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Advanced Research and Experimental Systems digital archives.

Corporation	Advanced Research and Experimental Systems
Branches	AI systems; Arms and Tech Manufacturing; Military
Years Founded	Early 2440s
Headquarters	Mars
Branch Offices	Deimos, Phobos, IO, Europa
Key People	Sakura Kaneda, Aaron Skell, Robert Aldon, Cassandra Areia
Value	1.4 Trillion Solcred

A.R.E.S is a megacorporation that deals in Artificial Intelligence, Cybertech, Nanotech, Weapons Development, and Military Contracts. They have seen success on Mars, Deimos, Phobos, Luna, Io, Europa, and a few space stations and floating cities. Their headquarters are located on Mars. A.R.E.S also has a seat in the New Geneva Council, providing military aid and support, as well as being one of the main providers with weaponry, ships, and vehicles.

Armitech

Armitech digital archives in Neu Berlin.

Corporation	Armitech Defense
Branches	Corporate Security; AI Systems; Arms and Vehicle Manufacturing
Years Founded	Early 2430s
Founder	Adelheid Stromm
Headquarters	Neu Berlin
Branch Offices	Neo London, Nya Stockholm, Nouveau Paris, French Populace of Utopia, Cocoon Station
Value	1.1 Trillion Solcred

Armitech, an active weapons manufacturer from Neu Berlin, has been active since the 2430's. Born in their industrial sector, Armitech was just one more out of many weapon manufacturers that were just a bleep on Neu Berlin's industrial complex, until one of their engineers, Adelheid Stromm, found blueprints belonging to the weaponry used during the Transcendence War era, including prototype weaponry that was never released on the field. That, in addition to salvaged weapons and samples obtained from Earth, combined with current power cells and hydrogen batteries, with that knowledge in hand, Armitech focused entirely on energy weapons, assuring a highly destructive output from plasma and laser-based weapons at half the energy cost from their power cells.

Over the next ten years, Armitech would expand aggressively on Neu Berlin, the Dusseldorf Industrial Platform, and even Utopia. Rivaling with Matsumoto Zaibatsu, they would get involved in an Industrial Espionage scandal, when Harada Matsumoto, who had worked for Armitech, got close enough to the corporation to embezzle and negotiate deals that would take assets and profits from Armitech and would catapult Matsumoto Zaibatsu into the Megacorporation Status.

Meanwhile, the humble engineer that was responsible for the change in Armitech's status, Adelheid Stromm, had climbed the corporate ladder and became the new CEO, after ten years of preparation.

Today, Armitech reigns as one of the most important Euro-based Megacorporations that produce, manufacture, and distribute weaponry and cyber tech to both Security Corporations and Military Corporations.

GTT

Genetectic headquarters on Luna Colony, and branch office in Cocoon Station.

Corporation	Genetectic
Branches	Biotech; Medical
Year Founded	2488
Founded	Ophelia Faith
Headquarters	Luna Colony
Branch Offices	Cocoon Station, CP11: New Texas Sea
Value	650 Billion Solcred

GTT is a mega corporation primarily involved in the biotech and medical industries. It is one of the mega-corps on cocoon, owning and managing the GTT Medical Pavilion it is a company that offers medical and cloning services, develops and produces Replicants, As well as manages and deploys Trauma Team first responder services.

Matsumoto

Matsumoto branch office in Luna Colony.

Corporation	Matsumoto Zaibatsu
Branches	Corporate Security; Mercenary Contracting; Arms and Tech Manufacturing
Year Founded	2435
Founded	Kei Matsumoto
Headquarters	New Edo
Branch Offices	Luna Colony, Shin Tokyo, Se Seoul, Xin Beijing, Mega-LA
Key People	Harada Matsumoto
Value	1.5 Trillion Solcred

The prestigious Matsumoto Zaibatsu is a New-Edo based megacorporation dealing in corporate security, cyberwar, and weapon manufacturing. Started in 2435 by Kei Matsumoto as a small organization that dealt with cybertech repairs. By 2437, Matsuda would start producing its own line of cyber tech and cybernetics in general (Optics, Neural Implants Surveillance, and Security systems, et cetera), Kei Matsumoto's philosophy would drive himself to work harder than his competitors and hoped to inspire others by his devotion. Matsumoto would play to win. In mid-2440's, Matsumoto would give a leap of faith and attempt their hand in nanotech, however, the still humble organization lacked the proper personnel and means to maintain nanotech afloat and suffered their first blow, that, added to other companies rising up and even catching up with them, forced Kei Matsumoto to consider other methods, in his mind, he had to win at all costs and one more failure wasn't an option.

Kei Matsumoto was always trying to keep ahead of the game and had a small network of spies, through this network, he caught wind that Armitech was salvaging working technology from Earth, the mythical Transcendence War-era tech could be a game-changer if done right, his son, Harada Matsumoto, would eventually work for Armitech and climb the corporate ladder until reaching a middle management position, not high enough to get him noticed, but high enough to get access to the secrets his father and his company desperately needed, the information Harada Matsumoto would obtain resulted in one of the biggest Corporate Espionage scandals in history, as Armitech and Matsumoto would face each other in Corporate Law Courthouses for several months until the case was handled privately and settled. However, the constant pressure would prove too much for Kei Matsumoto, and he would pass away due to cardiac complications, allowing for Harada Matsumoto to assume control of the corporation, and renaming it Matsumoto Zaibatsu, to reflect its new status.

With what Harada Matsumoto considered a victory over Armitech, his new vision was to also control Security Corporations in New Edo, putting himself at odds against Rising Sun Technologies, a Corporate Security Corporation that was rumored to be financed by the Asakura Gumi, a powerful criminal syndicate led by Asakura Shinnosuke. Eventually, Matsumoto Zaibatsu and Rising Sun Technologies would agree on territory distribution, as well as weaponry distribution from Matsumoto Zaibatsu. Today, the corporation remains an important weapons manufacturer and is one of the main pillars that sustain New Edo, with shady practices and even shadier management.

Section One

Corporation	Special Projects Division: Section One
Branches	AI systems; Arms and Tech Manufacturing; Military
Years Founded	Early 2440s
Headquarters	Mars
Branch Offices	Deimos, Phobos, IO, Europa
Key People	Sakura Kaneda, Aaron Skell, Robert Aldon, Cassandra Areia
Value	1.4 Trillion Solcred

A.R.E.S is a megacorporation that deals in Artificial Intelligence, Cybertech, Nanotech, Weapons Development, and Military Contracts. They have seen success on Mars, Deimos, Phobos, Luna, Io, Europa, and a few space stations and floating cities. Their headquarters are located on Mars. A.R.E.S also has a seat in the New Geneva Council, providing military aid and support, as well as being one of the main providers with weaponry, ships, and vehicles.

Vulca Group

A Vulca Group branch office that was once established in X-17, Earth.

Corporation	Vulca Group
Branches	Urban Development; Arms and Tech Manufacturing; Mercenary Contracting
Year Founded	2217
Founder	Edward Volk
Headquarters	Magna Rome
Branch Offices	X-17 Earth, New Geneva, New London
Key People	Reginald Volk; Cecil Hawkwood
Value	650 Billion Solcred

Vulca Group grew out of the expansion of Habitat-0419. When the many corporations of the era banded together to fund the expansion of the hub, Edward Volk formed an alliance with fellow CEO's James Hawkwood and Ludwig Sterz. Between the three of them, their companies had a mastery of energy production, manufacturing, and urban development that placed them at the forefront of the project, earning them massive financial gains, the ire of competitors across the board, and a healthy bit of scrutiny under the New Geneva organization.

Ultimately, their success granted them the resources for aggressive business practices, as they developed a reputation for only working with equally powerful companies and cannibalizing the rest whenever possible. Rumor has it that these practices are supported by a clandestine espionage wing, however, investigation after investigation has turned up little more than negative publicity. This leads to their rebranding under the name of Vulca Group, as they expanded from energy and urban development into weapons and biotechnology with targeted acquisitions.

In the present day, their products line the streets of most cities, from street lights and waste disposal systems to prefabricated megaplexes and custom skyscrapers. In the meanwhile, their weapons find their way into the hands of private militaries, gangsters and solos, often under the names of one of their subsidiaries. Currently, the company is at the forefront of reclaiming many of the more hellish ruins on Earth, profiting from their role as gatekeepers to its many remaining resources. Many speculate that they're combing the ruins for lost technologies, heedless to the disasters that displaced mankind in the first place.

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New Geneva

New Geneva headquarters.

Corporation	New Geneva
Branches	Governing; Law; Banking; Arms Manufacturing
Year Founded	Early 2200s
Headquarters	New Geneva
Key People	Michael Nikolaidis

As the flames of the Transcendence War died out, the fledgling remnants of humanity started to rebuild. As they began strategizing for the future it was obvious that a forum for governing the scattered habitats was necessary. Habitat-0419 was a small, but a centralized hub for traffic during this rebuilding and colonization phase. It became a neutral meeting place for several corporate leaders. They all pitched in to expand this platform and build a permanent meeting space, changing the name to New Geneva. The name became synonymous with the new governing corp.

Thanks to mutual support by its member organizations, NG boasted a large standing military. This was used to step in if corporate conflicts got out of hand. The New Geneva council voted to impose and enforce economic sanctions against a wayward corp, enforced with the aid of SolBank. SolBank backs a common currency, and NG maked and enforced regulations that governed interactions between the corps. The ban on Omega AIs, limits on the number of troops and types of weapons corps that could be had/used, and other prescriptions all came from the NG.

But as history would retell itself, much like the fate of the CPN, and the UN before it, corruption and complacency took over New Geneva, and instead of being the beacon to guide humanity, it became an iron fist, a ruthless form of governance that created two polar opposites: Those who had everything, and those who had nothing.

Michael Nikolaidis, who served most of his life under New Geneva and who had been serving as Elder Councilor for six years tried to preserve the principles that once made New Geneva a shining light, but he had failed.

And thus on April 4th, 2494, Mr. Nikolaidis stepped down from New Geneva, leading to it being officially disbanded.