Given that The Core was at some point divested of it's "Imperium Omicronis" flavor, I thought it would be fun to give it a go as a ship full of heavily debted miners trying to balance their own interests against their Interspace/House overlords. With Discovery's push towards exploration and an impending Omega rework, I thought The Core's ID was perfect to get into the spirit of things.

Unfortunately (or fortunately for me) since the faction has had an eternal identity crisis (Corporation? Imperialized Bounty Hunters? Both?), I've had to write up a rough timeline regarding how my Omicron natives came to be. If anyone has any issues with this, or know that it contradicts anything, please let me know. Everything is, as always, a work in progress.

Timeline

Early 800’s A.S.
o Conglomerate Guild forces intervene in the Hessian-Corsair conflicts in the Omegas. Survivors are captured and placed in ‘rehabilitative custody’ as indentured workers.
 Guild work-stations make no effort to segregate populations. Laborers begin to cohabitate after spats of violence.


Mid 810’s A.S.
o The settlement of Nauru and withdraw from operations in the Omegas see indentured workers transferred to installations in the Omicrons.
o Riots on Nauru hamper settlement efforts and see the destruction of several important Alien excavations. The declaration of the Omicron Corporate Trade Zone saw workers ‘freed’ from servitude on the condition that they repay their debts to the corporate state. Workers are surveyed and issued an ID number along with an approximate debt.
 The Nauru Riots are eventually quelled after the eldest workers are granted amnesty and considered full citizens of Nauru. Citizenship does not, however, grant equality, and the earliest freemen find themselves the head of the Core’s lower class.


820’s
o The first generation of Omicron-born freemen is born as their progenitors are accused of aiding the enemy and refused the ability to return home.
o A craft-based culture is raised within the Core as the miners of Nauru become increasingly separated from their industrialized cousins in Rho. Divisions are deepened by the enforcers of the corporate state who seek to prevent further revolts.


830’s
o A draining campaign in Omicron Kappa sees the martial forces of the Core stretched thin. The wholesale loss of assets in Zeta see the Core take drastic measures in the face of Corsair expansion and Nomad incursions.
o Freemen are press-ganged into naval service for the first time since the Battle of Minor. New crews are posted aboard slower and less-heavily armed vessels as faster cruisers and battlecruisers are reserved for the safeguarding of assets and trade routes. Pilots are given surplus ships intended for the Coreward Bounty Hunter’s Guild.
o Omicron Rho is divested of assets as jump connections rapidly deteriorate. The Core’s main supply route is cut, and assets from Alabama Shipyard are attached to Durban Station. The failure of the Rho Gate Project strains relations with EFL.
o WV-Arkanaut is completed at Durban Station. The vessel was hastily constructed using a salvaged Alabama-era superstructure and off-the-shelf modules from colonial manufacturers. WV-Arkanaut is equipped as a forward picket ship.
o WV-Arkanaut is launched from Durban Station with a mandate to monitor the deterioration of Omicron Zeta and retrieve remaining assets to reinforce Nauru. The Arkanaut is crewed by a mixture of furloughed shipwrights from Alabama and press-ganged miners from Nauru.