The Galactic Exploration Consortium / GEXC

For centuries The Galactic Exploration Consortium has been at the forefront of interstellar exploration, utilizing the newest tools and ships to explore the unknown. Initially a group of like minded corporations founded in the era of pre-jump travel, our roots lie in the daring and adventurous exploration of our very own solar system during the early days of space exploration.

In 2092, 17 years after RSI announced the completion of the first Q-Drive we find our origins in a young woman named Alexandria Short. The daughter of Chance Short, one of the team members who took part in early development of the alternative propulsion systems that lead to prototyping of the first quantum drives. Chance unfortunately passed away before his dream intergalactic travel was recognized, but it lived on in his daughter. Although she did not return to RSI where he father had worked, she maintained a close working relationship with their R&D department as she founded her own company, The Stellar Exploration Group, in an effort to have access to the newest and best technology to explore our own solar system. Although founded in 2092, The Stellar Exploration Group did not launch its first exploratory mission until 2107, 15 years later, with the first attempt to land humans on Jupiter’s ice moon Europa. Although successful in the sense of scientific discovery, they did not manage to complete their primary objective of discovering microbial life beneath the ice. Maybe life truly was a rare gem, but she refused to give up.

Alexandria was succeeded by her daughter Isadora, in 2125 after the death of her son in the Great Martian Tragedy. Unable to cope with the death of her son Odysseus, she felt that she had pushed him to become an explorer and blamed herself for his death, she passed on leadership of the corporation to her daughter. Isadora took her role very seriously and became a ruthless business woman in an attempt to push the boundaries of knowledge. Over the next 30 years, countless businesses were consumed, and eventually The Stellar Exploration Group grew to be one of the leaders in space exploration and travel. With subsidiaries ranging from cargo transport to luxury travel, the horizons expanded infinitely. Among one of the first companies to offer civilian transport from Earth to Mars, the company grew exponentially with the successful terraforming of Mars in 2157.