So I was thinking, Cataclysm already has small elements of cyberpunk with all the biotics, the distopic corrupt goverment and the hiden elaborate undeground instalations. So why not add corporate warfare to the lore too and add some small hints into the game?
We already have Rivtech and Doubletech as candidates to military contractors that should be over each other necks, as they already kinda have somewhat defined and clashing characteristics and ideologies, and should apparently be very big.
Doubletech brands itself as the hero behind every great action of America and cares a lot about its public image, specializes itself in robotics and electronics, dominating the CBM, Powered Armor and Robotics fields. Rivtech instead seems much more shadowy, they don’t care whatever you think about them, they just let you know that the guns they produce the best in the market, and they know you want to buy them. They specialize in combat gear for special operation teams and at the end of the day, seem not to be very affiliated with the US goverment (or at least not affiliated to the degree Doubletech is), which gives the idea that they are more willing to go with whoever is the highest bidder.
It seemed like a pretty interesting thing to me, and I thought that it would be very cool if the two companies had their back stories elaborated and their fields of expertise better defined, and once we had that, get references of the arm race between them into the game with their respective office buildings and research instalations (and given time and assuming they were big enough to survive, have their remains fighting each other for the control of the new world)
Sure it all comes down to whatever Rivet and Williham think about having their companies fight each other, but I thought that throwing the idea at them was worthwhile.
Based the company flavors on the flyers and items in game, and on the way Williham speaks for Doubletech in this forum, so they could be very wrong.
