McLennen-Forster
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| McLennen-Forster | |
| Season | 4 |
| First appeared | Day 4 12:00pm-1:00pm |
| Last appeared | Day 4 7:00pm-8:00pm |
McLennen-Forster was a military defense contractor that not only manufactures lethal and non-lethal weapons for the military and other clients, but also trains those clients how to use the weapons. As of Day 4, it was the third-largest defense contractor in the United States.
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[edit] Weapons
[edit] Dobson Override Device
- Created to override a nuclear power plant in the case of a disaster. The device could also corrupt a nuclear reactor and create a meltdown if the reactor's firewalls were hacked into.
- The titanium briefcase in which it was being transported was stolen during a train accident at the beginning of Day 4.
- Stolen by Habib Marwan during Day 4 in order to force a meltdown of all one-hundred and four nuclear reactors in the United States.
- Disabled by Edgar Stiles.
[edit] Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb
- Developed as a non-lethal, but still highly destructive, weapon for the military.
- Capable of destroying all objects with electrical components (including phone lines, power lines, computers, electronic flight controls, cars, radar and electronic warfare equipment, satellites, microwaves, and television equipment) within an 8 mile radius.
- Stored in room 12 of the McLennen-Forster Corporate Headquarters.
- Takes 10 minutes to warm up.
- Detonated by Gene McLennen, Dave Conlon, and John Reiss
[edit] Employees
- Gene McLennen - CEO
- John Reiss - Chief Technology Officer
- Dave Conlon - Head of Security
- Habib Marwan (using the alias Harris Barnes) - Senior Engineer
- Henry Powell - Computer consultant
[edit] Background information and notes
- A title card incorrectly spells the name "McLennan-Forster," but all in-universe appearances spell it with an "e."
- One of Paul Raines' companies sold the IT system to McLennen-Forster.
- The name McLennen-Forster is a nod to songwriters Grant McLennan and Robert Forster of the Australian band The Go-Betweens.
