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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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