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Maxwell Corporation [Rostil V4]

Slogan:
Providing for the future

Founded: 1907

Headquarters: Sankt Ark, Euro-Asia

CEO: Malone Wallis

The Maxwell Corporation is one of Euro Asia's four premier companies, alongside General Resource LTD., Siegbahn Armaments and Eurasian Air Defense Systems (EADS). Maxwell is most famous for being the manufacturer of the Type X series armoured vehicles of the 20th century and the Rewalt series semi-automatic rifles of the 1940s and 50s. The company was also involved in a corruption scandal in the 1980s involving the crash of an airliner. Today, Maxwell builds civilian goods and airliners, most of its military industrial sector bought out by General Resource LTD.

History:

Origins and The Great War
Maxwell Industries was founded in Sankt Ark in 1907 by Yorick Maxwell. The company initially manufactured civilian goods such as construction and farming tools. When the Great War broke out, the company was commissioned to build the Russo-Spanish Ostrov Armory 1898 rifles under license, as well as artillery. As the war progressed, and casualties piled up, Maxwell began license producing the Adrian helmet. In 1916, the company began building Britannian and Amerii tanks under license. The license production of these tanks would be crucial for the post-war years. Due to increased demand, Maxwell was also commissioned by the Euro-Asian military to license produce the Mabrycg Arms Company's Lancaar series Anti-Tank Rocket Lances and the Siegbahn Firearms Company's Mags series submachine guns. By war's end in 1919, Maxwell made a large profit from the arms sales.

The Inter-War Years and the Schayne Plains War
After the Great War ended, Yorick Maxwell, who lost his son in the war, began grooming his daughter, Suzy, to take over for when he eventually passed away. In the post-war years, Maxwell initially returned to producing civilian products, which, through its experience in building tanks, included farming tractors. In 1921, Suzy Maxwell married Hinrich Wallis, the heir to the Wallis Locomotive Company. In 1922, Maxwell merged with the Wallis Locomotive Company, allowing Maxwell to produce railway locomotives, and thus re-naming the company to Maxwell Heavy Industries.

In 1923, Maxwell began producing the Type 10 light tank, as an answer to the Euro-Asian military's need for a new tank to replace its license built Britannian and Amerii tanks of the Great War. The Type 10 light tank, nicknamed the Gary, after General Edward Gary from the Euro-Belkan War of 1874, was a tank created using lessons learned from the Britannic-designed Mk.V, Mk.X turret-equipped heavy land-ships and Mk.XII flamethrower-equipped heavy land-ships, and the Renault FT turret-equipped light tanks, produced and used by many of the Allied Coalition nations during the Great War. It was produced from 1923 to 1935, and was exported to allies of Euro-Asia, including, but not limited to, Zhong Wenming and Estainia.

In 1933 due to reports of advances in armour by Belkaland, Rome, White Sun, Hälsingland, and Birkaine (more specifically White Sun when they invaded Zhong Wenming in 1931), Maxwell began building the Type 20 family to replace the Type 10. The Type 20 family had been in service since it entered production in 1933, and saw service by Zhong Wenming and Estainia. Production of the Type 20 family, which was comprised of the Type 20 Gunther, the Type 24 Thiemer and the Type 26 Shamrock, ceased in 1944.

Also in 1933, when it became apparent that Euro-Asia needed to replace their horse-drawn transports, Maxwell Industries tried to come up with an armoured personnel carrier. The Type 29 APC did not have a good carrying capacity and was not a great success at home. In 1939, the first of the Type 30 family tanks entered production, upon reports of advancements in heavier armour by Belkaland, Hälsingland and Birkaine. The first model, the Type 30 Varrot, was used by the Euro-Asian Army in protecting its home territory in the stand-off between themselves on one end and Birkaine and Alisonia on the other. The second model, the Type 36 Brixham entered production in 1943, which involved better armor and a more reliable engine. The final model, the Type 38 Manson entered production in 1947. Its improvements over the Type 36 mainly involved a heavier 88 mm main gun, meant as an immediate answer to Hälsingland's heavier tanks and as a response to reports of heavier tanks produced by Birkaine. The Type 38 served in the Euro-Asian Army and Marines all the way through the length of the Schayne Plains War from 1947 to 1954.

In the mid-to-late 1930s, the Eurasian military realized that the Ostrov 1898 bolt-action rifle was becoming increasingly outdated. As a result, Maxwell put offered the military the first of the Rewalt series semi-automatic rifles. The Rewalt was comprised of four initial variants: The Rewalt-1, -1R / -2, -3 and -3R / -4. Other models were offered, the Rewalt-A series, which used a water-based cooling system within the action to ensure smooth rapid fire, uncommon in standard rifles; the -S series, which had an elongated barrel to ensure a stable firing trajectory; and the -X series, which was a very radical design change to enable the firing of specialty rounds. The -A and -X series never entered production, but the -S series entered production and service as specialized marksman rifles. Overall, the Rewalt was a huge success for the company and served in the Euro-Asian Army and Marines through the 1940s all the way through the Schayne Plains War.

In 1945, the Type 40 Shoey, named after Marshal of the Euro-Asian Army, Curtis “Shoey” Shoemaker, one of the great strategists of the Great War, entered production as a replacement for the Type 30 Varrot and Type 36 Brixham, and entered operational service in the Euro-Asian Army and Marines near the end of that year and served in both the Euro-Asian and Estainian Armies during the Schayne Plains War. It's contemporaries included the Californian Pershing and the Britannic Centurion, among others.

The Cold War era
Following the Schayne Plains War, Maxwell Industries continued to produce military and civilian products. Its civilian products included the highly successful steam-powered 4-6-6-2 Wyvern freight locomotive, the steam-powered 4-8-2 Castle passenger locomotive (which later became the namesake of the express train, "The Castle", which ran on the Esto-Eurasian Grand Temple Route), and later on, the diesel-powered Empire series passenger locomotives, and diesel-powered Arper series freight locomotives.

In 1956, Yorick Maxwell died of old age. His last will and testament stated that the company be handed over to his daughter, Suzy and her husband, Hinrich Wallis. Despite his death, his company continued to provide products for both the civilian and military markets.

In the late 1950s, it became clear that the Type 40 Shoey heavy tank was becoming antiquated in the face of newer Birkanian tanks such as the T-54 and T-55. As a result, a simplified version of the Type 40, the Type 60 Parker, named after General William Parker of the Schayne Plains War, entered production, while late model Type 40s were upgraded to Type 60 standard. When the Type 60 entered service in Euro-Asia Army and Marine service, its closest contemporaries were the Californian M60 Patton, the Britannic Chieftain and the Birkanian T-62. The Type 60 remained in service in the Euro Asian Armed Forces until it was replaced by the Californian-built M1 Abrams; though a number of Type 60s saw action in the World Liberation Army Crisis and in the Euro-Asian Civil War.

In 1956, Maxwell designed and begun manufacturing the Brondel M1, the first of the Brondel series of bolt-action sniper rifles as an eventual replacement to the sniper mod for the Ostrov M1898 bolt-action rifle. The production of the Brondel series and its immediate successor, the Brondel X, would continue until the last example of the last model, the M112X rolled off the assembly line in 1997. It was retired from front service upon the Eurasian Army and Marines' draw down in Azhadstan and Rosetta. By 1960, Maxwell bought out the Mabrycg Company, becoming the Maxwell Corporation. Maxwell was kind enough to keep the Lancaar Mk.20R and Lancaar-SH Mk.20 production lines open for continued sales to Estainia, and to keep the Lancaar-SH mortars going for the Euro-Asian Military until its Mortar class of infantry was modernized in the late 1960's.

In 1962, Maxwell begun to look into building commercial airliners to challenge both Rostock Aerospace and Heinemann Aviation in the airliner market. It spent the next three years doing design blueprints and models until Model #1042 was chosen with manufacturing to be done in a newly built facility in Academy City. It was a gamble, but the two-engined jet airliner that would ultimately be known as the Maxwell M-1042 entered service in Air Ixiom, with great success; the gamble had payed off. Soon M-1042s were in service in not only Air Ixiom, but in its competitors, Eurasian Airlines and Annold Airlines. The M-1042's only drawback was its short range, which limited it to short, domestic routes and even some short international routes such as the Axel Bay - Dinsmark route.

Post-Cold War era and the Present
When the Cold War ended in 1974, Maxwell was one of the companies that suffered from the downsizing of the Eurasian military and the budget cuts. In 1976, Hinrich and Suzy Wallis were killed in a car accident, leaving their two sons, Tristan and Malone, in charge of the company. While Malone concentrated on keeping the assembly lines for the Type 60 tanks, Empire diesel locomotives and M-1042 jet airliners going, Tristan kept an eye on the company's finances and stock. Together, the post-Cold War downsizing that began in 1979 and the untimely death of Hinrich and Suzy Wallis made it seem that the company was being set for financial failure. That was until December of that year, when Tristan Wallis was offered a way out for his company by mafia don, Giuseppe Farina. Despite Farina's shady connections, Tristan Wallis made the agreement without his own brother knowing.

The company began to flourish again with Farina's help. Despite the cancellation of the Type 60's replacement by Prime Minister Dorian Tennyson, the company kept prospering. In 1979, Euro-Asia was forced into the Dorian Civil War on the side of the Loyalists, causing a spike in military demands. In 1980, Maxwell Industries unveiled the the M-1107 four-engined, intercontinental jet airliner, with its first customer being the Sunese Yamato Airlines, despite Malone's protests that the airliner was entering service too early, showing fear of accidents due to a defective engine design.

On 23 September, 1980, Malone's fears came true. An M-1107 owned by Yamato Airlines went down in the Bay of Sankt Ark due to multiple engine fires; there were no survivors. As a result of the accident, all M-1107s were grounded and also opened then Yamato Airlines CEO, Satoru Kanzaki, to investigation, which later led to his arrest for embezzlement, tax evasion, and his involvement in the plane crash.

Despite the accident, there wasn't much of an effect on Maxwell's sales. In 1985, the company unveiled the M-1135 two-engined, medium range jet airliner, and this time, there were very little incidents. In 1993, the company unveiled the M-1204 regional jet; however, when Giuseppe Farina was arrested in 1993, Tristan Wallis began to fear that the company would be facing bankruptcy. His brother, Malone, began to suspect that something was going on. In 1995, Tristan's documents were leaked to the Eurasian media. The incriminating documents, leaked by Tristan's own brother, Malone, included the secret agreement with Farina; and a cover-up of the 1980 accident through a plan to use Kanzaki as the fall guy in a takeover of Yamato Airlines; the supplying of Eurasian weapons meant for Eurasian forces in Doriande to the Asrani Rebels; among other evidence. The resulting scandal, despite Tristan's attempts to deny the evidence, caused an investigation that lead to Tristan's removal from the company and his arrest on charges of corruption, manslaughter and conspiracy.

The Maxwell Corporation's reputation was tarnished as a result of the scandal, and it has still not regained its reputation. The company left the airliner market and concentrated its aviation sector on manufacturing regional aircraft. In 1996, the company unveiled the M-1207 prop-driven regional aircraft, with moderate success. The company continued to build regional aircraft for the remainder of the 1990s and early 21st century. In 2013, Maxwell sold its military manufacturing sector to General Resource LTD. In the tank armoured vehicle market, Maxwell began to manufacture the Californian-designed M1 Abrams main battle tank under license as a replacement for the Type 60 Parker in 1994.

In 2018, the Maxwell Corporation began taking part in the Russo-Asian high speed rail project as the manufacturer for the trains. Today, the company is working on its re-entry into the airliner market, Aircraft Model #1249, with a new generation of designers in competition with Airbus. Also in 2000, Maxwell has entered a partnership with Estro-Alisonia's Istra Aviation and Belkaland's Hermann to manufacture the next generation of military transport aircraft -the Imperial Aviation Imp-1 Adler- as a replacement to the C-130 Hercules.

Products:

Locomotives

Work in Progress

Weapons and Military Ground Vehicles

Ostrov M1898 bolt-action rifle [License-built]

British Mk. I heavy landship [License-built]

Mabrycg Lancaar series anti-tank rocket lance [License-built]

Siegbahn Mags series submachine gun [License-built]

British Mk. II heavy landship [License-built]

British Mk. III heavy landship [License-built]

British Mk. V heavy landship [License-built]

Renaut FT turret-equipped light tank [License-built]