What is Galactic Astrometrics?

GANJ is a casual corporation dedicated to offering opportunities for work and career expansion in Exploration, Scouting, and Fringe-service activities. We rely on the members of this Corporation to improve and upkeep the library of active fringe jump networks. 
Outside of basic exploration, we encourage our enlisted members to perform services on paid mission basis', which include Research and Rescue, Medical assistance, Refueling and Scouting/Patrol of allied trade routes. Our main source of income is providing these services for clients and allied organizations.

We are a proud member of Cognition Corporation, a network of hundreds of organizations. For our main members, we will provide priority access to *paid* (UEE) missions based on contracts taken from allied organizations. Since this is a casual corporation we do not require the general populace to remain active, nor do we require main membership status to join.

We do expect great maturity from our members, and no racism, sexism or discrimination of any kind will be tolerated. 

A hierarchical voting system

Each of our ranks are given different amounts of votes; Voting sessions will take place at the beginning of the month following the announcement of prospective legislation. When voting, different ranks will have different voting powers:

Admirals - 6 votes

Captains - 6 votes

Commanders - 5 votes

Lieutenants - 4 votes

Ensigns - 2 votes

Crewmen - 1 vote

If the member is an officer of any kind, they shall be assigned an additional 2 votes. (Not to be stacked)

Ranks and Roles:

Fleet Admiral (1)

A single 'Fleet Admiral' will maintain the corporation by creating legislation to vote on, but cannot take place in voting sessions.
Fleet Admirals to not have a specified maximum amount of time to act in office, but may be removed from their post if a vote calls for such an action.

Admiral (5+)

An 'Admiral' takes place in a preliminary voting session before other members. (Able to veto proposals with 75% veto votes)
Admirals are voted on by everyone with equal voting power [1 vote for each spot] every 2 months. 
Requirement for an Admiral position is being at or above the rank of Lieutenant.
The number of Admirals is not to exceed 5% of the corporations population. (Not including the fleet admiral)
Admirals also organize missions and dispatch Captains or Commanders. Funding for official missions is provided by the corporation.

Captain

Typically lead parties of ships on sensitive missions. 
If a Captain wishes to take corporation members to complete an unofficial or private mission, a Captain must fund 50% of the mission expense. 
Captains may promote or demote members based on certain guidelines.
A group of 10 Captains may submit legislation, which cannot be vetoed by Admirals, directly to the voting polls.

Commander

Commanders typically accompany Captains on missions, or may be assigned a leader role on a mission if they are deemed sufficiently trained.
Commanders may propose promotions/demotions, as well as submit formal mission proposals.

Lieutenant

Lieutenants are granted two additional votes on general polls, relative to Ensigns.

Lieutenants are the first rank capable of selecting specific contracts.
First rank capable of being promoted to Admiral by voting.

Ensign

At this rank, the member must agree to perform direct orders made by Captains and Admirals while partaking in missions. 
Insubordination will be penalized according to guidelines.

Crewman

A standard member, has no special duties or abilities. Typically it is a crewman's job to make themselves appear fit for more intense duty (promotion).

Promotions

Currently there are several methods of increasing your likelihood of rank growth, including but not limited to:

• Keeping Galactic Astrometrics and Nexus of Jump-points' affiliation as your main organization.

• Scoring in the top 10% in any Arena Commander leaderboard.

• Removing GANJ as a redacted/hidden affiliation

• Joining in on org flight days.

• Completing the membership survey.

The membership survey can be found here.

• Introducing yourself on the GANJ corporation forum thread.

Our forum thread can be accessed here.

• Maintaining activity on the forums/Discord server

Our Discord server can be accessed here.

• Adding the corporation banner to your forum signature

The banner can be found here.
A guide on how to change your forum signature is here.

Official Missions/Contracts:

Admirals will negotiate, approve or deny contract requests submitted by organizations or individuals. These missions will be carried out by members of the corporation, however missions cannot be ordered, a member always has a choice to perform the mission or not. Whenever members from the corporation are hired for a mission they will always be paid, but must always adhere to protocol while on the mission.

Members with the rank of Lieutenant or above will be given access to all available contracts for GANJ.

Members below the rank of Lieutenant (Crewman or Ensign) will still be given opportunities to take part in missions whenever possible, however they will only be offered contracts (therefore cannot choose specific contracts and are not given access to the contract database).

This is done to prevent sensitive or private information from leaking, and to maintain the reputation of GANJ.

Restricted Contracts are contracts in which the details are kept confidential. Typically these contracts bring greater UEE rewards and higher likelihood of rank growth if completed successfully. Breaching the confidentiality agreement of a restricted contract is grounds for suspension or even permanent termination depending on severity.