Library Data:Megacorporation

Library Data Milieu 1116 

A large scale stock company with activities spanning the entire Imperium.

Only 13 companies are acknowledged to be megacorporations. Because of their size, megacorporations have truly astronomical numbers of employees, shareholders and profits. Their upper level executives labor at broad policy questions, and are largely out of contact with day-to-day (and even year-to-year) activities of the corporation. The real power in the company lies in the hands of the regional managers (under whatever title they have) who control the actual operations of the business. While they may control only a small fraction of the megacorporation’s assets, they wield more power in some areas than do the representatives of the Imperial government.

A small number of lmperial regulatory agencies have power over megacorporations, and they are subject to any applicable local taxes, but, provided they do not blatantly violate lmperial sovereignty, regional managers can usually conduct their company's business as they see fit. Because a direct confrontation with the lmperium would be bad for business, intentional violation of lmperial laws is done only on a covert basis.

There are 13 Imperial megacorporations:

• Delgado Trading, LIC
• General Products, LIC
• GSbAG, LIC
• Hortalez et Cie, LIC
• Instellarms, LIC
• LingStandard Products, LIC
• Makhidkarun
• Naasirka
• SuSAG, LIC
• Sharurshid
• Sternmetal Horizons, LIC
• Tukera Lines, LIC
• Zirunkariish

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

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