Heisei Extraction Corporation

With the complete collapse of the Kantoku Corporation Conglomerate after The Dokuritsu Insurrection which resulted in The Engineers being ousted from Japan and the subsequent loss of faith that the Kantoku Corporation and associated entities suffered from, numerous smaller organizations were released from the ashes of the fallen behemoth. While much of the conglomerate was carved up between a resurgent Japan, foreign companies, and the heirs to TE’s legacy, parts of the conglomerate continue to exist as parts of an independent conglomerate, albeit with the specter of Kantoku’s crimes lingering over them, yet very few have managed to truly escape with their independence and profitability intact like the Heisei Extraction Corporation did.
Previously one of Kantoku’s subsidiaries, Kantoku Ironworks, the Heisei Extraction Corporation went through a tumultuous period of reorganization and rebranding following an internal coup by former Engineer, Vincent Myers, leading to the corporation being renamed and formally separated from the conglomerate. 
Since, the Heisei Extraction Corporation has continued to operate throughout central Africa, spreading their influence through the mostly lawless wasteland by providing infrastructure to the locals in exchange for their indifference to Heisei expansion. Hesei’s zones of control have grown in leaps and bounds without the oversight of the Kantoku Corporation or TE, though their influence in these areas remains loose at best, only intensifying in their bases of operation around the continent, where they rule small cities as a corporate dictatorship.
==History==
===Pre-Insurrection===
First established following the sponsored raid on an iron mine north east of Pointe-Noire, Kantoku Ironworks was one of numerous Kantoku subsidiaries that were ultimately subservient to The Engineers. Their role was to extract iron from local deposits and ship them overseas to be processed by other Kantoku Corp subsidiaries, a role in which they continued to serve until the Insurrection.
Despite suggestions from local leadership that they continue to expand into the area, the leaders of the subsidiary were directed to not intervene in local politics or aggressively expand, as much of TE’s resources were directed towards various other projects, and TE feared the bad publicity that may come with an armed conquest of the surrounding regions. Despite the ban on aggressive expansion, Kantoku Ironworks successfully managed to expand their domain through the acquisition of other smaller mines nearby and wooing the locals with advanced technology and a higher standard of living, both strategies that would persist in the modern corporation.
===Post-Insurrection===
Following the Dokuritsu Insurrection, numerous factions within Kantoku Ironworks had begun to argue about the path their part of the conglomerate would take. While many within the Ironworks were Kantoku/Engineer loyalists that favoured maintaining the status quo, many still wished to see the Ironworks continue operating as an independent entity. Almost unique among the other subsidiaries, the Ironworks were not operating within the bounds of any official nation, rather operating amongst warlords and small communities. This meant that unlike most other elements of the Kantoku Corporation, they were strongly positioned to retain their independence from outside powers.
Arguments on what choice the Ironworks would make raged for weeks, finally culminating in a violent coup and the ousting of the more moderate loyalists. The coup was led by Vincent Myers, a high ranking employee within the Ironworks and TE member that had long argued for greater TE intervention in Africa. Armed with the opportunity to bring about his plans for the Ironworks by force, Vincent began a purge of his opposition, exiling and firing his political opponents on trumped up charges before violently turning on the remainder. 
Since the takeover and rebranding, the newly minted Heisei Extraction Corporation has embarked upon a policy of aggressive expansion through violent and non-violent means, hiring local warlords to enforce their will outside of their domain while maintaining an elite core of corporate soldiers, made up of suits, conventional infantry, and a homebrewed concoction of the more common Gernadder mutants.
==Leadership==
Currently led by their CEO Vincent Myers, the corporation’s leadership is promoted based on personal loyalty rather than skill, leading to a somewhat dysfunctional and lopsided leadership where Myers is often responsible for micromanaging projects down to the smallest detail. This has created no shortage of issues internally, though it has prevented a potential second coup to restore a Kantoku loyalist to the leadership of the corporation, and so this strategy can be dubbed to be at the very least, a minor success.
==Policies==
===Military===
The Heisei Extraction Corporation maintains a significant quantity of ex-TE assets, ranging from large stocks of Watchmen and Gernadders to substantial stockpiles of KTK Arms weapons and a large number of suits and pilots, though the majority of these assets are only seldom deployed in offensive roles, leaving the Corporation reliant on hired mercenaries and local warlords to launch offensive operations. The exception to that rule is during attacks on the small numbers of Vannai Puppets still remaining in the area, where the Corporation takes no risks and deploys their well trained and equipped veteran suits. 
Despite the Corporation’s reluctance to deploy ground forces in offensive roles, they maintain a significant light air force composed of light gunships, propellor aircraft, and UCAVs. Though archaic, these aircraft are remarkably cheap to produce and maintain, and provide much needed air superiority to their auxiliary forces while putting their pilots at little risk as a result of most warlord groups lacking any meaningful ground to air weaponry.
The Corporation is also known to make use of shell companies that pose as mercenary outfits to launch plausibly deniable operations against nearby nations without a high risk of retaliation or sanction.
===Economic===
The Corporation has achieved a great deal of success in local and overseas trade with various different nations and organizations, supplying them with refined metals, including gold, in exchange for arms, technological components, fuel, and other materials necessary to continue their expansion. 
Internally, the Heisei Extraction Corporation uses a form of company scrip to limit the freedom of their lower ranking, often locally sourced, employees, while the higher ranking members and military personnel are paid directly in small bars of gold.
===Diplomatic===
As a company rather than a true nation state, the Heisei Corporation maintains no official diplomatic ties to any nation, though it has trade ties to a variety of different nations across the world. Though it has managed to shrug off the Kantoku branding, the stigma once attached due to its entanglement with TE and its use of clone slaves has continued to poison relations between the country and TE’s former colony, Japan, as well as a variety of other nations that have strategic or moral objections to TE or it’s predecessors.
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