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== Nanotrasen ==
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:''"Everywhere we go, Nanotrasen's already been!"''
 
::-A candid complaint from Laura Kripac, senior TerraGov intelligence officer, after learning Nanotrasen preempted TG on pulse weapon technology by ten years. The quote leaked to the press, and has been an unofficial motto among NT workers ever since.
 
 
'''Nanotrasen''' is a very, very large and important company. A company so large, in fact, that at least half a century has passed since it became large enough to receive a charter from TerraGov to form its own expeditionary fleets and establish its own settlements outside the Sol system. While a large portion of their investments are tied up in Sol, they were notably the first private corporation to be granted such a charter and invest heavily in the distant reaches of space. At the time it was regarded as an incredibly risky gamble, and there was great speculation that all the money spent on exploring space and launching deep space missions would end up a waste that would sink the company, but the gambit has more than paid off and Nanotrasen's portfolio has soared since.
 
Primarily an advanced research and development conglomerate, Nanotrasen also has skin in many other fields. While a great deal of their income still comes from producing public research funded by government research grants, their operations also include directly producing and selling their most profitable designs, leasing their asset protection forces to governments and private organizations (both space fleets and ground troops), logistics management with a specialization in remote settlement self-sufficiency, and maintaining interstellar communication infrastructures to name a few. The common theme that runs through most of their business ventures is taking the lessons they've learned from operating on such a massive scale and helping smaller organizations stretch themselves.
 
As large and powerful as they are, Nanotrasen is still beholden to oversight.
 
 
=== Fields of research ===
 
As a fancy research company, Nanotrasen does a lot of groundbreaking research, in a vast array of fields. Due to environmental and political factors, some fields of research in particular have been relegated to the Spinward Periphery, away from government eyes.
 
* '''Plasma extraction and refining''': The original target of the Periphery Space Station project, plasma has a variety of applications from creating devastating bombs and firestorms, to use in energy generation processes, and many other more exotic and less well understood fields. The long term effects of exposure to plasma and many of its properties are still unknown, and are likely not good. Despite this, Nanotrasen makes a pretty penny extracting it from the Spinward Periphery and selling it to cash-flush and energy-hungry organizations like TerraGov.
* '''Bluespace technology''': Teleportation and faster than light travel. Obvious applications both on a large (spaceship FTL drives) and small (tactical individual teleportation kits) level. While basic Bluespace Theory and FTL travel is known and studied back in Sol, it's speculated that Nanotrasen are decades ahead in their private research.
* '''Alternative energy sources''': Whether it's braving the event horizon of a black hole to collect its radiation, detonating an entire hyper-dense planet to extract the supermatter at its core, or any of another half dozen highly dangerous and exotic energy generation methods, NT has no shortage of encouraging research directions for energy. The interesting work, emphasis on rapid iteration, and seemingly endless project funding makes Nanotrasen an especially popular company among engineers.
* '''Biology and xenobiology''': Due to strict government oversight and regulations on medical research, Nanotrasen has traditionally paid little attention to the field in favor of less regulated options like weapons development and communications technology. With more room to breathe since moving to deep space, Nanotrasen has begun conducting biology experiments both on humanoids and utterly xenobiological creatures. Little of this research is actually released to the public in Nanotrasen's name, however, for fear of explaining their methodologies. Instead, the research is either kept in-house or sent to shell labs for release to avoid being linked to NT.
 
 
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* The humble Beach Ball is one of Nanotrasen's most profitable products!
 
 
== The Syndicate ==
 
:''"Oh, you're fucking kidding me."''
 
::-An anonymous Syndicate operative, unwittingly quoting the unofficial motto of the Syndicate.
 
Life as a senior member of the '''Syndicate''', the loose coalition of shady organizations with grudges against Nanotrasen, must be a special kind of hell. For all of the dastardly plots they've hatched, all of the lives and resources sacrificed on their missions, and all of the skullduggery and betrayal that quickly consume their daily lives, the Syndicate have made little progress in dismantling NT. Even in the rare cases where their plots are pulled off successfully, dumb luck seems to intervene in Nanotrasen's favor and minimize any actual harm. One incredibly complicated run of espionage over nine months in the making culminated in the successful activation of the nuclear self-destruct terminal on Space Station 6 in 2555, to the elation of the Syndicate ringleaders. Their celebration was cut short, however, when it came out that Space Station 6 had become infected with a cancerous biomass that was rapidly taking over the station. The self-destruct measure successfully detonated, destroying both the station and the blob. The loss of Space Station 6 was a heavy blow for Nanotrasen, but the outcome was far less disastrous than the alternative of the blob claiming the entire station and reproducing. And, of course, most of the Syndicate's attempts to publish incriminating and embarrassing documents of Nanotrasen's misdeeds on the Periphery have resulted in just as much good press as bad press, if not more.
 
 
=== Syndicate Factions ===
 
There are many flavors of Syndies, and many reasons for their escalations of force against Nanotrasen. Some see armed resistance as a simple next step in the cutthroat world of business on the Periphery, while others see themselves as morally-justified freedom fighters battling against an oppressive goliath. Then, of course, there are a great number of brutes and anarchists who traded in their bricks and molotovs for machine guns and X4, plus a target to use them on. Below is a non-exhaustive list of Syndicate factions, as well as a summary of each one. (WIP)
 
==== Cybersun Industries ====
 
 
==== MI13 ====
 
 
==== Tiger Cooperative ====
 
 
==== SELF ====
 
 
==== Animal Rights Consortium ====
 
 
==== Gorlex Marauders ====
 
 
==== Donk Corporation ====
 
 
==== Waffle Corporation ====

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