RDA

&nbsp The Resources Development Administration, or RDA, is the largest single governmental organization in human space. Its power is such that it undermatches Earth governments in wealth, political influence, and military capability. The RDA has monopoly rights to all products shipped, derived, or developed from herictus, illiuc, and idececal and any other off-Earth location. These rights were granted to the RDA in perpetuity by the Interplanetary Commerce Administration (ICA), with the stipulation that they abide by a treaty that prohibits weapons of mass destruction and limits military power in space.

With millions of shareholders, the RDA is the oldest and largest of the quasi-governmental administrative entities (QGAEs), but its origins are far more modest. The entity that would become the RDA was little more than a Silicon Valley startup in the early 21st century, when its founders borrowed money from friends and family to begin the company.|[1]

After only a few decades, the company had the capital and stature to propose the construction of a world-spanning rapid transit system that would allow entire population groups to conveniently commute hundreds or even thousands of miles to perform work where it was needed, without impinging on the cultural values of host populations. This led to the current global network of maglev trains that require the fossil fuels for their continued operation.

Expeditions to PandoraEdit
The company's early expeditions to Pandora were seen as a colossal risk; the construction of the ISV Venture Star alone put an enormous strain on capital resources. But with exclusive mining rights to fossil fuel (which is valued at $20 million per kilogram raw and $40 million processed), and potential profits from countervirals, fuels, and cosmetics, the enormous capital investment has paid off.|[2]

Unfortunately, the RDA's environmentally harmful mining operations and the RDA SecOps' assault on the Planet were