Pan Galactic Corporation

This one will be done a little differently than the others. After all we are talking about PGC the first megacorp (although if you think about it they weren’t). Everyone knows their story, started small but acquired everything and just kept building. You could find better quality, you could find better prices but you could not find the quality for the price for a PGC product or service. Plus many times you could not find anything else. PGC was everywhere including many places others were not.

Then other megacorps began to rise, and they did so aggressively, leading up to a 10 year war between PGC and Streel. Think about that for a moment. The first corporate war was twice as long as both Sathar Wars combined. No one will ever know the total loss of life, starships and property except maybe the accounting departments of both megacorps and they ain’t talking. After the dust had settled one thing was certain. PGC changed and changed drastically.

Now instead of making and selling everything, PGC is now focused in a few areas; financial needs, industrial research, funding exploration, loans for business upstarts, investments and funding new governments. They still own hundreds of smaller companies and the mysterious Trojan Enterprises but what are they really up to? Conspiracy theorists across the Frontier stay up late in their spore parent’s basement posting the latest news, gossip, rumors and conjecture. Here are the top seven of those theories:

1)      The Laco War broke PGC and they were forced into a massive need to raise capital. The UPF secretly feared the entire Frontier economy would collapse. Declaring PGC “to big to fail” the UPF has been propping them up.

2)      PGC actually did fail and the UPF took over the megacorp. Now the UPF uses PGC as its secret bank and through Galactic Task Force secret muscle.

3)      PGC discovered something in the Tetrach ruins. Whatever it was it changed the entire direction of the megacorp and now they are perusing that against all other considerations.

4)      Through the use of controlled agents, the Sathar have taken over PGC. The Sathar have switched to an economic war and plan of first destroying the UPF economy and then moving in a new fleet.

5)      PGC has identified an even greater threat to the UPF than the Sathar and are preparing to defend against it. The threat is so unbelievable that they could not trust the UPF with it and are handling it in house.

6)      The board of the PGC has decided to take over the UPF. The Laco War showed them that they could get away with it and are now building up the resources to do it.

7)      This one is really a catch all for the truly weird theories out there. Things involving a return to the Yazirian homeworld, creating an android replacement for everyone in the UPF or something to do with a strange and obscure religion involving forces. Add your own here.

While all this may seem outlandish you must remember PGC went from the largest employer in the Frontier to the smallest employer among the megacorps (they hire Galactic Task Force for most of their workers now). They liquidated unknown trillions in assets so probably have the largest liquid capital of any megacorp plus their investments are paying more than most planets GDPs so what are they doing with all the credits? The conspiracy beings may be right or the truth could be even more frightening.