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Player > Starships > Manufacturers > Multifold Industries
Starfinder Starship Operations Manual p.72
Diversity And Automation
Manufacturing Centers: Aballon (01, Pursuit, Striving)
Specialties: Highly automated ships for custom needs
Famous Models: G7 Autohauler, Seedship
One day, the creators of the anacites—the First Ones—will
return. Until then, Those Who Wait collect and store knowledge,
doing so through automated exploration and cooperation with
other species, primarily through Multifold Industries. The
company’s origin lies in the arrival of non-anacites on Aballon.
As more and more off-worlders arrived, many were assigned
to starship design, construction, and maintenance. Those Who
Wait established Multifold to support this growing workforce.
The company employs individuals from many different species,
though androids rapidly became a plurality. Now, Multifold’s
status as an industrial leader in diversity is a point of pride
widely embraced at the company.
Multifold’s primary specialization is automated starships,
which has led to investment in artificial and virtual
intelligences, or A/VI. Ships that can travel with minimal
or no crew are broadly useful, with more space for cargo
and equipment and lower overhead costs for wages and
life support. Crewless vessels can also be used on missions
considered too risky for living crews, such as exploration
into systems with known Swarm activity or that have been
colonized by the Azlanti Empire, or on missions that are
simply so unpleasant or boring that no sapient creature would
willingly participate. Because the needs of an exploration
drone in a hostile environment are significantly different from
those of a cargo hauler navigating busy trade routes, the
A/VI in most Multifold craft are built to order. But the rapidly
growing demand for these vessels and their A/VI technology
has prompted Multifold to radically expand its construction
and research and development facilities.
However, this emphasis on automation has created
controversy for the company. Multifold’s rapid growth has
negatively impacted adjacent industries, and now pilots,
mechanics, miners, and navigators are having a harder time
finding work. The company faces both increasingly aggrieved
unions representing a wide array of professions as well as
hostile competitors about to be made obsolete because of
Multifold’s so-called “launch and leave†vessels.
Multifold ships vary widely in appearance. Unusual floor
plans and a diverse workforce influence its ship designs.
Two examples of the same starship model, built at different
facilities, may be mechanically identical, but their hull and
interior decoration may be radically different. The company
has no unifying aesthetic, instead advertising its craft as being
as unique as its many customers.
Manufacturer Perk: The computers aboard a Multifold Industries starship are especially conducive to computerized assistance. Decrease the total cost of any virtual intelligence (page 34) installed in a Multifold starship by 2 BP.
Name | Tier | Type | Source |
---|---|---|---|
Multifold G7 Autohauler | 3 | Small light freighter | SOM p.89 |
Multifold Seedship | 11 | Huge bulk freighter | PWD p.155 |
Multifold Industries Harvester | 14 | Gargantuan carrier | DA03 p.0 |
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