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The Squeeze

Background — Not an organization. A pattern that independent operators notice only in aggregate, and usually only after their own paper has already changed hands.

Veldris Group

Background — A resource conglomerate that does its work in an office tower rather than on a moon. Strategic Analysis on the twenty-second floor decides which moons the work happens on.

Markov Protectorate

Background — Proof that human space was never one thing. The Protectorate had borders and soldiers before the Integration arrived and did not stop having them afterward.

Fringe Express

Background — In the absence of faster-than-light communication, correspondence has a crew. Fringe Express moves it on schedule, and moves other things because the captains were already going.

Helix Colonial Survey

Background — The organization that had people standing in an Architect site when the Integration switched on. Everything Helix is now is downstream of that accident of scheduling.

Integration Assessment Office (IAO)

Background — The institution that writes down what the Integration did to people. It has no fleet and very little money, and it holds the only comprehensive list of who is what.

House Rhyssen

Background — A name on a claim, asserted at distance against corporations already on the ground. Whether anything stands behind the name has not been established.

House Tyveren

Background — A household that has stopped growing and knows it. What Tyveren still owns is the right to grant permission, and it is selling that right by the charter.

House Veldrath

Background — Fourteen systems held by a family rather than a government. The distinction matters less than outsiders expect and more than residents can afford to say.

Midveil-Soros

Background — Six people, well-equipped, working for someone who paid to stay unnamed. The equipment says frontier corporate. It does not say which one.

Cryden Bioanalytics

Background — Presents as a research outfit operating on Quietist principles at the edge of human space. The presentation is the product.

Blackline Corporation Legal Division

Background — The part of Blackline that appears in a room with your name on a docket. It brings no weapons and does not need to.

Blackline Corporation

Background — Where Meridian is legible, Blackline is not. It holds assets through subsidiaries, fields forces indistinguishable from a rival's, and conducts its business through a legal division that appears in person only when the outcome is already arranged.

Meridian Enforcement Corps (MEC)

Background — The armed arm of an extraction company, contracted outward. The MEC observes what the system says about a recruit and assigns accordingly, while stating plainly that it does not claim to know how the system works.

Meridian Colony Corporation

Background — A colonial charter operator rather than an extractive one. Meridian Colony Corporation plants settlements and administers them, which makes it the institution most Saluvane residents actually deal with — the office that approves a resource allocation, not the one tha…

Meridian Holdings

Background Meridian Holdings is what the frontier looks like when it is profitable. The corporation extracts, refines, moves, and surveys across multiple frontier systems, and it has been doing so long enough that its institutional history is measured in decades rather than quart…

Deep Access // File 05 — Conscription Infrastructure

// CLEARANCE Your profile carries six numbers. You've spent four files raising them. A civilian analyst named Naleth Corin once sat down to work out what all six are actually for. She was the kind of analyst who finishes the query she started. When the case closed, she did not sl…

Deep Access // File 04 — What Six Hundred Years Buys

// CLEARANCE Every raise you buy on this site costs more than the one before it. That's the prime curve. It runs your profile, and it runs the whole galaxy on the same arithmetic. You have a way out of a profile you regret. Sit the quiz again. It measures you from nothing, and ev…