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The Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade (or GHACT) is a interstellar megacooperation holding a great number of pre-FTL species under their political and economic dominion. Starting out as a galactic shipping company, their rise to power began with their monopoly on commercial interstellar travel in the Vultraum Sector. While this monopoly has since then losened, they still hold majority shares in their vassal states governments and full control over their off-planet in- and exports. Remains of GHACT packaging have been found on Mizar-5, their spokesperson refused clarification if their company used this off-limit planet for commerce or merely as waste dump, but the visual similarities between outdated GHACT automated shipping vessels and the Golgori Sovereign Empire's Cataphract project suggest that the technological and cultural development of the planet has been influenced from outside sources, be it intentional or not.

Investigation on a potential responsability of the company to the native populations extinction is still ongoing.