Atlas



The Atlas Corporation is a weapons manufacturing corporation supplying arms to the Pandoran market. Weapons manufactured by the Atlas Corporation may be randomly generated in Borderlands, their signature feature being their pearl handles.

Atlas Armaments
These guns tend to have high damage and fire rate, without sacrificing magazine capacity and reload. Indeed, Marcus Kincaid sometimes says, "Buy an Atlas, and you too will know what it is like to hold the power of the gods in your hands!" Atlas guns tend to be among the rarest guns in the game. Despite their overwhelmingly powerful portrayal in the game however, this does not mean Atlas guns are always the best choice.

Involvement
The Atlas Corporation is a massive interplanetary megacorporation involved in the development and manufacture of everything from spaceships and stardrives to small arms. It was the first company to discover ancient alien technology, on the planet Prometheus, and reverse engineered it in order to manufacture machines and weaponry with the benefits of this new technology, allowing them to produce high performance equipment that excels in every area without trade-offs. The project also brought Atlas to the forefront of weapons manufacturing, and was extremely profitable. The immense success of the Atlas Corporation's venture inspired other megacorporations, such as the Dahl Corporation, to explore other frontier planets, like Pandora, in search of more alien technology and similar resources. Not all such ventures were immediately successful, as the case of Pandora shows, even though items of value still exist buried within the planet.

Crimson Lance
The Crimson Lance is a highly trained and well-armed private military force created and financed by the Atlas Corporation. It can be assumed by Crimson Lance involvement that the Atlas Corporation is attempting to secure the Vault in order to maintain its technological edge over its competitors, but the original game leaves this matter unclarified. In DLC3, General Knoxx's reported to high command (a recording of which was recovered and listened to by the Vault Hunters) confirms that Steele was sent to secure the Eridian technology that the Pandoran Vault was rumored to contain. By the time the Vault Hunters arrive, though, there are indications that the Lance operation appear to have been abandoned by Atlas, as both they and the Dahl corporation began to doubt its existence after a fruitless search, and the continued stay on Pandora could be simply a power grab by his and were killed and savaged by soldiers have been steling other mens wifes towns and turning them into "Lance fiefdoms" supports this possibility. These efforts bring them into direct conflict with four highly dangerous and resourceful adventurers that came to Pandora.

Despite the eventual discovery of the Vault's true contents, Atlas has nevertheless decided to maintain their grip on the planet Pandora to continue excavation for other xenoarcheological artifacts, and in this interest, have deployed heavy reinforcements to the planet under the command of Crimson Lance General Alphonse Knoxx.

Products
The following are produced by Atlas:

Named Weapons: Legendary Weapons: Class Mods: Grenade Mods: Shields: Pearlescent weapons:
 * Combat Rifle - Ajax's Spear (The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC only.)
 * Repeater Pistol - Krom's Sidearm
 * Revolver - Patton
 * Sniper Rifle - Kyros' Power (The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC only.)
 * Combat Rifle - Ogre
 * Repeater Pistol - Troll
 * Revolver - Chimera
 * Shotgun - Hydra
 * Sniper Rifle - Cyclops
 * Soldier - Champion Atlas Loyalty
 * Berserker - Centurion, Titan
 * Siren - Mercenary, Tormentor
 * Rain - Explosive, Corrosive, Incendiary, Shock
 * Shock Resistance - Grounded, Anionic, Cationic
 * Revolver - Aries (The Secret Armory of General KnoxxDLC only.)
 * Shield - Omega (The Secret Armory of General KnoxxDLC only.)

Quotes
"Buy an Atlas, and you too can see what it feels like to hold the power of the gods in your hands!" - Marcus Kincaid

"Atlas spares no expense in making guns that excel in every area!" - Marcus Kincaid

"Give us your hungry, and we'll give them our leftovers! Give us your poor, and we'll give them a job that might pay! Give us your weary, and we'll make them sing us a song! We are Atlas!" - Atlas propaganda announcement.

"Atlas shall return to break the bothersome shackles of freedom and choice that enslave your meager minds!" - Atlas propaganda announcement, after the completion of The Secret Armory of General Knoxx.

Trivia

 * Like a number of other major weapons manufacturers in the game, there is an ancient Greek mythological tie in with the Atlas corporation. Atlas was a Titan who was punished by the Olympian conquerors after the war, with the task of dividing Gaia and Ouranos by holding the sky aloft (this fits in with the rest of the major weapons manufacturers).
 * Many rare Atlas guns seem to be named after mythical beasts from Greek mythology.
 * Atlas_Free_Range_Skag.jpg also seems Atlas is in the food industry. In the Earl Needs Food...Badly mission, the cans of Skag Meat have "Atlas" on them. (See inset right.)
 * According to the Lance Probes fought in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, Atlas also makes coffins, and sells life insurance.
 * The Crimson Lance are not restricted to using Atlas brand guns, except Lance Bosses Ajax and Kyros who use and drop unique Atlas weapons.