The Nova Corp was created when The Ark decided to make itself public.
It resides in a powerful market industry, selling everything from warships to kitchen plates.
In fact, you could build a house out of materials coming exclusively from the Nova Corporation.
Including the planet it sits on.
While peaceful like The Ark, all that money isn't exactly unprotected.
Quite a few fleets are in defense of the entire Sol System in which the Nova Corp resides.
Not to mention the Tier 25 Gatekeeper on New Haven and Earth.
And he doesn't take kindly to interstellar intrusions.
-The Nova Corp's Archives