BXR Mining Corporation

The BXR Mining Corporation is a resource extraction megacorporation within the Human Sphere.

Formation
The BXR Mining Corporation was founded by three separate private entities merging in 2372 following decades of corporate conflicts and geopolitical tensions in the outer Solar colonies. This merger was done to ensure secure the market share and wealth of all three companies during the second aggressive expansion of the Nomolos Refining, a Mars-based firm. The merger and aggressive expansion were driven by the somewhat recent colonization of the Epsilon Eridani system.

These three companies were: the Earth based BORS Inc, the Mars based Xion Company, and the recently founded Reach Development Company. The first letters of each form "BXR". The headquarters and assets of each entity were maintained as is allowing a vast reach for the new company, one that could compete with Nomolos. Overall administration was set up on the Jovian Moon of Ganymede where preexisting Xion facilities were located. This was done in order to ensure that lucrative and prestigious mining, property, and power-generating rights in these colonies were maintained. With the crown jewel of them all being Xion's rights on Io, the last non-Nomolos rights on the moon.

Extra-solar activities
After alterations to the UN Colonial Charter in 2390, BXR would become a driver of colonization for several planets including but not limited to Norton's Crossing and Green Hills. Though these wouldn't be without controversy; including violent security confrontations with competitor Liang-Dortmund Corporation on the former and squalid living conditions on the latter. Despite this, BXR Mining would stay a member of a few different corporate councils, such as the Norton's Crossing Corporate Council while it was active. As well, they would attempt to expand onto other already settled worlds by purchasing land and properties.

During the Insurrection, BXR Security would engage in near-total war with the Republic of Norton's Crossing and were nearly driven off the moon as the Republic nationalized captured facilities.

Human-Covenant War
With the fall of Reach in 2552 a mass industrial administration exodus from Sol began as fears of Covenant invasion started to swirl. As part of this, BXR would move its headquarters to Ballast. To belay possible investor panic, BXR attempted to make the shift seem pre-planned but unfortunately timed. Advertisements and memos at the time described it as an attempt "to be closer to the frontier".

Reconciliation era
Following the establishment of the Reclamation Task Force, BXR has become a partner of the Phoenix Initiative in trying to help remove the glass from devastated worlds. From 2553 through to 2556, BXR had joined a lobbying group to put pressure on the UEG to begin striking economic deals with the Concord of Reconciliation. Although not quite to their wanting, a limited in scope economic centered council was discussed during the creation of the Luna Accords in 2556.

Services
BXR mines and delivers raw minerals and metals to manufacturers like Misriah Armory and SinoViet Heavy Machinery. During and after the Human-Covenant War, BXR also includes 'deglassing' as one of its core services. However, the ethics of this process as well as whether they can even recover these planets has been called into question.

The following are some of the locations that BXR has or had active resource extraction on:
 * Epsilon Eridani
 * Reach
 * Szurdok Ridge
 * Sol
 * Jovian Moons
 * Ganymede
 * Io
 * Earth
 * United Republic of North America
 * Mars
 * Noachia
 * Le Verrier
 * Tau Boötis
 * Sandtrap
 * Igdras
 * Green Hills
 * Chi Eridani
 * BXR-622
 * Norton's Crossing
 * 61 Cygni
 * Sunburn
 * Orso
 * Venezia

Divisions

 * BXR Security - A division to enforce BXR mining rights and claims on colony worlds as well as to act as an unofficial police and military on worlds without formed governments.