Mega-Corps

Did NebulaPlay Ever Actually Love Games?: The Self-Destruction of the Galaxy's Biggest Gaming Empire

Let me tell you about a company that keeps making the same mistake, and I want to be careful here, because ‘mistake’ implies someone expected a different result.

NebulaPlay’s Stellar …

The Indie Comics Counterattack: Underground Creators Shining in the Shadow of the Mega-Corps

Underground Creators Shining in the Shadow of the Mega-Corps

Okay, here’s the thing nobody’s telling you—

While HeliosMedia and NebulaPlay are locked in their fourteenth consecutive year …

CONVERGENCE: The Galaxy's Future Is Decided Here — The Uninvited Don't Exist

Somewhere between the third moon of Jupiter and a heavily encrypted invitation list, the people who already own everything are meeting to decide who gets to own the rest.

The club is called …

The Impossible Mandate: Core Systems Copyright Law Demands AI Forget Millions of Books It Already Read

Core Systems Copyright Law Demands AI Forget Millions of Books It Already Read

The Core Systems Interstellar Assembly’s Intellectual Property Subcommittee released draft language last week for …

Marx Was Wrong: Dismantling the 'Inevitable Ruin' Myth of Small Frontier Settlers

Here’s the whiteboard moment. Karl Marx, writing in the mid-1800s on a planet that still used horses for transport, made a confident prediction: small-scale property owners — farmers, …

Who Pays the Kardashia Corridor Toll?

Alright, let me break this down—

Last cycle, the Interstellar Assembly passed the Strategic Passage Levy Act, slapping a 12 SGC-per-cubic-meter tariff on every cargo hauler running through the …

The Frontier's Shield: Neela Santos and Thirty Years of Galactic Privacy Wars

CERES STATION — Neela Santos does not look like someone who has argued before seventeen Interstellar Assembly tribunals. She looks like someone who slept on a freight hauler and is ready to do it …