Ballistic Logistics / BLG

The Beginning

Ballistic Logistics was born out of an under-performing black sector super weapon program gone over budget and completely awry. The project leads became “fed up” with a corrupt regime constantly interfering and playing outside the bounds of law. Though not originally born of the minds of those who would be later blamed for the project’s failure Aleksander Ruiz and Lain Miura were pivotal in the project’s climactic and waning years. The exact catalyst that would undo the project isn’t clear but what is clear is that several members of the Ruiz family were imprisoned and later disappeared during the Messer era. It is unknown what pushed Lain into the same category as his partner but later inquiries into the project’s failure indicate Lain Miura never existed prior to his college years on Earth.

Exodus

Once it was clear the project was failing the two conspired to save as much valid research as possible and secret out as much profit as they could. Hiding much of this in plain view and expensing out great swaths of ships, equipment, and computers they planned to make a quick get away but clearly not to resell them. Since the entire project was based on the supposition of secrecy it was built deep in freshly explored space and decided this unexplored chunk of space would work just fine to hide their new venture. They set to work quickly identifying other like minded individuals both within the project and available outside resources and quickly brought them on board. Within a few months the pair had an effective core team and several contingencies in place. Their group simply disappeared one night leaving an empty husk floating in space.

New Allies

Their next steps were to secure their respective families. With that task completed they focused on establishing their new base and colony. Unfortunately some political enemies decided to try to make an example of the burgeoning group and sent out a task force under the command of General Deerfield. Deerfield following the much larger trail created in the wake of Ruiz and Muira’s family exodus was able to track them down. Through a series of fortunate events one of their contingencies allowed them to trap General Deerfield aboard a decoy ship.
Instead of outright killing the General Deerfield; Miura verbally engaged the General. After several hours Deerfield emerged from the craft unscathed and the ship proceeded to explode. General Deerfield’s forces began their move to jump out of system and during transition a sizable portion never fully engaged their jump engines. Instead they rendezvoused with Miura’s forces in system and proceeded to jump to parts unknown.

Regrouping

Ballistic Logistics restructured their group and command became more organized, taking some pieces from the Military. The group quickly set about creating a new operating structure in order to support the expanding group. Transportation, mining, exploration, scouting, and salvaging became their primary sources of income. Their more military counterparts began raiding illegitimate UEE forces and harassing illicit trade routes on the edges of UEE and Terran space. While never overtly challenging the UEE they helped to expose the corruption and negative elements pervading Messer’s UEE.

Post Messer & New Leadership

As the original leadership began to age, Deerfield utilized his vast network of resources to groom the future leader of Ballistic Logistics. It’s unknown when Matthius Stormfury took over but believed to be some time after 2915. As Matthius’ started to reshape Ballistic Logistics into his vision the group expanded into many other avenues including manufacturing, trade, bounty hunting, salvage, and a heavy amount of Vanddul raiding. Ballistic Logistics now has a presence in many parts of UEE, Terran, Banu, and Xi’an space and maintains a family oriented hierarchical system of working together toward the primary objective of furthering the group as a whole while grooming each of our members in their chosen roles and respective goals of Ballistic Logistics.

Mathius’ abrupt retirement left a void in leadership into which the enigmatic “Nemesis” was elevated. After a difficult consolidation period Ballistic Logistics contiunues to work its stock in trade.