Interstellar Colonisation

The Badge for Interstellar Colonisation

Interstellar Colonisation was a company known around the 3000s for its discovery of the Fauthaux System and its competition with Stellar Star Company. They filed for bankruptcy in 3056 because of the Great Spaceship Fallout and the government stopping the funds they gave them because of internal drama. Their short-lived dominance is a story that deserves to be told. Their purpose was to explore new star systems for the empire.

## Information

### Motto

Interstellar chose the motto, "Interstellar Exploration Made Easy, " to flex their resources and advanced, sleek ships.

### Flagship

Their flagship was the IPS Coloniser V-4, although that ended up being sold to Stellar Star when they dissolved and turned into the IPS Space Terrier. Their flagship before that was the Coloniser V-3 which crashed on Agia-9 and started their downfall.

## History

### The Beginning of Something Special

George Porgal was a wealthy businessman, he ran his own company known as 'Porgal Manufacturing' where he manufactured many goods for the other bigger companies. One such company was Stellar Star which would start Porgal's intense interest in space travel. He boarded the IPS Stellar Star and enjoyed it well enough, and he asked many questions such as the ship's cost. He was shocked, however, when he heard the ship cost around two billion Qirsh to just build, and that the maintenance costs were so expensive for it. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, this did not stop the ambitious Porgal who used the money he got to buy a local Martian shipyard named 'Mouames Shipyard' in the small Martian town of Mouames. With this, he founded 'Interstellar Night Voyages' in 2954. The name was an odd one but made sense when George's son Zacuto did a Q&A. Interstellar was a way to show the eventual challenge of beating Stellar Star (which Porgal knew he would do eventually) and night voyages as that is how they made their early money, voyages across Mars at night.

### The Financial Takeover

Zacuto Porgal was the son of George Porgal, a clever and studious man who ended up in the government. Eventually, he even became a candidate for Space Minister of the Intergalactic Space Empire of Earth but was the lowest-voted candidate. This gave him a political advantage. He had money, and wealth, and was even more wealthy than his father. Over the years he worked to convince the government that Interstellar was a great company and would do great things. Eventually, in 2994 the government and Porgal came to terms, with Interstellar Colonisation (as it was now called) would work directly under the government and scout or find planets of particular interest. Rumours say they also had a part of the deal that allowed them to steal anything of value and give it to the government, although the deal hasn't been published so we won't know. With this, they began a new age.

### The Interstellar-Stellar Rivalry

With their new financial success, they rocketed past Stellar Star by 3000, leaving other companies behind them. To make sure they made more profit they bought a smaller company focused on Space Cruises named Lightmatter Voyages and operated mostly around the Mars-Jupiter Cruise route which went over Mars and Jupiter's moons. This made it more difficult for Stellar whose money for space cruises mostly came from that route, and it was now being threatened. Luckily Interstellar didn't dare tread near the route that gave Stellar the second-most amount of money, the Ice Giant route. This was mostly because the populations of Triton and the moons of Uranus were way in favour of Stellar Star. The rivalry would only get worse when Captain Taremi, who captained the IPS North Star, joined Interstellar. Interstellar managed to get many people from Stellar, especially after the Stellar Star crashed. Unlike popular belief, Porgal was not happy when the flagship crashed and even sent an email to Stellar Star saying how sorry he was their beautiful ship was gone. Stellar would recover but not before Interstellar dealt one final blow.

### The Fauthaux System

Interstellar arrived at the system and knew they had to get work done before Stellar could arrive. They sent a group out to study the planet of Aquararus, a water planet with an extraordinary amount of life. They had hit the jackpot, a non-colonised system with life on not one but two planets, Agia-9 also having life. When this team didn't respond they sent another team in 3018 and then another in 3022 later on. However, in the same system, they were flying to Agia-9 to begin their exploration when the Coloniser V-3 had a complete engine failure in 3022, the reason now known to be sabotage by the terrorist group Sons of Hephaestus because of Interstellar's ties to the government which had the Green Party in power at this point and Zacuto Porgal being central left. The ship crashed and the Stellar Star II rescued the survivors.

### The End

Eventually, in 3040, the government stopped putting funds into Interstellar as they were not finding anything new and they saw the funding as a waste of time. They held on but Stellar Star who had just gotten out of the Great Fallout was thriving. Interstellar relied too much on the money of the government and to manage their fleet they sold many of their ships to rivals. This meant Stellar Star had more power over the Mars-Jupiter route now. Lightmatter were also sold for money to a wealthy businessman as Interstellar couldn't manage two companies. The strain and stress coupled with the new advances Interstellar wasn't getting caused the company to sue for bankruptcy in 3056 and the remnants were bought by Stellar Star.