Venger Conglomerate

The Venger Conglomerate is a multinational galactic conglomerate focused primary on funding of and investment in development projects in Deep Gamma. Founded by Aloysius Venger in 1973 as the Venger Capital investment management firm, the company managed an order of magnitude increase in assets by effectively short-selling the 1982 collapse of the First Gamma Gold Rush, and acquired many of the smaller bankrupt development firms afterwards. It has since been a major player in later phases of Deep Gamma expansion, including the notorious 1991 Corridor War. While officially still owned and run by Aloysius, control of the conglomerate is widely considered be largely in the hands of the the firm's XLI optimization algorithms, with little human input - they have only not become full blown paperclippers because destruction by external powers would prevent long term growth. Venger has also been heavily criticized for it's utilization of mind emulations, which has been described as slave-like - Venger has responded that it's mind emulation workforce is consensually working unconditionally, as they were pre-programmed with such traits.

Venger has an uneasy relationship with the Oortian Community. While widely criticized within polite society for their unconstrained capitalism, Venger is a major trading partner with many Qhevaki organizations and built the main gates which helped drive Qhevak's mercenary sector. Nevertheless, the major strategic minds view Venger as a potential long term threat and with continued expansion the conglomerate is likely to become a source of conference in the long term.