Editing Space: Above and Beyond (section)

===Aero-Tech and the UN===
The dark Aero-Tech and UN story arcs inject elements of [[conspiracy]] and high-level [[cover-up]]. Aero-Tech, founded in 2015, appears to be a [[monopoly|monopolistic]] [[aerospace]] and [[arms industry|defense]] supplier. It is connected with the United Nations (UN) by Aero-Tech's clearly evident [[political power]] with the UN (with a former Aero-Tech director becoming the [[United Nations Secretary-General]] early in the series) and with the armed forces, as evidenced by its control over advanced technologies. It is also suspected that Aero-Tech was aware of the Chigs before the rest of humanity, and that they deliberately endangered the ''Vesta'' and ''Tellus'' colonists. Aero-Tech further gathers, uses, or withholds strategic information in pursuit of its corporate agenda. The Aero-Tech and the UN story arc explores topics such as power, intrigue, [[politics]], the [[military-industrial complex]], perhaps to some degree also the [[ethics]] of science in the service of military and corporate interests and [[moral responsibility]].