The First Contact Defence Initiative was set up as a group focused on dealing with First Contact with non-human sentients.
The group started as the 'Colonia Departure Group' who's goal was to head out to Colonia to hopefully evade the Thargoid invasion, however, after a long time of achieving nothing, Admiral ElectricCraze and former Vice Admiral M3CHWARRI0R decided to rebrand the group under new name 'The First Contact Defence Initiative'.
After several reddit posts, the FCDI caught on and membership went from 3 to 30 in a matter of days. The FCDI then got into contact with the GCF and several other groups which helped establish their legitimacy.
Now that the group was large enough to start operations, they held their first capital ship raid against the major powers. This was done to demonstrate that their expansion in the Pleiades was not warranted. After more successful events, the FCDI published a series of videos that drove membership up even higher and now, the FCDI is a well-established group, with over 150 members, contacts in many major groups and a minor faction in the game with more growth planned for the future.
