| Type | Interstellar Megacorporation |
| Location | Earth |
| Featured in | Cluster (2015) |
- “Making a Better World”
- ―Company motto
The Global Outreach Enterprise or G.O.E. is a human company aimed at colonizing planets beyond Earth. However it was a cutthroat business that sought to claim worlds already occupied by intelligent life. It served as the main antagonist in the Cluster comic series.
Overview[]
Global Outreach Enterprise worked with the justice system of Earth, through its Military Inmate Deployment (M.I.D.), in obtaining free labor by using inmates humans and aliens to serve as their private security in their operations. By serving 15 years in the M.I.D. they would pay their society debt and be free.
History[]
In the far future Global Outreach Enterprise started a colony operation on the planet of Midlothian. The company established a penal colony of Tranent to further humanity colonization efforts. However such actions were objected by Senator Simmons, but due to the G.O.E.'s political backing they had their way. To maintain control of their prisoners, G.O.E. implanted devices called the "Punch", which would activate and cause the implant to make the internal organs liquefy unless they were back at the prison before their times runs out.
G.O.E. planned to make Midlothian ready for mass occupation by human settlers in the next ten years. The planet's atmosphere though was unbreathable to humans and thus necessitated the need for terraforming towers. Their efforts were hindered by an alien race known as the Pagurani who the company claimed to be invaders and that humans were the first settlers wished to take Midlothian for themselves. The Pagurani attacked the terraforming towers, costing G.O.E. millions of dollars, hence the reason they began to rely on the M.I.D. as a source of cheap cannon fodder to protect their interests.
In truth G.O.E. are the real villains as they have been illegally setting up a colony on a planet that was already inhabited by an intelligent species. However humans being a self-centered species, rather than fix their own problems or change their habits opted to commit mass genocide and conquer another world. The corporate owners blinded by their greed believed it was easier and more cost effective to lay claim on a world that had no legal authority nor technological capacity to resist them. Their business model was rather short sighted as they were attempting to claim a world which poured more money into trying to convert it from an atmosphere that was ill suited for humans as well as gaining the animosity from the inhabitants.
That compounded by the indentured prisoner labor who resented the company for their enslavement. Not only that G.O.E. intentionally withheld the fact that the atmosphere of Midlothian was toxic to humanity, long-term exposure would cause irreparable damage to the lungs and lead to cancer and ultimately death. However the company had no moral issues as they fully intended for their workforce to die as they were expendable. Even worse the terraforming towers were stripping the toxins from the atmosphere, but the particles were necessary for the Pagurani and Ranese. After twenty years the G.O.E. had wiped out 78% of the natives, effectively committing xenocide.
When a few of the prisoners learned the truth about G.O.E.'s criminal actions, they broke free from captivity and joined forces with the Pagurani to create a resistance against the company.