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[EvE Online] What is the effect of all these empire-like corporate alliances running around New Eden?

New Eden has no shortage of freakishly powerful corporate entities that effectively control entire swathes of space and act as state actors. What effect do these entities have on the astropolitics of New Eden, and to what end are the major empires willing to tolerate them?
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The empire factions have no choice but to tolerate the capsuleer organisations, a single capsuleer ship in the hands of a competent pilot can take on an entire navy fleet.

The only political treaty of note in the grand scheme of things is the Yulai agreements (enforced by the most technologically proficient faction, Concord) that have effectively guaranteed that capsuleers will not lay claim to empire space and vice-versa. Should for instance, the Amarr choose to attack Delve, not only would they be hopelessly outmatched by the Imperium, they would be in violation of the agreement and thus lose out on its protections. Amarr space would be relegated to nullsec and Domain would fall as it becomes besieged from all sides, capsuleer and empire alike (similarly, if the Imperium were to attack Amarr space, concord intervention would be swift, all be it limited to the involved pilots rather than reflecting on the entire organisation.)

It's a galaxy of might makes right, where Concord are the mightiest, capsuleers second and the empire factions a distant third.