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that provided a one-click military solution anywhere in theworld, dropping bombs like ordering pizzas – was EmpireManagement, originally an internet logistics firm run by ChadHarrigan and Buck Smith, a pair of Muscle Marys from VeniceBeach, California.Empire’s rise to dominance was fast, thanks to the terrorismscares of the 2030s. It was often rumoured that Empire’s boyssupplied the terrorists too – indeed, that they instigated minorinsurgencies in key mineral territories when the global warfarelevels dropped. Empire’s troops, raised in private camps towork in squads called ‘legions’, were recognised as the best onthe planet. Soon, warring factions could bid against each otherfor Empire’s protection in a territory – with the auction loseroften surrendering and the winner paying the full fee, with notroops or bombs ever deployed.With the private space race in full flight, Chad and Bucksaw a new opportunity. They approached the managementof Noxium, offering them a simple deal; access to space inreturn for the elimination of their competitors. Noxium agreedand, in a series of short-lived skirmishes, space became thefiefdom of the two corporations, with Empire absorbing othermilitary firms, and pretty much merging with the US military.An internal marketing-squad renamed the firm Imperium in thelate 2060s, in parody of the Solar Dynasty.Chad and Buck didn’t make it through the 2070s – a loopholein their procurement software saw a disgruntled employeedump a small satellite-rod on their rural Californian home,obliterating it and the local area – and the company was left intrust for their body-building club. Operationally, it was takenover by a young veteran, James Heid, a self-styled admiral,who’d grown up in the Spartan training camps of Ceres.32
Within a few years ofHeid’s appointment, hisfirst major challengearrived; the Pandoradiscovery and therevelation that Noxiumwas working on transportswithout the involvement ofImperium. Heid’s reactionwas characteristicallycalm. During a long-distance conference call with the Noxium board,he raised the issue – and was rejected, explicitly. At which pointHeid panned his camera to reveal that he was on Callisto, alreadysilently conquered by his troops, under his personal command, andthat they had seized the prototype colony ship.Heid’s decision to fly personally to Pandora is pragmatic. Hisforces don’t need Pandora – but the company’s pride couldn’tstand the concept of wars without Imperium, and he was surewar was going to come on Pandora.NOXIUM CORPORATION“In this day and age, supply and demand arethe driving forces behind our society. I madean immeasurable fortune by understanding themarket, by buying and selling at the right times,and to the right people. In this world, providedyou have the liquidity, nothing is impossible.”– Director Eric Preston, Planetary Markets***33
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