Harrison Armory
Harrison Armory is a powerful an prominent arms manufacturer that existed long before the Silence. The armory operates mostly out of the Great Expanse , and has a regular contract with the Colonial Earth Empire providing a large percentage of their naval weapons.
Harrison Armory is one of the major players in the Corporate Assembly, providing the primary bulk of the Assembly security forces, including their wide range of naval warships. Their wealth and power has grown to influence even imperial politics, and its rumored that they have several senators in their pocket.
They operate their own planetary governing arms, military forces, and industries all under the super-structure that is the Corporate Assembly. They've also begun to flex their political clout, boosting the influence of the Fourth Column far beyond its normal means with the help of Raven Financial.
Structure
Harrison Armory is massive and widespread throughout the The Great Expanse. From their headquarters on Cerrado, the Armory is made up of all manner of bureaucrats who have made their way up through tenacity, greed and ambition. Some even hail from noble houses in the Empire, with many coming from the House of Moments or House of Steel, who share a mutual interest in furthering the interests of the Fourth Column. Others have found themselves recruited from the Imperial Navy or Army, raidcalized by their experiences in the Mid Rim colonial conflicts. Others might hail from Armory colonial interests, or from one of the many Corporate Assembly managerial education centers.
At its core, the organization is mainly split between the power bases of the wealthy Nobles, and the more unified former military oligarchy. The bureaucrats use this to their advantage, latching on to whichever offers them a quicker way to the top. Branches all over the galaxy can look widely different from each other, and often employ their own private corpo wetwork squads to work against their rivals. Like other corporations, the Empire turns a blind eye, so long as they are paid out and the weapons get made.
The Legions
The Harrison Armory Colonial Legionnate is the external-facing arm of the corpro-state's imperial forces. Of the many legionnates, divisions, departments, and bureaus that make up the Armory’s command structure, the largest and most visible is the Colonial Legionnate. The Colonial Legionnate commands hundreds of colonial legions, each of which contains at least one division -strength advance team of legionnaires and colonial officers – an Acquisition and Management Team (AMT). The primary role of AMTs is to make beachheads on worlds and territories that have been designated as colonial priorities. They have a twofold mission: first, to integrate with and police local populations while annexation negotiations determine the future of the worlds they occupy. And second, if talks break down and resistance becomes violent, AMTs are authorized to establish green zones, deter rebellion, and remove prominent anti-Armory leaders. Their mission scope broadens the more a situation deteriorates, while their armaments and disposition reflect the grim realities of their job. When an AMT makes landfall on a world, the mighty bulk of at least one legion is sure to follow. Whatever banner the world flies will, inexorably, deepen to the Armory’s shade of plum – the Bruise, as it is called by Imperial Auxiliaries forced into peacekeeping roles on Armory worlds. AMTs operate far afield on long-term occupations and world-building projects. In peaceful, long-term occupation and development projects, AMT personnel are posted on planetside bases, boarded in the homes of sympathetic locals, and encouraged to integrate into the local culture. As a consequence, they become well accustomed to the local cuisine, climate, languages, geography, and tactics, to the point where long-brewing hostile takeovers often look more like civil wars. In the rare case that a takeover is necessary, it is not uncommon for AMTs to field large complements of local auxiliaries while they wait for the Armory’s regular legions to arrive.Assets
Harrison Armory is known for producing a great range of military grade hardware, ranging from small arms to massive capital ships. Many of these were built with the imperial military in mind, however they have been approved to sell stripped down civilian versions as well. Their Mech Chassis are known throughout the galaxy for being extremely effective.
This means the Armory also has a hand in producing advanced weapons and technology in regards to ship warfare, and have been given ample funding in the form of grants, tax breaks, and bailouts to develop cutting edge weapons for the empire. Older version are often salvaged and repurposed in Bal'Marin, or sold to security organizations. Harrison Armory has contracts to sell gear and equipment to the likes of the Empire, Grand Baronies of Carthage, and a handful of local planetary governments friendly to the Empire and Assembly in the Mid Rim.
Harrison Armory also distributes and designs a wide range of balistic armors and small arms. Both in space and on the ground, they specialize in energy weapons, taking advantage of the rich resources in the Core Systems. Their armors and small arms are usually built at the request of Imperial Army regiments, as the Imperial Navy gets its standard small arms from the rivals of Harrison Armory. They also produce the widely used HA-I9 "Ares" Interceptor.
In addition to its weapons technology, the Armory is known for sturdy exploration gear, consumer- and state-level logistics and infrastructure packages, personal groundcars, and fine liquors. It’s a big player in galactic trade thanks to its Distal Development Program, which cultivates and exports exotic alien spices, flora, fauna, and minerals for consumer use.
Most citizens of the Galactic Core and well developed worlds – those who define what amounts to “public galactic knowledge” – would not know anything in particular about the Think Tank, or the operations of Armory colonial missions. They would know Harrison Armory as a weapons manufacturer and defense contractor whose name they hear in snippets of newscasts about Imperial politics, distal colonial affairs, and Cirkadia Banking Guilds’s stranglehold on interstellar shipping companies. Some who have studied the history of New Babylon and Empire might know of the Armory’s ties to the Anthrochauvinist Fourth Column, but several hundred years after the fact, it certainly feels like old news.
Think Tank
The Armory’s success can be credited in large part to the Special-Exception Persistent-Cultivation Legionspace Engine: SEPCLE, or colloquially, the Think Tank. The Think Tank is the Armory’s version of Central Simulation, a choir of persistent near-cascade demon constructs that the Armory uses for research and development into paracausal technology, forecasting, and management. The Armory is permitted to run a full choir of these borderline unshackled NHPs thanks to an extensive post Mechanicus Jihad treaty structure established with Empire . The location of the Think Tank is kept secret, though it is presumed to be buried deep below the frozen tundra of Monterey Naval Yards. The Think Tank, while a closely guarded corpro secret, is known to the Imperial Court, which enjoys regular inspections of the facility. Empire’s access to the Think Tank is a thorn in the side of the Armory’s director general, who would prefer that Empire keep its prying eyes far from sensitive corporate technology.
Hard Earned
Type
Corporation, Security
Alternative Names
The Armory
Parent Organization
Location
Controlled Territories
Notable Members
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