Corporations
Commercial entities (i.e., companies) produce and assemble much of Starfleet's assets. However, each one is limited by its infrastructure in the quantity of what it produces. When a company enters the canon game, its size is identified either by the available data or through random rolls.
| Roll 1d20 | Result |
|---|---|
| 1-6 | Small Business |
| 7-14 | Medium Company |
| 15-19 | Large Corporation |
| 20 | Roll again; if 20 again; Immense Megacorp |
The size of the company determines how much production (not assembly) it can provide within a month:
- Small Business: 1,000 to 10,000 mt/month
- Medium Company: 10,000 to 100,000 mt/month
- Large Corporation: 100,000 to 750,000 mt/month
- Immense Megacorporation : 750,000 mt/month and up
Once a year, each company rolls on 1d100 to see if it expands or even possibly reduces in size.
| Roll 1d100 | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ceases operations permanently |
| 2-6 | Reduces in size by 10% |
| 7-86 | No change |
| 87-94 | Increases in size by 5% |
| 95-98 | Increases in size by 10% |
| 99-100 | Increases in size by 20% |
Several caveats about these rolls:
- Rolls of natural 1-6 or 100 are automatic.
- If a company increased in size the year prior, 10 is added to the next year's roll.
- If a company decreased in size the year prior, 10 is subtracted from the next year's roll.
- If a megacorp increases, the additional infrastructure is built on a new planet (to its presence). If it decreases, then one facility on a planet is shuttered (in totality), meaning it may reduce by more than the minimal 10%.
- Companies that devote significant production capability to civilian sales (i.e., non-Starfleet) receive additional roll additions (see below).
As companies that sell products to customers other than (only) Starfleet are healthier, for not being dependent upon one client, they enjoy positive benefits to the growth role. However, this requires that they devote a certain portion of their production capability to their civilian products for the entire year, thereby being unavailable for Starfleet's production requirements (except in times of War or Gearing Up). The following table provides the roll bonuses for expansion:
| Civilian Percentage |
Roll Addition |
|---|---|
| 01-09% | +2 |
| 10-15% | +3 |
| 16-25% | +4 |
| 26-40% | +5 |
| 41-60% | +6 |
| 61-75% | +5 |
| 76-85% | +4 |
| 86-90% | +3 |
| 91-100% | +2 |