Founded by Ygorin Chyornov in 58 BBY as Chyornov Medical and Design, an innovations firm that designed medical technology and starship systems, CCS was one of the public faces of the Bratstvo Svobodii or "Freedom's Brotherhood", a secret society dedicated to the preservation of freedom--but not necessarily government. The company began putting more and more of its funding and research into military systems around the time of the Stark Hyperspace War, though none of its military research ever became public. Knowledge of it was limited to Brotherhood leaders only.