A Brief History
CROSS Corp was officially founded in December of 3301 by several key members of Sirius Gov and won its first contract for permanent system governance from the citizens of Hemang in 3302 at which time CROSS Corp first began developing its faction in Hemang. CROSS Corp was structured with inspiration of the image of Sirius Gov. CSEC spent its initial years being one of several groups that formed through community surrounding Li Yong-Rui, mostly acted as a closed, intel community consisting of Operators who were highly effective at influencing the political landscapes of star systems.
After several years of successful operation and the stabilization of a hard earned neutrality achieved by all supporters of Li Yong-Rui, CSEC withdraw its presence from Sirius Gov day to day activities to focus on developing its own space now that the wider power had stability. Over time the experience managing dozens of systems that came from supporting Li Yong-Rui's efforts translated into being able to fine tune and architect specific results within systems at targeted locations. This turned the CROSS Corp philosophy of putting factions in power by their ethos to change to a mindset of putting factions in control of things that created unique features, engagement points or improves the exploit-ability of local resources.
With the changes to how territory is held by powers CROSS Corp now comes into 3310 with renewed support for Li Yong-Rui and all of our historical allies with a mission to Bring Li Home to historically Sirius star systems and incorporate our territory into his.
Alignments & Coalitions
Operatives identified as members of CSEC should be considered by outsiders to be neutral entities. Operatives of CSEC typically focus the political impacts of their actions within star systems supporting incumbent controlling factions our extracting local resources for personal individual gain.
CROSS Corp is aligned with Sirius Corporation and Sirius Gov and should be considered as by-default in a Coalition with all other Sirius Gov and Sirius Corporation factions. By extension this means CROSS Corp supports Li Yong-Rui. As a child of Sirius Gov we see Sirius Corporation and all it's related organizations as its own state in which we are a member of. To best serve Sirius Corporation, the citizens of the galaxy Sirius affects and ourselves, we act in whatever ways we can to keep Sirius Corporation, it's methodologies and practices alive as humanities engine of progress.
We are also part of the Lyncis Sector Coalition which represents a collection of the various independent factions in our neighborhood. We also have many coalitions with other independent groups, including those that support the Empire, Federation & Alliance.
Political & Territorial Stances
CROSS Corp considers itself a neutral entity however it is aligned to many factions. Most notably Sirius Corporation and Sirius Gov. The CROSS Corp acronym from which our organization gets its namesake is itself a statement of this alignment and purpose of neutrality. To fulfill our Civil Responsibility, we provide Oversight of Sirius Gov operations by being stakeholders in the process. By being stakeholders we work to retain the neutrality of Sirius Corporation and its subsidiaries by operating with respect to local populations and the Commanders that support them.
In territorial disputes we favor the local factions before powers and historical claims to territory over new expansions. This typically means we'll normally support the incumbent controlling faction of whatever system we are operating in. This mindset is also used when making decisions for our long term operations and how our choices affect our neighbors.
Our BGS Philosophy
Outside of system control CROSS Corp is primarily motivated by taking and creating opportunities to place local native anarchy factions in control of the non-dockable Horizons planetary & orbital installations and Odyssey installations. We then influence lock them with those assets at 1% so they can't lose the farm-able assets without player intervention.
This opens up those facilities as mission destination targets that are considered associated with criminal activity, and any action against them is considered lawful. This creates a wider range of available missions on the boards in addition to creating a place that can be directly exploited for resources without the penalties for notoriety, crime & punishment.
Join us! Squadron Membership Benefits & Mindsets
- Five dedicated squadron fleet carriers that enable our Operatives to have any portion of their personal fleet they desire perpetually stationed wherever our objectives are, no matter how far it takes us. Carriers are assigned to logical roles and operated in predictable ways, completely detached from personal use to ensure operational consistency on a permanent basis.
- 128 curated squadron bookmarks and counting. From every engineer, to the best places to gather high end engineering materials, our own territory and all local resources to our region such as Tech Brokers and other unique services you frequently want access to. Special places in lore, or even just unique points of interest. The system is organized and sorted using special characters and alphanumeric sorting, tags and ranges from our headquarters for ease of use.
- Our Discord & Squadron permissions are configured for longevity & delegation. The squadron limits itself to the five maximum possible roles of the in-game squadrons. All members are Operators. Anyone providing leadership or volunteering in a role that helps facilitate the operation of the squadron becomes a Comptroller, our equivalent to a moderator. Administrators provide the trusted party to manage our technology and grant and revoke roles. All Comptrollers automatically assume the responsibility of moderating our discord and have pre-defined tools and processes in place for standardized moderation.
- An "Open First, but Have Fun" mindset. All of our founding members play in Open and our squadrons organized activities are typically political in nature. As such we encourage our members to participate in the Open game mode. However if at any time you simply don't want to die for whatever reason, we ask our members to please choose solo or private mode and not open as we do not tolerate combat logging whether the game client is forcibly closed, disconnected or legitimately closed. As a squadron we also see taunting opponents from the safety of private group or solo mode while working against their objectives as bad sportsmanship. So if you work in solo/private, that's fine but don't throw it in the face of opponents should we find conflict.
- We provide an open-access Private Group "CROSS Corp" for those that desire it or when needs require it. Access to the private group is configured to be auto-accepted to all who request it from CMDR "CROSS Corp" in-game so that it can be accessed immediately and without the requirement of human response. The rules of this group are simple; don't gank to gank. People who join the private group to see what we are doing are welcome to look around but will be permanantly removed if they do not engage with our members in a reasonably realistic manner based on political relationships. Arsen Cross manages this group and can be contacted with issues.
- Open door policy. As your interests shift, you may shift your membership without pressure. We value the relationships and networks provided non-members whether they are former, future, never members or are in some form of coalition with us. Come and go as you see fit, we're built for it.
- Our Discord requires CMDR identity verification. Anyone who has been around Elite long enough knows like most MMO's that feature territorial claims experience social engineering. As such we airlock our server to prevent raids and verify and force the display of our users actual in-game Commander name within our Discord server. This ensures all parties on our server know who they are talking to and understand their affiliations. Our hope is that this allows us to become a hub and service organization within the wider community.