Economy & Trade Manipulation
The Terran Compact is humanity, long after leaving Earth behind: an institutional alliance of trade, science, and military power bound together by necessity rather than affection. Compact worlds are crowded, its shipyards run day and night, and its census takers stopped publishing numbers a decade ago. The new system is not an opportunity for the Compact. It is a requirement.
The Guild moves everything humanity needs and takes a cut of all of it. Its position is simple: planets are won by whoever can supply them, and nobody supplies anything without the Guild. In the new system, Guild convoys arrive alongside the warships, staking claims with contracts, freight lanes, and orbital depots as much as with guns. A world fed by Guild logistics is a world that stays Compact, and the Guild intends to make sure every habitable planet in the system learns to depend on it before anyone else can.