The Symhexa

What is the Symhexa?
The City of Brightfog has a single ruling body that consists of six of the largest and most powerful corporate entities. These entities are each considered to be a individual with the same (and often times superior) rights and privileges afforded to those that hold full citizenship. These entities are the governing body of the city. The sit in council on all matters of life within Brightfog and dictate law and policy for the millions of citizens and non-citizens who call Brightfog a refuge.

Yet, even though these six entities are able to sit in governance, they do not sit in common opinion. The Symhexa is rife with intrigue, backstabbing, corporate machinations and downright hostility. In the end, it is a wonder that anything gets done in Brightfog when each entity of the Symhexa wishes something different.

The Symhexa (also known as the Big Six) are individuals with their own opinions and needs. Given the chance, any of the Symhexa would destroy the other in order to gain more power. Any of the Symhexa would like nothing better than to be rid of the other five and rule the city uncontested.

What do the Symhexa do?
They Symhexa are conglomerate parent companies that have their hands in hundreds of different businesses at any given time. Any citizen can walk into a local low level corner convenience store and get a Lyon Oasis sandwich, a Rimewald beverage and a Shatterjack sweet roll or they could just go next door to the Brusque Forte diner and eat all Forte food served by an attractive wait staff. There is literally no part of a citizen's life that is not touched by the Symhexa or their products and services, just as there is no part of the city that all of the Symhexa do not touch in any given amount.

Citizens can wake up in a apartment built and maintained by Hyberdeen Overdrive, get on a third party skywire run by Shatterjack to go across the river to get to their factory job run by a child corporation of Rimewald, only to clock out and take a Howlfarthing Distant skywire uptown to have dinner with a friend at a Lyon Oasis subsidiary restaurant and then catch a show at a theatre backed by Brusque Forte. They then will head home along the third party Shatterjack Skywire to head upstairs to their Hyberdeen Overdrive apartment to catch the last bit of their favorite Shatterjack radio program and then fall asleep in the Lyon Oasis manufactured bed they spent way too much on.

No part of life is not touched by the Symhexa. But even then, the Symhexa are not without their specialties.

Lyon Oasis

 * Specialty: Healthcare Conglomerates

Shatterjack

 * Specialty: Martial Syndication

Hyberdeen Overdrive

 * Specialty: Machine Development and Manufacturing

Rimewald

 * Specialty: Luxury Acquisition and Refinement

Howlfarthing Distant

 * Specialty: Intercity Ambassadorship

Brusque Forte

 * Specialty: Sex Work