Zoomspace

Zoomspace is a pervasive company eager to sell its obscure and complex line of products to the populace. The company's goods are generally useful, though it can be hard for lesser beings to internalize the company's eccentric slogans, jingles, and user info.

## History

Zoomspace has been gradually expanding its customer base. It rose to prominence in N Spider's universe shortly after 1992. It is unknown if Zoomspace has extra-dimensional origins or if it evolved from a pre-existing company already situated in the universe.

## Appearance

Zoomspace is an ascendant corporation. It has no headquarters, board of directors, or worker force. It operates one plane higher than most lifeforms can perceive. If using The Caliber System, only very powerful Caliber 3 entities or upper tiers could gain any real understanding of the company.

Anyone able to peer into the right plane would see that Zoomspace manifests as a series of branching rootlike structures, already anchored to virtually every planet and some of the inhabitants within. They thicken close to high concentrations of customers, and wither where business is poor. What this ultimately says about the company itself cannot be described with limited human vocabulary.

## Personality

Despite its mysterious qualities, Zoomspace markets towards humans and other Caliber 4 creatures, despite their inability to conceptualize the seller. Zoomspace often targets these customers with a series of pushy digital and physical campaigns that manifest with no apparent source. A sudden new website, street sign, or graffiti could all be endorsements for their company.

Zoomspace tends to follow an early 90s web aesthetic. All of their language is sophisticated but universally confusing. A selection of example sentences are found below:

-"Our new ROI synthesis technique manifests bi-linear tragmentation within the public nanosphere."

-"Twenty one percent of tri-angled hardware achieves the common goal."

-"A new fresh Inv-step from mounted founders allowed patented sluice refusal."

The frequency and unread-ability of these statements suggests Zoompace offers services that cannot be accurately described. However more intelligent beings have analyzed patterns in Zoomspace's language and found blatant contradictions. They believe the company simply has a tenuous grasp on Caliber 4 language and is under the impression that complex words sell product.

Zoomspace may respond to customer inquiry but often fails to clear up anything. More often it will simply market harder.

## Impact

Zoomspace is something of an urban legend for many simpler planets. Its intrusions can be frightening and its aggressive marketing even more so. Whatever Zoomspace takes as payment appears to be something every Caliber 4 being has in abundance and does not miss, so almost anyone can become their customer. In the rare instance that someone sees an ad and agrees, they often gain inexplicable abilities as if implanted with them. Examples of effects include but are not limited to:

-Customer can move linearly in all cardinal directions, even past solid matter and empty space. May or may not come with the ability to survive in solid matter and empty space.

-Light causes transparency except for the eyes and teeth of the customer. Light also grants limited shape-shifting abilities. Customer craves and can safely digest mercury.

-Customer is suddenly their skeleton, completely self sufficient and animated by anomalous energies. Being trapped in all the useless muscle and skin causes intense anxiety.

-Becoming dizzy makes the ground sway.

-Customer can generate fuzzy tendrils on any surface that obey mental commands and can ferry objects with ease. Fuzzy tendrils also painlessly replace customer's muscle tissue without adverse effect.

-Customer becomes 5 inches taller. No other effect observed.

It should be noted that these abilities are generally useful, but there are exceptions, and even positive powers can be dangerous if misused. Buying from Zoomspace makes one permanently affiliated with the brand and they will continue to be marketed towards until they refuse several more advances.

## Relationships

Despite its gregarious campaigning and impressive customer micromanagement, it is mostly ignorant of other large scale organizations as long as they do not hamper its campaigning. Unfortunately for it, several do.

The Honor Board- The Honor Board has attempted to bar all communication between Zoomspace and any colonized world. They believe Zoomspace's products would make the populace too unpredictable to maintain control over. Zoomspace does not attempt to market towards worlds under Honor Board control, but will attempt to undermine any Honor Board colonization of a planet populated with loyal customers.

NAPD- Due to their xenophobia, the NAPD sees Zoomspace as another predatory force threatening to overturn society. They do, however, recognize Zoomspace as the lesser of many evils, and see the use in its products. They place restrictions on Zoomspace's broadcasts, but do not eliminate them altogether. Zoomspace does not undermine the spread of the NAPD as a result.

## Trivia

* Despite its preferences to manipulate rather than control, Zoomspace is considered to be technically the most powerful PT-centric company.
* A partially broken copy of Zoomspace's first website exists here: https://myriacore.gitlab.io/zoomspace/
* The game "Counterspace" may have been partially funded by Zoomspace, as it includes a direct reference: https://darksack100.itch.io/counterspace