What started as a down-time hobbyclub to salvage, repair and maintain some of the old and derelict mining equipment occasionally recovered during the fleet’s patrols, MESCO was first organised in 2944 aboard the 7th Carrier Strike Group.
Eventually, to contribute to the long-term independency of operations for the fleet and reduce reliance on vulnerable supply chains, these reclaimed assets were brought back into operation, so raw materials for fleet repairs and fuel refining could be gathered when required.
Gradually, this activity grew to encompass mineral surveying and planetary mapping as well.

Finally, in 2952, MESCO was formally registered to make older survey data, deemed outdated and therefore no longer critical to operational security, available to the general public.
After a few years, seeing how this data might interest civilian third parties and the larger mining conglomerates alike, the company started to slowly grow and charge ever more credits for their mining data, especially for those areas that are hard to survey without a military escort.