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'''Vicore Industries''' is best known as the driving force behind the so-called "Project Phoenix" revival of many classic [[BattleMech]] designs. | '''Vicore Industries''' is best known as the driving force behind the so-called "Project Phoenix" revival of many classic [[BattleMech]] designs. | ||
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== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
| − | Based on Demeter, Vicore Industries was created by planetary governor Giovanni De La Sangre. Similar to the boutique 'Mech design firms of Solaris, Vicore doesn't produce many 'Mechs on its own. Instead, Vicore's designers act as a third party design group for established 'Mech manufacturers. These "Project Phoenix" designs were based on long-serving BattleMech designs, and could be produced at existing production facilities with little effort. | + | Based on [[Demeter]], Vicore Industries was created by planetary governor Giovanni De La Sangre. Similar to the boutique 'Mech design firms of Solaris, Vicore doesn't produce many 'Mechs on its own. Instead, Vicore's designers act as a third party design group for established 'Mech manufacturers. These "Project Phoenix" designs were based on long-serving BattleMech designs, and could be produced at existing production facilities with little effort. |
Interestingly, many of the 'Mech designs created by Vicore wound up in the hands of the [[Word of Blake]]. Manufacturers in several realms found their technical capabilities limited. The Word of Blake somehow "just knew" these factories needed help and arrived to provide the technical support they needed. The Blakist's convenient appearance to solve the problems these factories had in building the Vicore designs just in the nick of time led to many rumors that Vicore or De La Sangre was an ally (or employee) of the Word of Blake. | Interestingly, many of the 'Mech designs created by Vicore wound up in the hands of the [[Word of Blake]]. Manufacturers in several realms found their technical capabilities limited. The Word of Blake somehow "just knew" these factories needed help and arrived to provide the technical support they needed. The Blakist's convenient appearance to solve the problems these factories had in building the Vicore designs just in the nick of time led to many rumors that Vicore or De La Sangre was an ally (or employee) of the Word of Blake. | ||
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Vicore Industries is best known as the driving force behind the so-called "Project Phoenix" revival of many classic BattleMech designs.
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Overview
Based on Demeter, Vicore Industries was created by planetary governor Giovanni De La Sangre. Similar to the boutique 'Mech design firms of Solaris, Vicore doesn't produce many 'Mechs on its own. Instead, Vicore's designers act as a third party design group for established 'Mech manufacturers. These "Project Phoenix" designs were based on long-serving BattleMech designs, and could be produced at existing production facilities with little effort.
Interestingly, many of the 'Mech designs created by Vicore wound up in the hands of the Word of Blake. Manufacturers in several realms found their technical capabilities limited. The Word of Blake somehow "just knew" these factories needed help and arrived to provide the technical support they needed. The Blakist's convenient appearance to solve the problems these factories had in building the Vicore designs just in the nick of time led to many rumors that Vicore or De La Sangre was an ally (or employee) of the Word of Blake.
The rumors of Vicore and Giovanni De la Sangre's links to the Word of Blake gathered strength in late 3065 when Blakist Precentor Martial Cameron St. Jamais asked Vicore's design teams to Terra to assist in bolstering and enhancing Terran production capacity to help in the expansion of the Word of Blake Militia. Aside from remodeling production lines to produce the Project Phoenix 'Mechs, Vicore also developed upgrades for the Grim Reaper [1] and Phoenix-ized redesigns of the Nexus, Raijin and Grand Crusader. [2] In 3066 Vicore reached a licensing agreement with Brooks, Inc. to produce the Galleon tank from a newly refurbished factory on Terra for the Blakist Militia. [3]
When the Jihad burst into open warfare, the fact that almost two-thirds of all Phoenix machines built by all parties had been purchased by the Blakists or parties allied to them lead many more people to question Vicore's intentions, but Vicore and Sangre both professed to be a truly neutral supplier and continued to sell to all comers. Despite Sangre's hopes of Vicore one day becoming one of the top interstellar conglomerates, in 3075 the former ComStar ROM agent "Damocles" finally publicly revealed his decades long investigations of Project Phoenix and evidence that many of Vicore's secondary corporations are little more than Blakist fronts to secretly resupply the Word of Blake Protectorate Militia. While strictly legal, the revelations turned public opinion against Vicore, resulting it being removed from many prominent stock exchanges and triggering formal investigations. [4]
Manufacturing
Vicore Industries has an manufacturing center on the following planet:
Demeter
| Components produced on Demeter: | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| VLK-QD1 Valkyrie | Light BattleMech |
Vicore Armorworks LTD
| Components produced on Detriot, Terra:[3] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Component | Type | |
| GAL-103 Galleon[3] | Combat Vehicle | |
| GAL-104 Galleon[3] | Combat Vehicle | |