Soriano-Yoon Consultancy
Overview
Soriano-Yoon Consultancy operates out of a converted shipping container bolted to Dock 7 on The Float, identified by a hand-painted sign in three scripts and no entry in any official commercial registry. Founded by Mitch Soriano and Dennis Yoon, the business markets itself as a specialist firm offering access to distinctly human capabilities — abilities that, across much of the galaxy, have taken on near-mythological status. Whether those capabilities are quite what the clients believe is a question the consultancy takes considerable care to prevent anyone from asking directly.
The business runs on an improvised structural premise: that Mitch and Dennis are professional human consultants whose species-specific gifts are available for hire. What began as a survival mechanism has calcified into a livelihood, complete with a client base, a growing reputation, and operational protocols refined through hard experience.
Details
The container interior is divided into a small waiting area and a consultation chamber. The waiting area holds mismatched salvage furniture and a deliberately vague services board; the chamber features ambient lighting calibrated by Dennis to suit the visual ranges and emotional associations of different client species. The setup is modest by design — Mitch describes it as “deliberately understated.”
The consultancy’s service offerings center on abilities galactic legend attributes to humans: reading minds and emotions, predictive intuition, extraordinary physical resilience, and an unusual capacity for cross-species bonding. In practice, Mitch’s apparent telepathy is precision body-language reading, sharpened against species whose emotional signals are broad and unguarded. His predictions are probability assessments delivered in carefully unfalsifiable language — “the third cycle is when resistance weakens” rather than anything with a checkable outcome. Dennis maintains a running database of behavioral cues per species and feeds Mitch relevant information through an earpiece during consultations. The client never sees the infrastructure.
New clients arrive through word of mouth, The Float’s informal information market, or cold approaches after Mitch has made an impression somewhere public. Initial consultations follow a structured approach: an ambient demonstration of apparent insight, an explanation of why human abilities cannot be tested on demand, a scope agreement written in language that sounds precise without committing to anything specific, and a fee set by Mitch based on client wealth signals and emotional investment — non-negotiable, by principle and by strategy.
Significance
The consultancy occupies an unusual niche in The Float’s economy. Cross-species consulting is unregulated in the lower docks, human specialists are vanishingly rare, and galactic mythology about humanity is fragmented enough that no single client is well-positioned to compare notes with another and notice the inconsistencies. The business exploits that gap with care: different species believe different things about humans, and Mitch and Dennis have mapped those belief variants closely enough to tailor each engagement to its audience.
Within The Float’s social fabric, Soriano-Yoon holds a reputation that has grown faster than either founder intended. It is known as exclusive rather than busy, which functions as both a positioning choice and a structural necessity — the business cannot absorb high client volume without the competing mythologies becoming unmanageable. Its presence in the Wet Market’s informal information network means it draws cases from across The Float’s species population, making the consultancy a node in a much wider web of cross-species relationships than its battered exterior suggests.