{"data":{"id":19926,"title":"Portfolio: Mirai","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/19926-Portfolio-Mirai","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/19926","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/19926","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"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":7,"translations":{"en_EN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 11.03.\nWhen MISC CEO Irena Adjei first saw the Fury prototype she spent over an hour slowly circling the ship and assessing the compact fighter from every angle. \u201cIt feels both distinctly MISC and something all its own,\u201d she told the MISC board. \u201cI\u2019m convinced we should make it, but I don\u2019t think MISC should.\u201d With those words Adjei proposed a solution to a debate that had bitterly divided the company\u2019s board of directors between members who believed MISC should focus on industrial ships and those hoping to expand the brand. CEO Adjei had never taken a side until the day she proposed a solution that would satisfy both; the creation of the sub-brand Mirai.\n\nMeaning \u2018Future\u2019 in Japanese, the name Mirai honors the settlers of Centauri, home to MISC\u2019s headquarters, and embodies its goal of creating the next generation of ships. The creation of a subbrand also allows MISC to retain its cherished industrial identity, while providing the company an outlet for experimentation. Adjei argued that the Fury should launch the sub-brand, and convinced the board by showing them what the Fury team was working on next. The creation of the Mirai sub-brand shocked many within the industry and marked the most significant change to the company in decades.\n\nBEYOND INDUSTRY\nMISC may be known for its industrial ships but its desire to develop other variants goes back to 2833. Less than twenty years after the merger that created MISC, CEO Kori Desmon pushed the company to expand its portfolio. The success of the Hull series provided financial stability and budget surpluses that Desmon wanted to invest in ships that took the brand beyond the industrial sector. Yet a coalition of board members believed in staying laser-focused on industrial ships and forced Desmon to scale back their ambitions to a single design team working on a dedicated racing ship. The result would be Daedalus.\n\nDaedalus was developed from the ground up to be an extremely fast, high-performance ship that could endure the rigors of racing. An impressive prototype inspired MISC to sponsor a racing team and share its tech with them as opposed to releasing the ship itself. The design team disagreed with this decision, but company executives convinced Desmon that a dedicated racing team would provide insight and experience their own designers lacked. While the ship impressed racing fans, Daedalus continually failed to qualify for the professional division of the Murray Cup, a goal that Desmon knew needed to be accomplished in order for the ship to get mass produced. Experimental materials and production techniques used on Daedalus meant MISC\u2019s existing production lines couldn\u2019t be used to manufacture the ship, so state-of-the-art production facilities would need to be constructed. Though Daedalus was floundering, the board still considered the racing team a great marketing tool and continued to sponsor it. Desmon officially designated the team that built Daedalus as MISC-M and assigned it to be the liaison between the racing team and the company.\n\nWhile delivering upgrades for Daedalus became part of MISC-M\u2019s working orders, the division was also directed to produce innovative and imaginative new ship designs with no mandate to keep them industrial. Most of these designs would remain theoretical, as the division\u2019s miniscule build budget was almost exclusively reserved for testing Daedalus improvements. By now the division carried a reputation as being where inexperienced designers learned and old designers faded away. In reality, it became a training ground where youngsters honed their craft under the tutelage of veterans who enjoyed the freedom of exploring unique and unusual designs.\n\nDecades of constant tinkering on Daedalus increased the ship\u2019s performance, with it ultimately graduating to the Murray Cup professional division in 2898. The MISC racing team has been a regular qualifier ever since. MISC-M also developed and carefully cataloged thousands of designs for everything from full ships to components to ship furnishings, but it never ushered any new ships into the prototype phase. Instead, any interesting ship directions were reassigned to other teams where they were molded to acceptable MISC parameters or eventually scrapped. Every few years some members of the board would argue for shutting down MISC-M or folding it into another division, but the majority continued to support its mission. This deep well of innovative and unorthodox ideas would become more important than ever when MISC signed the landmark lend-lease agreement with the Xi\u2019an in 2910.\n\nALIEN INFLUENCE\nFollowing the agreement\u2019s signing, MISC quickly put the newfound wealth of knowledge and resources to good use. The Freelancer, released in 2915, utilized Xi\u2019an tech to transform it into the beloved industrial hauler known today. Despite this success, MISC discovered its traditional design teams struggled to integrate Xi\u2019an tech or use its influence to push further innovations. Eventually, the out-of-the-box thinkers in MISC-M were tasked with evaluating the influx of Xi\u2019an ideas and imagining uses for them. The division also combed through its massive design database to see what ideas could benefit from Xi\u2019an tech. The first design pulled was for Daedalus.\n\nMuch had changed since the original Daedalus, but the team saw massive potential in using Xi\u2019an tech to make it fly faster and be cheaper to manufacture. Further upgrades and innovations were developed, but they remained untested until 2940 when MISC decided to pour more money into its racing operations. The company ended its partnership with the outside racing team and tasked MISC-M with building the new ship. The result was the Razor, which would win the Murray Cup Classic Race in 2945 thanks in part to the piloting heroics of Trevor Yuman. Upon its release in 2947, the ship sold extremely well and received rave reviews. The Razor\u2019s commercial and Murray Cup success, combined with the triumphant launch of the Reliant a year earlier, convinced MISC to continue developing bold new ships. The company dramatically increased the funding and staffing levels of MISC-M and directed the team to develop the ideas that excited it the most.\n\nOver the following years, CEO Adjei took great interest in MISC-M and frequently visited the division to check on its progress. She encouraged it to embrace MISC values but refresh the aesthetic. Meanwhile, Adjei told the board that the division had the potential to significantly boost company revenues. Insiders believe she long wanted to make the division its own sub-brand, partially to enshrine its mission and ships as distinctly different from MISC, but didn\u2019t want to reveal her plan until it produced a second signature ship. The Fury would be that ship and inspired CEO Adjei to unveil her master plan. Once approved by the board, the company also decided to make the Razor part of Mirai. It might have been released under MISC but the ship\u2019s history within the division and its ties to the original Daedalus made it an ideal fit. What comes next from MISC\u2019s performance sub-brand remains a mystery to anyone outside the company. Rumors claim that Mirai will push the integration of Xi\u2019an tech to bold new levels, leaving ship enthusiasts and competitors in eager anticipation of what will come next.","de_DE":"Dieses Portfolio erschien urspr\u00fcnglich in Jump Point 11.03.\nAls MISC-CEO Irena Adjei den Fury-Prototyp zum ersten Mal sah, verbrachte sie \u00fcber eine Stunde damit, das Schiff langsam zu umrunden und den kompakten J\u00e4ger aus jedem Winkel zu begutachten. \"Er f\u00fchlt sich sowohl unverkennbar nach MISC an als auch nach etwas ganz Eigenem\", sagte sie dem MISC-Vorstand. \"Ich bin \u00fcberzeugt, dass wir ihn bauen sollten, aber ich glaube nicht, dass die MISC ihn bauen sollte. Mit diesen Worten schlug Adjei eine L\u00f6sung f\u00fcr eine Debatte vor, die den Vorstand des Unternehmens zwischen den Mitgliedern, die der Meinung waren, MISC solle sich auf Industrieschiffe konzentrieren, und denen, die die Marke ausbauen wollten, erbittert gespalten hatte. CEO Adjei hatte sich nie f\u00fcr eine Seite entschieden, bis zu dem Tag, an dem sie eine L\u00f6sung vorschlug, die beide zufriedenstellen w\u00fcrde: die Gr\u00fcndung der Untermarke Mirai.\n\nDer Name Mirai bedeutet \"Zukunft\" auf Japanisch und ist eine Hommage an die Siedler von Centauri, dem Hauptsitz von MISC, und verk\u00f6rpert das Ziel, die n\u00e4chste Generation von Schiffen zu entwickeln. Die Schaffung einer Untermarke erm\u00f6glicht es MISC, seine gesch\u00e4tzte industrielle Identit\u00e4t beizubehalten und bietet dem Unternehmen gleichzeitig die M\u00f6glichkeit, zu experimentieren. Adjei argumentierte, dass die Fury die Submarke einf\u00fchren sollte, und \u00fcberzeugte den Vorstand, indem er ihm zeigte, woran das Fury-Team als n\u00e4chstes arbeitete. Die Gr\u00fcndung der Submarke Mirai schockierte viele in der Branche und markierte die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Ver\u00e4nderung des Unternehmens seit Jahrzehnten.\n\nJENSEITS DER INDUSTRIE\nMISC mag f\u00fcr seine Industrieschiffe bekannt sein, aber der Wunsch, andere Varianten zu entwickeln, geht auf das Jahr 2833 zur\u00fcck. Weniger als zwanzig Jahre nach der Fusion, aus der MISC hervorging, dr\u00e4ngte CEO Kori Desmon das Unternehmen, sein Portfolio zu erweitern. Der Erfolg der Hull-Serie sorgte f\u00fcr finanzielle Stabilit\u00e4t und Haushalts\u00fcbersch\u00fcsse, die Desmon in Schiffe investieren wollte, die die Marke \u00fcber den Industriesektor hinausf\u00fchrten. Eine Koalition von Vorstandsmitgliedern war jedoch der Meinung, dass man sich weiterhin auf Industrieschiffe konzentrieren sollte, und zwang Desmon, seine Ambitionen auf ein einziges Designteam zu beschr\u00e4nken, das an einem speziellen Rennschiff arbeitete. Das Ergebnis war die Daedalus.\n\nDie Daedalus wurde von Grund auf als extrem schnelles und leistungsstarkes Schiff entwickelt, das den harten Anforderungen des Rennsports standhalten konnte. Ein beeindruckender Prototyp inspirierte MISC dazu, ein Rennteam zu sponsern und seine Technik mit ihm zu teilen, anstatt das Schiff selbst zu ver\u00f6ffentlichen. Das Designteam war mit dieser Entscheidung nicht einverstanden, aber die Unternehmensleitung \u00fcberzeugte Desmon, dass ein engagiertes Rennteam den eigenen Designern Einblicke und Erfahrungen bieten w\u00fcrde, die ihnen fehlten. Obwohl das Schiff die Rennfans beeindruckte, schaffte es die Daedalus nicht, sich f\u00fcr die Profi-Division des Murray Cups zu qualifizieren - ein Ziel, von dem Desmon wusste, dass es erreicht werden musste, um das Schiff in Serie zu produzieren. Die experimentellen Materialien und Produktionstechniken, die bei der Daedalus verwendet wurden, bedeuteten, dass die bestehenden Produktionslinien von MISC nicht f\u00fcr die Herstellung des Schiffes verwendet werden konnten, sodass hochmoderne Produktionsanlagen gebaut werden mussten. Obwohl die Daedalus vor sich hin d\u00fcmpelte, hielt der Vorstand das Rennteam f\u00fcr ein hervorragendes Marketinginstrument und sponserte es weiterhin. Desmon ernannte das Team, das die Daedalus baute, offiziell zum MISC-M und beauftragte es, die Verbindung zwischen dem Rennteam und dem Unternehmen zu halten.\n\nW\u00e4hrend die Lieferung von Upgrades f\u00fcr die Daedalus zu den Arbeitsauftr\u00e4gen von MISC-M geh\u00f6rte, wurde die Abteilung auch angewiesen, innovative und fantasievolle neue Schiffsentw\u00fcrfe zu entwickeln, ohne den Auftrag, sie industriell zu halten. Die meisten dieser Entw\u00fcrfe blieben theoretisch, da das winzige Baubudget der Abteilung fast ausschlie\u00dflich f\u00fcr die Erprobung der Daedalus-Verbesserungen verwendet wurde. Mittlerweile hatte die Abteilung den Ruf, dass unerfahrene Konstrukteure dort lernten und alte Konstrukteure in den Hintergrund traten. In Wirklichkeit wurde sie zu einem \u00dcbungsplatz, an dem junge Leute ihr Handwerk unter der Anleitung von Veteranen verfeinerten, die die Freiheit genossen, einzigartige und ungew\u00f6hnliche Designs zu erforschen.\n\nDurch jahrzehntelanges T\u00fcfteln an der Daedalus wurde das Schiff immer leistungsf\u00e4higer und schaffte schlie\u00dflich 2898 den Aufstieg in die Profi-Division des Murray Cups. Seitdem hat sich das MISC-Rennteam regelm\u00e4\u00dfig qualifiziert. Die MISC-M hat auch Tausende von Entw\u00fcrfen entwickelt und sorgf\u00e4ltig katalogisiert, von ganzen Schiffen \u00fcber Komponenten bis hin zu Schiffsausstattungen, aber sie hat nie ein neues Schiff in die Prototypenphase gebracht. Stattdessen wurden alle interessanten Schiffsentw\u00fcrfe an andere Teams weitergegeben, wo sie nach akzeptablen MISC-Parametern geformt oder schlie\u00dflich verschrottet wurden. Alle paar Jahre sprachen sich einige Vorstandsmitglieder daf\u00fcr aus, das MISC-M zu schlie\u00dfen oder es in eine andere Abteilung einzugliedern, aber die Mehrheit unterst\u00fctzte seine Aufgabe weiterhin. Diese tiefe Quelle innovativer und unorthodoxer Ideen wurde wichtiger denn je, als das MISC im Jahr 2910 den bahnbrechenden Leihvertrag mit der Xi'an unterzeichnete.\n\nAUSSERIRDISCHER EINFLUSS\nNach der Unterzeichnung des Abkommens setzte die MISC den neu gewonnenen Reichtum an Wissen und Ressourcen schnell in die Tat um. Der Freelancer, der 2915 auf den Markt kam, nutzte die Technologie der Xi'an, um ihn zu dem beliebten Industrietransporter zu machen, den wir heute kennen. Trotz dieses Erfolgs stellte die MISC fest, dass ihre traditionellen Designteams Schwierigkeiten hatten, die Xi'an-Technologie zu integrieren oder ihren Einfluss zu nutzen, um weitere Innovationen voranzutreiben. Schlie\u00dflich wurden die Querdenker von MISC-M damit beauftragt, den Zustrom von Xi'an-Ideen zu bewerten und sich Anwendungsm\u00f6glichkeiten daf\u00fcr auszudenken. Die Abteilung durchforstete auch ihre umfangreiche Design-Datenbank, um zu sehen, welche Ideen von der Xi'an-Technologie profitieren k\u00f6nnten. Das erste Design, das ausgew\u00e4hlt wurde, war f\u00fcr Daedalus.\n\nSeit der urspr\u00fcnglichen Daedalus hatte sich viel ver\u00e4ndert, aber das Team sah gro\u00dfes Potenzial in der Nutzung der Xi'an-Technologie, um sie schneller fliegen und billiger herstellen zu k\u00f6nnen. Weitere Upgrades und Innovationen wurden entwickelt, aber sie blieben bis 2940 ungetestet, als MISC beschloss, mehr Geld in den Rennbetrieb zu stecken. Das Unternehmen beendete seine Partnerschaft mit dem externen Rennteam und beauftragte MISC-M mit dem Bau des neuen Schiffes. Das Ergebnis war die Razor, die 2945 das Murray Cup Classic Race gewann, auch dank der Heldentaten von Trevor Yuman als Pilot. Als das Schiff 2947 auf den Markt kam, verkaufte es sich sehr gut und erhielt begeisterte Kritiken. Der kommerzielle Erfolg der Razor und des Murray Cups in Verbindung mit dem triumphalen Start der Reliant ein Jahr zuvor \u00fcberzeugte MISC davon, weiterhin k\u00fchne neue Schiffe zu entwickeln. Das Unternehmen stockte die finanziellen und personellen Mittel von MISC-M drastisch auf und wies das Team an, die Ideen zu entwickeln, die es am meisten begeisterten.\n\nIn den folgenden Jahren zeigte CEO Adjei gro\u00dfes Interesse an MISC-M und besuchte die Abteilung h\u00e4ufig, um sich \u00fcber ihre Fortschritte zu informieren. Sie ermutigte sie, die MISC-Werte zu \u00fcbernehmen, aber die \u00c4sthetik zu erneuern. Gleichzeitig erkl\u00e4rte Adjei dem Vorstand, dass der Gesch\u00e4ftsbereich das Potenzial habe, die Einnahmen des Unternehmens erheblich zu steigern. Insider glauben, dass sie die Abteilung schon lange zu einer eigenen Submarke machen wollte, auch um die Mission und die Schiffe deutlich von MISC zu unterscheiden, aber sie wollte ihren Plan nicht enth\u00fcllen, bevor sie nicht ein zweites charakteristisches Schiff produziert hatte. Die Fury sollte dieses Schiff sein und inspirierte CEO Adjei dazu, ihren Masterplan zu enth\u00fcllen. Nachdem der Vorstand zugestimmt hatte, beschloss das Unternehmen auch, die Razor zu einem Teil von Mirai zu machen. Sie wurde zwar unter MISC ver\u00f6ffentlicht, aber die Geschichte des Schiffes innerhalb der Abteilung und seine Verbindung zur urspr\u00fcnglichen Daedalus machten es zu einer idealen Erg\u00e4nzung. Was als N\u00e4chstes von MISCs Performance-Submarke kommt, bleibt f\u00fcr Au\u00dfenstehende ein Geheimnis. Ger\u00fcchte besagen, dass die Mirai die Integration von Xi'an-Technologie auf ein neues Niveau heben wird, so dass Schiffsenthusiasten und Konkurrenten mit Spannung erwarten, was als N\u00e4chstes kommt.","zh_CN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 11.03.\nWhen MISC CEO Irena Adjei first saw the Fury prototype she spent over an hour slowly circling the ship and assessing the compact fighter from every angle. \u201cIt feels both distinctly MISC and something all its own,\u201d she told the MISC board. \u201cI\u2019m convinced we should make it, but I don\u2019t think MISC should.\u201d With those words Adjei proposed a solution to a debate that had bitterly divided the company\u2019s board of directors between members who believed MISC should focus on industrial ships and those hoping to expand the brand. CEO Adjei had never taken a side until the day she proposed a solution that would satisfy both; the creation of the sub-brand Mirai.\n\nMeaning \u2018Future\u2019 in Japanese, the name Mirai honors the settlers of Centauri, home to MISC\u2019s headquarters, and embodies its goal of creating the next generation of ships. The creation of a subbrand also allows MISC to retain its cherished industrial identity, while providing the company an outlet for experimentation. Adjei argued that the Fury should launch the sub-brand, and convinced the board by showing them what the Fury team was working on next. The creation of the Mirai sub-brand shocked many within the industry and marked the most significant change to the company in decades.\n\nBEYOND INDUSTRY\nMISC may be known for its industrial ships but its desire to develop other variants goes back to 2833. Less than twenty years after the merger that created MISC, CEO Kori Desmon pushed the company to expand its portfolio. The success of the Hull series provided financial stability and budget surpluses that Desmon wanted to invest in ships that took the brand beyond the industrial sector. Yet a coalition of board members believed in staying laser-focused on industrial ships and forced Desmon to scale back their ambitions to a single design team working on a dedicated racing ship. The result would be Daedalus.\n\nDaedalus was developed from the ground up to be an extremely fast, high-performance ship that could endure the rigors of racing. An impressive prototype inspired MISC to sponsor a racing team and share its tech with them as opposed to releasing the ship itself. The design team disagreed with this decision, but company executives convinced Desmon that a dedicated racing team would provide insight and experience their own designers lacked. While the ship impressed racing fans, Daedalus continually failed to qualify for the professional division of the Murray Cup, a goal that Desmon knew needed to be accomplished in order for the ship to get mass produced. Experimental materials and production techniques used on Daedalus meant MISC\u2019s existing production lines couldn\u2019t be used to manufacture the ship, so state-of-the-art production facilities would need to be constructed. Though Daedalus was floundering, the board still considered the racing team a great marketing tool and continued to sponsor it. Desmon officially designated the team that built Daedalus as MISC-M and assigned it to be the liaison between the racing team and the company.\n\nWhile delivering upgrades for Daedalus became part of MISC-M\u2019s working orders, the division was also directed to produce innovative and imaginative new ship designs with no mandate to keep them industrial. Most of these designs would remain theoretical, as the division\u2019s miniscule build budget was almost exclusively reserved for testing Daedalus improvements. By now the division carried a reputation as being where inexperienced designers learned and old designers faded away. In reality, it became a training ground where youngsters honed their craft under the tutelage of veterans who enjoyed the freedom of exploring unique and unusual designs.\n\nDecades of constant tinkering on Daedalus increased the ship\u2019s performance, with it ultimately graduating to the Murray Cup professional division in 2898. The MISC racing team has been a regular qualifier ever since. MISC-M also developed and carefully cataloged thousands of designs for everything from full ships to components to ship furnishings, but it never ushered any new ships into the prototype phase. Instead, any interesting ship directions were reassigned to other teams where they were molded to acceptable MISC parameters or eventually scrapped. Every few years some members of the board would argue for shutting down MISC-M or folding it into another division, but the majority continued to support its mission. This deep well of innovative and unorthodox ideas would become more important than ever when MISC signed the landmark lend-lease agreement with the Xi\u2019an in 2910.\n\nALIEN INFLUENCE\nFollowing the agreement\u2019s signing, MISC quickly put the newfound wealth of knowledge and resources to good use. The Freelancer, released in 2915, utilized Xi\u2019an tech to transform it into the beloved industrial hauler known today. Despite this success, MISC discovered its traditional design teams struggled to integrate Xi\u2019an tech or use its influence to push further innovations. Eventually, the out-of-the-box thinkers in MISC-M were tasked with evaluating the influx of Xi\u2019an ideas and imagining uses for them. The division also combed through its massive design database to see what ideas could benefit from Xi\u2019an tech. The first design pulled was for Daedalus.\n\nMuch had changed since the original Daedalus, but the team saw massive potential in using Xi\u2019an tech to make it fly faster and be cheaper to manufacture. Further upgrades and innovations were developed, but they remained untested until 2940 when MISC decided to pour more money into its racing operations. The company ended its partnership with the outside racing team and tasked MISC-M with building the new ship. The result was the Razor, which would win the Murray Cup Classic Race in 2945 thanks in part to the piloting heroics of Trevor Yuman. Upon its release in 2947, the ship sold extremely well and received rave reviews. The Razor\u2019s commercial and Murray Cup success, combined with the triumphant launch of the Reliant a year earlier, convinced MISC to continue developing bold new ships. The company dramatically increased the funding and staffing levels of MISC-M and directed the team to develop the ideas that excited it the most.\n\nOver the following years, CEO Adjei took great interest in MISC-M and frequently visited the division to check on its progress. She encouraged it to embrace MISC values but refresh the aesthetic. Meanwhile, Adjei told the board that the division had the potential to significantly boost company revenues. Insiders believe she long wanted to make the division its own sub-brand, partially to enshrine its mission and ships as distinctly different from MISC, but didn\u2019t want to reveal her plan until it produced a second signature ship. The Fury would be that ship and inspired CEO Adjei to unveil her master plan. Once approved by the board, the company also decided to make the Razor part of Mirai. It might have been released under MISC but the ship\u2019s history within the division and its ties to the original Daedalus made it an ideal fit. What comes next from MISC\u2019s performance sub-brand remains a mystery to anyone outside the company. Rumors claim that Mirai will push the integration of Xi\u2019an tech to bold new levels, leaving ship enthusiasts and competitors in eager anticipation of what will come next."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":40,"created_at":"2024-04-23T21:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"2 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-27 10:44:33","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":19925,"next_id":19928}}