Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals

Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals was a pre-war company prior to the Great War of 2077 that became a faction post war. Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals was an division of Mallicoat Holdings which had many subsidiaries.

Background
Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals was established in 1884 in High Point, North Carolina by James Mallicoat who was eager to get treatments out in the world. Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals devised the first Morphine tablet in 1901 and sold it in the USA. When World War One occurred the company was producing various opiates and the new Aspirin to help troops. The company was in full wartime production during this period and later experienced the woes of the stockmarket crash in 1929. The Pharmaceutical company introduced Loraskepam (brandname: Lorask) as a breakthrough anti-anxiety medication. It saved the company from bankruptcy due to overprescription of Loraskepam by Doctors.

During WWII, the company once again fixed its production to be wartime with high amounts of opioids and the new anti anxiety medication going out. James Mallicoat and his corporation was finally getting noticed with James Mallicoat being named "Man of the Year - 1942" along with numerous other awards. Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals produced some of the world's first antibiotics and a few new guns during this period as apart of defense contracts. After the point of Divergence the Corporation continued making medication and started buying out rival companies. Ramson Armory became Mallicoat Defense and Weston Cola became Mallicoat Edibles. In 1963 Mallicoat Holdings was established to keep a leash on its subsidiaries. James son Wilson Mallicoat became head of the corporation after James passing. In the years that followed into 1990s Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals developed a lot of generic medications to sell and issue to the Army.

Mallicoat Holdings in 2010 bought out Tekashi Aerospace making it Mallicoat Aerospace. Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals discovered Mirtaropine which was a potent antidepressant. MP began selling it for $10 a tablet as a generic. They later made the brandname (MirTaroz) which was priced at $60 a tablet. Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals continued researching and introducing new things into its line up as time went on. With the invention of RobCo and other corporations as the Resource Wars was coming. Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals introduced over a span from 2010 to 2050 around 52 medications (5 of which are named below) in both generic and namebrand. Mallicoat Holdings acquired Chieftan Robotics and turned it into Mallicoat Robotics. The many other corporations under Mallicoat Holdings were producing essential products and excellent items mainly to fund the private vaults and the robotic workforce in the opium farms and Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals R&D.

Dr. Luke Mallicoat was appointed head of the entire corporation (Mallicoat Holdings) in 2064 but devoted most of his time to Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Luke Mallicoat had the most extensive vault built on the outskirts of High Point with a underground train leading to a underground R&D facility in Arizona and other underground facilities of the company. Dr. Luke Mallicoat prepared in other ways such as getting an all robot workforce in the main vault to produce numerous medications that would be needed in the decades to come in the event of a nuclear holocaust. In 2073 Dr. Luke Mallicoat married with Jewish wife Dr. Anne "Katyusha" Sernova and in the following years his wife gave birth to two children. On October 23rd, 2077. Dr. Luke Mallicoats fears were realized and he had his family herded off to the secure vault on the outskirts of High Point where they were cryogenically frozen and watched over by Mr. Handy robots along with the security staff. Over the many years, it was assumed that Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals was another casualty of the Great War but this would be proven wrong.

Dr. Luke Mallicoat had a final directive should nuclear war occur and that was to expand production in the underground facilities made by Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals. The company continued producing medications sometimes sending extra batches up to the surface in random locations as a good will gesture. However, as of recently Dr. Luke Mallicoat and family recently thawed out from their cyrosleep. Dr. Mallicoat ordered that broadcasts commence trying to contact people in the Wasteland as well as any perspective factions.

Summary of Divisions

 * Mallicoat Holdings - Mallicoat Holdings was established as the main way for the corporation to control its various divisions. Mallicoat Holdings was publicly traded on the Stock Market prior to the great war as MH and was priced at around $6,000 per a share. This part of the company invested heavily in advertisements for the various other parts of the Mallicoat company.
 * Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals - Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals was the first established corporation and is the oldest, actually being established way before Mallicoat Holdings was formed. Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals broke ground with various forms of medication that was seen as visionary at the time with some of the most successful products being RadADay and SleepNow. Some of the other highly-regarded products (e.g. Dazeopham, MirTaroz) are pretty memorable but did not sell as high (but they were still good products, regardless)
 * Mallicoat Defense - Mallicoat Defense was the second part of the company, originally founded by Thomas Ramson as Ramson Armory. Ramson Armory mostly specialized in various firearms and some airplane designs during WWII. In 1952 Ramson Armory was bought out by Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals and reformed as Mallicoat Defense where the company produced the same weapons as before but added a tank design to its catalog along with a few boat designs. Mallicoat Defense was famous in the 1960s for making three noteworthy parts on some of the spacecraft during the Space Race. The Company later specialized in energy weapon design and was quite famous for some of the energy weapons.
 * Mallicoat Edibles - Mallicoat Edibles started out as Weston Cola which was a somewhat famous soft drink maker in the state of North Carolina. The Company made various soft drink flavors for its highly-acclaimed Pop-Itz grape flavored soda (with caffeine). The Company was bought by Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals in the 1960s and was used to produce food. The company went onto be noted for supplying fast food places with raw product, some of Mallicoat Edibles product was used in Vault-Tec vaults.
 * Mallicoat Aerospace - Mallicoat Aerospace was originally Tekashi Aerospace, a Japanese company that produced many airplane designs for the Japanese Empire during WWII. Tekashi Aerospace became the third purchase of the Mallicoat corporate brand. With the purchase by Mallicoat Holdings, Tekashi Aerospace became Mallicoat Aerospace and was relocated to a new corporate headquarters in Chicago with many of the Japanese workers being laid off in change for talented American workers. Mallicoat Aerospace developed many parts for various planes the US Military used from 2010 to 2077 along with some parts for spacecraft, Mallicoat Aerospace also developed some of its own planes which were highly popular in Europe and some parts of Africa. The first spacecraft designed by Mallicoat Aerospace was used for the USSAs Titan Soil Mission in 2059.
 * Mallicoat Robotics - Mallicoat Robotics became what was left over of Chieftan Robotics after Mallicoat Holdings purchase. Chieftan Robotics was experiencing poor sales of its robotic models and was looking for ways to reinvent itself. With the purchase by Mallicoat Holdings, the division went onto develop some successful AI models that was used by corporations and was featured in few Vault-Tec vaults. Mallicoat Robotics did not develop the ZAX computer but did develop a comparable model known as the AISM (Advanced Intelligence Systems Manager) which sold well. Mallicoat Robotics was the final acquisition by the corporate banner of Mallicoat Holdings.

Relations with Other Factions
Mallicoat Pharmaceuticals has neutral relations with every other faction and has yet to contact most.

Brief Overview of Products
RadADay (Radoxophorin) - Marketed in 2063 as an alternative to Antibiotics and Antivirals. RadADay uses a inactive low-dose gamma-radiation capsule which activates in the body and inactivates most bacteria and viruses. RadADay also came in liquid form.

SleepNow (Zolpidem) - Marketed in 2040 as a Insomnia-reducing drug and as a very effective sedative. Came in liquid form, patches, and many other forms.

Dazeopham - A prototype Anti-Anxiety medication that was marketed in 2076 and had made it to some shelves by the day of the Great War. Still produced by clandestine drug labs in the Wastelands.

Mirtaropine - An antidepressant marketed to Vault-Tec and mental hospitals as well as other places. Sometimes found in the Wastes.

Botarmeth - A highly-addictive and very experimental amphetamine that came out in 2075. Botarmeth was designed as apart of a defense contract with the US Government but lost to West-Tek and its "Pyscho" amphetamine. Botarmeth was later marketed to Vault-Tec and sold in some Super-Duper Markets aimed at airline pilots, truck drivers and other people who would be fatigued easily.