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| - | The first true [[MegaCorp]] in the modern sense of the word, Galactic Energy Supplies is the most powerful (literally) of the MegaCorps in operation in the [[Orion Sphere]]. It was founded in the Ascendancy in 1345PT, after a series of mergers and hostile takeovers between a cluster of power generation and storage companies that remained outside the direct control of the [[Noble Houses]]. At that period in Terran society, the majority of energy generation was done locally, for the demands of the immediate facility or world. Research in energy generation and storage was small-scale, fragmented, and usually kept secret by the individual Houses. The size and infrastructure of GES allowed it to combine a lot of the different technologies from its forebears to rapidly make developments and technologically leap ahead of its competition - especially in the construction of large-scale orbital facilities. After a decade of consolidation, GES began to develop large-scale orbital projects; He-3 collecting stations orbiting gas giants; solar collectors spread across vast areas on barren planets, and titanic orbital mirrors. | + | ---- |
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| + | The first true [[megacorps|MegaCorp]] in the modern sense of the word, Galactic Energy Supplies is the most powerful (literally) of the MegaCorps in operation in the [[Orion Sphere]]. It was founded in the Ascendancy in 1345PT, after a series of mergers and hostile takeovers between a cluster of power generation and storage companies that remained outside the direct control of the [[Noble Houses]]. At that period in Terran society, the majority of energy generation was done locally, for the demands of the immediate facility or world. Research in energy generation and storage was small-scale, fragmented, and usually kept secret by the individual Houses. The size and infrastructure of GES allowed it to combine a lot of the different technologies from its forebears to rapidly make developments and technologically leap ahead of its competition - especially in the construction of large-scale orbital facilities. After a decade of consolidation, GES began to develop large-scale orbital projects; He-3 collecting stations orbiting gas giants; solar collectors spread across vast areas on barren planets, and titanic orbital mirrors. | ||
| The move into space-based facilities required development of independent logistical chains, fully controlled by GES rather than the Houses. Slowly, in order to facilitate their operations, GES begin to decouple themselves from the Ascendancy's authority. They moved to take over energy generation requirements for smaller Houses, then larger ones, eventually becoming an essential, but relatively autonomous component of Ascendancy infrastructure. In 1650PT Galactic Energy Supplies issued the first [[ges currency|Energy Chits]], redeemable for a fixed 1 Planck Energy Unit each at any GES facility. The consistency of this currency allowed it to be a consistent benchmark for inter-system trade. This, combined with the widespread presence of GES facilities for redeeming them made the Energy Chit a far more useful currency than the various fiat and commodity-backed currencies in use at the time. Within a century, the Energy Chit was the de-facto currency of all of Known Space. By this time, GES had so much influence in Ascendancy society that they were able to lobby Houses and planetary governments for special status, laying the framework which allowed them to become the first MegaCorp, independent of Factional authority. | The move into space-based facilities required development of independent logistical chains, fully controlled by GES rather than the Houses. Slowly, in order to facilitate their operations, GES begin to decouple themselves from the Ascendancy's authority. They moved to take over energy generation requirements for smaller Houses, then larger ones, eventually becoming an essential, but relatively autonomous component of Ascendancy infrastructure. In 1650PT Galactic Energy Supplies issued the first [[ges currency|Energy Chits]], redeemable for a fixed 1 Planck Energy Unit each at any GES facility. The consistency of this currency allowed it to be a consistent benchmark for inter-system trade. This, combined with the widespread presence of GES facilities for redeeming them made the Energy Chit a far more useful currency than the various fiat and commodity-backed currencies in use at the time. Within a century, the Energy Chit was the de-facto currency of all of Known Space. By this time, GES had so much influence in Ascendancy society that they were able to lobby Houses and planetary governments for special status, laying the framework which allowed them to become the first MegaCorp, independent of Factional authority. | ||
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