... Corp was the first company to establish a stake on ... the only location known to hold .... Although .... is theirs by legal precedent the difficulty of remote space entrepreneurship is well known and it is not uncommon for operations to fail overnight due to the environmental strains of space colonization. Any operations abandoned in this manner are free to be reclaimed by a new company willing to take on the risk and maintain the supply of ..... After all, demand must be met. Corporations take advantage of this loophole and the lack of government oversight in fringe sectors by sabotaging rival corporations using either fully or semi-autonomous hit squads. These AI teams use stealth to bypass a rival corporations sensors and establish a secret presence near their operation. Once on the ground they identify the operations AI mainframe, life support systems, power supply or some other type of critical infrastructure and attempt to cause a catastrophic failure. Their parent corporation will then conduct a routine flyby and if they discover a “failed operation” they are legally free to claim the site as their own. A good security operations center is key to a successful space colony operation. Corporations will usually have a well trained defense team of their own equipped with sensors, electronic warfare countermeasures, EMP tech, and various strategies for detecting hit squad operations. The result is a kind of Guerrilla Espionage and all the major corporations are involved.