PC Arms

PC (Pax Coalition, unstated) Arms is an arms purveyor in the Los Alamos area with a specialty in railgun development.

History
PC Arms was founded in (what are we up to now?) by a pair of former Coalition 3rd Security Forces ("Death's Head") troopers. Independently wealthy from awards and prizes, Alexander Steele and Victor Hugo sought to apply their observations in combat to providing reliable, high-capability, easily-maintained weapon systems.

The first product was a long-range sniper railgun, generally fitted to the buyer with custom furniture. This proved highly effective during the rhinobuffalo hunts. The rifles proved reliable, rugged, and capable. Demand grew, although the rifles were still more oriented to the rich than common people.

Next, building on the reputation from the rifles, a large amount of outdated Coalition vehicles were acquired, refurbished, and put up for sale. Soon after the Los Alamos military required an antimaterial rifle, borg- or man-portable, capable of downing a Super SAMAS.

PCA responded with two systems: a heavy emplaced or borg-carried system, and a lighter system usable by standard infantry. They also designed and deployed a number of specialty railgun rounds, including a plasma-based projectile particularly effective against Naruni shields.

Ammunition
The core technology for PCA are railguns. The nature of railguns allows for a variety of munitions, many of which can be simply and rapidly manufactured. PCA sells standard jacketed rounds, rounds made of a number of flechettes like a smaller boom gun, and rounds that squash like hollow points.

The crowning achievement for ammunition are the plasma-based shield penetrators. The proprietary round considerably reduces the effectiveness of Naruni shields.

Weapons
All PCA weapons are built around as many common components as possible, and are readily field-serviceable. This minimizes the number of parts required to be logistically tracked, and allows downgraded weapons to be repaired with minimal training by swapping out parts.

Any weapon can be purchased and customized individually; part of PCA's core business is still providing accurized, luxury-model weapons.

Vehicles
PCA essentially acts as a distributor of vehicles, although their factory is capable of refurbishing most vehicles.

Some one-off vehicles have been produced. Most notably, they have demonstrated a two-man, railgun-equipped gun-jeep to the Los Alamost military.

Behind the Scenes
While officially Alexandre and Victor are private citizens, they are in fact investigating the Los Alamos region and the Naruni, as well as keeping an eye on the Vampire encursion.

Equally officially, Alexander is now in charge, and Victor mostly operates as the COO. However, their Coalition ranks are still in play; Alexander operates the company, and Victor manages Coalition affairs for the unit.

Most of the PCA employees are Los Alamos citizens. The C-level officers and security forces are Coalition personnel.