Futuristic [LORE] Sail the Stars: Information Desk

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Riverton Corporation

Five Lines did not go down gently. The trials ripped the company's board of directors apart, with the help of a few brave whistleblowers who assisted in the collecting of crucial evidence. Riverton Corporation, lead by Adam Magnus Riverton, was a remainder of the once giant corporation. Adam and 42 other members who formed Riverton were whistleblowers of Five Lines, who sought to build a cleaner company that helped the public rather than use it for their own profit.
Consisting of members of Five Lines that were, comparably, charged with lighter punishment(though the shortest time spent in prison among the founding members was 12 years), Riverton wrote a new record for corporations to be the only one where the founding members had a criminal record. Obviously, the public's view of this reborn former war monger was not pretty. Many denounced them for their former affiliation with Five Lines, and some jokingly commented on the whole company consisting of whistleblowers being "at gunpoint 24/7".
Asd Adam had intended, Riverton started with social business first. They helped in the construction of basic infrastructure in many colonies as humanity drifted in space. Establishing close range communication was their profession too-with a ragtag bunch picked here and there from a gigantic corporation they had someone who could do something among their ranks.
Riverton's reputation improved over time thanks to Adam and the bunch working hard to contribute to the society. While Adam wanted Riverton to stay the way they did, his successor thought otherwise. Once most of the corporation's original members retired, Daniel Shallows, the second CEO of Riverton, started getting his hands on other business. Fashion, diet food products, brand pens, and not so long after, weapons. Daniel saw Riverton as more just another company that wanted to climb up the ladder of competition rather than a successor of a giant sin. And he acted accordingly, devoting himself to growing the company from over a small part of a galaxy to over countless galaxies.
Up to current time, starting with Daniel, there has been no movement to restore Riverton to what Adam had sought to make. It is the biggest corporation of humanity, seen anywhere a human lives.

 

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Clairvoyance Cataclysm

Clairvoyance Cataclysm, founded by former U-Gov Senator Steven Lionheart and Strong AI Douglas, always has been a part of the AI business. Steven himself was the one who pushed the passing of the law to allow for self-awareness installed AI to be able to gain citizenship(which, after the forming of Peace Committee, was edited a little to follow intergalactic guidelines for citizenships). Douglas was the first AI to gain citizenship(in the human part of the world at least- other parts of the universe is yet to confirm related history), and the first to found a company too. The two were close friends far before CC came to be.
CC was also the first human corporation to "hire" AI's with citizenship instead of "utilizing" them. With the combination of human and robotic points of view, the company practiced the creation of countless AI's. The scale varied greatly, from bluetooth speaker AI to PMC spacecraft AI's. While the company itself has never manufactured their own brand of weapons, they help the development of AI's used for various smart weapons(firearms, missiles, and the like).
While other companies(and the U-Gov too) concentrate mostly on the technical functions on the AI and less on their personality, Clairvoyance Cataclysm attempted to make them more "human". Upon improving the already existing brain scanning technology, the company gathered countless scans from volunteers to research the various personalities and how they came to be, and how to "express" them as an AI's point of view. Such research required more trials and errors- side projects such as Olive Branch Project, Aether Project and more were launched to improve. Such projects are mostly still ongoing.