Lumen

This Corporation came out of nowhere and destabilized the entire Sol system seemingly overnight. Lumen is famous for its Faster Than Light Travel services. A trip that would traditionally take 3 weeks of travel was now reduced to a handful of minutes at most. Lumen's FTL speed is roughly 1.5 faster than light and while that is still a monumental achievement, it does not make interstellar travel feasible.
The biggest contribution to Lumen's overnight success was secrecy. They were a company no one knew of before their reveal. Their scientists were no-names, the funding from nowhere, invisible backers, and more importantly, there was no sign of the research that lead to the FTL technology they created. No one is even sure where Lumen's base of operations is at.
Lumen is also known for its miniaturization capabilities. The most common example of this service, though, is having a normal rifle reduced to the size that a 1-foot tall micro could use without losing any efficiency. Entire spaceships can be reduced down to the size of an SUV but retain their destructive power and durability.
To remain neutral in Sol, Lumen has created policies and rules to ensure that they are not responsible for one-sided encounters. They’re the single most-watched force in Sol at the immediate moment. MarsCo and the IRPF both are sitting with their fingers on buttons, waiting for an excuse to declare a full-scale purge on sight of Lumen craft the moment they do something directly aggressive. So far, Lumen has only offered to transport other people’s attack craft for other people’s operations, and, as a play-fair to the IRPF, will not extract ships they’ve dropped off, which forces people to scale their engagements to something they can endure for the duration.

Structure

They may have Vectors and Cogs help run their services but the Corp as a whole is almost exclusively run by Cogsune.

Public Agenda

The Cogsune that run the show do not mince words and admit very casually that they only did what they did as a social experiment. They lack the typical corporate and political greed and is instead replaced by scientific curiosity and research.

Assets

FTL Travel Miniaturization

Founding Date

2719

Type

Corporation, Research & Development