Crusader Industries is a human spacecraft and spacecraft component manufacturer. One of four corporations in the United Empire of Earth to own a planet, Crusader Industries designs and constructs its spacecraft in the upper atmosphere of Crusader, while the corporation and its employee-inhabitants reside on Orison, a latticework of floating colony platforms. A producer of large commercial vessels, among its more popular products, is the Genesis Starliner, a luxury transport operated by civilian passenger lines across the galaxy. Crusader also produces several military support ships, including the M2 Hercules military transport and the Mercury Star Runner in Star Citizen.