The Corporations

Overview
The Corporations are a loose alliance of interplanetary companies and trade associations, supplying Earth and the Five Colonies with everything from farming equipment to hover bikes, and everything else you can imagine. Some of the larger companies, such as ExMob and Queenscourt Inc., are effectively their own nations, with their own private armies, despite the Federation’s objections.

It’s no secret that they fund the Insurrection, but neither the Militia or the Federation can do anything to stop that. What is a secret, is that the Corporations are brainwashing settlers do their dirty work, under the false hope of ‘independance’.

History
Contrary to popular belief, the Corporations actually predate the Federation, going back to the last days of WWIII. The various CEOs of Earth’s many multinational companies sat in bunkers, as the East and the West began to launch nuclear weapons. Weapons which they knew that they had supplied. After the dust had settled, they started again, producing more weapons for humanity to kill each other with. But when the Federation was founded, they almost entirely outlawed the Corporations right to manufacture firearms, in an effort to prevent another war. And thus, the Federation-Corporation stand-off began.