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

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 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.

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

More commonly known as Phoenix Labs.

Also known as NOMAD, Cosmica Sidera is a preeminent shipbuilding in the outer solar system

Notes to self with cinema references

The industrial colony of Tetropolis was founded as a cybernetic research and production center, designing and producing robots and autons for the Atlantic Federation Lunar State. ElectraCorp was to be the controlling corporation. Things didn't go as planned.

A very low key, almost completely unknown branch of the Atlantic Federation central government

The pre-eminent industrial power of the Carinelle Cluster and the Confederation of Stars

Synchronize... The Humans make for interesting study. synchronize...