Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26535281-20161016020142/@comment-26084195-20161020014438

They split off because the laws of the Galactic Council, which they had recently joined, was stifling them. By stifling, of course I mean preventing them from doing immoral things in the name of profit. With the Directorate gone, with them went two things: first, quite a large amount of the Terran Alliance's research and development especially in weapons design (Works Raptor was almost the only name in weapons design by the end), and second, most of the corporate evils in the Alliance. This also drove the Terrans to make a research pact with the Jol'nar, which was a big part of their meteoric rise to power.