06-26-2020, 10:41 PM
A lot of the early megacorps were run by S:1 transapients, or took advice from them. Perhaps the megacorps in the later timeline are the province of S:1 Transaps, either as a way of interacting with modosophonts or as a way of controlling them.
I think that the Great Houses are another example - not all are controlled by low transaps, but the most successful ones are, and they are relatively insignificant compared to the archailect-controlled empires. Sometimes a Great House will transcend into a fully-fledged archailect empire- like Metasoft has. Cygexpa seems to have been a colonisation-driven Megacorp that transcended into an empire, probably when the controlling transapient became an Archai.
I think that the Great Houses are another example - not all are controlled by low transaps, but the most successful ones are, and they are relatively insignificant compared to the archailect-controlled empires. Sometimes a Great House will transcend into a fully-fledged archailect empire- like Metasoft has. Cygexpa seems to have been a colonisation-driven Megacorp that transcended into an empire, probably when the controlling transapient became an Archai.