Frijkstadt Corporation

The Frijkstadt Corporation is a Terran private hypercorporation. It was one of the first corporations to be founded during the First Commonwealth. Its headquarters are located in Stockholm, on Earth. The Frijkstadt Foundation, representing the Frijkstadt family owns an 8% stake in the company. Frijkstadt is a major ALEPH member. 
It was founded in 2077 by Albert Frijkstadt, an early supporter of the Unification and of the Custodian, who he knew personally. He was a philantropist and a polymath. He was elected as Chancellor of Federation in 2109, and was re-elected in 2115, becoming the third Chancellor of the Federation. The Frijkstadt corporation was by 2097 and the Foundation the largest corporation on Earth, constructing large amounts of infrastructure in territories of Earth which were devastated during the Unification Wars. It also was one of the first corporations to establish itself on Mars, become the first interplanetary bank and building vast domes to house the booming martian population. It continued working on Mars and other planets. In 2156, Henry-Chevalier discovered the graviton. He was recruited by Frijkstadt in 2160 to work on applications, with the goal of finding a way to create artificial gravity and anti-gravity. These technologies were discovered in 2163 and 2175 respectively. Frijkstadt immediately seized this opportunity, and started developping cheap artificial gravity generators, which were installed by the company on Mars and other moons in the Solar system. After the discovery of anti-gravity the company started creating floating cities on Venus which housed most of the planet's population up until its terraforming. It also utilized anti-gravity to build several tower-arcologies on Earth, the most well-known being the eponymous Frijkstadt Twin Towers. 
In the 2400s, with the discovery of mass artificial gravity drives, which in exchange of massive power could create artificial gravity on an entire planet, it was decided that Mars would be terraformed. Frijkstadt was designed as the primary contractor of the terraforming of Mars, which would last from 2431 to 2489. During this time the company received massive amounts of wealth and influence. It would later be attributed the terraforming of Venus, from 2518 to 2532. 
When the Terran Federation opened up to the rest of the galaxy, the Frijkstadt corporation was the very first to start collaborating with other nations. It is currently terraforming three worlds abroad, due to the Terran Federation having a policy which generally does not require terraforming. One of these worlds is the moon of the Surben homeworld, Chemuul. It has also established itself as a banking company abroad, creating a near-duopoly with the Neue-King Corporation. In 2638, it was awarded the contract for the construction of the Tower of Babel on Earth, one of the Six Galactic Wonders. 
Frijkstadt has no subdivisions. It has several subsidiaries, the most important of which is Marasi Aeronautics, acquired in 2589.