In Col Con

The Interstellar Colonization Consortium was a Talusian council originally comprised of five corporations: Zuberi Energy, Arkway Motors, Vartok Medical, the Offworld Rehabilitation Corporation and Assistive Technologies. They used weapons supplied by Slane Defense Systems but Slane did not have a seat at the table until they eliminated all the living employees of Assistive Technology and claimed their seat.

Incolcon was established by the Talusian Protectorate. Their job was to bring a work force of prisoners to the planet Karst and establish a colony there. Whether or not this was the intent, the prisoners became not only a disposable work force with very few human rights, but also lab rats in the radical experiments performed by these corporations, who appear to have taken the job in order to dodge government oversight into their extremely unethical research.

At some point the prisoners rebelled. The ORC and Slane became the military might of the consortium and the conflict appears to have been brutal. When the prisoners looked like they were going to win, Slane pulled out their drop ships and nuked the city, even though some of their troops had been left behind. This event was known by the survivors as The Cataclysm.

Following the rebellion and the subsequent cataclysm that destroyed civilization on Karst, InColCon passed into legend as the devil of the Tekali people's religion. Each of the other corporations left their legacy behind in the rubble of Karst while they escaped to their space station and went into a very long cryo-sleep as they waited for the radiation on the surface to die down.

They awoke hundreds of years in the future, and sent scouts to determine how best to re-settle the planet. Discovering that the prisoners who rebelled had survived, they plotted an elaborate plan to influence the existing factions on the surface to destroy each other while they thawed their troops and prepared an assault on the Legion HQ, which was a former Slane bunker. This assault was meant to re-claim a nuclear reactor in the bunker, which Legion High Command detonated as a last resort as ORC stormed the command center.

It turned out that the ORC soldiers were suffering from two problems: Freezer Burn, a disease that affected both mind and body that resulted from a hasty thawing process carried out without regard for the well being of the soldiers. They were constantly under the impression that they were still fighting the old war and couldn't tell the difference between Karst's inhabitants and the prisoners who killed their friends hundreds of years ago. But they were also suffering from mind control exercised by members of Slane.

Slane, as it turns out, was completely owned and operated by aliens masquerading in human form known as The Family, or The Britesons. Each of them had a cortical stack in which an essence (their consciousness) was placed, which allowed them to use advanced implants. Through these implants, among other things, they could control humans via their nanites. These cortical stacks were also used by wardens (some of whom were britesons) to control the prison population.

Ultimately InColCon was dismantled, though a handful of the corporations that comprised it survive. Slane was completely destroyed, though several of The Family survived as well. Zuberi uploaded their consciousnesses into android bodies to avoid their own mortality. Vartok and Assistive Technology were completely wiped out (though the AT androids that survived stayed behind on karst and separated from the council). The ORC was cured of their freezer burn. Arkway Motors was bought out by TRASHcorp, which replaced it on the council. DVO claimed one of the empty seats, as did the Aldebrandi and Tekali Kingdoms (as a new, united entity) when their leaders took on essences and became part of the Briteson family.

The new InColCon is comprised of:

Zuberi TRASHcorp DVO ORC Aldebrandi / Tekali empire

The council rebuilt their space craft and set out to explore the stars in search of a new place to live. This process was long and complicated and involved making the space station ready for interstellar travel, which required a tremendous power source. This power source was in the hands of the native Karst cliff dwellers (a giant power crystal in their home city). This power source is presumably more stable than the eldronium reactors used previously, almost all of which were destroyed.