EverFresh Statis Systems

*Created by: Garry Stahl
*Appearance: Various inferred by the presence of their products.
*Number of Members: Several hundred per location, a modern company.
*Nature of Members: Various species
*Organization: Corporate hierarchy 
*Game Role: A producer of needed technology
*World Role: A producer of needed technology
*Relative Influence: Major in the shipping world. Their products vastly increase the life of perishable items.
*Public or Secret?: Very public
*Publicly Stated Goal: Sell shipping containers.
*Relative Wealth: Moderate for a mid-sized company.
*Group advantages: Working in an open society. 
*Special Abilities: Their technology.
*Group disadvantages: They do not have a diversified product line.
*Those who favor them: People with perishable goods to ship.
*Those opposed to them: Makers of similar products.
*Area of Operation: Core Federation and the Far Sector
*Headquarters Location: Crystal City, Glade, or the Emerald City, Oz. they have divisions in the Association Suns, and the Partha System 
*Public Face: The makers of near ubiquitous products.
*Notable Members: Faralan: Current CEO. An Ane having fun with a favored toy. She takes good care of it.<P>Paul Mbongolongo: Founder of the company, now a very old man enjoining retirement.
*History of the Organization: In 2350 engineers cracked the secret of of the Slaver stasis boxes, kind of. The technology produced did not totally stop time, but it did vastly improve the shelf life of perishable goods.</P><P>Two things are noted about the state of stasis containers. First, they prolong the freshness of goods from days to years, as long as they run. Such goods as vegetables or simple life forms, like gee worms or Ghah. Advanced life forms, like vertebrates suffer near fatal nerve damage in a stasis box. You end up a vegetable if you did not start as one.</P><P>In the fifty years of operation the energy requirement of the Stasis boxes has been reduced, the volume they will protect has been increased, and the time dilation effect as been improved from months to years per day. As to animal life forms, to begin with even invertebrates suffered, it can now transport fairly large arthropods, with acceptable damage. They are still best used for plants.</P><P>The Containers are popular among the consumers of non replicated foodstuffs. Items that will not grow outside their native environment such as Ooms can be transported interstellar distances without damage.</P><P>At this point they have competition, mainly from Orion producers of similar items. However EverFresh black boxing the systems has meant the Orions have had to do it the hard way and are years behind EverFresh in quality. Some consider that good enough, even if Orion units are no cheaper. 
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