Star Omega

Short Name: SOM

Leader(s): IQ

Home Sector: Galene

Home Base: The Motherboard

Merchant Fleet Percentage: 40%

Military Fleet Percentage: 40%

Power: Superpower

Wealth: 15 million credits

Net worth: 750 million credits

Territory: The Old Conglomerate

Star Omega is the Enclave´s oldest faction, founded in 2236, and holds the most political power. Star Omega is controlled by IQ himself.

Economy
Star Omega relies on the human capitalist system to generate income. However, a lack of "supply and demand" law among the AIs forces SOM to go for a collectivizing of wealth and property.

Star Omega assures its economic power and income by owning 3 Trade Stations, one in each planetary sector of its territory: Galene, Gatopea and Beta Pindola. In Galene, the Motherboard has this function, but in the other sectors, Trade Stations were built with only this function in mind. To secure absolute control, Star Omega forbids human corporation operating in its territory from building in its planetary sectors. This way, only SOM´ productions stations and Trade Station can be found in these 3 sectors. Such assures that SOM has a constant income to maintain its military and other properties.

Military
SOM´s military counts with 10 Orion-X class ships from the "Stars of Iron" fleet, one Overlord-X class cruiser, "Genos", from the Omega Trinity and the Magnus-X class battleship, "Overseer". There are also several fighter squads constantly being created, destroyed or repaired, that usually round 40 flyer-X ships, 5 Drake-A vessels and a few Horner-X vessels.

SOM controls the second most powerful army of the Enclave.

Functions
Star Omega is responsible for controlling human corporations operating in the Old Conglomerate, like NWM and NewHaven. Being small traders and miners, they are allowed to thrive as mining corporations and suppliers of SOM´s production station. Being the Old Conglomerate receiving less human visits from Earth with the discovery of new sections of Wild Space, the lack of humans allows for SOM to take control of a few mining fields previously owned by human mining operations.

Star Omega is responsible for managing relations between humans and AIs. All AIs on Earth must report to SOM before leaving to human territory. There is no tax for leaving, but most choose to stay, because machines usually tend to stick together and isolate themselves from humans.