Information broker

Career

Qualifications

Information brokers typically have degrees in information management, but anyone who is skilled enough at locating, trading, and disseminating information will find customers regardless of ther academic credentials.

Career Progression

Information brokers typically begin their careers as information collectors. With more experience, they may start to specialize in trading, maintenance, or security.

Payment & Reimbursement

Information brokers are highly paid. Information brokering can be extremely lucrative in fields dealing with highly volatile or time-sensitive information. These ventures are risky, but information brokers can easily find a new job if their current market collapses.

Perception

Purpose

Information brokers serve as intermediaries in trade negotiations and diplomatic relations between planets and factions. They specialize in gathering intelligence on market trends, political developments, and technological advancements, providing valuable insights to their clients and helping to facilitate mutually beneficial agreements. Information brokers are also involved in the acquisition and protection of intellectual property and sensitive data. This includes corporate espionage, counterintelligence operations, and negotiations over patents, copyrights, and trade secrets. Information brokers employ hackers, analysts, and security experts to safeguard their clients' interests and ensure the integrity of their information networks. In addition to commercial and political intelligence, information brokers facilitate cultural exchange and media distribution across the galaxy. They specialize in promoting cultural artifacts, entertainment media, literature, and art from different planets and civilizations, fostering understanding and appreciation among diverse communities. Information brokers are also involved in media production, marketing, and distribution, leveraging their expertise to reach new audiences and markets.

Social Status

Information brokers are typically well-off. Their work is typically viewed as self-serving, so they rely on earning enough income to live comfortably as they do not generate social credit.

Demographics

Less than 1% of the population are information brokers. However, most people will interact with information brokers on a regular basis, even if indirectly.

History

Information brokering has existed for centuries, but became more important with the development of stock markets and electronic communication in the Nineteenth Century. With the development of interstellar travel in the Twenty-third Century, information brokering became even more important as the amount of information that could be shared between star systems was limited.

Operations

Tools

Information brokers typically interface with computers and have access to planetary information networks. They are also tied in to the latest data deliveries from incoming starships and interplanetary communication networks. They have vast server farms and supercomputers for processing this data.

Workplace

Information brokers tend to work in high-tech offices with access to vast server farms and high-speed network connections.

Provided Services

Information brokers assist in diplomatic, trade, political, and legal decisions. They also protect intellectual property and trade secrets. They are also closely tied to marketing, especially in the entertainment industry.

Type

Financial / Trade

Demand

Information brokers are located on nearly every planet and are in high demand on planets with interstellar trade connections

Legality

Information brokering is a well-respected career that is critical to the operation of the government itself. However, there are information brokers who deal in illicit information, such as smuggling or the selling of stolen data.