Business at Amorgos

[Guillermo Block]

Years of punishing interplanetary labour, wiggling oneself through company politics and late nights shifts making deadline after deadline in adverse planetary climates: such was the life of Guillermo. His expertise of xenoflora at Synth Foods, micro-organisms in particular, being highly in demand sentenced him to a turbulent life always at some different end in Sirius.

The next hole that presented its self had the name “Amorgos” written over it. A moon of planet Mykonos in the Omicron Xi system where recent Corsair survey revealed a wealth of ancient alien ruins of unmeasurable price beneath the surface. This went as far as drawing the attention of a highly unusual partner: Cryer. Through lending out their highly sophisticated survey equipment and expertise subsequent and even more astounding artifacts were discovered below the surface of the moon.

The unusual business alliance was forged as for the Corsairs their supply lines were already thinly stretched. With the continuously ongoing wars with the Core, the Outcasts, and trouble brewing everywhere in the Omicrons it was calculated that the colonies at Amorgos would only last mere weeks in the case of a siege. Amorgos had the potential to be a fully autonomous colony and in doing so also highly lucrative for the Corsair home world. Paradoxically, experiencing the hardships in cultivating planet Crete first hand, the Corsairs realized they simply lacked the resources to tend to a second planet under these adverse conditions.

Cryer saw itself in the situation where the markets of the House Systems have been stagnant for decades. Though pumping its vast financial reserves in the development of new products, a rumored anti-aging drug based on Cardamine being the most prominent, any of these has of yet failed to yield substantial results. Although controversial even among the higher echelons of Cryer, a bold move was necessary: to get a foothold in the largely untapped Edge Worlds. Discoveries of new worlds promised new genetic material from alien flora and fauna. It was anticipated to revitalize the development efforts of new drugs, as well as offer a huge market full of sick people waiting to be cured. Secretly funding the colonization of Amorgos, it will be the first of many.

And so Guillermo packed his bags for his biggest task of yet. A barren planetoid with a huge workforce requiring everything from medicine, food and fresh water. And one man to figure it out with his mix of indigenous and foreign microbes.