Lobic Arms is an arms company based in the Conheav
sector. Unlike many arms companies, such as Merr-Sonn Munitions or BlasTech,
Lobic Arms, being a major corporation locally, but not able to truly compete
galactically, has only minor production facilities. These facilities are
big enough to make Lobic the major supplier of weaponry to the Conheav
sector, but allow for only extremely limited exports to other sectors.
Instead Lobic Arms concentrates mainly on research and development of new
weapon designs and concepts. These new designs, once tested (see the
Nethin system), are contracted out to the highest bidder for production
outside of Conheav sector.
Lobic Arms is staunchly pro-Imperial, and indeed
enjoys a special relationship with Moff Lesbeat.
80% of the weapons used by the Imperial military in Conheav sector were
purchased through Lobic Arms, at a discount of course, but even considering
the discount, the profits that this brought to Lobic were immense. In return
Lesbeat gets an arms company which is much more likely to do as he wishes
than any of the massive, galaxy-spanning companies. Moff Lesbeat and Lobic
Arms also have a few "extra special arrangements," such as the situation
in the Nethin system, and the fact that the Moff often gets access to prototype
equipment before anyone else has any idea it exists, for a fee of course.
One thing that Lesbeat isn't aware of is that certain
key figures in the executive commitee of Lobic Arms are members of the
Nestor syndicate, the sector's most powerful criminal
organization. This is a little ironic considering how intertwined the syndicate
and the corrupt Moff are. The Nestors are extremely careful not to do anything
that could reveal their influence in Lobic Arms, and when they feel it
necessary to influence company decisions in their favor, they are extremely
subtle about it. The Nestors have placed a talented and loyal slicer within
the shipping department of Lobic, and with his help occasionally redirect
small shipments of arms into their hands. These shipments are never frequent
enough or large enough to be noticed. The Nestor plants in the organization
also allow the criminal group access to prototype weapons. Prototypes would
surely be noticed if they went missing, however, so the Nestors have only
stolen a prototype once, and that time they were very careful to make the
theft obvious, and to make it look like an outside job done by amatuer
thieves who just stole whatever they could. The other main acivity that
the Nestor syndicate is involved in concerning Lobic Arms is good old fashioned
embezellment, although they are smart enough not to get too greedy.