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The Megacorporations |
Once they shaped all of terragen life. Unimaginably powerful and wealthy mercantile corporations, they spanned star-systems and drove commerce and economics throughout the known worlds. They manipulated entire polities and even worlds with ease; waging a never-ending battle of memetic subversion, a war to win the hearts and minds and hip pockets of their potential customers.
Today the megacorps are largely limited to the NoCoZo, various Free Zones, and any regions, especially in the Outer Volumes or along some of the Deeper Covenant trade routes, where like tenacious weeds they can establish a foothold free of sephirotic and hyperturing interference.
Yet for all this they can in the right environment be as powerful and influential as ever, at least within their own spheres of influence, and towards ordinary sapients who are not of a sufficiently high toposophic level to resist their persuasion.
In an uncertain universe where resources on the periphery were limitless, where fads change every day, where clarketech and meme-relics left by powers from the higher toposophics continually excited the populace and stirred up new fads and demands, the megacorps flourished, and continue to flourish. Avoiding the no-go areas ruled by skittish Caretaker Gods, rogue hyperturings, or hazardous clarketech, or feral autowars, they develop their offices in Free Zones throughout the galaxy. Sapients everywhere flock to them, because if you do not have a hyperturing or god looking after you, to be in the employ of the Company is the next best thing.
As long as demand outpaces supply, as long as there is wealth and energy-credits and data processing-allowances to be made, as long as fads drive markets, the mighty transplanetaries and megacorporations will be there to take your erg-credits
Adaptive Nanosystems - Federation period
Ares Heavy Lifting - Interplanetary Age
Galactic Information Bank - NoCoZo Information service (current)
Birnam Ecotech - Federation period biospherics development company
Cygexba - Expansion and Empires era wormhole development hypercorporation that survived until the Central Noetopic Alliance period
E� Mulsystems - Federation period
Exa Energy - Interplanetary Age
Galactic Information Bank - The most profitable of several NoCoZo megacorps which maps, makes easily searchable, and caches large sections of the Known Net for its subscribers
Hidalgo Emergent Order - Federation period
Hosoko Posthegemonic Management Network - post-ComEmp period
Hyperion - Interplanetary to Federation period hyperturing led corporation
Industrial Upgradation Incorporated - Moderate megacorp of the NoCoZo
Intralaunch - Federation period interstellar development corporation
Lee Interorbital - Interplanetary Age space hauler and development corporation
Marketer Fleet - NoCoZo abundance ideology religious corporation - current
Megacorporations Through the Ages
Metasoft Version Tree - vec standards hypercorporation that continues to the present day, rivalling even the mighty sephirotics in power
Sakawa Corporation - Interplanetary Age
Technologies for Worship - Free Sophic missionary corporation - current
