Gas Miners Guild
| Gas Miners Guild | |
| Origin | |
| Alignment | {{{alignment}}} |
| Profile | |
| Date of founding | 250-300 A.S. A.S. |
| Date of dissolution | still active A.S. |
| Founder(s) | unknown |
| Current leader(s) | Guild Chairman |
| Base of operations | Aomori Station, Honshu |
| Primary role | |
| H-Fuel mining, refining and sales | |
| Secondary role | |
| At least partial protection of Sigma systems | |
The Gas Miners Guild (GMG) is a large organisation with a substantial stranglehold on the H-Fuel industry.
Synopsis
The GMG maintains it's claims on three of the five known Sigma systems (Sigma-13, Sigma-19 and Sigma-59), supporting their own mining bases and even trade lanes in those regions. The main distribution station and administratorial office is located in Honshu, on the conveniently placed Aomori Station. Distribution of H-Fuel consists of transporting the refined gas to Kusari, where it is sold to corporations dealing with redistribution both in Kusari itself and shipping to other houses. Kishiro Technologies is currently the Guild's main partner in H-Fuel distribution.
GMG security forces are noted for their unorthodox security tactics, utilising a form of guerilla warfare that uses the limited visibility inside the Crow Nebula to their advantage. The guild is known for using large numbers of strong and agile fighter and bomber craft to their advantage, while refusing to field capital class vessels altogether.
History
The Rise of the GMG
The Gas Mining Guild began it's operations somewhere between the year 250 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 unrefined gas to Kusari corporations. Corporate sharks soon realised the gold mine that providing fuel to an extensive part of Sirius was, and the small Honshu businesses quickly felt the pressure of corporate prospectors encroaching on their mining fields. Rather than ignore the 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 then abundant in resources 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 all 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.
Eighty Years War
Post-war Guild
Known bases
- Aomori Station, Honshu
- Gas Miner Naha, Sigma-13
- Gas Miner Ogashawa, Sigma-19
- Niigata Station, Sigma-59
- Sakhalin Station, Sigma-59
