Izanami

The terraforming authority.

Avril Stoyer, VP of Long Range Planning

Wholesome Nature Inc.

Genetic engineering, mostly to support terraforming: designer crops, predators, fruit-bearing trees, etc. Pretty much in open warfare with Veridian Dynamics.

Friction's parents worked for them until their untimely and bloody demise.

Their shipment of a bee got hit in transit to the parent corp HQ, and now they're out a whole batch of genetically engineered sheep semen. Things are not going well for them.