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CDC, the kindly megacorp. While PGC and Streel were off fighting wars CDC was making friends and alliances with everyone. There have been some bumps in the road like the whole Alcazzar incident and not telling anyone about a habitable planet while raking in billions but that is the very nature of CDC. They take the big risks. CDC specializes in insurance companies and in operations of a risky nature, such as planetary and deep space mining operations, archaeological digs, and off-Frontier exploration ventures. Sometimes these pay off and sometimes they do not. CDC has had more pay offs than not or they wouldn’t be a megacorp.

CDC is all about being upfront with its clients. You are dealing with CDC directly, no subsidiaries. This makes them look friendlier. On the other hand who thinks that all this open honesty is hiding something? Who would vote for CDC to be the most likely to have sent Ripley and crew to go check out that distress signal?

Now CDC does not have different departments instead CDC has various areas of interest they persue:

Insurance: Hi I am Flobot your friendly CDC insurance agent, how can I help you? You wish to insure your vehicles, why of course what do you have? A hovercycle to get you back and forth to the office and an explorer armed with a laser cannon you use to blast Sathar traitor agents with. Well I can handle the hovercycle but I will need to refer you to another office for the explorer. No you can still get the multi-vehicle discount we just have different needs to fulfill in the possible claims departments. By the way we can also cover you in life, home, travel, business, pet, credit, Sathar attack, third party action, amusement park and many other kinds

Planetary Mining Operations: Working on planets with established populations, CDC is known to follow all environmental and safety regulations. While they do go after common material such as iron and gold they are known for going after harder to get minerals like unuptainium. One thing is that is not well known is that this is CDC’s least profitable division. However considering that most of what they do is behind the scenes like insurance or way out in space like deep space mining and archeological digs, this gives them the “in” they need on the planets of the Frontier. How they use this “in” varies but is always to CDC’s advantage

Deep Space Mining Operations: Asteroid mining, gas giant vapor siphoning, comet reclamation and barren planetoid stripping are just some of the areas covered here. CDC are major suppliers of raw ore and smelted and refined metals to many groups especially smaller population worlds away from the main trade routes.

Development: Whether it is archeological digs on the homeworlds or lost civilizations, financing risky business ventures, backing independent inventors or boosting a sports team not picked up by Star Play; CDC looks for places to put their credits and get a return that others think is impossible.

When the S’sessu relocated to Lossend and wanted to start a krellar fishing fleet, no one would back them since no one saw a profit in it. CDC not only gave them a low interest loan but they turned lose a group of inventor who found 42 additional products could be made from krellar. They then took on the marketing of these products and created additional markets and profits.