Luckheed Industries
Operating out of a fortified headquarters only a scant few walkable miles from Ellistown Landing, Luckheed Industries is one of the Merican Spanse's most prolific purveyors of capabilities in the departments of death, destruction and mayhem. Responsible by proxy for more suffering than any Pontifex shy of the Soulless Pharaoh themselves, Luckheed Industries weapons have found their way into every brush conflict and border war from the Rust Empire to the Rum Coast, filling the hands of pirates, mercenaries, warlords, and anyone with two or more coins to clink together and a need for state of the art violence.
Luckheed itself claims no political allegiance or ideals, and has a long and bloody history of making a fortune building the empires of petty dictators only to make another picking up the collected funding of various militia and guerilla groups selling the guns that will bring about glorious revolution and regime change. As long as that next regime will need their weapons and technology, Luckheed is happy.
Despite being primely posed to do so, Luckheed's Board of Directors has staunchly refused so far to enter into the private military or direct mercenary contract business. While Luckheed itself employs no small number of highly trained trouble-shooters, these primarily serve as executive protection and asset recovery teams rather than a true military force. Still, the firepower Luckheed can bring to bear against any adversary has kept them safely afloat even through the occasional unfriendly administration.
The most prominent interaction citizens of the Bailey have with Luckheed Industries is either first (or, more rarely survived, second) hand experience with their weaponry and equipment, which has proliferated into the hands of most paid fighters in the region at one point or another, or in the incidental exposure to one of Luckheed's many tests, the results of the company's constant innovations in new forms of violent dismemberment.