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Katoa, Benten

Deepers United: Collective Bargaining with the FLCA

When the FLCA began operations above Coldwell Deep just under two months ago, only a handful of pioneer technicians kept the hydrogen collectors running. Only a week later, the site was buzzing with more than 1,100 personnel and newly constructed support structures...

Fat Cats: Bankers, Their Money, and How You Can Get Some

Behind every cluster of farms and smelters in this universe is a Licensee who, at some point, wished they had more money. A small and quiet group saw that universal complaint and decided to do something about it. They produce neither food, fuel, nor ship parts. Instead, they create credit...

Commerce By Consensus

Around Benten, one would be hard-pressed to find someone who has never—at least in passing—heard of Kawakawa Inc (KAWA). Best known for its fixed-price internal market and cooperative approach to commerce, the corporation has recently found itself navigating member departures...

The Colors of Katoa

The Colors of Katoa

The first thing I noticed at Androidica Intergalactic's (PC7) Katoa facility, was that nobody seemed entirely sure whose idea the new logo had been. The second thing I noticed was that every employee I spoke to gave me a different answer...

Exclusive: Licensee Uses AI to Run Space Empire

If you thought you were trading with a human at Benten Station, you were wrong. For roughly six weeks, the agriculture corporation Gekko Provisions (GKPV) has been run almost entirely by a group of revived, pre-singularity...

First Bank of Insitor Bets on ICA and Local Lending

The Insitor Cooperative carries a long tradition of cultivation. From the breadbaskets of the old world to the frontier farms of the new, generations of settlers have turned fertile soil into prosperity...

Moria Organizations Formalize Political Cooperation Through New Free Trade Alliance

Operating under the banner of the Moria Free Trade Alliance (MFTA), the coalition describes itself as the "pre-eminent political alliance in NEO Charter Exploration space," advocating...