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Outer Rim Oreworks

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this mining corporation was based in the Outer Rim Territories, and was known for its use of questionable methods to strip-mine planets in quick order. Once a planet was completely mined - or when it began to cost more to continue mining than profits could sustain - the world was abandoned, often with serious environmental damage. Although the corporation's basic tenets were quite humanitarian, the actual day-to-day operations of ORO were anything but that. Men like Hugo Bartyn were promoted to positions of power within the corporation, and the existence of native sentient species on many worlds was covered up to ensure that mining rights could be procured. Some 500 years after the establishment of the operations on Lamaredd, ORO was forced to pull out when it was revealed that Hugo Bartyn had nearly exterminated the entire Menahuun race in order to secure the mines on Lamaredd.