Our Mission
For thousands of years, Czerka Corporation has brought the benefits of civilization -- development, trade, and productivity -- to underexploited underdeveloped worlds of the galaxy. Even when faced with the occasional recalcitrant elements of local populations, our dedicated operatives proceed undeterred, eliminating any resistance threat to the expansion of prosperity as they lead armed squads and battalions of workers to tame wildernesses that would otherwise go to waste.
Compensation
Because Czerka doesn't waste time with bloated hierarchies or rank structures, we are able to compensate our operatives handsomely, according to their productivity, and it is not unusual for them to make hundreds of millions of credits in a month. Many of our operatives also find significant profits trading in goods seized from the lawless brigands who irrationally oppose perfectly reasonable development. While Czerka Corporation would certainly never condone stealing from local populations, we encourage this practice as a deterrent to would-be insurgents. Locals who cooperate with Czerka's sensible management of their worlds have nothing to fear.
Support and Entrepreneurship
As Czerka's unfettered expansion brings development and prosperity to local populations, jobs and productivity quickly follow. Of course, if the local populations knew how to make the most of their planetary resources themselves, they would have done so long before our arrival. To correct this absence of local leadership, Czerka pays agents who find they have a calling to manage the locals who work in our mines and factories. To encourage entrepreneurship, we also make resources and infrastructure available to our agents who have the vision to make the most of what these uninspired locals would leave idle.
Our Place in the Galaxy
While Czerka Corporation has aligned itself with various republics, empires, and religious cults in the distant past, the modern Czerka recognizes that these have always been ephemeral, as any ideologically driven movement must be. Scarcity and consumption are the only true constants; thus trade and commerce are the only goals that may be consistently pursued regardless of the waxing and waning of political rivalries or various religious sects. Czerka Corporation takes no position on these matters as credits spend the same, no matter the source.
Our History
Over four thousand years ago, Czerka Corporation arose as one of the galaxy's preeminent manufacturers of weapons and other goods. From humble beginnings as a network of local mercantile exchanges and frontier trading posts, the corporation expanded its reach into local resource extraction, workforce management, and even planetary reclamation and recovery efforts. At that time, Czerka expanded to become one of the largest corporations in the Old Republic. it spanned most of the known galaxy and had outposts just about everywhere there was civilization.
Unfortunately, while Czerka profited heavily by selling to both sides of the Jedi Civil War, the aftermath of that war saw some executives involve their particular divisions with unsafe workplace practices, somewhat less-than-ethical labor practices, and ecological mismanagement. These led the Old Republic to break up the galaxy-spanning corporation, nationalizing the offending divisions and leaving the rest -- though still privately owned -- to fade, bereft of their former reach and market share. Eventually, they went bankrupt some time before the Old Republic's fall and the Galactic Empire's rise.
Centuries passed as Czerka faded from memory, until a young Falleen named Kyle Rainer discovered records containing information about Czerka Corporation and some of their supply bases. Rainer took it upon himself to find these bases to learn whether any material had been left behind. He found unused equipment, datacards, and mining records most likely forgotten about when Czerka Corporation originally dissolved.
With the help of friends and colleagues from his travels, Rainer resurrected Czerka Corporation on Year 6, Day 11 and began to restore its former glory. Rainer had partnered with fellow Wraith mercenary Venix Soyak to form Soyak-Rainer Enterprises and its government, The Avance Coalition. Czerka provided mining services and raw materials management for Avance, its nationalized corporations including Rendili StarDrive and Black Dust Industries, and House corporations such as Golan Technologies and Alpha Medical Corporation.
In Year 16, the Avance Houses Soyak-Ikron and Rainer merged into the Trade Federation, but some of the other Houses opted to remain independent, retaining their House sectors and corporations. The Trade Federation had no need for additional materials management while the now-independent House Vigihan would. House Vigihan's leader, Archduke Arklari von Vigihan, had also spent years leading Czerka having succeeded Rainer after the modern founder's departure. Czerka remained with House Vigihan and provided mining services to its independent government The Kingdom of Elysia and its manufacturing corporation Golan Technologies.
The Elysian years were turbulent, as internal betrayal and assassination attempts took their toll on the fledgling monarchy, but Czerka continued to thrive as a corporation. Focused on business, it seemed to somehow hold itself apart from political intrigues or schemes and, slowly, but steadily, grew in reach and stability. In Year 18, Czerka CEO Ling Reen was named King of Elysia. Reen soon dissolved the monarchy and reorganized its nationalized companies. Czerka Corporation took over Golan Technologies as its own manufacturing division while the company's older mining division operated separately as Czerka Mining and Industrial. In an effort to foster cultural stability on the worlds in which it operated, Czerka also created a religious services division, The Kingdom of Elysia Religious Services by Czerka.
In Year 25, Czerka took advantage of changes in intergalactic law to unite all of its division in a single business entity. The unified Czerka Corporation could now provide the same services more efficiently, and even expanded into new fields.
