Red Storm

Red Storm was the name of an engineering and manufacturing concern located within the Alliance. During the Sixth Age for a period of roughly two hundred and fifty years, they were known as one of the most innovative, creative, and efficient companies.

History

Founded in A.Y. 601, Red Storm personified the heat of the Kamian Succession Wars. The initial founders owned an iron mine, and had just received a grant from the Alliance government to build a processing plant on site, so that ready-made metal stock could be shipped directly from the facility to Alliance factories in the city.

The board of directors, mostly young engineers and chemists, had grander ideas, though. With the foundry still being designed, they petitioned the Gudersnipe Foundation for contracts to manufacture composite materials, stating that excess heat from the foundry could be used to fire clay, another resource abundant in the region. Soon, Red Storm was manufacturing high-grade armor plates for use in ships and vehicles in both the Alliance and Foundation.

Profits from these ventures were used to fund a lab and high-grade electronics manufacturing plant. Again, using metal from the mines and ceramic composites, Red Storm began manufacturing top-end servos and compact, high-grade electric sub-systems. These very quickly found homes in the manufacturer of armored mecha, one key-area where the Alliance and Foundation fell well-behind the Kamians