lu-Si Fire

ChopperDoc

ChopperDoc is Cryer Research’s pride and joy, and as such a big target for any other medicorp worth a damn. It’s the frequent target of extractions and extortion, ranging from the recent theft of serious medical data to losing its chief neurosurgeon three weeks before. ChopperDoc is however partially overseen by Gardner’s Pharm division and rumours abound as to Hong’s involvement in the recent issues.

>>This is a watch folks; normally ChopperDoc ferries the folks who can afford it, but not the folks that can’t, so that makes them a valid a target. Right? Wrong, unfortunately some bright spark has been handing ChopperDoc bracelets out to the very folks we’re trying to protect, so they are well out, you just don’t know who they are going to be carrying. Got no objections with folks helping out the needy, but it does muddy the waters some.
>>Fastjack

Cryer Military Technologies

Whilst this division is not the smallest, it’s certainly the least prestigious at the moment, being outperformed by nearly every single tier 2 and 3 mega going. About the only thing it produces of any particular note are simple assault skiffs, although its unkindly joked that the LSF only uses them out of a sense of obligation. However the Military arm of Cryer isn’t as silent as it might seem, rumours circulate that most of Cryers mil tech is sold on the black market, making reliable figures for comparison hard to get hold of.


Known Subsidiaries:

Fireline Electronics

Fireline was started up as an attempt to grab the contract for the Guardian electronics suite; however Cryer lost that contract to Ageira and eventually sold their guidance and fire controls system to Star Industries, the folks who make the Star line of ships. It still makes the systems but frankly they suck. The only reason that Fireline still makes a profit is because of the used starflier market, most of which need a new system before they are even space worthy.

>>Yeah, be sure to check that those systems function if you do buy a used starflea. It’s awfully annoying when you get into space and find you’re going to have to buy an electronics system that costs as much as the ship you just bought, because the current one is buggered.
>> Star Flyer

>>Okay I’m going to try and give something of an accurate report on Cryer Mil’s black operations, but it’s very hard to get reliable data as they do keep it well hidden.

The first thing to mention is Cryer Mil’s habit of selling stuff to anyone that asks for it. I know this for a fact as our very own insurgency team is extensively modded and equipped by Cryer, we paid an awful lot and they didn’t seem to expect anything in return so they are still fair game. They are also known to sell kit to the Corsairs, but they do expect a return on this investment, I have no idea what the Corsairs have offered in exchange but it seems likely that the cost wasn’t cheap.

Cryer Mil is also reputed to be playing both sides against the middle when it comes to the war in the Tau’s hedging their bets you might say, there’s no concrete proof of this or you can bet your sweet ass that the Queen would’ve hoofed Cryer well out by now. It still hearsay and conjecture. But if anybody wants to cause Cryer a blow it might not recover from, you could do worse than digging at this rumour.
>>Fastjack


Cryer Heavy Industries

Cryer’s smallest division is currently its most ferocious, although its operations are pretty much limited to Pittsburgh and Houston. They are savage enemies of DSE and work very hard to try and snag as many contracts from the engineering mega as possible. It’s not always successful, as DSE has some of the most experienced hands at this game, but CHI has worked some magic these last few years and won a few of the coveted pots of cash.

>>Oh yes freelancing opportunities are high on Pittsburgh, there may not be much mining going on there anymore but the local corp. scene is seriously heated. CHI puts out some heavy cred trying to make DSE look bad. Although the DSE boys a re weathering the storm quite well.
>>Pittsburgh Pony

Known Subsidiaries:

Houston Heavy Technology

If you’ve ever spent time in any of Houston’s fine penal establishments, or on either of the prison stations in orbit, there’s no doubt you’ll recognise these guys. They have the contract for building new skylines for the LPI’s burgeoning slave force, adding new wings and all manner of exciting ways to spend the next twenty years building waterproof radios. Unsurprisingly HHT is a huge target for the Xenos, who see it as a monument to the ideals they are trying to sunder.

>>Lady knows her stuff, HHT is the enemy folks, and it represents the slave based economy in Liberty. No remorse for any employee of HHT, burn them all down.
>>Coachwhip

>>Frakking loony
>>Honour

>>Will you get the hell off my system; don’t want your kind in here.
>>Fastjack

>>User Honour has been ejected<<

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