Corporate security, corporate police and various suboperations.
Headquarters: Tokyo.
Regional Offices: Singapore, Hong Kong, Osaka, Kyoto, Bangkok, Baghdad, Sydney, London, Hamburg, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Geneva, Helsinki, The Hague, Rio deJanieim, Montreal, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles,Chicago, Honolulu. Suboffices throughout the world.
Name and Location of Major Shareholder. Saburo Arasaka, Tokyo, holding 18.9% of total shares.
Arasaka has long had top standing in the field of corporate security. If you want it protected, these are the people to speak to.
They maintain one of the largest armed forces of any corporation, troops that are famous for being the best trained and hardest in the business, and that will follow their client’s orders second only to Arasaka’s. To the Arasaka corporation, they are loyal to the point of death. While many of their troops are hired out internationally, Arasaka forces now make up the core of the Corporate Security Service (CorpSec), the national corporate police which formed after the Second American Revolution. Under the leadership of Saburo Arasaka, Arasaka Corp was a major supporter of the 2nd AR and used the opportunity to establish itself heavily in the structure of the nation. Whether it really has the best interests of the ISA at heart or not is a matter of great concern both within and without the Whindam administration.
More details of what Arasaka is up to with Kids can be found on their very own page.
Arms manufacturing and distribution, mercenaries
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Regional Offices: New York, Miami, Chicago, Montreal, London, Rome, Zurich, Night City, Washington, Los Angeles, Toronto, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong.
Name and Location of Major Shareholder. Gen. Donald Lundee,USMC, Annapolis, Maryland, holding 16% of total shams.
MTI is the world’s largest producer and seller of military weapons of all kinds, from revolvers to tanks to jet fighters. MTIis a major military supplier to the ISA, and the ISA, in turn, is MTI’s largest customer. MTI will deal worldwide with anyone who has money. MTI’s mercenary forces and in-house supply of weaponry make it the most militarily powerful company in the world, if not the most powerful economically.
As one of the first members on the CEP, Militech was a prime mover in the Second American Revolution, supplying troops and hardware to many U.S. branch offices to fend off armed Eurocorp reprisals. Col. Dundee still has his seat on the CEP. His goddaughter and close associate, Anastasia Lucessi, is a Director in the Domestic Security Agency. Currently, much of MTI’s forces are integrated into CorpSec side by side with Arasaka forces, something that has been the cause for friction in the past and may be again in the future.
Multi-role computer and electronics manufacturer.
Headquarters: Richmond, VA
Regional Offices: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Kanasas City, New York, Hong Kong.
Name and Location of Major Shareholder. Kathleen Higgins, Richmond, VA, holding 22.2% of the new shares.
In the late 1990’s, EBM, already the largest computer and high-tech manufacturer in the world, and one of the most significant corporations in existence, pulled off the greatest free-market hostile takeover in history. Led by master corporate raider Dr. Kurt Muller, this maneuver caused the merger of EBM with many other prominent computer companies around the world, consolidating EBM’s already fearsome market power.
But by 2021, EBM’s support of orbital development had left many of its American offices dying on the vine. That year Kathleen Higgins led the main U.S. office in Richmond in a massive, semi-legal movement to separate from the parent company, which resulted in direct U.S. military intervention on the behalf of the U.S. branch offices. And so the 2nd AR was begun. Now, EBMA is the leading domestic information technologies corporation and is working to displace its parent company internationally in the next few years. To do that, they’ve embarked on an extensive program of expansion and construction within the ISA
Petrochemical products and agribusiness. World’s largest CHOO2 producer.
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas.
Regional Offices: NewYork, Washing ton, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, Rome. Oil fields in Canada, Texas, Alaska, California and Antarctica. Agricultural areas in California and the Midwest and Southeast.
Name and Location of Major Shareholder: Angus Youngblood, Joy Springs, North Dakota, holding 30.1% of total shares.
Petrochem Industries keeps the world running, literally. They are the world’s largest producer of CHOOH2, an control millions of acres of arable land amiss the ISA. This land is used to grow the genetically altered wheat that is used to CHOOH2. (Surplus grain is shipped across the world as food.) Petrochem is also one of the largest remaining oil producers, with all remaining fossil fuels used to make plastics and other synthetics.
The management of Petrochem is a tense situation: While Augus Youngblood is the major stodtholder, the CEO, Trenton Parker, still wields considerable power. And, while they both agreed to Petrochem’s involvement in the ISA, they are at odds on just about everything else. This internal struggle has been held in check so far, but odds are in favor of Youngbloods ousting Parker in a violent manner any day now.
Nationwide broadcasting service.
Headquarters: New York.
Regional Offices: Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans, Dallas, Indianapolis, Denver, Arizona, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington, with subsidiary stations in most major cities.
Name and Location of Major Shareholder: Edwin R. Dreyer Foundation, under control of Michelle Dreyer. Located at Fifty Pines Ranch, near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The estate controls 26.5% of all shares.
Network News 54 is more than a single network, representing a whole swath of networks which now dominate 200 broadcast bands across the country. Accordingly, no matter what channel you turn on, there’s a 40% chance that you’re watching Net 54, even if you don’t realize it. Despite its name, Net 54 offers many diversions in addition to news. Every regional office offers a slightly different schedule to its district, with syndicated series, non prime-time movies, local news programs and all sorts of corporate-sponsored propaganda. Net 54 has been a partner in the ISA since the beginning. In many ways, Net 54 is one of the worst of the megacorps, since its product is beamed into almost every household nationwide and few people understand how influential it is
Food and agricultural products.
Headquarters: Kansas City, MO.
Regional Offices: San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Denver, Vancouver, Melbourne, Brasilia, Honolulu.
Name and Location of Major Shareholder: Liana Miller, San Francisco, Nor-Cal, with 19.2% of the shares.
One of the oldest Megacorps, Consolidated Agriculture was founded in 1930 from three feed production facilities. Its current interests go far beyond simple farming, however. They are now the largest producer of food products in the nation, perhaps the world, owning land in the ISA, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, and Brazil. Their products include processed meat, kibble, plants and seafood, and even some of the new vegetables being gene-engineered for high efficiency in high orbit.
ConAg has had a seat on the CEP since its inception, and the food corp certainly aided in the 2nd AR, but since then, it has kept a fairly low profile. It’s certainly enlarged its domestic holdings, but it hasn’t indulged in the sort of rapine expansion that others have. Its CEO Barry Swiftsure—always known as an aggressive businessman—has many wondering what ConAg must have up its sleeve
Genetic engineering, microbiological and biochemical research
Headquarters: Night City CA (Rome).
Regional Offices: Baltimore, Boston, London, Bonn, Paris, Tokyo and La Jolla California.
Name and Location of Major Shareholder: Nicolo Loggagia, Monte Carlo, Monaco, holding 13.8% of total shares.
When the fuel crisis really began to affect the industrialized community in the late 1990s, Biotechnica, then a small firm with only one office, came up with the answer: CHOOH2 (pronounced ‘chew two’). CHOOH2 (not its actual chemical formula) is a complex grain alcohol produced by genetically engineered yeasts and wheat strains created by Biotechnica. The potential of CHOOH2 was realized almost immediately after it was introduced, and within a few years all fuel burning vehicles and power plants had converted to the new fuel. Although Biotechnica held worldwide patents, it lacked the production facilities to meet worldwide demand, forcing it to license production to several large agribusinesses and petro-corporations (Most notably Petrochem and Sovoil). These deals made Biotechnica an extremely wealthy, but still not particularly large, company.
Having invested massively in the US for research (due to lack many of those pesky ethics laws that hampered it in Europe), Biotechnica had less of a breakup in the second american revolution. Publicly it is now Biotechnia America and has a seat on the CEP. They pay all their corporate taxes to the US etc.. etc…, under the hood they are still linked to the central organisation in Rome. The ISA knows this, but tolerates it as publicly they tow the party line, and are extremely powerful for a small corporation. (And due to the aforementioned lax research laws, Biotechnica gets on very well with the US as opposed to europe anyway)
As probably the foremost biotech company in the world, they are very, very, interested in all things plague related.
Counter-intelligence and security specialists
Headquarters: Richmond VA
Regional Offices: Houston, Minneapolis, Sacramento, Night City
Name and Location of Major Shareholder: FoxRun is a partnership, owned by Jon Foxx, Amanda Foxx and 3 senior employees. None will sell their shares at any price.
Foxrun is a small company (bit over 100 employees), they do work for companies too small to have their own covert ops teams, as well as jobs for bigger corps who either want deniability or don’t wish to risk their own troops. In addition to to testing a corporations security system and consulting on its improvements FoxRun also participates in “blind security tests”. This is a euphemism for real-life intrusions and extractions or sabotage. Fopxruns main resource is personnel, it is one of the few places edgerunners can go, do what they like/are good at and yet remain legitimate. The company has attacked some very best in the field.
Catapulted to fame as its believed that the “foxrun incident” was the start of the plague, Foxrun has taken a lot of heat. The owners turned over all material related to the the “operation” to a sealed DSA and LEDiv investigation then their offices were taken apart piece by piece for more evidence. While officially the results were sealed, its all over the net that predictably there was next to no useful information for the feds because FoxRun doesn’t write anything officially down for obvious reasons given their line of work. FoxRun is back to work now, but struggling to get any as they are politically toxic. It remains to be seen whether they will go under, or start getting contracts on the sly, doubly difficult since they are very much on the DSA and LEDivs radar.