[hr][center][h3]Who are MAX FIRE?[/H3][/center]

The best and brightest of all mankind.

The heroes who have been trusted with humanity's future.

MAX FIRE is the greatest assemblage of minds in the history of the world, with scientists, intellectuals and experts from all walks of life having been gathered by Higini Somporn for the great crusade against the monsters that savaged human civilisation. Its domain is vast, uniting both East and West in the unrelenting, maddening quest to create that which would protect and guard mankind from all foes. There is no place on Earth where the justice of MAX FIRE cannot be found.

Yet it is Vaucanson that embodies all of MAX FIRE'S ideals.

Japan's Great Scientific Fortress.

The gates from which the mighty Promethion sallies forth.

Built upon the hallowed ground where the first of the horrible monsters was felled, the Great Scientific Fortress of Vaucanson is no mere research institute, but a terrifyingly immense citadel of knowledge and power, home to powerful defenses that truly befit its name. It is here, the core of MAX FIRE'S operations in East Asia, that experiments with Etherion are performed, and it is here that the mightiest armaments are made to combat the beasts.

Its destruction would be crippling, yet the waves of monsters break upon contact, falling prey to its power.

Sprawling towers, directing their energies against invaders.

A barrier of light, unbreakable by even the mightiest of weapons.

Professional men, able to grasp victory from even utter failure.

Indeed, the Fortress lead by the brilliant Drs Kougami and Meredith simply dares humanity's foes to strike.

The skeletal carcass of the first monster has been rooted into its walls, chained to the stone and steel.

A grim reminder to all of their purpose.

They will [b]burn[/b] monsterkind to ashes.