 Numerous megacorporations exist within the Federation and TetraCorp is one of the largest and oldest . Their sister company is Sci @-@ Tek , which manufactures and supplies most of the technology that the player has access to . Sci @-@ Tek also has blueprints for advanced technologies that the player can purchase . The opening cinematic plays like a corporate recruitment video and at one point is jammed by a Terran male who tells the viewer that TetraCorp has a history of exploiting workers of all races and cultures with low pay and wretched working conditions . The movie is jammed a second time by an <unk> who tells the player that Terran progression was responsible for 68 % of all alien mortalities during the past three centuries and that the reason for this high percentage is due to megacorporations such as TetraCorp . 
