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Episode 11.15, the Agreement of 2248.

In March 2248, the Omnacore Board of Directors finally voted to negotiate terms with the Martians and the spaceshipers.

After an eight-month-long staring contest, the Earthlings finally blinked and announced their willingness to try to attempt to reach some sort of agreement.

And that's not just me doing an overly qualified sentence.

That line was in the official statement, not reach an agreement, not attempt to reach an

agreement, but try to attempt to reach an agreement.

Try to attempt.

Really committing themselves to a lot there.

But after Lomirik's leak in February 2248, they were going to have to do something.

Global pressure on Omnacore to yield became too much to bear. There was now open talk of revisiting the

contract that granted Omnacore monopoly rights to everything beyond the line of lunar orbit.

Foss 5 was the concern of the whole world, and if Omnacore could not be trusted to deliver,

then they didn't deserve to keep their monopoly.

Now just to remind ourselves, there are four other major corporations on Earth besides Omnacore.

In order of relative size, they are Bicor, Cal Corps, Mazcor, and T-Cor. Omnicor was the biggest

by far, double the size of Bicor, which was its next largest corporate rival. But just for the

record, while we focus on the five major corporations that dominated Earth in the 23rd century,

there were smaller corporations in independent free cities and leftover rump states existing in between and around them.

But in the main, the five major corporate powers dominated Earth.

The major powers existed as broadly siloed off and vertically integrated companies. Inside their

global corporate structures, each of the great powers owned, controlled and distributed, goods,

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