Seegson

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**SEEGSON**

A prominent manufacturer of inexpensive alternatives to Weyland-Yutani’s product lines, Seegson is a European conglomerate that will forever be in Weyland-Yutani’s shadow. Well known for their award winning A.P.O.L.L.O. AI mainframe and low-end synthetics, Seegson first gained notoriety by sharing their inventions and pooling their resources with smaller companies.

**HISTORY**

One of the innovators of spaceflight in the 2030s, Sieg and Son was founded in direct competition to Weyland Corp. Having patented their own FTL displacement drive system, Sieg and Son shared their technologies with other companies, ensuring that Weyland wasn’t the only one to make it to the stars. By the 2070s they were operating major production plants across the globe, the Sieg family had sold back their shares to the company and Sieg and Son was condensed to Seegson.

The company entered the synthetic market in the early 2100s with their Working Joe model androids. Nowhere near as advanced as Weyland’s David or Walter series, the Working Joes have a more rudimentary intelligence and are designed to perform maintenance and menial tasks. Rather than being indistinguishable from humans, they have cheap rubberized skin that gives them the appearance of animate mannequins. Usable as an inexpensive labor force, the Working Joes sold well on the ever-shifting Frontier.

Successful in so many arenas, Seegson made one investment error that would cripple them for decades. Lacking a patent on atmospheric processors, Seegson put its funding into extrasolar deep space orbital platform colonies. As Weyland-Yutani terraformed more worlds, Seegson’s stock began to plummet. Even the harsher worlds proved more attractive to colonists than life inside a tin can floating through space. By 2140, most of Seegson’s space stations had been placed on the market. Today, the company survives through its sales on backwater colonies and on the Frontier, where everything needs to be cheap and reliable.

**LEADERS**

Seegson is a publicly traded company run by a board of directors. On the Frontier, Director James Russell looks after the company’s interests from his headquarters on Anchorpoint Station.

**JAMES EVANS-RUSSEL**

DIRECTOR OF FRONTIER OPERATIONS, SEEGSON

A collector of western film and simulations, Russell is also a bit of a romantic. He views the Frontier as akin to the North American Old West, and uses any excuse he can to leave his cushy office on Anchorpoint and experience first-hand the many rough and tumble worlds out there. Despite this, Russell is very much a company man and toes the Seegson line.

**LOCATIONS**

While they operate very few colonies of their own, Seegson maintains an office on every major spaceport in the Core, Outer Veil, and Outer Rim systems. Their home offices are in London, Buenos Aires, Nagasaki and on Luna, the Solomons, and Anchorpoint. They still operate a few deep space stations as R&D platforms.

**PRODUCTS**

Seegson is known for its work in security and communications, its credit services, and the A.P.O.L.L.O. AI computer mainframe. They are major producers of space and ground vehicles, pharmaceuticals, and their mannequin-like “Working Joe” line of cost-effective synthetics. While they maintain an impressive array of product lines, Seegson’s wares are considered somewhat inferior to those produced by Weyland-Yutani. The Colonial Times has even referred to Seegson merchandise as "cheap knockoffs.” Still, an independent colony that couldn't afford a W-Y security system would do almost as well with one from Seegson, and their A.P.O.L.L.O. mainframe system continues to be a popular and cost effective choice for starship and colony management on the Frontier.

**RELATIONS**

Seegson has lucrative contracts with the Independent Core System Colonies and the Three World Empire. Their business affiliates include Geofund, Gemini Exoplanet Solutions, and Gustafsson Enterprise Ltd. While Seegson is always looking to score big over Weyland-Yutani, W-Y does not consider them a threat at all. Like W-Y, Seegson is looking to secure specimens of Xenomorph XX121 for study and evaluation.

**CURRENT ACTIVITIES**

Seegson is actively attempting to sabotage W-Y interests on the Frontier. Unfortunately, they also have the making of a scandal on their hands. A large shipment of Seegson’s Working Joe synthetics was recently sold before their behavior inhibitors were installed, and these units went to an anonymous buyer on the Frontier. While unsubstantiated, some believe these androids were purchased by a would-be petty dictator for use in a backwater planetary coup. Others believe these Working Joes were covertly commissioned by the UPP for use as an artificial combat unit, and still other worry that the omission of the inhibitor programming was but a simple error with the potential for disastrous ramifications. The thought of synthetics capable of murder introduced into the civilian population is one no colonial administrator or marshal wants to contemplate.