HOW TORIZE WORKS

Torize earns two ways. It builds cities on asteroids it owns and lives on what they pay every week — and it builds cities on Czerka worlds under contract, for a fee.

Both halves are deliberate. A trading house lives on whoever is buying this week. A mining faction lives on the price of ore and on somebody else needing it. Both are somebody else's decision. A city on ground you own is nobody's decision but yours: it pays on a fixed weekly run whether the galaxy is trading, at war, or asleep.

Asteroids in particular, because they are cheap ground nobody fights over, they carry their own mineral deposits within reach of the build site, and a two-by-two rock takes four cities where a contested world takes one and a garrison.

THE ASTEROID ESTATE

Prospectors scan open squares in the fields Torize holds and call which rocks are worth taking. Engineers put cities on the ones that clear. Freight runs materials out to the build sites and ore back to the stations. The yards turn that ore into hulls, and the hulls hold the ground. It is a closed loop by design, and nothing in it depends on a counterparty.

CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION

Torize builds FI cities on Czerka worlds under contract. Czerka supplies the minerals, the ships and the construction fees; the cities are Czerka's; Torize is paid for each one completed. It is the oldest work the company does and a good share of what it owns today was paid for out of it.

The two halves suit each other. Prospecting gates how fast the asteroid estate can grow, and while the surveyors are out finding the next rock, the build crews have a planet to work on and somebody else is funding the materials.

WHAT TORIZE DOES NOT DO

No public mineral market. No selling ships or datacards to the galaxy. Offers of trade will be answered politely and declined — the company has no shopfront and does not want one.

Construction contracts are a different matter, and so are partnerships on ground and prospecting rights. Those we will hear.