Flarestar

Flarestar, also known as *Flarestar Security* and *the Flarestar Organisation*, is a galactic security company that started life as a private group of Human ex-solders, pro-bounty hunters and mercenaries that did security work for various contractors across the Terran Sector in the early days of Humanity's exploration of space. Started by ex-soldiers from the days of the Centuri Colonies Programme of IASA before the Proteus Corporation liquidated it, Flarestar earned a rep for being somewhat merciless.

Most infamously they were known for their involvement in the
security of Lordfort's old prisons during its days as a penal colony before the Tri-Sector Wars.

When the Kran'n bombarded the world during the Tri-Sector Wars Flarestar fought against and killed both its prisoners in the Battle of Lordfort, many of which escaped the damaged prisons and Kran'n who invaded the planet in their thousands after a large Kran'n warship crashed there, before Human and Braxan forces finally secured the winning victory in 2242.

After the Tri-Sector Wars Flarestar was involved in the Slum Wars in 2281-83 on Earth and was thought to have been disbanded after that, but in fact Flarestar had gone off the radar following internal disagreements and continued operating off-world as many of them desired the danger of early exploration and were hired as a privet army for colonisation missions much like their predecessors in the Centuri Colonies Programme.

In 2299 some of its more anti-alien members splintered from the force and were hired by Terrance Tyburn to protect Proteus Corporation and the Earth Independence Party where the group called themselves ProForce.

The remaining Flarestar solders did not agree with the route some of its members had taken and an internal revolt led to many Flarestars becoming pro-alien and letting alien members join their group to fight against Tyburn's ProForce in the following new century, collaborating with HEFT (Humans for Extraterrestrial Freedom and Tolerance) , but after HEFT was infiltrated and dissolved by ProForce they started lending much of their remaining weapons and technology stock to the Unity movement that would eventually fell Tyburn's corporatocratic Proteus Corporation in 2323 and the IEP they supported.

During the Terran Civil War in 2359 Flarestar operated as peacekeepers for smaller colonies within the Terran worlds who didn't want to get involved in the conflicts between the newly formed and still small Terran Commonwealth (then still known as the Earth Global Alliance) and the Order of Humanity; made from the more militant factions of the Earth Independence Party.

While the group seemed to vanish for centuries after the Terran Civil War, later in the the 2970's another, similar privet organisation of mercenaries called Flarestar and soldiers from a variety of worlds began doing privet, anti-pirate and anti-terrorist mercenary work the galaxy over, aiding the Confederacy for the most part, but never truly getting involved in political conflicts. It was confirmed by one of the members that Flarestar were re-organised as a more robust and military-orientated company that focused around marine-like specialist tactics or in supplement to local armies.

While modern Flarestar are pragmatic and strategic, there have been some who claim that Flarestar deny responsibility for their actions, and have sometimes been credited with switching sides, or even become pirates and terrorists. The company had strongly denied this and says there is a great sense of loyalty and honour amongst their ranks.