REPCONN Aerospace REPCONN Aerospace ( Rocket Engineering and Production COmpaNy of Nevada ) was a company based in Nevada that specialized in rocket manufacture , primarily for the U . S . government . Their headquarters and test site can still be found in the Mojave Wasteland . Background . < section begin = " background " / > 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 senior RobCo management staff . It was formed in 2054 after the famous Delta IX rocket was developed and launched . Its original purpose was to develop orbital propulsion systems . Its first line of research was into nuclear fission based propulsion . This was soon succeeded by plasma based propulsion . The company was seen as having great potential . So the two corporate giants , Poseidon Energy and RobCo Industries , made attempts to buy out the company . While 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 , the latter succeeded . Steeple tried to rally the board again and sought help from Masters . While Julia officially agreed to support him , she was working with General Manager Piers Isley to undermine Steeple ' s position in the company and get the board of directors to give the Vice President a vote of no confidence , after he refused to even consider selling his part of the company , in order to maintain their independence and integrity . In 2075 , Steeple stepped down from his position as vice president as the board voted against him and the company was acquired by RobCo Industries , following a disastrous accident during the test of REPCONN ' s newest type of rocket . Carl Rook became the next vice president and his first move was to enhance security around the company and initiate a weapons research program for Colonel Moretti of the US military . Later , Steve Reynolds , the cause of the accident ( he pushed the R & D team too hard and cut corners ) forced Senior Engineer Martin Neimeyer , who was aware of Reynold ' s role in the incident , to resign . REPCONN and its parent company RobCo took major hits to their public image sometime after the latter ' s acquisition of the former . In a promotional effort , REPCONN rolled out a line of rocket souvenir s filled with liquid and an actual rocket igniting agent to make them glow . Some pre - War children opened them and drank them , thinking they were filled with some kind of Nuka - Cola , afflicting them with the REPCONN Shakes condition . The souvenirs were dumped in bulk and internal problems arose in the wake of public outrage over the incident . By 2076 , the Q - 35 matter modulator project ( based on REPCONN ' s salvaged proprietary plasma rocket propulsion system ) was underway . The first fully working prototype was completed using stolen Project Semele schematics , acquired by Carl Rook ' s sources inside Poseidon Energy . < section end = " background " / > Notes . The company ' s name is misspelled as " REPCON " in some of the posters .