Hephaestus Forge Manufacturing and Armaments Co.

"'When the war ended, there was a power vacuum, from politics to medicine, to Manufacturing, everything was up for grabs. Hephaestus Forge Manufacturing and Armaments Co. saw that opportunity and took it.' "

Company History
Hephaestus Forge Manufacturing and Armaments Co. was established in 2553 following the overtake of dozens of smaller manufacturing and armaments businesses. While it is not entirely clear as to how the company founder was able to accumulate such a wealth to buy out these business scattered across various human colonies, or how he came to own dozens of freighter vessels for coordinating all of these small manufacturing sites effectively... what is know is that by 2556 Hephaestus Forge was quickly usurping many well established manufacturing and armament companies across human space and predicted to be the primary supplier to the UNSC within the next decade.

In 2557 Hephaestus Forge's finished construction of its greatest manufacturing asset and headquarters. Hephaestus's Furnace, a massive manufacturing and refinerary station orbiting over a large gas giant and collecting valuable resource from its atmosphere capable of refining the resources required to build five UNSC frigate Frames in just two days would become the primary powerhouse and headquarters of the company. Plans on constructing multiple Furnace Stations were already underway upon completion of the first station. Heaphaestus was able to afford the construction of the Furnace Station through reselling its renovated work shops it originally purchased in 2553 in a coordinated pattern which would not force the company to lose customers by prioritizing the most successful and localized manufacturing plants.

Hephaestus Forge Manufacturing and Armaments Co. also constructed lesser Forge stations which were mobile and carried with them resources, resource collectors, and deployable ship yards. Often times these Forge Stations were contracted by the UNSC for refit operations and were stationed alongside fleets deployed far beyond civilized human space.

Major Production Achievements

 * Siege Pelican
 * Ball turret for increased protection
 * Deliverance Class Frigate
 * EMP ship mounted Cannon
 * SPI Armor Mark III
 * Pulse Laser Cooporative Research and Resource allocation
 * Reactive Limited Shield Systems
 * Forge Stations
 * Furnace Station