Infinite Improbability Inc (Player corporation)

Infinite Improbability Inc - in short 3-I - was founded in early November 2003. Initially given birth by merger of Transtellar Incorporated and Sirius Cybernetics Corp. Along the way Q-Labs and parts of Les Chevalliers de l'Ordre also joined our ranks.

We do ... Whatever challenges or interests us, and whatever we decide to make possible. For most of its time 3-I has been a 0.0 corp, or at least had some presence there. Since mid 2006 basically all major corporate operations are in zero space only, the sole exception being RDMS, its T2 production division. Internally 3-I is structured into several divisions. Combat and Industry being the two largest, additionally there is POSsie division handling all things related to POS. Corporate Logistics and Invention are smaller yet important divisions. Finally there is the RDMS (Research, Development, Manufacturing & Sales) division in empire which handles Tech 2 production and sales.

3-I is a capitalist corporation, however its policies can best be described as 'Welfare Capitalism'. Meaning that individual property is allowed and encouraged, however also a healthy corporate wealth is maintained. To achieve that the corporation asks for commitment from its members and in return also supports them.

Infinite Improbability Inc was founded in early November. It was born from the fusion of Transtellar Incorporated (lead by Cmdr Jameson) and Sirius Cybernetics Corp (lead by Trillian Dent and The Forwarder), two small, active corporations. Both had been active in the Devoid area, and also far down south in Immensea for some mining. 3-I kept its HQ in Devoid where TSI and SCC also had had their home and Immensea as its 0.0 haven. Shortly thereafter XETIC/IF (Xetic and their subentity the Immensea Federation) claimed Immensea and below regions and made Immensea a protectorate. As we wanted to remain in Immensea and could identify with their goals 3-I was one of the first corporations to join the Immensea Federation. In these times in Immensea life was a lot more hardship then it is nowadays. Immensea along with XETIC's other regions was devoid of stations, and the way to empire a long and dangerous one. Yet we managed and 3-I slowly grew with the challenges.

Not long after joining the Immensea Federation we again grew through another merger. Q-Labs, long standing friends, a research focused corp, joined our ranks and bolstered our own R&D division. Shortly thereafter the first Tech II came into the game, and this became one of our new priorities. Initially we were just lucky with one nice Tech II BPO. Consequently we however decided to really put a focus on Tech II and our strengthened R&D division. Hard work of our R&D division paired with a little more luck on occasion let it grow continually and become what it is today, a cornerstone of 3-I. 3-I remained based in Immensea and when the first conquerable stations were introduced into the bare NPC-less region of zero space we took over two of them in Immensea. The Factory station of Z-H2MA, christened "Babylon 6" and the through "Forsaken Ruins" famous station of E8-YS9 which we called "The restaurant at the end of the Universe". We managed these for several months, until these were incorporated in XETIC's holding. In spring 2004 3-I was also later promoted into the ranks of the XETIC corporations, then being part in the reformation of XETIC/IF to the Xetic Federation.

We always had been more on the carebear side of things, however when it came to defending Immensea and XF we always tried to do our part. With the onset of "Exodus" a majority of our members due to several reasons were drawn to empire again, a majority vote within the corporation decided to leave XF. Some left easily, other with a heavy heart, a few remained in Immensea within friendly corporations.

We still remained on good terms with XF especially when it came to our business relations. 3-I and The X-Trading Company initiated the original XETIC Technologies venture which was then also joined by Omega Enterprises and STK Scientific as founding members. When XETIC fractured our joint venture lost STK for political reasons, and OE went their own way to create an own shop.

XTECH, as it then was called, was joined by Haendlergilde and we remained of competitive size.

The XTECH shop, was maintained by 3-I and became a very successful venture. What started with a rather simple product listing, and ordering via our public channel or personnal messaging became a fully developed shopping system. 3-I itself during that time spent most of its time in empire. Only a handfull of people were active in Immensea where the local owners still granted us acess.

With the end of that years fall we then decided to become part of something more again. The idea was born out of our business side of operations, to create a neutral business focused powerhouse. Taking XTECH one step further, not just being a corporate joint venture, but a true alliance dedicated to commerce and neutrality. Together with our long standing business partners of The X-Trading Company and also again Omega Enterprises we joined up with NAGA and Eve University to give live to The Big Blue.

TBB, however should not become our home for very long, only after starting to jointly working together some differences became clear which could not be bridged so easily. As a consequence we decided along with OE and XT to work on that initial idea of a business alliance from another angle, and together founded TRUST.

TRUST as an alliance flourished for months. In early January our outpost "Viribus Unitis" was deployed in EC-8PR, and we sniffed some zero space air again. Initially TRUST continued with 2 brands, the XTECH shop and the OE shop. On the 14th march of 2006 however XTECH finally closed its doors, and the joint TRUST Megastore opened to the public. In April 2006 TRUST launched the first playerbuilt Mothership. Shortly thereafter EC-8PR was laid under siege however, TRUST's industrial installations destroyed and the Outpost lost. While after the siege the Oupost was recovered, it was then handed over to ISS. Following the EC-8PR incident we also acknowledged that while a broad public might be interested in obtaining capital ships like Motherships, there would be always someone who would not care about being able to obtain them for himself, but rather contest us and our neutrality because public sales meant that everybody, including potential enemies, would have access. TRUST consequently decided to close down its ingame alliance however to continue the business ventures and store.

For 3-I that meant yet again to reorient ourselves. Since our times in the south we had grown, and many newer members had not seen the deep voids of zero space before. Others still remembered the life and challenges of the south, and our experiences in Pure Blind had sparked more interest again. This let us to the decision to become part of something larger again. To again stake a claim in far lands and to be part of a territorial alliance. This lead us to the newborn Dusk and Dawn alliance.

Being part of a territorial alliance yet again also meant some obvious changes again. Our POSsie's not only had to tend some industrial POS, but also became responsible for system control and security. Our Defence department which previously was not much more then occasionally active needed bolstering and a lot of training again. For the mostly empire based RDMS division not much changed and it remained true to its spirit, via the TRUST Store selling to everybody, regardless of affiliation.

With D2 conquering Branch shortly after its founding the region of Branch became 3-I's new home region in the far north. Most of the corporation shifted to 0.0 again and based itself there. While the conquest of Branch was a rather swift one the summer of 2006 nevertheless saw several other conflicts erupting in the vicinity. The pacification of Tribute, the Goon conflict in Cloud Ring paired with a war against NFC and Sparta in Deklein. While the dust in XZH had not yet settled the Tau Ceti Federation launched an offensive on Tribute which should become another long conflict for D2 and its allies.

Seeing so much conflict and the unavoidable need of stronger defences 3-I also opened some recruiting. The pvp oriented recruiting culminated in the merger with large parts of a smaller french corp called 'Les chevalliers de l'Ordre [ODN]'. They became the core of the newly formed '3-I Knights' division. Although not actively promoting it with our move to 0.0 we found that we attracted again a lot more people. Recruitment was again restricted until it was totally closed by the end of the year, overall we had nearly doubled in sized since founding of D2 and had grown to about 275 members in size. The beginning of the year saw 3-I and also D2 at its peak, activity wise as well as in numbers. The begin of the year saw D2's Fountain campaign in which 3-I as member was also involved. Only a few months later D2 crumbled due to pressure from the outside in form of a norther invasion, as well as its internal struggles again due to its incoherency. First the 3 corps which formed Evoke split away, not much later the alliance as a whole lost cohesion and dissolved. Branch was evacuated without giving the attackers much of a run for their money. 3-I at that time left Branch too and moved back into empire. The short phase of empire dwelling did not last very long however, plans for something new were already laid out.

In may 3-I founded 'Mostly Harmless', an alliance bearing a name envisioned already for a long time by 3-I. Right from the start we were joined by Fusion Enterprises in the alliance. Shortly after our olf friends the The X-Trading Company and Omega Enterprises joined too. Mostly Harmless settled in the northeastmost corner of the 'Drone regions' and swiftly began to develop this corner of space by deploying the first Outpost, called 'Eroticon 6' in MO-YDG. Three more outposts followed swiftly, 'Magrathea', 'Vogsphere' and 'Old Pink Dog Bar', and by august MH held sovereignty of the N4-TD constellation with Magrathea as its capital.

Over summer the north had significantly changed, with the fall of D2 and Razor having been driven back far too. But it recovered slowly and in autumn the old north began to push back. MH helped Razor, Morsus Mihi & Co, and eventually when Mercenary Coalition gave up the QYZM and I-7 outposts these were taken over by Mostly Harmless.

3-I already participated in D2's Titan program, however it was time to build an own one. Having produced countless Motherships, for own use as well as retail, the step upwards was the next challenge. In November on time for 3-I's 4th birthday the '3IS Heart of Gold', a Leviathan class Titan was commissioned.