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The history of the Coreli Corporation and the Coreli family is a long and tumultuous tale of intrigue and suspicion. The Coreli family hails from the sixth planet of the Luminaire system, better-known as Luminaire Prime. The earliest records indicate that the family had its roots in the farmers of the then-remote Uphallant region on Pyrron. The family’s influence on the region can be seen even today, in the names and surnames of many of the people in Uphallant. The greatest member of the Coreli family, Adrian Coreli, was born in 23167 AD on Gallente Prime. Dissatisfied with eking out an existence on the family plantations, which were rapidly being encroached upon by the explosive population growth of the new Gallente Federation, Adrian dreamed of a career as a pilot. With the Coreli family forced to sell its traditional holdings due to increasing taxes and pressure to sell one of the last agricultural areas on Luminaire Prime, Adrian was free to leave home, and did so in 23186 AD, entering private piloting school on Tanet (Luminaire V). Two years later, he faced failing grades and mounting debts. After being mugged as he walked from a tavern to a brothel, a thought struck him. Why not have one central place for rest and relaxation? After scraping together his remaining savings and obtaining funding from an unnamed Amarrian who wanted a convenient place for relaxation, he opened his first Pleasure Hub – as it was termed – in orbit around Gallente Prime in 23188 AD.

The first Pleasure Hub was an instant hit. During the early days of space exploration, stations were far more simplistic, far less self-sufficient, and acted as pure workplaces rather then fulltime habitats. If the station population wanted entertainment, they where often forced to find it planet-side. The first Pleasure Hub paid for itself in the first year. The Amarrian who fronted most of the money for the first Hub demanded his money be returned, fearing that word of his investment would reach Amarrian space, with drastic consequences for himself. The demand and subsequent payment engendered much bad blood between Adrian and the Amarrian. For the rest of his life, Adrian refused to deal with Amarrians wherever possible, and even today, the Coreli Corporation tends to avoid dealing with Amarrian corporations.

Fortunately for Adrian, finding new sponsors for additional Pleasure Hubs was easy -- there was a huge gap in the market that needed filling, and Adrian proved he was capable of doing so. Over the 25 years that followed the opening of the first Pleasure Hub, he deployed 67 additional hubs throughout Federation space, each location carefully hand-picked to maximize profits. Adrian’s enormous success prompted other corporations to follow in the footsteps of the corporation he founded to manage the Hubs – the Coreli Corporation.

After 78 years of service as Coreli’s CEO, Adrian retired, leaving the corporation to his two sons, Augustin and Thierry Coreli in 23266 AD (Year 30). Unfortunately, neither possessed the skill their father had when it came to picking suitable locations for pleasure hub construction. Increased competition from outside sources caused all three Hubs they founded to fail, costing Coreli millions of ISK in losses.

They didn’t give up. Instead of trying to expand the saturated Pleasure Hub market, they focused on expanding Coreli’s operations into biotechnology research and high-technology consumer products. Using the financial foundation generated by the Pleasure Hub business, Coreli made several research breakthroughs in consumer electronics and helped design and produce several advanced cloning modules.