The Syndicated Corporations of the Milky Way, or simply "the Syndicate," is a galaxy-spanning corporate conglomerate that also serves as a government. Here, the old ideas of capitalism and communism have come so far around that they have become indistinguishable, leaving a true corporatocracy where citizens are employees and a governing body known as The Board sets the laws that every company beneath it must follow.

From its capital world of Uruk, the Syndicate projects its power through disciplined, Roman-inspired military legions that speak an evolved form of Latin as their battle language. They operate fortified embassies on nearly every colonized world while operating covert units that hunt down valuable targets across the stars. Its society is a study in contrasts, with grand Romanesque traditions at the top and a hyper-modern urban sprawl housing reportedly trillions of people at the bottom.