Sofieke Mining



Sofieke Asteroid Relocation, Mining and Salvage Corporation.

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Originally a family-run mining and salvage company, they now produce bioengineered terraforming resources, specializing in creating new and innovative plants and animals to assist in low-cost biome alteration.

History
Named for Sofieke Rotmensen, daughter of Peter Rotmensen, the founder (who never spent much time with him due to a custody dispute). She is currently the sole heir of the corporation, despite strong objections from the board of directors. Originally founded in CURRENTYEAR-44, SofiekeCo was originally exactly what it said on the tin  - a small company dedicated to moving and harvesting things in deep space. They started with just a couple of ships purchased on loans, and managed to luck into several EARTHGOVERNMENTMILITARY contracts to prepare and then clean up training areas for live ship to ship combat tests.

A few decades later, in CURRENTYEAR-19, the company had branched out into the asteroid mining field more comprehensibly, purchasing several additional transport ships and acquiring the sole rights to several large claims for varied debris fields in the vicinity of COOLSOUNDINGPLANETORSTAR, approximately #LYFROMNEARESTREFERENCEPOINT.

At this point the corporation ceased other operations for a full year, backing out of contracts and occasionally laying down money to hire competing salvage operations to foster goodwill. Many employees were cut from the payroll during this time, and those who were retained all relocated to the freshly acquired debris fields. In the next few years, the corporation began to establish a name for itself in biogenetic and medical innovation, producing a number of advancements in the fields of cloning and terraforming via bioengineered plants and simple organisms.

Recent History
In the last few decades, Sofieke Salvage has expanded again into their original field, but the bulk of their profits come from their bioengineering innovation. While there has been, and still is, a large amount of speculation on what inspired this sudden change in focus, the company has been remarkably successful at deflecting attempts to gather information. Theories abound, but at this point no one but the contract-bound employees and obviously tight-lipped executives know exactly what they found at their claims near COOLSOUNDINGPLANETORSTAR or how it managed to help them leap from a small backwater salvage operation into one of the leading bioengineering giants in the universe.

Although usually referred to as Sofieke Mining or Sofieke Salvage, certain recent publications by the company have been using the moniker Sofie's ARMS in advertisements, although this is considered a slightly confusing move, since they do not produce weaponry at this time. Speculation has arrisen that they may branch into the arms market, which is has lead to several civilian and government inquiries due to the company's numerous deep space operations, which are prohibitively costly to regulate in accordance with standard importation laws, and thus largely unmonitored.