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Founded in 51 A.S. with the merging of several major Manhattan construction firms, Deep Space Engineering sprouted into a massive conglomerate aiming to take advantage of the opportunities of space. The contract to build the first Baltimore Shipyards secured the corporation initial success and after completing the shipyards in 58 A.S., DSE began construction colonization ships with the newly developed Ageira drives.

Over the next decades, Deep Space Engineering held its position as the primary construction and mining corporation in Liberty. The technology exchanges between the houses spurred an increase in production, leading to rapidly growing consumption of mineral resources in New York.

In 128 the massive Dallas research station is completed in Texas; Ageira Technologies and the Liberty military begin work on several secret projects, including jump gate technology.

In 145, DSE begins preparing Planet Los Angeles for agriculture by bombarding it with ice asteroids for the purpose of lowering the salinity of the atmosphere. In the following years, further terraforming and cloud seeding is conducted by DSE making Los Angeles the primary food source of Liberty.

In 185, the jumpgate project is unveiled to the rest of Sirius. Four years later, DSE finishes construction of the first gates, between New York and Colorado. The mineral abundance of Colorado is thereby made significantly more available, cutting a three month trip to mere minutes.

In early third century, most of the Liberty systems are connected by gates and construction is begun in the other houses. As funding becomes an increasingly pressing matter, Deep Space Engineering and Ageira Technologies fund the inception of Interspace Commerce.

By the fourth century, New York is depleted of minerals leaving Liberty entirely dependent on Colorado and Texas. The first trade lanes are also built across Liberty by DSE.

By the sixth centry, Liberty mineral resources are nearly exhausted. Low-yield chemical extraction is put to some use on depleted deposits in Colorado, however Liberty is now dependent on minerals from Rheinland. After the Kusari and Rheinland embargo of Liberty, the ownership of gates and lanes is turned over to their respective houses. DSE still manages all construction of new gates and lanes, however.

In 650, significant deposits of Boron were discovered on Pittsburgh. The DSE mining operation was established in 660 and the corporate headquarters were also moved there from Baltimore Shipyard in 698.

While Deep Space Engineering continues to reap profit from gate/lane construction in the ninth century, the corporation has largely stagnated in terms of development. With the emergence of the new Liberty corporation Duchess Industries with by a young and astute leadership, the DSE board saw a potential opportunity. They watched the corporation closely.

Lars Johansen entered the freight profession in 814 A.S. with a Universal Shipping contract. With the contract came a Mammoth transport, which he christened The Duchess Blue after his recently-deceased cat, Duchess. The contract also afforded him a lifestyle that suited him well; he settled down and performed above and beyond his contract. He did, however, have significantly higher ambitions, so later that year he took out a loan for a Whale in an attempt to boost his profits. It proved to be a highly worthwhile investment and his contract with Universal was soon upgraded and renewed. At this point, freelance freight contracting became the limitation to his ambitions.

Therefore, Lars sold his contract with Universal in 816 and used the profits to start a comparatively small freight business, Duchess Shipping. Within a few short weeks some freelancers took an interest in the company and were soon hired. Three large transports and an escort now made up the company fleet and earnings were soaring. Competition from Universal and other shipping corporations now became a pressing issue. Fortunately, this obstacle coincided with profits reaching a level capable of accommodating Lars's plans.

In early 817 A.S., it was decided to integrate and expand into the mining and construction sectors of Liberty industry. At this point, Deep Space Engineering made their move: Duchess Industries was absorbed into DSE and in return Lars Johansen was given a place on the Controling Board. This greatly faciliated DSE expansion into the freight industry and reduced dependence on Universal Shipping to supply construction sites. As expected, this set in motion a series of events that led to an invigorated DSE in a new era of expansion and modernization.

A convenient venue of this corporate energy presented itself with the arrival of Survey Vessel Armstrong in Coronado. The order was given to closely appraise the IMG presence there and observe their movements in order to determine potential targets for, among other things, mining. Though the most obvious opportunity had already been claimed by IMG on Planet Pecos, Coronado was full of plenty more for the taking.

This is the state of Deep Space Engineering today in 817 AS, as Sirius descends further into violence.

At the top of the corporate hierarchy sits the Council of Control. The Board consists of the stockholders and serves as their medium of input into corporate decisions. The Council of Control is concerned primarily with major public corporate decisions, especially macro-decisions involving other factions.

The corporation itself is led by the Director and his Deputy Directors, the Board of Directors. Day-to-day decisions, as well as any other decisions of little concern to the Council, are made by these Directors. The brunt of corporate management falls on their shoulders. Below the Directors are the departments, each of which consists of linearly ranked employees. At the head of the largest departments sits one of the Deputy Directors, but most answer directly to the Board.

Ranks

Commendation System


Ship Identification

Corporate Vessels

Freight Department

Mining Department

Security Department

Standard daily operations consist primarily of gate/lane construction and maintenance, supplies hauling, mining, and survey exploration. All operations contribute to gate/lane construction in one form or another; mineral deposits are sought out and surveyed, after mining operations are established they supply shipyards and component factories with material resource whose products are then used to maintain the actual construction sites. DSE is not completely self-sustained, however, primarily in regard to materials and freight hauling. Many necessary materials are imported from other houses and Universal Shipping and various independent traders aid in hauling whiteboxes to outlying sites.

Engineering Department: Engineers are more or less split into the two major operational areas of gate/lane construction and ship construction. Engineers are also on duty for field repairs.

Freight Department: Most freight routes consist of hauling Gate/Lane Parts to one of the three large construction sites in Hokkaido, Okinawa, and Tau-23. Subsequent legs are dependent on several factors, but all circuits inevitably end in import of materials or components to Liberty.

Mining Department: Non-planetary mining is based primarily in Colorado with a heavy focus on the Copperton field, though low-yield chemical extraction is still ongoing in the Silverton field. Other than mining, the only other major responsibility of the Mining Department is prospecting.

Science, Research, and Technology Department: The DSE SRT Department is relatively small, consisting mostly of scientists accompanying DSE ships in the field. However, the department also consists of a few scientific vessels each with either specific or broad assignments in deep space. The secondary directive of the SRT Department is to maintain the integrity of all optronic, electronic, and bioneural systems in DSE assets. Therefore in addition to those of scientific and exploratory nature, technicians will be tasked to any of a large variety of postings, including: supporting engineers at construction or maintenance sites, supporting miners in the field, and contract jobs for third parties.

Security Department: The security of DSE assets and personel is paramount, hence the singular responsibility of this department. Not only are Security ships attached to most departmental wings and field operations, but Security ships can also seen throughout the corporate zone of influence patrolling supply routes and standard operational areas, cleaning out threats.

Planet Pittsburgh is the location of the Deep Space Engineering headquarters since covered by a single vast desert, broken only by large rocky outcroppings that have yet to be consumed by the sand. Without any ice asteroids in close proximity, the planet was not considered a good candidate for terraforming and remained sparsely populated until a full-scale mineral survey in 650 AS pinpointed deposits of Boron in the form of borax salts deep within the Corridera Plateau. A mining operation was established on the planet in 660 AS by Deep Space Engineering to exploit these deposits, and it is now the only raw material extraction facility within Liberty space.

Baltimore Shipyard is the primary shipyard used by Deep Space Engineering. It was constructed to service overall DSE operations, but when not at full capacity it also builds prison ships and cruise liners for sale on spec.

Survey Vessel Armstrong, though not a complete base in its own right, represents the DSE foothold in Coronado. It is tasked with surveying the system for mineral deposits and keeping an eye on IMG activity.

Ames Research Station was originally established in 550 AS to study the movements of the strange clouds of dark matter in the system. The station is now largely occupied by Zoners, but a contingent of Deep Space Engineering support staff remains aboard.

The Chugoku Gate Construction Site in Hokkaido is part of a controversial construction project intended to open the recently discovered mineral riches of the Chugoku system to exploitation by Kusari business interests. However, because of the natural dangers of the Hokkaido system and significant levels of terrorist activity, Interspace Commerce (IC) refused to insure the venture until the Kusari government committed to station the Battleship Matsumoto in the system for protection. Despite the large military presence, however, the Chugoku Gate is still a favorite target of the Blood Dragons.

The Sigma-19 Gate Construction Site in Okinawa has been operational for some time, however the project is still expected to take a while longer to complete, especially given the strict directives to Deep Space Engineering, who are being paid a very handsome amount of money for their silence and speed in the construction project.

Considerable amounts of supplies are constantly being shipped in to both the construction site and the nascent beginnings of a trade lane route to the planet Miura, all paid for by the GMG and Kishiro. Despite the extremely high levels of security, there have been a number of attacks on the installation by the Hogosha, who prefer to use lightning hit and run strikes against the jump gate site in order to disrupt progress. Because of this, many of the DSE workers are demanding higher wages due to the dangers involved, and efforts are being increased to tighten security around the base.

The Tau-31 Gate Construction Site in Tau-23 is used by both BMM and DSE. BMM handles base management and stages their mining operation from it while DSE bases the Jump Gate and Trade Lane construction there.

A system as rich in resources as Tau-23 was ripe for exploitation, and once surveyed by Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing (BMM) in 730 AS, the construction of a Jump Gate network linking the system with Bretonia became a high priority. While work on the Tau-31 Jump Gate has proceeded apace, the project has recently come under intense attack by the criminal organization known as the Outcasts, though the reasons behind the hostilities remain unclear. BMM has been forced to hire extra security to protect the construction project and has even attempted to begin limited mining of the valuable Beryllium deposits in the system as a way to offset the skyrocketing costs.

Primary
- All Liberty systems.
-- Alberta
-- California
-- Colorado
-- Connecticut
-- Minnesota
-- New Hampshire
-- New York
-- Ontario
-- Pennsylvania
-- Quebec
-- Texas
-- Yukon
- All Independent systems adjacent to Liberty.
-- Cortez
-- Galileo
-- Hudson
-- Kepler
-- Magellan
- All systems with DSE bases.
-- Coronado
- All systems with DSE construction sites.
-- Hokkaido
-- Okinawa
-- Tau-23

Secondary
- All friendly systems with Jump Gates or Trade Lanes.

- //Members must know and follow server rules at all times with absolutely no exceptions whatsoever. These rules apply both in and out of the game. If a member breaks server rules, whether or not they are officially sanctioned for it, additional internal consequences are to be expected.

- //Members who wish to file a server rule violation report must consult with the faction leadership first.

- All employees must comply with all corporate regulations at all times unless explicitly overruled by the Council. All such overrulings are case-specific.

- All employees must obey the laws and regulations of Liberty House as well as all laws and regulations of friendly factions when visiting their sovereign space.

- All employees must comply with orders given to them by the authorities of friendly factions when visiting their sovereign space.

- Security employees may not enforce any laws or regulations.

- Ships may only dock at bases owned by factions of Neutral or better diplomatic status.

- Only Freight Department ships may dock at bases owned by factions of Neutral diplomatic status for the purpose of freight trade.

- No employees may enter space directly controlled by Hostile factions.

- Employees may enter the guard systems of factions of Neutral or better diplomatic status, but only with explicit permission from a representative of that faction.

- Security employees must take all measures to ensure the safety and security of all corporate assets and personel.

- No employee may enter systems controlled by Nomads or the Wild. If space or cargo scanners pick up any alien lifeforms, employees must take immediate evasive action and move as far away as possible.

- All ships must refrain from firing on other ships, with the following exceptions:
-- Any ship may open fire in self-defense against criminals.
-- Any ship may open fire on any target posing a significant and unmitigatable threat to corporate interests.
-- Any ship may open fire if accompanied by a Security ship against Pirates who are demanding more than the net worth of all allied ships and cargo within sensor range of the pirates.
-- Any ship may open fire to assist Security ships.
-- Security ships may open fire in self-defense or in defense of DSE or allied ships against criminals.
-- Security ships may open fire on any non-Friendly, non-Allied target if given explicit clearance to do so by local authorities.

- In matters of security, all non-Security ships must obey commands given to them by Security employees. Rank and seniority within the Securty Department may overrule.

Full Non-Player Faction Diplomatic Status Chart
Full Official Player Faction Diplomatic Status Chart

Allied

Friendly

Neutral

Unfriendly

Hostile

Members may use any Civilian equipment of type Starbeam, Stunpulse, Flashpoint, and Debilitator. Members may also use any generic equipment (Counter Measures, Cruise Disruptors, Mines, Missiles, Scanners, Shields, and Torpedos) available from friendly bases.

To use any other equipment, members must apply for permission from the Board of Directors.

Below is a list of ships used by Deep Space Engineering. Ships are organized by department and each ship is accompanied by the rank required to fly it.

All Initiates

Engineering

Freight

Mining


Science, Technology, and Research


Security