General Resource Limited

Template:Corporation Seen in Ace Combat 03: Electrosphere and Ace Combat: Advance, General Resource is a conglomerate with enormous financial capital that dominates all kinds of industries and functions outside the framework of nations. Globalization of financial markets progressed in line with developments in capitalistic principles, and corporate mergers and take-overs began to be frequent and common.

As a result, prominent capital assets in all countries were ultimately combined and concentrated on a large scale. Within this wave of world-wide conglomeration, the General Resource Group attained enormous growth and developed into a huge multinational corporate entity. General Resource Ltd. was created as a result of a transformation within Grunder Industries, much like how Neucom Inc. had come from the Erusian Air and Space Administration

Strangely, General Resources could be seen also as a sponsor in some tennis courts in Namco's game "Roland Garros 2005", like also Ouroboros, Neucom and UPEO, giving a frightening shadow to the game.

Also, it appeared as a Nitrous brand in Ridge Racer 7.

General Resource Ltd. can be seen too in Ace Combat Advance.

Grunder Industries

It is believed that Gründer transformed into General Resource Ltd. in an strategic initiative to gain economic power from Osea and of course Yuktobania.

After the Belkan War, the South Belkan Munitons factory would became Grunder Industries. During the Circum Pacific war, Grunder Industries was economically destabilized when the Razgriz destroyed their command center.

Early Stages/Overview

General Resource LTD was formerly known as Gründer Industries, based in North Osea/South Belka. Gründer had a long history of being involved in war and conflict, having supplied Belkan forces during the 1995 Belkan Conflict as the South Belkan Munitions Factory, as well as supplying both Osea and Yuktobania in the 2010 Circum-Pacific War. The latter conflict left the company economically unstable due to a united offensive spearheaded by the Razgriz Air Command Squadron that left its headquarters in Sudentor in ruins

Sometime after their involvement in the Circum-Pacific War, the entire company was rebranded and restructured. The upper management was replaced and streamlined, save for a few key individuals. This change caused the company to grow very quickly indeed. Through a series of large mergers, Gründer Industries became General Resource LTD. The reason for this was likely to gain economic power from the two superpowers it formerly tried to resist, being Osea and Yuktobania.

The company was known for specializing in military technologies, such as operating systems, aircraft, naval craft, assault vehicles and weaponry. For their own defense force, General Resource focused on more practical aviation designs and technologies, rather than the untested, radical designs of their Neucom counterparts. Designs that were radical and exceeded Neucom technology were instead given to their sponsors Osea, Yuktobania and other allied nations. These more modified, exciting designs were allowed for use in their military forces, not to mention exported and sold to others not allied with these sponsor countries. These were intended to be mass-produced and modified by Osean and Yuktobanian companies to ensure economic stability. These measures proved effective as Osea and Yuktobania earned tremendous profits during this time as stakeholders and tax collectors. However, the contracts under which these technologies were developed specified that:

• They could not be employed in General Resource's own security force until such modifications had been made.

• They where forbidden to use the technology and designs that surpassed Neucom's that were made for Allied nations' militaries.

In a relatively short period of time, General Resource had spread into the global market and begun to rival Neucom Inc. on every front.

Marching Into the Future (2016 - 2030)

In an amazing feat, just a few years after their formation General Resource had grown to be one of the largest companies on the planet. As usual, they continued to create their standard products: Aircraft, tanks and warships. But they had also begun creating other essential items as well, examples of these being computer programs and aircraft modification parts.

General Resource had also begun to expand itself by establishing a General Resource Defense Force in 2016, originally intended as a way to operate their own products on a large scale in order to showcase their effectiveness. Additionally, they had established a School in conjunction, which taught multiple fields of research in the military sector. The School was known as the Sandberry GR Defense College and was General Resource's first establishment on the Usean Continent, which was where most of their business in the next decades would eventually bring them.

By the early months of 2020, the world was on the verge of a reform. Many smaller and some medium countries were becoming so dependent on technologies from many corporations that their own governments began to become somewhat useless. In a few cases by late 2020, some countries are actually run by corporations and not their respective governments. Such instances were most evidenced by the government of the Democratic Republic of Leasath, run by the head of its arms industry, Diego Gaspar Navarro during the Leasath-Aurelia War.

Meanwhile, General Resource continued to grow at an extreme rate. In 2023 the ITTC, a large communication system established for world wide communication was bought by General Resource and modified. As plans to add Video Mail and Text Broadcasting Services were going on, a crisis had arisen in 2026 on the Usean Continent. A group of terrorists were found operating on the continent and allegedly had military resources backing them. The General Resource Defense Force was dispatched to the continent and helped the now-weakening Usean Government in hopes of operating on the continent. The terrorists were suppressed by the GRDF forces and talks were held about GR's future on the Usean Continent with the Usean Government.

From this conflict the GRDF had gained an Ace Pilot, the first since the war of 2010, 16 years ago. His name was Abyssal Dision, a graduate in Aerospace Engineering from the Sandberry College.

However, this incident was not their only armed action they partook in. Sometime in the 2030s, General Resource LTD. engaged the United Air Defense (UAD), which resulted in a short, but fierce conflict. The UAF managed to hold off the General Resource Forces in the form of the Air Strike Force and destroy the GR Command Center, from which the attacks originated. Though there were reports of GR attempting to deploy hydrogen oxygen missiles, no official actions were taken against them for undisclosed reason, and the entire conflict was looked past by the world community. The reason was that the whole actions were not done with the consent of General Resource leaders, and instead done at the behest of Belkan perpetrators in an attempt to get more Belkan power behind GR.

Faith Park and the Fallout (2040 - 2044)

In 2040, the first of many miscommunications between General Resource and Neucom had taken place. Afterwards, Neucom had said that it was a General Resource attempt to control Neucom growth and threatened General Resource. This was known as the Faith Park Dispute. The Neo-United Nations stepped in and talks were held. The conflict was settled immediately after this, with each group being assigned areas in which they are allowed to operate in, on the Usean Continent.

Weeks later, Neucom Inc had began to expand it's business into General Resource territory despite their agreements. Now General Resource was asking for the Neo-United Nations (NUN) to step in. As the NUN talked to Neucom Officials General Resource dispatched it's GRDF to patrol around and over the new Neucom Facilities at all times. Tension was building and Neucom soon began to plan to form it's own 'Response Team' to match the GRDF.

The NUN calls in the Universal Peace Enforcement Organization (UPEO) to reinforce all Neo-United Nations sanctions on the continent. However, as they arrive Neucom begins to vector Transport Flights directly over cities in General Resource territory escorted by Neucom's own Fighter Aircraft. Finally shots are fired. A GRDF Unit is launched from Expo City Air Base and they intercept a large Neucom Transport group. The following aerial battle resulted in Expo City, the second largest city on the continent, taking much damage from aircraft which were shot down and crashed into the city or bullets and missiles which had missed their targets.

The Neo-United Nations then put even harsher restrictions on each company because of this and established no fly zones around every major city on the continent. Unfortunately, this did not change anything.

In early 2045 a Neucom transport group entered Expo City airspace and did not heed UPEO warnings. The transport group was shot down by UPEO pilots.

Rules

General Resource was allowed a high level of freedom from Osea and the Alliance under a few conditions:

• They couldn't use any of the aircraft or weapons developed for the Osean military and the Alliance.

• Osea and the Alliance decide on what weapons can go to the GRDF.

• General Resource Ltd. has to pay high taxes.

General Resource Defense Force Ace Pilots

• Abyssal Dision

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• Keith Bryan

Aircraft

Ace Pilot Variants

• F-15S/MT Eagle+-D
• F-22C Raptor II-D

Attacker Aircraft

• F-16XA Saker Falcon

Attack Helicopter

• AH-66B Comanche II

Bomber Aircraft

• B-1C Lancer II

Electronic-Warfare Aircraft

• EC-17U (UPEO Variant)

Export Variants

• F-16XFU GyrFalcon (UPEO Variant)
• F/A-18U Hornet ADV (UPEO Variant)

Fighter Aircraft

• F-15S/MT Eagle+
• F-16XF GyrFalcon
• F-22C Raptor II

Interceptor Aircraft

• RF-12A2 Blackbird II

Multi-Role Aircraft

• F/A-18I Super Hornet
• F/A-32C Erne
• XFA-36A Game

Reconassiance Aircraft

• A/F-117X NAV HAWK

Tanker Aircraft

• EK-17U

Transport Aircraft

• C-17B Globemaster IV

Naval Vessels

• Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers
• Destroyers
• Cruisers

Unique Weaponry

• Orbital Satellite Laser
• Antilion Walking Battle Tank
• SOLG (Satellite Orbital Linear Gun)