{"data":{"id":14364,"title":"Portfolio: Gold Horizon","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/14364-Portfolio-Gold-Horizon","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/14364","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/14364","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":2703,"name":"GH1.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/2siaammkz28y7r\/source\/GH1.jpg","alt":"","size":40382,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-12-09T22:58:11+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2703","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2703\/similar"},{"id":2704,"name":"GH2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/bzqviz86nfsd6r\/source\/GH2.jpg","alt":"","size":298790,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-12-09T22:59:45+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2704","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2704\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"\u201cTogether, we will improve and expand mankind ever outwards towards the endless gold horizon.\u201d\n\u2013 Ivar Messer, 2546, speech on his ascendancy to Imperator.\n\nGold Horizon, formerly the Gold Horizon Extrasolar Mineral Prospecting Corporation, remains a strong reminder of both unchecked greed and our civilization\u2019s thriving expansion into the galaxy. The company, named after a line from Messer\u2019s ascendancy speech, in some ways represents the best and worst of the era. It seems ironic to today\u2019s historians that the same Messer government that inspired Gold Horizon\u2019s growth also brought about its end, and that those who ran the company were victims of the same brutality that affected the entire Empire.\n\nGold Horizon was founded as a dedicated prospecting corporation in the middle of the 26th century, intending to take advantage of the new government\u2019s series of tax breaks for asteroid mining concerns. The company found immediate success, buoyed by the discovery of the Grakneth lode, a high concentration of titanium-bearing asteroids in the outlands of the Terra System. Gold Horizon\u2019s mineral profits quickly lead to its establishment as an industrial concern, producing pre-fabricated mining stations for quick deployment in newly surveyed star systems. At this time in history, interstellar claim jumpers had become ubiquitous, taking advantage of the long lead time between corporate surveys and the actual start of large-scale mining. With Gold Horizon\u2019s prefabs, an entire mining operation \u2014 complete with drilling rigs, storage and spatial defense perimeters \u2014 could be carried along with survey ships and deployed immediately. The project was another massive success for the company.\n\nBy Gold Horizon\u2019s second decade of operation, the United Empire of Earth had become an established reality and Human civilization had caught the terraforming bug. Observing that vast amounts of the Imperial economy were now devoted to supporting general expansion and terraforming projects, Gold Horizon opted to move from mining support into planetary transformation support. The result of this shift is the Gold Horizon Space Station, the distinctive ring-shaped platform deployed around the galaxy to house terraforming workers, their equipment and their support systems.\n\nUnlike Gold Horizon\u2019s mining equipment, the Gold Horizon Station series was massive, with the ability to support hundreds of workers in their difficult task. These starside base camps purported to offer all the comforts of home, from semi-comfortable living quarters to fully equipped medical bays to dedicated entertainment arenas. As large-scale standardized terraforming equipment began to come into existence, it was designed to transit seamlessly through the Gold Horizon station systems that supported the first wave of \u2018spit and glue\u2019 biosphere conversions.\n\nWith two fingers directly on the pulse of the expanding empire, and a growing number of politicians in their pocket, Gold Horizon seemed to be an unstoppable juggernaut. The company took in billions from government and private contracts (many rumored to have been acquired through bribes). Gold Horizon had its name directly attached to the reigning social movement and seemed as if it could do no wrong. That was until 2650, when CEO and majority shareholder Dennis Acevedo made a single, fateful decision: move the corporation\u2019s headquarters to Terra.\n\nThe Collapse\nHistorians remain divided on the reasoning for Acevedo\u2019s decision. Terra was an increasingly popular center of Human culture, but many in Corsen Messer V\u2019s circle of advisers feared that its popularity was also shifting the cultural focus away from Earth. Whether the company was seeking to reduce its overhead with the relocation or it was actively protesting the increasingly martial focus of the Empire\u2019s expansion is lost to history. Whatever the reasoning, the Imperator took note, and proclaimed Gold Horizon\u2019s move to be a personal affront. Government contracts completely ceased, and private developers were urged not to continue purchasing Gold Horizon equipment. In the space of just five years, Gold Horizon would be driven out of business.\n\nIn 2654 the Imperator delivered the coup de grace: the government nationalized all \u201cterraforming support\u201d concerns \u2014 that is, Gold Horizon\u2019s space platforms \u2014 ostensibly in the name of protecting the citizen settlers who would rely on them while laying claim to the new worlds. Gold Horizon found a significant portion of their assets frozen and the sum total of their long-term business plan completely untenable. Two CEOs, serving in rapid succession, attempted to right the ship with a move back to mining and then general heavy industry support, but nothing could stop the inevitable. Gold Horizon closed shop permanently in 2655.\n\nGold Horizon Today\nIn one light, the lasting impact of Gold Horizon is the simple fact that in 2944 trillions of Humans live on worlds that were uninhabitable centuries before. Even if mankind was destined to expand to the stars regardless, Gold Horizon\u2019s support backbone was still partly responsible for keeping Human worlds closer to one another than would have otherwise been possible. From that, it is not unreasonable to say that the geographic strength of the Empire today owes something to what the corporation enabled. Still, Gold Horizon\u2019s distinctive \u2018G-in-abell\u2019 logo remains a divisive symbol in today\u2019s society. As it has long-since entered the public domain, it occasionally reappears as an avant-garde fashion accessory (in the more conservative areas of old Earth, Gold Horizon purses and messenger bags remain big sellers).\n\nHistory aside, a major lasting impact of Gold Horizon comes from the general indestructability of their stations. Dozens of surviving Gold Horizon stations remain scattered throughout the Empire, mostly in areas of space where terraforming began but was deemed unprofitable midway through the process. The stations have become warrens for illegal activities. Inhabited by loners, survivalists, corsairs and worse, surviving Gold Horizon stations in distant systems can range from black market bonanzas to deadly battlegrounds fought over constantly by competing pirate shock troops.\n\nIn 2943, the United Empire of Earth Senate conducted an undercover investigation of the Gold Horizon bases and ultimately determined that it would not be possible to relocate civilians based aboard them. The formal recommendation was that the military pursue a campaign to destroy the remaining bases from space, although these plans have fallen by the wayside in the light of legal issues and the increased Vanduul threat.","de_DE":"\"Gemeinsam werden wir uns verbessern und die Menschheit immer weiter nach au\u00dfen in Richtung des endlosen Goldhorizonts erweitern.\"\n- Ivar Messer, 2546, Rede \u00fcber seinen Aufstieg zum Imperator.\n\nGold Horizon, ehemals die Gold Horizon Extrasolar Mineral Prospecting Corporation, bleibt eine starke Erinnerung an die ungez\u00fcgelte Gier und die bl\u00fchende Expansion unserer Zivilisation in die Galaxie. Das Unternehmen, benannt nach einer Zeile aus der Aufstiegsrede von Messer, repr\u00e4sentiert in gewisser Weise das Beste und Schlimmste der Zeit. Es erscheint den heutigen Historikern ironisch, dass die gleiche Messer-Regierung, die das Wachstum von Gold Horizon inspiriert hat, auch das Ende brachte, und dass diejenigen, die das Unternehmen leiteten, Opfer derselben Brutalit\u00e4t wurden, die das gesamte Imperium betraf.\n\nGold Horizon wurde Mitte des 26. Jahrhunderts als eigenst\u00e4ndige Prospektionsgesellschaft gegr\u00fcndet, die die Vorteile der Steuererleichterungen der neuen Regierung f\u00fcr Asteroidenbergbauunternehmen nutzen wollte. Das Unternehmen fand sofort Erfolg, getragen von der Entdeckung der Grakneth-Lode, einer hohen Konzentration an titanhaltigen Asteroiden im Au\u00dfenbereich des Terra-Systems. Die Mineralgewinne von Gold Horizon f\u00fchrten schnell zu seiner Etablierung als Industrieunternehmen, das vorgefertigte Minenstationen f\u00fcr den schnellen Einsatz in neu vermessenen Sternensystemen herstellt. Zu dieser Zeit in der Geschichte waren interstellare Claimspringer allgegenw\u00e4rtig geworden und nutzten die lange Vorlaufzeit zwischen Unternehmensbefragungen und dem eigentlichen Start des Gro\u00dfbergbaus. Mit den Prefabs von Gold Horizon konnte ein kompletter Minenbetrieb - komplett mit Bohrger\u00e4ten, Speicher- und Raumverteidigungsperimetern - mit Vermessungsschiffen mitgef\u00fchrt und sofort eingesetzt werden. Das Projekt war ein weiterer gro\u00dfer Erfolg f\u00fcr das Unternehmen.\n\nMit dem zweiten Jahrzehnt der T\u00e4tigkeit von Gold Horizon war das Vereinigte Reich der Erde zu einer etablierten Realit\u00e4t geworden und die menschliche Zivilisation hatte den Terraforming-Bug gefangen. In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass gro\u00dfe Teile der kaiserlichen Wirtschaft nun der Unterst\u00fctzung allgemeiner Expansions- und Terraforming-Projekte gewidmet waren, entschied sich Gold Horizon f\u00fcr den \u00dcbergang von der Minenunterst\u00fctzung zur Unterst\u00fctzung der planetarischen Transformation. Das Ergebnis dieser Verschiebung ist die Gold Horizon Space Station, die markante ringf\u00f6rmige Plattform, die rund um die Galaxie eingesetzt wird, um Terraformingarbeiter, ihre Ausr\u00fcstung und ihre Tr\u00e4gersysteme unterzubringen.\n\nIm Gegensatz zu den Bergbauausr\u00fcstungen von Gold Horizon war die Gold Horizon Station Serie riesig, mit der M\u00f6glichkeit, Hunderte von Arbeitern bei ihrer schwierigen Aufgabe zu unterst\u00fctzen. Diese Basislager am Sternenhimmel sollten allen Komfort eines Hauses bieten, von halbbequemen Wohnr\u00e4umen \u00fcber voll ausgestattete medizinische Buchten bis hin zu speziellen Unterhaltungsarenen. Als gro\u00df angelegte standardisierte Terraforming-Ausr\u00fcstung entstand, wurde sie so konzipiert, dass sie nahtlos durch die Gold Horizon Stationssysteme verl\u00e4uft, die die erste Welle der Biosph\u00e4renkonversionen von \"Spit and glue\" unterst\u00fctzen.\n\nMit zwei Fingern direkt am Puls des expandierenden Imperiums und einer wachsenden Zahl von Politikern in der Tasche schien Gold Horizon ein unaufhaltsamer Moloch zu sein. Das Unternehmen nahm Milliarden von Regierungs- und Privatauftr\u00e4gen auf (viele davon sollen durch Bestechung erworben worden sein). Gold Horizon hatte seinen Namen direkt mit der herrschenden sozialen Bewegung verbunden und schien, als k\u00f6nne es nichts falsch machen. Das war bis 2650, als der CEO und Hauptaktion\u00e4r Dennis Acevedo eine einzige, schicksalhafte Entscheidung traf: den Hauptsitz des Unternehmens nach Terra zu verlegen.\n\nDer Zusammenbruch\nDie Historiker sind in der Begr\u00fcndung f\u00fcr die Entscheidung von Acevedo nach wie vor uneins. Terra war ein immer beliebteres Zentrum der menschlichen Kultur, aber viele im Beraterkreis von Corsen Messer V. bef\u00fcrchteten, dass seine Popularit\u00e4t auch den kulturellen Fokus von der Erde wegverlagert. Ob das Unternehmen versuchte, seine Gemeinkosten mit dem Umzug zu reduzieren oder aktiv gegen den immer kriegerischeren Fokus der Expansion des Imperiums protestierte, geht in die Geschichte ein. Was auch immer die Argumentation war, der Imperator nahm sie zur Kenntnis und proklamierte den Schritt von Gold Horizon als pers\u00f6nlichen Affront. Regierungsvertr\u00e4ge wurden vollst\u00e4ndig eingestellt, und private Bauherren wurden aufgefordert, keine weiteren Gold Horizon-Ger\u00e4te zu kaufen. Innerhalb von nur f\u00fcnf Jahren w\u00fcrde Gold Horizon aus dem Gesch\u00e4ft gedr\u00e4ngt werden.\n\nIm Jahr 2654 lieferte der Imperator den Gnadensto\u00df: Die Regierung verstaatlichte alle \"Terraforming-Support\"-Belange - also die Raumstationen von Gold Horizon - angeblich im Namen des Schutzes der B\u00fcrgersiedler, die sich auf sie verlassen w\u00fcrden, w\u00e4hrend sie Anspruch auf die neuen Welten erhoben. Gold Horizon fand einen erheblichen Teil ihrer Verm\u00f6genswerte eingefroren und die Summe ihres langfristigen Gesch\u00e4ftsplans v\u00f6llig unhaltbar. Zwei CEOs, die in rascher Folge t\u00e4tig waren, versuchten, das Schiff zu reparieren, mit einem Wechsel zur\u00fcck zum Bergbau und dann zur allgemeinen Unterst\u00fctzung der Schwerindustrie, aber nichts konnte das Unvermeidliche aufhalten. Gold Horizon schloss den Laden dauerhaft im Jahr 2655.\n\nGoldhorizont heute\nIn einem Licht ist die nachhaltige Wirkung von Gold Horizon die einfache Tatsache, dass in 2944 Billionen Menschen auf Welten leben, die Jahrhunderte zuvor unbewohnbar waren. Selbst wenn die Menschheit dazu bestimmt w\u00e4re, sich ungeachtet dessen zu den Sternen zu entwickeln, war das R\u00fcckgrat von Gold Horizon immer noch teilweise daf\u00fcr verantwortlich, die Menschenwelten n\u00e4her beieinander zu halten, als es sonst m\u00f6glich gewesen w\u00e4re. Daher ist es nicht unvern\u00fcnftig zu sagen, dass die geografische St\u00e4rke des Imperiums heute etwas dem zu verdanken hat, was das Unternehmen erm\u00f6glicht hat. Dennoch bleibt das unverwechselbare \"G-in-abell\"-Logo von Gold Horizon ein spaltendes Symbol in der heutigen Gesellschaft. Da es l\u00e4ngst in die \u00d6ffentlichkeit gelangt ist, taucht es gelegentlich als avantgardistisches Modeaccessoire wieder auf (in den konservativeren Gebieten der alten Erde bleiben Gold Horizon Geldb\u00f6rsen und Messenger Bags Verkaufsschlager).\n\nAbgesehen von der Geschichte, kommt ein gro\u00dfer nachhaltiger Einfluss von Gold Horizon von der allgemeinen Unverw\u00fcstlichkeit ihrer Stationen. Dutzende von \u00fcberlebenden Gold Horizon Stationen sind nach wie vor \u00fcber das ganze Imperium verstreut, vor allem in Gebieten, in denen das Terraforming begann, aber in der Mitte des Prozesses als unrentabel galt. Die Stationen sind zu Kriegern f\u00fcr illegale Aktivit\u00e4ten geworden. Bewohnt von Einzelg\u00e4ngern, \u00dcberlebenden, Korsaren und Schlimmerem, k\u00f6nnen \u00fcberlebende Gold Horizon Stationen in fernen Systemen von Schwarzmarkt-Bonanzen bis hin zu t\u00f6dlichen Schlachtfeldern reichen, die st\u00e4ndig von konkurrierenden Piraten-Schocktruppen umk\u00e4mpft werden.\n\nIm Jahr 2943 f\u00fchrte der United Empire of Earth Senat eine verdeckte Untersuchung der Gold Horizon Basen durch und stellte schlie\u00dflich fest, dass es nicht m\u00f6glich sein w\u00fcrde, Zivilisten an Bord zu verlegen. Die formelle Empfehlung war, dass das Milit\u00e4r eine Kampagne zur Zerst\u00f6rung der verbliebenen Basen aus dem Weltraum verfolgt, obwohl diese Pl\u00e4ne angesichts rechtlicher Fragen und der erh\u00f6hten Vanduul-Bedrohung auf der Strecke geblieben sind.","zh_CN":"\u201cTogether, we will improve and expand mankind ever outwards towards the endless gold horizon.\u201d\n\u2013 Ivar Messer, 2546, speech on his ascendancy to Imperator.\n\nGold Horizon, formerly the Gold Horizon Extrasolar Mineral Prospecting Corporation, remains a strong reminder of both unchecked greed and our civilization\u2019s thriving expansion into the galaxy. The company, named after a line from Messer\u2019s ascendancy speech, in some ways represents the best and worst of the era. It seems ironic to today\u2019s historians that the same Messer government that inspired Gold Horizon\u2019s growth also brought about its end, and that those who ran the company were victims of the same brutality that affected the entire Empire.\n\nGold Horizon was founded as a dedicated prospecting corporation in the middle of the 26th century, intending to take advantage of the new government\u2019s series of tax breaks for asteroid mining concerns. The company found immediate success, buoyed by the discovery of the Grakneth lode, a high concentration of titanium-bearing asteroids in the outlands of the Terra System. Gold Horizon\u2019s mineral profits quickly lead to its establishment as an industrial concern, producing pre-fabricated mining stations for quick deployment in newly surveyed star systems. At this time in history, interstellar claim jumpers had become ubiquitous, taking advantage of the long lead time between corporate surveys and the actual start of large-scale mining. With Gold Horizon\u2019s prefabs, an entire mining operation \u2014 complete with drilling rigs, storage and spatial defense perimeters \u2014 could be carried along with survey ships and deployed immediately. The project was another massive success for the company.\n\nBy Gold Horizon\u2019s second decade of operation, the United Empire of Earth had become an established reality and Human civilization had caught the terraforming bug. Observing that vast amounts of the Imperial economy were now devoted to supporting general expansion and terraforming projects, Gold Horizon opted to move from mining support into planetary transformation support. The result of this shift is the Gold Horizon Space Station, the distinctive ring-shaped platform deployed around the galaxy to house terraforming workers, their equipment and their support systems.\n\nUnlike Gold Horizon\u2019s mining equipment, the Gold Horizon Station series was massive, with the ability to support hundreds of workers in their difficult task. These starside base camps purported to offer all the comforts of home, from semi-comfortable living quarters to fully equipped medical bays to dedicated entertainment arenas. As large-scale standardized terraforming equipment began to come into existence, it was designed to transit seamlessly through the Gold Horizon station systems that supported the first wave of \u2018spit and glue\u2019 biosphere conversions.\n\nWith two fingers directly on the pulse of the expanding empire, and a growing number of politicians in their pocket, Gold Horizon seemed to be an unstoppable juggernaut. The company took in billions from government and private contracts (many rumored to have been acquired through bribes). Gold Horizon had its name directly attached to the reigning social movement and seemed as if it could do no wrong. That was until 2650, when CEO and majority shareholder Dennis Acevedo made a single, fateful decision: move the corporation\u2019s headquarters to Terra.\n\nThe Collapse\nHistorians remain divided on the reasoning for Acevedo\u2019s decision. Terra was an increasingly popular center of Human culture, but many in Corsen Messer V\u2019s circle of advisers feared that its popularity was also shifting the cultural focus away from Earth. Whether the company was seeking to reduce its overhead with the relocation or it was actively protesting the increasingly martial focus of the Empire\u2019s expansion is lost to history. Whatever the reasoning, the Imperator took note, and proclaimed Gold Horizon\u2019s move to be a personal affront. Government contracts completely ceased, and private developers were urged not to continue purchasing Gold Horizon equipment. In the space of just five years, Gold Horizon would be driven out of business.\n\nIn 2654 the Imperator delivered the coup de grace: the government nationalized all \u201cterraforming support\u201d concerns \u2014 that is, Gold Horizon\u2019s space platforms \u2014 ostensibly in the name of protecting the citizen settlers who would rely on them while laying claim to the new worlds. Gold Horizon found a significant portion of their assets frozen and the sum total of their long-term business plan completely untenable. Two CEOs, serving in rapid succession, attempted to right the ship with a move back to mining and then general heavy industry support, but nothing could stop the inevitable. Gold Horizon closed shop permanently in 2655.\n\nGold Horizon Today\nIn one light, the lasting impact of Gold Horizon is the simple fact that in 2944 trillions of Humans live on worlds that were uninhabitable centuries before. Even if mankind was destined to expand to the stars regardless, Gold Horizon\u2019s support backbone was still partly responsible for keeping Human worlds closer to one another than would have otherwise been possible. From that, it is not unreasonable to say that the geographic strength of the Empire today owes something to what the corporation enabled. Still, Gold Horizon\u2019s distinctive \u2018G-in-abell\u2019 logo remains a divisive symbol in today\u2019s society. As it has long-since entered the public domain, it occasionally reappears as an avant-garde fashion accessory (in the more conservative areas of old Earth, Gold Horizon purses and messenger bags remain big sellers).\n\nHistory aside, a major lasting impact of Gold Horizon comes from the general indestructability of their stations. Dozens of surviving Gold Horizon stations remain scattered throughout the Empire, mostly in areas of space where terraforming began but was deemed unprofitable midway through the process. The stations have become warrens for illegal activities. Inhabited by loners, survivalists, corsairs and worse, surviving Gold Horizon stations in distant systems can range from black market bonanzas to deadly battlegrounds fought over constantly by competing pirate shock troops.\n\nIn 2943, the United Empire of Earth Senate conducted an undercover investigation of the Gold Horizon bases and ultimately determined that it would not be possible to relocate civilians based aboard them. The formal recommendation was that the military pursue a campaign to destroy the remaining bases from space, although these plans have fallen by the wayside in the light of legal issues and the increased Vanduul threat."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":44,"created_at":"2014-12-23T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-13 15:37:08","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":14359,"next_id":14365}}