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Graystone Industries is a Caprica-based technology company created by Daniel Graystone, who is the CEO. Founded more than 60 years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, Graystone Industries is responsible for the invention of holoband technology, but is later known for the creation of the Cylons.

History

Based out of a sprawling campus located in Caprica City, Graystone Industries was founded by Daniel Graystone following his involvement with the MicroCap corporation (CAP: "End of Line"). Described by competitor Tomas Vergis as a toy maker, Graystone and his company were responsible for the introduction of holobands and the virtual world to the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, selling millions of units and making Graystone Industries a household name on Caprica (CAP: Pilot, "Know Thy Enemy"). By some 53 years before the Fall, however, Graystone Industries had entered into cybernetics, at first building simple robots before designing the U-87 Cyber Combat Unit - a robot soldier intended to be sold to the Caprican government (CAP: Pilot).

Cylons

Following the fabrication of the U-87 chassis and acquisition of the military contract from the Caprican Ministry of Defense, the Cyber Combat Unit project stalls - falling five years behind schedule and going half a billion cubits over budget. While the creation of the robot chassis itself is complete, the creation of a functioning artificial intelligence to drive that body proves problematic. With the media playing up the delays and cost overruns, the Caprican Prime Minister begins to apply pressure to Graystone Industries; threatening to take the project off world (CAP: "Pilot").

A major breakthrough occurs when Graystone Industries' competitor the Vergis Corporation of Tauron cracks the artificial intelligence problem with the development of the meta-cognitive processor, or MCP. While Vergis is thought to have been years behind Graystone Industries in the field of robotics, the creation of the MCP brings them into play for the Cyber Combat Unit contract.

Under pressure and mourning the recent loss of his daugher Zoe, Daniel Graystone secretly enlists Joseph Adama - a Caprican lawyer with ties to the Ha'la'tha crime syndicate - to steal the MCP from Vergis Corporation labs on Tauron. While the theft results in the death of two Vergis Corporation employees, the endeavor is successful and Graystone's U-87 begins exhibiting human-level sentience with Vegis' MCP chip installed. After a successful demonstration for Minister of Defense Joan Leyte, Graystone Industries secures its deal with the Caprican Government and production of U-87s - nicknamed Cylons begins (CAP: Pilot).

Hostile Takeover

Despite securing the contract, Graystone Industries stock nose-dives when Daniel Graystone's deceased daughter is publicly outed as a member of the Soldiers of the One terrorist organization and holobands and the virtual world become associated with terrorism (CAP: "Rebirth"). The financial future of the company is further endangered when Graystone personally pledges on Backtalk with Baxter Sarno to divert all profits from holoband sales and V-world space to funding anti-addiction efforts - affecting sixty percent of Graystone Industries' revenues (CAP: "Gravedancing"). In response, the board of directors debates removing Graystone from the board, despite Cyrus Xander's recognition that Daniel himself "is the brand." Daniel Graystone counters with a demonstration of the U-87's unique capabilities, arguing that sales for both military and civilian applications would sustain the company and affect society far more profoundly than the holoband (CAP: "There Is Another Sky"). The demonstration momentarily forestalls Daniel's future as CEO, but continuing difficulties in the production Cylons and erosion of the company's stock draws the attention of Tomas Vergis, seeking retribution for the deaths of his employees (CAP: "Know Thy Enemy").

The company's troubles worsen when the prototype Cylon kills Graystone Industries scientist Philomon and escapes from Graystone labs. Believing Graystone Industries has lost control of the project and receiving overtures from Tomas Vergis, the Caprican Ministry of Defense withdraws the Cyber Combat Unit contract and grants it to the Vergis Corporation instead. Citing Daniel Graystone's mismanagement of the situation and with significant capital behind him, Tomas Vergis is installed as CEO of Graystone Induestries and mass production of Cylons finally begins in earnest (CAP: "End of Line", "Unvanquished").

New Management

While Tomas Vergis' management of Graystone Industries improves the company's image, its former CEO is plotting his return. Allying himself with the Ha'la'tha, Daniel Graystone uses his knowledge of his former employees to systematically blackmail the board of the directors. Though one member of the board, Cornell Gast, is pushed to suicide, Daniel Grasytone is successful and soon re-installed as CEO (CAP: "Retribution"). Under Daniel Graystone's renewed leadership and with the Ha'la'tha operating from behind the scenes, Graystone Industries begins the development of Grace - an extension of holoband technology that will ostensibly resurrect the dead in the virtual world (CAP: "False Labor").

When the development of Grace proceeds slowly, Daniel Graystone comes under pressure and threats from his new allies the Ha'la'tha and the Guatrau (CAP: "False Labor"). The situation is further complicated when Graystone discovers that the Ha'la'tha has begun skimming Cylons from the production line for sale to the Soliders of the One cult on Gemenon (CAP: "The Dirteaters"). Nevertheless, under Daniel Graystone's renewed leadership and following a thwarted assassination attempt by the Ha'la'tha and the STO terrorist attack, Graystone Industries rebounds tremendously and spearheads the integration of Cylons into Colonial society (CAP: "Apotheosis").

Cylon Uprising

Following the Cylon rebellion and beginning of the Cylon War, Graystone Industries' influence fades and the company becomes infamous. Though work on the Cylons continues into the war, the company is seen as responsible for creating the machines that seek humanity's destruction. Ten years into the war, a Graystone Industries software engineer, Dr. Becca Kelly, unsuccessfully attempts to skew the war in the Cylons' favor by providing them what she believes to be classified information about Colonial Fleet positions (Blood and Chrome).

Known Personnel

Daniel Graystone, CEO
Cyrus Xander, Graystone's assistant
Priyah Magnus‎, public relations officer
Drew Tanner, U-87 technician
Philomon, U-87 technician
Beka Kelly, software engineer

Board of Directors

Jon Parker
Cornell Gast
Lillian Teller
Vital Corso
Terry Albick
Atkinson

Notes

The Graystone Industries building and campus are inspired by Microsoft campus' own look and feel.^[1]

The roof of the headquarters building features a design of two coaxial pentagons, very similar to the design of the roundels on both the wings of Cylon raiders in the original series and on the sides of the Caprican Cylon Marine VTOLs in "Apotheosis".

References

↑ Drexler, Doug (31 January 2010). Drex Files: Caprica City (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 3 February 2010.

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[1] Drexler, Doug (31 January 2010). Drex Files: Caprica City (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 3 February 2010.

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-'''Graystone Industries''' is a [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]-based technology company created by [[Daniel Graystone]], who is its CEO. The company was created more than 60 years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] and is responsible for the creation of the [[holoband]] technology, but was later known for the technology that changed the human race—the [[Cybernetic Life-Form Node]], or Cylon.  Once the [[U-87]] prototype Cylon was successfully demonstrated under simulated combat conditions, the Caprican Ministry of Defense awarded the company with a contract for constructing one hundred thousand copies of the robot ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|''Caprica'' pilot]]).
+'''Graystone Industries''' is a [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]-based technology company created by [[Daniel Graystone]], who is the CEO.  Founded more than 60 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], Graystone Industries is responsible for the invention of [[holoband]] technology, but is later known for the creation of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]].
+==History==
+[[Image:Graystone Industries.jpg|thumb|The campus and buildings of Graystone Industries on Caprica.]]
-[[Image:Graystone Industries.jpg|thumb|200px|left|The campus and buildings of Graystone Industries on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]].]]Despite this, the company's stock nose-dived ([[CAP]]: "[[Rebirth]]"), a trend that would continue for an extended period of time.  The financial future of the company was put into serious doubt when Daniel pledged on [[Backtalk_with_Baxter_Sarno|one of Caprica's most popular television programs]] to divert all profits from holoband sales and [[V-World]] space to funding anti-addiction efforts--affecting sixty percent of Graystone Industries' revenues ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]").  In response, the board of directors began debate on removing him from the board, despite [[Cyrus Xander]]'s recognition that Daniel himself "is the brand."  Daniel countered with a demonstration of the U-87's unique capabilities, arguing that sales for both military and civilian applications would sustain the company and affect society in a far more profound way than the holoband ([[CAP]]: "[[There Is Another Sky]]").  The demonstration saved Daniel's position as CEO ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]"), but continuing inability to produce copies of the U-87 and the [[Philomon|deadly escape]] of the U-87 culminated in the Ministry of Defense stripping the contract from the company and granting it to its chief competitor, [[Vergis Corporation]] ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]").
+Based out of a sprawling campus located in [[Caprica City]], Graystone Industries was founded by Daniel Graystone following his involvement with the [[MicroCap]] corporation ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]").  Described by competitor [[Tomas Vergis]] as a toy maker, Graystone and his company were responsible for the introduction of holobands and the [[virtual world]] to the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol]], selling millions of units and making Graystone Industries a household name on Caprica ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]], "[[Know Thy Enemy]]").  By some 53 years before the Fall, however, Graystone Industries had entered into cybernetics, at first building simple [[robot]]s before designing the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] - a robot soldier intended to be sold to the Caprican government ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).
-Shortly after [[Tomas Vergis]] gains control of Graystone Industries, with the help of the criminal [[Ha'la'tha]] Daniel Graystone blackmails the board of directors into reinstating him as CEO. In despair and fear of the Ha'la'tha, Tomas Vergis kills himself.  In return for their help, Graystone grants the Ha'la'tha partial ownership of the company and their followers are seen in influential roles throughout the company's buildings and projects for some time thereafter. Under Daniel Graystone's renewed leadership and especially following his thwarting of the Ha'la'tha's attempt to assasinate him and the [[STO]] terrorist attack, Graystone Industries rebounds tremendously and spearheads the integration of [[Cylons]] into Colonial society ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis]]").
+===Cylons===
+Following the fabrication of the U-87 chassis and acquisition of the military contract from the Caprican Ministry of Defense, the Cyber Combat Unit project stalls - falling five years behind schedule and going half a billion [[cubit]]s over budget.  While the creation of the robot chassis itself is complete, the creation of a functioning artificial intelligence to drive that body proves problematic.  With the media playing up the delays and cost overruns, the Caprican Prime Minister begins to apply pressure to Graystone Industries; threatening to take the project off world ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").
+A major breakthrough occurs when Graystone Industries' competitor the [[Vergis Corporation]] of [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] cracks the artificial intelligence problem with the development of the [[meta-cognitive processor]], or MCP.  While Vergis is thought to have been years behind Graystone Industries in the field of robotics, the creation of the MCP brings them into play for the Cyber Combat Unit contract.
+Under pressure and mourning the recent loss of his daugher [[Zoe Graystone|Zoe]], Daniel Graystone secretly enlists [[Joseph Adama]] - a Caprican lawyer with ties to the [[Ha'la'tha]] crime syndicate - to steal the MCP from Vergis Corporation labs on [[Tauron]].  While the theft results in the death of two Vergis Corporation employees, the endeavor is successful and Graystone's U-87 begins exhibiting human-level sentience with Vegis' MCP chip installed.  After a successful demonstration for Minister of Defense [[Joan Leyte]], Graystone Industries secures its deal with the Caprican Government and production of U-87s - nicknamed [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] begins ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).
+===Hostile Takeover===
+Despite securing the contract, Graystone Industries stock nose-dives when Daniel Graystone's deceased daughter is publicly outed as a member of the [[Soldiers of the One]] terrorist organization and holobands and the virtual world become associated with terrorism ([[CAP]]: "[[Rebirth]]").  The financial future of the company is further endangered when Graystone personally pledges on ''[[Backtalk with Baxter Sarno]]'' to divert all profits from holoband sales and V-world space to funding anti-addiction efforts - affecting sixty percent of Graystone Industries' revenues ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]").  In response, the board of directors debates removing Graystone from the board, despite [[Cyrus Xander]]'s recognition that Daniel himself "is the brand."  Daniel Graystone counters with a demonstration of the U-87's unique capabilities, arguing that sales for both military and civilian applications would sustain the company and affect society far more profoundly than the holoband ([[CAP]]: "[[There Is Another Sky]]").  The demonstration momentarily forestalls Daniel's future as CEO, but continuing difficulties in the production Cylons and erosion of the company's stock draws the attention of Tomas Vergis, seeking retribution for the deaths of his employees ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]").
+The company's troubles worsen when the [[Zoe-R|prototype Cylon]] kills Graystone Industries scientist [[Philomon]] and escapes from Graystone labs.  Believing Graystone Industries has lost control of the project and receiving overtures from Tomas Vergis, the Caprican Ministry of Defense withdraws the Cyber Combat Unit contract and grants it to the Vergis Corporation instead.  Citing Daniel Graystone's mismanagement of the situation and with significant capital behind him, Tomas Vergis is installed as CEO of Graystone Induestries and mass production of Cylons finally begins in earnest ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]", "[[Unvanquished]]").
+===New Management===
+While Tomas Vergis' management of Graystone Industries improves the company's image, its former CEO is plotting his return.  Allying himself with the Ha'la'tha, Daniel Graystone uses his knowledge of his former employees to systematically blackmail the board of the directors.  Though one member of the board, [[Cornell Gast]], is pushed to suicide, Daniel Grasytone is successful and soon re-installed as CEO ([[CAP]]: "[[Retribution]]").  Under Daniel Graystone's renewed leadership and with the Ha'la'tha operating from behind the scenes, Graystone Industries begins the development of [[Grace]] - an extension of holoband technology that will ostensibly resurrect the dead in the virtual world ([[CAP]]: "[[False Labor]]").
+When the development of Grace proceeds slowly, Daniel Graystone comes under pressure and threats from his new allies the Ha'la'tha and the [[Guatrau]] ([[CAP]]: "[[False Labor]]").  The situation is further complicated when Graystone discovers that the Ha'la'tha has begun skimming Cylons from the production line for sale to the Soliders of the One cult on [[Gemenon]] ([[CAP]]: "[[The Dirteaters]]").  Nevertheless, under Daniel Graystone's renewed leadership and following a thwarted assassination attempt by the Ha'la'tha and the STO [[Battle of Atlas Arena|terrorist attack]], Graystone Industries rebounds tremendously and spearheads the integration of [[Cylons]] into Colonial society ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis]]").
+===Cylon Uprising===
+Following the Cylon rebellion and beginning of the [[Cylon War]], Graystone Industries' influence fades and the company becomes infamous.  Though work on the Cylons continues into the war, the company is seen as responsible for creating the machines that seek humanity's destruction.  Ten years into the war, a Graystone Industries software engineer, Dr. [[Becca Kelly]], unsuccessfully attempts to skew the war in the Cylons' favor by providing them what she believes to be classified information about [[Colonial Fleet]] positions (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'').
 == Known Personnel ==