The Scimitar Launch System was a mass driver and first large scale space launch system. Built and operated by the Saudi Space Consortium from 191 to 163 BFC, it was named for its distinctive upward-curving track that resembled the traditional Arabian sword and was the largest of Saudi Arabia's pivots away from hydrocarbon exports. The evacuated coilgun track was bored into granite beneath Jabal Soudah in the Asir highlands, where flywheel and capacitor banks accelerated a ceramic sabot enclosing a reusable methalox upper stage on an upward curving trajectory. Suffering a number of complications during construction, most notably the Khan Solar Storm of 187 BFC, the project did not launch its first payload until 171 BFC. At this time the Saudi kingdom was under immense financial pressure from the abundance of cheap solar power and the resulting global synthetic methane transition, and many flagship projects such as the Aljanah Lunar Resort were privatised. Despite initial success and generating several billion in revenue per year the project was never profitable (even excluding the payback of the immense construction costs) due to the maintenance costs of higher than expected labour and issues arising from operating in a moist environment. The start of the Ceres Wave brought additional revenue but also caused the United States to begin construction of a more efficient rotavator launch system, and by the time of the collapse of the Kingdom in 155 BFC it had been decommissioned and turned into a tourist attraction.