Ardent Corps

"'Firing first in any war. Ardent Corps.'"

Ardent Corps is formerly military contractors turned weapons manufacturer. Pre-First Contact War, they were allied with the Russians, but when the War began and Earth unified under the Corporate Council, Ardent was one of the first to be brought in, as the largest Weapons manufacturers in the world. Ardent now holds the monopoly of all weapons specs on earth, having bought out or incorporated any others.