Mercurian Solar, Inc

Mercurian Solar is a corporation founded during very early 2nd century BCE. Excitement from the colonization of the asteroid belt made the public very willing to invest in their concept of setting up solar fields on Mercury to harvest the intense radiation of Sol System's main sequence star. The company financed it's early infrastructure in 256 BSC by issuing its own bonds, with promises of future profit similar to that of Asteroidal Industries. Construction efforts officially began in 197 BSC. By 123 BSC, the company was supplying approximately half of the Earth's power needs. 
The corporation would join the Consortium at SY 0, approximately two hundred years after beginning operations on Mercury. 
They continued to operate for the next 139 years, until the collapse of the Consortium during the Solar War. With the downfall of the ITS system the Consortium relied so heavily upon, the several hundred colonist-workers on the planet perished from a lack of resources and the corporation itself dissolved along with much of the rest of the Consortium's framework.
The solar fields themselves would be recovered and put back to use centuries later by the Anthroperium some time in the SY 250's. By the time of the Anthroperium's fall, (SY 862), the system had fallen into disarray and disuse.
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