An actual corporation who's purpose goes beyond mercenary stuff and science.

Something to note is that the majority of the times big corporations get to the size that they are is through various mergers with other companies that allow them to expand and utilize the resources gathered from whatever company they bought out or merged with.

This means that, for you to properly pull this off, you would have to either a) Get other factions to fuse (which is currently pretty much out of the question), or b) Invent the lore for your mega-corp in which various factions/companies were merged in the first place. The latter is more practical, and you can easily create a springboard for it: They've been around and recently wanted to extend their presence to the list of colonies and planets out there for more business, just like any other company that would expand to other states or countries, except on the interstellar level.

I'm down for Space Wal-Mart to be a thing, and back this idea wholeheartedly.

 

Once Evelynn is set up, if she gets set up, in a spot to be doing her blacksmith thing, she could easily be an employee for you, sending you x y and z for a pixels in return, a reduced price compared to what you can sell it for, and then you sell it at a profit. Like a work-at-home member for the Corp, and potentially advancing to being like Head of the Mining/Blacksmith department or some pluckery if we get enough people.

Because I like the sound of Space Wal-Mart.

 

Instead of you pulling money and assets out of your ass or buying other factions, you should:

1- Get investors/shareholders.
Get supporters from the big factions, endorsements and the like. Invite factions to invest on your company so you have capital to fund the company, then offer them discounts or to buy raw materials from them and the like. No company starts from scratch, unless it's a branch of another company. But then that company needed help to be built too. So yeah, ask someone from the Factions to help you out with it, maybe they'll give you a kickstart.

2- Start small.
No company ever starts big all at once. Unless you pull money out of your ass like stated before. Or your company already existed somewhere else. In any case, you should start small, being active and stabilizing yourself in one area first. Like pharmacy, medical assistance, agriculture, logistics, metalworking, manufacturing, you name it. If you start big all at once, it will be stressing and hard-if not utterly impossible- to manage and maintain. Unless you already have a plan fleshed that theoretically works and you know about macro/micro managing and stuff.

After you're done taking care of one area and making sure it will not crumble under it's own weight, then you should start expanding onto other areas and making it more known. Be realistic! Because it's both challenging and fun.

3-Take it easy.
Companies don't start overnight. So be patient and spread the word in StarNet about how cool and sweet your company is and how everyone should join it because it sells everything, from three-eyed pegasii to tech devices that can create mini-singularities that can swallow people's lunches and stuff.

Think like a real entrepreneur.

Hope this helps. Because I really have no idea what I'm saying.

 

Hm. Then I have no idea what to do other than to just post 'employees for hiring'. Can't help you there I guess.

Also I thought you needed funding because of what you said here, but I guess I read it wrong.