Industrial Face Annihilators

Industrial Face Annihilators, LLC, is a wholy-owned subsidiary of the Gudersnipe Foundation and is responsible for the design, development, and production of fixed-forward-facing and turret-mounted directed-energy weapon for the Gudersnipe School and Crimson Blade fleets. Specifically, they produce the guns used on everything from Cutters to the largest Battleships. Additionally, their guns are sometimes used on orbital weapon's platforms.

History

IFA was founded in A.Y. 114 to build weapons for the then new Gudersnipe Foundation. It was initially a seperate legal entity, and sold all manner of weapons and weapon systems to whomever would buy them. A good deal of IFA's startup capitol came from an early itteration of the Ruling Council. When the Ruling Council collapsed in A.Y. 127, IFA was able to dogde all financial responsibility, and the debts were not repaid until A.Y. 6115 in a symbolic show of cooperation during the Kamian Succession Wars.

Other Notes

Planet-based directed-energy defense systems are built by IFA's sister-company, Consolidated Knee Breakers, Incorporated. CKB, Inc borrows much of the same technology, but maintains seperate factories and development facilities. While similar, there are numerous major changes to the type, capacity, and arrangement of CKB, Inc's technology.

Smaller weapons, such as the directed energy weapons mounted on corvettes, fighters, and used as close-in or point-defenses, are usually given to outside firms, such as Consolidated Head Melters.