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Carrion Defense Works
| number | 21 |
| name | Carrion Defense Works |
| full legal name | Carrion Defense Works Sovereign Corponation, Ltd. |
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| stock designation | CDW-S |
| sector | Defense Manufacturing & Autonomous Weapons Systems |
| valuation | Φ4.1 trillion USD-equivalent (Meridian Scrip adjusted) |
| revenue | Φ890 billion annually |
| employees | 312,000 direct; 1.1 million contracted kill-chain workers |
| sovereign territory | The Carrion Yards — a 40-square-kilometer fortified industrial peninsula jutting into Lake Erie, formerly the Toledo Harbor reclamation zone. Heavily walled. No civilian transit. |
| founding story | In 2141, a consortium of Great Lakes scrap barons pooled assets after the collapse of the U.S. federal defense procurement apparatus. Led by the notoriously abrasive industrialist Marta Voss-Helling, they purchased the decommissioned Toledo Naval Logistics Depot at auction for eleven cents on the dollar and immediately began retooling it for autonomous weapons production. Voss-Helling's core philosophy — 'sovereignty belongs to whoever can hold the perimeter' — became the corponation's founding charter. CDW went fully sovereign in 2147 after repelling a hostile annexation attempt by Arcturus Defense Solutions in what is now called the Seventeen-Hour War. They won. Arcturus has not tried again. |
| security force | The Scavenger Corps — 22,000 soldiers equipped exclusively with CDW prototype hardware, making them a living product demonstration. Rotated through active conflict zones under contract to test weapons in field conditions. Infamous for their black-and-rust tactical livery and the unsettling practice of salvaging enemy hardware mid-battle. |
| key detail | CDW's flagship product line, the HYENA autonomous ground unit, accounts for 34% of all autonomous weapons deployed across GLMZ's inter-corponation conflict zones. Carrion has a standing policy of selling to all parties in any given conflict simultaneously, which they describe in their annual report as 'market equilibrium services.' |
| relationship to big 20 | CDW is not a member of the Big 20 coalition but is widely considered the 21st power in all but name. They supply hardware to at least nine Big 20 corponations and maintain aggressive non-aggression treaties with seven others. Arcturus Defense Solutions considers them an existential rival. Ironclad Agrisystems quietly contracts Scavenger Corps units for perimeter enforcement on contested agricultural territories. |
| full text | Carrion Defense Works Sovereign Corponation, Ltd. (CDW-S) operates from the Carrion Yards, a fortified 40-square-kilometer industrial peninsula on Lake Erie. Founded in 2141 by scrap baron Marta Voss-Helling and her consortium following the collapse of federal defense procurement, CDW seized the decommissioned Toledo Naval Logistics Depot at a fraction of its value and converted it into the most productive autonomous weapons manufacturing complex in the Great Lakes corridor. Their sovereignty was earned through blood — specifically, the blood of Arcturus contractors during the 2147 Seventeen-Hour War, an annexation attempt that ended with CDW artillery units reducing an Arcturus armored column to slag on the Yards' eastern causeway. Valued at Φ4.1 trillion with Φ890 billion in annual revenue, CDW employs 312,000 direct workers and over a million contracted kill-chain laborers who manufacture, test, and field the full spectrum of CDW's autonomous and semi-autonomous weapons platforms. Their HYENA ground unit dominates the inter-corponation conflict market. The Scavenger Corps, CDW's 22,000-strong security force, serves as both perimeter defense and product catalog — every soldier equipped with prototype hardware, every deployment a live-fire demonstration. CDW sells to all sides of every conflict, a practice they publicly defend as stabilizing. In GLMZ's underworld, the phrase 'Carrion's getting paid' means a war is about to get significantly worse. |