Starting your own company in the Zone

While you may be thinking its time to start a business......like Neon Dark Extraction in the zone there a few things to consider.

First of all, where you will set up shop. Now it may be a matter of "Ill just find a vacant Turn Junction or facility and operate from there" but you need to think carefully where you choose to make your billions.

Most Turn Junctions are falling apart. The rest are almost always occupied by one of the larger companies, and now with V-Corp in the mix, these places are hot property.

Your best bet is to start smaller, like a transmission station or abandoned work site.

That's the "what" you will set up in, but perhaps the most important is the "where".

If you set up within or anywhere near any companies territory, they will attack you and you will more than likely get taken out.

So take somewhere in the nether regions and keep a low profile.

Second of all you need to consider is security. I mean combatants.

You can avoid confrontation with the larger companies, but you will come across pirates or marauders (whatever you want to call them) eventually.

Bands of women whom for the most part have have a tonne of operating experience who are looking to take Neon Dark for black market sale.

Combatants act as either a deterrent, or will out right stop them with force.

Mallera-9 is ruled by the boot and the gun.

Thirdly you need to consider workers. This is engineers, admin, planners, maintenance and cleaning as well as logistics.

It takes skilled hands to keep the lights on and the combatants fed.

How many do I need you ask? Well you will need have a base level to operate security.

Starting from the outside, 2 teams teams of 3 for perimeter patrol.

Another 4 on static and 6 in response.

That's 16 combat units, times that by 3 to have 3 shifts or 2 shifts with 1 off and 1 on standby and you got 48.

With regards to workers and support staff its generally a 1 to 4 ratio on Mallera-9.

12 support staff are needed bringing the total to 60.

If you were to plan out 2 extractions for a two year period (lets be real, you cant do daily like BFC) then you can work out what sort of money you will make.

Planning to have the women on 2 year contracts you can budget your staff costs.

You are looking at about CR200,000,000 for staffing.

If you include a combatant surge for the extraction operations (Starcorp is wonderful for that) then a further CR25,000,000 for a surge of 100 units over a total of 10 days.

Trust me you will want to have the added numbers when you pull that Neon Dark out of the things.

Plus too you can sacrifice a few Starcorp units while fighting it.

Fourthly, you will need consultants, and boy this can add up. You'll need security consultants, consultants for HVAC on base, comms, food, facilities and possibly most expensive of all will be Azologoth tracking services.

Fifthly, logistics. You will need to find a good transport company to get you there, get you out and also get your Neon Dark out for you. You could buy your own used ZT90 or other transports but they still go for over CR30,000,000, and you'll need to pay pilots, maintenance and you will need to store them some place.

If one of the big companies sees regular movements of ZT90s or anything else they will attack.

Transport companies know how to avoid them and follow irregular routes.

Lastly, supply. You need large amounts of everything.

60 staff does not need 60 weapons (if you arm everyone) you'll need 100 because of maintenance and breakdowns.

the little clips that hold in the powder cartridge, yeh you'll need a couple of hundred of them.

Uniforms, At least 5 per woman plus spares.

Anything you use on the regular you will need enough to last two years where you are.

Because delivering rations for a month which will cost 10s of 1000s of CR with a Transport Company that is charging a minimum of CR100,000 per trip results in a very expensive chocolate bar.

Outside of the essentials you have other things to consider like

"what is my company name"

"what is our uniform"

"what color are we"

"who am I to my staff?"

What ideas do you have for your company?