Factions
Present Day Factions
The 4th Jupiter Republic
Name (long): The 4th Jupiter Republic
Names (short): 4th Republic, Jovians, Neo Jovians
Society: Post-scarcity Republic
Capital: Neo Callisto
Executive: President Okada
Legislature: Supreme Senate
Population: 2,350,000
They consider themselves the heirs of human civilization, the 4th Jupiter Republic is actually a far-flung colony of the 3rd Jupiter Republic. Their recovery was jump-started by a powerful artifact known as a Jupiter Standard Codex, containing production schematics for a variety of Jupiter Republic civilian and military hardware. The Codex also contained the codes necessary to open posthuman caches and re-activate interstellar gates. After a few false starts, the Republic finally activated a gate to other surviving polity, heralding the age of the Reconnect.
The 4th Jupiter Republic is a unicameral republic, with a single senate made up of 45 senators. It's population is extremely small and augmented by significant amounts of automation and androids, both robotic and biorobotic. Jovians tend to be self-centered but pragmatic.
Historical Factions
The Megacorps of the pre-collapse era were responsible for the design and manufacture of many items. While scattered enclaves of these once mighty institutions still exist, most of them only exist as brand names etched on pre-collapse artifacts.
3rd Jupiter Republic Energy Consortium
Primary Headquarters: Europa
Important Subsidiaries: Unobtanium Mining & Moondust Construction.
The 3rd Jupiter Republic Energy Consortium was a corporation that deal primarily in the fields of helium gas extraction, fusion fuel products and transport, as well as reactor design and operation. As one of the major precollapse demarchy corporations, it had extensive ties with posthumanity. It's majority shareholder was the 3rd Republic itself.
Titan Dynamics
Primary Headquarters: Titan
Important Subsidiaries: Lockheed North, Winchester Mechanical
Titan Dynamics was a leading manufactorer of high end military hardware, including starships and aerospace vehicles. At it's height during the Outer System Renaissance led by the 3rd Jupiter Republic, it owned various subsidiaries which were responsible for civilian model freighters, spinners etc.
BAE-Zaibach System’s
Primary Headquarters: Luna
Important Subsidiaries: Bahamut Hyperdiamond
Formed by the merger of a earth based corporation and one based on mars, corporations BAE-Zaibach Systems was a designer and manufacturer of military and civilian electronics, vehicles and was also a construction magnate, thanks to Bahamut Hyperdiamond, a leading designer and producer of hyperdiamond based architecture.
Voltz Tek-Mitsubishi
Primary headquarters: Earth
Important Subsidiaries: Genesis Life
Voltz Tek-Mitsubishi designed and constructs some of the most highly advanced non-posthuman derived technology in known space. Both a civilian corporation and a military contractor, it was responsible for everything from groundcars, spinners, to laser rifles and armoured vehicles. Due to the rarity of it’s technology, it charged a high price to consumers and ownership of a battalion equipped with Voltz Model 90 Laser Rifles was considered prestigious to the expensive of their manufacture.