Stellar Star Company

The Badge of Stellar Star

Stellar Star Company is the biggest spaceship company in business. Focused on extracting minerals and getting extra money from space cruises they are what every company aspires to be. However, Stellar Star has a history, a story of one man with a passion who lived out his dream, and a story of tragedy around the early-mid 3000s.

## Information

### Motto

Finding your path amongst the stars is the motto of Stellar Star. This is because the company itself went from a small spaceship company no one knew about to the biggest company in the world. All staff are expected to work hard and earn high places within the company, wealthy or not.

### Flagship

Despite their current flagship being the Stellaris Star, their most well-known flagships are the two Stellar Star's they own. IPS Stellar Star and IPS Stellar Star II, one known for its tragic crash and the other one being the most well-known spaceship in the world for all it did.

### The Mothership

Stellar Star was so financially wealthy by 3002 that they began work on a massive project. Most companies have their main hub be a building near shipyards but Stellar made a massive mothership for all communications and for mining ships to offload resources.

## History

### Humble Beginnings

Founded in 2704, Stellar Star is the second oldest currently active company in the world (taking second place from the Nebula Space Programme which dissolved in 3011) behind Extraterrestial Organism Study founded in 2140 and remains the most successful one centuries later. Stellar Stars founder Stellaris Star had humble beginnings, he was a simple mechanic, working in spaceship repairs and engines. Eventually, in 2687, he had saved enough money, and working with close friends he set up a small company called 'Stellaris's Repairs' which would end up so successful (mainly thanks to Stellaris's skills) that the biggest companies at the time wanted to get in on the success, and eventually the money earned from sponsors, advertisements and more led to Stellaris becoming a wealthy man. Stellar Star was founded in 2704 by Stellaris and his many colleagues and business friends. Of course, since it was a small company he bought out a small shipyard and ordered ships from smaller companies. Stellar Star's official shipbuilding company would be Thsandsfield Shipyards located in the Tritonian city of Thsandsfield. The ships built were surprisingly high quality and the first Stellar Spaceship was created which was called the 'Stellaris.' To shine a light on his company, Stellaris adopted a livery similar to the old company known as Sirius Space Voyages which used to be the most popular spaceship company in the 2500s. Disaster struck in 2712 when the IPS Colossus, the biggest spaceship in the world, crashed onto an ice planet. However, as sad as this was, it caused many safety relegations to be put on spaceships, Stellar benefitted as they were the quickest to adopt the new features and everyone boarded with them at one point because of the safety they had (allowing more people to see the quality of the ships). This also meant their possible biggest rivals were down as the Star Passenger Service which operated Colossus dissolved shortly after.

### Rise to Fame

The hype over their safety features had died down around 2732 as many other spaceship companies had adopted those same features, but the key thing for Stellar was the determination. They built expensive, and even almost went bankrupt at one point from the expenses they poured into their ships to make them revolutionary and brand new. Many thought Stellaris didn't know how to manage a company but this would eventually pay off. They were recommended more and more by people who regularly cruised on their ships, and they grew their routes. Eventually, they became the first cruise company to give complete tours of every colonised planet in the Sol System. However, it wasn't generating enough income and Stellar needed to think of more ideas than just cruises. A decision was made to delve into the resource gathering side, to sell resources their ships harvested to the government and other bodies. Stellar innovated and expanded more and more. However, in 2800 Stellaris Star died of old age and his company was taken over by Awstin Star, son of Stellaris Star and a businessman. By this time Stellar was big enough to order ships from another shipyard, but instead decided to honour their roots and funded Thsandsfield with the money they got. The shipyard could afford to make even better ships and hire more staff; Stellar even poured money into Triton itself to improve infrastructure on the moon. All Stellar Ships are registered under Thsandsfield and have the vassal flag of Triton on the back of all their ships. The Stellar Star Museum is located in Triton. Because of this, they got even more popular in the empire and got more people going on voyages aboard their ships. They would give 25% of their earnings to Neptune's government to help Triton and the moon still thrives to this day. The employment rate amongst the citizens went from 53% to 97%. It was a never-ending cycle and Stellar continued to be seen on the world stage.

### The World Stage

With the countless advances the company made and its generosity, ticket sales skyrocketed and business was great. Stellar Star was different to other companies, that was what many said. Other companies were power-hungry, greedy and exploiting workers. Meanwhile, Stellar Star had been built by a hard-working man who didn't know wealth until after its creation; it helped fund education centres and places in need. No other companies were willing to spend as much as Stellar was on this department and that is where Stellar excelled at. They spent big and usually earned even bigger, a calculated risk that worked well for the company. Stellar Star would always have the morale advantage against competitors and eventually was known across the whole empire. Thsandfield was given more attention to the larger scale, increasing tourism there and increasing the money it made, which allowed Stellar to decrease the 25% share to 20% without any consequences. To make it even better, Stellar made a new policy which made their tickets go down on certain older cruises, allowing even the average working class who can't save to see the Sol System in all its beauty. Eventually, dedicated spaceships were built for the working class and were successes. Stellar Star also paid their normal workers the most of any company, fitting their motto which was 'Find your path amongst the stars.' Stellar Star would become the biggest company in the empire and would hold onto that success for more years to come.

### The Interstellar-Stellar Rivalry

In 2994, the government funded a new company called Interstellar Colonisation, thanks to government ties within the company. With the great funds awarded Stellar found itself in a difficult position. Their advanced and modern spaceships whilst still holding up were no match to the sleek and advanced designs of Interstellar. Not only that but Interstellar didn't even require many passengers aboard their ships to make a profit as long as they did their role, which they were doing amazingly, they would just get bigger and bigger. They were ideological rivals from the start, Interstellar were buying their way to success and Stellar Star had worked for it. To add insult to injury, Interstellar managed to take many captains from Stellar Star such as the IPS North Star's captain Taremi with higher wages than what Stellar offered. However, something that would seal Stellar's fate in this race was when the IPS Stellar Star, their flagship at the time, crashed over a water planet called XD86114-Y or Oucedri. In this event over 2,100 of the 2,156 aboard died when the Stellar Star suffered collisions with rocks and debris in the atmosphere. This was the most significant spaceship disaster in history at that point, surpassing even the Colossus centuries prior. Unfortunately, this gave Stellar a bad name and they lost many of their highest-ranking members to other companies after the ordeal. However, the people of Triton kept on supporting Stellar through the hard times and people from other areas they helped tried as hard as they could to keep Stellar relevant. Millionaires on these planets and even the temporary governments gave some funds to Stellar Star but Stellar knew this wouldn't sustain and they would have to get back somehow.

### The Fauthuax System

Stellar admitted full fault for the events of the Stellar Star and paid the families of those who died handsomely. Whilst this did nothing major to boost their state, it made people realise Stellar was willing to admit their faults and would pay anyone hurt in the events. This gave them a boost amongst the public if anything. However, this would eventually be the least of the company's problems. Interstellar found a new star system, with life that was left unclaimed by any empire. This was the rarest thing any company could find and Stellar knew they had to get involved. The new flagship Stellar Star II was completed just a month after the discovery and was already en route. Unluckily for Stellar, even with phase gates the Stellar Star II would take a month to reach the Fathuax system, so they had to let Interstellar conduct business as usual. The Stellar Star eventually started mining operations on the first planet in the system and then moved to Aquararus. Aquararus was a water planet with life on it, Interstellar had already landed people there but Stellar Star hovered their flagship anyway. Eventually Interstellar lost its flagship the Coloniser V-3 on Agia-9 in the Fauthuax System in 3022 and the Stellar Star was the first ship to rescue the survivors.

### The Early-Mid 3000s

Also known as the Great Spaceship Fallout, from 3020 - 3042 Stellar Star, Interstellar and other companies lost many spaceships. In particular the IPS Space Falcon and IPS Comet for Stellar Star. In 3020, the Stellar Falcon was loaned out to the Terraform Venus Project to help terraform the areas around the town of Sleetwell. Complications with Flareium caused the ship's engines to combust and for her to explode upon impact with Venus. Meanwhile, in 3025, the Comet vanished over the Giaga Empire's home system. Smaller companies went to try to find out what happened so they could get the money and benefits from the media and hopefully Stellar Star themselves but the Giaga Aliens deemed it as an act of aggression and declared war in 3026, starting the Giaga-Human War. Luckily for Stellar, the media was not focused on them as the Interstellar Coloniser V-3 was still on people's minds, crashing in 3022 and some other spaceships had crashed as well. However, this impacted their income once again. Luckily, however, they went to their next way to get money which was mining. Discovering Fauthaxium earlier on in 3020 and extracting it. They also found many new supplies of Flareium in a red giant star system and bought the whole system for their uses, which gained them a lot of money. They did give up ownership of it when the fallout ended but that may have been one of the only things keeping them in business still, that and their name.