Officially founded during the Boskone War, Hyperlight Industries is a multifaceted organization dedicated to spreading humanity out from Earth, and hopefully eventually into the stars. Primarily, it currently operates helping to move migrant workers from Earth out to the Jovian system, along with transport of mundanes who are looking for a job in the more fertile market of space work. In secondary roles, it operates as a multifaceted conglomerate with divisions in mining, manufacturing, aeronautics, research and development into necessary technologies for setting on other 'M' class worlds, and a well-known caffeinated slushy department. While this seems like a potentially diverse and fracturing portfolio, almost all aspects of the company are aimed towards settling an extra-solar colony of between 50,000-500,000 people by 2028, with possible candidate locations to include Chara and Rho(1) Canceri.
Led by it's president, Captain Jonathan Rich (formerly a resident of Crestview, Florida), it's CEO Leroy Davis, COO (Chief Organizational Officer) Twilight (AI), along with a small departmental board, the company has grown steadily through buyouts, semi-shady deals with the US Armed Forces and other groups, and through growth and manufacturing via its internal mining and manufacturing arms Twilight Solutions and Thunderbolt Aeronautics. The company has grown from the initial pair who Went Up in late April 2012, shortly after Grovers Corners This is in spite of the rocky start for the company due to the methods used by its founders to leave the United States.
History
Though the full reasons behind their liftoff remain unknown, what is known is that over the course of a weekend, Captain Rich and Mr. Davis broke into the Bob Sikes Industrial Airport in Crestview, and via a combination of handwashing and selectively intensively handwaving an airliner parked for deconstruction and scrapping prepared a vehicle for takeoff, and notably armed it. Upon takeoff, they were set upon by a flight of F-15E and F-16 aircraft out of Eglin AFB, and barely escaped being shot down. After a short stopover at New Yavin for refueling and the installation of a fixed mount autocannon which was mounted aboard the aircraft before the station's owners found out about the theft, the pair departed for an automated AI-run mining operation on Mercury, which had been attacked on Friday of the week previous.
After 4 days, the pair returned with an AI in tow who went by the designation Twilight, but were refused docking permission by all stations in Earth Orbit, forcing them to divert to the Main Belt just ahead of the USS Stingray. There, they picked up the rest of Twilight's mining and moving vessels, and returned to Mercury after a refueling operation, moving out a substantial amount of material which has since disappeared into what is believed to be known as the Yorktown Project (the construction of a Fusion Torch powered Colonization vessel). They once again returned to the Main Belt, and Ceres, where they explained themselves as having lifted off as a rescue mission short on time and options, and attempted to contact the former owners of their new spacecraft, BAE, and offered restitution or the return of their airframe.
On March 13th, 2013, BAE accepted a restitution payment of $25 million dollars and arranged for the felony charges to be dropped. In a private meeting with Captain Dodge of the USS Stingray on neutral territory on Ceres, Captain Rich and his small crew agreed to serve out their misdemenor charges via temporary conscriptment into the US Navy for the duration of the war, serving as a patrol and early warning AWAC spaceship for the Belters. Here, they met up with the construction arm of their future company; at the time known as Starstreaker Aeronautics. The small asteroid Starstreaker Aeronautics had based themselves on had been completely demolished by an attack, leaving only a single AI that had hidden itself away during the fighting. This AI, (insert Name here) had become slightly unhinged by the experience, leaving it seeking revenge on the Boskonians responsible for killing its parents and friends.
Over the course of the war, the group would go on to earn many small-scale victories and awards, only coming into the major fleet battles during the fall of Boskone Prime.
(more to be redone tomorrow)
Led by it's president, Captain Jonathan Rich (formerly a resident of Crestview, Florida), it's CEO Leroy Davis, COO (Chief Organizational Officer) Twilight (AI), along with a small departmental board, the company has grown steadily through buyouts, semi-shady deals with the US Armed Forces and other groups, and through growth and manufacturing via its internal mining and manufacturing arms Twilight Solutions and Thunderbolt Aeronautics. The company has grown from the initial pair who Went Up in late April 2012, shortly after Grovers Corners This is in spite of the rocky start for the company due to the methods used by its founders to leave the United States.
History
Though the full reasons behind their liftoff remain unknown, what is known is that over the course of a weekend, Captain Rich and Mr. Davis broke into the Bob Sikes Industrial Airport in Crestview, and via a combination of handwashing and selectively intensively handwaving an airliner parked for deconstruction and scrapping prepared a vehicle for takeoff, and notably armed it. Upon takeoff, they were set upon by a flight of F-15E and F-16 aircraft out of Eglin AFB, and barely escaped being shot down. After a short stopover at New Yavin for refueling and the installation of a fixed mount autocannon which was mounted aboard the aircraft before the station's owners found out about the theft, the pair departed for an automated AI-run mining operation on Mercury, which had been attacked on Friday of the week previous.
After 4 days, the pair returned with an AI in tow who went by the designation Twilight, but were refused docking permission by all stations in Earth Orbit, forcing them to divert to the Main Belt just ahead of the USS Stingray. There, they picked up the rest of Twilight's mining and moving vessels, and returned to Mercury after a refueling operation, moving out a substantial amount of material which has since disappeared into what is believed to be known as the Yorktown Project (the construction of a Fusion Torch powered Colonization vessel). They once again returned to the Main Belt, and Ceres, where they explained themselves as having lifted off as a rescue mission short on time and options, and attempted to contact the former owners of their new spacecraft, BAE, and offered restitution or the return of their airframe.
On March 13th, 2013, BAE accepted a restitution payment of $25 million dollars and arranged for the felony charges to be dropped. In a private meeting with Captain Dodge of the USS Stingray on neutral territory on Ceres, Captain Rich and his small crew agreed to serve out their misdemenor charges via temporary conscriptment into the US Navy for the duration of the war, serving as a patrol and early warning AWAC spaceship for the Belters. Here, they met up with the construction arm of their future company; at the time known as Starstreaker Aeronautics. The small asteroid Starstreaker Aeronautics had based themselves on had been completely demolished by an attack, leaving only a single AI that had hidden itself away during the fighting. This AI, (insert Name here) had become slightly unhinged by the experience, leaving it seeking revenge on the Boskonians responsible for killing its parents and friends.
Over the course of the war, the group would go on to earn many small-scale victories and awards, only coming into the major fleet battles during the fall of Boskone Prime.
(more to be redone tomorrow)