The Upwell Consortium is New Eden's dominant infrastructure megacorporation, and in EVE Vanguard it is the wealth you are there to take. Every deployment sends your Warclone onto a planet where the Upwell Consortium has left salvage sites, downed convoys, orbital cannons, and the colossal Upwell Command Block ripe for raiding. The Consortium builds and owns much of the hardware that keeps capsuleer civilization running, so the loot it leaves behind is the reason you deploy at all.
You never negotiate with the Upwell Consortium. You strip its wreckage, crack its tech vaults, and extract before its hired guns overwhelm you. That opposition has a name, and it is the reason the megacorp's sites are defended rather than abandoned.
Who the Upwell Consortium is
The Upwell Consortium is a coalition megacorporation known across New Eden for industrial structures and orbital infrastructure. It does not fight the Vanguard as a rival army the way AEGIS does. Instead it is the property owner: the planet-side salvage-recovery operations, the supply convoys, and the fortified installations you raid all belong to Upwell. When a mission tells you to seize advanced tech or crack a dig site, you are pulling it out of Upwell hands.
Because the Consortium is a business rather than a standing military, it protects its assets the way a megacorp would — by contracting the job out. That contract is the connective tissue between Upwell and the enemies you actually shoot on the ground.
What you raid from Upwell
Upwell Consortium property is spread across every objective type in the current alpha. Salvage and dig sites hold ore and advanced tech; the mining tool opens Upwell tech vaults so you can haul out what is inside. Crashed and downed convoys scatter loot across the field. Orbital cannons are seizable objectives — during Operation Nemesis, players fought to take Upwell cannons at Sulphur Basin.
The headline target is the Upwell Command Block, a colossal structure that anchors the current map. On Lost Convoy, the salvage-recovery site is dotted with Upwell dig sites and refineries, with the Command Block looming over the whole operation. It is the kind of prize that justifies the risk of staying too long — and staying too long is exactly what turns a quiet raid into a fight for your life.
Guarded by Mordu's Legion
The Upwell Consortium does not defend its own sites in person. It hires Mordu's Legion, a mercenary corporation, to hold the line. Every patrol, marksman, drone, and Heavy Oppressor you trade fire with on an Upwell site is Legion muscle on the Consortium's payroll. The longer you linger on Upwell ground, the harder that hired security pushes back, escalating from patrols to troop drops. In practice, then, the Upwell Consortium sets the objective and Mordu's Legion enforces it — you are caught between the loot and the guns paid to keep it.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Upwell Consortium an enemy you fight directly?
Not usually. The Upwell Consortium owns the salvage sites, convoys, cannons, and the Command Block you raid, but it hires Mordu's Legion to do the actual fighting. You engage Legion troops on Upwell ground rather than Consortium soldiers themselves.
What is the Upwell Command Block?
It is a colossal Upwell Consortium structure that anchors the Lost Convoy map as its centerpiece objective. Alongside the surrounding dig sites and refineries, it marks the richest and most dangerous ground on the salvage-recovery site.