Brief Description:The IMG is a confederation of unaffiliated miners, who banded together to find strength in numbers, to mine the rich systems of the borderworlds and edgeworlds. The IMG differs from most house corporations in the sense that it's profits do not go to the coffers of any specific house, but to the workers themselves. It's also remarkable the lack of ranks. However, the Board of Guild Masters is the highest ruling body inside IMG.
This worker-oriented policy has driven the Guild since 654 A.S., and to this date, draws in workers who have been laid off, or grown disgruntled with the house corporations treatment of their workforce. The Guild seeks to provide a means for each member to employ themselves, either in asteroid mining, planet- or planetoid mining, or raw resource refinement. This has put the IMG on relatively good terms with many worker revolutionary factions such as Xenos, Red Hessians and Mollys.
The fact that the IMG does not have a house navy to fall back on, combined with the heavy pirate activities in the Guild's most common mining areas (which reside in the Tau and Omega borderworlds) have forced it to develop ships and weapons of their own to defend themselves and their claims from attack.
IMG operates trade ships with up to gunboat escorts throughout Sirius, although they rarely venture into the Omicrons. Recently, Omega activity has picked up after diplomatic conflicts in the Omega Borderworlds where Houses assert their power more and more and resources are slowly running out.