After Erich's brief encounter with what he could only refer to as an abomination, he was pushed forward by his team towards the Customs checkpoint. Where they would have to get their passports approved in order to actually enter the world of Alpha Centauri.
Erich had long since studied the alias by which the Empire had come up for him, and had memorized everything there was to know about it. What was perhaps the most shocking thing of all to Erich was that the Empire had long since infiltrated the Confederacy. So much so that they had agents embedded long term within each major corporation.
Although the government of humanity was a representative republic with universal suffrage. The reality was that it was simply a Corporatocracy. Where private corporations held more power than the state.
