How is Planetform still around?

[Azan27]

Planetform is extremely profitable because it is not, as one might think, part of the manufacturing industry, but is rather part of the services industry. Planetform maintains large contracts with governments across Sirius, as well as many private corporations, to use their expertese in the field of enviormental engineering to make planets habitable, or increase the desirable traits of already habitable planets. The people that they are contracting with cover all the costs of the nessicary materials, logistics and security, while the actual company really just assigns its scientists to moniter the terraforming process and make sure that the atmosphere generators get set up correctly and run smoothly. Of course, like any big company, Planetform maintains its own logistics and security wings, for when they feel they don't want to go out of company for the services they need. So basically, Planetform doesn't actually purchase the nessicary terraforming materials themselves; they use other people's money to do that. So, if we look at it that way, the Kingdom of Bretonia will actually have to go bankrupt before Planetform does.

That being said, the only real way I can imadgen Planetform going backrupt would be if one of their terraforming projects turns out to be a complete and total failure, and their contractor insists that Planetform refund all the service fees that were incurred during the terraforming. In that case, Planetform will most likly enter chapter 11, have the majority of its infrastructure sold off to the highest bidder, and the Gaians will spend the next few weeks getting massivly drunk and having all-organic raves.

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Let it burn.