Working through its member corporations within each of the "Big 4" empires, the Upwell Consortium has secured contracts to enhance counter-insurgency efforts against marauding pirate gangs and their capsuleer supporters. Special squadrons of fortification construction ships have been provided by Upwell to support anti-pirate efforts in order to deploy these weapons platforms.

The Counter-Insurgency Sentry Gun is designed to be rapidly deployed when anti-pirate suppression has established secure logistics for their deployment teams. This weapons platform will considerably enhance defenses at strategic locations within systems where counter-insurgency operations have elevated the system suppression to high levels.