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Space Fortress Industries (SF. Industries) / MLST
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Bounty Hunting -
Security
“Space Fortress Industries — building, defending, and occasionally exploding our way to progress. From orbital stations to ground ops, if it needs fixing, fortifying, or blowing up, we’re on it.”
History
Founded: 2893
Headquarters: Stanton, Calliope, Fort Gorge
Motto: “We build. We break. We rebuild stronger.”
Origins
Space Fortress Industries began as a small, independent engineering contractor during the post-Messer reconstruction boom. Originally formed by a group of ex-Aegis Dynamics technicians and disgruntled Hurston engineers, SFI’s founders were frustrated by endless bureaucracy and profit-before-purpose corporate policies.
Their goal was simple: build things that last, defend what matters, and get paid enough to keep doing it.
Operating from an abandoned orbital refinery, SFI earned a reputation for improvised fortifications, combat-ready drones, and absurdly durable machinery. Clients jokingly called them “the mercenaries with wrenches,” and the name stuck.
- The “Fortress Wars”*
By 2910, corporate espionage and industrial sabotage had become a way of life in the sector. When rival companies began stealing SFI’s blueprints, the founders responded by hiring “security engineers” — soldiers who could build and fight.
Thus began the Fortress Wars — a shadow conflict fought across derelict moons, asteroid belts, and corporate warehouses.
Each skirmish blurred the line between construction crew and combat unit, birthing a new breed of specialist: the Combat Engineer.
Modern Era
Today, SFI operates under a public “industrial logistics” front but continues to take private contracts for infrastructure defense, salvage reclamation, and anomalous technology research.
Their teams — often nicknamed RED and BLU Divisions after old internal project tags — still compete internally for funding, tech, and bragging rights. Officially, these are “performance trials.”
Unofficially, they’re war games that occasionally get a bit too real.
“If it moves, we can weaponize it. If it breaks, we can rebuild it.”
— Chief Engineer R. Dell, SFI Founding Member
SFI prides itself on innovation through chaos — believing that progress only comes when systems are pushed past their limits. Whether building orbital fortresses, mining installations, or defensive platforms, their teams always prepare for the next fight, not the last one.
Manifesto
“We have seventy hours to live, For most men. No time at all.
We. Are not most men.
We are MERCENARIES, we have the resources, the WILL. To make these hours count!
The clock is ticking gentlemen, let’s begin.”
Charter
“We build. We fight. We adapt.”
Founded in the aftermath of the Messer Era’s collapse, Space Fortress Industries (SFI) emerged from the scattered remnants of independent combat engineers, logistics specialists, and prototype weapons contractors once tied to rival megacorporations. When the empire fractured, these veterans banded together—not out of loyalty, but necessity. Their shared belief: a well-built fortress outlasts any empire.
SFI operates as a private defense and research collective, specializing in modular fortification systems, autonomous combat platforms, and rapid-deployment engineering solutions. Whether fortifying an outpost on Pyro’s fringe or holding a mining claim against raiders, SFI’s teams deliver one promise: precision-built survival.
Unlike the corporate titans they once served, SFI isn’t driven by greed—it’s fueled by craft. Every mission is a project, every battlefield a worksite. Their crews don’t see war as chaos; they see it as construction under pressure.
Motto: “Professional destruction, handcrafted.”
Unofficial Saying: “We don’t make war. We make it efficient.”
From the void of Stanton to the ruins of Terra, Space Fortress Industries continues to blur the line between engineer and soldier—building the future one crater at a time.