KNOW YOUR SLEEVE COMPANIES: A GUIDE TO THE PEOPLE MAKING YOUR NEW BODY

 

KNOW YOUR SLEEVE COMPANIES: A GUIDE TO THE PEOPLE MAKING YOUR NEW BODY

HORIZON NEUROGEN:

Only makes Chimeras -- usually named after well-recognized mythological creatures.  Careful, rigorous, and insufferably smug.  Notable for comprehensive disclosure of all safety and operational data to customers and commitment to serving operators from underrepresented primate communities.  Horizon Special Projects is just rigorous and smug.  All sleeves show a steady and growing tendency towards a single optimal body plan.  The optimal body plan is an alpha gaunt.  

DAEYI-HAN CONSOLIDATED CYBERNETICS:

Only makes chrome sleeves and cyberware.  Design relatively rejection-resistant chrome sleeves (and very proud of it).  Image conscious and tends to emphasize non-violent applications for chrome sleeves.  Their IP enforcement department will fuck you up and then write an feel-good blog post about it.

OAI INDUSTRIES:

Vat culture company -- makes vat sleeves, clones, replacement body parts, and provides various assisted-reproduction technologies.  Diversified business means competitive prices and surprising quality.  OAI pads its bottom line by way of kickbacks and, where kickbacks fail, by strong-arming death insurance companies into buying their sleeves.  This benefits the consumer (remarkable thought!) but has made them many enemies.  Always looking for security contractors.  Mind the turnover.

CONSOLIDATED ROBOTICS:

Makes chrome sleeves, cyberware, mechs, power loaders, robotic pets, industrial robotic arms, etc.  Also in the body warehousing business.  Working primate's chrome.  Decent price, decent quality, and deep bulk discounts.  Consolidated sleeves are popular among rough-and-tumble outlaws, organized crime groups, and mid-sized security companies for their ease of deployment and affordability.  Doesn't advertise the peaceful applications of their products (but there are many -- Consolidated sleeves are popular among spacers, asteroid miners, and emergency services providers).  Consolidated s robopet division is currently experiencing a meteoric rise.  Most sleeves and battlemechs come with a free pet (surprisingly comforting).