Byto

Byto is one of the three mega-corporations that controls significant tracts of space. With total control over twelve habitable planets and moons, Byto - which was formed when the Byron and Tortoiseshell (龟甲公司) corporations merged in 2286 - is by many estimates the second-most powerful political body in the known galaxy, superseded only by the Interplanetary Oversight Commission.

Byto is a highly centralized, compartmentalized corporate machine in which workers in one division rarely knows what the other divisions are doing. Byto's history in weapons manufacturing and spaceship design have led many to distrust them and to suspect that they are conducting rapid expansion into unknown space in order to gather resources and prepare for a third corporate war. The merger that formed Byto occurred largely as a result of intervention by the Myphym, meaning that their board of directors is comprised of almost equal numbers humans and Myphym.