Bureau of Experimental Military Research

The Bureau of Experimental Military Research is a Terran agency tasked with the development of advanced weaponry for the Terran military. It is also known as BEMiR. It is one of the main divisions of the Department of Military Development. BEMiR was founded in 2325 following the Battle of Audacious with the explicit purpose of reverse engineering Ur-Han technology. It is credited with developing the first Terran shield systems. With the end of the war the agency shifted towards developing original weapons technology. It is responsible for the development of advanced military technologies such as Project 456 (Atmospheric Deprivation Weapons) and Project 115 (HERAKLES). BEMiR, though in theory only a research agency, also acts as an intelligence agency concerned with industrial espionnage of foreign military technology.