The Environment Today, the Consortium is headed by a nebulous, unknown ruler. His influence seems absolutely limitless. His objectives... unknowable... All that is known is his doctrine, which states that natural chaos must be mastered if it is to be grasped. Man is a structure, a biological machine which can and should be improved. Man must serve the market economy. To achieve this, the Consortium has reoriented its four major research groups. These groups operate in a spirit of perpetual competition... which often breaks out as open military conflict. This spirit supports the dynamism and competitiveness of future investigations. The Consortium manipulates governments, whole planets, and even... empires. It murders, fosters political coups and sparks off civil wars... all in the course of improving, indisputably, the human condition...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marc Simonetti