ARCAM Corporation

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Seal of the ARCAM Corporation, seen in their Japanese branch HQ building.
Seal of the ARCAM Corporation, seen in their Japanese branch HQ building.

The ARCAM Corporation (アーカム・財団 Aakamu Saitan?) or AC, by its initials in Spriggan, 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).

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[edit] History

Spoiler warning: The article contains spoilers on the origin of the ARCAM Corporation and its in involvement in the Spriggan manga (and to a lesser note, OVA) series


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. [1]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Known ARCAM facilities

[edit] North America

[edit] United States

  • 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.

[edit] Europe

[edit] 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.

[edit] Asia

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Pakistan

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

[edit] Known ARCAM Personnel

[edit] Employees

[edit] ASPA agents

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

[edit] Spriggans

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Revealed in Volume 11 of the manga.

[edit] See Also

Spriggan by Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa
Characters
Yu Ominae | Jean Jacquemonde | Tea Flatte | Oboro | Yamamoto | Rie Yamabishi | Yoshino Somei | Mayzel | Iwao Akatsuki | Bo Brantz | Larry Markson | Henry Garnum | Sho Kanaya | Minor Spriggan characters
Organizations
ARCAM Corporation | ARCAM Private Army | Trident Corporation | COSMOS | Spriggans | Minor Spriggan organizations
Mystical locations
Forest of No Return | Phantom Island | Reverse Babel Tower | South Pole Shrine
Mystical artifacts
Fire Orb | Mask of Palenque | Noah's Ark | Berserker | Crystal Skull | Program YAMA | Holy Grail | Vajrayana | Ark of the Covenant | Megiddo Flame | Gold Statue of Pachacamac
Other mystical items
Armored Machine Suit | Armored Muscle Suit | Hihiirokane | Magical Circle of Chaos | Message Plate | Omihalcon | Soma
Others
Franchise | ISBN Codes
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