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Corporate History

Welcome to the Ozymandias Pandimensional Mining Corporation! We're all excited to have you aboard. In this first part of your orientation package, we'll go over some basic information about the Corporation itself.

In order to understand the history of the Ozymandias Pandimensional Mining Corporation, one must begin by understanding Atreus: a planet, approximately earth-sized, tucked away in an artificial pocket between dimensions. When a small team of dimensional explorers stumbled across it, they immediately knew they had made an exceptional find, because this planet was impossible. Vast deserts bordering sharply on rain forests, volcanic wastelands ringed by frozen tundra, an ocean which simply stopped at a line so that the neighbouring grassland was loomed over by an enormous wall of water. It was a patchwork planet assembled with no mind for the laws of geology or physics, as if some enormous hand had plucked out sections of various other planets and pressed them together, somehow leaving each section separate from the others.

Which, they soon discovered, was exactly what it was. It was created by the last members of a dying alien race, millions of years ago, as a monument to their former glory. This race, now referred to only as the Builders, is believed to have ruled a vast empire which encompassed vast reaches of time and space, but vanished for reasons unknown.

The planet clearly needed exploration: who knew what kind of artifacts such a species might have left behind? There could be cures for all diseases, deadly weapons of war, new materials with incredible properties, unlimited energy sources...and that's without even touching on the natural resources which these planetary chunks might contain. A treasure trove of riches, ripe for the taking.

However, the small group of explorers who stumbled across this trove lacked the manpower and equipment to exploit it. Not only was there a huge amount of ground to cover, much of that ground was exceptionally dangerous. To that end, they founded the Ozymandias Pandimensional Mining Corporation, and approached governments, corporations, organizations, and individuals from all across the multiverse with an offer: commit manpower and resources to the exploration effort, in exchange for a share of whatever is found. Today, the Ozymandias Corporation works with thousands of partner institutions, spanning thousands of universes.

As part of the Ozymandias Corporation, your job will be to chart new ground on Atreus, uncover the secrets of a long-lost civilization, discover new and incredible natural resources...and, of course, keep yourself and your coworkers safe. There's wonders on Atreus, enough to satisfy any desire, but there's dangers as well.

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