Pit Industries

Pit Industries Ltd. is a company set up in the 2050's as a government-funded research project, mainly for military purposes. It was later sold off to an unknown person (or persons). It is responsible for the creation of the Aperture Cannon and long-life aqualungs.

South Pole Council Military R&D Division
In 2055, 10 years after the fall of Emperor Pengvintine, the EmotiVille delegate retired from his post due to ill-health. Another ponderer was elected, this new delegate had always feared the outbreak of warfare and conflict. The Emoticon made a push to develop weaponry that was so powerful that, through fear, it would reduce every conflict to a state of psychological warfare. After small sacrafices (including normal sleep patterns) the South Pole Council Military R&D Division was formed to create such weapons.

AutoGuns
For a list of the division's projects, go here.

The AutoGun was one of their last projects. A 4-barrel fully automatic AI turret. The AutoGun had the appearance of a vertical sphereoid with a tripod attached, the barrels are hidden inside the sphereoid and, when detecting a set target, holes appear in the body where the barrels are and a barrage of bullets is released.

Mobsters
The first AutoGun, with a firing rate of 10 bullets/second, was very hard to damage and therefore could not run away from bombs. Although it had one flaw, it was unable to move on it's own. Therefore a new line was manufactured, Mobsters. They were basically AutoGuns on wheels. Demand for the AutoGun line skyrocketed when they were launched, five hundred being bought by the USA military alone. A later version, the Mob-360, was capable of rotating without turning the chassis.

The Pu-AutoGun Scandal
In 2059, another AutoGun line was released, the Pu-Autogun, a Mobster that had pre-packaged bullets (in previous models bullets were not included). Slower due to lead cladding, but more deadly in the long run, it's bullets had slivers of depleted Plutonium inserted for a similar effect to depleted Uranium in some present shells. Sales were going well, the original reception being generally accepted, when a file leak (courtesy of WikiLeaks) that raw Plutonium was being used instead of it's depleted counterpart to save money for another project they were planning. Scandal broke out and the South Pole Council was pressured into cutting the division's budget by over half, this caused job losses and productivity drops. The South Poel Council Military R&D Division was declining rapidly.

Sold Off: Pit Industries Is Born
In 2060, the final death nail of the department was hammered in, the ponderer who had first conceived the idea and kept the division going was killed in a car crash. The Council sold it off with a consenus that it was not really needed anymore, they had spread powerful weapons and devices across Antarctica, the mission of the division was done. The division was shut down and the buildings were put up for sale.

Meanwhile, a group watched the events unfold. The Department of Invention was restless, they required a larger premises to be able to test their theories and make new objects of mysterious power. The Bureau bought the division's buildings, putting officials from the now defunct division in charge. They named the company Pit Industries with the help of an irksome cube and a not-quite-so-irksome pyramid.

Interim Moment
The newly formed Pit Industries was put immediatly to work. The BoF allowed it free reign over what it did, but several members of the Department of Invention were placed in it's design offices and boards to allow the Bureau some control over what it created.

0Kryogen, an experimental absolute zero cooling unit, was one of it's first machines designed. It was supposed to be able to sustain cryogenic statis for years. The idea was scrapped due to complications regarding the freezing point of blood and an overall negative response from the management. Another product, Ever-Aftershave was put together as a combination of leading fragrance companies and Pit Industries as a simple test of long-lasting fragrances, but it turned out to be one of the most flammable aerosols ever, capable of combusting using the oxygen in water.

Project Aperture: The Golden Moment
Project Aperture was the company's greatest success. The multi-billion fish project would bring Antarctica a means of long distance instant transportation. The Pit Industries Dual Space-Time Aperture Cannon, a two-handed gun with the means to launch twin two-way holes in space and time. These 'Apertures' will send anything that will fit through them to the other. The project created many things other than the Aperture Cannon (some being designed to work alongside it), including:
 * Cushioner Shoes: Shock-absorbing boots that work effectively up to 65 metres.
 * CC: Somehow the best selling product created by Project Aperture. A large cube with a ♥ on it. Despite it reaching up to the waist of a Human it is so light it can be moved very easily (even by Explorer, who being an adelie penguin is quite small by penguin standards).

Involvement
The company is famous for it's ambitious projects in the fields of science, commercial, and military engineering, infamous for it's secrecy and both for it's strong work ethics.

South Pole Council Military R&D Division

 * Various weapons systems and technologies.
 * Micron-D: A nanobot designed for cyber warfare, has small Deletion weapon attached to remove small pieces of circuitry from computers and other such devices undetected.
 * HG: Short for Hallucinogen Grenade. Releases Grade B hallucinogens to distract enemies on the battlefield.
 * AutoGuns: Stationary robotic 4-barrel guns, fear and famed for their high rate of fire and acccuracy. Advanced, stable, AI can tell friend from foe.
 * Pu-AutoGuns: A varient of the former that used depleted radioactive isotopes in it's bullets. Scandal ensued when dangerous amounts of said isotopes are discovered in said bullets. This variety of AutoGun's is the ultimate cause of the selling-off of the division.

Pit Industries

 * 0Kryogen: A flaky and experimental cryogenic statis chamber that was scrapped very early in testing.
 * Ever-Aftershave: An aftershave that never, ever, comes off. Promptly discontinued and recalled after a small fire was discovered to have been caused by a bottle of the stuff being exposed to air for too long.