Kodal is an energy corporation named after the sun Ko. It is the first company to ever succeed at building a Dyson sphere to harvest energy from the sun. Subsequently, Kodal has laid claim to the solar system surrounding Ko, renaming it to the Kodalian Solar System.
The Kodalian Dyson sphere (often just called Kodal) was constructed over the span of several decades. Starting with just a single ring, the structure has since expanded to completely envelop the sun Ko. In the process, planets that were in between the edges of the structure and the sun were destroyed to maximize efficiency. This, combined with the added mass of the sphere itself, resulted in an altered orbiting time for most of the planets in the system.
Most of the energy harvested using the Dyson sphere is converted into Nits, which are synthetic orbs that hold several Gigajoules of energy. These are distributed to planets within the Kodalian Service Area, where they are used by Atmos machines to keep the atmosphere habitable.
Some critics of Kodal view its size and the scope of its power as unethical. While technically being a corporation, Kodal in practice takes on the role of a corporate government, having a private militia and controlling local management on each planet in its range of influence. Kodal is infamous for being very eager to exert violence in order to expand its territory.