Cydonia Strategic Holdings / RRSC

Key Milestones

• 2158 CE – Founding of the Martian Extraction Corporation (MEC) to support terraforming and resource extraction on Mars (Sol IV).

• 2163 CE – MEC relocates headquarters from Earth to Port Renatus, solidifying its identity as a Martian-based company.

• Late 22nd Century – MEC expands beyond Mars, establishing mining operations on Mercury and the moons of Jupiter.

• 2271 CE – MEC embroiled in corruption scandal involving bribery of health and safety officials. Severe penalties force divestment of assets around Jupiter and the Kuiper Belt.

• 2283 CE – CMG attempts to leverage mining claims in the Croshaw system; expansion unfortunately plagued by piracy and frontier instability.

• 2286 CE – MEC unites ten smaller firms and failed terraforming projects to form the Colonization and Mining Guild (CMG), establishing itself as a major player in early expansion.

• Mid 23rd Century – CMG becomes heavily involved in the first wave of interstellar colonization; surveyors among the first to enter new systems.

• 2380–2530 CE – Human Colonial Expansion Era: CMG grows massively, investing in colonies and mining ventures, generating quadrillions in value.

• 2485 CE – Collapse of the Ferron-Orretani jump point shifts CMG strategy toward consolidation and development of existing systems.

• 2525 CE – CMG relocates headquarters from Mars to Terra to be closer to the frontier; secondary headquarters established in Tram, Ferron System.

• 2686 CE – After failed ventures in Ferron, CMG faces bankruptcy. Imperator Illyana Messer VI authorizes a bailout, nationalizing the company as a state-controlled asset.

• Messer Era – CMG operates as an extraction and investment arm of the Messer regime, funding projects along the Perry Line and frontier borders.

• Post-Messer Purge (~2790s CE) – Following the fall of Linton Messer XI, CMG is dismantled as part of the anti-Messer reforms. Subsidiaries and assets auctioned off, leaving the company a hollow shell.

• 2947 CE – Nihilus Drake and a coalition of investors acquire CMG’s surviving assets, reviving the company with a mandate to restore integrity and adapt to modern markets.

• Present (2955 CE) – Proposal submitted to rebrand as Cydonia Strategic Holdings (CSH), honoring Martian heritage while embracing a diversified future. Headquarters moved to Sherman, on the planet Cascom, in the Castra system.

Company History

Cydonia Strategic Holdings (CSH) as it is known today was founded in 2158 CE as The Martian Extraction Corporation (MEC) with the mission of colonizing and extracting the resources of the newly terraformed Mars (Sol IV). Throughout the 22nd century, MEC became a large presence on Mars with the establishment of several large mining outposts as well as the acquisition of several smaller Martian mining operations and in 2163 CE, a new headquarters was established outside of Port Renatus officially moving the company from being based on Earth to Mars. By the end of the century, MEC had become a major exporter of raw resources from Mars to Earth and began to stake it’s claim on other areas of the Sol System such as Mercury and the moons of Jupiter. While not the largest or most well known corporation, MEC was very active within the Martian and Earth governments frequently donating to politicians who expanded land claim and mineral rights in the Sol system.

Throughout the 23rd Century the MEC continued its expansion with a relatively stable era of small acquisitions as well as the establishment of operations in the Kuiper belt based from Pluto. In the year 2271, news broke that the MEC was caught in a corruption scandal, accused bribing several health and safety officials. Luckily for the company, this news released just days before the discovery of the first jump point in the Neso Triangle. It took the MEC several years to finish it’s legal battle in the Martian courts and in turn was forced to pay a large amount of money in penalties. This forced the MEC to sell several of its mining operations around Jupiters moons and in the Kuiper belt to recoup the costs.

MEC had a late start in the Croshaw System, only getting it’s first mining claim in 2283. Expansion into the Croshaw system was not without its issues however as this new frontier attracted pirates and criminals who plundered MEC and other mining vessels at will. In 2286, 5 years after the Croshaw expansion commitee was created, the MEC united 10 smaller mining companies as well as acquiring several of the failed Croshawan terraforming operations under a new company, the Colonization and Mining Guild. The new comglomorate of the CMG now controlled much of the mining

At the time of the formation of the United Nations of Earth, CMG had a large say in the Colonization and Mining rights within the Croshaw system as well as the expanding amount of systems being discovered. CMG surveyors were often some of the first people to access these new systems and the CMG operations expanded into these new systems. During the Unification Wars, CMG stayed neutral and sold resources to both the UNE and Anti-Unification Alliance.

During the Human Colonial Expansion Era (2380-2530 CE), the CMG evolved into a massive organization, and became a large investor in new colony and mining expeditions in the ever expanding UNE systems. This led the company and its subsidiaries to become very involved in the billions of lives moving to the far reaches of the UNE and created multiple quadrillions in value for the company.

The collapse of the Ferron-Orretani jump point in 2485 signified a shift in priorities for the CMG, from the rapid expansion of the Human Colonial Era to the development and expansion of existing systems. Still focused on the investment in new colonies and mining settlements through their subsidiaries CMG was one of the first to invest Credits into the new Terra system. In 2525, CMG finally moved their headquarters from the old MEC headquarters on Mars to Terra as well as creating a secondary headquarters in Tram in the Ferron system.

During the tumoltuous years of the Messer Era, several high risk CMG investments in the Ferron system started to fail as resources on Asura started to dry up. This in turn sent the CMG into financial ruin and eventual bankruptcy. In 2686, Imperator Illyana Messer VI extended a bailout agreement to the Colonization and Mining Guild board which involved the nationilzation of the company. The board of investors agreed that this would be the best course of action in order to save the remaining assets of the company. Imperator Messer VI reformed the CMG into an investment and extraction arm to strengthen the borders of the UEE. The new Messer run CMG focused on investments in systems along the Perry Line as well as the border systems with the Van’Duul.

After the dethronement and death of Linton Messer XI, CMG became a victim of the UEE purge of companies with close ties to the Messer regime. Most of the CMGs subsidiaries and assets were auctioned off in order to cripple the companies power. This lead to a century of decline for the CMG and lead to the eventual acquisition of its remaining assets by a group of investors led by Nihilus Drake in 2947 in order to revive this former interplanetary organization.