Editing Browning-Corning, Limited

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==Overview==
Located on the planet [[Caph]], '''Browning-Corning, Limited''' was a vehicle manufacturer responsible for producing platforms such as the [[Chieftain Mobile HQ]]. Following the collapse of the [[Star League]] and the eruption of the [[First Succession War]] the use of chemical, biological and radiological weapons was widespread and created a significant demand for equipment to be used by salvage and recovery teams to allow them to operate in the "hot zones" generated by the use of such weapons. Browning-Corning, Limited was one of the companies to respond to that demand.<ref name="MSUp147">''Mercenaries Supplemental Update'', p. 147: "O-66 "Oppie" Hazmat Recovery Vehicle</ref>

Browning-Corning, Limited designed and produced the [[Oppie|Oppenheimer Hazmat Recovery Vehicle]] using the chassis of the Chieftain Mobile Headquarters, and the "Oppie" subsequently proved to be an extremely successful salvage and recovery vehicle capable of recovering almost any [[BattleMech]] or vehicle carcass under even the most trying conditions. However, production of the Oppie ceased along with all other Browning-Corning, Limited manufacturing when a raiding party from the [[Draconis Combine]] destroyed the manufacturing plant in the mistaken belief that it was a BattleMech production facility - and, in a final twist of irony, the Combine raiders had already killed all of the staff responsible for producing the flagship Oppie Hazmat Recovery vehicle by deploying a pair of chemical weapons that killed the staff and several surrounding residential suburbs.<ref name="MSUp147"/>

Along with many cities and other sites on Caph the Browning-Corning, Limited plant remained a hotspot that the locals lacked the resources to reclaim and rebuild during the decline of the later Succession Wars while the planet itself was benignly neglected by the Great Houses.<ref name="MSUp147"/>

The situation changed significantly during the years before the [[Jihad]] when the [[Word of Blake]] began courting Caph as a potential member of the [[Word of Blake Protectorate]]; after Caph signed a defense pact with the Blakists, billions of [[C-bill]]s began pouring into the Caphian economy. In addition to the economic boom, the Blakists deployed matériel unseen since the death throes of the [[Terran Hegemony]] to a number of hot zones around Caph, and spent two years restoring various areas of the planet - areas that included the Browning-Corning, Limited plant as well as newly built manufacturing plants operated by [[Skobel MechWorks]] and [[Martinson Armaments]].<ref name="MSUp147"/>

The assistance from the Word of Blake went beyond restoring the original Oppie manufacturing lines; the Blakists also traced a direct descendant of [[Shala Brown]], the last CEO of Browning-Corning; they then presented that descendant, [[Raymond Brown]], with the complete engineering schematics and blueprints for the Oppie HMRV. As a consequence Browning-Corning, Limited began producing the first new Oppies - designed to an upgraded specification - in [[3068]].<ref name="MSUp147"/>

==Manufacturing==
Browning-Corning, Limited has manufacturing centers on the following planets:

===Caph===
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! colspan="2" |Components produced on Caph:<ref name="MSUp147"/>
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| [[Oppie|O-66 "Oppie" Hazmat Recovery Vehicle]]<ref name="MSUp147"/>
| [[Support Vehicle]]
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| [[HMRV Salvage Bed]]<ref name="MSUp147"/>
| Support Vehicle
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| [[HMRV DeConAid Trailer]]<ref name="MSUp147"/>
| Support Vehicle
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Mercenaries Supplemental Update]]''


[[Category: Manufacturing Centers|Browning-Corning, Limited]]
[[Category: Word of Blake Companies]]