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Revision as of 18:24, 12 June 2020
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 freighters. By the 4160s, they had the resources to begin fielding purpose-built warships. Wherever possible, they would obtain actual surplus military vessels, and even obtained a few former Crimson Blade warships bought from wrecking yards. Their ships were easily powerful enough to tangle with Alliance military, as well as any of the member-worlds. Being well outside the power base of the Runarin star empire and other large multi-world governments gave them virtual impunity.
The large-scale colonies, dubbed 'corporate worlds' gave them the ability to domestically produce N1 technology, and they were known to be in aggressive pursuit of strategic weapons.
