Why are corporations in the game so old?
TL;DRCorporations are old because some became so large and entrenched at galactic scale that they are hard to displace, though newer upstarts exist.
Because it's true, we do have a lot of companies that have kind of existed for hundreds of years, for centuries. We do have some upstarts, some newer ones that have started in the last 10, 20 years. But I think lore-wise, it's kind of this settling down in the scale of economics, that some companies just became so big, the infrastructure that you needed in place to do the gathering of resources, the shipping, the manufacturing on a galactic scale, means that once you have that foothold, you're much harder to shake and collapse down. Again, we're hearing about the success stories as well.
Also, records are much, much better. And you have companies like ArcCorp who kind of exist because they absorb other companies and add them to this sort of, I don't know. It was always that thing where, I remember someone did the graphic of the number of mega corporations in the world today that own all of the food and drink subsidiaries and stuff like that. And it's like five, and it's like hundreds and hundreds of these things.
Consolidated Outland would be a newer company.
Oh, yeah.