GalactEx is in the business of providing scientific inquiry for a price. Although it lacks megacorporate status, its agents and facilities can be found across the Thousand Suns, engaged in planetary and system surveys, biosphere evaluation and archaeological digs. (The last is perhaps what GalactEx is best known for even though it constitutes the smallest share of the business). More often than not the company will work for a share of whatever it discovers, be it resources, samples of new non-sentient life forms or basic patent rights. Its clientele comes primarily from those businesses and worlds which lack their own sufficiently advanced academic or scientific resources.
GalactEx is generally well regarded due to the high quality of its work; however it has periodically suffered from accusations of fraud, most often that it has undervalued a subject under study. The company employs personnel possessing a wide range and/or depth of education and experience; it also owns a small fleet of starships, sometimes leasing additional craft at need.
GalactEx is a portmanteau of “galactic” and “exploration”.