Kabbalis Consortium

## General Overview

The Kabbalis Consortium is a collection of various mega-corporations all led by the Scuiri, a small rodent like mammalian species that resemble that of a Terran "Squirrel", despite being several times larger.

The Scuiri are renowned in the Black Eye Galaxy as a race of "hoarders", saving everything that comes into their possession with a meticulous and almost obsessive integrity.

Achieving space travel during the Terran 13th Century, the Scuiri have developed an impressive trading empire, spanning between all four quadrants of the Black Eye Galaxy.

Despite their impressive trading connections, very little is actually known as Scuiri society as they forbid outsiders from their homeworld, preferring instead to construct large space stations in orbit of their planets to serve as impressive trade, storage facilities and commercial outlets.

The old Scuiri exhortation of "No area of business is forbidden" accurately sums up their civil policy as from what is known of them, they actually seem to operate with no laws or civil justice systems.

Instead, the "Central Broker" is the single most effective authority inside the Scuiri trading empire. The Central Broker is responsible for monitoring all trade and goods and will project new "embargoes" which will artificially manipulate the market, most likely on random chance in order to increase market value.

As a result, all trading goods and commodities are acceptable in Scuiri society, including some goods that other civilisations may view as contraband, including narcotic and xeno-trafficking.

Scuiri corporations are also free to utilise their workforce in any way that they see fit, including dangerous work and trade unions are illegal within the Consortium.

Pre-Commonwealth labour arrangements also allow corporations and other businesses to own full cities and in extreme cases, entire planets.

However when the Kabbalis Consortium joined the Commonwealth, under the leadership of Administrator Maffis Sha'rass, the Consortium began a period of reformation.

New labour laws were introduced to control the monopolies of the corporations that had dominated Scuiri society and the certain goods with questionable ethical implications were banned.

## Established History

The Scuiri first achieved space travel within the Terran 13th Century, its is believe that this technology was provided by the original first contact between the Scuiri and the Symphony.

This resulted in Kabbalis becoming part of The Symphony of Lor'ia'tu, which remained under Symphony control for a number of years.

Under Symphony occupation, many Scuiri were subjected to horrific medical experimentation as per their contract with the Symphony. However in contrast, the Symphony occupation also greatly benefited the Scuiri, allowing them to establish a vast trading network between various planets that had been discovered by the Symphony.

Eventually, the Scuiri became wealthy enough, benefiting from their trade empire enough to "buy" their freedom from the Symphony through a series of treaties, establishing the Kabbalis Consortium.

The following centuries were extremely prosperous for the Scuiri as the Kabbalis Consortium began to develop an expansive trading empire, expanding their dominion and entering into a trading "race" with another civilisation known as the Black Eye Consortium.

The immense wealth of the Kabbalis Consortium eventually allowed it to buy a large fleet of defensive ships and develop giant "storage stations" in orbit of their world.

First contact between the Consortium and the Commonwealth occurred in March 2419, when the U.S.S. Hiryu discovered Kabbalis and made contact with the trading station in orbit.

Despite their economic concerns over membership of the Commonwealth, the Kabbalis Consortium was integrated into the Commonwealth and signed the original Commonwealth Charter as a founding member, believing the Commonwealth would be able to protect them from the approaching Void and the resurgence of the ancient Varakian Empire.

Unfortunately, Kabbalis was sacked by the Sobekka Hegemony in 2419 due to the Kabbalis providing substandard goods to the distant Sobekka and overcharging them for years.

As a result, the highly industrialised surface of Kabbalis and the Sobekkan attack left the planet's atmosphere toxic to the Scuiri and forced them to flee, relocating to the Class L planet of New Kabbalis in the Omega Quadrant.

Seeming to learn their lesson, the Kabbalis Consortium was reformed further by their relocation.

## Notes

* The Kabbalis Consortium were first encountered in the U.S.S. Hiryu episode, "*Sierra Squared*" on the *14th March 2019*