Satoshi Tech

## ***Synopsis***

Satoshi Technology & Production (informally "Satoshi Tech") was a low-profile multi-trillion credit corporation based out of the Cularin system, founded by 800 BBY. The founders made their fortune buying various lots of space in the Cularin system asteroid belt to profit from the crystal-rich asteroids and Songsteel deposits therein, while fending off local pirate presence by enlisting the help of local spacers and vigilantes. They eventually became prosperous enough to buy out local Czerka Corporation holdings, monopolizing the Cularin system by the Imperial era with the only real threat to the corporation being piracy.

As they grew they got to work investing their wealth into shares of competing corporations in-system, with excess income being put to use in developing new technological break-throughs, one of note being the Immuno-Booster: a microsurgeon immune booster injection, wherein nanobots would reproduce inside the bloodstream of the user and enhance their immune system against ailments of all types, and enhance the healing process of most injuries. Several other breakthroughs remain in the prototype stage, and while the immune booster is available to the public at large, production is extremely slow and the prices are generally regarded as "ridiculous".

Satoshi Technology & Production has stayed out of the intercorporate and galactic politics that plagued the galaxy, resulting in it remaining smaller than rivalling industries while also helping avoid unnecessary litigation. Satoshi Tech remains small enough to treat its employees as family, and takes pride in its high degree of safety.

Business dealings notably revolved around the mining, refinement, experimentations and otherwise purchase and obtainment of rare and elusive materials, though Satoshi Tech was known to perform work with more mundane materials like iron and steel. Work on their breakthrough products like the Immuno-Booster were usually internal affairs; if funding could not be found internally, such projects tended to be halted until they could afford to resume it, either through their own income or from simple donations.

Satoshi Tech was known to have close business relations with the Corellian Engineering Corporation.

## ***Notable Products***

The Starhome J3, a heavy freighter of Satoshi Tech origin.

Holographic AI (500,000 Credits): Thanks to our Science Department here at Satoshi Tech, we can present to the public our own holographic AI! Our AIs experience the whole range of human emotion: they can be happy, feel fear and doubt, and even love. This range of emotions is achieved where it cannot be in most other Artificial Intelligences thanks to the basis from which our AIs are grown: biological minds. Our AIs are based upon brain scans of organic infants, usually human. They form the initial state of a primitive self-modifying machine, from which a simulated neural network can be created.

Each AI is put through an accelerated learning program, which ages the modified brain scan to maturity in a matter of weeks to months, ending with a mind as mature as an adult of the base species. The learning program is assembled from a series of templates, not entirely dissimilar from those used to outright construct competing AI and guiding the program towards absolute expertise in its intended field, as well as providing general ‘experiences’ common to all intelligences of its type, which help to round out the person they will become. Once finished, the AI is given a final tuning pass by one of our programmers to smooth out any rough edges, as even several intelligences from the same brain scan and subjected to the same series of learning programs can end with unique variances. (Price has increased after prototyping stage as the Science Department has realized the value of a sentient mind.)

Regenerative Booster (400,000 Credits): Thanks to Satoshi Tech's research into the regenerative properties of the Trandoshans, Gands, and similar species, and the Satoshi Tech Health & Safety Department's breakthroughs in the medicinal field, we've found a way to program our patented microsurgeon nano-droids to apply these properties to the affected area, allowing the average near-human to regrow lost limbs! (Warning: This product is new and improving, and the process is considered extremely painful. Use at your own risk. Side effects include intense itching and a temporary feeling of weakness in the regrown limb.)

Immuno-Booster (200,000 Credits): The Satoshi Tech Immuno-Booster provides a considerable boost to your immune system and natural regeneration by injecting a small population of microsurgeon nano-droids to reproduce inside, repair your body and help clear the bloodstream of toxins and blood borne pathogens!

Transformative Injection (Price varies): Our biologists here at Satoshi Tech's Science Department have given the all-clear for us to begin accepting orders for our new transformatives! Our transformative products are based on our research into genetic splicing. The single-task microsurgeons inside will splice your genome with a single alteration in mind, though side effects are generally guaranteed.

Prototype testing has included the following recorded effects, among others: Selonian: Feline ears with side effect of fangs and desire for fish; Wookiee: Physical strength with greatly denounced effects of aging, but thicker body hair; Balosar: Incredible resistance to illness and toxins, with the side effects of pale, green skin pigmentation and pronounced antennapalps.

Electronic Vambrace (8,000 Credits): The Satoshi Tech-brand Electronic Vambrace is a small arm-mounted device built with sophisticated computer technology, capable of connecting to the HoloNet through almost any network, and able to provide biometrics and vitality readings, environmental scans, global positioning, and credit transactions. The Electronic Vambrace can handle audio conversations, video calls, and holographic conversations with other devices, with the added benefit of being able to house a personal A.I. assistant. It possesses a built-in sensor capable of scanning organisms within a short range and providing a wealth of information from said scans.

One-shot Stim Booster (1,000 Credits): The Satoshi Tech One-shot Stim Booster contains a single dose of short-lived medical nano-droids ready to stabilize the wounded at a moment's notice, courtesy of the Satoshi Tech Health & Safety Department.

Thermal Energy Belt (800 credits): The Satoshi Tech Thermal Energy Belt uses outdated shielding technology and turns it to a simpler task: keeping you warm! The belt projects an energy field around you to isolate outside temperature, and can be adjusted to regulate the temperature inside the field to a more constant temperature.

Two-shot Stim Booster (100 Credits): The Satoshi Tech Two-shot Stim Booster does everything the One-shot Stim Booster does, but twice! Courtesy of the Satoshi Tech Department of Redundancy Department. (This is a novelty item and does not contain real nano-droids.)

Jedi Repellant (100 Credits): The Satoshi Tech patented Jedi Repellant spray will make sure those pesky Jedi monks stay away from you and your possessions! (This is a novelty item and will not keep Jedi away.)