Arguably as important as many of the people featured in our big story are these organizations.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Corporations & Conglomerates Directory
- Companies We Support
- Corporate FAQ
- Top Images
- Concepts
- Work Humor Memes
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Introduction:
These are the most prominent business ventures featured in our saga. Something in your home or life was made by one of these or a predecessor-company. If you’ve ever worn clothes, eaten food that had packaging, traveled in a vehicle, used artificial light (such as from a light-bulb), had a phone, received medical care, or enjoyed normal gravity and clean air, one of the following organizations had something to do with it.
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Corporations & Conglomerates Directory:
Anglo American PLC: (Cn) mining
- Established: 1917
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide variety of mining equipment
- Alignment/Affiliation: various
- Offices: hundreds on hundreds of worlds
- Properties: millions of mines and related properties on thousands of worlds
- Additional: This is where the majority of the ore and other mined materials used in heavy industry come from.
Bilderberg Group: (Cr) nearly every construction product and major project
- Established: 1954
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide
- Alignment/Affiliation: confidential, usually major governments & corporations
- Offices: dozens on dozens of worlds
- Properties: millions across thousands of worlds
- Additional: This organization has been the brunt of conspiracy theories for generations.
Blue Sun: (Cr) consumer goods and more
- Established: 2300s
- Headquarters: Osiris
- Products: Processed Foodstuffs (such as Fruity Oaty Bars), Textiles, Merchandise, Electronics, Communications, Alcoholic Beverages (such as Sake), Carbonated Beverages (such as Blue Sun Cola), Security Constructs, and a wide variety of other products
- Alignment/Affiliation: Union of Allied Planets (UAP)
- Offices: (planetary and regional offices on all 34 Tauri worlds)
- Properties: (millions across nearly all 56 planets and 125 moons of 34 Tauri; all UAP worlds and some of the others, with plans to expand until properties are owned on them all)
- Additional: It is rumored that this corporation is involved in some UAP black-ops R+D.
Boeing Lockheed Martin: (Cn) aerospace engineering
- Established: 1916
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide range of aircraft, spacecraft, and all their related parts and equipment
- Alignment/Affiliation: usually major militaries
- Offices: hundreds on hundreds of worlds
- Properties: thousands on hundreds of worlds, usually for the design, testing, & mass-production of air & spacecraft based on government contracts
- Additional: This organization was largely responsible for making travel to other worlds, and the patrolling of controlled airspace and Space, possible.
Cyberdyne: (Cr) cybernetic organisms and other robotics
- Established: 1990s
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: Drones (UAVs, ULVs, and USVs), Sentry Platforms, A.I.s, Spacecraft Flight Computers (Auto-pilots), Black Boxes (flight data recorders), and cybernetic prosthetics
- Alignment/Affiliation: military & government
- Offices: hundreds on dozens of worlds
- Properties: thousands on dozens of worlds
- Additional: This is the company that made the T-101.
Dow Chemical Company: (Cn) chemicals
- Established: 1897
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide range of household and specialty chemicals, ranging from agricultural products and plastics to designer & performance chemicals
- Alignment/Affiliation: consumers and governments alike
- Offices: thousands on thousands of worlds
- Properties: thousands on thousands of worlds
- Additional: Dow is one of the largest producers of plastics, including polystyrene, polyurethane, polyethylene, polypropylene, and synthetic rubber. It is also a major producer of ethylene oxide, various acrylates, surfactants, and cellulose resins. It produces agricultural chemicals including the pesticide Lorsban, and consumer products including Styrofoam, as well as the consumer products Saran wrap, and Ziploc bags.
DuPont: (Cn) dynamite, paint, Space-age materials, and more
- Established: 1802
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide range of special materials such as Corian, Kalrez, Kapton, Kevlar, Mylar, Nomex, Nylon, Orlon, Rayon, Sorona, Tedlar, Tyvek, Vespel, Zodiaq, Zytel, Teflon, Tefzel
- Alignment/Affiliation: consumers and governments alike
- Offices: hundreds on hundreds of worlds
- Properties: thousands on thousands of worlds
- Additional: This company has been heavily involved in the SSP, as well.
Galactic News Network (GNN): (Cr) formerly CNN
- Established: 1980
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: news coverage of events across virtually all of the human-colonized Milky Way
- Alignment/Affiliation: various backing entities, usually major governments
- Offices: millions across thousands of worlds
- Properties: millions across thousands of worlds
- Additional: Considered one of the additional branches of government, the media and investigative reporting remain a high-stakes game heavily influenced by the most dangerous players; news is required to be reported a certain way, lest the public be either too scared to work or not scared enough to continue shopping.
Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate (ICC): (Cn) the backbone of the SSP
- Established: 1955
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: classified
- Alignment/Affiliation: classified
- Offices: thousands on thousands of worlds
- Properties: millions on tens of thousands of worlds
- Additional: Corporations from all over the world that build aerospace technologies created a vast infrastructure in our solar system. These corporations are primarily military defense contractors. Following the German breakaway sorties of 1952, President Eisenhower signed a treaty with the German breakaway civilization in 1955 under their terms. This included the merging of the American military-industrial complex with the German military-industrial complex. This is the origin of the ICC. Under Operation Foothold, the ICC nuked millions of insectoids living inside of coveted lava tubes. The Brain Drain began shortly after. Engineers followed by other personnel were transferred to the new human colonies from Earth. The ICC has also established bases on other planets within the local cluster for which the Draco gave them mining rights. One is in Aldebaran, and one is in the Pleiades. The ICC has over 100 colonies, bases, and industrial facilities/plants on the Moon, Main Asteroid Belt, Mars, and several other moons and bodies in our solar system. There are also many free-floating Space stations that have personnel manning them and are fully operational, with Space vessels docking with them on a regular basis. The ICC has ongoing trade agreements with almost 900 civilizations, and does occasional trade with far more than that. The massive ICC mining-industrial complex includes an infrastructure of bases that mine, smelt, engineer, and construct many types of technologies for the other SSPs and for off-world allies, as well as facilitate their very large ‘Colony and Exchange Systems’ for both humans and non-humans.
Mars Candy: (Cr) confections
- Established: 1911
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: (thousands of different desserts and candies)
- Alignment/Affiliation: none
- Offices: (planetary and regional offices on most human-colonized worlds)
- Properties: (hundreds of factories and hundreds of thousands of retail outlets)
- Additional: Investing in hundreds of other candy producers; long-term bulk-order supply contracts are utilized in order to provide a more diverse array of desserts and related products via the stores of this corporation.
Raytheon: (Cn) classified electronics & photonics
- Established: 1922
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide range of electronics, most used in defense and exploration projects
- Alignment/Affiliation: government and military
- Offices: hundreds
- Properties: millions
- Additional: This company was heavily involved in the American projects based out of McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Also, their electronics helped make the ‘by-mind’ interface helmets and later gadgets possible.
Stark Industries: (Cn) Tony’s weapons development & manufacturing company
- Established: 1963
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide variety of weapons such as missiles and power-armor
- Alignment/Affiliation: government & military
- Offices: dozens on dozens of worlds
- Properties: hundreds on dozens of worlds
- Additional: This company produced some of America’s most advanced weapon systems.
The Walt Disney Company: (Cn) entertainment services, merchandise, movies, & shows
- Established: 1923
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide range of motion pictures, television programs, toys, and everything needed for their luxury cruise-liners and signature resorts
- Alignment/Affiliation: none
- Offices: hundreds on hundreds of worlds
- Properties: thousands on thousands of worlds
- Additional: This company continues to build cruise ships and resorts, except now on many other worlds, with some of their cruise ships capable of traveling into orbit.
Umbrella: (Cn) genetic & medical technology
- Established: 1968
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide range of genetic engineering & hospital equipment, as well as engineered creatures and biological weapons
- Alignment/Affiliation: private
- Offices: hundreds on hundreds of worlds
- Properties: millions on thousands of worlds
- Additional: This company created the T-virus, among many others, and helped cure AIDS, cancer, and Ebola.
Virgin Galactic: (Cn) commercial interplanetary transportation
- Established: 2004
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide
- Alignment/Affiliation: private
- Offices: hundreds on hundreds of worlds; all the most Space-trafficked ones
- Properties: thousands on hundreds of worlds
- Additional: This company built the first public Spaceport in America.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: (Cr) multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores
- Established: 1962
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: Processed Foodstuffs, Textiles, Merchandise, Electronics, Automotive Parts, etc.
- Alignment/Affiliation: none
- Offices: (planetary and regional offices on nearly all human-colonized worlds)
- Properties: (hundreds of thousands of warehouse-sized stores/outlets, plus others)
- Additional: Corporate giant Wal-Mart has absorbed Costco, Winco, Shopco, Target, Sam’s Club, Smith & Edwards, K-Mart, Steinmart, IKEA, and others.
Weyland-Yutani: (Cr) interstellar corporation heavily involved in terraforming and many other areas
- Established: 2050s
- Headquarters: Londinium
- Products: wide variety of terraforming tools (such as atmospheric processor plants)
- Alignment/Affiliation: private sector & independently owned and operated
- Offices: hundreds of regional offices & dozens of solar-cluster offices (offices managing regions of Space which include multiple star-systems)
- Properties: millions for company housing, thousands for R+D, & hundreds for regional offices
- Additional: This corporation is largely credited with the terraforming of the majority of the planets and moons in the 34 Tauri star system.
War God Industries: (Cr) extremely diverse collective of dozens of corporations
- Established: 2000
- Headquarters: 2; (for the Inisfreean realm) downtown Inisfree, and (for the Outlands) Londinium (in its biggest city)
- Products: 3D-printers; personal and industrial (capable of printing vehicles),
aero- & hydroponics for rooftop gardens & crops,
agencies for modeling, fashion designers, PMCs, & entertainment,
basic human cloning, typically for replacement organs and skin grafting,
‘by-mind’ interfaces (2nd-gen’),
cybernetic organisms,
gene-therapy-based cures for degenerative diseases,
landscape architecture items,
prosthetic limbs,
self-growing nanotube-based structures,
various military gadgets and other items - Alignment/Affiliation: Bavarian Illuminati, New Verse Order
- Offices: (classified)
- Properties: (classified)
- Additional: Rivaling the Blue Sun Corporation and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group of more than 3,000 subordinate companies, WGI is an Umbrella-like super-corporation, that facilitates and oversees industry leaders in the fields of military research and development, genetic engineering and modification, cloning, biomechanics, nanotechnology, biotecture, terraforming, and the hardware and software engines for ‘fly-by-mind’ interfaces. Its branches and directorates also include many leading modeling, private contracting, fashion, and entertainment firms and agencies.
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also note: Significant Non-major Corporations in New Eden
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Also keep in mind that most of the following are also corporations:
- agriculture leaders
- banks and insurance issuers
- churches
- food and beverage producers
- governments
- hospitals and healthcare providers
- hotel chains
- intelligence agencies
- law enforcement organizations such as police departments
- media companies for news shows, etc.
- nations
- prisons and asylums
- research facilities/institutions
- secret societies
- technical schools
- universities
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Companies We Support: a list of outstanding businesses operating on Earth right now which you can find plenty of information on via Wikipedia, the stock exchanges, and their websites
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Corporate FAQ: all you’ll need to know about those listed above
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Top Images:
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Concepts:
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Work Humor Memes:
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