The Great Technopoly

After the HA aids a Tiikon technology expo from being attacked by tech robbers formerly under CrimeTech employment, they meet a neutral tech baron Tiikon named Techbaron Normae Gol MacHine, who has loved technology more than any other member of his race, or any other technophilic race in the AUU, right to unmentionable levels, and runs MacHine Developments, which is a minor and yet failing corporation of tinkering, salvaging, and manufacturing. But he is under a huge mortgage because he is competing with a much better business rival and former academy lab mate and yet another extreme technophile named Techbaron Arctin Zoh Upsilon, who is an arrogant playboy philanthropist who adores technology and will exploit anything he finds a good marketing opportunity to where he steals MacHine's work and gets away with it because of MacHine's failures. However, despite the fact that he cannot compete with someone like Upsilon, he refuses to give up despite the mortgages and cheats out of unpaid electric bills by stealing power without notice. He needed the research and the power it requires as he found evidence of the fact that the Teadr 1 Arterians, a 4-armed technophile race, have hope of returning, hoping this will earn him the praise and the money to be back on top. However, before he can finish this, and even expose that Upsilon plans to steal that experiment and take credit for it, Upsilon exposes his theft of power and mortgage evasion and gets him sent to jail, and takes everything he had, and now he seeks to corner the market on technology and eventually take over technology itself, using his restoration of the Arterians to exploit it. With this ruse discovered by the HA, they send the Lodge to help respond, and must now expose Upsilon for the fraudulent tech tycoon he is, and bring back the Arterians responsibly.