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• RobCo Industries Overview • REPCONN Aerospace (Rocket Engineering and Production COmpaNy of Nevada)[Pub 1][Pub 2] was a company based in Henderson, Nevada that specialized in rocket manufacture, and production of alternate fuel sources, both plasma and fission based,[1] primarily for the U.S. government. Their headquarters and test site can still be found in the Mojave Wasteland.
Background
Formed in 2054 after the Delta XI rocket was developed and launched, its original purpose was to develop new orbital propulsion systems in response to the energy crisis of 2052.[2] Research projects included those of nuclear fission, fossil fuel, and plasma-based propulsion.[2][3][4] Their earliest experiments in flight were almost uniformly disastrous,[5][6][7] but the company managed to continue functioning and expanding. Some of the results of these disasters were beneficial for future experiments and exploits, such as the destruction of the original launch facility providing research into better shielding.[8] As REPCONN was dealing with slow business, two corporate giants, Poseidon Energy and RobCo Industries, made attempts to buy out the company. The former's bid was seen off by a decisive action by REPCONN's board of directors under the lead of Vice President Leonard Steeple and Chief Financial Officer Julia Masters, maintaining Steeple's intention to keep the company as far away from defense contracts as possible.[9]
Masters represented REPCONN in a meeting at Vault-Tec HQ in Los Angeles with other prominent company heads Robert House, Frederick Sinclair and Leon Von Felden. When brainstorming ideas for Vault experiments, Masters suggests a vault led by a robot overseer that was initially designed to deliver milk to the front door, and another vault that separated parents and children, with only the smartest children reaching adulthood.[10]
RobCo eventually managed to acquire the company after a year of buying shares from 2075 to 2076,[2][11] when Steeple's allies turned against him. The vice president tried to rally the board again and sought help from Masters,[9] but while the CFO officially agreed to support him,[12] she was actually working with General Manager Piers Isley to sell the company.[13] Citing the profit of a merger with RobCo (not to mention avoiding a hostile takeover and a much less amicable transition), Isley and Masters managed to undermine Steeple's position in the company and get the board of directors to pass a vote of no confidence against Steeple, after he refused to even consider selling his part of the company, in order to maintain their independence and integrity. Failing the vote, Steeple stepped down from his position as vice president.
All the time, the company continued its research into rocketry and astronautics, despite numerous setbacks, accidents and disasters. Although all of these incidents were restricted to the Henderson area, along with nearby towns and communities,[14] they would quickly become popularized due to various incidents, including, but not limited to: The REPCONN Shakes, an illness caused by children thinking the Isotope-239 Igniting Agent inside was Nuka-Cola, requiring the company to lock them away.[15] Careless radioactive waste disposal would also come into play due to legal concerns and downplaying environmental damage.[16][17] However, the research efforts were severely hampered by a disaster during one of the experiments, where a poor work ethic, cutting corners and an underqualified team caused a disastrous radiation spill that would take decades to clear up, significantly weakening REPCONN's position with RobCo. The launch facility manager responsible for the disaster, Steve Reynolds, used his old friend, Martin Neimeyer, as scapegoat.[18]
RobCo Acquisition
The company was acquired by RobCo Industries. Carl Rook, transferred from RobCo's security division, became the next vice president, focusing on improving the security within the company.[19] Mr. House, CEO of RobCo, used the newly acquired company for a weapons research program for Colonel Moretti of the US military, repurposing REPCONN's proprietary plasma rocket propulsion system into a quantum matter modulation-based weapon.[20][21] However, the program was not free of setbacks: a mole was leaking information on the development of the project to Poseidon Energy. Although this was detected by REPCONN's IT specialist Sara Wang, who managed to partially decode them, there was not enough concrete evidence to take official action against Poseidon.[22][23] However, research continued into creating rocketry that would one day visit distant planets to mine for resources to send back to Earth.[24]
By 2077, the quantum matter modulator project had completed their first prototype, the Q-35 Matter Modulator. It was made possible by Project SEMELE schematics,[25] acquired by Carl Rook's sources inside Poseidon Energy.[26] Poseidon Energy's mole, Julia Masters, was tasked with intercepting the prototype on its way to the Department of Defense.[27]
Publications
Notes
- The company's name is spelled as REPCON in some posters.
- A paint scheme for the company is available for the CC-00 Power Armor.
- A REPCONN office is recreated in the Big MT X-13 Research Facility in order to test the Stealth Suit Mk II.
Behind the scenes
REPCONN Aerospace appears in the same location as the real world PEPCON (Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada), a chemical plant formerly located in Henderson, Nevada.
Gallery
REPCONN Propaganda
REPCONN Propaganda
REPCONN Propaganda
REPCONN Propaganda
REPCONN Billboard
REPCONN Billboard
Loading screen
X-13 Research Facility decal
References
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- ↑ Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p. 320: "[2.35] REPCONN Headquarters
REPCONN Corporation was an up-and-coming regional aerospace firm, and keen contributor to Las Vegas political campaigns. They operated a test facility in the Black Mountains to the south (much to the chagrin of the local populations, who long complained of the 'REPCONN bombs' landing in their fields and destroying property). The company was purchased by the giant RobCo Company just before the Great War, in a hostile takeover. New security countermeasures were installed, and more militaristic plans were undertaken, especially after the discovery of a special radioactive igniting agent that interested certain senior RobCo members. These countermeasures are still in effect, so investigate this building with caution."
(Tour of the Mojave Wasteland) - ↑ Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p. 407: "[5.17] REPCONN Test Site
The remains of the old REPCONN (Rocket Engineering Production Company of Nevada) test plant, along with its landmark rocket launch dome, have sat idle over the years, and are now home to Feral Ghouls who come to terrorize the inhabitants of nearby Novac [5.18]. However, within the facility, there's a prolonged stalemate going on between a band of Nightkin, devolved from Marcus' forces up at Jacobstown [1.10] and lead by a deranged man-mountain named Davidson. They are attempting to locate shipments of Stealth Boys. The (marginally) sane ghouls are led by an intelligent, messianic glowing ghoul who dreams of escaping with his followers in the plant's remaining rockets."
(Tour of the Mojave Wasteland)
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