The Ensemble

Affluent Zephyr-Inducing Ensemble, or simply The Ensemble is a Starfall and E2 chips' manufacturer. It primarily specializes in starship development, though it may extend it's sphere and move on building other vehicles in the future. Since March 5th, 2023, The Ensemble is an Imperial corporation, a satellite of Alusian Order (to which Ensemble's CEO usually refers as "Alusian Empire" for some reason)
== Relation to AZIE ==
"The Ensemble" is short for "Affluent Zephyr-Inducing Ensemble", an "E" in "AZIE". In fact, The Ensemble is lead by ST2005 and is the direct continuation of AZIE. After the schism between Russian patriots (Special Military Operation supporters) and Ukrainian patriots (Victims of the Russian Invasion into Ukraine), two halves created their own clans. First half formed "Soyuz" - a clan with "Z" as their logotype, avid supporters of Putin. Second half, started by ST2005, formed The Ensemble: a clan that legally inherits all of AZIE inventions. Because of how tiny The Ensemble turned out to be (current staff: 4 players), it designated itself as a manufacturing company.
== History ==
=== gm_infmap ===
A notable Wiremod enthusiast, Mee, has created the amazing map: gm_infmap. The Ensemble has dedicated itself to reaching it's limit.
A Cobra mkV is equipped with Ensemblan Frame-shift Drive, a special device that allows bypassing Source's physics limitation and going at infinite speed. This feature was used to reach the very end of seemingly infinite map. The map is limited to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 hammer units, in each direction. That makes gm_infmap's volume (2*9,223,372,036,854,775,807)^3 units. No extra planets were found originally, because in supercruise, passing planets looked like asteroids. The final frontier was named "Far lands" and it features a super-flat vastness: beyond this limit, the map still renders, but with no terrain features such as hills or mountains, nor any water sources are met. Exceeding this point is impossible, the map teleports the player 1 chunk behind. After crossing 32-bit integer limit, terrain becomes fuzzy, but not as insane as Minecraft's Far Lands (sadly)
Ensemblan FSD uses Starfall's Entity:setPos(Vector pos) function to move the starship. Thus, server variable sv_maxvelocity does not cripple the craft's speed: Cobra mkV was rigged to fly at million units per tick in frozen state, ignoring Source Engine's physics handler.
Though the map is procedurally generated, it appears that it reuses same seed. 
=== Creating first ship components and Cobra mkV ===
Starting with January 3rd, 2023, The Ensemble started to build its first commercial interceptor, and on January 14th, it was completed. It is made of multiple so-called "ship components" - essential starfall chips (listed in "Products" section) that will make constructing future ships easier. The first component The Ensemble has constructed is The Ensemblan thrusters. Then, came the FSD - a way to travel very fast and safe. After that - Pulse Lasers came, though they are not the best sort of weapon, they create at least any deterrent for the Ensemble - a deterrent that is so important for its independence, protection and public operations. The last component is the all-linking chat interface: CAS (Chat assistant), that makes Cobra mkV possible. 
Cobra mkV is the first commerical interceptor that is capable of performing ACF-less PVP activities and/or long-range exploration missions. 
=== Imperial company ===
Recently, Kaiser Alleriian, leader of The Alusian Order, reached out to ST2005. A union was laid out afterwards, though during the state of war between the Alus and Greater Kingdom of Prussia, details about their trades cannot be given out just yet.
== Products ==
The Ensemble does not trade with anyone other than Alusian Order. Allies of Alusian Order, though, may reach out to representative of The Alus, to make a request for The Ensemble.
As per AO-TE Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Economic Unity, "The Alusian Order shall be the primary exporter of all commercial technologies developed by the Ensemble for use across the empire and the greater meta community."
Because of that, we do not put the list of our products on this wiki page. This fact doesn't deny an opportunity to reach out for Kaiser Alleriian or ST2005 though.
== Hierarchy ==
The Ensemble is directed by ST2005, main Starfall coder. The Ensemble works over the Hanseatic Provinces designated by Kaiser Alleriian, where it has the protection of Alusian military. Though The Ensemble is not restricted to them, and though it doesn't have the imperial presence outside of the Hanseatic Provinces, it can stand up for itself using its technologies.
Four members of The Ensemble perform stress-tests and experiment with yet unreleased prototypes regardless of their role, while they're not performing their direct duties.
The Ensemble ranks its members and other players in GMod Meta according with the ranking scale below. Ensemblan IFF and other HUD utilities may show these ranks to their user.
Ranking system with The Ensemble
Programmer 	Builder 	Soldier
Elite 	Elite 	Elite
ZASMer 	Mateo 	Deadeye
Optimiser 	Stacker 	Gladiator
Wirelinker 	Raiser 	Warrior
HelloWorlder	Welder 	Private
Pretendent 	Pretendent	Pretendent
== Trading ==
The Ensemble has adopted Alusian currency: Alusmark. Alusmark may be used to trade with The Alusian Order for The Ensemble's merchandise.
== Contacts ==
Leader of The Ensemble, ST2005: ST2005#1711
Leader of The Alusian Order, Kaiser Alleriian: Alleriian#1827