ComCon

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The Communications Conglomerate, or ComCon as it is normally known, rose to prominence about half a century ago as a number of individual communication service providers merged to create a unified data management and content platform that now underpins Scott's World's planetary and system-wide broadcast communications, personal communications, and industrial data transfer and secure storage. Significantly, ComCon has always avoided straying into 'content', and is instead an enabling support service for much of the activity of others in this area.

ComCon does dominate in a number of significant areas: personal communications devices (hardware), secure industrial communications, and data gathering and analysis. This latter is an area where ComCon seem to be focusing their research and development efforts, particularly in the run-up to the next General Valuation (GV), and their current Publicity Prospectus indicates that they are heavily investing in mainframe-based AI in order to automate analysis and data processing. If the prospectus is to be believed, significant advances in the development of an artificial, intelligent 'super analyst' drawing information from across all public sources in order to model social, political and economic outcomes are little more than a year or two away and have significant potential to influence the outcome of the next GV in the favour of ComCon.

Notoriously strict on data misuse or 'technical leakage' (espionage) on the part of their staff, ComCon maintains an internal investigation division that holds a justice sub-contract from the planetary authorities permitting it to maintain its own judiciary system and sentencing structure, though custodial and capital sentences are carried out by the Scott's World Department of Rehabilitation, Correction and Terminations (RCT).

Unlike most other corporate entities of its size it does not maintain its own military, as it is generally considered essential to the operations of all of the current Board of Seven, and many other organisations outside the industrial elite. This key service position is seen to protect ComCon against direct physical attack during the run-up to a GV. ComCon is also careful to be clear about its position - it does not aspire to Board of Seven status.  

Ranked position at last valuation: 17th

Voting Weight in General Council (based on stock valuation): 1.9