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THE CRAYVEN CORPORATION
Introduction
The Crayven Corporation is currently the largest incorporated body listed in by
the Terran Commodities Exchange. The organization employs over
900,000,000 men, women and children on Earth and abroad, and produces
a range of products as well developing vast off-world petrochemical and biologi-
cal assets.
Crayven Corporation holdings span the known galaxy, from Earth to the fur-
thest reaches of human-explored space. Although the output of Crayven facto-
ries, farms and mining facilities offer a wide range of production, they are per-
haps best known for their terra-forming projects. Crayven technologies have
been crucial in the terra-forming of a variety of marginal worlds including the
eight colonies that Crayven has established under its sole ownership.
History
The Crayven Corporation began its life in the year 2162, as a small construc-
tion company; its original name was Crayven Construction, and it was based on
the Australian continent, jointly owned by the partnership of Crayven, Schindler
and Beck. The founder of the company, Reno Crayven, was a talented busi-
nessman and a gifted architect; he formed the triune partnership with
Schindler and Beck to take advantage of their greater capital and political
resources. The services that Crayven Construction provided were very much in
demand by various Australian business concerns during the Heresy War, and
Crayven backstabbed and hamstrung the competition unmercifully in search of
the mot lucrative and influential contracts. His company prospered and expand-
ed, and the year before the armistice of 2177 was signed, Reno Crayven
bought out his partners in a bitter takeover struggle. Amidst rumors of kid-
napping and blackmail, Reno consolidated his new company, the Crayven
Corporation, and applied for membership in the GCC in 2178.
The Crayven Corporation grew throughout the Reconstruction era, and many of
the structures that Reno Crayven built between 2178-2202 are still celebrated
as wonders of post-war architecture. The Kenji Arcology on Okinawa, the Sunrise
Cathedral in Monterrey, and the Domed Gardens of Mars are only a few of the
many buildings still standing which bear the stamp of Reno Crayven’s personal
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Jarred Stone was born behind the
walls of the Rosario Sanctuary, in an
Order hospital which had opened its
doors to the poor, and was adopted
by the Order of the New Dawn. He
was given the name Jarred Stone,
after the doctor and nurse who deliv-
ered him, and taken to the Light of
the Pampas Children’s Collective,
where the sisters of the Manus Dei
cared for him until his 14th birthday.
At this point, vocational testing
revealed he would best serve the
Order in the ranks of the Pax Dei, as
a soldier. And so he was sent on to
the Forge of Dawn combat seminary.
His first combat trainer, the Paladin Valerius, was so impressed with Brother
Stone’s aptitude for war that he made only one comment on the young man’s
chart: “Jarred Stone will make a perfect soldier; his body is strong and his
Faith is stronger. His one weakness may be that he has no weakness-even
when faced with the impossible, he shows no fear, no doubt, no hesitation.”
In his first year of active duty, Stone served on the line in no less than six
armed conflicts, including the battle of Guderian Prime. There Stone led two
squads of Crusaders over the walls of a Benton-Yutan mining fortress, and
destroyed the automated turrets which held the rest of his company pinned
against the bluffs. The lives of over a hundred of his fellow Crusaders were
thus saved, and although Brother Stone was badly injured, he was still able to
negotiate a peaceful surrender of the fortress without further bloodshed, once
he realized that his commanding officer had been killed in the fighting.
Brother Stone’s initiative and valor earned him a short rest at the Nova Roma
Sanctuary, where he received treatment for the injuries he suffered on
Guderian Prime. As soon as he was able, he rejoined his Company in a fleet
action at King’s Cross, where the Armada of Dawn captured two heavy cruis-
ers belonging to Dai Sheung Heavy Industries.
Brother Stone distinguished himself once more in the boarding action against
the DSS Seoul’s Champion, when he broke though an enemy barricade and
rescued several brothers of the Vox Dei. The brothers, who had been cap-
tured by Dai Sheung when their Temple on King’s Cross 3 was destroyed, were
being held onboard the Lafayette for ransom. As a reward for his extreme
heroism, Jarred Stone was promoted to the rank of Deacon and given com-
mand of his own Company.
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