Nergal Nexus Guilds

"The skies are ruled by those who seize them"

The white star of the Nergal Nexus rises above the red horizon of thriving Mars. Entire civilizations rise and grow on the red planet, amid a constant outward stream, colonists and pioneers venturing outward, to the Frontier and outer Solar System.

Cradled in the Martian System, a mercantile empire grew to foster and feed the insatiable demands of a living, rising world. From the multitude of countless roots sprang the Nergal Nexus Guilds, masters of the skies of Mars.

Moguls of commerce and industry
Under the white star of the Nexus are the guilds of the Martian System united, each encompassing the greatest corporations and masters of their craft. Their assets and subsidiaries are without number and reach from the largest dockyard manufacturers to the gambling halls for the workers therein.

Business for the guilds is rich in the growing planetary swarm alone, tending to the needs and potential of many thousands of habitats and inhabited isles. Beyond the boundaries of the swarm, the guilds facilitate trade off-world of Mars and with the Triad of the Inner Planets.

Voices of the Nexus
The vast empires of profit and influence extend over much of the developing planetary swarm and encompass entire habitat stations which are offering space to entire nations in existence. Whilst independent, such nations are deeply entangled in the interests of the guilds and - in conflict - stand firmly by their side.

Much of the population, however, possesses corporate citizenship, directly tied to a member of the guilds. This marks the transition of the Nexus Guilds from a commercial into a political power. A step foretold by the Luna Maria close to Earth.

Common cause
The workings of the Nexus Guilds are defined by an entangled web of favors and feuds, commercial policy, and mercantile tradition. Only for an extraordinary cause band the differing guilds strongly together and set their differences internally aside. Such common cause may be a threat to their interests from the outside. Much more common are joint projects and goals, such as efforts to expand the swarm, the creation of new orbital lifts and rings, as well as advancements in science and technology.