Concordance Extraction Corporation / CECO

The CEC was the first company to develop deep space mining and asteroid catchers, and also the first to implement ShockPoint Drives for commercial use. It likely profits in the trillions or hundreds of billions from mining, as Hanford Carthusia mentioned that the CEC invested hundreds of billions into Aegis VII. The CEC owns and operates at least two ship yards: one on Mars and the other in orbit above Earth, where the corporation’s headquarters is located.

The CEC apparently had no qualms about partaking in illegal mining operations frequently, as stated by Captain Benjamin Mathius in a log: “Just another illegal mining operation for the company.” It also seemed to be heavily linked to Unitology as it sent the Ishimura to retrieve Marker 3A. The extent to which the CEC is linked to the Church was clarified by Executive Director of Colonial Mining Affairs Warren Eckhardt, as he was responsible for swapping out much of the crew of the Ishimura with Unitologists prior to its mission to Aegis VII.

Isaac Clarke was an engineer working under the CEC, specializing in spaceship maintenance and operation of ship machinery. Ellie Langford also worked for the CEC as a Class 4 heavy equipment pilot on Titan Station.

After the Ishimura incident, it seemed that unemployment in the CEC increased in drastic numbers as planetcracking started to lose its credibility and safety.