Arbiet Communications --------------------------- Info Leader: Sherman Estimated Population: 47 Strength: %13.5 -----------Story------------- Near the end of the 20th century, Aperture was doing terribly. The company hadn't had any major innovations in over twenty years, and was losing government science contracts to competitor companies, such as Black Mesa, nearly weekly. Naturally, they were fraught to try and figure something out and make some sort of breakthrough. In an act of desperation, they decided to create a new secret faction of Aperture, disguised as its own company. They gave it the pseudonym (fake name) of Arbeit Communications (Pronounced Ar-Bite). The faction was disguised as a cell tower developer and radio operating company. But under the surface, Arbeit's true purpose was to use the cell towers to hijack onto radio transmissions between Black Mesa employees and listen into them and discover their secret projects. The main operator of the cell towers was a copper personality core named Sherman. Sherman was very charismatic and was equipped with top-of-the-line radio equipment to intercept Black Mesa's signals. He functions as Arbeit's main operator and Mainframe. The front's true purpose was discovered by the government, and Arbeit was swiftly abandoned by the company. Due to it being 'too risky,' they hadn't sent a notice, and all the personnel and cores working at Arbeit's main headquarters in Antartica were unaware they were no longer needed and continued functioning normally. Throughout the Seven Hour War as well as the Combine's occupation of Earth, Sherman and the rest of the employees at Arbeit were able to defend themselves and continue operating the facility as normal. Arbeit, to this day, remains one of the only functioning facilities left, alongside Aperture's HQ in upper Michigan where the events of Portal 1 & 2 take place. Despite Arbeit being located in the Artic, Sherman and the rest of the 'company' are unaware they are in close proximity to the greatest superweapon known to mankind. The Borealis.
Credit to Valve for the Portal and Half-Life Games Credit to Breadman and Entropy Zero: 2 for the idea of Arbiet Communications.
