A nation-state spread across several Trans-Neptunian dwarf planets

AKA the Chess Bank, or BidE

Better known as the Dollar Store Military Supplier, the Wish of heavy equipment

aka the Late Petroleum Era copyrighted ethnic cuisine

Paramilitary units designed from the ground up to engage in humanitarian aid

A violent and contentious contest for who earns the right to call herself Catwoman, and a brief history of it.

A clandestine chapter of augmented men and rare women who've devoted their lives to thwarting the dangers of arcanotech and the horrors that come from it

The CogNet is not a monolithic computer deity, and is not beholden to any single central system, no god-like architect sitting in a control center. It is a decentralized, disassociated, barely cohesive system known by a dozen names across the solar system. The Matrix, the Oasis, the Nexus, the Wired, it's all an electronic dream.

The Ministry of Fandom sometimes resorts to carrying out assassinations on various individuals as a very last resort option to protect a fandom. However this is done very rarely and only when the targeted individual meets a strict set of criteria. The kill itself is also performed using only a set of approved methods.

Also known as ARGs, Argos, Arcos, Arcoboys, Arcobois, and other derogatory terms.

There was a time when a certain video game companies took their protectionism to such extremes that the Ministry had to resort to using black sites to secretly interrogate employees who relentlessly interfered with fan activites.

A social group living in the damaged Eurasian Alliance city of Augustgrad

The Writers' Guild is an obscure, old club whose members are a gaggle of eccentric writers and dilettantes. It has long been a productive society, publishing a vast number of high quality, yet little known works.

This is a Front Company owned and operated by the Ministry of Fandom. It suppies money to struggling game studios to prevent valuable IPs from falling victim to more unscruplious companies.

A public facing branch of the Ministry of Fandom dedicated to diversifying and maintaining the integrity of popular IPs.

The NHL is a major force inside the Atlantic Commonwealth, and while commonly associated with Germany, where it was founded, the league is not a regional, cultural, or ethnic organization, it is a logistical and technological one.

Another one of the secret branches of the Ministry of Fandom. Dedicated specifically for clandestine ops in the Video Game industry. This one gets assistence from Directorate C.

The rather simplistic abbreviation of the Space Elevator Mass Driver and Rocket Corporation, a large and power exonational hypercorp

Background material for a Novel based around street racing, drug culture, and a tyrannical state. The Big Six represent the six most influential groups in the underground culture of Speedworld.

A covert branch dedicated to subverting various threats to fandoms using controversial methods.