Vandelay Technologies

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***Vandelay Technologies*** is the name of the company surrounding the core of Hi-Fi Rush's story. It's base of operation is a campus that encompasses an entire island, which serves as the setting for the game. Chai is a volunteer of the company's newest experiment, Project Armstrong, and the CEO of the company, Kale Vandelay, is the game's main antagonist.

## Faculty

Most staff members of the company in-game appear to be robots, but there are humans of note who do work there. All of them are in positions of power, so it may be that all the heavy work is done by robots.

## History

Originally named “Vandelay Solutions”, the company had humble roots, being founded by Roxanne Vandelay, designing chips and robotics in her garage and selling them out of her car. Within 3 years, the company became the world's largest suppliers of robotics. Through her brilliant designs, Roxanne managed to expand the company and solved a global energy crisis, as well as aiding in the cleanup of ecological disasters, one of which Korsica bared witness to.

In recent times, Roxanne mysteriously “retired” one day, leaving the position of CEO to be taken over by her son, Kale Vandelay.

## Structure

The Vandelay Campus encompasses most of a volcanic island with the same name, about the size of a city.

### Vandelay Production

QA and Production are situated in the southwest, close together.

### Vandelay Research and Development

The R&D is close to one of its volcanic mountains west of the island, though most of it is underground to take advantage of the geothermal energy production.

### Vandelay Security

The Security Department has multiple wings across the campus, connected by the underground L.I.F.T. transportation system, but the largest is Wing 2, consisting of a large structure next to Vandelay Tower.

### Vandelay Marketing

The Marketing Department, including the Vandelay Museum, is situated on the southeast, by a cliff briefly shown in the game's final cutscene.

### Vandelay Tower

Vandelay Tower (which encompasses the main offices and the Finance Department) is the largest building, to the north.

### Vandelay Gameworks

The defunct Vandelay Gameworks is in an undisclosed underground area, briefly set up for game development within Vandelay Technologies. Led by Director J, it was eventually discontinued and abandoned, and used as storage for rogue robot units as its programmers were "expendable".

### Others

Unknown to the company staff, Peppermint set up a Hideout in a undisclosed derelict area of the campus.

## In-Game

It is eventually revealed that Roxanne didn't actually retire, and that she was manipulated by Kale using his Spectra AI to hand over the company to him. Once in power, Kale revised the history of the company, claiming the aforementioned Roxanne retirement, taking credit for robotic limbs Roxanne developed, claiming that he is Roxanne's only child, and mocking the company's humble origins. He kicked out or demoted other department heads, including Macaron, and instated new ones that would support his plans with SPECTRA.

## Trivia

* Vandelay has copyrighted V-shaped arrow signs, as an in-game explanation to their proeminence around the facilities.
* At least two human employees are mentioned in the company's magazines(seen through Photo Mode) and signs; however, no humans other than Macaron and the Heads of Department are seen.
* In the concept art unlocked by the Arcade Challenge! Update!'s completion, the SPECTRA tower is situated on the lower building next to Vandelay Tower, but in the final game, it's directly behind it, very close to the top floors.
* Vandelay Technologies may have derived its name from *Seinfeld*'s Vandelay Industries, a fictional company that George Costanza makes up to get an extension on his unemployment benefits.