Hi, Bell Fen! - Luminous Hyaena

Anonymous asked:

How many people does the average vat corp house? What kind of profit margins do they have? I get the impression they're pretty big, despite huge operating costs.

There used to be bigger ones.  When you have the equipment marginal clones aren’t all that expensive, so they do try to get that way.  But there’s not really a meaningful average because different corps vary in whether they tend to kill clones at 17 and freeze the organs just to be sure they don’t run away, and what they do with clones whose originals die, and things like that, all of which can affect the housed population more than slight variance in decanting rate.  Dozens to hundreds, ballpark.