Mabach Micoru

Founded in A.Y. 4107, Mabach Micoru was the first of the so-called "mega corporations" to form during a 600-year period known as The Corporate Era. Micoru formed on the basis of the Mabach Consortium, which had gained voting control over a number of conglomerates with multi-world business connections. The pooled resources of the mega-corp gave them the power to begin colonizing worlds. Ostensibly, this was for the purposes of resource exploitation, but unnoficially, the colonies granted them the right to begin buying a fielding armored warships. Within 20 years, Mabach had a fleet of sub-dreadnoughts capable of going toe-to-toe with Alliance regulars. As the Gudersnipe Foundation had few inroads in the regions of space in which this was going on, they were unable to interject.

Corpocracy

Mabach was known as the most aggressive, least caring of the corporate states. While not created deliberately, most corporate worlds had rigid caste systems, with the majority of "employees" living in abject poverty, while a privileged few became incredibly wealthy. In violation of Alliance law, Mabach issued its own currency, which was not honored outside it's 'company towns'; a matter which further kept the work-force indentured to them. Only those wealthy enough to trade in actual currencies had a chance of leave, but these were the privileged few who enjoyed more luxuries under corporate rule.

Fleet

Mabach began by refitting old long-haul passenger ships. Since these were typically built to much higher standards than

This series of events took place in The World, and while many of the mega-corps had ties to off-world assets, most were functionally unusable during th

The Mabach Consortium gains voting majority in six publicly-traded mega-corporations, forming Mabach Micoru, and beginning The Corporate Era.