Mega Corp: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|And the whole affair is a giant, ultimately disposable front. For the actual government that is supposedly ''its'' thinly veiled puppet. Talk about a [[Double Blind]]}}.

** Although Manpower is widespread and powerful, they are not alone in being a system spanning Mega corp. Kinder examples such as the Hauptman Cartel and Honor's own company. Not to mention the Mafia planets like Erewhon.

* The novel ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'' by Margaret Atwood features many of these, most of which are bio-corporations or health 'care' industries. The employees of these corporations live in secure compounds, seperated from the ordinary city, which they believe is dangerous and disease-riddled. These Megacorporations also have their own security corps, the Corpsecorps, which has replaced ordinary law enforcement and is a commercial and very corrupt company.

* ''Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles'' (CHOAM (roughly translated as "The Corporation of Honest Profit Traders")), [[Dune]]. They control all interstellar business in the Imperium except for star travel.

* In Andrey Livadny's ''[[The History of the Galaxy]]'', the Galactic Cybersystems Corpotation used to be the primary provider of all cybernetics (from household robots to infantry droids and [[Humongous Mecha]]) for most of the known worlds. However, they reached their limit, and the heads of the corporation were afraid of a crackdown if they attempt to step beyond the legal and ethical norms imposed by [[The Federation]]. They decide to lay low for awhile, letting their competition make these steps and then come back when the laws and ethical norms have changed. It didn't quite work out this way, and Galactic Cybersystems disappeared virtually overnight due to over-consolidation (all R&D and production was done on a single planet known only to a few). The corporation was powerful enough to have its own [[Humongous Mecha]] and a private fleet. Later novels have many smaller corporations that qualify as Mega Corps by owning several worlds each, many of them striving to free themselves from the "oppressive" laws of [[The Federation]] ([[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]). One of these, under threat from a (deserved) crackdown, decides to strike out against [[The Federation]] and hold it hostage.

* In ''[[The Unidentified]]'' by Rae Mariz, these corporations run schools. After the government ran out of money for schools, corporations bought old malls and turned them into schools, calling them "the Game". The schools are basically places for the teens to be marketed to and for them to test products.

 

== Live-Action TV ==