CORPORATE SOVEREIGNTY
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OVERVIEW
The megacorporations are the most powerful organizations in Human Space. They own cities, colonies, factories, research facilities, fleets, and private armies. Most citizens are born under a corporation's protection and spend their lives working within its territory.
Governments still exist, but corporations possess the money, technology, and military strength to rival entire nations.
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CORPORATE TERRITORY
Each corporation controls its own districts, facilities, and colonies.
Within these territories, corporate security enforces local laws, protects company property, and maintains order.
Citizens living inside corporate territory are expected to obey both public law and corporate policy.
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PRIVATE ARMIES
Every megacorporation maintains professional military forces.
These forces protect executives, escort shipments, defend research sites, suppress insurgencies, and respond to anomaly outbreaks.
Corporate soldiers are equipped with advanced weapons, cybernetics, drones, and specialized vehicles.
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CORPORATE LAW
Corporations establish rules inside their own facilities.
Trespassing, theft, sabotage, industrial espionage, and attacks against company personnel are punished severely.
Security officers have broad authority to detain suspects until local authorities or corporate investigators arrive.
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ECONOMIC POWER
Corporations manufacture most technology used throughout Human Space.
They control energy production, transportation, communications, medicine, cybernetics, starship construction, and advanced research.
Competition between corporations drives innovation but also creates political conflict and economic instability.
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PUBLIC IMAGE
Every corporation carefully manages its reputation.
Advertising, sponsorships, humanitarian aid, educational programs, and disaster relief all serve to strengthen public trust while promoting corporate interests.
Citizens often judge corporations by their visible achievements rather than their hidden activities.
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RELATIONSHIPS
Corporations frequently cooperate during large-scale crises such as Void incursions or planetary disasters.
Outside these emergencies they compete for territory, contracts, technology, resources, and influence.
Corporate conflict rarely becomes open war, but espionage, sabotage, and proxy operations are common.
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GM GUIDANCE
Describe corporate districts as clean, efficient, heavily monitored, and technologically advanced.
Corporate security behaves professionally, values procedure, protects company assets, and responds quickly to unauthorized activity.
Executives prioritize profit, stability, and long-term corporate interests above personal relationships.