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FEDERAL AUTOMATON
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Corporation Name: Federal Automaton
The headquarters is an elegant domed building not far from the university. It is small by the standards of megacorporations, but that is because its operations are largely automated. Go figure.
Locations:
Manufacturing facilities are located on Geonosis, Loronar, and Enarc. Federal Automaton maintains service branches and small offices throughout High Republic space, always in major cities. It would be exhausting to list them all, so I won't.
Operations: Droid Manufacturing, Infrastructure & System Automation
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Federal Automaton sells exactly one droid. It's a good droid - a battle droid, actually - and one selling in impressive quantities to the thousands of constituent governments, corporations, and moneyed people of the High Republic. You see, the Republic lost at Thyferra. Thyferra is a very important planet. If they lost there, what else are they going to lose? Better to shore things up with a nice, thick line of durasteel. Couldn't hurt.
The rest of Federal Automaton's operations revolve around support services for that same battle droid. Maintenance facilities, technician certifications, software updates and subscriptions, insurance, warranty, code compliance across all levels of government - all the fun things. Federal Automaton employs its own Grand Army: one of inspectors, consultants, and quality control personnel, all dedicated to ensuring that your army of battle droids is as perfectly legal as it is perfectly functional.
Federal Automaton also provides consultation services for organizations (or governments) looking to automate systems and infrastructure. Sometimes people (a lot of people) lose their jobs. It's just one of those things that happens during the inexorable march towards progress and efficiency. Don't be poor and useless if you're so worried about it.
Federal Automaton emerged from the divided up assets of the Commerce Guild that fell into the hands of Claudius Dune after his father, Calder Dune, essentially gave them away.
Critical observers have commented that Federal Automaton is essentially a nepo-corporation run by a nepo-baby.
Well, yes. That's right.