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this was one of the many small corporations that were subsidiaries of the Outer Javin Company. Like its parent, Figg Excavations was headquartered on Gerrenthum. However, its primary staging point for exploration and mining operations was at Ione. As a member of the Mining Guild, FiggEx was supposed to provide input on helping all mining operations gain expertise and profitability by sharing information. However, the input from FiggEx was almost always minimal at best, and many within the Guild believed that FiggEx was only working for its own betterment. Nothing pointed this out more than the allegations that FiggEx was employing pirates to ambush its own convoys, as a way to demand local protect from Anoat Sector forces, thereby allowing them to split with the Mining Guild. When these allegations were proven to be true, FiggEx suffered more than the loss of profits it reported from the false piracy. It was severely fined by the Mining Guild and lost a great deal of respect for itself and for the Outer Javin Company. The Outer Javin Company was later discovered to have been unaware of FiggEx's machinations, further compounding the corporation's trouble.