Gas Miners Guild (player faction)

This is a player faction. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Gas Miners Guild

Gas Miners Guild
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Origin	Kusari
Alignment	Independent
Profile
Date of founding	280-300 A.S.
Founder(s)	unknown
Base of operations	Aomori Station, Honshu
Primary role
H-Fuel mining, refining and sales
Secondary role
Protection of the Sigma systems

Synopsis

The Gas Miner's Guild are the main supplier of H-Fuel to the four houses in Sirius. We defend our space against all intruders, fending off our enemies with our superior tactics in Nebula fighting. We will slip in, take down our target, and move out. In the recent years, we have moved away from 13 and deeper into the Sigmas, looking for more deposits of H-Fuel to mine, and sell off for profit. We must fight off both Corsairs and Outcasts, making their homes in our space, making life everyday a struggle to retain the foundations for our wealth. Although we have the resources and the Money to invest in large capital ships, they do not match our way of fighting, nor do we care for showing them off.

The GMG originated from Kusari but spread rapidly out into the Sigma's after discovering large deposits of H-Fuel there that advance their small business into a full inter system wide corporation. But as the GMG expanded and grew they encountered new threats. Pirates and Terrorists throughout the Sigmas saw GMG convoys and stations as opportune targets for many organized attacks and raids. And so the GMG directed it's attention to it's security and came out with a number of ship models designed specifically to protect it's convoys and base's of operations from these attacks. This along with generations of training in particle cloud combat made the GMG fighter pilots some of the best in Sirius. The Gas miners guild is now a numerous and profitable corporation and is a leading pioneer into the far reaches of the Sigma systems.

The Gas Miner's Guild is based off of Aomori Station, due to the fact it is in Kusari Space, and is better protected than their further out bases in the Sigmas.

History

Rise to Power

The Gas Mining Guild began it's operations somewhere between the year 280 and 300 A.S. right after the massive Honshu food crisis of 250 A.S. caused by a failed Alien Organisms dispersion experiment. The crisis led to the bulk of the Honshu population losing their only source of revenue. Seeking new opportunities, the former fishermen started setting up new businesses, mainly gathering and selling hydrogen and helium isotopes from the abundant Crow Nebula to Kusari corporations. Without the modern miracle of jump gates, these journeys would take months before actually bringing in profit. Despite that shortcoming, it wasn't long until the corporate sharks of Kusari realised the gold mine that mining and refining fuel was, and the small Honshu businesses quickly felt the pressure of corporate prospectors encroaching on their mining fields. Rather than ignore this forming competition, the businesses had banded together to create the Gas Miners Guild.

By the start of the next century the GMG claim on the lucrative Sigma-13 system was put in stone by the Kusari government, and the Guild's own gas refining facilities. To enforce their claim even further, the Guild signed an exclusive sales contract with Samura Industries in 330 A.S., forcing Kishiro Technologies to pursue other markets and effectively removing the competition. The construction of the Osaka Storage Facility in 350 A.S. marked the beginning of a period of excessive income for both the GMG and Samura for the next 200 years.

New Enterprises

Despite their assured stranglehold on the lucrative H-Fuel trade, the Guild had never stagnated in any one place for long. Opportunities were aplenty in the rich but dangerous Border Worlds, and it wasn't long until the gas miners came in contact with Corsair raiders, spreading their alien trinkets and devices by the dozens. These would be called artifacts. The GMG would quickly become the middleman in the transport of these artifacts to Kusari. A short lived deal that would provide the Guild a grudge against the quasi-legal Hogosha, their Corsair partners and Samura itself - who would be blamed for lack of respect, due to the lackluster intervention on their part.

In the end the GMG stuck to what it was able to do best: obtain H-Fuel. Survey parties were always being sent out across the nebula stretch, randomly combing it in search for more gas deposits. It would be until 550 A.S. before these searches would finally bring fruit. The Sigma-19 system, abundant in gas pockets, was branded as the next logical expansion point for the Guild. With the location now selected came the question of awarding the construction contract. While Samura pushed to renegotiate their H-Fuel contract to a lower price, the GMG decided to scout out the competition instead. After a steady period of negotiations, an agreement is signed in 550 A.S. contracting Kishiro Technologies to finance a Jump Gate to Sigma-19 in exchange for distribution rights. Construction would be completed almost a hundred years later, ending with the Gas Miner Ogashawa being stationed in the system, in the middle of the rich gas field.

Diplomacy

Allies

Kishiro Technologies

Zoners

Enemies

Outcasts

Corsairs

Hogosha

Rheinland Federal Police

Rheinland Military

Kruger Minerals

Owned bases

• Aomori Station, Honshu
• Gas Miner Naha, Sigma-13
• Gas Miner Ogashawa, Sigma-19
• Fulisawa Mining Facility, Okinawa

Other bases populated

• Planet Honshu, Honshu
• Osaka outpost, Honshu