Brave New World: How are new CEOs doing?
In Benten, we began our interviews at the BEU’s (Benten Economic Union) headquarters in Uponor, which holds Benten Economic Support Team’s (BEST) office...
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The Silver Walrus Conspiracy
In the dead of night, 5 operatives of the SCUBA infiltrated the MysteriousWalrus' compound.
The first peculiar thing was the ankle deep standing water. Everything was wet, and it was almost as if it was on purpose. There were no visible signs of efforts to drain it - no pumps, pipes, etc...
Brownfield Reforms: Profits and Consequences
In one of our previous articles, we discussed the possibility of the Exodus Council pushing through reforms to the APEX system in an effort to clear brownfields and ghostplots from high-demand planets. After two major reforms...
FOXV Seizes Control of Celebdil in yet Another Shocking Victory
At 0940 UTC+2, 06/08/2026, elections ended on Celebdil.
A few hours later, FOXV had captured Parliament. A militarized column of tanks and IFVs rolled down the central boulevard...
Looming Fuel Conflict Ends Without Action as OFEC Falls Dormant, Stella Foundation Pivots
Last week CEO OptimizedFunction of Stella Foundation announced the start of an expansive campaign to displace the Organization of Fuel Exporting Companies' (OFEC) place in the...
Stella Foundation Announces Major Fuel Expansion, Targets OFEC Dominance
The CEO of Stella Foundation—noted Benten Baron and steward of the ISDB OptimizedFunction—has unveiled a a sweeping restructuring plan that includes renewed investment in fuel refining, expanded extraction...
Shocking: DDT found to be deadly to farmstead crops due to a pre-exodus conspiracy, mass panic ensues.
Many in the scientific community have long been working on ways to improve agricultural output.
One such research team funded by startup DELI spent the past month researching the application of DDT on farmsteads, only to reveal...
Just Flip Gibson Already: Calls for Redevelopment of Brownfields Grow as Agricultural Crises Deepens
An agricultural crisis has spread across the galaxy.
The rising price of HER and H2O, and the falling price of KOM, DDT, and CL threaten food and chemical producers with a margin compression trap, where input costs rise while profits...
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 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...