Royal Charter Energy

Royal Charter Energy is a corporation belonging to the middle volumes of The Expanse, entering the story in Cibola Burn, the fourth novel. RCE is an Earth company of the establishment kind: corporate offices on Luna, deep pockets, and a working relationship with the United Nations, the world government of an Earth that dominates the series' Solar System alongside independent Mars and above the laboring Belt. Its business is heavy science as much as energy, the funding of survey teams, laboratories, and expeditions of the sort only planet-scale wealth can mount. The undertaking that brings Royal Charter Energy into The Expanse, where its charter points and what its people find, is the story Cibola Burn exists to tell, and it belongs to that book.