Raised as the heir to a minor planetside industrial corporation on Matias, Yaman Oloric's ambition was not easily blunted. Upon inheriting the family business, Oloric built EnvoTech into an significant business force in the New Caldari system. But as a witness to the human and environmental costs of the Caldari mega-corps relentless pursuit of efficiency, he became disillusioned with the State's hyper-capitalist culture.

With aid from a Gallentean nullsec pioneer, Oloric left the Caldari State to build a chain of prosperous, democratic, co-operative colonies beyond the reaches of the empires' control.