Run-N-Gun

Run-N-Gun, Inc. is an Earth-based company that operates an online bounty posting and bounty collecting platform. With an 87% market share, Run-N-Gun is the largest bounty hunting company in the UNF.

Structure

Run-N-Gun essentially operates all business on a corporate level; the day-to-day work is created by private clients/employers, analogous to bounty-posters, and completed by private contractors known as GunRunners, or simply runners.
To create a Run-N-Gun job, a Run-N-Gun user makes a contract post, describing their exact job and usually including contact information for any questions. This post ends up on the "board", which is the collection of any and all posted contracts. The board is heavily filtered, showing only the appropriate contracts to any given contractor. The GunRunner (either solo or a party) can then open the post and see more information regarding the post, including the employer's description and account.
There are two main types of contract posts: free contracts and restriced contracts. If the contract is free, any GunRunner can find and accept the contract immediately, on a first come, first served basis. If the contract is restricted, the GunRunner can apply for the contract, automatically uploading their information and record for the employer to see. The employer can then pick one or more specific contractors on their own time to be accepted.
All Run-N-Gun contracts are legally binding at time of acceptance.
The most important side of a GunRunner's account is their permanent record, more specifically their rating on that record. After each job is completed, the employer can leave a 1-5 star rating. They can leave this rating at any time after the job, even years later. This rating is listed directly under the name of every contractor, and cannot be altered or challenged. This rating is important for making money because employers can pay extra to create a "minimum rating" for their contracts to be displayed to. In other words, runners with lower ratings won't be able to accept better and higher-paying contracts.
Contractors can also be rated by their GunRunners, but their rating isn't listed as clearly as the GunRunner's. GunRunners also have no way of "blocking" contracts, though they can always filter the contracts on the board.

Assets

Run-N-Gun's most famous asset is their incredibly advanced encryption and anti-hacking software. Not a single byte of Run-N-Gun data has ever been lost to a data leak, nor has a single piece of private information ever been stolen from their servers. If nothing else, both clients and runners of Run-N-Gun can at least have confidence that their private information remains private.

History

In late 2092, a trio of college students from California Institute of Technology, Venus launched InnerWorldFreelance.com, a website where any clients, usually businesses, could post temporary, single-job contracts for any account to apply for and take, an alternative to full employment. At its inception, InnerWorldFreelance.com was typically used by small companies and startups that didn't have the funds to employ a staff dedicated to jobs like payload delivery. In the summer of 2093, it received US$120,000 in seed money from the UNF Police (UNFPOL), who saw its potential to be used as a virtual "bounty board". In the age of the wormdrive, the UNF was stretched incredibly thin in terms of law enforcement, so the bounty hunting of the Wild West became a useful practice once again. In June 2093, InnerWorldFreelance.com incorporated as Run-N-Gun.
By early 2095, Run-N-Gun became the dominant method of posting bounties and contracts on a galactic scale, approaching ψ6 billion in annual revenue.
In January 2100, it was reported that Run-N-Gun had lied about skimming tips from its GunRunners, causing them to earn an average of ψ1.45 an hour after expenses, and that after the company had allegedly overhauled its tipping system, Run-N-Gun was still manipulating per-delivery payouts at the expense of GunRunners. Later, in February, Run-N-Gun made a huge payout to its GunRunners, equivalent to around ψ20.00 per runner (actual amounts varied on the specific GunRunner's rating and hours logged), and pledged to replace the tipping system with a private transaction functionality between the client and the runner.
In late November of 2100, Run-N-Gun announced plans to lay off 2,000 corporate employees, or almost 10% of their workforce. This was to rein in expenses.

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Founding Date

October 2092