Cosmic Transit Authority

The **Cosmic Transit Authority** is an organization that manages and supervises commerce between all systems with the Six Systems and beyond.

is the county agency that plans, operates, and coordinates funding for most of the public transportation system in Los Angeles County, California, the most populated county in the United States. The agency directly operates a large transit system that includes bus, light rail, heavy rail (subway), and bus rapid transit services; and provides funding for transit it does not operate, including Metrolink commuter rail, municipal bus operators and paratransit services. Metro also provides funding and directs planning for railroad and highway projects within Los Angeles County. In 2022, the system had a total ridership of 255,250,500 and had a ridership of 812,300 per weekday as of the first quarter of 2023. It is the single largest transit agency within the county as well.

The **Spacing Guild**, also called the **Guild of Navigators** on rare occassions, was an interstellar shipping and trade conglomerate during the years of the Corrino Empire and later the Atreides Empire, and one leg of the political tripod maintaining the Great Convention. The Guild was the second mental-physical training school established after the Butlerian Jihad, the first being the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, and the Guild monopoly on space travel and upon international banking was taken as the beginning point of the Imperial Calender.

**Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles** (**CHOAM**) was one of the major galactic organisations in the time of the Corrino Empire and later the Atreides Empire, a gigantic monopoly encompassing all forms of commerce across the Imperium which essentially controlled all economic affairs across the cosmos, although it relied upon the Spacing Guild for transport across space due to the Guild's monopoly on faster-than-light travel. CHOAM touched almost all products the Guild will transport, from art forms to technology and of course melange. Many Houses depended on CHOAM profits, and an enormous proportion of those depended on melange. Most economic ventures were conducted through CHOAM, in which the Imperial House, the Landsraad, and Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild all had a stake.

CHOAM directorships were the real evidence of political power in the Imperium, passing with the shifts of voting strength within the Landsraad as it balanced itself against the Emperor and his supporters. Directorship in the CHOAM was the key to wealth, each noble House dipping from the company's coffers whatever it could under this power.

The **Transport Union** is an independent joint UN/MCR/Belter organization first proposed after the conclusion of the Free Navy Conflict to regulate ship traffic through the Ring space. The foundation of the Union raised Belters from the underclass of the Sol system with no future, to one of economic security and prosperity. This created the first real peace between the Belt and the inner planets.

The trade system re-stabilized Sol's economy and balance of power, and improved international cooperation between the UN and the MCR as sovereign states. It also oversaw Ring space traffic as not to provoke Ring network anomalies.

The Transport Union was headquartered on Medina Station and had a number of stations that grew to include void cities and transfer stations.

Unlike the navies of Mars and Earth, the Transport Union gives contracts out to armed ships for any mission/assignment they partake in. In some cases independently owned ships are given mandatory security contracts.