Ato - Corp
Before the Trevan Alliance obtained easy access to space travel, and even well after that point, they were a society with scarcity. With no Replicators, and the Trevan species was not engineered. Their economy relied primarily on money, and as such, organizations such as companies existed.
Ato - Corp was one particularly large company. They specialized in nuclear reaction technologies such as the fission reactors of old, nuclear weapons and nuclear starship thrusters. These eventually became used alongside Orion drives as they were immensely powerful. Ato - Corp might potentially be credited as the corporation that started the 'trevan obsession with nukes', but there are probably other contesters to that claim. They may have contributed to the Sinus Nuclear War which devastated their home planet.
Ato - Corp has been one of the pioneers behind this technology and with their wide range of products they have become a primary supplier to any technology that can utilise nuclear reactions. They have influenced trevan culture enough to build nuclear powered cars, though with a large number of precautions, which caused them to grow into one of the largest companies of Trevan society.
Ato - Corp has originally had its HQ situated on Sinus, but as the trevans advanced space travel became easier and simpler. The trevans found several other planets in their system with a higher fissile material content, so Ato - Corp moved many of it's assets to one of these planets. Many of their employees also moved there for work, especially as travel to and from Sinus became easier.
With the nuclear war, Sinus was devastated. Its entire spacefaring industry was obliterated, and the Ato - Corp's planet was still dependent on Sinus. As such, though they tried to adapt, the planet was left to ruin and everyone on it died to worsening conditions. Wreckages of this time are still present, the sites now becoming archaeological areas. Even some Hyperion engineers were impressed by the sheer ingenuity of those on the planet considering the technology level of the planet at that time. Despite the nuclear war, however, the company survived on Sinus. Many of their employees lived in large nuclear shelters where they could pool a large number of resources. However due to the scale of the company, some parts of the company lost contact with others for many years, causing the company to somewhat split up. First contact with other places of Ato - Corp were often met with hostilities and invasions, as company CEOs wanted to keep their power and not be replaced with CEOs from other areas. Late - apocalypse, the company slowly began to re-unify, with a large number of undeclared wars. Some fragments even renamed themselves, but forgot about the old Ato - Corp name. These became other companies later on, assuming they survived the apocalypse.
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