Rownecorp

"I'm shit at naming things, get used to it." Jackie Rowne talking to her agents after one of them asked about the company name.
Rownecorp was formed in 1939 by Jackie Rowne after she had raided a Dragoian gold store to obtain funds.
==Overview==
Rownecorp is a privately owned arms company and private army that operates from the human nation of Heraldia on Dragoia (Planet).
It was set up in late 1939 by Jackie Rowne after she was the sole survivor (she shot the rest of her squad and kept all the spoils for herself) of a raid on a suspiciously lightly-defended Dragoian gold store. The money gained from the huge supplies of gold stolen was used to fund the research and development of an idea Rowne had come up with before the Dragoian Civil War as well as manufacture weapons, including license built Hydra Pistols both in their standard form and an altered form that made them usable by humans.
Rownecorp's first employee was Naresh Lisark, a Dragoian gunsmith who had previously been commissioned by Rowne in early 1920 to make her Anti-Tank Lance VamPyre and custom heavy armour, with the two building a friendly working relationship in the years since. Naresh was officially head of Rownecorp R&D and chief gunsmith, but also served as Rowne's second in command during Rownecorp's early years, overseeing the construction of Rowne Manor and the Rownecorp facilities on it's grounds. He would continue to use his own shop to work on prototype weapons until the relevant facilities at Rowne Manor were constructed. 
Rownecorp only really got noticed by the Heraldians, and also Dragoians (excluding Dragyia), when, in 1943, as a birthday gift for Rowne, the prototype RC-LS-1 was finally finished and began a series of trial runs, these trials were also when Rowne abruptly stopped working for the Heraldian Military. Prior to this, Rownecorp was effectively believed to just be a tiny company making and converting Hydra Pistols for safe human usage.
Rownecorp workers are usually well paid with good job security and a solid retirement plan. However, on the other side, Rownecorp workers' main complaints almost exclusively stem from the fear caused by the brutal punishments and overbearing ego of Jackie Rowne herself and later on, fear of the often as brutal Rownecorp agents, with the Huntress Agents in particular being despised as nothing more than Rowne's personal thugs.
==Reputation==
Prior to the introduction of Starships in 2013, Rownecorp gained a feared reputation within the Human nations with terrestrial links to the continent of the Great Dragoness, this reputation was most prominent in Rownecorp's home country of Heraldia. 
This was partly due to Rownecorp products being far superior to anything else made by Humans, making Rownecorp a potential threat to the Human nations. Some Human nations tried to obtain Rownecorp designs, either through stealing them, or trying to buy them. Whether it be by theft or negotiation, no Human nation could ever obtain any Rownecorp product other than the few select firearms that were sold on the civilian market and from these limited examples struggled to make a downsized version for Human usage.
One of the reasons for Rownecorp's technological superiority over other Human made weapons was due to the fact that Rownecorp, thanks initially to stolen Dragoian gold, and later profits from selling firearms and spoils from other raids, could afford to use Rare Dragoian Metal in it's designs even for human-sized equipment. This use of RDM allowed Rownecorp armour to be considerably stronger than non-RDM alloy armour, and also allowed the use of higher strength gunpowder in weapons for greater hitting power without fear of damage. Rownecorp equipment quickly gained a reputation among Dragoian mercenaries for being high quality and somewhat heavy, but capable of performing to and sometimes exceeding levels set by Imperial army standard equipment.
Rownecorp's feared reputation was also due to the raids the Rownecorp Security Force performed, normally on criminal gangs, within human countries. With the Rownecorp force showing up with Dragoians armed with full military-spec gear, wiping the criminals out without any regards for collateral damage, then making off with anything of value. While governments hated Rownecorp raids for their illegal nature and high collateral damage, local populations would occasionally quietly praise them for finally ridding them of large criminal gangs that ineffective policing and government refusal to call for help from the Dragoian Army had failed to remove. These raids would occasionally cause diplomatic incidents when they were performed outside of Heraldia.
Following the introduction of starships in 2013, Dragoian-standard starship related technologies, rather than the deliberately substandard designs given to the rest of the humans, were secretly leaked to Rownecorp with the intent that Rownecorp would take their raids to space and act as pirates that could locate new technologies and explore the galaxy. A decision by Rowne to not target either the Dragoian Empire or Human Alliance's ships and instead offer civilian vessels a paid armed escort gave the Rownecorp fleet less of a bad reputation than Rownecorp's past had earned, even going so far to consider them effective but expensive protection. Conversely, the Dragoian Separatists considered the Rownecorp fleet a menace, being frequently raided by them.
==As An Arms Manufacturer==
While Rownecorp was officially set up in order to fund weapons development and manufacture, it sold very few weapons in human countries, as most of the Rownecorp arsenal was incapable of being wielded by a human, with the only commonly manufactured weapons that could be used by humans that were actually sold being the converted Dragoian Hydra Pistols, which were almost exclusively sold to the Heraldian Army.
Barring the modified Hydra Pistols, the vast majority of infantry weapons designed by Rownecorp could only be wielded without a sturdy mount by a Dragoian, as use by a human would snap the human user's arms with their powerful recoil much like a Dragoian made weapon. Rownecorp weapons are generally inferior to those of the Dragoian Empire but will outclass most civilian made Dragoian weapons. As a result, Rownecorp weapons were often favoured by Dragoian mercenaries who could afford the high cost.
As of 2018, Rownecorp started building starships using supposedly stolen Dragoian technology, with the delayed launch of these ships being primarily due to needing to build the facilities to construct them first. These ships greatly outclass any Human Alliance designs but suffer slightly when compared to the equivalent Dragoian designs.
Few Rownecorp products other than firearms actually make it to the civilian or black markets.
====Products====
=====Vehicles=====
*RC-LS-1, Landship
*RC-HC-1, Starship (Heavy Cruiser)
*RC-BS-1, Starship (Battleship)
*RC-DS-1, One-Off Starship (Dreadnought) finished in 2024 but started in 2018
=====Firearms=====
*RC-ATL, Anti-Tank Lance
*RC-MR, Military Rifle
*RC-MMG, Military Machinegun
*RC-HP, Heavily custom Revolver known as a "Huntress Pistol", not commercially sold.
*Hydra Pistol, License built copies of the Dragoian Hydra pistol, in both Imperial Dragoian Army standard specification and a modified single-barrel configuration that can be built with a custom stock allowing for Human use.
=====Armour=====
*RC-BA-1, Rowne's Personal Armour
*RC-HBA, Human Body Armour
*RC-DBA, Dragoian Body Armour
==As A Security Force==
The Rownecorp Security Forces (RSF) is Jackie Rowne's private army, it consists heavily of Dragoian mercenaries which act as foot soldiers with a lot of humans for armoured vehicle crews (humans are considered better, as internal spaces can be smaller and allow for thicker armour). The RSF is officially registered as a licensed mercenary company in the Dragoian Empire as a technicality to prevent the Dragoian Empire sending it's military to destroy the RSF. As a result, the RSF is occasionally hired in secret by local governments to deal with persistent crime who consider the Rownecorp strike's inevitable heavy collateral damage to be the lesser of two evils, or sometimes hired by criminal gangs who wanted to wipe a rival gang out without risking their own men.
===Dragoians===
Rownecorp employs large numbers of Dragoian mercenaries and criminals who want to murder humans and/or fight the Dragoian Empire with equipment better than what a Dragoian civilian can obtain. Rules for these Dragoians do not allow them to betray Rowne (this results in either being shot, or being devoured by Rowne after being tortured by her) but does allow the Dragoians to devour any humans they come near as long as they aren't in the RSF or Rownecorp.
As a result, RSF Dragoians are well known to be thugs and their presence in a town, Dragoian or Human, will nearly always end in civilian casualties.
====Dragoian Equipment====
The RSF's Dragoian equipment varies from that of the RSF's human equipment.
=====Standard armament=====
*1x Hydra Pistol
*1x Main Weapon (depends on specialisation, Lancers carry Anti-Tank lances, Troopers a SMG, Scouts a rifle, Snipers a sniper rifle and Engineers a rifle).
=====Standard armour=====
*Multi-layered (Thick fabric-Rare Dragoian Metal alloy chainmail-Thick fabric) shirt type uniform of dark brown colour with optional grey armour plates.
*Armoured chestplate (optional)
*Armoured knee plates (optional)
*Arm-mounted blast shield (Lancers only)
*Armoured elbow plates (optional)
*Armoured plates on chest (optional).
=====Other=====
*1x Clip-on backpack to carry kit in as well as showing class insignia
*A small personal item that can be carried in a pocket, only restriction is that it can't be slander towards Jackie Rowne.
*1x Utility Belt (Engineers only)
*1x Personal radio (or radio backpack if squad radioman)
===Humans===
Rownecorp employs humans in two different roles, with most becoming crews for the armoured vehicle fleet owned by Rownecorp. Most humans are from Heraldia, and those in leadership/officer roles are almost exclusively female.
====Armoured Vehicle Crews====
The bulk of the RSF's humans are crew for the RC-LS-1 type of landship. These crews are normally treated badly, but no worse than in a degrading job such as fast-food shop worker, but receive pay better than most other jobs in exchange for their often gruelling work conditions. Most of these crews were drafted from normal Rownecorp employees, but sometimes the members joined the RSF because they were not fit enough to join the Heraldian army. The few chosen to be the captains of the landships are always female, and are normally in good favour with Jackie Rowne.
====Human Equipment====
Human equipment is minimal at best, the modified Hydra Pistol is only included in-case the landship is boarded.
=====Standard armament=====
*1x Modified Hydra Pistol
=====Standard armour=====
*Thick brown fabric shirt and trousers.
=====Other=====
*A small personal item that can be carried in a pocket, only restriction is that it can't be slander towards Jackie Rowne.
*1x Personal radio
====Agents====
===== Main Article: Rownecorp Agents =====
Rownecorp agents are an all female division of Rownecorp set up in 1999 that are not actually part of the RSF, only taking orders from other agents or Rowne herself. The job of Rownecorp agents is often unclear as they remain anonymous to the general public and even the bulk of Rownecorp only knows them by visual identification mostly due to their distinctive uniforms. People who know the agents have claimed that they perform some strange rituals, and are all lacking male family members. Rownecorp agents are known to have been trained in ways of causing humans intense pain, without killing them.
The first agent Rowne recruited was Athea Snaoca.
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