It started simply enough. Some pissed off engineers walked out of there jobs at a prominent manufacturer of plasma drives. The very next day, the business license for their own outfit was payed for and Shuvanaljis Drives LTD was born.
The rise to prominence was meteoric, and after the development of the alter-space drive they held the reigns of interstellar power. Nothing, could be accomplished without the drive. Exploration, freight, even information, all were delivered via their technology. And when the government of the Republic tried to leverage eminent domain, Shuvanaljis saw them coming a mile away and was ready. The fight was short but intense. In the end, Shuvanaljis held their own, and managed to cripple the government's forces. Shuvanaljis quickly moved in and with support from other corporations, managed to reduce the power and scope of the Republic to little more than a puppet show. In the subsequent decades, Shuvanaljis went on a glut of spending to purchase most of their competitors and set up a nearly iron clad hold on the control and governance of 15 star systems. In just over 60 years, a corporate entity had direct control of over fourteen billion people.
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