Arcjet Systems

A communications and propulsion company serving both the military and private sector, ArcJet enjoyed nearly a century of highly successful operations before a combination of mismanagement and economic downturns put the corporation’s future in grave doubt.

With competitors on the rise, and resources falling in short supply, the former titan was in dire straits. In a last-ditch effort, CEO Thomas Reinhart took two contracts with potential to save the company.

The first was a propulsion system for the United States Space Administration’s Mars Shot Project, which promised to put human feet on Mars by 2079. The second was a deep-range transmitter, a highly advanced radio transmitter intended to enable interplanetary communication. Although both projects suffered setbacks, they were on track for completion on time when the Great War brought them, and almost everything else, to an end.

History

Arcjet Systems was in desperate need of resources, and the federal government was funding military R&D in Charleston. Thomas Reinhart new there was an opportunity to save his company by pitching the radio transmitter intended to enable interplanetary communication as a new communication array designed to survive nuclear blasts. They purchased a location in North Charleston and opened the Arcjet Systems Communications Lab. The windowless cement lab was equipped with state of the art automated defenses.