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Cyclops Incorporated is a House Steiner military manufacturer of civilian and military grade hover vehicles.
Contents
Corporate History
Cyclops Inc. was founded originally as a civilian hovercraft vehicle manufacturer. Its first product, the Hurricane luxury car, is credited for Cyclops' early success in the marketplace.
By the end of the Third Succession War, Cyclops had begun to broaden its portfolio of products to produce military oriented vehicles. This included a number of hover combat support jeeps and CI-117 Armored Personnel Carrier designs. In 3025, it entered the combat vehicle market with its Drillson Hover Tank. Two years later, the company took over the Maxim Transport Industries with its line of military hover transports. The acquisition of MTI allowed Cyclops to expand to energy weapons development for both combat vehicles and BattleMechs.
In the 3060s the corporation began to be used by the local Skye government to exclusively develop and produce vehicles and weapons for its own use.[1]
The Cyclops facilities on Skye survived the Jihad with only relatively minor damage, becoming a major producer for the Republic Armed Forces. As a part of the conditions agreed for the transfer of the various Skye worlds to the Republic of the Sphere the Lyran Alliance continued to receive a percentage of the output from the Cyclops factories.[2] In contrast with the good condition of the Skye facilities, the Cyclops plant on New Earth was completely destroyed during Operation SCOUR.[3]
Leadership
In 3067 the company's CEO was Morgan Durant.[1]
Manufacturing
Cyclops Inc. has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
New Earth
| Components produced on New Earth[4][5] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| Vehicle | |
| Drillson[4][5] | Hovercraft - Heavy Hover Tank |
| Fusion Engine | |
| MaxLift 215 Fusion | Drillson[4][5] |
| Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles | |
| ArcShield Heavy | Drillson[4][5] |
| Communications System | |
| Cyclops 1 | Drillson[4][5] |
| Targeting-Tracking System | |
| Evil Eye | Drillson[4][5] |
| Large Laser | |
| Cyclops Eye | Drillson[4][5] |
| LRM-10 | |
| Light Crossbow | Drillson[4][5] |
| SRM-2 | |
| Hovertec | Drillson[4][5] |
| Machine Gun | |
| Kicker | Drillson[4][5] |
Skye
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handbook: House Steiner p. 143, "Cyclops brief corporate history".
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 107, "Lyran Alliance"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 107, "Blake/Terran Protectorate"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Technical Readout: 3039, p. 62, "Drillson Produced Components"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Technical Readout: 3026 Revised, p. 54, "Produced Dillson Vehicle Components"
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 Objective Raids, p. 86, "Produced Cyclops Incorporated Components"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Technical Readout: 3058, p. 46: The Fulcrum hovertank is produced at Cyclops
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Technical Readout: 3058, p. 90, "Variants": the new variant is mentioned in Upgrade only
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Technical Readout: 3067, p. 14, "Glaive Components"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Experimental Technical Readout: Corporations, p. 11, "Produced Maxim variant"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Technical Readout: 3085, p. 28, "Produced Maxim Mk II Components"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Technical Readout: 3075, p. 48, "Saxon Components"