Cyclops Incorporated

Cyclops Incorporated
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Corporation Profile
Affiliation
HeadquartersNew Aberdeen (Skye IV)[1]
LeadershipCEO
Product(s)Combat Vehicles
Manufacturing Plant(s)New Earth

Cyclops Incorporated is a Lyran Commonwealth military manufacturer of civilian and military-grade hover vehicles.

Overview[edit]

Cyclops Incorporated was founded originally as a civilian hovercraft vehicle manufacturer. Its first product, the Hurricane luxury car, is credited for Cyclops' early success in the marketplace.

By the end of the Third Succession War, Cyclops had begun to broaden its portfolio of products to produce military oriented vehicles. This included a number of hover combat support jeeps and CI-117 Armored Personnel Carrier designs. In 3025, it entered the combat vehicle market with its Drillson Hover Tank. Twelve years later, the company took over the Maxim Transport Industries factory on Skye with its line of military hover transports. The acquisition of MTI allowed Cyclops to expand to energy weapons development for both combat vehicles and BattleMechs.

In the 3060s, the corporation began to be used by the local Skye government to exclusively develop and produce vehicles and weapons for its own use.[1]

The Cyclops facilities on Skye survived the Jihad with only relatively minor damage, becoming a major producer for the Republic Armed Forces. As a part of the conditions agreed for the transfer of the various Skye worlds to the Republic of the Sphere the Lyran Alliance continued to receive a percentage of the output from the Cyclops factories.[2] In contrast with the good condition of the Skye facilities, the Cyclops plant on New Earth was completely destroyed during Operation SCOUR.[3]

Manufacturing[edit]

Cyclops Incorporated has manufacturing centers on the following planets:

New Earth[edit]

Units produced on New Earth:[4][5]
Vehicle Type
Combat Vehicles
Drillson[4][5] Hovercraft

Skye[edit]

Units produced on Skye:[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Vehicle Type
Combat Vehicles
Drillson[6] Hovercraft
Fulcrum[7] Hovercraft
Fulcrum Hover Tank II[8] Hovercraft
Glaive[9] Wheeled Vehicles - Medium Tank
Heavy Hover APC[citation needed] Hovercraft
Hover APC[6] Hovercraft - Transport
Maxim[6] Hovercraft - Transport
Maxim Flanker[10] Hovercraft - Transport
Maxim Mk II[11] Hovercraft - Transport
Saxon APC[12] Hovercraft

Brand Components[edit]

Cyclops Incorporated is known to produce the following brand components:

Component Notes / Used By
Armor (BattleMechs & Combat Vehicles)
ArcShield Light Produced on Skye for Hover APC[6]
ArcShield Heavy Produced on Skye for Drillson[6] & Glaive[9]
ArcShield V Produced on Skye for Maxim[6]
Beagle Active Probe
Cyclops-Beagle Sensory Probe [citation needed]
Communications System
Cyclops 1 Produced on Skye for Drillson[4][5][6]
Cyclops 1J Glaive[9]
Cyclops 12 [citation needed]
Cyclops 14 [citation needed]
Cyclops Surelink Maxim Mk II[11]
Maxim New Standard I-O Produced on Skye for Maxim[6]
Internal Combustion Engine
MaxLift Hover Engine 65 Produced on Skye for Drillson[6]
MaxLift Model B Hover Engine 80 Produced on Skye for Hover APC[6]
MaxLift II Hover Engine 165 Produced on Skye for Maxim[6]
Targeting-Tracking System
Cyclops 9 [citation needed]
Cyclops Multi-Tasker 10 [citation needed]
Cyclops Evil Eye Produced on Skye for Drillson[4][5][6]
Maxim New Standard TargetTrack Produced on Skye for Maxim[6]
ER Large Laser
Cyclops XII Glaive[9]
Produced on Skye and shipped to Tharkad for Wolfhound and Hesperus II for Zeus[6]
Large Laser
Cyclops Eye Produced on Skye for Drillson[4][5][6]
Machine Gun
Kicker Produced on Skye for Drillson[6] & Glaive[9]
SRM-2
Hovertec Produced on Skye for Maxim
Shipped to New Earth for Manticore and Gienah for Packrat[6]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 143: "Cyclops, Incorporated (CycInc)"
  2. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 107: "Lyran Alliance"
  3. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 107: "Blake/Terran Protectorate"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Technical Readout: 3039, p. 62: "Drillson Produced Components"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Technical Readout: 3026 Revised, p. 54: "Produced Drillson Vehicle Components"
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 Objective Raids, p. 86: "Produced Cyclops Incorporated Components"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Technical Readout: 3058, p. 46: The Fulcrum hovertank is produced at Cyclops
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Technical Readout: 3058, p. 90: "Variants": the new variant is mentioned in Upgrade only
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Technical Readout: 3067, p. 14: "Glaive Components"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Experimental Technical Readout: Corporations, p. 11: "Produced Maxim variant"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Technical Readout: 3085, p. 28: "Produced Maxim Mk II Components"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Technical Readout: 3075, p. 48: "Saxon Components"

Bibliography[edit]

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