Hydrosubsidium

Hydrosubsidium is a European corporation that helped keep Charter Hill and contributed to the Hacienda.

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This company got its start with its release of an affordable and efficient fluid breathing system (called the Gilbear lung). After several sales of the system to different European and American salvage companies the Hydrosubsidium became complacent, believing it could survive on the sales of one product alone. After several near-bankruptcies the company was forced to branch out into other underwater technologies. Eight years after the invention of the Gilbear system, the Hydrosubsidium had three innovative underwater technologies on the market: the Poseidon Fluid Breathing Suit, capable of reaching depths up to 1000 ft. below sea level; the Sinclair submersible, (Infamous for making the "rape of the Titanic" possible) and the Davidson rebreather. After sales of the rebreather to several navies, the company had the income to enter into full scale production of many of their ground-breaking inventions. If any significant advancement is made in the realm of aquatic technology it is a good bet that the Hydrosubsidium is behind it.

Although Hydrosubsidium could be called a major corporation, and probably should be ranked among the giants like Arasaka and Zetatech, it prefers to keep a low profile. The company has recently opened a research facility on nearby San Morro Bay, and is known to be conducting operations of a secretive nature in the Del Coronado Trench to the west.

While the outsides of Hydrosubsidium look like a simple warehouse, the inside is an oceanographer's dream. The administration building, (the only building that visitors are allowed inside) is decorated with maps and charts of the ocean dating back to the time of Columbus. In the center of the main lobby, a 3D hologram map of the bottom of Del Coronado Bay is displayed. The staff is friendly and will try to answer any question concerning the company or the seas in general; they will not, however, release any information on the current project in the Trench, or let anyone examine the equipment in the project building.