CECIR

CECIR is a comparatively small enterprise based in the Cincastrella Confederacy. It has a relatively horizontal cooperative structure with factory foremen and higher level officers elected by the body of engineers, roboticists, and fabricators. The overwhelming majority of CECIR’s facilities are on the Nueva Catalunya system, with a handful of offices scattered throughout the rest of the Confederacy and on other, friendly worlds. CECIR, despite its outsized economic impact is still a relatively small operation, and has only a few notable subsidiary organizations, mostly task groups centered around experimental projects intended to test new concepts before beginning production at scale.

CECIR Advanced Fabrication

CECIR Advanced Fabrication is the branch of CECIR’s operations dedicated to producing fabricators for commercial use. While CECIR has always produced and made use of some of the most capable fabricators available since the Great Cataclysm, it largely produced them in limited amounts for internal use. Since the establishment of the Nova Luanda Pact however, the Confederacy has been seeking to use its capacity to aid others outside its borders, and the Presidium has contracted CECIR to produce fabricators for technological uplift purposes. The result was the cooperative's Advanced Fabrication division which mass produces fabrication chambers of multiple sizes for export.

CECIR Medical

A joint venture between CECIR and Llobregat Medical, CECIR medical consists of a handful of mature projects into developing some of the most advanced medical robots in existence. These bots are frequently capable of performing procedures that would otherwise take a team of world class doctors and surgeons to pull off. CECIR medical doesn’t have great productive capacity, and therefore there is an extensive backlog of orders despite multiple efforts to expand production.

The Consejero Project

The Consejero project was an early, and ongoing project to develop advanced androids that are capable of acting as economic, political, or military advisors in order to help various Stelsoc movements around the galaxy establish themselves and support the continuing development of a galactic Stelsoc community. Early efforts produced the Consejero series of advisor androids. In recent years, the Consejero project had taken lessons from the Dora Project and branched into Biobot production, using simplified versions of the advanced methods developed for Dora on a more readily mass producible scale.

The Dora Project

The Dora Project was developed in concert with visiting scientists from Utopia. Making use of the latest uncovered Parditech, efforts were made to produce biological robots that were almost completely indistinguishable from living beings. Using CECIR’s methods, and some techniques (and personality imprints) found in Pardian data wafers, CECIR produced the Dora type bioroid, starting with Dora herself. These biobots are exceptionally advanced, completely indistinct from living beings while alive, and possessing abilities that border on superhuman, Dora type bioroids have become indispensable parts of the Cincrastrella Confederacy’s central military, diplomatic service, and crucial advisors to the Confederacy and its trusted allies. The great expense in producing such a high tech bioroid and the care and maintenance of its personality as it develops mean that only a small handful have been produced however, and despite the company’s best efforts, none have surpassed the original Dora herself.

CECIR as a cooperative, has slightly different priorities than is normal for a productive enterprise. CECIR's primary public aim is the welfare of its worker-owners rather than any shareholders, and much of CECIR's efforts are about either distributing excess income to its workers, or investing in improving working conditions for its workers. This has ensured that CECIR's operations have remained relatively small, even as it is massively productive. In addition to this primary aim, CECIR has been contracted by the wider Cincastrella Confederacy as a main partner in supporting it's operations in the Nova Luanda Pact. As a result, CECIR's secondary objective has since become to drive technological uplift in Pact member states and Pact aligned states.

CECIR is one of the larger cooperative enterprises in the Cincastrella Confederacy, but is still considerably smaller than most other major corporations and cooperatives. It maintains a dozen facilities on Barcelona within the Nueva Catalonia System, mostly labs with a couple of major production facilities. It also owns and operates a handful of smaller facilities, primarily maintenance labs in the territories of allied nations. In recent years, CECIR has been at the forefront of technological uplift, and has been expanding its operations, exporting expertise where it can as part of the Confederacy’s mission to expand the Stelsoc sphere.

CECIR was initially during the Long Night, largely as a product of a handful of academic robotics laboratories on Nueva Catalunya. These labs, though pushing the cutting edge of the technology essentially could only produce very limited quantities of robots as each and every single one had to be assembled by hand as a singular project.

Catalogue of CECIR Products