Peacekeepers of the Vast/AnDor Mining

The AnDor Mining Corporation is a Solaran Union corporation headquartered on Mars that specializes in the exploitation of mineral resources on ice worlds. They are well-known for their towering mining arcologies, widely used across Solaran space.

Similar to FormCorp they are known for signing colonists and workers into long-term contracts, but their arcologies are very egalitarian on the insides. Given the much more utilitarian focus of their efforts, AnDor colonies are often understood to be temporary, and not intended for development into habitable worlds; smaller planets are often abandoned once mined as extensively as feasible, while others are converted into fuel depots or military listening outposts.

An entire industry has evolved around dispatching crews to salvage AnDor arcologies after the company has left them, carving up the materials to sell them on the secondary market. AnDor sometimes negotiates or auctions off ownership contracts for these abandoned sites, but more often they simply leave them for whomever brings in the necessary equipment to salvage them for parts. This results in two primary downstream impacts: sometimes violent skirmishes over salvage rights, and second-hand AnDor parts propagating across the galaxy with wildly varying levels of quality. This leads to a number of situations for which a company might be liable, but AnDor has a series of special agreements within the Solaran Union which protect them from criminal and civil charges linked to either violence or accidents resulting from their abandoned facilities.