Militaerisch Industrielles Konsortium [CMIK]

This history comes straight from the game servers and reaches back to the day the corporation was founded. Alliances that closed before we started keeping our own catalogue show as a number rather than a name - we would rather leave an id than invent a name.

Welcome to the Military Industrial ConsortiumBe welcomed, then, into that soberly named and yet so magnificently compromised institution which, under the respectable banner of industry, order, and productive necessity, has dedicated itself to the quiet solution of New Eden’s most embarrassing economic deficiencies: an excess of peace, a regrettable shortage of demand, and that most offensive of all spectacles, unused production capacity.We build the ships, mine the moons, refine not only ore but conscience itself, and furnish ammunition to those parties who, at any given moment, have succeeded in persuading themselves that history, morality, and strategic necessity are all leaning, with admirable convenience, in their direction.Every conflict, properly understood, is not a tragedy.It is a correction.A market adjustment written replacement orders.We do not start wars.Such vulgarity we leave to idealists, patriots, visionaries, and other unreliable consumers.We merely arrange the economic conditions, logistical conveniences, diplomatic irritations, and strategic misunderstandings under which war, after a brief period of public hesitation and private enthusiasm, reveals itself as the