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{{Infobox company
|image = Hurston Dynamics - JP0905.svg
|name = Hurston Dynamics
|industry = Materials processor, weapons manufacture, munitions manufacture
|products = Antimatter warheads, munitions, antimatter, spacecraft weapons
|race = Human
|headquarters = [[StarCitizen:Lorville]], [[StarCitizen:Hurston]], [[StarCitizen:Stanton system|Stanton]]
|areaserved = [[StarCitizen:United Empire of Earth]]
|keypeople = Current CEO: [[StarCitizen:Gavin E. Hurston]]<br>2nd CEO: [[StarCitizen:Isiah Hurston]]<br>3rd CEO: [[StarCitizen:Arial Hurston]]<br>Former CEOs: [[StarCitizen:Archibald Hurston]], [[StarCitizen:Aberdeen Hurston]], [[StarCitizen:Magda Hurston]]
|founder = [[StarCitizen:Solomon Hurston]]
|founded = {{Start date and age|sctime=yes|2438}}
|fate = 
|defunct = 
|formerly = 
|predecessor = 
|successor = 
|parent = 
|subsidiaries = [[StarCitizen:Hurston Security]]
|galactapediaurl = https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/RxNxAZpWlQ-hurston-dynamics
|portfoliourl = https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/13152-Hurston-Dynamics
}}

'''Hurston Dynamics''' is a [[StarCitizen:Human]] weapons manufacturer and materials processor based on [[StarCitizen:Hurston]] (Stanton I). They are the largest producer of standard munitions warheads for [[StarCitizen:United Empire of Earth military|military]] contracts in the [[StarCitizen:United Empire of Earth]] (UEE), the third-largest refiner of antimatter precursor, and also one of the longest continuously operating family businesses in the Empire today.<ref>{{Cite game|build=Alpha 4.0.0|text=Wall inscription at [[StarCitizen:Archibald Hurston Memorial Hall]] in [[StarCitizen:Lorville]]|accessdate=2024-12-16}}</ref> Hurston Dynamics owns the planet upon which it is headquartered. The company has frequently been criticized for its controversial employee contracts and its disregard for Hurston’s ecology.<ref name="galactapedia">{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/RxNxAZpWlQ-hurston-dynamics|text=Galactapedia: Hurston Dynamics|accessdate=2021-02-24}}</ref>

{{Quote|I don't know why people are complaining about the workers on Hurston. I mean, sure, the contract is rigid and brutal, but it's honest. If they read the thing rather than snatching the signing bonus, they'd know what they were in for.|NPC conversation<ref name="reference-1">{{Cite game|build=Alpha 4.2|accessdate=2025-06-25}}</ref>}}

{{Quote|This whole week's been great at the plant. They signed up a new shipload of recruits and they've been taking up a lot of the slack. Plus, I love watching as they realize what exactly they've been signed up for. Never gets old.|NPC conversation<ref>{{Cite game|build=Alpha 4.2|accessdate=2025-07-01}}</ref>}}

{{Quote|Someone was complaining to me the other day about how 'unfair' the Hurston employment contracts are. Honestly, if you're dumb enough to sign a contract like that, you deserve to be indentured for as long as humanly possible.|NPC conversation<ref>{{Cite game|build=Alpha 4.3.2|accessdate=2025-10-20}}</ref>}}

==Jurisdiction==
{{For|a list of felony and misdemeanor definitions|Jurisdictions}}
While travelling within Hurston Dynamics governed space, be mindful that you are subject to not only [[StarCitizen:United Empire of Earth|UEE]] laws but to the local jurisdictional laws as well. If you violate local laws, even unknowingly, you may be expelled, fined, arrested, or imprisoned.

Just like [[StarCitizen:UEE Military]] and [[StarCitizen:UEE Advocacy|Advocacy]] agents, local security personnel can require you to submit to identification scans to establish your identity, conduct searches of your person and vessel, and detain you with due cause. Always obey the directives of authorized security personnel.

Be sure to familiarize yourself with the jurisdiction's criminal activities and comport yourself accordingly.

'''Extent of Influence'''

[[StarCitizen:Hurston Security]] enforces the laws within this jurisdiction, which applies within [[StarCitizen:Hurston]]'s gravitational sphere of influence and includes its four moons [[StarCitizen:Aberdeen]], [[StarCitizen:Arial]], [[StarCitizen:Ita]], and [[StarCitizen:Magda]].

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Misdemeanors=
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
!Misdemeanor
!Fine
!Escalated Fine
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|Parking Violation
|250 aUEC
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|Battery (First Degree)
|7500 aUEC
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|Tresspassing (Second Degree)
|1250 aUEC
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|Anauthorized Interdiction
|7500 aUEC
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|Trafficking of Class A Controlled Substance
|5000 aUEC
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|Trafficking of Class B Controlled Substance
|4375 aUEC
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|Possession of Class A Controlled Substance
|2000 aUEC
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|Possession of Class B Controlled Substance
|1250 aUEC
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|Possession of Prohibited Goods
|5625 aUEC
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|Possession of Stolen Property
|1000 aUEC
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|Trafficking of Stolen Property
|3750 aUEC
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|Failure to Comply
|20000 aUEC
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Controlled Substances and Prohibited Goods=
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
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|Class A
|[[StarCitizen:SLAM]] • [[StarCitizen:WiDoW]] • [[StarCitizen:DCSR2]] • [[StarCitizen:Uncut SLAM]]
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|Class B
|[[StarCitizen:Altruciatoxin]] • [[StarCitizen:Maze]] • [[StarCitizen:Neon]]
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|Class C
|[[StarCitizen:E'tam]]
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|Prohibited Goods
|[[StarCitizen:Gasping Weevil Eggs]] • [[StarCitizen:LifeCure Medsticks]] • [[StarCitizen:Osoian Hides]] • [[StarCitizen:Redfin Energy Modulator]]
|}
</tabber>

==History==
Hurston Dynamics is the [[StarCitizen:UEE|United Empire of Earth]]'s premier producer and distributor of both quantum cascade lasers and a wide variety of electron guns. They are also the single largest outsource producer of standard munitions warheads for military contracts and the third-largest refiner of antimatter precursor in today's economy. Though few finished products bear the Hurston name, their raw materials and manufactured components are found in nearly every piece of space technology in flight today.

Copies of Hurston dies are used in manufacturing facilities across the galaxy, with illegal copies even crossing the border for use in [[StarCitizen:Xi'an]] production hubs.

The Hurston family has been helping [[StarCitizen:Human]]s make war on one another for generations. They can readily trace the name back five hundred years, to the development of the first power lasers for space defensive platforms. More fanciful family histories connect the present-day Hurstons to [[StarCitizen:Earth|Earth's]] dark ages, crediting the family with everything from broad axes and crossbows to fixed-wing aircraft and atomic weapons. The current patriarch, [[StarCitizen:Gavin E. Hurston|"Colonel" Gavin E. Hurston]], adopts this backstory wholeheartedly, decorating his office with millennia of killing tools and infusing the company's advertising and corporate culture with medieval weaponry wherever possible.

Whatever the true history, the old adage has proven correct with the current generation: war is good for business. Hurston Dynamics is one of the rare mega-corporations which can properly boast that it owns its own planet, having secured [[StarCitizen:Hurston|Stanton I]] from the [[StarCitizen:UEE]] government in a money-and-stock deal worth an estimated fifty trillion [[StarCitizen:UEC|credits]]. Prior to the acquisition of [[StarCitizen:Hurston|Stanton I]], Hurston was based on [[StarCitizen:Earth]], with [[StarCitizen:mining]] assets and weapons testing ranges scattered throughout the galaxy. In the past fifty years, these have been significantly consolidated to the facilities in [[StarCitizen:Stanton system|Stanton]], making it the place to go for Hurston technology.

A glitzy showroom and an uncomfortably formal pilots' [[StarCitizen::Category:Bars|bar]], [[StarCitizen:Viola's]], belie the overall situation on the planet. Unlike the other inhabitants of the [[StarCitizen:Stanton system|Stanton]] "office park," Hurston has consciously run the planet into the ground: every inch of the world not assigned to corporate facilities is being [[StarCitizen:Mining|mined]] for antimatter precursors or blasted apart in research and development tests. Soot and smog pollute the atmosphere to the point that inhabitants must be issued breathers when conducting work outside their [[StarCitizen:HabiCube|habicubes]]. The worker satisfaction rating on [[StarCitizen:Hurston]] is an astonishing 0.5 (out of 10), and very few miners last more than a single conscription tour. The corporation is always seeking to import low-skilled workers and rumors persist that there is a market for [[StarCitizen:Human]] slaves on their planet.

Whatever the truth, privateers will find that Hurston pays well to those who provide them with involuntary labor and is an excellent source of low-cost munitions and metals.

As a result of their disregard for [[StarCitizen:Hurston|Stanton I]]'s ecology, [[StarCitizen:Hurston]] frequently finds itself the prime target of environmentalist groups, including the [[StarCitizen:Citizen's Clean World Alliance|Citizen's Clean World Alliance (CCWA)]] and the [[StarCitizen:Wildlife Conservation Project|Wildlife Conservation Project (WCP)]]. [[StarCitizen:Gavin E. Stanton|The Colonel]] does nothing to hide his disgust for such movements, frequently boasting about the number of indigenous species his company has exterminated (mounted [[StarCitizen:Osoians|Osoian]] heads and [[StarCitizen:flatcat]] sensor nubs decorate his sitting room) and inciting further hatred from organizations unlikely to be purchasing radioactive munitions in the first place. In response, more militant environmental groups have even been known to target Hurston space convoys. Illegal bounties on Hurston corporate spacecraft are plentiful, though the corporation pays better for the requisite escort pilot muscle.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite RSI|url=comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/13152-Hurston-Dynamics|text=Hurston Dynamics}}</ref>

==Weapons systems==

Though their weapons technology is found throughout the [[StarCitizen:UEE|Empire]] and beyond, Hurston currently manufactures "only" two lines of branded ship weapons: quantum cascade lasers and electron guns; both lines are available in multiple sizes, configurations and purposes. Weapons sizes range from tiny "needle" cannons to the massive capital batteries found on [[StarCitizen:UEE]] warships. Hurston's extensive tool and die experience allows for both weapon types to be sold in both Gatling repeater and strict cannon configuration. Variants of the guns (at various grades) are designed for different markets: Cheap for export, Standard to Quality for licensed [[StarCitizen:civilian]] use and Excellent for the [[StarCitizen:UEE]] military.

Hurston's "Spectrum" line of external cavity quantum cascade lasers has been used effectively by a variety of operators for nearly a century. Quantum cascade lasers fire electromagnetic bolts that convert any material contacted into plasma, giving it a reasonable "bite" that is useful in most space combat encounters. A Hurston Dynamics Spectrum 7 QCL is recommended by the [[StarCitizen:Bounty Hunters Guild]] as the gold standard for "starter" laser cannons, while the Spectrum 9 Gatling variant has been adopted by the [[StarCitizen:UEE]] for their destroyer-based CIWS systems currently undergoing space trials. While many corporations produce cheaper quantum cascade lasers, mostly based on Hurston's technologies, the Hurston name continues to convey a strong cachet.

The less-celebrated "Magnitude" line of electron guns is generally considered a specialist's weapon. Standard [[StarCitizen:UEE]] units do not use Magnitudes, although they are mounted on particular special operations and [[StarCitizen:Advocacy]] spacecraft variants. The guns strip electrons from hydrogen atoms and then accelerate them at high speeds suspended in a magnetic bolt focused through a multi-stage Einzel lens. A pilot trained in the use of his particular model of electron gun will find it an incredibly precise and powerful weapon… a "newbie" activating such a gun for the first time will find it largely useless.

Extensive weapons labs have been established on [[StarCitizen:Hurston|Stanton I]], and rumors of a third line of guns continue unabated. These rumors gained serious traction last year, when the corporation put out a record-high ten million [[StarCitizen:UEC|credit]] bounty believed to be for a mercenary who stole a test artifact from the corporation. It is unknown whether or not the bounty was claimed or the artifact was recovered. Observers do consider it highly unusual that Hurston produces conventional and antimatter warheads without their own delivery system. Many believe it only a matter of time until the company premieres an entirely new antimatter-derived slug thrower gun type. When — or if — it happens, it is likely to throw the balance of power among [[StarCitizen:civilian]] pilots wide open... and potentially impact the course of the [[StarCitizen:Vanduul War|war against the Vanduul]].<ref name="ReferenceA" />

== Situation of Contract Workers ==
An important column of Hurston is the so called 'Life/Labor-Style Employee Contracts' introduced in the 26th century, probably inspired by the [[StarCitizen:Slavery#Slavery in the Banu Protectorate|Banu Souli system]]. Due to the design of the contracts, workers are de facto bound lifelong to Hurston in exchange for basic housing, medical support and other services. The system is under critique of worker's rights groups, since the contracts are so designed that they cannot be easily terminated or fulfilled under normal circumstances.<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/RLMmBD2z5d-life-labor-style-employee-contract|text=Galactapedia: Life/Labor-Style Employee Contract|accessdate=2022-08-28}}</ref>

==Known CEO of Hurston Dynamics==
{| class="wikitable"
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|[[StarCitizen:Solomon Hurston]]
|1st CEO
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|Founded HD in 2438, retired 2488
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|[[StarCitizen:Isiah Hurston]]
|2nd CEO
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|Acting CEO in 2488, son of Solomon
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|[[StarCitizen:Arial Hurston]]
|3rd CEO
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|Born 2466, in office 2514, died 2537
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|[[StarCitizen:Archibald Hurston]]
|CEO
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|Born 2618, died 2689
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|[[StarCitizen:Alton Hurston]]<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/19424-Life-Labor-The-Secret-History-Of-Hurston-Dynamics|text=Life/Labor: The Secret History of Hurston Dynamics|accessdate=2023-09-13}}</ref>
|CEO
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| In office 2786
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|[[StarCitizen:Aberdeen Hurston]]
|CEO? Weapon engineer
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|Born 2821, retired 2877, died 2912
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|[[StarCitizen:Magda Hurston]]
|CEO
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|Bought Stanton I in 2865, retired 2915, died 2921
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|[[StarCitizen:Gavin E. Hurston]]
|Current CEO
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|In office since 2915, Son of Magda
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|}

===Other known members of the Hurston family===
*[[StarCitizen:Julius Hurston]], employee in the financial departement of Hurston
*[[StarCitizen:Ita Hurston]] Warrant Officer of Advanced Special Operations in the UPE Navy, namesake of [[StarCitizen:Stanton 1d]]
*[[StarCitizen:Constantine Hurston]] (?)
*[[StarCitizen:Maria Wharton|Maria W. Hurston]] - namesake for [[StarCitizen:Maria Pure of Heart]] hospital in Lorville<ref>{{Cite game|build=[[StarCitizen:Star Citizen Alpha 3.17.0]]|text=Plaque at [[StarCitizen:Maria Pure of Heart]]|accessdate=2022-04-09|game=}}</ref>
*[[StarCitizen:Chesterfield Hurston]] - Maria W. Hurston's son, and father to Magda and Bertram Hurston<ref name=":0">{{Cite game|build=Star Citizen Alpha 3.17.0|text=Biography plaque at [[StarCitizen:Maria Pure of Heart]]|accessdate=2022-04-24|game=}}</ref>
*[[StarCitizen:Mariah Park Hurston]] - Wife of Chesterfield Hurston<ref name=":0" />

==Gallery==
{{gallery|Company-hurstondynamics1.jpg}}

==See also==
*{{Link RSI|url=comm-link/transmission/12972-t|text=Writer's Guide: Part Four}}

==References==
<references />

{{Navplate manufacturers|HRST}}

[[Category:Arms industry]]
[[Category:Vehicle components manufacturers]]

StarCitizen:Hurston Dynamics - Revision history

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