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“	"Powering a Better Tomorrow".	”
— company's slogan

The Eligius Corporation (also known as the Eligius Mining Company) was a company founded prior to the first Nuclear Apocalypse. It was responsible for carrying out interstellar missions to mine asteroids for possible resources as well as searching for habitable planets.

Eligius IV was the last mission launched before the Apocalypse, and was used to transport prisoners to the Asteroid Mining Penal Colony.

History

Eligius Corp sign 5x11 — Eligius Corporation

The company was started before the Nuclear Apocalypse and began deploying national prisoners in order to mine "Hythylodium" from the asteroid Proxima Six.

Eligius I was an unmanned explorer ship which was sent to the asteroid Proxima Six and found a Hythylodium mine.

Eligius II was the first manned mission to mine Hythylodium, but it failed because it didn't have enough manpower, which was the reason why they switched to prison labor for Eligius IV.

Eligius III was sent to a new habitable world to tap for oil since Earth had been "tapped dry" of all of its oil. Nightblood was used on the crew to help them withstand the radiation caused by the two suns that the new world orbited, even though that the radiation levels were later discovered to be safe. The Eligius IV crew mentioned them several times. According to the file, Eligius III was a colonizing mission and it went to 5 habitable worlds that met necessary conditions for life, dropping mission teams on each one.

Eligius IV was a mining ship designed to be used for interstellar missions to mine asteroids or to search for habitable planets. Originally it was sent to 24-year long mining mission to the asteroid Proxima Six. However, on April 4, 2047, onboard Eligius IV, when the crew reported that the prisoners were getting sick, the Eligius Corporation decided to start "Order 11", which would abandon the prisoners on an asteroid, and bring home the Hythylodium. Captain Stevens agreed, but the ship's crew member, Miles Shaw did not, which led to the shock collars being deactivated, causing a mutiny on the ship that killed Captain Stevens and the crew of the ship, except Shaw, and destroyed one of the engines. The prisoners decided to return to Earth, but with one less engine working, the journey home would take decades. Therefore, the prisoners were put into cryosleep, and in 2156, they finally returned to Earth.

Throughout the Series

In Echoes, an article titled "Contact Lost With Asteroid Mining Penal Colony" from the West Coast Herald can be seen on one of Raven's monitors as she explains 2048 nuclear reactor technology to Jasper and Monty. This is the first mention of humans living in space farther out than Earth orbit. It was implied that the Eligius Corporation was involved with the penal colony in space as well as mining.

In The Tinder Box, Jackson mentions to Abby that Becca first developed the Nightblood for the Eligius Mining Company to protect against solar radiation for long space missions, in which criminals were put into hypersleep and were given Nightblood to protect them from radiation. This likely refers to Eligius III or Eligius IV.

In Praimfaya, Clarke and Madi see a ship land on the ground. On the ship, Clarke see the words "Eligius Corporation", "Cell Block B", and "Gagarin Prisoner Transport".

In Sleeping Giants, a mining ship called, Eligius IV, was owned by the company. Monty Green mentions that there are missions sent to mine asteroids or search for habitable planets, and company were mining for "Hythylodium", an incredibly efficient energy. Miles Shaw also mentions that there's a ship called Eligius III and they have Nightbloods.

In Pandora's Box, Raven shows Murphy a list of four Eligius-class ships and explains the information and details about it.

In Damocles (Part 2), Monty reveals that Eligius III was sent to a new habitable world to tap for oil, since Earth's oil supplies have run out.

In Sanctum, Bellamy reveals that according to the file, Eligius III was a colonizing mission and it went to 5 planets that met necessary conditions for life, dropping mission teams on each one. Eligius III came to the first habitable world called, "Alpha."

According to Raven Reyes and Clarke Griffin, Becca Franco did the coding and the tech for the Eligius Corporation. The Lightbourne family is also introduced via old photographs.

In Red Sun Rising, a flashback shows that in 2045, a mission team from Eligius III is on Alpha. They decided to name Alpha, "Sanctum". Later, one of the members of the mission team suffers a psychosis.

In The Children of Gabriel, it is revealed that the inhabitants of Sanctum are the descendants of the mission team from Eligius III and the embryos that were brought there.

Employees

Mission Team Alpha

Eligius IV crew

Other

Prisoners

These prisoners were convicted criminals from the mid 21st century who were sentenced to hard labor. They were incarcerated by the Eligius Corporation and sent on Eligius IV to mine the asteroid Proxima 6. The prisoners are roughly divided into two factions, one led by Charmaine Diyoza and the other by Paxton McCreary. After the prisoners started getting sick and the Eligius Corporation decided to initiate "Order 11", Miles Shaw made a deal with Diyoza to deactivate the shock collars. This allowed the prisoners to kill the rest of the crew and take over the ship. The prisoners decided to return to Earth, however one of the ship's engines was destroyed in the mutiny, causing the journey home to take over a hundred years during which they went into cryosleep. Diyoza planned to launch an insurrection back on Earth to overthrow the government using weaponized hythylodium as leverage. However, when the prisoners arrived at their destination, they found a desolate post-apocalyptic world.

Alive

Unknown Status

Deceased

Appearances

Season Four
Episode	Appearance Status
Echoes	Mentioned
Heavy Lies the Crown	Absent
The Four Horsemen	Absent
A Lie Guarded	Absent
The Tinder Box	Mentioned
We Will Rise	Absent
Gimme Shelter	Absent
God Complex	Absent
DNR	Absent
Die All, Die Merrily	Absent
The Other Side	Absent
The Chosen	Absent
Praimfaya	Appears

Season Five
Episode	Appearance Status
Eden	Appears
Red Queen	Absent
Sleeping Giants	Appears
Pandora's Box	Appears
Shifting Sands	Appears
Exit Wounds	Appears
Acceptable Losses	Appears
How We Get to Peace	Appears
Sic Semper Tyrannis	Appears
The Warriors Will	Mentioned
The Dark Year	Appears
Damocles (Part 1)	Appears
Damocles (Part 2)	Appears

Season Six
Episode	Appearance Status
Sanctum	Mentioned
Red Sun Rising	Mentioned
The Children of Gabriel	Mentioned
The Face Behind the Glass	Absent
The Gospel of Josephine	Absent
Memento Mori	Absent
Nevermind	Absent
The Old Man and the Anomaly	Absent
What You Take With You	Absent
Matryoshka	Absent
Ashes to Ashes	Absent
Adjustment Protocol	Absent
The Blood of Sanctum	Absent

Gallery

Eligius IV
A sign that says, Eligius Corporation
A list of four Eligius-class ships.
Eligius IV - BTS
Dedication to the Eligius III crew.
Eligiud III Outpost Misssion Team Alpha 6x02.png
Eligius III Outpost Mission Team Alpha
Alpha Colony Primary Settlement
Eligius computer systems

Murphy informs the prisoner of Diyoza's betrayal against McCreary.
Prisoners are being held hostage as POWs
Prisoners are being outmatched and cornered by Wonkru.
The prisoners control the village.
The prisoners cheering for their new leader, McCreary.
The prisoners are being moved to the dropship by Wonkru.
The prisoners are being brought to the dropship by Wonkru.
The prisoners are being surrounded by Wonkru.
The prisoner, trying to defend himself from Wonkru.
An armed prisoner
The prisoner gets killed in the Battle for Eden.
An armed prisoner

Notes and Trivia

The company owned at least four spaceships.
The prisoners are the fourth faction introduced.
One of their members has been named as Zeke Shaw, and is billed as a "cocky space explorer", who willingly joined a mining mission to uncover the "secrets of the universe".^[1] His first name was later changed to Miles due to some legal reasons.
Showrunner Jason Rothenberg teased that the prisoners aboard the Eligius Corporation ship will, at first, be antagonists.^[2] Unlike the juvenile delinquents, these arrivals are "real hardened criminals"^[3] and will be a threat.^[4]
- The prisoners are from before the first nuclear apocalypse and were in hypersleep.^[5]
- They include: Charmaine Diyoza, a former military strategist;^[6] Paxton "Graveyard" McCreary, an enforcer from a powerful crime syndicate;^[7]^[8] and Vinson, a serial killer.^[9]
The corporation has a universal fail-safe code - 47815
The company's computer systems all use the same access code, according to Jordan Green.

References

↑ 'The 100' season 5 casts Jordan Bolger as Eligius member Zeke Shaw, Hypable
↑ The 100 Boss Explains Finale's 'Reboot' Ending, Introduces Clarke's [Spoiler] and Shares Major Season 5 Scoop, TVLine
↑ The 100 Finale: All Those Major Twists, Explained, TV Guide
↑ The 100 finale: What happened in the last five minutes?, Entertainment Weekly
↑ The 100 @ Comic-Con: The Cast Talks New Enemies, New Looks and (Potential) New 'Ships in Season 5, TVLine
↑ The 100: Meet one of the 'mysterious criminals' aboard the prison ship, Entertainment Weekly
↑ The 100: Meet Season 5's New Big Bad, TVLine
↑ Rothenberg, Jason (11 Feb 2018) Tweet “…Robert McCreary played by @WilliamMiller got a name change. He is now known as Paxton "Graveyard" McCreary…” - @JRothenbergTV
↑ The 100 - Season 5 - Mike Dopud to Recur, SpoilerTV

[1] 'The 100' season 5 casts Jordan Bolger as Eligius member Zeke Shaw, Hypable

[2] The 100 Boss Explains Finale's 'Reboot' Ending, Introduces Clarke's [Spoiler] and Shares Major Season 5 Scoop, TVLine

[3] The 100 Finale: All Those Major Twists, Explained, TV Guide

[ew170524-4] The 100 finale: What happened in the last five minutes?, Entertainment Weekly

[5] The 100 @ Comic-Con: The Cast Talks New Enemies, New Looks and (Potential) New 'Ships in Season 5, TVLine

[6] The 100: Meet one of the 'mysterious criminals' aboard the prison ship, Entertainment Weekly

[7] The 100: Meet Season 5's New Big Bad, TVLine

[paxton-8] Rothenberg, Jason (11 Feb 2018) Tweet “…Robert McCreary played by @WilliamMiller got a name change. He is now known as Paxton "Graveyard" McCreary…” - @JRothenbergTV

[9] The 100 - Season 5 - Mike Dopud to Recur, SpoilerTV

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 {{quote3|"Powering a Better Tomorrow".|company's slogan}}
-The '''Eligius Corporation''' (also known as the '''Eligius Mining Company''') was a company founded prior to the first [[Nuclear Apocalypse]]. It was responsible for carrying out interstellar missions to mine asteroids for resources as well as searching for habitable planets.
+The '''Eligius Corporation''' (also known as the '''Eligius Mining Company''') was a company founded prior to the first [[Nuclear Apocalypse]]. It was responsible for carrying out interstellar missions to mine asteroids for possible resources as well as searching for habitable planets.
 ''[[Eligius IV]]'' was the last mission launched before the Apocalypse, and was used to transport prisoners to the [[Pre-Apocalypse History#Asteroid Mining Penal Colony|Asteroid Mining Penal Colony]].
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 == History ==
 [[File:Eligius_Corp_sign_5x11.png|thumb|Eligius Corporation]]
-The company was started before the [[Nuclear Apocalypse]] and began deploying national prisoners in order to mine "[[Science and Technology#Hythylodium|Hythylodium]]" from the asteroid Proxima Six.
+The company was started before the [[Nuclear Apocalypse]] and began deploying national prisoners in order to mine "[[Science and Technology#Hythylodium|Hythylodium]]" from the asteroid'' Proxima Six''.
-''Eligius I'' was an unmanned explorer ship which was sent to the asteroid Proxima Six and found a Hythylodium gold mine.
+''Eligius I'' was an unmanned explorer ship which was sent to the asteroid ''Proxima Six'' and found a Hythylodium mine.
 ''Eligius II'' was the first manned mission to mine Hythylodium, but it failed because it didn't have enough manpower, which was the reason why they switched to prison labor for ''[[Eligius IV]]''.
-''[[Eligius III]]'' was sent to a [[Sanctum (moon)|new habitable world]] to tap for oil since Earth had been "tapped dry" of all of its oil. [[Grounders/Nightblood#Nightblood (Serum)|Nightblood]] was used on the crew to help them withstand the radiation caused by the two suns that the new world orbited, even though that the radiation levels are later discovered to be safe. The Eligius IV crew mentioned them several times. According to the file, Eligius III was a colonizing mission and it went to 5 habitable worlds that met necessary conditions for life, dropping mission teams on each one.
+''[[Eligius III]]'' was sent to a [[Sanctum (moon)|new habitable world]] to tap for oil since Earth had been "tapped dry" of all of its oil. [[Grounders/Nightblood#Nightblood (Serum)|Nightblood]] was used on the crew to help them withstand the radiation caused by the two suns that the new world orbited, even though that the radiation levels were later discovered to be safe. The ''Eligius IV'' crew mentioned them several times. According to the file, ''Eligius III'' was a colonizing mission and it went to 5 habitable worlds that met necessary conditions for life, dropping mission teams on each one.
 ''[[Eligius IV]]'' was a mining ship designed to be used for interstellar missions to mine asteroids or to search for habitable planets. Originally it was sent to 24-year long mining mission to the asteroid Proxima Six. However, on [[Timeline|April 4, 2047]], onboard ''Eligius IV'', when the crew reported that the prisoners were getting sick, the Eligius Corporation decided to start "Order 11", which would abandon the prisoners on an asteroid, and bring home the Hythylodium. Captain Stevens agreed, but the ship's crew member, [[Miles Shaw]] did not, which led to the shock collars being deactivated, causing a mutiny on the ship that killed Captain Stevens and the crew of the ship, except Shaw, and destroyed one of the engines. The prisoners decided to return to [[Earth]], but with one less engine working, the journey home would take decades. Therefore, the prisoners were put into cryosleep, and in 2156, they finally returned to Earth.