DFIG Titan

Titan is the largest moThe Delancey Foundation Investments Group, is an amalgamated concern of multiple smaller organizations with responsibility to investors, the DFIG Stockholders Union, and the common Board of Directors. This funds and industry management organization was often referred to as a prescient leader in investment markets during the first century of its existence. The DFIG was a major investor in multiple risky but ultimately beneficial and profitable endeavors. One such endeavor was the establishment of the Titan Colony.
=== 2050 ===
The Eruditus Group, known to be the financial managers for the DFIG on behalf of the charity foundation, partnered with the highly successful financier and recluse Micah Brack. Representing the interests of both parties while not revealing either to the public, the Eruditus Group negotiated with the New United Nations to sponsor the 2nd Titan Expedition. As a minority partner, DFIG agreed to full direction by Mr. Brack. The expedition launched about the DY-400 SS Stockholm, commanded by Colonel John Christopher II and including Micah Brack.
=== 2052 ===
The Stockholm touched down on Titan on March 12, 2052. On this site, the crew set a precedence as they assembled the first experimental pressure dome to be utilized in colonization. The dome was completed June 20th, on which day, Micah Brack officially incorporated the colony as per New United Nations regulation under the name Christopher's Landing.
Eruditus Group had negotiated on behalf of DFIG with Brack for nothing more than 10% partnership, 2 employed crew, and official corporate space within the original dome. As a result, despite not actually undergoing full scale construction until the 2080s the DFIG headquarters were officially moved outside of Earth government control, and legally untouchable by Earth government. This was the goal of course, due to unrest it was a worry many had that their assets might be nationalized in the name of the state.
=== 2054-2079 ===
The two DFIG employees on Titan, the husband and wife team of Dai Tsayota and Hina Ai Tsayota were geologists by profession, useful to Brak's ambitions of terra forming. Once cut off from guidance from home, they took it on themselves to be autonomous in representation of corporate interests and claimed commensurate profits for their efforts. Both retired to a private home on Titan in relative luxury at the end of their tenure, well regarded and rewarded for their industry and loyalty when contact was re-established.
=== 2079-2140s ===
Rotating teams of Badi men and women, and sometimes children, would spend as much as five to seven years training on titan or in orbit in preparation for their colony journeys. This was vital to the survival of mission, because 25 light years away from assistance was not a time for training errors. While they were training they built infrastructure which would be used, updated and built upon for centuries by those that would follow them.
Part of the training process involved the first group who were trained spending a decade in cold sleep. The technology was believed to be sound, but due to the losing out on their first colony ship, the Agata, it was unknown when the opportunity would become available again. It was only prudent to place them into cold sleep to study the effects, and counter any problems. It was something not done on Earth, because the movement there made it unsafe for some, like the Badi, to not be mobile.
By the 2130s, the last of the youngest generations who would make the crossing were sent to Titan for training. Joining them were allied families, and like minded people who had earned the trust of the elders of the clan who were too frail to join their kin. The last of the trainees were ready for the crossing by 2143, and left on board ships as paid passengers for their berths.
=== 2140s-Current ===
DFIG Titan was not only the corporate headquarters for legal standing, but the infrastructure built over 90 years in Christopher's Landing was fully utilized for management of assets. Among the assets are fully owned such as Mercury Construction, Ciarán Orbital and Ciara Maintenance Dock all founded and in full operation by 2102. Mercury Construction was established to train on construction outside of Earth standard gravity and with unconventional means. Innovation and development of colony construction including dome and orbital construction were key to the mission of Mercury. Ciarán Orbital was constructed as an orbital refinery, metals for construction and conventional fuels were the primary aspect of the small station. It did not maintain more than 100 berths for station personnel. Ciara Maintenance Dock was the last founded, in 2099, with the intent to provide a maintenance dock and repair facility for a colony ship. Initial considerations had been to construct their own spaceframe, installing a reactor and warp drive purchased from Luna. When the ECS Hieronymus was purchased, it spent time at Ciara Maintenance Dock in preparation for the crossing. Upon returning from Vega, it was host once again for upgrades and maintenance preparing for the next crossing.
=== Today ===
As of 2428, the DFIG corporate headquarters still remain on Titan in the capital city of Christopher's Landing. The dome was replaced with a much larger one, and much of the world of Titan has a successfully regenerating biosphere. The headquarters still remain on the original plot assigned by Brack in 2052, not at the edge of the dome but the edge of what is now known as Founder's Park. Headquarters contains landing pads, a hangar, office space, research and development labs, as well as residential space, in a facility that exists above and 42 levels below ground. In addition to the office complex in Christopher's Landing, the Mercury housing complex in Catalina City, and dedicated hangars at Titan Spaceport, the DFIG holds leases on two space docks, and two construction drydock facilities in the Titan Orbital Shipyards.
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