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

30 Megacorps for your futuristic space dystopias and general sci-fi

Fenix Technologies is an AmeroNipponese biosciences boutique corporation

The Armed Forces of the Atlantic Federation have their own internal culture, one born out of centuries of limited warfare and the levels of rivalry and cooperation required for the military arm of what is a multi-national New Earth MegaGovernment

More commonly known as Phoenix Labs.

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

A major mercenary force in the Cosmic Era

The goal of the Edenic Garden Society is the creation of 'Seeds of Humanity' or colonization pods that can be fired off into the void and start new civilizations when they reach their destination

Notes to self with cinema references

The front line of law enforcement and peacekeeping forces in the Cosmic Era

Once a murder has happened, to go back in time and prevent it might seriously mess with the timeline, and that is where the Time Patrol's Murder Squad comes in. They try not to kill anybody themselves, except in emergency defence of themselves or the timeline, but they are known as the Murder Squad because they are there to make sure the murders of the past happen.

A cruise line operator in the Cosmic Era

The AFEC is the colonial and scientific branch of the Atlantic Federation Navy

The Doomseekers are a faction within the House of the Forsaken that have as their goal the creation of a biological Doomsday weapon

The offspring of Political Action Committees and Lobby groups

The IronCorps is a multinational security company frequently employed by celebrities, corporate BODs, and other high profile non-government VIPs.

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.

The House of the Forsaken replaced the failed Order of Ixion with the cyborg commandos of the Gendarme Maschina

A low end private security force, the Order of Ixium operated as the enforcers and henchmen of the House of the Forsaken

Here is the governing hierarchy of a standard western style modern military. This is mostly just an amalgamation of the military rankings used primarily within the US and UK armed forces with some inventions of my own. (For example, I gave the OF-10 to OF-7 Air Force ranks the title of 'Marshal' just to make them more distinct from their Naval and Army counterparts.) If you're wondering how I came up with this list, I used this link as a frame of reference: http://legacy.koveras.org/ranks/ranks.html