Sterope Defense Industries

Overview
Sterope-Defense Industries is the primary manufacturer of heavy weapons in the Taurian Concordat for 'Mechs and armor forces of the TDF. The company's research and development department is highly regarded, and receives the lion's share of the company's profits.

The CEO of SDI is Maxwell Gelfmann.

On the 21st of November 3075 the Sterope Defense Industries facility on Sterope was plundered by the mercenary unit Hansen's Roughriders, acting as part of a Federated Suns counter-offensive against the Concordat. In contrast with attacks made on other worlds, the Roughriders left the Sterope Defense Industries facilities intact after they'd been looted, rather than destroying the factories. The Sterope factories would still be heavily damaged during the war, and as at 3081 had yet to return to full production.

In 3079 only fifteen percent of the workforce had escaped the horrors of the Jihad. Despite this the company's factories were producing at half their capacity. Turning a liability into a strength, SDI was rebuilding the plant with new production accounting techniques and increased automation.

Manufacturing
Sterope Defense Industries has manufacturing centers on the following planets: