Talk:Story and History/@comment-25230967-20170811125020

Regarding the Corpus: Some of the codex entries you get from scanning missions (can't remember the name of the AI that you work for now, brain fart) it sounds like Corpus was a word for "clan" or "guild"... something to that effect. Also with the new open world update looming we know that there are more factions in the system than just the Grineer, infested, and Corpus... it's also hinted at in the game that there are trillions of innocent unaffiliated citizens living in the game universe we just never see them because we're usually attacking facilities owned by factions. So perhaps Corpus is the name of a single merchant guild that rose to power and the Corpus term was warped over the centuries (as language often is). They probably still govern the planets they control on the map but the actual citizens of those planets might not necessarily be "Corpus" affiliates.