Located on Tau Station
Description
Hephaestus Weapons Tech
Keeping your kill count up since 20PC!
One of the more notorious corporations currently operating in the galaxy, HWT has risen to infamy as well as success during the events following the Catastrophe. One of the most common legends about the beginnings of this mighty conglomerate of high tech guns and ordnance dates to the years just prior to the Catastrophe. A brother and sister team of professional scavengers who made a fairly lucrative living, so the story goes, lucked across the site of a massive battle – a battle with no winners, but two losing sides and scores of casualties. With a morally questionable but undeniably genius retail strategy in mind, they gathered the weapons and identification details from the corpses and swiftly set off to visit the families of the fallen. Using a personalized style of guerrilla marketing that targeted families of the fallen, the pair apparently developed and fueled multiple feuds that lasted for several cycles, and of course provided them with an endless cycle of weapons and gear. The plan worked like a charm, and by the time anyone caught on they’d become rich enough to start manufacturing and selling their own battle tech.
Today the titan of weapons manufacturing is known for its friendly advertising slogans advocating the death and/or dismemberment of your enemies, and an approach to business ethics that is casual at best.