Back in the dim Star League past, Amphigean Agriculture Inc. was a leading agricultural company. With offices all over the Inner Sphere, Amphigean Agriculture worked on solutions to worldwide famines, crippling crop diseases, cultural and religious differences, and hundreds of other problems.
The Succession Wars placed an incredible strain on this network. To defend their holdings, Amphigean Agriculture began employing mercenary units to protect its property and employees. By 2811, the cost of such protection had skyrocketed, and the board of directors decided that it was cheaper to maintain a private army than to pay mercenaries exorbitant fees.
Thus was the first Amphigean Security Group created. During the next 100 years, these security forces protected many of the company’s factories, storehouses, and installations from the rapacious desires of the Successor States. Many corporations gathered around the Amphigean’s defenses like peasants around the skirts of a castle. The board of directors began charging these businesses a protection fee, and soon after rented out the 1st Amphigean Security Group to Ceres Metals for a punitive action against a debtor.
By 2952, Amphigean Agriculture received 21 percent of its revenues from renting out its six security battalions. The next year, the Draconis Combine approached the company with a proposal to create two regiments of mercenaries under long-term contract to House Kurita. The program was so successful that Lord Kurita ordered a third regiment formed in 2976.
All Amphigean
regiments are run like corporations. Commanders are responsible for turning a profit,
and they get bonuses if they exceed quota. Amphigean Agriculture owns all machines and
treats its MechWarriors like hired hands, not noble warriors of a heroic age.
Nevertheless, Amphigean pays high wages to its mercenaries and gives them the organization
and security of a government without annoying oaths of loyalty or class distinctions. In
fact, Amphigean regiments are some of the few that make
During the Galtor Campaign, the Light Assault Groups operated at a dead loss. By contractual agreement, the Amphigeans would have received a twelfth of any Star League cache. That loss, coupled with heavy combat losses, dropped Amphigean stock prices in the Draconis Combine.
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