WHERE THIS CAME FROM

Torize did not start as Torize. It began as a company inside a larger mining group, and it owes that beginning most of what it knows.

THE EARLY YEARS

The company was founded inside an established mining operation and ran under its flag for the better part of a decade. That arrangement supplied minerals at a discount and gave a young company room to learn the trade properly. The first shipyards and the first cities were paid for out of it, and everything Torize owns today traces back to that start.

When the arrangement came to its natural end, Torize set out on its own. The debt is acknowledged here rather than in anybody else's name.

THE MIDDLE YEARS

The mining and prospecting work then ran under a second name for several years: a full operation with its own yards, its own recruitment and a newsletter that ran for three years and three hundred and forty-three surviving editions. That name belongs to its owners and Torize makes no claim on it. What Torize carried forward is the method — the survey discipline the asteroid programme runs on today was written in that period, and it still works.

UNDER CZERKA

Torize operates as a division of the Czerka Corporation and intends to stay there. Czerka provides datacards, minerals and support, and Torize has built on Czerka ground under contract for years. It is a good arrangement, and the company says so plainly because it is true.

THE ASTEROIDS

The asteroid programme is the company's own venture. Holding ground of your own is simply steadier than asking more of a partner, and it was the sensible next step rather than a complaint about anyone. So Torize went looking for asteroid fields, took the deposits in them, and started building from material it owns outright.

Thirteen rocks in, that is where the work sits.

WHERE IT STANDS NOW

Torize runs today as a division of the Czerka Corporation, building on its own asteroid ground and on Czerka worlds under contract. Two lines of work, one of them owned outright and one of them paid for by a government that has backed this company for years. After the last decade, that is a comfortable place to be standing.

What the company does today is on the about page, and what it is hiring for is on careers.