Clear Corporation
The Clear Corporation was the main defense contractor of the Trident Coalition for well over a century. Founded by the wealthy Clear family, on Sisyphus Prime, they developed the first plasma-based weapons for the Coalition Armed Forces to counter the laser weapons that the Humbabans were using at the time.
When those plasma weapons became too obsolete and ineffective the Armed Forces once again turned to the Clear Corporation to develop them, even though Daffodil Armaments were far superior at that time.
Admiral Farnsworth, who made the decision, was brother-in-law to Jeremiah Clear, the CEO of the Clear Corporation. Hoping to hide the conflict of interest, and the nepotism, Farnsworth and the other Admirals assigned a Lieutenant to be the liaison between the Armed Forces and the Clear Corporation, for the project. The Lieutenant embezzled the money, which was supposed to be kick-backs to the Admirals, and torpedoed the project until the resulting weapon was the Clear Negotiator.
When the dust settled Farnsworth, and the other involved Admirals, got sent to the ice mines on Boreas, Daffodil Armaments bought the Clear Corporation, the Lieutenant received a promotion and arranged to have Daffodil Armaments become the new defense contractor. A young Ensign who was assigned to investigate the Lieutenant came close to bringing him down for his dealings, but instead, the Ensign got demoted to Master Chief Petty Officer and spent the rest of his career guarding Aeolus City Space Port.
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