Spitevice Group
The Spitevise Group is a syndicate of rocketry and personal arms and body armor manufacturing companies across the Sovereign Confederation. Orchestrated in 1715 by Wintergleam's DefenCo upon its costly buyout of Assayer Armaments, the syndicate was originally intended to streamline the manufacturing and shipment process within Suthergold's highly specialized jetpack and hydrograv airship industries. By implementing and maintaining uniform standards, recovery in these sectors saw greater progress than in the previous decades since the Republican War. The initial years for the organization were characterized by publicized donations of their bespoke jet-armor to the various security forces in Chryse, typically reserved for specialized operational maneuvers or military spectacle. The ensuing demand for training kept operations on track to run steadily as the advertisement budget bloated with a promotional film project in 1717.
The Suren Years
By 1718, the spectacle of the Chrysean project and the cancellation of their planned entertainments ventures had lost much of the initial luster of the promising new organization. Overproduction and very few early orders led to a strategy of franchising training and equipment/maintenance services for their unique operational applications in conjunction with Raspur Pact exercises across Micras. Particularly interested in these early franchises were the Surenids of Eura, who have encouraged veterans and others seeking opportunity to sign on with Spitevice's "Local Auxiliary Franchises" in combating their people's struggles with ongoing regional conflict.
This investment bought the Spitevice Group a ringside seat in what would become known as the Norasht campaign.
Security services in Benacia
The experiences garnered by the Group in Eura paid dividends as it sought to expand into the domestic security market of the Benacian Union. Spitevice's armaments, security hardware, and training packages of local enforcement agents were keenly sought by municipal corporations engaged in expanding and hardening the infrastructure built up around the turnpike bastions which facilitate transit between bailiwicks.
Armaments production
During IX.1731 AN Spitevice found itself on the receiving end of the attentions of the General Plenipotentiary for Armament Tasks, thereby being subjected to a hitherto unexperienced level of coordination by higher authority. With the Shiro-Benacian Cold War threatening to go hot in the months ahead, the Union-State discovered, to its chagrin, that it had a deficit of over a million firearms to fill before it could declare the myriad State Guards, which acted as a reserve for the Benacian Union Defence Force, to be fully equipped. As the inheritors of Assayer Armaments, it was therefore inevitable that Spitevice would be tasked with reactivating its production facilities, with a six month deadline for full resumption of manufacturing.
