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Haas-Bioroid
Director: Cynthia Haas
Headquarters: Manta District, New Angeles
Key Industries: Androids, Articial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Heavy
Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Robotics, Soware
“Haas-Bioroid got its start as a European engineering and industrial
manufacturing rm, back before they were called HB. en a few
decades back they merged with a little neuroscience and AI concern
called the Rossum Group and that’s when things got interesting. ey
made a brand-new machine called a bioroid, an articial person
that could think and act like a human being. When it caught on, they
renamed themselves Haas-Bioroid so no one would forget what they did
for a living.
Bioroids changed the world. Over the long run, androids are going to
be as revolutionary a technology as re, or the printing press, or the
Network. And Haas-Bioroid got there rst (a fact they’re never going
to stop rubbing in Jinteki’s face). eir bioroids kinda sum up what the
whole company is about. ey’re ecient, bleeding edge, a rational
solution to a pressing problem—well, that’s the pitch. No one seems able
to explain what problem bioroids are solving. But through it all, HB
proudly claims that their bioroids are ‘Ecient,’ ‘Reliable,’ and ‘Humane.’
Just like their whole company. And the concept of euthanasia.”
– How Not to Get Scragged (no author on record)
Melange Mining
CEO: Yuri Talunik
Headquarters: Heinlein District, Luna
Key Industries: Prospecting, Resource Extraction
“So, Melange Mining — or 2M, if you’re feeling pressed for time — are
newcomers to the whole megacorp thing. In fact, some might argue
that they’re not even a megacorp, not really. A real megacorp has
oces all over and a diverse portfolio of boring business buzzwords
and 2M really just does one thing: mines helium-3 on the Moon.
But! Mining He-3 on the moon is a good way to make just boatloads of
money, by which I mean if you want to ship a boat to the Moon, and ll
that boat with dead-tree cash money, and then just look at it because
there’s no water on the Moon to sail around in, you can aord to do
that if your surname is Talunik. Helium-3 powers all of our modern
fusion reactors and, as a consequence, the entire economy of Earth and
Luna. (Mars is — well, let’s just say ‘it’s complicated’ and move on.)
e other corps might think that Melange is nothing more than a
bunch of up-jumped ex-Russian mob bosses, exploiting the monopoly
granted to them by the War. And, well, they’re not wrong, exactly. But
so what? Like the other corps aren’t crooks?”
– Jenny Random’s Hyper-Accurate Guide to Everything, Ever
Globalsec
CEO: Lidiah Maucher
Headquarters: Atlantica, Western Europe
Key Industries: Information Security, Intelligence, Military Contracting,
Physical Security
“Here’s what I can’t gure out about Globalsec: Are they the good guys
or the bad guys? I mean, they’re a corp. So bad guys, right? But they ride
herd on the other corps, sometimes. So, good guys, right? Governments
contract with them to keep tabs on their populace—bad guys. Globalsec
security teams crack down on warlords and gangbangers in places
where the cops can’t or won’t—good guys.
Can’t gure them out. ey’re the biggest name in security, worldswide,
and sometimes that means private army and sometimes that means net
surveillance and sometimes that means discreet bodyguards packing
fusion-powered monolament heat. ey’re as plugged-in to the
Network as anyone outside of NBN. ey’ve got that Blacklist — sorry,
the Globalsec Employee Skills Directory or whatever it’s actually called.
ey’ve got a list, and if you get a black mark on it, you never work
again, because all the other corps use them for background checks.
Plus, those uniforms are black. Okay, I’ve decided. ey’re probably
bad guys.”
– Jenny Random’s Hyper-Accurate Guide to Everything, Ever
e Weyland Consortium
CEO: Vacant
Headquarters: Base de Cayambe, New Angeles
Key Industries: Construction, Finance, Investments, Space
Exploration
“ere’s something they used to call ‘the Myth of Shareholder Value.’
It goes, basically, like this: everything any corporate ocer does, at
any level, must be dedicated to only one thing, which is to increase
shareholder value. Under this myth, any action you take becomes
moral or immoral solely based on whether that action increases or
decreases shareholder value.
ere have been periods in our country’s history where the Myth of
Shareholder Value has been accepted as gospel truth by the entire
economy. ere are sectors of our economy who have never turned
their back on the myth. Who still worship it as a golden idol.
e Weyland Consortium are the high priests of the cult of Shareholder
Value in today’s economy. e Consortium is less a corporation and
more an algorithm, buying and selling corporations and extending its
tendrils out through every sector of industry: research, transportation,
you name it. e Consortium moves and acts like a living thing. No one
executive or committee steers that ship. Shareholder Value is its only
captain, and every decision made by its chief ocers is pre-destined, an
inevitable result of gears turning for decades, of market forces ltered
through AIs running on corporate servers.
e Consortium is a serpent with no head. No CEO. It owns the
Beanstalk, it owns outer space, it owns our destiny. And it will
sacrice us to its god, in time.”
– e Flashpoint, by Omar Keung
NBN
CEO: Victoria Jenkins
Headquarters: Rutherford District, New Angeles
Key Industries: Advertising, Communications, Data Mining, Media,
Psychographic Proling
“I wake up to NBN’s dulcet shrieking. I eat breakfast while they tell
me what to think. ey follow me into the shower, chirping from the
waterproof wallscreen I have installed there. ey’re in my pocket while
I walk down the street, ashing at me from every public kiosk and every
virt display above the shops and skyway terminals.
And it’s ne, friends! It’s ne. NBN gives me a steady supply of attractive
people saying interesting things. ey know what I want to hear before I
do, and they make sure I hear it. Music, threedee, news, whatever I need
to get by, NBN is there to supply it. You can’t beat them for convenience
or at really anything else, ever.
What can I say? I love NBN. And they love me.”
– John Hackman: A Memoir by John Hackman, by John Hackman
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