EDGE Information Network

[EDG Enterprise]

Origin of the Enterprise

Emergency Defense Group Enterprise was formed in 816 A.S. as a private military corporation operating outside of Bounty Hunters Guild in response to the rising need of professional, Sirius-wide defense organization for hire. Its founders, Jack Payton and Walter Sobchak have met three years prior to establishing the Enterprise, when Payton, who at that time was still working for the Guild, found a message from Sobchak in his mailbox - a response to a contract offer posted in a secure channel. Sobchak was referred by a trusted mutual friend, and the contract for a wingman was signed. This method of external contracts was later implemented in the Enterprise structure, allowing the additional expanse of available manpower.

After two years of successful cooperation, the founders realized that they are unable to make a large scale difference in fighting crime and piracy on current terms. People that they helped were dead on the next day, pirates that they eliminated were replaced by others in no time. On top of that, the Guild Core has completely moved out to the Omicrons and decided to wage a pointless war for resources with the Order. More and more resources were withdrawn from the Core and Border Worlds to fuel the war effort. The Guild's role as a counterbalance for criminal presence both in house space and Border Worlds has crumbled. Piracy and crime had a free reign over major trade arteries and mining fields. Many felt that the Guild Core betrayed its original mission to protect civilians and hunt criminals. The founders began to ask themselves questions. Are we in this just for the money? How can we make our work matter? It was not long before they found the answers, but it required from them to construct a whole new organization to serve their purposes, and so the Enterprise was born, founded by ex-bounty hunters disappointed by the Guild and angry miners willing to take revenge on their oppressors.


Operations of the Enterprise

The main focus of the Enterprise operations, and at the same time main improvement over regular bounty hunters doctrine, is deployment of stationary Emergency Defense Groups into areas of a high risk for extended periods of time. Its main market target are mining companies like Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing, Daumann Heavy Construction, Independent Miners Guild or Kruger Minerals, suffering major profit and life losses due to incursions of organized pirate groups and factions like Corsairs, Mollies, Outcasts or Red Hessians. Faction and company leaders are open to request EDG deployment.

In the meantime Emergency Defense Group Enterprise maintains a wing of intelligence vessels and combat patrols, which are observing unlawful activities across Sirius, in search of potential "hot-spots" for companies in peril. Often after identifying a major situation, Board of Executives forwards an official letter to the faction or company leaders, including a brief field report, defense solutions offered and a contract proposition. Once a contract is signed, the Enterprise deploys a suitable EDG to the area in question, on terms agreed upon in the contract.

Emergency Defense Group goals vary depending on each individual contract, employer and situation at hand. The most important aspect is obtaining intelligence data on hostiles, which allows forming strike and defense wings according to the enemy's fleet composition, location and behavior. There are instances where conflict can be simply avoided due to tactical advantage or surpassing hostile pilots skill, in which case the adversaries are forced to retreat. That is a rare thing however, simply because enemy forces mostly choose to engage regardless of the odds, or Board of Executives decides that it's not in the interests of the Enterprise and it's employers to waste a good chance to reduce hostile combat potential. Patrolling nearby systems, scouting missions into hostile territories, escorts, establishing traffic control and defense perimeters, assassination missions as well as large scale engagements - those are some of the services the Enterprise has to offer.


History of the Enterprise

The Red Sun Rises
Arrival to Tau-23
Where Others Dare not Tread
Son of The Blue Sky
Cortez and Magellan Lockdown
424 millions claimed!
West Rheinland Defense Initiative
Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Withdrawal from Omega-11
Once upon a time in Poole