The Syndicate

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Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 1

The Syndicate is the galactic governing authority whose rules and codes govern planetary resource reclamation and mineral rights.
Under its rules, Earth was seized for mining after humanity failed to file a proper appeal for mineral and elemental rights within 50 Solars of first contact.
It dispatched a neutral observer AI to supervise the World Dungeon and ensure regulations are followed, and maintains a Syndicate market where unclaimed loot may be placed.

Chapter 4

The Syndicate is an interstellar government consisting of over three billion independent star systems.
The Syndicate uses six basic starter species to seed compatible worlds, including humans, leaving them for thousands of years before revealing themselves.
Disparaging the Syndicate on-camera can cause a crawler's experience to be 'accelerated' by the system AI.

Chapter 27

The Syndicate seeded human worlds with people millions of years ago and continuously kept people there to steer culture, inventing technology and writing books and songs that already existed elsewhere.
Brandon hesitates to say the Syndicate's name aloud, glancing warily at the ceiling.

Chapter 29

The Syndicate is a governing body to which the kua-tin appealed to have the term 'mud skipper' classified as hate speech.