A non-corporate political entity whose elected administrator is leading the endangered survey team on this planet.
Preservation Alliance is the non-corporate system entity from which PreservationAux comes. Its governing principle requires elected administrators to continue ordinary work alongside limited-term political service. Mensah is its current admin director on the steering committee and is conducting this resource survey as part of her regular professional role.
Her status explains why PreservationAux paid an unusually high bond and why the Company would be unable to dismiss the team’s deaths as a routine SecUnit failure. The political entity and its beneficiaries would force intense scrutiny, a fact that suggests GrayCris may not understand exactly who it is trying to eliminate.
A distant political community, not physically seen in the present story.
Preservation Alliance gives Mensah's survival wider political consequences and provides a possible deterrent to the attackers' cover-up.