KIGA Modular Industries, commonly abbreviated KMI or simply KIGA, is a GSC-allied megacorporation that produces the bulk of the allied galaxy's exoframes. They face fierce, but ultimately lacking competition from Six Stars, and their logo appears on nearly every exoframe one could find.

KIGA Modular Industries was founded in SY 1142 by Naomi Kiga, a Zhyn born Ekat Ini Nomu Kiga, to the old Hilix Confederate Stars just before the Human First Contact War. Kiga changed her name and defected to the Greater Human Cooperative early in the war. She brought her species' knowledge and experience in modular mechanics to the other side, and founded the corporation in the process. After the war, she followed the splinter faction that would become the Galactic Sapients Coalition, and brought KMI with her.

KMI produces five series of frame models, each with their own capabilities and use-cases. They additionally maintain, but do not manufacture or release, a sixth line called their “Legacy” series into which deprecated designs are automatically filed.

All sizes of frames can use gear designed for smaller sizes, although the usefulness of such configurations varies by use case.

Light type frames are designed to be nimble and easily reconfigurable, placing emphasis on versatility above all else.

Heavy series frames are generally larger and are designed to take more punishment than their light series cousins. They represent the jack of all trades designs, although they are less prevalent than the light series due to their often prohibitive cost.

KIGA's Superheavy line is all about punch and punishment. Superheavy exoframes are often worth a small fortune and feature prominently in colonization efforts, fast-response wartime teams, and spacescale construction sites.

The KIGA X line is an experimental series of exoframes released in small quantities for short bursts at a time. All X-frames are usually highly specialized and contain various cutting-edge functionality which sets them apart from all the rest in specific capacities.

Similarly, the KIGA S line stands for “Special”, and represents their less cutting-edge, but still specialized frames. These are most often, but not always, made to enable specific types of research.