Exploration
Our Exploration and Science branches are among the universes best. Degrees stretching in sciences and maths we pride ourselves on knowing more. We don't wonder because we have to, we wonder because we are meant to.
Into The Unknown Always
Exploration is meant to be an adventure. There are knowns and unknowns. “There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.”
Exploration Officer
As a member of Exploration and Science you will travel to unknown unknowns, you will walk the unknown and you will eventually learn the unknown. And its all meant to be fun, with a little bit of R&D on the side. Come walk with us, you never know what you'll find...It might just be "yourself"
Pyro Crab
The 'Pyro Crab' is a term for a land predator living on a planet in the Pyro system. The creature is covered by a exoskeleton and has 4 legs. It also has a pair of free movable flagella and is bioluminescent.
Stormwal
The Stormwal (also known as 'Space Whales') is a flying creature that lives in the atmosphere of Crusader. According to the galactapedia, the carcass of a space whale is circa 100 meters long. They are hunted because their body produces a highly valuable resource.
Stanton I: Hurston
Hurston is a hot, arid planet that orbits closest to the sun in the Stanton system. Discovered in 2851, it was sold by the United Empire of Earth (UEE) government to the company Hurston Dynamics in 2865. Unrestricted industry and mining, especially of antimatter precursors, have heavily polluted the atmosphere of the planet. Lorville, the oldest and most populous city on Hurston, is home to Hurston Dynamics' headquarters. Hurston Dynamics is an aristocratic family-run weapons manufacturer. Hurston builds several lines of reliable weapons, and pilots looking for specialized guns might do well to visit here.
Stanton II: Crusader
Stanton II: Crusader, called “Cl” by the natives; is a low-mass gas giant that has a breathable atmosphere at high altitudes. Taking advantage of this, the planet became home to a military-constructed latticework of habitable floating platforms. The platforms proved to be ideal for Crusaders since normally their large-scale commercial transport ships would otherwise need to be built beyond the atmosphere. Being constructed in open air allows the cost of these ships to be reduced by almost 40% on the back end, which is often passed along to consumers. Once Crusader Industries took over, these platforms were expanded upon to suit their production needs. The company also built quality housing for their employees in habitats woven into the latticework itself. The portion of the world available to visitors is considered by many to be the nicest port in the system. The shipyards themselves are eerily beautiful, with huge transport ships suspended in mid-atmosphere surrounded by a lighted webbing of Crusader facilities.
Stanton III: ArcCorp
ArcCorp, Stanton III, is the system’s most visually impressive world. While the other planets, even polluted Hurston Dynamics, retain some indication of their natural origins, ArcCorp is now nearly an entirely constructed world. Almost all of the terrain has been sculpted, zoned and built upon, leaving only its mountain ranges and large bodies of water left for nature. ArcCorp builds thrusters and quantum drives in bulk for hundreds of thousands of civilian spacecraft every year. Traders porting at ArcCorp are advised that in addition to deals on these components, they can find just about anything else here. ArcCorp is absolutely indiscriminate about who they lease property to, and hundreds of smaller companies have made their home on the world. Anthropologists familiar with the Xi’an have posited that ArcCorp is the closest human equivalent to a Xi’an factory world, and many predict that our civilization will someday evolve along the same lines.
Stanton IV: microTech
Microtech is the fourth and farthest planet from the sun in the Stanton system. Located at the outer edge of the system’s habitable zone, Microtech is mostly ice, with some cold-to-temperate areas of tundra. The temperature is the result of an error during the UEE terraforming process, which lead to unusually dense cloud production. Microtech manufactures a wide variety of electronics, including those found in ship systems. Space on the world is leased to smaller companies, including some of Microtech's competitors, which solidified the planet’s reputation as the place for cutting-edge tech research and development.