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Cathcart Intergalactic Services / CATHIS
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Transport
History
Cathcart Intergalactic Services was founded in 2854 by Hank Jackson. He arrived in the Cathcart system on a delivery mission and fell in love with Spider station and decided to call it his home. In Cathcart, survival means adaptation, and Spider station proved that on a scale most places can’t match. It wasn’t long until he opened up shop on Spider with nothing but himself, an Avenger Titan, and a drive to be the best transporter this side of Sol. His reputation grew as time went on and so did the company. By 2872, CIS had a small fleet of vessels and had expanded into other trades besides cargo transport such as mining and salvage. Tragedy struck in 2884 when Jackson’s Caterpillar, the Calico, was intercepted entering the Kedsu Reef station perimeter. The ship had taken heavy damage and the command module was missing, but the cargo was intact in the bays and was marked for delivery to Kedsu Reef. Jackson had completed one last delivery… The loss of the Calico didn’t end CIS, it hardened it. From that day forward, CIS became known not just for getting cargo there, but for doing it with discipline and redundancy.
In the years that followed, CIS expanded. Leadership started to see Spider, and the Cathcart system’s less than savory rep, as a liability. Wanting to expand into more UEE controlled systems and possibly lucrative government contracts, CIS started discussions about moving on from the system. Years of back and forth on this topic would ultimately be decided from an outside source. After the Kellar’s Run incident of 2931, CIS accelerated its exit and moved its complete operation to Stanton in 2932.
Despite the reputation of its namesake, CIS has earned a good reputation for itself by offering its services in a variety of expeditions and business ventures throughout the Stanton system and beyond.
A SPOSHA ™ ® © approved, safe work environment, organization.
Discord server: https://discord.gg/cathcart on discord for details.
Manifesto
At Cathcart Intergalactic, we’re here to have fun first, then do the job right.
We organize group activities like industrial operations, multi-crewing ships, story missions, and manufacturing the best goods in the ‘Verse. We’re fairly laid back, but we focus because showing up prepared and communicating keeps the fun from turning into chaos.
At heart, we’re an industrial org with our roots in cargo. We actively participate in mining, salvage, cargo, crafting, and occasional FPS and ship combat. We take our work, especially the larger/more dangerous jobs seriously, but are still willing to joke around and have fun. Larger operations require coordination, organization and lots of time. We respect the time of our members and don’t want carelessness to create massive setbacks or loss of resources.
Although we are primarily NA/USA based, we do have players across Europe, Asia and Australia, so no matter what time zone you are in we have people to group up and play with. All are welcome here. We are currently looking to grow and are recruiting. All skill levels are welcome, we are great with newcomers to the game and veterans alike.
Membership to the org is not a requirement to play with us. Though membership will come with benefits in the future like access to org fleet and utilities. We do use some rank roles, but it’s more based on your activity in the group, not a job title. We do have some light structure at the top ranks, but it’s just a group of us deciding the direction of our core activities.
We’re pretty neutral in our alignment, but we lean lawful in how we operate. In our org lore, Hank Jackson established CIS in the Cathcart system which is an outlaw system. Hank and his crews have participated in smuggling and other less than legal activities when circumstances demanded it, but, CIS built a reputation on doing what was needed to keep people paid and missions moving. Many of our veterans here were around for the original Jumptown War and made our fair share of profits.
Feel free to join the discord, make sure to submit your dossier from the RSI page for access to the discord. We do investigate/background check (not IRL) newcomers so we can ensure a safe and secure environment for our group. If you’d like to submit an application to join the org via the RSI website, be sure to let us know when you join the discord since social tools are still lacking and we may not be notified of new applications.
Lastly, we’re open to alliances with other orgs as we are not interested in becoming some mega zerg org. That said, we’re looking to find other groups that specialize in similar and different areas. We look forward to working with you and we’ll see you in the ‘Verse!
Discord server: https://discord.gg/cathcart on discord for details.
Charter
First and foremost an Industrial organization, it provides a broad range of services, including:
~ Deliveries
~ Transport
~ Salvage
~ Data Retrieval
~ Exploration
~ Scientific Research
Discord server: https://discord.gg/cathcart on discord for details.
