LAST EDITED ON Oct-04-21 AT 03:39 AM (EDT)
 
>Honestly I'm not sure which corporation in Fallout is the most
>corrupt.

It's a crowded field, and yet, upon reflection, there is a clear winner: General Atomics. Yes, Vault-Tec trapped hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of unsuspecting people in a range of hideously unethical experiments when they were all just trying to survive. Yes, Nuka-Cola exemplified a cavalier disregard for consumer safety that puts the "pharmaceutical" companies of the real-life 1890s to shame. Yes, ArcJet covered up the death of a journalist who perished attempting to breach the secrecy with which they surrounded their massive tax boondoggle of a Mars rocket. And yes, Hubris Comics completely fucked up the Silver Shroud TV series.

But only General Atomics built Robobrains.

(As an aside, there is an actual defense contractor called General Atomics. That's a little odd, since all the other companies I can think of in the Fallout universe are either completely fictional or at least slightly oblique references to real corporations, they aren't just straight-up real companies. I wonder if maybe someone didn't know that there's a real company by that name, and though "General Atomics" was just a clever riff on General Dynamics--which the real General Atomics was originally part of.)

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.