 This dubious corporation came to be when Julia Strickland suddenly stopped working for NASA sixty years ago, which at the time was starting to lose the lead within its field as companies and enterprises that were non-state owned began to reach for the stars. She later teamed up with a certain Russian businessman for nefarious purposes. Many of her subordinates quit within weeks as well. Circumstantial evidence was uncovered that point to staff being threatened or bribed into quitting, but she was never convicted for any crimes.
Strickland's previously good reputation as a scientific pioneer dwindled; in the eye of the public she would remain a villain ever since. The world never truly forgot about the scandal, seeing how it was considered the greatest leak of secret technology and information of all time within NASA. It was a huge setback.
An important question still remains though- whatever drove Strickland to resign in the first place?
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Viktor Vasiliev was at the time the second wealthiest man in the world. He was a visionary and entrepreneur manufacturing synthetics, spaceships and computers for a wide range of industrial and commercial clients, but required the intel and sharp intellect that Strickland possessed to make interstellar travel and human colonization a reality.
The most common objection to colonization included concerns that exploitation of the cosmos would most certainly draw the interests of already powerful economic and military institutions. Such endeavors were also predicted to exacerbate pre-existing detrimental processes such as wars and economic inequality. But Strickland-Vasiliev Corp. apparently wanted to ensure mankinds survival as the earth succumbs to pollution and rising temperatures- climate threats which Viktor Vasiliev definitely wasn't guilty of fueling in the first place...
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