- Description
- The only thing resembling an interstellar government is the megacorp "Arctern Trading Company" (Arctern Trading Company), which has a monopoly on interstellar space travel.
- The ATC is the last remaining interstellar merchant company, preceding The Great Fall almost destroyed all known sentient life almost a thousand years ago
- The ATC began as an inter-planetary joint-stock company to facilitate and fund trade between colony planets, but invested heavily in FTL (Faster Than Light) travel research (and suspiciously, which no other venture has managed to research or understand), and now has the monopoly on interstellar travel
- Interplanetary travel is far more common, and many smaller trade/travel companies exist to move people and resources between intra-solar planets
- A solar system's membership in the ATC is completely optional and negotiable, and any system that leaves the ATC is simply no longer traded with…
- …however, there are rumors that the ATC has discovered technology to initiate rapid-onset super-nova in stars. Real or not, there are few systems that elect not to participate.
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