Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20171015000625

The Hegemony is the largest of the Terran Nations and suggested by it's name is the most important and for the most part dominates all other factions. They are what truly unites the many vast and different human cultures together into one mish mass melting pot with only some ethnic and civil conflicts.

The Hegemony rules over a vast stretch of the Milky Way and through the other Terran nations (not fully absorbed) much of the Milky Way and it's intergalactic neighbors. The Hegemony at it's core is ruled by the Hegemon a 'president for life' elected by the Senators. The Senators themselves are either elected officials, appointed, or bought seats by the largest corporations and firms in the Hegemony. Such examples are:

- The Anbani Family who runs the 'Yelaiance Corporation' is a old company dating back to Earth itself. They focus on energy production and petrochemicals, pretty much the fuel that keeps the hegemony running. They personal own their own sector where they can pretty much do what ever they want as long as they keep the fuel running into the Hegemony.

-  The Arnault Family has long focused on producing luxury goods from perfume, make up, to importing fancy stones and art for the rich and wealthy to play around with. They run the Henneski Shipping Guild who has a iron grip on shipping on the outer reaches of the Orion arm and the trade lanes that run to the core worlds.

- The Zongsu Family has long produced the workers necessary for the survival of the Hegemony this includes Replicants as well as the machines and even sentient 'slaves' that have been collected by all sorts of means.

The Hegemony is a mix of a Kraterocracy, Plutocracy, and a Oligarchy in which violence, murder, and crime is rather common (although generally kept to the slums and skids and outside the public eye, or at least the middle class and above eye's).

In this society money and power mean anything and those that don't have it have nothing. Such people are simply laborers or for the truly down trodden the urban poor who thrive off of street shops, hard labor, or if they are lucky work in the mega corporations or the military.

Most citizens of the Hegemony and most residents live within the massive cities that stretch across almost any world that the Hegemony has colonized a few paradise worlds exist, but they are play grounds for the rich and most other worlds are simply colonies for resources or military outposts. 