Astrotech Cartel

The Astrotech Cartel is the largest manufacturer of spaceships of all types, including Flying saucers, asteroid ships, and Space-to-planet rocket ships in both the Imperial Republic and all the known universe. It also is engaged in the production of robots, computers, energy weapons, artificial gravity generators, and space stations.

It was founded as a private interstellar corporation by a group of Star Elves and Asguardian Dwarfs who originally represented industrial guilds that manufactured spaceships and commercial guilds that engaged in interplanetary trade within the now-defunct Star League.

By Year 35,000, the Astrotech Cartel had absorbed a number of Big Business interests represented by humans and had already won the right to appoint, non-noble, non-hereditary members of the Imperial Parliament.

In the politics represented by the Red and Blue Parties and Neutrals, the non-human shareholders tend to lean Neutral while the human shareholders tend to either be Red partisans or staunchly Blue.

The Astrotech Cartel frequently employs Orks, unlike many "purely human" employers.