Phaeton
May 23 2004, 12:15 AM
Taken from Serbu's 'C-Can' product page at www.serbu.com. Some of you may have already noticed this, but...:
Short for "Companion Can", the C-CAN was originally designed as an add-on suppressor for the Companion flashlight gun produced by Ares Defense Systems. It works very well on any firearm with a threaded muzzle which fires .22 LR ammunition. The suppressor is constructed of 4130 DOM tubing and uses the same stainless and aluminum internals as the SIRIS. It has a parkerized finish and laser engraving, and quality is superior throughout. The thread at the base is 1/2-28 UNEF. Overall length is 5.50 inches and the OD is 1.00 inch. Though maintenance is not required, both endcaps unscrew should there ever be a need to gain access to the internals.
The Companion barrel adaptor is made from 4140 steel barrel blank, and is threaded 1/2-28 UNEF. It is rifled, unlike the Companion's stock barrel, and it has a parkerized finish. Price of the C-CAN is $225, the Companion barrel is $40.THEY ALREADY EXIST.
Not to mention...Companion Can(non)...Cannon Companion...Think about it.
Kagetenshi
May 23 2004, 12:16 AM
They are coming
Phaeton
May 23 2004, 12:17 AM
And only FanPro knows the truth and can save us!
Zeel De Mort
May 23 2004, 12:19 AM
Slightly less scary, then, is the fact that here (in the UK) there's a company called Novatech and all they do is sell PCs and components. At least that's what they'd like you to believe...
Fresno Bob
May 23 2004, 03:18 AM
Ares also makes an ugly folding machine gun.
Nikoli
May 23 2004, 03:39 AM
How old are these companies, wouldn't it be funny if the founders were fans of Shadowrun?
Arethusa
May 23 2004, 03:41 AM
Ares Defese Systems.
They've been around a little while and are mostly famous for their Shrike LMG, which looks pretty hot, really. They had a video up for download many months ago. Don't know if it's still up.
Abstruse
May 23 2004, 03:47 AM
And there's an Aztechnology and a Universal Brotherhood...
The Abstruse One
CircuitBoyBlue
May 23 2004, 04:50 AM
| QUOTE (Nikoli) |
| How old are these companies, wouldn't it be funny if the founders were fans of Shadowrun? |
Actually, I don't think that would be funny. It would be scary. I would rather not have the corporate world stealing ideas from Shadowrun, but maybe that's just me.
Smiley
May 23 2004, 05:22 AM
WE'RE ALL DOOMED! EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!
Shrike30
May 23 2004, 06:01 AM
| QUOTE (Arethusa) |
| They've been around a little while and are mostly famous for their Shrike LMG, which looks pretty hot, really. |
Posting on gun-related forums with my username got ever so confusing after that thing got made public...
KosherPickle
May 23 2004, 06:15 PM
| QUOTE (Zeel De Mort) |
| Slightly less scary, then, is the fact that here (in the UK) there's a company called Novatech and all they do is sell PCs and components. At least that's what they'd like you to believe... |
I know for a fact that I have computer hardware from a company called Mitsuhama.
Phaeton
May 23 2004, 09:50 PM
| QUOTE (KosherPickle) |
| QUOTE (Zeel De Mort @ May 22 2004, 08:19 PM) | | Slightly less scary, then, is the fact that here (in the UK) there's a company called Novatech and all they do is sell PCs and components. At least that's what they'd like you to believe... |
I know for a fact that I have computer hardware from a company called Mitsuhama.
|
...Okay. NOW I am officially going to go outside of my house and scream like a little (non-Japanese) schoolgirl that the world is ending.
Kagetenshi
May 23 2004, 09:59 PM
It's not ending. Three out of every four survive VITAS.
~J
Smiley
May 23 2004, 10:43 PM
OK... OK... I like those odds.
Zephania
May 24 2004, 05:35 AM
Roll on the awakening
GreatChicken
May 24 2004, 06:25 AM
Why the glum faces, folks? It's not like Microsoft or Macintosh seemed to have made it....
simonw2000
May 24 2004, 08:57 AM
| QUOTE (Smiley) |
| EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF! |
That's what the corps want us to do. We have to stick together and fight back!
mfb
May 24 2004, 09:09 AM
most of the 'fictitious' companies in SR take their names from real-life companies that existed at the time SR was written. it's not scary, it's just unusual in that it means something in SR was researched.
Joker9125
May 24 2004, 09:21 AM
| QUOTE (mfb) |
| most of the 'fictitious' companies in SR take their names from real-life companies that existed at the time SR was written. it's not scary, it's just unusual in that it means something in SR was researched. |
Or was it?.........DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Goes off to see if he can join the cherokee nation before they start the great ghost dance.
Abstruse
May 24 2004, 12:17 PM
Not the Cherokee. They got royally screwed. Find one of the tribes with a country named after them in the books...Sioux, Pueblo, etc.
The Abstruse One
Accel
May 24 2004, 12:22 PM
| QUOTE (GreatChicken) |
| It's not like Microsoft or Macintosh seemed to have made it.... |
Don't know how the makers of SR came to call a Redmond-based, gates-family-owned company "Microdeck", but Apple did survive splendidly. Well, at least as splendid as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARES does, however. See for yourself in the ARES entry of CD.
Didn't take much checking to find theses ones. While at it, it seemed to me that some or more have names with a more general meaning (the chinese or japanese in particular, though there isn't much left, I suppose,) while others might just have sounded nice....
http://www.mitsuhama.co.jp/http://www.shiawase.co.jp/english/http://www.cn-wuxing.com/http://www.novatech.ca/http://www.novatechusa.com/http://www.aztech.com/http://www.aztechnology.com/careers.htmlhttp://www.monobe.co.jp/http://www.phoenixbiotech.net/http://proteus.com/about/http://www.shibata.co.jp/index_e.htmhttp://www.united-oil.com/en/index.htmlhttp://www.wintersystems.com/frontbody2.htmJust some cent of mine....
Lindt
May 24 2004, 01:15 PM
Excuse me, I have to start building my bomb shelter and stock up on Raid...
Sahandrian
May 24 2004, 01:18 PM
Universal BrotherhoodIt hadn't been linked in this thread yet, and we've already covered all the others.
Rajaat99
May 24 2004, 02:35 PM
Aztechnology(the real one) was founded in 1989. Didn't SR come out in 1988?
GreatChicken
May 24 2004, 03:06 PM
| QUOTE |
| Don't know how the makers of SR came to call a Redmond-based, gates-family-owned company "Microdeck", but Apple did survive splendidly. Well, at least as splendid as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARES does, however. See for yourself in the ARES entry of CD. |
...ok...let's calm down...this is not the time to panic.....
WHAT AM I SAYING?! THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME TO PANIC!!!
AIEEEEEEEE!!!!
*Runs around as if the sky is falling*
Abstruse
May 24 2004, 03:10 PM
It's even mentioned how Microsoft becomes Microdeck, but I can't remember where...
And technically speaking, the company is AZ Technology...but that's still scary enough...
The Abstruse One
Sahandrian
May 24 2004, 03:10 PM
I was wondering about this one, and this is the only thing I could dig up...
| QUOTE (astronomy newsletter from 1989) |
| J.Gibson, ORO Corporation and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, reports... |
Emphasis mine...
GreatChicken
May 24 2004, 03:18 PM
Well, there is the new computer company promising a palm sized PC that would put Palm Pilots to shame....it runs WinXP on a palm platform.
OQO WebsiteOf course, 'oro' is a kind of japanese cartoonish online emoticon which looks like this 0_o
Kagetenshi
May 24 2004, 04:37 PM
| QUOTE (Accel) |
| Don't know how the makers of SR came to call a Redmond-based, gates-family-owned company "Microdeck", but Apple did survive splendidly. Well, at least as splendid as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARES does, however. See for yourself in the ARES entry of CD. |
I suddenly feel the stirring of an irrational loyalty towards Ares.
~J
Sahandrian
May 24 2004, 04:46 PM
| QUOTE (GreatChicken) |
| Of course, 'oro' is a kind of japanese cartoonish online emoticon which looks like this 0_o |
Yeah, I learned that from watching Kenshin.
But ORO is also the name of the corp that bought out the collapsed Mexican government and became Aztechnology.
JongWK
May 24 2004, 05:06 PM
There's a japanese company called Iron Mountain or something like that, which IIRC translates as Yamatetsu.
Nikoli
May 24 2004, 05:12 PM
Iron Mountain is also a physical storage company here in the states, referring to an old iron ine they bought and converted into storage. Guess what is on top of the mine...
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