United Magmaworks

United Magmaworks (or U.M.) was a pre-End United States corporation dedicated to the creation of sophisticated, magma-powered technology.

U.M. began as a geothermal energy utilities organization that slowly branched off into the realm of scientific projects, eventually leading to the development of technology that allowed for the actual harnessing of magma as a fuel source. Their first successful scientific project, the Lava Gun (see “Lava Gun”), not only gave birth to the field of Teleportation technology (see “Teleportation”), but lead to a hefty contract from the U.S. Defense Department, soon establishing them as a top military contractor.

With powerful lobbyists in Washington, United Magmaworks was said to have been the driving force behind the popular “Race to the Center of the Earth” frenzy of the mid 21^st century, which pushed to create a hole to the center of the Earth before China, similarly to the “Race to the Moon” against Russia during the mid to late 20^th century. As the recipient of several massive grants from the U.S. government to create that hole, it is widely believed that U.M. eventually created a powerful excavation machine, and that a hole was begun, though The End came before the project was ever completed.

The actual whereabouts of such a machine or hole are currently unknown.

Some theories indicate that the U.M. “Center of the Earth” project in some way contributed to The End, though there is currently no evidence to support such a link, or even a potential hypothesis.