The Conglomerate

The New Trust

After the Schism most of the Corporations had their boards heavily restructuring, cutting ties with powerful families off-system that suddenly lost the grip of power on the local affairs.

Soon, after several mergers and forceful acquisitions, three Corporations emerged as the new top players in the Lythen system.

PVI

Pan-Virgo Industries (PVI) has a control on most of the high-tech manifacturing facilities still operating on most planets, including Claeo and Archon. Their base of Operation is on the Giano Habitat, gravitationally locked to Themis. The few millions of people living on the Habitat have been almost exclusively working for the PVI, which is acting as an absolute ruler since its purchase from the previous owners, bankrupted by the effects of the Schism.

HFC

Horstfruden Corporation (HFC) has its foothold on the outer space of the Luyten system, influencing the affairs of people living on Ruun (from their orbital headquarters), as well as Domu and Norn, both of which are disputed with the PVI.

YGG

Lastly, the core management of Yggdrasil Corporation, which used to control large parts of Claeo when the Singularity happened, reorganized into YGG, an acronym devoid of meaning which clearly reminds everyone where they came from. While stranded on Luythen, they remain constant contact with the other systems and try to work in the interests of a larger network of severed branches of the same tentacular conglomerate. Compared to the other two, YGG doesn’t have a solid base of operation, rather working in different offices scattered around Claeo, Archon, and even on the Giano Habitat.

The three superpowers rapidly reached an agreement on how to split the System between them, creating what is now referred as the New Trust, or The Conglomerate. There have been several cases in which one of the three went behind the other’s back, but so far the Trust managed to keep the situation away from an all-out war.

Call to Arms

Since most of the regulations and codes of conduct faded right after the System remained isolated, the members of the New Trust agreed that the use of military force against other factions of the System was fair game, and rapidly invested resources in creating the most streamlined and economically efficient designs to rapidly raise armies to be shipped in all corners of Luyten.

The R&D teams are constantly work to improve and refine each of the designs (often in the perspective of an war within the Trust), but the general look of the Conglomerate forces tends to be quite uniform across the system, with different detachments often distinguished by brightly coloured panels on their hulls and armours.

Air Superiority

Part of the enormous amount of resources the Conglomerate had left after the Schism went towards the design of largebattle-capable Surface Capable Vessels (SCVs).

Before the Singularity, higher access to electronic warfare and space facilities had discouraged most forces from designing such vehicles, preferring lighter drop pods or fleets of shuttles that were kept away from the battlefront.

Now, with most of the advanced tech lost, the Trust Gunships started playing a very important role in projecting power and rapidly neutralizing threats. The newly conquered air superiority gave the three corporations a powerful advantage and is arguably the main reason they got to take control of so many valuable territories.