Grey Galactic was founded in the year 2775 during imperator Ulysses Messer X’s reign by Lucas Johannes Grey and was originally a parts manufacturing contractor for Anvil Aerospace. The company grew steadily with a constant revenue stream from their main customer until 2824 when Grey Galactics contract expired and Anvil Aerospace opted for cheaper alternate parts producers.
Company owners Robert and Alan Grey, still maintaining significant capital, Grey Galactic decided to attempt to manufacture their own spacecraft. Robert Grey disagreed with this course of action and opted to sell his shares to Alan Grey and found his own company “Grey Mercantile”.Considering their experience in manufacturing, Grey Galactics project initially seemed promising with a few private investors putting capital towards it. This funding eventually culminated in the heavy fighter aircraft the “ G1X Thunder” meant to rival both Aegis and Anvil Aerospace;s offerings. Regardless of the company’s enthusiasm they could not compete with the well established giants of military aviation and with no military contract in sight, funding ran out in 2831. The G1X prototypes were purchased by a few private individuals, it being briefly considered a niché collectors item, but eventually these ships would end up in scrap heaps across the UEE.
Alan, frustrated with his lack of progress and the impending bankruptcy decided to sell the remaining assets of the company to his brother George.
Upon the reconsolidation of all family assets, the company was renamed to “Grey Galactic” once more, loans and investor funding was secured by the leadership and a new course was set to further diversify the company.
Grey Galactic grew steadily, especially with the newly created branch of the “Grey Rangers” in 2845, which were created by George to remove the corporation’s dependence on outside security. Eventually however death came to George Grey in 2851, where after the company would be faced with leadership and legal difficulties. The son of Alan Grey, Philip Grey-Norton attempted a hostile takeover by attempting to reclaim Grey Galactic as his “birthright” as first son of the previous owner Alan. However, this attempt was thwarted when George’s daughter Melissa Grey defeated Alan in the UEE courts.
However, this would only galvanize Philip’s antagonism towards his relative. Alan employed any manner of subterfuge which he could muster, hiring pirates to harass company shipping and hacking the databases. After three difficult years Melissa finally gathered the evidence to land her cousin in prison.
She would go on to lead Grey Galactic to an age of mediocrity, with any success often met with equal failures, leading to her frequent public outbursts as time went on. It was only upon her death in 2893 that the company would skyrocket back into relevancy with the takeover of the company by her son Titus Grey, who started his ‘reign’ by branching the corporation into Exploration, starting the Canus Voyagers to facilitate this. No longer bound by outside security and outside exploration to secure new investment opportunities, this eventually led to where Grey Galactic found itself in 2953.
Here at Grey Galactic Corporation our main goal is to secure ourselves a piece of the universe to enrich our members both socially and economically. We aim to create an organization which offers its members Light MIL-SIM elements along with Light Roleplay elements for the best experience. But the most important aspect of our organization is the fun that we aim to create with our members.
Grey Galactic will always strive to be the very best that it could ever be to provide a great and growing community that both old and new players can find themselves a comfortable place to enjoy spending their time in.
We come from a long line of science fiction games and stories and have always maintained a desire to relive our favourite space sagas again, but this time with our friends.
We aim to ensure that our organization is able to sustain itself without the constant need of UEE interference
Building bridges and relations with other groups and organizations to form strong alliances and bonds to further strengthen our Corporation.
To ensure our members are at their best, training sessions in FPS, Flying, Trading, etcetera, will be conducted. Some training will be required to be able to adopt certain roles.
We are an organization and are therefore required to be able to function as one.
To all within Grey Galactic to ensure that our organization maintains a positive atmosphere, we are not here to cause drama and be toxic.
Whilst we encourage all Grey Galactic members to play together as much as possible to build the community and friendship, you can lone wolf if you please, but you may not remain a part of our organization and take part in piracy.
We are located in Europe in the GMT +1 timezone but welcome any and all from across the globe to join. We are actively looking for American and Asian members to take part in the leadership so we have all timezones covered.
There is no required amount of time to play with us or compulsion to do so, we are here to have fun with a good and friendly atmosphere. We may of course get serious during war games but that is to add to the element of fun.
Send us an application form to inform us of your intent to join and send us your discord handle, then you will be provided with a link to our discord.
We are currently organized into two main branches and one sub branch;
The Economic backbone of Grey Galactic that works tirelessly to enrich the corporation. It offers varying roles that can be taken up by the members. Grey Mercantile manages the trade operations alongside maintaining the combat fleet.
Trading
Transportation
Fleet security (FLEETSEC)
Training
h3.The Grey Rangers
The Grey Rangers function within the corporation as a security and paramilitary force to protect the interest on the ground and within the ships.
Fleet Security (FLEETSEC)
Important Person(s) Protection (IPP)
Outpost security
Ground missions
Training
The Rangers stand to offer a light MILSIM experience where members will train together to become an effective fighting force to repel any and all foes. They are organized according to a militarized rank scheme with a few in-house names.
The Canus Voyagers are teams of dedicated personnel formed from Grey Mercantile and Rangers on missions to explore the galaxy. Canus Voyager missions are formed with an officer at the lead with a mandated mission and allocated resources to conduct the operation independently or dependent on the rest of the corporation.
Exploration
Surveying
First Contact with Alien Races
Opportunity Investigations
The current plan for Grey Galactic is that for any official Grey Galactic mission, 15-20% of the money gained will go directly to the Organization and the remaining 80-85% will go to those who directly take part in the mission.
In ALPHA this scheme is irrelevant.