History
Gazillion was founded well before the beginning of Era-1. Originally known by the tagline “The world’s most useful website”, it was a big player in the high-technology sector of the economy, producing a wide variety of goods and services. During Era-1, Gazillion built a network of colonies to promote its economic interests, and built one of the largest of the Corporate States that sprang up alongside the Planetary League. At the end of Era-1, Gazillion merged its interests with the Holy Empire of Man, and ceased to operate as an independent company.
The founders and owners of Gazillion were wealthy and ambitious, and as the technology became available, they started colonizing space. Gazillion built and operated the first successful lunar colony. One technology Gazillion made a big impact with was robotics. The Gazillion Companion robot had general intelligence, and ended up displacing a large number of jobs. The wealth and ambition of Gazillion, combined with the economic disruptions it caused helped to galvanize the people of Earth into unifying behind the U.N. before the founding of the Planetary League. One of Gazillion's research platforms intercepted the program of General Zarlok, as it passed through the Solar system.
As the Planetary League expanded, Gazillion expanded alongside it, establishing either space habitats or planetary colonies in most major systems. These colonies often acted as communication hubs, helping to speed communication between systems. Due to the inherently low bandwidth of Entanglement Devices, and high latency of Spatial Compression Radio, this service was always in high demand. Gazillion’s colonies also served as manufacturing centers for its various goods.
During the Great Reckoning, Gazillion’s colonies served as advance bases for the advancing forces of the Empire of Man, their factories changing over to war production, and their communications facilities acting as conduits for military communication and intelligence.
Products and Services
Gina was a popular AI personal assistant developed by Gazillion.
