Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-5496489-20151027142437/@comment-4242472-20151214154319

@Gorzil: Well if the Persan were to accept a sponsor from the DI, the sponsor would contribute to the number of prefab shelters and colony supplies needed to set up in the new colony.

The sponsor will then offer a partnership discount on goods bought by that colony from the sponsor. What the UPD colony would need to give in exchange however is a lower selling price to the sponsor but a share of the profits made on the intergalactic market.

For example if an expedition agreed to a sponsorship with Domcar Manufacturing. Domcar would provide prefab shelters and mining equipment for free for the initial colony. Later offering big discounts on Domcar-brand mining equipment if the colony needs more. They would also contribute materials and expertise to help construct refineries on the planet. In exchange Domcar would ask if the colony could focus on mining particular materials that might be in demand, Paying more generously for resources they want but offering a share in the profits Domcar makes on the goods exported.

Long-story-short sponsors will help front the cost and materials for establishing new colonies and will help them become prosperous but want a share in the production on colonies they helped establish. I have a list of companies here here that I might expand in the coming days.