ARCAM Corporation

The nihongo|"ARCAM Corporation"|アーカム・財団|Aakamu Saitan or AC, by its initials in the Spriggan manga series, is a fictional international company with its main headquarters based in New York in the United States with numerous facilities worldwide, whose mission is to ensure that certain powerful ancient artifacts are protected and sealed off, so that no nation or group in the world can take advantage of them. It maintains its own para-military force called the ARCAM Private Army and has secret agents known as Spriggans (or Strikers).

History

Tea Flatte, who was formerly known as Tea Flatte Arcam, founded the ARCAM Corporation as part of her mission placed on her by Merlin.

In order to hide her true identity to the rest of her ARCAM comrades and friends, she uses the name Tea Flatte as an alias. [Revealed in Volume 11 of the manga.]

Inventions

ARCAM has created the following objects for use by their operatives:

* Armored Muscle Suit

- Created by Professor Mayzel after he recently discovered the Omihalcon metal.

* Yu's Omihalcon combat knife

- Professor Mayzel made it on Yu's request, which included an Omihalcon blade and a knuckle guard

* J-15 pistol rounds

- Its ceramic bullet heads can penetrate hard surfaces, like wood, concrete and metal.

Known ARCAM facilities

North America

United States

* Main Headquarters - High-risk out-of place artifacts are stored in their underground safes in New York.

* Research Facility - R&D facility for ARCAM. Was invaded by Program YAMA, turning its personnel against Yu and an ARCAM Special Private Army (ASPA) raiding party.

Europe

Turkey

*ARCAM Mt. Ararat Research Facility - Created by ARCAM in order to excavate and study Noah's Ark. Was raided by soldiers of the Machiner's Platoon. The facility was half-destroyed during the raids by Machiner's Platoon troopers.

Asia

India

*ARCAM New Delhi Hospital - A survivor of an ASPA unit was treated after they were attacked by a COSMOS squad.

*ARCAM India Research Facility - A Berserker robot was brought into the building before it was activated and attacked many of the establishment's personnel. A survivor was thus forced to activate the self-destruct mechanism, killing it and all of the wounded and survivors. The complex has been destroyed, its status unknown due to the fact that no one knows if the research facility has been relocated.

Japan

*ARCAM Japan Branch - Yu Ominae and Oboro are stationed here. The branch includes living quarters for Spriggans and ARCAM's guests and working offices. The facility had been attacked twice before. Both were perpetrated by US Armored Corp. and COSMOS forces.

*ARCAM Tokyo Hospital - Yu was treated here after receiving critical wounds from a COSMOS raid on ARCAM's Japanese branch.

Pakistan

*ARCAM Islamabad Hospital - Yu was briefed here with several ARCAM Special Private Army operatives after recent attacks on their personnel were reported.

Known ARCAM Personnel

Employees

* Professor Mayzel
* Ms. Margaret
* Steve Foster
* Henry Garnum
* Eva McMahon
* Akiha Ominae
* Percup Ramdi
* Rie Yamabishi
* Yamamoto

ASPA agents

* Hudler
* Jimmy Max
* Jack
* John
* Pauel
* Paredes
* Ray

priggans

* Yu Ominae
* Jean Jacquemonde
* Tea Flatte (aka Tea Flatte Arcam)
* Oboro

Trivia

*The name ARCAM was inspired by the fictional city of Arkham from H. P. Lovecraft's novels.
*ARCAM was also known officially as the ARCAM Foundation. It was also called the Rockefeller II when a British SAS soldier was asked by his commander if he knew about the ARCAM Foundation during a search and destroy mission to kill Yu Ominae.

References

ee also

*ARCAM Private Army
*Spriggans