Archimedes BioFusion Corporation
Type:	Clean technology and sustainable energy
Industry:	Clean technology Energy
Founder:	James P. E. Shaw
Dates:	5 September 2032 CE - 8 March 2192 CE (159 years, 6 months and 3 days)
Owner:	Archimedes Board of Directors
Headquarters:	Okinawa, Earth
Area served:	Earth (until 2160 CE) Council space and the Attican Traverse (2160 CE - onwards)
CEO:	Salekania Iessarev (last)
Services:	Clean technology Sustainable energy development Climate activism Preservation of planetary ecosystems and bio-diversity (from 2160 CE)
Number of employees:	1.1 million employees
Extranet site:	archbiocorp.gal

"Caring for environments where others won't."

— Archimedes' motto.

Archimedes BioFusion Corporation (ABFC) was a multi-species interstellar corporation specializing in clean technology and sustainable energy. Formerly a human company, Archimedes was founded in 2032 CE as the brainchild of numerous US, Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, European and Japanese politicians looking to combat climate change and to hasten development into sustainable energy and clean technology substitutes. By 2040 CE, Archimedes had established facilities in each of the countries that had helped to found it, but while the company's attempts to push climate-friendly substitutes for modern technologies were beginning to bear fruit, it wasn't occurring fast enough, and by the time of the outbreak of the Third World War, Archimedes' operations became largely privatized, without government funding to back it. Wars across the world shook up Archimedes' activities, but when the Third World War finally ended, Archimedes was able to begin chasing its goals again, although still without government funding. Archimedes' chase for new sustainable energy sources reached a critical junction with the discovery of the Mars ruins in 2146 CE, which followed with the discovery of element zero in 2147 CE, a source of energy that once refined and used as fuel was virtually unlimited in its application. Archimedes was one of many companies to seize the opportunity to utilize element zero as a power source, and with the prothean ruins helping them to fully utilize it, fossil fuels were almost entirely phased out by 2155 CE, a game-changing victory for Archimedes and climate activism.

The next shakeup to Archimedes was the discovery that humanity was not alone in the universe, and following the First Contact War, Archimedes began entertaining the thought of expansion beyond Earth, with a shift in its objectives from combating climate change (a threat that had been rendered virtually non-existent) to preserving life, campaigning for protecting the ecospheres and bio-diversity of the hundreds of worlds in the galaxy. As the company's operations expanded, so did its recruitment base, with the company opening itself to recruiting from multiple species, becoming one of the first human corporations to accept non-human members. This allowed Archimedes to establish itself on asari, salarian, turian and many other worlds, and eventually even into the Attican Traverse. Archimedes was relatively successful in its efforts to protect the bio-diversity of many worlds, including sponsoring protests against corporations found to be exploiting a planet's natural resources without due care given to its inhabitants, sentient or otherwise. Despite these successes however, Archimedes was running at a financial loss, with much of its "young blood" leadership found to have been embezzling funds for private expenses or failing to remain within budgets/exceeding seasonal quotas. In 2184 CE, a whistleblower exposed numerous members of the Archimedes' leadership for embezzlement, and a series of arrests were made that severely damaged the company's reputation. Bleeding money and slowly downsizing, Archimedes was fighting to survive by the time the Reaper War arrived. The devastation of the conflict finished off the company's chances of staying alive, with most of its facilities destroyed, thousands of employees killed or on the run, and much of its remaining money appropriated for the war effort or used by the leadership to secure safety from the Reapers by building doomsday bunkers. In 2192 CE, Archimedes filed for bankruptcy and was bought by TruePath Corporation Pty Ltd., who bought the company's remaining assets and stock and dissolved the company in the same year.