EFL Oil & Machinery

[Guyton]

you asked for it, so here you get it, french history lesson time.

The real name is ELF and not EFL, it's a typo by Igiss.

It all started with three companies created around WW2, the most important one being the RAP in 1939 to mine underground gas deposits in France and potentially establish petrol supply lines for the war. France almost had no petrol itself, we were getting most of it through importation. These companies somewhat fusioned through various states I won't explain here to prevent boredom and ultimately gave ELF Aquitaine in 1967.

Although the great question you asked was "what does EFL stand for?" and it's indeed a good question because it seems there are only assumptions and no definitive answer. I found on the interwebs it would supposedly stand for "Essences et Lubrifiants de France" roughly translated into "French Fuel & Grease" which I suppose were the main things necessary to get cars/industry stuff working upon this time and makes sense.

ELF was absorbed by Total in the 2000's because of shady stuff that ruined the company's stock exchange values.

So technically, if Igiss's intent was to keep things somewhat frenchy related, EFL would not build bases or ships, Solar Engineering would do, which is more logical, but instead scout for oil/mineral deposits, establish mining outposts and supply routes & stuff.

There you go.

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Pretty interesting history lesson. I agree it seems more Solar Engineering would be the primaries on this RP style. It rather caught me off guard when I first started researching more about EFL.


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Thanks for post Alley

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