Lexington-Steele

Steele Innovations (Formerly Lexington-Steele, Lexington Armaments) is a massive, pre-invasion conglomerate headed by Ava 'Alice' Steele.
While she holds her family's original goals and legacy in mind, Steele continues to radically alter the company to be more in line with David Lexington and Dominic Steele's late philanthropic intentions.
==History==
===Pre-Assembly===
Created in 2114 by Samuel Lexington, Lexington Armaments was a privately traded weapons manufacturer that focused primarily on the creation of small ballistic weapons. Though they turned a small profit during early operation, Humanity's acceptance into the Intergalactic Assembly and the resulting ban on ballistic ammunition caused financial hardship on the Lexington family.
===Creation of Lexington-Steele===
Samuel Lexington died shortly after the ban, leaving a dying company to his only heir, David Lexington. David began restructuring the company after his first year of operation, and in 2125, David's close friend, Dominic Steele, joined him as a company head. Now known as Lexington-Steele, the company began creating military tech for the reformed UN Navy. Their tech ranged from blasters and training simulators to energy knives and genetic modification. Both Dominic and David were philanthropists in their own right—a trait associated with their families as a whole—and they participated in many ventures for the overall benefit of the UN: new ship designs, funding underappreciated research projects, and a large, encyclopedic, database of information accessible by the Extranet.
===Post-Invasion===
After the Ubiar Invasion, Lexington-Steele was left without any heads, and since the company remained private, it renamed within the family. Both Rachel Steele and Vincent Lexington vanished from the public eye, and the company was tossed around in a trust until the next heir, Alice Steele, turned 18 in 2198. Alice was vocal about her distaste for the company's previous focus, and quickly soon restructured it into Steele Innovations, hoping to use its resources to benefit life in the Milky Way instead of destroying it.
==Controversy==
===Lexington-Steel Transport===
Though the main branch of Lexington-Steele hadn't been the target of any large scandals, their ventures can't make that claim. During the second year of Lexington-Steel Transport, several large ships were subject to pirate attacks. Ambushes themselves are common with operations in dangerous sectors, but the idea that an Armaments company couldn't properly defend their ships drew public ire.
===Eve===
One of David Lexington's personal interests was the creation of advanced AI, and he created many prototypes for different purposes during his lifetime. Eve, his most popular prototype, violated several Assembly Laws and resulted in hefty fines after it was leaked onto the Extranet.
===Vincent Lexington===
Though Vincent Lexington, David's son, became an Invasion war hero after his father's death, there were many pre-war rumors about his participation in several gangs before becoming a member of the UNS Argo.
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