LDC

The Lalonde Development Company (LDC) is the owner of the settlement rights to Lalonde and its de facto government while it remains a stage-one colony.

The LDC was formed in 2576 and floated on the O'Neill Halo stock market in 2578. Major shareholders include various Confederation-wide corporations, the Kulu Crown Bank, the Jovian Bank and, unusually, the Tyrathca government central economics council.

It is widely thought by Lalonde citizens and visitors to the planet that the LDC is very much running the colonisation process on the cheap and the standard of living on the planet is suffering as a result.