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Interesting, a direct rival to Vulture Corporation. I look forward to seeing who builds the best ships!

SILVERLIGHT INDUSTRIES
“Per technicae incrementis”
The premiere interstellar industrial corporation.
Rebuilding civilized industry through connecting physical and digital realities.
Sensing, predicting, and responding to make humanity work better.
Metadata:
Language: English
Timezone: All (Global Membership)
Communication: Discord (https://discord.gg/Z2Frz59)

Organization:
Core Values: We are committed to Driving Success pursuing Operational Excellence in all divisions and areas of industry. Through Optimizing Operations we Improve Performance and Reduce Costs. Our research and development is Igniting Ideas, Connections, and Solutions.

Origins: During the early Arkship era the United Nations compelled many scientific organizations and technology companies to merge into single entity, SilverLight Scientific, dedicated to the development and construction of the Arkships that would save humanity. In the conflict on Earth leading up to the launch of the Arks many of those researchers assisted Project Cinderfall and infiltrated the Ark program.

Purpose: Upon arrival at Alioth, the scientific community immediately set about creation of infrastructure for the survival and progress of humanity. Rebranded as SilverLight Industries, we are devoted to coordinating scientific and industrial efforts on an interplanetary scale.

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Organization Focus:
- Employing all skill sets and skill levels
- Resource discovery, mining, and management
- Ship building and design
- Programming (scripts that make constructs work)
- Research and Development
- Marketing
 
SilverLight Management: Driving Success

The Director of Silverlight Industries is the chief executive officer of the organization and is assisted by coordinators from each division along with a small group of consuls that form a Consilium of advisors. These senior managers are responsible for overseeing all aspects of SilverLight Industries and ensuring personnel are productive, satisfied, and fairly compensated.

SilverLight Operations: Operational Excellence
The backbone of Silverlight Industries is composed of all operational departments that focus on the primary workload and purpose of the organization. Operations handles the scouting, mining, and refining steps of the industrial process while having dedicated teams working on research, construction, and element programming. The bulk of SilverLight’s workload is handled within Operations. 

SilverLight Security: Improve Performance, Reduce Costs
The protection of Silverlight Industries from all threats, internal and external, are handled by the various departments within the security division. Security is tasked with protection of physical assets, personnel safety, and information integrity. Whether personally armed for combat at all times, or patrolling in state-of-the-art warships, they will be empowered to decisively defend SilverLight from all aggressors.

SilverLight Logistics: Optimizing Operations
Responsibility for tracking, storing, selling, transporting, and predicting resource allocation needs falls to the logistics departments. Logistics crunches the numbers to distribute resources to the construction bays and markets they need to go, maintain competitive pricing at open and private markets, and provide feedback on market trends to optimize SilverLight profits. Internal administration and strategic planning are conducted by Logistics personnel.

Cinderfall Syndicate:
SilverLight Industries is a proud member of the Cinderfall Syndicate! This means that members of SilverLight Industries enjoy the protection and benefits of Cinderfall citizenship simply by joining SilverLight. Thanks to our non-exclusivity clauses, members are welcome to join other organizations in addition to SilverLight, some minor restrictions may apply.

Agreements:
As an Independent Corporate Entity, SilverLight Industries retains authority to negotiate directly with other organizations, including governments. We register our public alliances, treaties, trade negotiations, and other agreements with the Cinderfall Syndicate. These agreements normally allow for SilverLight Industries to establish standard pricing, acquire resource rights, employ citizens, set up a branches within government organizations, or apply expedited trade with industrial organizations. If you are interested in establishing a public or private agreement, contact the Director or member of the Consilium (discord preferred).
- Terran Union
- Diverse Unified Alliance
 

Now Hiring!
SilverLight is currently hiring players interested in working in one or more sections! If you feel that you fill one or more roles listed above or have good ideas, apply! Our discord server actively engages in planning, designing, and preparing for alpha, beta, and full releases! (Senior Executive and Corporate level officers are selected from members demonstrating singular allegiance to SilverLight, exempting one nation-type membership.)

SilverLight Industries
 
Founded as SilverLight Research by the United Nations in 2055 as a way to pool the research capabilities of many smaller companies into something that could assist with developing advanced Arkship technology, they were one of the few companies and organizations that could possibly compete with the globally powerful Nexus Corporation on a technological basis. Eventually, SilverLight expanded to include many other industries such as extraterrestrial mining and Arkship construction, assisting the U.N.’s Ark program through multiple facets of the project. However, the core project and top priority of SilverLight remained the artificial intelligence systems that would run the Arkships and assist humanity when they arrived on their new homeworld, Alioth. Soon after the last of the Arkships was completed, the U.N. shocked millions when it announced that Arkship resources were scarce, and that it would utilize an “artificial genetic selection algorithm” to decide who would live and who would perish in the oncoming apocalypse. Naturally, an uproar rose up, and riots and violent protests ravaged the streets of Earth in its last days. Recognizing that this was planned long before the Arkships’ completion, the Nexus Corporation, in cooperation with SilverLight and various other organizations, launched its own retaliation: “Project Cinderfall”. With SilverLight’s artificially intelligent algorithm development combined with Nexus Corp’s networking capabilities, Project Cinderfall circumvented the U.N.’s originally biased selection algorithm, allowing a much larger and more diverse population, including many members of SilverLight, to make it aboard the Arkships and into the rebirth of humanity in the age of Alioth.
 
SilverLight Industries > Here <

I apologize if this isn't the right forum for this topic, but I didn't know where else it might fit into.
 
Lately I have seen some conversations on the forum become very aggressive, insofar as people cursing at each other and getting into really heated arguments. While I think it's healthy to be able to debate openly on the forum, there are certainly some people you might not get along with very well. I'm not going to point out any names, but some people certainly have the tendency to escalate debates into full blown attacks on one another. 
 
Which is why I want to point out a feature of this forum that I think many people are unaware of.
 
 
If you navigate to your "My Settings" page, there is a tab on the left hand side of the page titled "'Ignore' Preferences". 
 
From there you can ignore any user you'd like to, including their signatures and personal messages. 
 
 
I think if more people were aware of this feature, there would be less of a chance for discussions to break down into full blown arguments, and things might stay a bit more civil overall.
 

The Cinderfall Syndicate was once known as the Nexus Corporation, a well-connected paramilitary and research conglomerate at the forefront of experimental technology.
 
Before we left our old homeworld Earth, the U.N. and various other governments around the world consumed resources, fought wars, and ravaged the land in an endless cycle of self-destruction until Earth had become a burnt cinder of its former glory. The Arkships were built as a scapegoat for these governments’ mistakes. They called the Arkship program “Project Rebirth”, advertised as salvation from the rapidly approaching HR 8210 IK Pegasi supernova’s child neutron star, but the star played no role in the U.N.’s program. Earth would have long been drained and depleted before then. Project Rebirth was a facade, a scandal to cheat the whole of humanity and cater to the elite.
 
With the fate of Earth seemingly sealed despite its best efforts, Nexus embraced a final attempt to bring humanity aboard the Arkships: Project Cinderfall. The cybernetworking capabilities of Nexus were at that time second to none, acclaimed as the most advanced in the world, allowing Nexus to infiltrate the United Nations’ biased Arkship selection algorithm. What had once been designed to save only the corrupt elite now encompassed a diverse population across Earth.
 
If the earth were the white hot flame of humanity, we are but cinders falling from our doomed homeland. Our new destiny: to rise again from the ashes, reborn as a Phoenix...
 
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I like the idea of a souless logout type system. Basically when in a safe zone or area that does not allow PvP logout is instant but when not in such a zone then logout takes a bit of time (or your body ragdolls). There should also be a system where if you are in combat (like PvE or someone breaking PvP rules in a town) within a safe area it will take x amount of time for you to actually log out similar to not being in a safe zone.

Well one solution would be to have a review system but that would take time and things would still slip though. Or just literally have a legal system ingame.
 
I'm also interested how this would be done as I like to reverse almost everything (and your Objective Driveyards has a whole section for reverse engineering things)

Hehe, I was thinking about how this game will take up a large portion of my life if it lives up to the hype, and had a funny thought... What if in the context of the lore, every time we log off the game, we are really entering into a VR experience of the good old days back when Earth was not destroyed. And these push notifications are warnings for us to get back to reality because some serious things are happening in the 'real world'. Woah...

The point would be to get into orbit without wasting fuel to leave a planet (or with the elevator to enter as well) and I doubt I would make an explosives power craft without first getting into space. We don't really know how the early game will go so these were ideas to serve as alternate ways to get into space and while they just get a craft to orbit it is much easier to leave from orbit than it is from the surface
 
 
 
Nuclear bomb powered spaceship

For a little bit at least

I'm envisioning something like Project Orion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

Might as well invite him to your faction/clan/whatever then otherwise someone else might steal him

Thought you might like it 
 
I also actually like Theed from planet Naboo. I love the conbination of fantasy/period styles with sci fi.

Coruscant with all its levels but I thats the size of the whole planet so maybe not