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TITANFALL FACTIONS - IMC - Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation - Back Stories & Main Characters
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The Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation, or IMC, started out small, in natural resource
extraction industries, under the name Hammond Engineering. Fifteen years later, demand for
Titan manufacturing materials, combined with Hammond's market-cornering planetary survey
technology and map database rights, contributed to explosive growth for the company. Over
the course of a century, a series of acquisitions, mergers, and re-brandings lead to the transformation
of Hammond Engineering into the sprawling commercial empire that is the IMC.
Despite their reputation for exploitative behavior on the Frontier, they receive little
criticism from their shareholders and customers living in the Core Systems -- the material
conveniences and widely used products provided by the IMC generate considerable 'consumer
inertia', to the corporation's benefit.
With the Frontier's valuable shipping lanes and vast planetary resources ripe for exploitation,
the IMC is dedicated to maximizing profits and shareholder wealth, using the legal application
of force when necessary.
Graves
In the IMC command structure, Vice Admiral Graves is formally known as the CINCFRONT,
or Commander-in-Chief, Frontier Command. Despite the elaborate title, Frontier operations are
notorious for their lack of adherence to traditional protocol, allowing Graves to personally command
IMC forces in the field, and to operate far more informally than commanders in the Core
Systems. Graves has a reputation as a maverick within the IMC. His calls for policy change
have often been deemed too risky to IMC forces, and too lenient to Frontier citizens. During
the inquiry into the Odyssey scandal, Graves maintained that the ship was forcibly commandeered
by MacAllan and his band of mutineers.
Blisk
Blisk is a South African mercenary working under a new long-term contract with the IMC
on the Frontier, providing Combat Intel and Counterinsurgency services. His first contract
concluded with his outfit making enough money to retire to a tropical paradise, but after
considering the excellent pay, and more importantly, the opportunity to lay waste to everything
in sight with state-of-the-art hardware, Blisk decided that the IMC's offer of renewal was
just too good to pass up.
Spyglass
Spyglass is a physical manifestation of the IMC's vast computational network identity,
handling logistics, navigation, deployment, and communications between all IMC forces
on the Frontier. Spyglass units are built on a modified Spectre chassis and are considered
expendable in the field, often accompanying ground forces aboard dropships to provide
up-to-date mission information and live surveillance.