Horizon Industries

== Overview ==
Horizon Industries, formally known as Horizon Computers, is a software development group that is less focused on actually fighting opponents and instead focused on developing the technology used for first response scenarios and battles. Previously, Horizon Industries has served anyone who asked with a couple of exceptions, but now has only really assisted NATO in software development, more specifically AEF.
While details of most projects Horizon works on remain private for client security, the most notable public projects were an operating system completely made in E2, and an AI that would learn and fight tanks. However, these projects never made it to the light of day, due to developing issues. The OS is still in a somewhat development state, although little work is done to it, in favor of assisting clients instead.
== History ==
=== Founding ===
Horizon Computers was founded on August 25, 2017, after the collapse of The Halen Republic. Archangel_510 and March were originally inspired by previous computers made in Garry's Mod, such as the AlxPC OS. Original plans were to move completely away from Garry's Mod factions entirely, and only work on the OS as a hobby, but both March saw potential in using the technology for faction-related uses.
=== Event OS Development ===
Event OS development began sometime around August 25th as well, and production was incredibly rushed. The first "teaser" came out for it around September 8th, 2017, with production of that being extremely rushed as well. Captain Cancer, who previously was in Halen, offered to help with filming, as March's PC had very outdated specifications, and could not run Garry's Mod at a stable frame-rate, especially recording Garry's Mod.
The teaser for Event received mixed results, with 144 views and a 6-1 like ratio as of July 2020. The video was privatized sometime in 2018 and has not received any attention since then.
Event was advertised as a "Consumer, then Military" operating system, with primary concerns being for consumer use, while military use was going to be tacked onto the final product. Originally AEF (at the time, RFAI) and TTF/KS were showing significant interest in Event, as it showed great potential at the time to them.
=== Development Struggles ===
Development was very slow after the original teaser, with barely any work really being done in September of 2019. That1nub, who was at the time, one of the head developers of the Event OS project, designed a brand new UI. March at the time barely understood E2 and slowly realized that the task he was attempting to accomplish was impossible for his skill level.
Development continued, relying primarily on That1nub for development. New update checking and application frameworks were implemented.
Development was immediately discontinued sometime in October, due to that1nub being very busy, and the sudden Sandbox Continental War that erupted in October of 2017.
=== Aftermath ===
Following the aftermath of ISA, it was obvious that the end goals of Horizon were unobtainable and if obtainable impractical, and most development stopped. There have been some attempts to make an OS since, but nothing of substantial note, except for the current version being built now. Even then, the development is more or less a hobby.
There is currently no clan-related development going on, and Horizon at the moment is just three people, of only which one is actively working.