Mmm, the subsidiary would be a bit shaky ground, if you'd be making money off it. Your legal department could probably make it work, though.
Good to know.
If we don't want to rufle any feathers, could we buy the rights to produce them just for PI and our PMC?
That might not work since I'm thinking about having PI produce PI-SSC-01C which is basically the Gladius with her engines ripped out and replaced with Repulsors, more Arc Reactors added in to power the new engines, the spinal mount replaced with a Blackstorm Cannon, and finally a QEC telepresence system replacing the pilot.
The significantly increased acceleration, 8 gees prior to mass reduction, would make closing for to range for the Blackstorm easy and the QEC would mean we could throw thousands of these at a target and not lose a single pilot. Ideally the whole swarm would be controlled by a VI or AI safely hidden away in a secure facility because hundreds/thousands of fighters fighting in perfect synchronicity is terrifying.
This is of course something that would wait until we've released our Frigate since it requires a lot of the same tech but it would mean that basically no one would be willing to mess with Paragon Industries.
My reason for this oddly enough isn't for buffing our PMC, although that's a nice bonus, it's securing Paragon Industries future headquarters. You see there is this planet. It's a nice planet, garden world. Perfect for colonization. Just waiting for someone to claim it.
Virmire.
No one has claimed it since it's close enough to the Terminus Systems that no one is willing to risk it. Well with a fleet of PI-SSC-01C in orbit, probably alongside a Cabira or two, and an army of Legionary suits on the surface I think Paragon Industries can handle that threat.
The downside to choosing Virmire is that the Hoc system doesn't seem to have an asteroid belt. Removing that source of cheap resources. We could set up an automated mining colony on
Nemata since it's said to have a great deal of material worth or we could just have them shipped in but I like the mining colony idea.
Alternatively we could go for
Chasca since the Alliance doesn't claim it and set up a colony until 2183 but it's only habitable along the terminator so I wouldn't recommend it even though it has two asteroid belt with metallic asteroids.
A third alternative would be using our significantly higher range drives to pick a planet off the grid. The upside would that we're hard to get to, the down side is that we're hard to get to. And we'd risk running into Esbilon knows what.
Personally I just really like the idea of settling Virmire and turning into our HQ.
