Orca A.

**Orca Advancements** is a major watercraft and submarine equipment provider, founded in 2018 after a merger of 2 large water equipment companies that has now managed to have a small influence on any sector their main products are in. They were formerly known for their iconic "SharkRam" underwater ramjet technology that allowed for aquatic vehicles to reach unimaginable speeds, which was banned from the Super Modified League after a major incident involving the system caused the deaths of multiple spectators and a driver from another team.

## Important People

### Key Figures

Henry Jimson (Race Engineer)Mason Williams (Mechanic)

### Known Drivers

Dan Tremini (#1 Driver)Allison Wolfe (#2 Driver)

## History

Orca Advancements has had a long history before they were founded as the conglomerate they are today. Years before, in 1974, a small diving equipment company, Orca Equipment, was established as a supplier of oxygen tanks and other sorts of diving equipment that could withstand extremely low depths and high pressures. About 6 years later, in 1980, Aquatic Advancements was established in New South Wales as a company that specialized in luxury boats, small scale submarines, and the like. By that time, Orca Equipment had grown considerably out of their small Brisbane shop, offering more products to the market and even creating components that Aquatic Advancements used in their vehicles.

In a shrewd move by Aquatic Advancements' leaders, they offered Orca a partnership: they give them parts at a discounted rate alongside funding, and AA would offer them their research documents and blueprints to improve their products. Orca Equipment gladly accepted this proposal, and a long partnership ensured both of these companies a prosperous future. During this time, Aquatic Advancements developed some of the finest watercraft they'd ever produced with the increased funding and availability of Orca's high end equipment. This culminated in many innovative technologies, including underwater ramjet engines (named the SharkRam system), automatic saltwater-to-fuel conversion for submarines, extremely high thrust over the water engines, and even water based aerodynamic designs to cut through the water faster and faster.

By 2016, the 2 companies made plans to merge to give them even more expensive control over the world market, and in 2018, it was made public. Orca Equipment bought and then merged with Aquatic Advancements, combining their names to become Orca Advancments. With the newfound combined companies, they had an expensive reach over the entire aquatic equipment industry, giving them enough capital to expand into other technologies.

Orca caught wind of the Super Modified League after a long while of developing high end technology, and they chose to join in order to showcase their products viability above ground as well to gain a foothold in aircraft and land vehicle development. They entered the league in 2037, becoming the first team to defeat Markza after their 3 year long streak of victories.

While most of these developments have remained somewhat secretive, a major project that became public was the OrcaBoost system they now use in their vehicles that replaced the banned SharkRam system. The SharkRam had been banned after a major incident, noted as the "1081 Fireball" that caused the death of a driver from Markza, alongside multiple spectator casualties. The huge conglomerate lost about $26 million in compensation and were banned from competition until they could replace the SharkRam technology, which has now been done with OrcaBoost: a powerful sequential turbo system that increases power exponentially as the vehicle's speed increases. Out of principle, Orca cars are never fitted with Kanata Suspension systems due to their fierce rivalry with Markza, sacrificing their ability to turn for straight line speed. Because of this, they chose to outfit their vehicles with stronger, more resilient reinforcement and shielding to protect their vehicles from damage after a ram. Out of principle, Orca's drivers target Markza in almost every event to try and knock them out of the race to compensate for their major loss all those years ago.

Orca Advancements has a dedicated fanbase within the League, and they aren't going to give any mercy to Markza, or anyone who gets into their way.

## Super Modified Info

> "*An iconic Australian team known for their heavyset aggression, Orca Advancements is known for their hard to handle, heavily shielded tanks that have incredibly powerful high-rev engines, giving them unmatched speed in straights but also lacking in acceleration."*
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- Super Modified Game Guide

Orca Advancements, like their mentality, play with extremes, with incredible top speed and shielding alongside good weapon power, but incredibly poor agility and acceleration. While they may be named the "Apex Predators", most of the time you'll be missing that apex. As such, knowing how to use Afterburner and drifting with this team is essentially crucial to survival on technical tracks, and their incredible shield capacity allows for more than just mere taps of the Afterburner System, which, compounded with their high enough weapon damage, can lead to an aggressive and forward-facing mindset, taking out enemies or speeding past them when there's a given opportunity.

## Team Stats

### Strategy

* Keep the pressure up with weapons and aggression. Your car can ABSOLUTELY take it, and being on the offensive means you'll be on the defensive less, which is bad for a vehicle that isn't very agile.
* Afterburner use is essential to surviving technical tracks. Use it to regain some speed, don't be scared of the shield loss.
* **DON'T SLOW DOWN**. You can't afford to lose any speed when your acceleration is terrible. If there's any opportunity to pass another driver, by any means, take the gap.

## 2058 Background

*Orca is the 3rd major team that made their debut in the Super Modified League as a major player, cutting the now iconic Markza Autosports' 3 year winning streak short with their powerfully fast vehicles, though an incident led them to a full redesign of their craft and removal of their iconic SharkRam miniature ramjet system.*

*Brutally difficult to handle, but having an incredible feeling of power, Orca's vehicles reward aggression and nonstop momentum. Though their handling is weighty and acceleration is poor, their speed can cut through the road like almost nothing else, and their shield systems allow for some more dirty play than most teams can afford.*

*(Information above provided by an investigation of the team's vehicles to ensure League legality.)*

## 2058 Message

**Leaked Recording, Orca Advancements' Chief Operations Officer, Research Chambers, Brisbane, Australia, January 4th, 2058**

Welcome back, investors and... league authorites, to another meeting to discuss our current status and developments. The Orcaboost system has reached a turning point, allowing us to pack even more air and fuel into a single stroke, drastically increasing power at high speeds. Though this isn't nearly as powerful as the SharkRam's instant power increase, the change is noticeable, allowing us to cut through a quarter mile at almost 3/4ths of the time it was originally during the start of last year's research cycle. As such, we will be installing these on our vehicles immediately as long as the stewards here approve of the use of this technology.

Alongside this, we have made some drastic improvements to the Afterburner system, with our Afterburners allowing for a faster, more reactive boost when it is activated, which allows our drivers to make moves that could originally only be made with the SharkRam system. Though this technology is strenuous to use, we have ensured that another... Incident will not occur with constant collision testing and boost capping. As such, we hope you approve of this development as well.

*... Other than that, with our profits slightly dropping for this quarter compared to the drastic increase from last year...*

## Gallery

Orca Adv.'s Viper, used in the Super Modified class.Orca Adv.'s RSX, used in the Tuner class.Orca Adv.'s retired Supra, formerly used in the Super Tuner class.Orca Adv.'s Corvette, used in the Super Tuner class.
## Trivia

* Orca Advancements is a parodization of 2 teams from other game series combined into one concept: Piranha Advancements (WipEout) and Hammerhead Racing (GRID)
* Orca Advancements was originally a sponsor before being turned into a full team.