Atlas

The Atlas Corporation is a large weapons manufacturing corporation located on Pandora. Weapons manufactured by The Atlas Corporation may be randomly generated in Borderlands, their signature feature being their pearl handles.

History
The Atlas Corporation was the first company to discover alien technology, from some sort of wreck, and reverse engineer it in order to manufacture more traditional weaponry with the benefits of this new technology. This project brought Atlas to the forefront of weapon manufacturing, and was extremely profitable. The immense success of The Atlas Corporation's venture inspired other gun companies to journey forth to settle and exploit frontier planets, like Pandora, in search of more alien technology and other similar resources. Not all such ventures were successful, as the case of Pandora shows, even though items of value still exist on the planet.

Crimson Lance
The Crimson Lance is a the highly trained private military group of The Atlas Corporation that disregards law and order.