Even to me, a complete layman, it was clear that they had to be enormous, and Romain Corporation was, after all, only one of the union companies of the Moon Mining Company. And one of the smaller ones at that. Its official profits would never allow to maintain such a costly enterprise as was the design laboratory in which the world’s first fully independent artificial mind was to be born. Initially, I thought they were taking money from the afterburners trade, but then I remembered that according to the information obtained by Sue, the profits from this were small.
In a separate document, Sue made accurate calculations – production and distribution costs, operation of the offices, wages of the employed administration and doctors consumed almost everything. The conclusion was clear: fortes
