Einstein Engines
General
Current CEO: Terence Chamberlain
Founded: 2155
Motto: Lead By Our History, Leading Our Future.
Headquarters: Harmony City, Luna, Sol
Official Languages: Tradeband, Tau Ceti Basic, Sol Common
Brief Summary
Einstein Engines is the first Interstellar Corporation to have formed on the advent of interstellar travel. Einstein Engines originated as a conglomerate of various aerospace companies who shared a joint research project for extrastellar travel. This project would have immense consequences for the human race, as the project came to fruition. In the year 2130, a sustained, stable warp interface was formed. This development served to catapult the conglomerate to be a dominating economic power throughout the world; their warp technology revolutionizing space travel and manufacture as micro-gee orbital industrial stations began to be constructed around the equator.
This expansion in industrial capabilities lead to the great expansion of humanity across space, as warp-enabled probes traveled to nearby systems, finding habitable worlds scattered across space.
The power of Einstein Engines continued to grow throughout the following centuries, eclipsing the other Interstellar Corporations; however, this expansion was not to last.
In the year 2417, only four short years after the discovery of the Skrell, a relatively young Interstellar Corporation, Nanotrasen, discovered a previously unknown chemical, dubbed Phoron. Phoron was discovered to have an incredible energy density, far beyond that of conventional fusion or fission. This energy source, along with the Skrell's experimental Bluespace drives, far superior to the aged Warp technology pioneered by Einstein Engines, burst the unending growth bubble of Einstein Engines.
As Nanotrasen grew into it's present day super-power, Einstein Engines collapsed inwards, filing bankruptcy and undergoing massive restructuring into it's modern form.
Present Day
In the present day, Einstein Engines still holds a significant powerbase, despite it's losses in the first half of the 25th century. Continuing to serve it's market, Einstein Engines produces many important spaceship components, and continues to contend with Nanotrasen over the efficiency of their different marques of Bluespace engine. The two giants awkwardly co-exist in human space, despite multiple copyright and trademark lawsuits bouncing between them on a monthly basis.
Subsidiaries
Taipei Engineering Industrial
"Innovative, inexpensive, advanced technologies promoting the general welfare and logistics of future technology." - Company Motto
General
Taipei Engineering Industrial, or TEI, is a small corporation. Despite only minor financial backing and resources, they focus their efforts on the improvement of existing warp technologies and their applications in the field. Initially, the plan that lead to the discovery was a gambit taken to improve upon the concept of independent bluespace drives for conceptually instantaneous independent jumps that would need not rely on existing mass-transit gates, in order to give amplified mobility and accessibility to Sol Navy vessels as to allow them augmented mobility and reconnaissance abilities within charted territories. However, when testing a new warp drive with altered parameters on an unmanned drone, it was discovered that the test unit had been transported through an expansive extradimensional tunnel system, which seemed to feature physics unlike those seen in common space.
Hyperspace Incident
The incident encountered as previously stated would become to be known as the "Hyperspace Incident" (Feb. 4th, 2452), in which a concept and theory of the encountered dimension of hyperspace, as well as independent subspace clusters located within hyperspace tunnels, were discovered.
Though no actual, solid entities were within these "hyperspatial subspace clusters" of presumed matter, the drone found it difficult to pass through seemingly transparent space. Upon the drone navigating its surroundings, it found itself within an amalgamation of strange, constantly moving polygon-shaped obstructions. The solid "objects" within the anomaly were outlined within borders making it impossible to pass through, not unlike colliding into a realspace wall. Interestingly, while the drone was initially approaching the cluster via the hyperspace tunnel when it initally made the jump, it appeared to be a third-dimensional spherical object. Upon entering the cluster, the appearance and shape of visible anomalies varied from 2D, 3D and 4D, there was little apparent consistency. Some scientists blamed the visual sensors of the discovery drone being incapable of seeing that of what the human eye is adjusted to, others claimed it was a revelation of varying physics between dimensions, that of realspace with 3 spatial dimensions, and that of hyperspace with a varying spatial dimension count. Whether this revelation is true or not is still a matter for debate, as no human as of yet has volunteered for an expedition into a hyperspace jump.
Most notably, however, is that while the drone only warped approximately three hundred million kilometers from its position in the system in a near instant, the footage recovered from the drone lasted several hours in the subspace clusters and hyperspatial 'highways' before it actually dropped into realspace again. This led the monitoring research team to believe that the concept of hyperspatial time was radically different than from that from realspace.
Branches
- Propulsion
- Power generation
- Fusion
- Phoron
- Blue space
- Research and Developmet
- Repairs and Overhaul
- Trade Fleet
- Security Force
Executives/Board of Governors
- Owner and Chairman of the Board: Conrad Martin
- Chief Executive Officer: Jeffery Byran
- Chief Financial Officer: Lloyd Griffin
- Chief Operations Officer: Shannon Singleton
- Chief Risk Officer: Melinda Bishop
- Chief Technology/Information Officer: Carrie Lambert
- Chief Security Officer: Terrance Reed
Departments
- Asset Protection
- Information Technology (IT)
- Management
- Finance and Treasury
- Extra-planetary operations
- Research and Development
- Marketing
- Production
Terraneus Diagnostics
"Delivering the right product to the right customer." - Company Motto
Terraneus Diagnostics is the youngest subsidiary of Einstein Engines, founded in 2429 and acquired in 2440. Their rapid rise to prominence in the area of AI and synthetic development that led to their acquisition by Einstein Engines was thanks to groundbreaking innovation in the area of specialized number-crunching AI as well as combat chassis and programming. The most notable achievement of Terraneus Diagonistics is SUNSHINE, a massive intelligence used for large computing problems and is possibly the largest intelligence in Alliance space. Since their acquisition they have continued their rapid growth, especially with the construction of its three new production and research manifolds which started in 2452, with the commissioning of the Central Manifold facility. Recent growth has been spurred by a number of currently-secret contracts between several bidders.
Departments
- Quantum Computation
- High-Density Intelligence
- Chassis Development
- Research and Design
- Foreign Advisory