Aegidian Industries

Aegidian Industries is a large conglomerate which inter-alia produces military matériel for the Galactic Navy.

An alternative history is provided in the Oolite timeline:

• 3125 Commander Peter Jameson begins career as space trader. (start of the original Elite game)
• 3130 GalCop begins a programme of retrofitting some out of date space faring equipment to older vessels. At the same time, satellite and comms buoys are upgraded.
• 3134 Modern Galactic Mean Time is established.
• 3136 By the start of this year, records show that nearly all active space vessels have been upgraded. Modifications include higher resolution viewscreens and console displays, more efficient shied generators and energy units and enhanced comms systems, including HoloFac upgrades.

The GCW Transit Authority finally respond to nearly a decade of petitioning by pilots and install docking approach beacons for all space stations. These allow new pilots to easily line their ships up for docking. In the first few months of service, these beacons reduce docking accidents by 32%.

• 3137 By the start of this year, GalCop has embarked on a programme of upgrading and enhancing all systems.

GASEC unveils a new space station design – the Icosahedral station, or Ico.

The Aegidian SpaceWorks company releases three new ships onto the market. This company is a small, independent workshop that makes ships on contract. Their popularity spawns many ‘garage’ spacecraft hull manufacturers in GalCop territory, each working on a contractual basis. This sort of operation is banned in both the Federation and the Empire

• 3139 Murgh & Son become the second garage vessel manufacturer to become popular on a large scale, becoming Murgh Shipyards.

The Galactic Police begin experimenting with modified versions of the Viper cruiser.

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• 3147 Peter Jameson Junior, Commander Jameson's second child, is born (conjectural - assumes twenty or so years of his chosen career (one that he loved) before considering children). (Oolite starts)

Aegidian Shipyards

• Cobra 3.5 - Aegidian Shipyards' "Chopped Cobra", forerunner of the Staer9 version.

Aegidian Spaceworks

• Behemoth
• Navy Station

Aegidian Woodworks

• The magnificent walnut-burr paneling in the Fer-de-Lance is specially manufactured by Aegidian Woodworks.

Rumours

There are continual rumours of some sort of link between the higher echelons of Aegidian Industries and the Supreme Sacerdotes of the Church of Giles the Creator.