The Black Star Order server was created on October 14, 2017, as a merger between 3 in-game corporations: Final led by McChaos, ENFORCERS led by Lunareo & Pro Casuals led by Psengath. Angrydogies and Nyklon were also elected to be leaders of this new organization. At the end of that same October, Warpathian SI finished talks with leadership, integrating his corp Capella Corps into this new conglomerate.
On 20 October 2017, a vote was taken for the name of this newly formed conglomerate - Black Star Order was chosen, and a flagship corp of a similar name was created to house the top members of the conglomerate.
The first merger BSO came upon was with the top corp LID Corps, run by Dr. Death. 11 members were assimilated in, and Dr. Death joined later on after starting the first Hades' Star banking service, the IGBS.
Then in early 2018 BSO expanded further, bringing themselves up to a total of eight corps, integrating MastersOfChaos, Space Penguins & New Horizons all at once, totaling an astounding 189 members. However, these new additions, as well as Capella Corps, soon amicably split due to cultural differences, leaving BSO with four corporations.
Members of the then top corporation Cipher Two soon merged into the conglomerate. Following the departure of much of the conglomerate, BSO leadership decided to open two member populated corps: Dauntless & Obsidian, as well as the RS-only corp RSRS. This was also the birth of BSO’s trademark corp hopping system. Pro Casuals was soon retired, with these new corps being added.
Just a few months later, BSO came up with another key part of its success - the ally system. Bringing in outsiders to get more and better quality RS runs, BSO’s server soon became a hotspot, outpacing PRSS and still going to this day.
With BSO doing better than ever, three more dying groups had all their members join BSO’s corps: B.E.E.R, Star Blazers & Star Raiders. Recruitment truly was at its height, and BSO’s White Star domination was evident, with them beating the virtually unbeatable Legion - the top WS corp in the game.
Then, even more good news came along. In late 2018, another top corporation, Path of Hades, had an internal collapse. Their FO, silenus, offered BSO usage of his now semi-defunct corp, becoming a key conglomerate member since ENFORCERS had just recently been lost to an inactive FO. Along with Path of Hades, the alt corps G.M.U, Prophecy and Alt Stars were integrated, not as full member corps, but simply places for the almost 150 BSO members to store their alt accounts. They are still in function today.
But not all was perfect. Angrydogies, an order founder, took his leave in March of 2019, noting the poor RS quality as his reasoning. This sent ripples through the conglomerate, everyone was shocked. BSO leadership decided to act on his words, enacting “Order 66” and kicking almost 50 members. This, however, did not fix the problem. This simply just dropped morale even lower, and along with it White Star quality. A second order founder, Nyklon, took his leave at this time too. Around this time, with the advent of corp bonuses, RSRS was retired. It was eventually decided that BSO needed to step up its recruitment game once more, opening up the corps Dauntless & former alt corp Prophecy, and started to bring in RS 6 & 7 recruitment. This has had a largely positive effect: the next BSO generation is being trained.
In June of 2020 BSO decided once more to look outwards for expansion, bringing in the top corporation United Galaxies with Senofast & TheIronReign joining the BSO family. This move brought the total membership up to about 140 members and expanded the order to 5 corporations. Shortly after, MayhemMike instigated a coup brought about a conversation to bring Trade Station (led by the benevolent dictator Lavamad) to join BSO as well, bringing the corporations count to 7 and members count to around 200.
A new recruitment program was embraced - BSO Academy, spreading knowledge and training the next generation of members.
While waiting for the bisggest game update, BSO kept on running White Stars mastering different tactics and wrestling the top WS teams in the game.
BSO was renowned for its strong RS play, boasting over 300 runners, and the first place in the red star events 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14!
With strong participation in all test phases, BSO was well positioned for the vast changes DN brought. Adapted RS rules and busy WS teams were aimed at providing the best bonus on research blueprints and nourishing the growth of members and the whole community.
BSO is the first corporation to achieve 58% bonus on red star artifacts.
BSO holds the honor of being the first conglomerate created in this game.
Currently, Ztrata, T010,and McChaos are the only founders left.
Current BSO Corps: BlackStar Order, Final, Trade Station, United Galaxies, Alpha Nation, Dauntless, Prophecy, Obsidian, Soylent Corp., Enforcers, BSO Academy.
Currently, BSO’s CEO is Wayne-Gro.