A small independent courier service founded by ex-Templar Navigator John West, DIS specializes in the covert transfer of small quantities of weapons, pharmaceuticals and culture between Civilization and a select group of clients in the Terran Annex.

Founded in 518 with a focus on xenoarcheology and stellar cartography, founder Brandon James expanded the company into genetics and FTL research in late 555, quickly turning the company into the third largest multi-stellar corporation in existence. Heirotus opened the fields of carbon computing and realtime FTL communications, fields its own army of genetically engineered commandos to protect its interests, and has amassed so much paramilitary and political clout that the company is practically a nation-state in its own right.

Individuals who've been sucked into the conflict between Heirotus and the Templar.

A covert paramilitary organization formed by the alliance of myriad hermetic and initiatic traditions. All Templar traditions value individual rights and the freedom of choice above all else, and all Templar members have pledged to fight - and to kill, if necessary - those who would conspire to thwart these rights.