Minos-Mestra Munitions, founded on Year 8, Day 30 by Lord Frezt Raleigh, was part of a large-scale manufacturing company under the VernanGroup, headquartered on the planet Shesharile III with a regional office on Javis-12. The corporation held the title to the Mestra system's asteroid field which was their main source of raw material. In the ever rising economy of the Minos Cluster, the Minos-Mestra Corporation decided to meet the demands in the Cluster and take this opportunity to spread their economical power. It is said that some sponsors of the VernanGroup weren’t too happy with this step, because their illegal weapon sales decreased massively. To get their illegal businesses rolling again, they and a few other criminal organizations combined forces in an organisation called the Virgil