When designing product catalogs, I typically look to items from 2020 and 2013 that haven't been ported to RED. We have official rules for porting older weapons in the Old Guns Never Die DLC, but R. Talsorian hasn't released an equivalent for cyberware and other equipment. When there are contemporary analogs to an older product in the corebook, Black Chrome, or a DLC, I try to explore a niche that the existing products don't.

In this case, that's a grapple gun that can grab targets, a mutually exclusive alternative to implanted linear frames for Edgerunners who don't want to go full borg, and a cyberarm joint implant that enhances brawling rather than contortion.

Dynalar Technologies

Dynalar Technologies is a BioCorp that produces consumer-grade workhorse cyberware and cyberware alternatives. Currently headquartered in Dallas RTX, Dynalar is one of many NUS-aligned cyberware firms contracted under the Ministry of Defense. As various corporate elements within Texas currently function as clandestine go-betweens for the NUS and Pacifica Confederation, Dynalar finds itself in the unique position of being able to collaborate directly with both the NUS MoD and various Free State governments.

Dynalar's Face is Ambrose Beardsley III (better known by his callsign, AB3, pronounced "Abe"), the grandson of Laredo Oil and Gas magnate Ambrose Beardsley Sr. AB3's father, Ambrose Beardsley Jr., cognizant of the impending and ultimate collapse of the global oil market in the face of the '97 MENA Thermonuclear Exchange that destroyed 80% of Middle Eastern oil reserves, acquired an industrial park in the Laredo outskirts and pivoted to polymer production. By 2004, the fledgling Laredo Dynamics labs produced their first G0 cybermedical prosthesis, the LD Armlite Cyberarm. In the 2010s, AB Jr. moved Laredo Dynamics' headquarters to the DFW area and rechristened the company as Dynalar Technologies.

Although AB3's blood is about as blue as it gets in the post-war world, he nevertheless performs a decidedly blue collar affect. Don't let it fool you: he completed an undergraduate business program at Harvard before pursuing a masters in Biomedical Engineering at MIT and an MBA at Harvard Business School. The man is a dyed-in-the-wool member of the Bos-Wash elite, and he has the contacts to prove it. Not that he would try, though: he dutifully inhabits the role of the humble engineer-cum-CEO to bolster Dynalar's reputation as THE foremost consumer-grade cyberware manufacturer.

In addition to Dynalar's Modular and MFE Cyberhands, the Dynalar X-Dex Smart Glove, and the Dynalar Aquarius and Brimstone FBCs, their current product catalog features the following entries:

>Dynalar SmartGrapple Harness 2.0
1,000eb (V. Expensive)
For when a standard grapple gun won't cut it. The SmartGrapple 2.0 Harness allows the user to climb to new heights. Literally. Featuring a reinforced monofilament line and a motorized backpack winch, the SmartGrapple Harness also comes with Interface Plug ports that enable a Smartweapon targeting system. Simply point the attached grapple gun, let the onboard targeting algorithm do its work, and fire: the rocket-propelled grappling claw will automatically seek out the sturdiest connection point within a 2yd radius of where the line was fired and attach itself to the target.

Equipment option. When the backpack-mounted grapple gun is wielded in a hand, user as an Action can fire a rocket propelled grapple that will attach securely to any "thick" cover up to 60yds away.

If the user is equipped with the necessary Interface Plug or Subdermal Grip cyberware, User gains a +1 to Handgun checks made with the grapple gun, including to target cover.

The line can only support three times the user's body weight and has 15 HP. The user negates the normal movement penalty for climbing when they climb this line and can retract the line without an Action, including as they climb. When used as a grapple, user can't hold anything in the hand used to wield the grapple gun.

Ineffective as a weapon, but can be used to make the Grab Action. User makes a Grab check with DEX + Handgun + 1d10 when attempting to grab a target with a grapple gun and can retract the line to drag the target towards the user at a rate of 10yds per round.

A character can still make use of weapons that require them to use two hands and does not take -2 to all actions while Grappled by the SmartGrapple Harness. When a character Grappled by the harness attempts to break the Grapple, they roll against a DV equal to the original Handgun check made to grapple them.

>Dynalar Non-Linear Armor-Reinforced CyberSkeleton
2,500eb (V. Expensive) | HL 26 (8d6) | Hospital
A cut above your typical grafted muscle and bone lace system for those who want some of the benefits of an implanted linear frame but cannot afford a linear frame proper. The DyNLAR CyberSkeleton sees your entire skeleton sheathed with a stainless steel and myomer framework, reinforcing the attached musculature as necessary to support your newly armor-plated endoskeleton.

Internal Body Cyberware. User's body and head are armored at SP 11. User increases their body by 4. This increase in body changes a character's HP, Wound Threshold, and Death Save. Cannot raise body above 11. The techniques used to implant the DyNLAR CyberSkeleton render the user's body incompatible with Grafted Muscle and Bone Lace, Linear Frame, and Cyberskull cyberware.

>Dynalar Ball-Jointed Cubital Enhancement
500eb (Expensive) | HL 3 (1D6) | Clinic
Your mom used to say "your arm can't bend that way!" Think again, mom! Thanks to Dynalar, you've got a secret move that'll put you ahead of the pack. These extra joints can be added to supplement traditional anthropomorphic configurations found in cyberware today. Since Dynalar launched this product in 2017, a variety of Martial Arts styles have incorporated the enhancement's unique capabilities in their kata, throws, and holds.

Cyberarm Option. User gains a +2 to Brawling (Grab) and Martial Arts rolls and a +1 to attacks made with Cyberarm melee weapons. Upon installation, the user must roll REF or less (On 1D10) or suffer a -5 penalty to Brawling (Grab), Martial Arts, and Melee Weapon Cyberarm rolls for one week.

As of 2045, Dynalar consists of two divisions:

• DynaLabs conducts R&D on behalf of Dynalar itself and Dynalar's many corporate clients.
  • Dynalar is a secondary defense contractor, meaning they often work with intermediaries (most notably Militech, but also the various surviving university labs in the Pacifica Confederation and assorted Free States) when it comes to commissioned cyberware and equipment systems.
  • Many of the systems DynaLabs develop as contractors remain in-house and are not released to the public for broader retail distribution. Approximately 40% of Militech's employee cyberware catalog was developed in partnership with DynaLabs.
• Dynalar Vendor Services takes care of the marketing of Dynalar products and oversees the operation of Dynalar storefronts.
  • They also fulfill large-scale distribution contracts with various corporate and state clients.
  • Dynalar remains committed to maintaining a retail footprint wherever possible, as their executives (correctly) believe this visibility greatly increases the profile of their brand in the Time of the Red.
  • The success of DVS is evident in how the brand is regarded: at least half of the implants installed in Night Citizens are either Dynalar products or homebrewed imitations of Dynalar products.
  • DVS is responsible for maintaining Dynalar's CorpoNet, DynaWeb.

Dynalar's current holdings are estimated at €$466 million (€$140 million via DynaLab's contracting program, €$284 million in DVS distribution agreements, and €$42 million in direct retail sales).

Dynalar is a mid-sized corporation that currently employs 48,000 personnel (12k in DynaLabs, 36k in DVS). Dynalar contracts with Militech Arms R&D to design and manufacture cyberware for its low-ranking military contractors, the Texas Peacekeeping Force, and the Pacifica Confederation's Combined Operations Groups.

This one comes with product catalog!

Pricing and effect of the Cytech Custom Cyberhand were designed around the implementation of a "luxury" version of the Dynalar Modular Finger Enthusiast Cyberhand. In addition to the cost-saving pre-installed cyberfingers (I chose ones with an industrial theme), the bonus to Reflex places it one tier above the Dynalar MFE as the premier modular cyberhand option.

The Cytech Renman is intended to function as an external Linear Frame that sits one tier above the Zhirafa EL-F4-NT. Its ability to support a built-in cyberaudio suite and custom external cyberarms pre-installed with Cytech Customs make it a tremendously versatile piece of high-end equipment. As with all my Cytech products, it is intended to function as a platform for various Cyberware options in accordance with this lore. This gives Cytech a distinct product niche as the purveyors extensively customizeable luxury gear.

Cytech

Cytech is a robotics and cyberware SpecCorp based out of Chicago. Famous for the Cytech Custom, a robust cyberhand platform, Cytech has pivoted towards the production of high-end precision manufacturing machinery in the post-war era in an effort to meet demand for new industrial developments.

Cytech's face is its current chairman and inside director, Cyrus Wakefield. Wakefield is a former Folk Nation techie who joined Cytech as an engineer during the Second Chicago Reconstruction Project in the immediate post-war period. He leveraged his extensive catalog of nomad contacts to deliver on otherwise impossible corporate objectives, earning him substantial influence within a renascent Cytech.

He parleyed this influence into a string of promotions, culminating with the formation of the Cytech Industrial Robotics division (with Wakefield as its president, naturally). The position came with generous stock options, which Wakefield used in combination with Folk Nation funding to acquire a 34% plurality stake in the corporation. Along the way, he ensured that his allies within the nomads always received fair deals from Cytech.

Wakefield is viewed as an outsider by Cytech's corporate old guard, who are currently fundraising for a major share purchase that allows them to seize control of the board and oust Wakefield. Wakefield has already taken steps to prevent this coup, however. Chief among them was enacting board-level employee representation. A faction of loyalists within Cytech's rank and file elected two pro-Wakefield board members, bolstering his position as chair.

Cytech's current product catalog features the following entries:

>Cytech Custom
1,000eb (Very Expensive) | HL 14 (4d6) | Hospital
Cytech continues to offer their signature cyberhand platform (so long as supplies last). A step above Dynalar's MFE Cyberhand (and re-released specifically to compete with it), it boasts an internal gyroscopic stabilizer for unparalleled control and precision.

>Borgware. Cyberarm Option. Requires 2 option slots. Contains space for up to 8 Cyberfingers. Each purchase comes with up to 7 Standard Cyberfingers and user's choice of a Wirecutter/Scissor Cyberfinger, a Lockpick Cyberfinger, a Flashlight Cyberfinger, or an Airhypo Cyberfinger. Increases user's Reflex by +1. Cannot increase user's Reflex above 10.

>Cytech B34 Model-R
15,000eb (Super Luxury)
Cytech devised the B34 robotics platform as a one-size-fits-all solution to industrial labor. The Model-R drone boasts the ability to switch between bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion as necessary, and it can be bolted directly to the floor if the user requires it to perform repetitive tasks from a stationary position. Designed with the hundreds of independent microfoundries that have cropped up during the Time of the Red in mind, the B34 was designed to be extensively customizable in order that it might best fulfill the needs of as many worksites as possible.

>To this end, it was given a stocky ursine frame assembled out of modular, easily replaceable components. It also features multiple OS configurations, including a Precision Programmatic Robotics (PPR) configuration (100eb [Premium]), an Integrated Agentic Administrator (IAA) configuration (500eb [Expensive]), an Autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AAI) configuration (1,000eb [Very Expensive]), and a Multimodal Operating System Suite (MOSS) configuration (5,000eb [Luxury]). Each OS configuration is sold separately.

>Equipped with the following: Very Heavy Melee Weapon (wolvers), observation camera, tool hand.

>Default trigger: Target enters defended area without wearing proper badge or pass.

>Data: Move 6 | 13 SP | 55 HP | Perimeter of Defended Area | DV 17 Electronics/Security Tech, 5 min. to counter.

>Cytech Renman Linear Frame
10,000eb (Super Luxury)
The Renman exoskeleton platform can turn any industrial laborer, chipped or not, into a one-person factory. Featuring both an interface plug control scheme and a manual control dashboard, the machine bears the silhouette of a sleek, futuristic mechsuit. The Renman is coveted by all aspiring techs and treasured by the handful master techs who've managed to acquire one.

>The Renman can only be purchased as an External Frame. While connected properly to the frame, the user increases their BODY to 12 and has easy access to a pair of Techtools. This frame cannot increase the user’s BODY to 13 or higher. This increase in BODY does not increase the user’s HP or change their Death Save.

>The Renman comes pre-installed with a Cyberaudio Suite (5 option slots), two external Cyberarms (2 remaining option slots), and two Cytech Customs cyberarm options (one in each cyberarm)

>Connecting properly to the frame requires Interface Plugs or a free hand that can only be used to pilot the frame. Taking the frame on or off requires only a single Action.

As of 2045, Cytech consists of two divisions:

• Cytech Industrial Robotics researches and develops industrial robotics platforms. Spunoff from the core Cytech brand in 2032, the division's guiding design principles emphasize the importance of building modular, repairable products.
  • These principles emerged more out of necessity than pro-customer sentiment. Times are tough, and parts are hard to come by. By designing with this in mind, they can ensure that their robotics offerings can fit any theoretical use case and then some while remaining compatible with whatever components the user might have on hand, including scavenged cyberware.
  • CIR has its own internal marketing and sales departments and caters predominately to business, rather than consumer, clientele.
• Cytech Consumer Augmentics designs cybernetic implants and prostheses. Much like their peers in CIR, they pride themselves on offering dependable, versatile products.
  • Since the late 2030s, their focus has shifted from designing standalone cyberware towards developing interface hardware for Cytech Robotics platforms.
  • Much of this interface hardware is nominally illegal, as it is designed to bypass competing augmentics firms' proprietary restrictions on cyberware integration. Consequently, CCA boasts an outstanding legal department.
  • The division continues to produce and refine existing Cytech cyberware models alongside its latest venture in cyberware interface technology.

Cytech's current holdings are estimated at €$46 million (€$32 million in CIR, €$14 million in CCA). Although Cytech operates factories across North America, their role as a SpecCorp necessitates they run a tight ship.

Cytech currently employs 8,200 personnel (5.5k in CIR, 2.7k in CCA). Cytech contracts with Storm Technologies Microcomputing for the integrated computer systems used in their robotics platforms, and Cytech performs R&D for Militech SPD (Militech outsources some of its cyberware R&D to NUS-based firms like Cytech; in the Dark Future, even the defense contractors have defense contractors).

For worldbuilding, I find it useful to invent characters that drive narrative developments. In this case, that was Albrecht Kingsley, the mysterious man behind the Oasis Community Loyalty Program. Kingsley is meant to function as something of a cipher for GMs to use during worldbuilding.

Kingsley sets up the idea that there's some sort of sophisticated psychoengineering behind Oasis with a basis in nomadic society, which further ties into Continental Brands' own reliance on nomad nations for labor. It felt natural to me, as nomads no doubt interact with Oasis franchises frequently during their long road trips, possibly even "adopting" certain Oasis communities into their extended family.

Continental Brands

Continental Brands is a breakaway NeoCorp and a top contender in the post-war agribusiness economy. The product of a hostile takeover of the now-defunct Petrochem subsidiary Continental Agricorp, Continental Brands emerged as a leading food supplier in the western hemisphere in the spring of 2043. They boast some of the most aggressive corporate raiders in the biz, and their newfound market dominance in the west is the product of a string of successful acquisitions of struggling agribusiness ventures and targeted corporate espionage.

ConBran is the brainchild of CEO Olivia Forsythe, the so-called Kibble Queen, and Marketing Director Lewis McAllister.

As a NeoCorp, ConBran is only tangentially involved in the rebuilding of Night City

As of 2045, Continental Brands consists of three divisions:

• Continental Procurement Specialists keeps an eye to the food supply. In addition to managing ConBran's own agribusiness portfolio, the Continental Farms subdivision, they contract with independent agribusiness ventures hemisphere-wide and handle shipping and logistics for the corporation's Oasis distribution network.
  • They've contracted with Snake Nation and Thelas Nation for transport services and the Jodes for agricultural labor.
  • Much of CPS was hollowed out of Continental Agricorp and affiliated Petrochem subsidiaries, as well as whichever branch office Consolidated Agriculture happened to write off that year. No love was lost in the process, however; conditions on the ground have markedly improved since Forsythe's hostile takeover, even among the lowliest farm workers.
• Continental Brand Acquisition and Management handles the dazzling array of products offered by ConBran. From Kibble ConWay™ and Forsythe's Own World-Famous Triti-Fizz™ beverage line to the ConBran SmartOven™ and the ConBran Agentic Homestead™, ConBran A&M seeks to provide its loyal customers with all the domestic bliss they can afford and then some.
  • The day to day operation of the A&M division is typically concerned with the management and marketing of existing brands, but the upper eschelons of A&M are far from content to sit on their laurels.
  • The true power of ConBran lies in the offices of the ConBran Corporate Acquisitions Suite, a subdivision of ConBran A&M. Forsythe and her team of execs spend day and night identifying prospective mergers and acquiring targeted companies whenever possible.
  • Dozens of previously retired products (typically due to the collapse of the license-holding companies or the necessary supply lines in the post-war era) have been successfully revived under the ConBran umbrella thanks to the company's aggressive acquisition strategy.
  • Rumors that over 70kg of synthcoke was consumed by the Night City Acquisitions Suite in the last year alone are just that: rumors. It is not appropriate to speculate as to whether or not Olivia Forsythe rails two Hollywoods every morning, or if they're smaller, thinner lines.
• Continental Brands Retail Development runs ConBrand's sprawling Oasis franchise.
  • The division is most famous for running the Oasis Community Loyalty Program, where customer retention meets collective punishment. The result is disquietingly effective: Oasis features some of the best customer retention numbers in the business, and their legion of loyal shoppers have been known to run naysayers and brand traitors out of town.
  • Forsythe herself devised the broad strokes of the OCLP, but the calculated refinement of the program was left to the elusive Australian psychoanalyst Albrecht Kingsley, who based the finalized version of the OCLP off of observations made per his study of the social hierarchy of post-collapse nomad communities in the Australian outback.
  • As an added benefit, Oasis outfits can rely on the volunteer labor of their community to fulfill any vacant roles on a temporary basis; payment in kind is offered only occasionally to these volunteer laborers. This strengthens community investment in the Oasis franchise, as community members have literally contributed to keeping it afloat.
  • Although the Oasis franchise was built from a bevy of Petrochem's CHOOH2-4U stations, many such locations have been repurposed into robust community centers offering everything from digital rental libraries, public meeting spaces, community gardens, rooftop gymnasiums, and more.
  • As ConBran offices are invariably located within or above Oasis franchise locations, it naturally fell to Retail Development to manage ConBran's CorpoNet, Oasis Online.

Continental Brand's current holdings are estimated at €$110 million (€$20 million in CPS, €$55 million in CBA&M, and €$35 million in CBRD). As Continental Brands was built using the infrastructure and human resources of Continental Agricorp, it boasts the labor force of a much larger corporation. ConBran has an employee count of 147k personnel (51k in CPS, 10k in CBA&M, and 86k in CBRD).

Continental Brands contracts with Militech Military Contracting for security services at its Oasis locations (~5k contractors total).

As part of the research process for writing these dossiers, I check the net worth of comparable corporations IRL and scale the values accordingly. This is usually 90-95% less for NeoCorps or non-MegaCorporate entities (assuming the collapse in global trade and manufacturing) and usually 50-100% more for MegaCorporate entities (to reflect their market dominance). In cases where a corporation already has an official listed net worth, usually from an earlier Corp Report, I scale the value based on a rough assessment of their post-war performance.

It's important to scale these values based on 1990 inflation times two to account for inflation and the value of the Eurodollar compared to USD. For instance, Arasaka had a net worth of 475 billion eb in 2020, which would be the equivalent to about 2.4 trillion today. This is still less than Apple's, remarkably, which is estimated between 3.8-4.3 trillion. There are places where the original math doesn't quite math out, and I default to using those values as a baseline.

BioTechnica

Second only to Orbital Air in terms of "corporations that made it through the FCW in decent shape", BioTechnica remains the single largest biotech firm in the world. They are one of the few surviving companies that can be considered a true MegaCorp, alongside Arasaka, Militech, SovOil, Orbital Air, WorldSat, Petrochem, and EBM. BioTechnica is the only MegaCorp that functions exclusively as a BioCorp.

Whether by grace of a brilliant PR campaign or genuine hard work, they are currently the only MegaCorporation with a positive approval rating in a majority of world nations. The Loggagia family controls a near-supermajority stake in the corporation at 60%, and BioTechnica's runaway success in licensing its pharmaceutical and agricultural patents has given it tremendous liquidity.

Although Niccolo Loggagia serves as the corporation's face and chairman of the board, the day-to-day workings of the company are managed predominately by CEO Mario Loggagia and CFO Luchessia Loggagia, his grandson and granddaughter-in-law. As of 2040, BioTechnica has partnered with Night Corp and the remaining MegaCorps to finance the rebuilding of Night City.

As of 2045, BioTechnica consists of four divisions:

• BioTechnica Pharmaceuticals develops and manufacturers pharmaceuticals and cyberware (primarily biosculpting). They focus on the bread and butter of any good PharmaCorp: medication you literally cannot live without.
  • They have extensive licensing arrangements with various developed nations to this effect: the socialized healthcare systems of the Neo-SSR, EEC, PRC, OAN, and Pan-African League all rely on BioTechnica's patented prescriptions to keep their people healthy.
  • Since the FCW, BTPharma (in partnership with BioTechnica EnviroScience) has cultivated an additional revenue stream via the licensure of their organ cloning technology.
• BioTechnica AgriBusiness concerns itself with the creation and licensure of genetically modified crop strains designed to survive the dire conditions of the post-war world.
  • Their portfolio of SuperSeeds™ includes the high-sugar wheat strain TVM™ (the primary ingredient in CHOOH2), the toxin-resistant soybean strain GMax™ (essential for producing Soya-derived products in the Time of the Red), the bioluminescent petunia strain FireFly™ (an essential source of light and oxygen in Highrider Colonies and an excellent alternative to electric lighting everywhere else), and the pesticidal cottonseed strain BollBeGone™ (which serves as one of the only remaining sources of organic textile fibers).
  • The post-war boom in guerilla gardening poses something of a threat to BTAB's monopoly, and the division is currently engaged in heated debate over how to address this threat.
  • The division is also responsible for the production of SCOP, although the sheer quantity of water required to meet market demand for SCOP has its accounting subdivision looking for alternatives to the plankton-derivative now that Water Wars are heating up throughout Oceania and the MENA region.
• BioTechnica EnviroScience is the personal passion project of BioTechnica's founder and the sector in which BioTechnica supposedly works the hardest.
  • The EnviroScience division has made extensive breakthroughs in environmental and species restoration, and no other entity has done more to quite literally clean up the mess left behind by the FCW than BTES. As of 2045, BTES has restored approximately 19% of world ecosystems and revived 115 extinct animal and 237 extinct plant species.
  • Before the procedures were refined and handed over to BTPharma for medical purposes, BTES pioneered experiments in human cloning and gene editing in partnership with BTWL.
  • BTES is also responsible for BioTechnica's terraforming R&D, and the division is currently developing a cloud-seeding technology designed to outright end the Time of the Red by permanently eradicating the aerosolized chemical waste that produces the era's iconic toxic rain.
• BioTechnica WetLabs is where the sausage gets made, as it were. For every advancement, every breakthrough, every new and marketable product proffered by BTPharma, BTAB, and BTES, someone in the WetLabs had to make it happen. The end of the black market organ trade? Only possible because of the illegal human cloning performed in the Wet Labs. The AIDS vaccine? You can thank the BioWeapons Team who invented AIDS-II [Editor's note: the legal department advised me to clarify that this is a joke]. The AquaPura Personal Filtration System? A positive externality of the ChemLab's research into waterborne chemical agents. Everyone hates the team at WetLabs, including the team at WetLabs, but they all know just as well that BioTechnica wouldn't be the unparalleled success story it is today without the blood, sweat, and tears of BTWL R&D.
  • BTWL is also responsible for maintaining BioTechnica's CorpoNet, Albero della Vita (ADVnet for short), due to their expertise in data security. WetLabs Daemons are notorious for the extreme prejudice with which they target the nervous systems of hostile netrunners, and their proprietary Friggere Black ICE program has a body count in the hundreds.

BioTechnica's current holdings are estimated at €$780 Billion (€$315 billion in BTPharma, €$403 billion in BTAB, €$20 billion in BTES, €$42 billion in BTWL), and they run a markedly lean operation with only 33,000 personnel worldwide (12k in BTPharma, 9k in BTAB, 10k in BTES, and 4k in BTWL). Due to its business model's extensive reliance on licensing and R&D, BioTechnica has the smallest employee footprint out of any MegaCorporation. Each subdivision of the corporation has its own personal security service comprising anywhere from 1% (in the case of BTPharma) to 4% (in the case of BTWL) of that division's workforce.

Of the active MegaCorps, BioTechnica has outstanding agreements with the following megacorporate subdivisions: SovOil United Grain, Petrochem Agricultural Resource Processing, Arasaka Security Contracting, Militech Randco, and Orbital Air Habitat Fabrication.

Howdy! I've been writing some corporate dossiers for my RED campaign and thought I'd share one of them to see if there's any interest in this sort of content. I wrote them in the vein of the original Corp Reports, albeit without the considerable character profiles or the corresponding NPC statblocks. Some of them feature small product catalogs, too!

Arasaka

Unlike its now-nationalized rival, Militech, Arasaka managed to survive the FCW as an independent corporate entity. This feat required considerable political maneuvering on Saburo Arasaka's part, maneuvering that nearly destroyed the Japanese government due to the schism it caused. Nevertheless, the Arasaka family maintains its 51% stake in the company and exercises control over an additional 15% stake via the holdings of its board.

Arasaka's activities were confined to the Japanese archipelago and the country's small neocolonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean for a decade upon the war's conclusion. As of 2035, Arasaka made its long-dreaded return to the world stage. It's an open secret, of course, that Arasaka continued to operate internationally via clandestine subsidiaries and security sector clients throughout the period from 2025-2035. This open defiance of international sanctions could theoretically be weaponized against the company if enough of the right evidence was amassed, but SpecOps units operating under the banner of Arasaka Security Services work diligently to neutralize those bold or foolish enough to pursue the matter.

As of 2040, Arasaka partnered with Night Corp, Militech, BioTechnica, Orbital Air, EBM, Petrochem, and others to jointly finance the reconstruction of Night City. They engage in limited operations in the city at present, but few are aware full scope of their plans for the pro-corporate enclave.

As of 2045, Arasaka consists of three divisions:

• Arasaka Security Contracting functions as the the world's largest private military force (this title would belong to Militech were they not officially part of the NUSA). They are responsible for military and security contracting the world over.
  • During the first decade of the post-war period, they operated indirectly as a security personnel management firm. In reality, they simply used intermediaries (officially, security clients) to launder the deployment of Arasaka personnel (officially, third party mercenary contractors) in various military conflicts around the world. Due to their reliance on these intermediaries, however, the division remains somewhat disorganized and diffuse to this day.
  • There have been a handful of incidents where, due to mismanagement, Arasaka personnel on one side of a conflict have fought and killed Arasaka personnel contracted out to the other side of the conflict. These incidents have become rarer and rarer with each passing year, however. Rumors among the executive board suggest that a sweeping restructuring is imminent.
  • Primary base of power for the Taka faction.
• Arasaka Manufacturing Consolidated is the largest and most profitable division of the company. Its international holdings span dozens of industries, from mineral extraction and construction to advanced materials fabrication and weapons manufacturing.
  • Although the division was initially dependent upon various third-party extraction outfits to feed its Japanese factories during the immediate post-war period, it has since reclaimed much of the extraction sector it was previously forced to relinquish.
  • Arasaka's strategy of amassing a diverse portfolio of subsidiary companies appears most evident within AMC, where aggressive buyouts and clandestine corporate warfare enabled the MegaCorp to regain considerable ground during Arasaka's long recovery.
  • AMC is responsible for the lion's share of Arasaka's R&D, and its weapons manufacturers work hand-in-glove with ASC. The division represents the single most complex private logistical apparatus in world history.
  • Primary base of power for the Hato faction.
• Arasaka Banking Solutions manages both Arasaka's sprawling investment portfolio and Arasaka Banking. Additionally, it's responsible for the development and maintenance of Omoikane, the Arasaka CorpoNet, itself distributed across several international and orbital dataforts.
  • ABS deals just as much in intelligence brokering and databank security as it does in financial brokering and investment banking, and it oversees what remains of the Reliquary Database Project.
  • Primary base of power for the Kiji faction.

Arasaka's current holdings are estimated at €$430 billion (€$80 billion in ASC, €$230 billion in AMC, and €$120 billion in ABS), and they personally employ 1 million personnel worldwide (600k in ASC, 368k in AMC, and 32k in ABS). They employ an additional 2.2 million personnel across all of their subsidiaries, (300k via the ASC Partner Program, 1.9 million via the AMC Co-prosperity League, and 100k via the ABS Group).

Of the active MegaCorps, Arasaka has outstanding agreements with the following megacorporate subdivisions: BioTechnica WetLabs, Orbital Air Transportation & Logistics, and SovOil Transneft.