CORPORATION
VYTAL
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FOUNDED BY RENSAK3N IN 2022, VYTAL GROUP IS ONE OF THE OLDEST CORPORATIONS IN ACFC.
VYTAL MANUFACTURES SHIPS FOR RACING, ROLEPLAY, UTILITY, AND COMBAT. THE COMPANY IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF MULTIPLE COMMUNITY PROJECTS, SUCH AS THE HSRL & XIOS.
FOUNDED
JANUARY 29 2022
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CONSTRUCTION
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HSRL (2022-)
XIOS (2023-)
SALVATION (2024-)
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With a wide range of engineers ('Innovators' / 'Innovation Team'), Vytal focuses on multiple types of ship manufacturing. Since the company's founding, Vytal has been divided into multiple sectors:
Vytal-Arctara, focusing on HSRL-compliant racing vehicles (showcase/HS300)
Lambda U.C, with vehicles focusing on utility (showcase), combat (showcase/PvP), and ground (showcase/land PvP)
Infinitus, focusing on small personal vehicles (showcase)
[Retired Sector] Gamma, which focused on consumer-oriented spacecraft.
Vytal was founded by rensak3n (then AnjoAnjoBoy) in late January 2022. The corporation quickly gained a following through using neatly organized graphics and advertisements, which were quite uncommon at the time; used sparsely by corporations such as Megiteck and NAHA.
However, actual ship sales remained stagnant as Vytal's launch ships — the VFM-2, LMSC-2, and VEC-1 — were not available for purchase, and the company would continue to struggle with sales of other ships. Vytal would only start collecting credits at a high volume with the release of the Lambda LMSC-4 "Herrscher", which ended up being a fairly popular corporation-fighter.
In June 2022, rensak3n and Remnant-leader dereckj78901 formed the Hydrus Spacecraft Racing League (HSRL) under Vytal. The league aimed to create a new gamemode in ACFC, which would have participants race between planets in spacecraft. The league went stagnant a few months later, due to lack of community interest; but it would later pick up steam in mid-late 2023, with frequent track meetups using the Andea & Vytal-built Rod Canyon sprint track. This eventually turned into a dedicated track spawner in the Event server, making racing easily accessible.
In 2024, Vytal reset itself completely, reflecting it's main focus of that year by limiting itself to the creation of racing vehicles. The end-goal of the reset was to fix what rensak3n considered a problem; inconsistencies between ships. While the community considered Vytal ships to be of high-quality, the corporation found that each ship had no connection or correlation to each other. By resetting, Vytal would be able to start fresh and build up a design language that would be consistent between spacecraft.
Their return would be marked with the release of the FO1, a limited-run racing ship with a price tag of 1000 credits.
High end price tags like this were not unheard of at the time (Sanctus & Ultra Dei released tanks priced at 2500 and 2499 respectively), but they veered significantly against the corporation trend of cheap ships (i.e. Apollo Dynamics with sub-100 credit products).
The FO1 was still a massive success, with three units sold within a few hours of the announcement. The launch of the FO1 was followed by a budget spacecraft of a similar nature, the RS7 "JEKA". While basic in looks, the RS7's performance was almost identical to the FO1, making it a popular choice amongst pilots looking for a gateway ship into the HSRL.
A couple months after, the company would reintroduce one of their old sectors — Lambda. The sector largely remained the same as before, but it utilised a modified design language taken from one of their older models, the LSMV-1.
Under the Lambda name, Vytal would release the LSEV-1 "Staccato", which was a supersized exploration variant of the LSMV-1. The design language, along with the interior, was simplified — with Vytal going for a more boxy approach. While sales figures had started dwindling for the corporation space of ACFC, the release was still widely popular amongst the community. Vytal continued this approach with an overhaul of their LSMV mining series, the LSMV-2.
Alongside their showcase/utility vehicles, Vytal would also reintroduce their popular LMSC combat line — starting with the LMSC-1, a snub/light fighter. The LMSC-1 was originally meant for the Astral Hegemony's Dogfighting series, which never came to fruition. This was followed by the LMSC-2, a heavy fighter.
Around October of 2024, long-time Vytal engineer 'tertymop' would begin the revival of the Infinitus brand with a new model: the Regard. The ship fell into a similar category as the previously released Aureus, a luxury-hover sedan.
The Regard was teased in billboards found on Erios, and was later revealed in November.
Vytal's Project Salvation aims to create a city in the Astrocraft universe. The project started in 2023 with the planned Myrl retrofit, where Vytal planned on adapting their home city "Arctara" from lore. The refit project built-up very quickly in the beginning, but soon went inactive due to creative limitations with the planet.
The project would later be revived in June 2024 at the request of Hydrablox, who asked Vytal to create the planet of Erios. Unlike Myrl, Erios was a new planet mentioned in Vytal lore (replacing the purpose of Myrl as a home-planet), giving the Salvation team creative freedom over its aesthetics.
The team would finish Salvation v1 by the end of October 2024, and was opened to the public soon after - alongside other QoL features in Astrocraft (namely the Horse Mesh). As of writing, Salvation is still working on Erios for the v2 update.
In the summer of 2023, Vytal would begin the investigation of AuraTech, a new corporation in ACFC. Since the founding of the new corporation, it was suspected that the company had been copying spacecraft and marketing practices from multiple corporations — mainly that of Vytal's.
To gather evidence, Vytal started experimenting with different website layouts and marketing material, alongside changing the corporation's structure, in efforts to document the following actions of AuraTech — of which they copied said changes almost immediately.
After doing this for a few days, Vytal would format their findings into a Discord channel, and release it to the public in ACFC. This resulted in heavy scrutiny of AuraTech, of which they backed down. However, after a few days of silence, AuraTech would go back to copying the ideas of other corporations. This cycle would repeat up until later in the year, when then-faction-manager PlantAyden12345678 would shut down the corporation.