SBN

“	Product information is more valuable than the product itself.	”
	~ Ally Pally, CEO of SBN

SBN
Faction Type	Hexarch
Chairman of the Board	Roberto Millner
CEO	Ally Pally
Headquarters	ISS Station AES (Earth)
Focus	Mediacorporation, It hosts the actual version of NCE

Solar Broadcast Network, or SBN, is a mediacorporation, one of the Hexarchs, and a faction in Quasimorph.

Background

Hexarch SBN is a monopolist in the field of routing information flows in the Solar System. SBN means Solar Broadcast Network. At the lower level, SBN is divided into numerous news agencies. Each SBN station forms a separate agency, whose staff of journalists and editors immediately begins to produce news about the station, the celestial body, and all nearby routes. In addition, the SBN has technical units that support the network infrastructure. It is no secret that these units consist of highly qualified intelligence officers and decoding specialists. They intercept and analyze all traffic passing through the SBN stations.

In addition, it is necessary to note The System Portal SBN. A continuous flow of raw information that the SBN transmits from the AES (Earth). This is an open channel where all legal (not being the public enemy) participants of the ancap system get and place of types of messages. This is how an endless information and news feed is formed. Everyone simply calls this Portal the SBN. At the same time, cyphered data can be transmitted through it. How and what to fish out of the SBN is up to the recipient. Workers in the martian mines with outdated PCPUs can only count on an edited official news feed. Rich stations with serious analytical departments can intercept encrypted contracts for PMCs or mysterious relic transmissions on behalf of the long-destroyed Hive corporation. It became a sensation when, at the end of 2199, a strange message was transmitted through the SBN. The sender of this message was a quasimorph, who introduced himself to the entire System as Tezctlan.

All agencies, as well as technical departments, are closed on the Board of Directors of SBN. Strategic decisions are made at the board with the Chairman at the helm. The operational management of the corporation is carried out by the chief executive officer. The Board of Directors subjects of the latter's work to strict and constant audit. But it was not always so.

The history of SBN begins where the history of the major media conglomerates of the Earth ends. SBN emerged shortly before the Great Anarchist Revolution, when the heirs of the great visionary of the past, who already owned 75% of all media resources of humanity, bought up the remaining 25%. SBN took on the burden of coordinating the actions of the revolutionary armies, monitoring the actions of corporations during the GAR, and so on. It was SBN that provided the platform for posting the current version of the New Corporate Ethics, the de facto constitution of the ancap system.

For thirty long years, the executive director was Maria Ancel. She was an enthusiast of the news business and the philosophy of information. She reformed the management of SBN so that the board of directors were subordinate to the executive director. Mrs. Ancel and a small circle of her close associates had access to information, according to which they directed the activities of SBN. As a result, by the last third of the 22nd century, SBN became, in fact, the ministry of information of the Hexarchy. Of course, SBN rejects such an offensive label.

Nine years ago, Maria Ancel was killed in a terrorist attack on SBN. The Board immediately reversed her reforms to the CEO position, and Ancel's place was taken by the docile but highly effective Ally Pally. Nevertheless, the influence of Ancel's legacy is enormous. Monuments to her are erected at SBN stations, and the corporation's management holds peculiar rituals on the day of her death. The true heir to Ancel's ideas is considered to be the current chairman of the board Roberto Millner.

The policy of SBN consists of a declared strict subordination to the NCE. It is believed that SBN achieves its goals through cunning manipulation of PMCs and other hexarchs. Even SBN security service is extremely small. In his New Year's (2200) address to the ancap system, Millner called SBN "the herald of a new era of humanity, taking upon itself the heavy burden of bringing the light of truth."

Known Upper Management

Board of Directors

• Roberto Miller (Chairman of the Board)

Senior Executives

• Ally Pally (CEO)

Organization

Upper Management

Chairman of the Board

Roberto Miller is the current chairman of the board of SBN.

CEO

Ally Pally is the current CEO of SBN, who replaced Maria Ansel after she was assassinated nine years ago.

Worker Department

SBN Advisor

Corporate middle managers seem to bask in the luxuries not available to ordinary workers. On the other hand, responsibility makes them almost corporate slaves.

R&D Department

Physician

It is said that SBN Physicians are trained to obtain information from those they are treating. On most stations of the System there are doctors capable of providing first aid or caring for the sick and wounded.

Analyst

The SBN scientific staff consists mostly of sociologists and data scientists. Daydream Chems is said to have an exclusive contract to supply SBN nootropic drugs which they feed their analysts.

Security Department

Officer

Security managers at SBN facilities.

Infocop

Infocops of the SBN Security Service are trained to monitor information flows, check the PCPU of employees, and scan networks for leaks.

SWARM

SWARM stands for Space Weapon And Reaction Member. Where special measures are required to ensure the information security of the SBN, SARM combatants always appear.

Elite Force

Special Forces SBN

SBN special forces devote a lot of time to their media image, but despite this, they remain serious opponents.

SBN Secret Service

SBN Rapid Response Combat Teams reporting directly to the highest levels of corporate management.

Geisha AR

Special SBN recreational robot also used for elimination missions.

Product

• Weapon: Silver-SEP, Silver-SED, Silver-SEPP, Silver-SAR
• Equipment:
  • Blue Guard uniform set: Blue Guard Cap, Blue Guard Vest, Blue Guard Pants
  • Dawn Pattern set: Dawn Pattern Helmet, Dawn Pattern Armor, Dawn Pattern Pants, Dawn Pattern Boots
  • Myrmidon set: Myrmidon Helmet, Myrmidon Breastplate, Myrmidon Pants, Myrmidon Boots