PMG

The Patapsco Manufacturing Group. Old industrial Baltimore lineage — grew out of steel, kept the smell. PMG owns the regional chip fabs and the bulk of physical manufacturing. If you hold a thing that was manufactured in the Mid-Atlantic, PMG probably stamped it.

Role in the world

PMG dominates Mid-Atlantic hardware — the chip fabs, the bulk of physical manufacturing. If a thing was made in the region, PMG most likely stamped it. What it intends is to make the schematic the only commodity that matters and to own its supply, which puts open fabrication — the Free Stack's leaks, the Sangam's temple workshops — squarely in its sights.

The Patapsco fabs are on strike right now, three weeks in. PMG hired Carrion to break it.

Public faces

• Yvonne Dorsey — leader of the Sparrows Point Local, the fab workers' union on strike; network ally

Allies and friction

• Allies: the other four corps; Carrion (current labor-dispute contract)
• Friction with: the Free Stack (open-fab schematic leaks); the Sangam (temple workshops doing open-hardware repair); the Slingers (PMG would prefer to bring Joule-sheath production in-house); the Sparrows Point Local (the striking fab workers' union)

Where they operate

The Patapsco River industrial corridor. Smokestacks visible from across the harbor. Stamped industrial logos on every fab-made object in the region.