The Exchange of Light

The Exchange of Light is an Institution, created during the Second Wave of colonization from the Terran Mandate. Their Prosperity Buddhist religious stance allowed them to remain completely neutral in intracolonial affairs, acting as neutral arbitrators for vastly different societies and nonhuman entities.

The Valhallan Zeta sector branch of the Exchange has broken away from it's Anjali roots, reapplying itself towards the original mission. Providing material support, financial aid, and humanitarian efforts around the sector to improve quality of life and equalization of technology, they staunchly oppose war.

The Exchange is primarily a banking system, it's credits as good on one system as another. While far traders and merchants might deal in more material goods because of the vast quantities of merchandise they must move, for the majority of humanity credits will do just fine.

The Exchange also has satellites at the edge of every system, providing quantum communication between planets to the system rim. Messages are passed pony express style to every ship via a black box attached to its transponder. A ship about to enter drillspace will receive a system dump from The Exchange, and the black box will automatically send and delete the information on arrival. This can result in the same message reaching its destination many times. Fortunately, such a robust system is perfect for the uncertainty of drillspace travel.

There are some few who claim that The Exchange will occasionally lose messages or hold them in order to advance the cause of the Federal Society, but such claims are obviously false and propoganda efforts from either Thornthistle or the Coalition of Confederated Systems.