Vulkan Intragalactic

Vulkan Intragalactic is one of the most powerful megacorporations in the galaxy, one of the thirteen ‘Corponations’ within the federation. As the largest agricultural corporation in the federation, Vulkan Intragalactic supplies 27% of all food consumed in the federation. Controlling a considerable swathe of worlds in the Federation at large and the Free Trade Zone, ‘Vulkan space’ acts as a nigh completely independent nation. Entire worlds are terraformed, generations of *legally* non sentient species cultivated as cattle, continent sized factories build vessels that will feed entire systems. To maintain this tyrannical efficiency and its profits, Vulkan Intragalactic employs one of the largest corporate militaries in existence. In the unsupervised exploitation of the Free Trade Zones, Vulkan exterminator fleets and death squads wage a secret war against its corporate foes and native rebels.

## History

Vulkan's history dates back to the 27th century of the Federation. The mighty corporation began in 2,673 AF, when a planetary settler named Androv Vulkan gathered thirty seven agricultural families upon life-supporting moon Julros-5C, and united them behind one purpose: feeding the mining colonists within that sector of space. Vulkan and his peers of the so called Julrosi Farming Alliance experienced massive profit, as they supplied miners during the colonial mineral rush in the system.

It was in the year 2,694 AF that the colonists of Julros-5C officially founded the Vulkan Intragalactic corporation. In the three centuries since Androv Vulkan's Julrosi Farming Alliance, the guild had grown substantially in power and influence, expanding its holdings to several other planets. Vulkan Intragalactic in the coming decades found even further success, with their revolutionary agricultural practices and uniform training systems seeing them rise until the entire Harust Sector depended on them for food.

In 2,879 AF, Vulkan scientists on the corporate owned world of Androv (named after their ancestral founder) discovered a terraforming device of Titan origin. The Androv Terraforming discovery resulted in massive growth for the corporation, as the technological advancements made from the device, as well as its direct usage allowed them to steadily convert most settled worlds within the Harust Sector into agricultural production. With nearly an entire sector's worth of inhabited planets devoted towards growing Vulkan products, the company soon rose to prominence Federation wide.

As the Lorgalian Cataclysm raised across Federation space, Vulkan executives seized upon the opportunities provided by the conflict. In 3,021 AF, the company secured a lucrative supply contract with the Federation military. The remoteness of the Harust Sector saw it spared from any significant fighting, and solidified its position as a Federation breadbasket.

In 3,342 AF, another terraforming device was uncovered by Vulkan researchers on the planet of Vios in the Mizran Sector of eastern Federation space. The claim over the device was disputed by the Outreach Oreworks Company due to its ownership of the planet. The corporate squabbling quickly escalated into violence, and the larger ORO force attempted to seize the device, inadvertently destroying it and the Vulkan transportation barge it was contained in. Federation attempts to de escalate the situation rapidly failed, and sparking the conflict known as the First Corporate War.

3,378 AF saw Vulkan defense forces within the Krenarin System engage in battle against the newly made joint assault fleet of ORO and (Rival Agriculture company). The enemy fleet was made by Sothasil Enterprises, one of the largest and most expensive of its kind ever created. Severely outgunned, Vulkan forces activated a suspected psionic superweapon. The following destruction was cataclysmic, leveling both fleets and scouring a nearby planet of its developing life. The loss of the fleet, and the titanic investment put into its creation, proved financially ruinous for ORO and (agricultural company), and its shareholders demanded an immediate withdrawal afterwards. Vulkan Intragalactic escaped legal responsibility in a century long case by the Federation due to an utter lack of precedent. The case would often be sited as a key turning point in Federation judicial corruption. The Mizran Sector became largely consolidated into Vulkan space. while the planet of Vios saw great success as the rising capitol of the Corponation.