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December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The effect on economies newly integrated into the Axis can be severe with certain industries rapidly displaced or forced to operate under pricing frameworks that leave domestic firms with narrow margins and little leverage.
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Our Analysis: Much of the Axis economy is structured to funnel wealth toward Reich-backed megacorps. Fixed exchange rates and tightly managed trade shields the Reich from economic shocks while shifting volatility and compliance burdens onto its partners.
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Local suppliers say the audit’s findings were engineered to clear the way for Axis megacorps, arguing that forced compliance could bankrupt dozens of mid-sized companies and hollow out Sailastra’s domestic manufacturing base.
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Much of the anger stemmed from an Italian-led industrial audit, ahead of what many fear will be a wave of contract suspensions and acquisitions across the resource sector. Nearly 60% of Sailastran firms were deemed non-compliant with safety, environmental, or production tolerances.
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Artwork derived from firsthand observations, meticulously documented by Ian Gibney.

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Starmap of the Orion Arm
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December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Foreign-backed revolutionary groups in Whitehall have occasionally triggered periods of mass civil unrest, but complex social bonds are nearly absent among the population. These uprisings tend to collapse into mass violence, prompting rapid crackdowns that rely on US tech.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Through a combination of automation, network intelligence, and cybernetics, Whitehall’s upper strata benefit from a “Sedation Economy,” in which a chemically subdued, low-cost workforce sustains the unimaginable luxuries of a concentrated apex class.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Much of this stems from the nation’s extreme societal divide: over 90% of the population is now chemically dependent on mood stabilizers, euphorics, or anti-anxiety drugs, producing what critics describe as a docile offshoot of the human species in marked cognitive decline.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Our Analysis: Whitehall anchors US and OTO influence near the strategic Buyan Isles, but it is also widely viewed as potentially one of the Orion Arm’s first trans-humanist societies. Amnesty Interstellar places its human rights record among the worst in the Orion Arm.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
At a rally in the Bayridge Megalopolis, roars of approval were heard when speakers criticized U.S. aerospace shipments containing components for the F-408W’s guided munitions. Several news agencies have accused Whitehall of using these weapons against their own citizens.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Our Analysis: The investigation is ongoing, but statements from officials now appear to contradict earlier reports that the ship showed no signs of a hostile boarding or piracy. 200 crewmembers aboard the “Gala Gölü” when it disappeared remain missing.
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Our Analysis: A history of seemingly impossible escapes and the theatrics of its captain, have made the Quiet Riot a modern folk hero from Val Verde to the Calypso Deeps. Anti-piracy measures have notably and repeatedly failed to intercept the vessel.
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The post appeared to depict a penthouse view from the Six Senses New Canaan, a luxury hotel in the megalopolis’ iconic promenade. Local investigators soon confirmed that the hotel’s premier “Pasha Suite” had been reserved under a false identity.
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Our Analysis: Investigators are still examining how the thieves pulled off the heist without triggering any safeguards. Unmanned freight lines are standard across the Orion Arm, but theft has become increasingly common in the Far Frontier.
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM