Solaris Veil Division [SVDN] - Organizations

History

Official records say Solaris Veil Division formed “in response to rising instability along fringe trade corridors.”

The people who were there know it started with bodies.

For decades, the UEE struggled to stretch Advocacy agents, local militias and Navy patrols across an empire of dozens of systems. The laws promised protection, but patrol schedules and budget cuts told a different story. Trade lanes that weren’t profitable enough or politically useful enough simply slipped down the priority list.

The gap was worst along the routes brushing past Pyro and other low-security systems – places where corporations still wanted the profit, but not the risk. When Pyro was abandoned and pirates claimed Ruin Station as their beating heart, the haulage traffic didn’t stop; it just started hiring cheaper escorts and cutting corners.

One of those corners was Convoy Atlas-19.

Atlas-19 was a mixed civilian convoy: three heavily loaded haulers, a pair of hospital tenders rerouting surplus MedGel and equipment, and a scattering of smaller freelancers hitching a ride along the same corridor. The route planners flagged the run as high risk – an off-grid jump chain skirting Pyro on its way from Castra towards Nyx – and requested full military-grade escort coverage.

The corporate board declined.

The official solution was simple: “Supplement with contractors. Cut the escort package by half. Increase the schedule to make up the risk.” On paper, the numbers balanced. On the deck plates, it meant stripped-down security teams, exhausted crews and a route plotted through a corridor the Advocacy hadn’t properly patrolled in years.

The ambush hit just outside a known interference band where long-range comms were notoriously unreliable. Raiders boiled out of the dark – not desperate drifters, but organized, disciplined, using former Navy hardware with the serials burned off. The contracted security wing fought hard, buying time for the convoy to scatter, but they had been hired to discourage trouble, not stand toe-to-toe with a small warband.

The fight lasted sixteen minutes.

When the dust settled, two haulers were slag, the hospital tenders were venting atmo, and most of the escorts were dead or crippled. A handful of ships limped to safety on emergency quantum jumps. Dozens of escape pods were never recovered.

The worst part wasn’t the ambush. It was what came after.

The survivors lit up every distress frequency they could. The system’s local militia answered – and so did an Advocacy patrol – but both refused to cross an unofficial line into the “off-contract” corridor without authorization from above. The cost–benefit analysis for a full response didn’t clear. The board that had cut the escorts in the first place signed off on a quiet internal memo: “Losses accepted. Insurance will cover.”

There were no memorials for the crews left drifting in that dead patch of space. The incident file was archived under a bland label: “Atlas-19 – External Hostile Action / Operational Risk Acceptance.”

For the people who survived it, that was the moment something broke.

The first iteration of what would become Solaris Veil Division began in small, bitter meetings held in cargo offices, rented hangars and back rooms of station bars along the route: ex-transport dispatchers, security pilots, medevac crews and route analysts who had all lost something – or someone – on Atlas-19 or runs like it.

Rhea Tann, senior route planner, who had flagged the corridor as “unsustainable without military support” and watched the warning be overwritten in the system.

Jace “Greyline” Moreau, a security wing lead quietly blacklisted after diverting his unit to cover a civilian fuel barge instead of the “priority” cargo.

Dr. Elian Vos, med-ship chief who arrived too late to find anything but frozen pods and static.

They compared reports, sensor logs and the fragments of data their employers hadn’t managed to scrub. The picture that emerged was ugly: deliberately under-protected convoys, escorts told to hold fire to avoid “escalations that might affect future contracts,” and a pattern of incidents written off as the cost of doing business in the outer lanes.

They realized something simple and terrifying: the systems they had trusted – corporate security, insurance, even overstretched law enforcement – were never going to be fast or honest enough to save the people actually flying the lanes.

So they built something of their own.

At first it was just a quiet pact. Crews shared black-market nav data, pirate sightings and private threat assessments. Security pilots would “accidentally” shadow vulnerable runs off the clock. Medics would divert to unsanctioned rescues and write the fuel off as “training.” They called it the Veil List – a constantly updated map of routes where official coverage had quietly thinned to nothing.

Then came the Ghost Beacon Incident.

A string of distress calls started appearing on the edges of their network – short, choked bursts that cut out mid-signal. The signatures didn’t match any registered corporate or militia codes, but the timestamps lined up with missing-ship reports that were being buried in internal insurance logs. Someone out there was hijacking non-contract traffic, scrubbing the official trails and selling the hulls into the black.

The Pact decided to respond directly.

They pulled together a mixed task force: surplus security cutters, armed haulers with hidden teeth, and a med-frigate refitted for fast retrieval. No corporate logo, no Advocacy badge, just crews who had watched too many friends vanish into the quiet. Using the Veil List and piggybacked nav data from sympathetic controllers, they traced the pattern of ghost beacons to a narrow corridor on the edge of Pyro’s influence, where patrols conveniently “lost lock” on targets.

The ambush they walked into should have killed them.

Instead, the raiders found themselves trading blows with a force that knew every trick, every blind spot, every under-funded patrol routine – because its members had helped design them. The fight was brutal, ugly and very nearly one-sided… just not in the usual direction. When it was over, the Pact had captured solid evidence: ship IDs tied to supposedly legitimate security contractors, corporate routing override codes and internal comms proving at least one major hauler line was quietly colluding with organized raiders to write off “sacrificed” convoys as pirate losses.

Bringing that proof to the authorities should have been the end of it. Instead, the Advocacy agents who received it issued polite thanks, opened a classified investigation… and then nothing visible changed.

Convoys kept dying in the same dark corridors.

That was the moment the Pact stopped thinking of themselves as a temporary workaround and started acting like a permanent division.

Manifesto

Solaris Veil Division exists because too many crews were written off as numbers on a loss report.
We were founded by ex-transport workers, medics and security pilots who watched friends vanish into “acceptable risk zones” and decided that if the Empire, corporations and insurance underwriters wouldn’t stand in the gap, we would.

We operate in the band of space we call the Veil – the dim corridors between patrolled lanes and outlaw systems, where escorts are cut for cost and response times are measured in hours instead of minutes. Our purpose is simple:

No one disappears in the Veil without somebody coming for them.

Our Mission

Protect the line.
Keep haulers, medships and civilian traffic alive along high-risk routes through escort, overwatch and rapid response.

Preserve life first.
Cargo can be replaced; crews cannot. We prioritize extraction, evacuation and medical intervention over kill counts and “decisive victories.”

Expose quiet negligence.
When we see contracts, routes or practices that treat crews as expendable, we log it, document it and bring light to it – whether through official channels or our own.

Our Principles

Lawful / Neutral Alignment
We are not pirates, raiders or smugglers. We will cooperate with UEE, local security and lawful groups when possible. We reserve the right to act independently when bureaucracy fails the people actually bleeding.

No Blood for Profit
We do not take contracts whose primary objective is revenge, intimidation or terror. We are a support and protection division, not a death squad.

Duty to Respond
If a distress call reaches us inside our operational range and we have the ability to respond, we do. We may not always arrive in time, but we will never ignore a beacon for convenience.

Truth in the Logs
We keep detailed, honest records of incidents, losses and near misses. We do not falsify after-action reports to protect reputations or contracts.

How We Operate

Convoy Discipline
Formations, comms protocols and engagement rules are drilled until they are reflex. A sloppy escort is more dangerous than no escort at all.

Layered Support
Every operation is built around three pillars: transport, protection, and medical. Even a “simple haul” has an extraction and triage plan.

Measured Force
We use as much violence as necessary to stop a threat and no more. We are not in the business of spectacle or casual collateral damage.

Independent but Accountable
We answer to our own chain of command and internal code of conduct. Members who abuse our banner for piracy, griefing or personal vendettas are removed and, where appropriate, handed over to authorities.

Our View of Others

Civilians & Haulers
They are the reason we exist. We treat every cargo pilot, rookie courier and half-broken barge as worthy of the same effort as a corporate flagship.

Corporations & Contractors
We will work with those whose practices respect crew lives. Those who repeatedly hide losses, undercut escorts and sell out their own people can expect us to take our business – and our protection – elsewhere.

Outlaws & Pirates
Some are desperate, some are predators, some are just bored with too many guns. We do not romanticize any of them. If they stand down, we prefer de-escalation. If they press an attack, we finish the fight.

Expectations of Members

Professional Conduct – No piracy, scamming, griefing or needless drama under the Solaris Veil banner.

Discipline Under Fire – Follow orders, keep comms clear, and prioritize the survival of your wing and clients over personal glory.

Honesty – Be clear about your capabilities, limitations and availability. We would rather have a smaller, reliable division than a large, hollow one.

Solidarity – We look after each other. No one flies alone into a known killbox because “it’s not my contract.”

We know we cannot fix the Empire, end piracy or erase the greed that leaves convoys under-guarded and medships under-funded. What we can do is simple:

Where the safe lanes end and the Veil begins, we stand.
For the crews who were told their deaths were “acceptable losses,” Solaris Veil Division exists to be the unacceptable answer.

Charter

SOLARIS VEIL DIVISION – PUBLIC CHARTER

This Charter defines the rules and standards that all members of Solaris Veil Division (SVDN) agree to uphold while operating under the Division’s banner, in or out of the cockpit.

1. PURPOSE & ALIGNMENT

Solaris Veil Division is a multi-role support organization focused on:

Secure transport and convoy escort

Combat protection for civilian and allied traffic

Medical response, recovery and extraction

SVDN is lawful / neutral:

We do not engage in piracy, smuggling, slavery, griefing or terror activity.

We assist lawful authorities where practical, and withdraw when ordered by legitimate jurisdiction unless doing so would directly endanger our clients or crews.

2. MEMBERSHIP & REPRESENTATION

By joining SVDN, members agree that their actions under the Solaris Veil tag reflect on the Division as a whole.

Members shall not:

Use the SVDN tag or assets to intimidate, scam or extort other players.

Represent personal grudges or drama as official Division policy.

Dual-organization membership is permitted unless:

The other organization engages in piracy, slavery or griefing, or

Holds goals that openly conflict with this Charter.
In such cases, SVDN command may require the member to choose.

3. CONDUCT & COMMUNITY STANDARDS

Respect is mandatory.

No harassment, hate speech, doxxing, stalking or targeted bullying.

Disagreements are resolved through calm discussion or by escalating to an Officer, not through public drama or revenge.

No discrimination.

We do not tolerate attacks based on nationality, language, gender, identity, disability, religion or any other real-world trait.

Maturity and Comms Discipline.

Voice/text comms should remain clear, relevant and non-obnoxious during operations.

NSFW, excessively graphic or otherwise disruptive content belongs outside SVDN channels and never during live ops.

No Cheating or Exploit Abuse.

Members may not use third-party cheats, automation, or knowingly abuse game-breaking exploits.

If in doubt, report the behaviour privately to command before using it.

4. OPERATIONAL EXPECTATIONS

Follow the Chain of Command.

During official ops, the designated Operation Lead (OL) has final say on tactics and movement.

Pilots may question orders only if those orders clearly violate this Charter or create unnecessary, unreasonable risk.

Reliability.

If you sign up for an operation, you are expected to show up prepared and on time.

If you cannot attend, notify command or the OL as early as possible.

Preparedness.

Members are responsible for maintaining functional ships, medical gear and basic supplies for their chosen role.

Training operations are provided; members are expected to attend periodically to keep skills sharp.

5. USE OF FORCE & RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

SVDN uses force defensively and proportionally:

To protect convoys, clients, civilians and SVDN assets.

To disengage or disable hostile forces when feasible.

No unprovoked aggression under the SVDN tag:

Random attacks on neutral or friendly targets are forbidden.

Bounties, contraband interdictions or “grey area” actions require explicit approval from command.

Target Priorities.

Preserve friendly and civilian lives first.

When possible, prioritize disabling engines, quantum drives and weapons over total destruction.

Prisoners & Surrenders.

Hostiles who legitimately attempt to surrender should be allowed to disengage where the game and situation make that possible, unless command declares them non-trustworthy repeat offenders.

6. MEDICAL & RESCUE ETHOS

SVDN acknowledges a duty to respond within reasonable limits of capacity, distance and security.

Members performing medical or rescue roles:

Do not loot or exploit incapacitated friendlies or clients.

Do not deny aid for petty reasons, personal grudges or verbal insults.

Triaging and extraction priorities are set by the lead medic or OL according to need and survivability.

7. ASSETS, LOGOS & INFORMATION

SVDN logos, livery and branding are to be used respectfully and not combined with hate symbols or pirate markings.

Internal documents, intel, logs and fleet plans:

May not be shared outside the Division without authorization.

May not be sold, traded or used to sabotage SVDN operations.

8. INTER-ORG RELATIONS

SVDN aims to maintain courteous relations with other lawful or neutral organizations.

Members shall not:

Declare wars, alliances or pacts on behalf of SVDN.

Publicly attack or slander other orgs while wearing the SVDN tag.

All treaties, joint operations and diplomatic stances are decided by Division Command.

9. DISCIPLINARY PROCESS

Violations of this Charter may result in:

Verbal or written warning

Temporary suspension from ops or roles

Demotion in rank

Removal from the organization and reporting to appropriate in-game authorities, if applicable

Evidence (logs, screenshots, recordings) will be reviewed by Command or an appointed panel. Accused members may present their side before a final decision is made, except in extreme, clear-cut cases (e.g. open cheating, severe harassment).

10. AMENDMENTS

This Charter may be updated as the game, the lawscape and SVDN’s role in the ’verse evolve.

Major changes will be announced to all members and posted in official channels. Continued membership constitutes acceptance of the latest version.

By flying under the Solaris Veil Division banner, every member agrees to these rules and to the simple promise behind them:

We stand in the Veil not for glory or profit, but so that others make it home.

Solaris Veil Division / SVDN

History

Manifesto

Charter