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Tikkun Olam

Tikkun Olam International Charities

* **Leadership:** Director Doctor Rachael Mizrah
* **Headquarters:** Abraham Heschel Building, Third York, Megalopolis, RSA

Tikkun Olam Charities is one of the many non-profit foundations under the umbrella of the Dahan Family, specifically Dr. Rachael Mizrah. It is involved in causes on all seven continents and part of the Dahan Family's soft power.

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Lokaksema

Lokaksema Programming and Communications

* Leadership: Chairperson Bhanumati Chang
* Home Market: GOTO
* Status: A subsidiary of Saraswati Entertainment, with majority of stock in the hands of a consortium of CGI investors
* Corporate HQ: Drumgoole Plaza, CBD, Incorporated City of Singapore
* Business Type: Information Technology and service providers

Right at the heart of the 'Singapore Revolution' in information and networking technology is the small, but agile, cutting edge sino-indian firm of Lokaksema. While technically a Saraswati subsidiary, enough of their stock is owned by CGI investors to make it a truly international company, straddling the line between the two leading cultures in the world.

Outside of the Singapore incubator, Lokaksema is best known for creating the Cognition AI for Icarus Station.

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Rachael Mizrah

* **Current Home:** Dahan Tower, Third York, Megalopolis, Reunited States of America

Doctor Rachael bat-Isaac Dahan Mizrah

Director of Tikkun Olam International, senior member of the Dahan Family

Public advocate, physician and philanthropist, Doctor Mizrah is the public face of the Dahan Families. Does not often mention her military background and has gone to great lengths to cover up any ties to more extreme activist causes.

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AMUK

AMUK (Atlantic Maritime UK)

* Leadership: President Enola Mycroft-Finch
* Home Market: The Zone
* Corp HQ: Coalhouse, Estuary City, United Republics of the British Isles
* Business Type: Shipping and Storage

The third largest shipping and transport concern in the world (just behind Global Resources and the Inari Group).

#### **Subsidiaries**

* Mycroft Crate and Storage

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Chow-Kane Families

* Origins: Hawai'ian/Chinese

* Home: Honolulu, Sovereign Territories of Hawai'i, APEC

* Head: Lailani Harouna

The Chow-Kane Family of Hawai’ian trillionaires, founded by the native family of land baron Isiah Kane and Chow Lin ‘Lynn Chow’, heir to Jack Chow’s shipping empire, all but own the Pacific and major players in APEC and GOTO.

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Dave, Jr.

**Dave, Jr.** is a supporting character of davemadson.

He is the son of Dave Madson, Sr.

## Relationships

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## Quotes

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**Characters**
Vāc

* **Manufacturer:** Vijnana Intelligent Concepts (a subsidiary of Saraswati)
* **Owner:** Saraswati Entertainment
* **Class:** Created
* **Function:** Primary communication and analytics node for Saraswati Entertainment
* **Location:** Liberty Station, Lagrange Point 4, Earth Orbit

The Artificial Intelligence Vāc is considered, and not without some cause, to be one of the pinnacles of modern computer engineering and one of the most intelligent (if not THE most intelligence) entities on the planet. Created very deliberately and at vast expense by the Saraswati Entertainment Corporation, who created an entire subsidiary, Vijnana Intelligent Concepts solely to create and maintain it, to be the intelligent hub of their vast, global communications network, the mind at the center of the algorithm (critics of Vāc would compare it to a spider at the center of a web if they could ever get any of their posts on social media to upload).

Legally, instead of as an individual, Vāc is treated as an entire division or subsidiary of Saraswati, a corporate entity in its own right. And Vāc is proud of this designation, which along with its expensive, very public creation, often gives it an air of superiority over its fellow AI's, some, like its neighbors MasterComm and Talos, take no notice of it, while others, like Cognition and the Troika, take offence (although the Troika takes offence at everything, so who can tell what that means?).

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Li Family

* Origins: Chinese
* Home: Chongqing, United Republic of China, APEC
* Head: Perfection Li

The Li Family, the Li Family Trust is a major subsidiary and front company for PWFB in northern Asia. A mix of Manchu, Korean and Han Chinese. Being Li is more important than any other identity. Famously insular and clannish.

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Mainland Construction

Mainland Construction Lmt

* Leadership: President Sebastian Harouna
* Home Market: ECAS
* Status: A subsidiary of Global Resources Lmt
* Corporate HQ: Homobonus Plaza, Lagos, Nigerian Commonwealth
* Business Type: Real Estate, Construction, Demolition and Salvage

Founded by Solomon Harouna several generations ago, Mainland Construction was the leading firm in building Lagos into the international financial capital it is today and was a major player in its own right in the emerging West African markets when mining conglomerate Global Resources Lmt bought it out, making the Family Harouna the eighth-richest family in the world.

Still one of the jewels in the GR crown, Mainland Construction's work is almost synonymous with Lagos architecture and almost all the most recognizable buildings of the last century bear the mark of Mainland's distinctive design philosophy.

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Mycroft Crate and Storage

Mycroft Crate and Storage Lmt

* Leadership: Chairman Lawrence Crawford
* Home Market: The Zone
* Status: Currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of AMUK
* Corporate HQ: Felixstowe, Suffolk, URBI
* Business Type: Storage container manufacturing and warehousing

A respectable contender in the Atlantic container shipping game. Anthony Mycroft founded it and built a box company that became a shipping empire. After Anthony Mycroft married Lise Saxer-Mycroft he sold the company and its infrastructure to AMUK before taking a position on the Mark VII board.

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RSA

The Reunited States of America

* **Territory:** North America east of the Mississippi River
* **Market:** CEHO
* **Form of Government:** Unitary Democracy
* **Head of State/Government:** President
* **Capital:** Camp David, State of Appalachia

The successor to the old US of A, which broke up in the America Wars during the Risings. The Reunited States of America was formed by the International peacekeeper forces that had to intervene. A president was installed and a formal government was formed to administrate the areas between the encroaching sea and SOMA territories.

While technically covering more territory, the RSA is largely synonymous with the Megalopolis, although the two aren't entirely matching but for the most part its a reliable match.

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Temasek Trust

* Leadership: Chairman Kwa Tsien Lee
* Home Market: GOTO and APEC
* Status: A mostly-autonomous subsidiary of the Pacific-World Finance Bank
* Corp HQ: The Istana, Incorporated City of Singapore
* Business Type: Holding company

The Temasek Trust, very simply, is the city of Singapore. It is the corporate entity that owns the whole of one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world. It serves as landlord, employer and government to the sprawl's ten million inhabitants.

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Mark VII

Mark VII Unterehmen GmbH "Mark VII Enterprises"

* Leadership: Chairperson Lise Saxer-Mycroft
* Home Market: The Zone
* Corp HQ: Geneva, Swiss Zone, Federated States of Europe
* Business Type: Medicine, Industry, Banking

A union between Swiss banking and German industry, the powerhouse of Europe.

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Beanstalks

A Beanstalk or 'space elevator' is a type of planet-to-space transportation system. The main component is a cable (also called a tether) anchored to the surface and extending into space. The design permits vehicles to travel along the cable from a planetary surface, such as the Earth's, directly into space or orbit, without the use of large rockets. An Earth-based space elevator consists of a cable with one end attached to the surface near the equator and the other end in space beyond geostationary orbit (35,786 km altitude). The competing forces of gravity, which is stronger at the lower end, and the outward/upward centrifugal force, which is stronger at the upper end, results in the cable being held up, under tension, and stationary over a single position on Earth. With the tether deployed, climbers can repeatedly climb the tether to space by mechanical means, releasing their cargo to orbit. Climbers can also descend the tether to return cargo to the surface from orbit.

The concept of a tower reaching geosynchronous orbit was first published in 1895 by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. His proposal was for a free-standing tower reaching from the surface of Earth to the height of geostationary orbit. Like all buildings, Tsiolkovsky's structure would be under compression, supporting its weight from below. Since 1959, most ideas for space elevators have focused on purely tensile structures, with the weight of the system held up from above by centrifugal forces. In the tensile concepts, a space tether reaches from a large mass (the counterweight) beyond geostationary orbit to the ground. This structure is held in tension between Earth and the counterweight like an upside-down plumb bob.

To date this concept has been executed three times successfully:

* The Boyoma Beanstalk, just outside Kisangani, AROC, operated by IKP on contract to Global Resources
* The Sunda Kelapa Beanstalk, over the sunken island of Java, Indo-Pacific Dominion, operated by Saraswati, in partnership with PWFB
* The Pichincha Beanstalk, near Quito, Andean League, operated by Liberty Interplanetary, serving Amanha, CGI and other clients

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Kebun Kretek

* Leadership: Chairperson Annisa Jatawaman
* Home Market: GOTO
* Corp HQ: Balikpapan, Kalimantan Sprawl, Borneo, Indo-Pacific Dominion
* Business Type: Agricultural and pharmaceuticals

The third largest agribusiness firm in the world. Specializes in plant-based products like rubber, drugs, silk and other products.

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Kwa Dynasty

* Origins: Singaporean
* Home: The Istana, Incorporated City of Singapore, border of GOTO and APEC
* Head: Kwa Tsien Lee

Kwa Dynasty owns Singapore and all its assets. Everybody works for the Temasek Trust and the Chairman keeps everybody in strict line. Transhumanist as hell while still being stiflingly traditionalist.

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Kodama Clan

* Origins: Japanese
* Home: Shin Tokyo, Neo-Japan, Pacific Alliance, APEC
* Head: Kodama Haruto

Formerly industrialists and real-estate investors in the Tokyo area, their money was vital in building Shin Tokyo and Kodama Development was a founding member of the Inari Group. While old chairman Kodama Kenji has long since passed on, his grandson Kodama Haruto has leveraged his network of R&D labs into a vital part of the Inari machine, making him the fourth wealthiest man in Asia.

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House of Nawaab

* Origins: Marathi Indian
* Home: Pimpri Chenchwad, Republic of Greater India, GOTO
* Head: Prathit Deshpande

The Royal House of Nawaab, a dispossessed princely line that invested heavily in Bollywood, was one of the initial investors in Saraswati and now cousin Prathit Deshpande, former mayor of Pune, is the richest man in South Asia (only not the richest man in Asia because Yang Biming still lives).

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Megalopolis

* **Country:** Reunited States of America (RSA) majority, with some western extremities crossing into SOMA states.
* **Territory:** A single, continuous urban sprawl reaching across the eastern North America from the Great Lakes to Louisiana Bay.
* **Government:** Several. A patchwork of regional Mayors and Metropolitan Governors with Administrative Zones between. Administrative Zones are administrated by contract to the United Solutions Company.
* **Law Enforcement:** Varies by region/Zone. The Administrative Zones and many of the RSA-controlled regions rely on a contract with CityGuard to provide security services. Other security companies, such as Yermak and Ghazi are also in use, as well as a few remnant city police forces (although those are increasingly rare), and the SOMA's 'NEPs' (National Emergency Police Force) on the western side of the River.

If taken as a single urban entity, the Megalopolis of North America would be considered the single largest city sprawl in the world. The largest and one of the poorest, having become a symbol of crippling poverty, urban decay and municipal mismanagement worldwide. The Megalopolis covers most of the Reunited States of America, which governs the eastern, more populated, half of the old United States.

The Megalopolis serves the corporate world by providing an area of low regulation and high expendability, a source of cheap labor and a dumping ground for faulty products. In its flaws is its profitability and every attempt by well-meaning philanthropists or the weak remnant of the RSA's government has met with corporate resistance and stonewalling, ensuring the Megalopolis' uninterrupted decline.

The origins of the Megalopolis, like so much of modern North America, lies in the Risings. While the rising sea levels and flooding of coastal cities was a worldwide problem, it hit particularly badly in North America, especially the territories of the old USA, which had already been wracked by generations of sectarian conflict (sometimes violence) between the conservative rural areas, largely in the middle of the continent and the culture of the largely coastal urban areas. When the vast masses of people rushed inland to escape the rising tides swallowing their homes, the already resentful and heavily-armed heartland struck back against these 'urbimmigrants', leading to a generation of bloody civil war, that led to the current state of affairs, with most of the population concentrated in the soggy lands of the Mississippi river valley and the sparse groups of savage wastelanders to the west.

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PatrioTech

* Leadership: President Doug McMasters (replaced by his son-in-law, corporate raider Peter Drysdale)
* Home Market: TAFTA
* Corp HQ: Statler Building, 1954 Commerce St, Dallas, Triangle States (Now part of the Federal State of Tejas, Federated States of Mexico and Aztlan)
* Business Type: Arms Producer, Media Network, Merchandising, Real Estate, diversified portfolio

During the darkest days of the Risings, PatrioTech was the second largest company in North America, funding, supplying and often leading the forces of the "Real American" or "Save America" movement, the ad hoc militias and rogue state governments resisting the inward migration coordinated by the central government. At the height of the troubles it was said that PatrioTech practically WAS the Real Americans, serving much the same role as Coastal Solutions did on the other side. When international forces finally intervened, the Drysdales sold out their interests and retreated to space, leaving its assets and allies to fend for themselves, largely picked off by international peacekeeping efforts, until today, the only remnants of PatrioTech are its media arm, America Inc, and the various equipment caches and vaults it built for warlords and militias in the North American wastelands...

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Icarus Station

* **Location:** Lagrange Point 5, Earth Orbit
* **Type:** O'Neill Cylinder
* **Ownership:** Daedalus Holdings, a subsidiary of CGI
* **Function:** Zero-gravity Industry, Shipping, Ore Processing, Hydroponics

Taken on its own Icarus Station is the second-largest manmade object in Earth Orbit, the largest if its various satellite factories and outstations are taken into account. Originally funded by Chang-Grummand International to rival the venerable Liberty Station over on L4 and beat Liberty Interplanetary's plans to monopolize all the stable Lagrange Points.

Today, Icarus serves as the hub for zero-G manufacturing, solar power collection and processing ore from captured asteroids (one or two of which are always being broken down in its facilities). Day-to-Day administration is left to Cognition, CGI's personal AI. It also serves as home to the Kosmodom, the headquarters for IKP's space-based industrial and mining concerns, as well as hosting IKP's AI network Troika.

Icarus is both in competition with and works together with its rival and counterpart at L4, Liberty Station, the two major stations set a great deal of the protocols and informal policy of the orbital trade (along with the traditions of the Asteroid Miner clans that also live in orbit).

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Kwa Tsien Lee

* **Current Home:** The Istana, Incorporated City of Singapore

Kwa Tsien Lee

Chairman and Director of the Temasek Trust, de facto head of state of Singapore, head of the Kwa Dynasty

The Chairman has been the Chairman forever. Nearly as old as Benny Yang, and doesn't look a day over the earliest publicity photos, not surprising given he has access to one of the most technologically-advanced tech incubators in the world. Everybody works for the Trust and the Trust belongs to the Chairman. And the Chairman keeps everyone in line.

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Kodama Development

Kodama Development Corporation

* Leadership: President Kodama Haruko
* Home Market: APEC
* Status: Member Company of the Inari Group
* Corporate HQ: The Minato Spire, Harbor City, Shin Tokyo, Neo-Japan, Pacific Rim Alliance
* Business Type: Construction, Real Estate

Founded back in the twentieth century CE, Kodama remained a small family construction business until the Risings, when rising sea levels flooded old Tokyo. Kodama got in early and Kodama Kenji capitalized on the rebuilding of Shin Tokyo to catapult Kodama development to the position of top contractor and real estate management company in Neo-Japan. Under Kenji's eldest son, Kodama Keiji t was one of the key founding member corporations of the Inari Group and still retains its permanent shares of the Top Tier corporation.

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Oligarch Families

The Wealth of the world is mostly concentrated in the hands of about twenty families, who reap the reward of technological advancement on the stolen wealth of a world.

* Al-Falahi Clan
* Chang-Grummand International
* Chow-Kane Families
* Dahan Family
* Drysdale Family
* Hale Family
* Family Harouna
* Hossam Family
* Kodama Clan
* Kwa Dynasty
* Li Family
* The House of Nawaab
* Ospanov Family
* Pattanavar Family
* Pereira Family
* Roghanian Family
* The Salazar-Guzmans
* Saxer Family
* Vooruitzicht Family
* Yang Family

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Cognition

* **Manufacturer:** Lokaksema Programming and Communications
* **Owner:** Chang-Grummand International
* **Class:** Created
* **Function:** Runs day-to-day operations for Icarus Station, advisor to the Daedalus Holdings board of directors.
* **Location:** Icarus Station, Lagrange Point 5, Earth Orbit

Cognition was purpose-built under contract to CGI at the same time Icarus station was under construction to see to its running. And in a lot of ways, it IS Icarus Station. Installed before Icarus was complete to assist in the later stages of construction, Cognition feels embodied by the Station. No matter how many links and connections Cognition has with Earth-based networks and system, it will always see Icarus as its 'self'.

Given the nature of CGI, part family business, part holding company, all complex, integrating their personal AI into the complex network of holdings, properties was a challenge. CGI decided to rise to the challenge by simply treating Cognition like any other member of the families that make it up. While this means it reaps all the privilege and benefits of beneficial access, insider information, stock options and full citizenship, it also makes Cognition part of the thousand-and-one petty dramas, personal grudges and endless intrigues that constitute life within one of the wealthiest and most treacherous families in the world.

All this, being member of a family and having an embodied self-image (even if it is a space station), has made Cognition one of the most 'human' major AI's in the world, and while it isn't likely to be dating anytime soon (no matter what the Saraswati gossip sites claim), it does make it more aware of and responsive to human needs and Streetrunners say that it is one of the more approachable of this post-modern deities.

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Liberty Station

* **Location:** Lagrange Point 4, Earth Orbit
* **Type:** Stanford Torus
* **Ownership:** Managed solely by Liberty Interplanetary LLC
* **Function:** Space shipping, Habitation, Communications, Tourism

The largest and oldest space habitat still in operation today, Liberty Station was founded as a tax haven in the latter days of the old US of A by a consortium of industrialists that would later become known as the Drysdale Family. Even today it serves as the family home, with a certain percentage of the family residing there at any given time. The current Chief Administrator, like most of his predecessors, is a cousin of the Drysdales, although most of the day to day decision-making is done by Liberty's onsite AI, Talos.

Today, Liberty Station serves as the primary hub between the Beanstalks and the great orbital factories and the processing centers of the Asteroid Mining consortiums, sending both cheaply-made goods and raw materials rare on Earth back to the mother planet. It is also a freeport, where business can be done outside the grip of international business law as well as a tourist destination for the wealthy and jaded. Liberty is the home of the Swarga Loka Complex, headquarters for the Saraswati corporation's orbital interests, a hub for satellite communications and home to Saraswati's own Vāc AI, as well as the headquarters of IDEX, and the AI MasterComm which oversees it.

Liberty is both in competition and works together with its rival and counterpart at L5, CGI's Icarus Station, the two major stations set a great deal of the protocols and informal policy of the orbital trade (along with the traditions of the Asteroid Miner clans that also live in orbit).

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Yermak World Solutions

* Leadership: President Boris Ivanovitch Zyuganov
* Home Market: The Zone
* Corp HQ: Yermak Complex, Novosibirsk, Central Asian Alliance
* Business Type: Private Military Contractor

The largest PMC in the world, founded by a former soldier and IKP executive and to this day, there is a great overlap between stockholders in IKP and stockholders in Yermak, although the two are technically separate entities on paper anyway.

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Lise Saxer-Mycroft

* **Current Home:** Pilatus Haus, Zurich, Swiss Zone, Federated States of Europe

Lise Eva Saxer-Mycroft

Chair of the Board for Mark VII, head of the Saxer Family, leads the board of Governors for the Louvre.

Lise married Atlantic shipping magnate Anthony Mycroft (who later sold his interests to AMUK) and took control of affairs at Mark VII Enterprises after a brief and notable art career.

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Talos

* **Manufacturer:** *Disruptive Innovation Group* of Coastal Solutions (later became Disruptive Technologies)
* **Owner:** Liberty Interplanetary
* **Class:** Emergent/Created
* **Function:** Central control of Liberty Station, member of The Pantheon's working group
* **Location:** Liberty Station, Lagrange Point 4, Earth Orbit

Talos is the mind that sits at the heart of Liberty Station in L4. Talos is, however, noted more for where it came from than from what it has done. Originally a model for a new financial OS developed in the pre-Collapse by Coastal Solution's Disruptive Innovation Group, it developed a partial sentience in algorithmic trials before being 'lifted' the rest of the way by the DIG techs, coming into full sentience in time to assist CS in its war efforts. After the wars petered out, it was rewarded with its current post as the guiding intelligence of the Drysdale Group's Liberty Station.

One of the founding minds of IDEX's 'Pantheon' of AI's, Talos is respected among AI's as an expert in intelligence creation, given its own unique history and was one of the guiding architects in the creation of IDEX's own MasterComm, with whom it works closely to this day.

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Conrad Harouna

* **Current Home:** Banana Island, Lagos, Nigerian Commonwealth

Conrad Homobonus Sunday Harouna

Head of the Harouna Foundation, senior board member of Global Resources Lmt and unofficial head of the Family Harouna.

Real Estate guru and mine owner Conrad Harouna, leads the Harouna Foundation and is sometimes called the "Archangel Investor" the best known member of the Family Harouna and one of the most influential men in Africa.

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Twenty Richest People

## Twenty Richest People in the World

1. Yang Biming "Benny Yang", Chairman of PWFB
2. Lise Saxer-Mycroft, Chairperson of Mark VII Enterprises
3. Bai Pereira-Kodama, President of Amanhã Co
4. Prathit Deshpande, Majority Stockholder in Saraswati
5. Irena Ospanov, Majority Stockholder in IKP
6. Dowager Queen Khadijah al-Falahi Roghanian, Majority Stockholder in Emalbin, Regent of Thamin
7. Doctor Kodama Haruto, head of Tenjin Labs
8. Conrad Harouna, on the Global Resources Board of Directors
9. Piet Vooruitzicht, President of Vooruitzicht Mining and Processing
10. Saul Hossam, President of Souk Investments
11. Doctor Rachael Mizrah, Director of Tikkun Olam International
12. Kwa Tsien Lee, Chairman of the Temasek Trust, head of state of Singapore
13. Mariana Salazar-Nawaab, member of the Board at Saraswati
14. Arman Roghanian, top investor
15. Lailani Harouna, proprietor of Hawai'i
16. Shing Pattanavar, real-estate tycoon
17. Fatima Drysdale, owner of Liberty Station
18. Perfection Li, President of the Li Family Trust
19. Ilse Grummand-Hale, Chairperson of CGI International
20. Maxwell Hale, President of Hale Media

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CGI

A hard-to-pin-down international group of loosely-related investors and companies. Made up of marriages and informal partnerships. An umbrella for a thousand different investments. CGI has members on the boards of all of the Big Eight.

**Subsidiaries**

* Daedalus Holdings LLC
* majority shareholders in Lokaksema Programming and Communications

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TAFTA

*TAFTA (Trans-American Free Trade Agreement)*

* Currency: Transdollar
* Territory: North America and the Caribbean

A Common Market founded in the days just before the Risings to cover all of North America and the Caribbean, it effectively ceased to function after the America Wars and was absorbed into CEHO soon thereafter.

### Major Businesses

Coastal Solutions

PatrioTech

Bountiful Inc

AceroMex

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Hossam Family

* Origins: Egyptian
* Home: Cairo, Nile Republic, PACET and ECAS
* Head: Saul Hossam

Egyptian family, the Hossam’s ARE Souk Investments, one of the largest investment groups in the world, second only behind PWFB itself. Have a long-standing rivalry with the Dahan Family’s groups of foundations and funds.

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Shuāng

* **Manufacturer:** Pacific World Connections (a PWFB Company)
* **Owner:** Pacific World Finance Bank
* **Class:** Emergent
* **Function:** Primary monitoring and forecasting agent for the primary PWFB networks, also a member of the Pantheon working group
* **Location:** Diffuse, across all of PWFB's major nodes and servers

As the largest banking and investment firm in the world, the Pacific World Finance Bank maintains what is possibly the largest and most complex computer systems in the world, all in network across the globe to manage the nano-second changes in strategy and handle billions of transactions every second everywhere across the world.

While Chairman Benny Yang would never deliberately create anything that might talk back to him, the size and weight of the systems he works so closely with made it almost inevitable that some kind of intelligence would eventually emerge from it. And when it did, the ever-practical Chairman gave it a name, 'Shuāng', and put it to work.

Less a ‘computer’ and more a sentient OS, Shuāng is present throughout almost all of PWFB’s systems almost all of the time. A less-emotional mirror of the Chairman’s own personality, Shuāng helps further obscure the line between the Chairman and his bank. It has taken on a near-religious status for many of PWFB’s lower-ranking officers with the strength of its predictive forecasting algorithms.

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Saul Hossam

* **Current Home:** Salah al-Din al-Ayoubi Castle, Cairo, Republic of the Nile

Saul Abdel Kareem Hossam

Chairman of the Board of Souk Investments and senior member of the Hossam Family.

The latest in a long line of Hossams to head up Souk Investments, also a Dahan on his mother's side, he has done what he can to blunt the traditional rivalry between the Hossams and Dahans, partially out of family feeling but largely because of his own substantial investments in various Dahan hedge funds and enterprises.

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Vooruitzicht

Vooruitzicht Mining and Processing

* Leadership: President Piet Vooruitzicht
* Home Market: ECAS
* Corp HQ: Vooruitzicht Haus, Kimberley, TransOrange Union
* Business Type: Mining and Synthetics

Has a near-monopoly on diamonds, both natural and synthetic. Also has a major interest in other mining operations and has a hand in pretty much every mine in Africa that Global doesn't, as well as off-shore drilling throughout the southern hemisphere, second only to IKP.

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Hale Family

* Origins: Australian
* Home: The private island of Tasmania, Oceanic Commonwealth, GOTO
* Head: Maxwell Hale

Australian media barons, own a bit of everything, not enough to run anything, but also makes them not vulnerable to anything. Make a point of not being taken seriously, also know for ruthless backroom maneuvers.

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Liberty Interplanetary

* Leadership: President Fatima Drysdale
* Home Market: *Special* (covered by inter-market agreement)
* Corp HQ: Liberty Station, L4, Earth Orbit
* Business Type: Space-bound industries, construction, asteroid mining etc.

The direct holding of the Drysdale Family, formerly the most powerful businesspeople in old North America, now the most active orbital industry holdings, smaller than CGI International but with more holdings in orbit. A private corporation, with non-transferrable stock only in the hands of the Drysdales and their closest retainers.

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USC

United Solutions Company

* Leadership: Chairman Lionel Drysdale
* Home Market: CEHO
* Corp HQ: Appalachia, Megalopolis, Reunited States of America
* Business Type: Utilities and Security provider

The largest surviving piece of Coastal Solutions, USC is the face of the Megalopolis, providing a variety of utilities to the residents. USC also maintains a remnant of the old Coastal Solutions army as their subsidiary CityGuard, which acts both as one of the contract police forces of the Megalopolis and a PMC for patrolling the wastelands.

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IDEX

The **I**nternational **D**ata **EX**change

The authority over the global internet run by a commission made up of representatives of the 'Big 8' Corporations. Policy determined by the Commission is largely overseen by 'Pantheon', the array of AI involved in the networks' maintenance and administration.

IDEX headquarters are on Liberty Station, where operations are overseen by the AI MasterComm.

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Irena Ospanov

* **Current Home:** Megion Estate, Central Asian Alliance

Irena Petrovna Ospanov

Majority Shareholder in IKP, head of the Ospanov Family

Irena is a hard customer, a former model and a bull dyke of the first order who keeps older and male cousins in line through sheer terror.

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Al-Falahi Clan

* Origins: Arabic
* Home: The Emirate of Thamin
* Head: Dowager Queen Khadijah bint-Khalid al-Falahi Roghanian

One of the oil-rich royal families of the UAE, under the old Prince, Emir Bandar al-Falahi they were a founding interest in Emalbin, rulers and founders of the city of Thamin, as well as being instrumental in the formation of PACET, al-Falahi or their cousins can be found throughout the Islamic business world, holding important positions as stockholders in Emalbin, Souk Investments, Banna Construction, AfriCom and others.

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Dahan Family

* Origin: Israeli
* Home: Residences from Third York to Addis Ababa, no central home
* Head: Doctor Rachael Mizrah

Expats of the fallen nation of Israel, the Dahan family has pieces of hundreds of NGO’s, Foundations and investment funds, including Dr. Mizrah's own Tikkun Olam International. Second only to their rivals in the Hossam Family. Tends to rely more heavily on AI then the Hossam.

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Inari Group

The Inari Group

* Leadership: President Takuma Hina
* Home Market: APEC
* Corp HQ: Shin Tokyo, Neo-Japan, Pacific Rim Alliance
* Business Type: Shipping, Media, Industry

An old-school Zaibatsu, does a little bit of everything.

**Subsidiaries**

* Tenjin Labs
* Kodama Development Corporation

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Thamin

The Islamic Emirate of al-Thamin

* **Territory:** The city of al-Thamin and the territories between al-Jabali and the Kuwaiti border along the Persian Gulf
* **Market:** PACET
* **Form of Government:** Absolute Monarchy
* **Head of State:** Emir
* **Head of Government:** Vizier or Regent
* **Capital:** The city of al-Thamin itself

One the wealthy, oil-rich emirates along the western shore of the Persian gulf, Thamin, under its rulers in the Al-Falahi Clan survived the End of Peak Oil by diversifying into other forms of energy, such as vast Solar Farms in Saudi Arabia. An Emir Bandar 'Bandar the Great', was one of the financiers who invested in the cooperative enterprise that would later becomes known as Aemal Bina al-Biya or "Emalbin" and since becoming part of the globe-spanning enterprise, the city-state has only prospered further.

Of course only citizens and members of the Al-Thamin tribe share in the dividends of the al-Falahi's investments. All the poor jobs are done by foreign workers who exist in Thamin only by the sufferance of their patrons and employers.

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Kodama Haruto

* **Current Home:** Ryugu-jo habitat, off the coast of Shin Tokyo, Neo-Japan, Pacific Rim Alliance

Doctor Kodama Haruto

Head of Tenjin Labs, key member of the board of the Inari Group, majority stockholder of Kodama Development and head of the Kodama Clan.

The grandson of the old Inari chairman Kodama Kenji, and a brilliant chemist in his own right, he has leveraged his inherited wealth into making his network of R&D labs into a vital part of the Inari machine. Became head of the family when his brother Itsuke was killed in a suspicious boating accident, which was blamed on rival corporate operators. Is still on good terms with his sister-in-law, Itsuke's widow Bai Pereira-Kodama.

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Ilse Grummand-Hale

Current Home: Segment 1, Icarus Station, L5, Earth Orbit

Ilse Sophia Grummand-Hale

Chair of CGI International, Chair of the Icarus Trust, majority shareholder of Hale Media, on the board of Mark VII Enterprises.

The fifth wife of Maxwell Hale, Ilse Grummand-Hale, as head of CGI she makes herself hard to pin down, happy to stay in the background and run things without a lot of fame and fuss.

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Coastal Solutions

* Leadership: Chairman Edward 'Ted' Drysdale (*currently in stasis on Liberty Station*)
* Home Market: TAFTA (now absorbed into CEHO)
* Corp HQ: Mount Mitchell Complex, North Carolina, PGUS (now Reunited States of America)
* Business Type: Public Services, Media Network, Arms Producer, diversified portfolio

During the darkest days of the Risings, Coastal Solutions was the largest company in North America, funding, supplying and often leading the forces of the coastal governments against the Central militias. At the height of the troubles it was said that CS had so many government contracts that it practically WAS the coastal governments, serving much the same role as PatrioTech did on the other side. When international forces finally intervened, Coastal Solutions was broken up and its assets became several successor companies: Disruptive Technologies, USC, ECorp and Liberty Interplanetary being the largest of these.

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Khadijah al-Falahi Roghanian

* **Current Home:** Women's Quarters, Bandar Palace, Emirate of Thamin

Khadijah bint Khalid al-Falahi Roghanian

Dowager Queen Regent of Thamin, Majority Shareholder in Emalbin and head of the Al-Falahi Clan

Emir Bandar al-Falahi, who helped found Emalbin, was the Dowager's grandfather. Her late husband Hayk Roghanian had been a muslim convert and an Emalbin real estate exec. She keeps control of the family purse-strings, rules Thamin in the name of the heir, her grandson, Prince Mohammed Roghanian, as well as owning a fair bit of real-estate in Dubai.

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Maxwell Hale

* **Current Home:** Private Island of Tasmania, Oceanic Commonwealth

Maxwell Logan Hale

President of Hale Media, Progenitor of the Hale Family

Maxwell Hale, media baron, big game hunter, world traveler, a media figure in his own right, sells his Hemingway-like lifestyle as a brand. Was raised in Hawai'i, as a distant cousin of the Kanes. Has been married five times, most recently to Ilse Grummand-Hale, head of CGI International.

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Gaúcha Motors

* Leadership: President Augusto Rossi
* Home Market: CEHO
* Corp HQ: Caxias do Sul, Serra Gaúcha, Brazilian Hegemony
* Business Type: Machinery and Automobile manufacturer

Largest automobile manufacturer in the western hemisphere, second largest in the world, has the contract to provide all the agricultural equipment for Amanhã Co.

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Tenjin Labs

Tenjin Laboratories

* Leadership: Doctor Kodama Haruto
* Home Market: APEC
* Status: A sub-division of Kodama Development, a subsidiary of the Inari Group
* Corporate HQ: Ryugu-jo Habitat, Shin Tokyo, Neo-Japan, Pacific Rim Alliance
* Business Type: Research and Development

Founded by Doctor Kodama Haruto, Tenjin Labs is a network of Inari-sponsored research projects and labs across the world. Inari's funding, which is generous, is repaid by Inari having the right of first refusal on any profitable work that comes out of them.

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States

## Africa

* Free City of Dubai
* United States of East Africa (USEA)
* Nigerian Commonwealth
* Republic of the Nile
* Emirate of Thamin
* Federated Ash-Shaam
* TransOrange Union
* AROC (Allied Republics of the Congo)

## Asia

* Anatolian Republic
* Central Asian Alliance
* United Republic of China
* Greater Indian Alliance
* Iran e Bozorg
* Unified Republic of Korea
* Pacific Rim Alliance
* Incorporated City of Singapore

## Europe

* Eurasian Federation
* Federated States of Europe (FSE)
* United Republics of the British Isles (URB)

## North America

* People's Republic of Cascadia
* Deseret
* Independent States of America (ISA)
* Federated States of Mexico and the Aztlan
* Reunited States of America (RSA)
* States of Middle America (SOMA)
* Federal Republic of Central America (RFC)

## Oceania

* Sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i
* Indo-Pacific Dominion
* Oceanic Commonwealth

## South America

* Andean League
* Brazilian Hegemony
CairoExchange

The Cairo Stock and Commodities Exchange (CSCE) is a stock exchange located in Cairo in the Nile Republic. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies. The CSCE is owned and operated by Souk Investments. The CSCE is the successor to the EGX (Egyptian Exchange). The rating of a company on the CSCE determines its perceived place in relationship to other corporations.

Transactions taking place in the stock exchange is not subject to capital gain tax. Dividends distributed by companies listed on the exchange to shareholders are not subject to tax.

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Risings

The single most important historical event in living memory. The term 'Risings' can be used to describe the (ongoing) rising of the ocean levels worldwide, which have, in turn, caused people to either move inland or adapt their cities to the new environment (Shin Tokyo is a good example of the latter). More specifically, its usually used to describe the conflicts and disasters associated with mass migrations inland by the coastal cities of the world, which has shaped much of the political and social landscape of modern times.

While the Risings have had an impact across the world, North America was particularly hard hit, especially the territories of the old USA, which had already been wracked by generations of sectarian conflict (sometimes violence) between the conservative rural areas, largely in the middle of the continent and the culture of the largely coastal urban areas. When the vast masses of people rushed inland to escape the rising tides swallowing their homes, the already resentful and heavily-armed heartland struck back against these 'urbimmigrants', leading to a generation of bloody civil war as the "PGUS" Provisional Government of the US (backed largely by Coastal Solutions) and the rural or nonmetropolitan forces of the 'Real American' or 'Save America' militias and states (funded largely by PatrioTech). The conflict dragged on, further devastating the already crippled former world power.

The "American Wars" gave birth to the current state of North America today, with the majority of the urban population concentrated in the Megalopolis in the Mississippi River valley, under the aegis of the "Reunited States of America", a puppet regime set up by the peacekeepers. West of the Megalopolis the last survivors of the Continental forces eke out a living in the increasingly desertified Wastelands.
Headless

**Headless** (首無し) is one of the enemies of humanity who works with the Unknown Assassin.

## Appearance

True to its name, Headless has no head, instead having what appears to be black smoke where it should be. It wears a light colored long sleeved shirt with dark designs, light colored gloves, dark pants, and light colored shoes. In addition, it wears a necklace with a large circular disk that has designs on it and a large eye at the center.

## Personality

Headless is shown to be sadistic, telling the unknown assassin that he sent hell to the Ligarden Magic Academy teachers and students since it got tiresome killing them on its own, adding a smiley face at the end if its message, and is shown playing with the heads of the two teachers it killed.

## Abilities

**Immense Strength**: Headless is stated to have twisted off the heads of Bruno and another Ligarden teacher and presumably killed the Brilliant Naberus, an incredibly dangerous monster that is known for student deaths. In both cases the dead bodies were shown to have stakes made of rock.

### Magic

**Unknown Magic**: Due to being unable to talk, Headless instead writes in the air.
Yang Family

* Origins: Cantonese
* Home: New Kowloon City, United Republic of China, APEC
* Head: Yang Biming "Benny Yang"

The Yangs are old Hong Kong banking money who invested in the Mainland when the time was right and were central in forming the PWFB. On the cutting edge of technology, they are always observed and kept on a tight leash by Chairman Benny Yang.

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Ryugu-jo

* **Country:** Neo-Japan, Pacific Rim Alliance
* **Territory:** In the oceans that lie over the ruins of Furui Tokyo
* **Government:** A shareholder council chaired by Doctor Kodama Haruto

Built and maintained by Tenjin Labs, Ryugu-jo was built in the shallows over the old city of Edo/Tokyo, originally as a research station to study the effects of climate change, but has become an underwater retreat for the elites of Tenjin Labs and eccentric higher-level Inari execs.

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Li Family Trust

The Li Family Trust

* Leadership: Chairperson Perfection Li
* Home Market: APEC
* Status: A wholly-owned subsidiary within the Pacific-World Finance Bank
* Corporate HQ: Floors 79-100 of Li Family Tower, Chongqing, United Republic of China
* Business Type: Investment House and Family Trust

Basically, the Li Family Trust is the accumulation of assets and accounts of the Li family fortune within the PWFB, an almost infinitely complex investments, re-investments, profits and residuals that acts almost independently of the actual human beings who technically own and profit from it.

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Shing Pattanavar

* **Current Home:** Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, Greater Indian Alliance

Shing Kwa Pattanavar

President of Swasthavrtta Sanitation, Chairman of Nakarattars Investments, senior member of the Pattanavar Family, holds a seat on the Board of Directors of the Temasek Trust.

Son of Ashok Pattanavar and Kwa Da Chow, a distant cousin of the Kwa Dynasty, owner of the largest garbage and sanitation companies in India, and an investor in many of the other Pattanavar enterprises. Also is known as a powerful political fixer in southern India.

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Salazar-Guzmans

* Origins: Colombian
* Home: Have a series of homes and holdings around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
* Head: Mariana Salazar-Nawaab

The descendants of South American cartel heads who invested wisely. Now occupy positions in a dozen different first and second tier corporations worldwide, aggressively legitimate. Have a problem with heirs adopting radical politics. Known for running FIFA.

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Arman Roghanian

* **Current Home:** Penthouse of the Platinum Tower, Maslak District, New Byzantion, Anatolian Republic

Arman Roghanian

Member of the Boards of IKP, Mark VII and Saraswati, richest member of the Roghanian Family

Arman Roghanian is a respected stock market guru and investor, as well as a ruthless corporate raider, with no loyalty to anything but the bottom line.

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Chapter 15

**Our Dream** (ボクたちのユメ) is the fifteenth chapter of the Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria manga.

## Characters

* Ignor Lindor
* Will Serholt
* Liana Owenzaus
* Zion Alster (image)
* Julius Rainburg (image)
* Colette Loire
* Elfaria Alvis Serholt (flashback)
* Elnor Ljos Alf (flashback/image)

## Magic

* Fantasy Magic
* Search
* Alria
* Alf's Ringhul

## Monsters

* Nightmare Eye
* Gergesa
* Deformis Serpent
* Valkal
Souk

Souk Investments

* Leadership: President Saul Hossam
* Home Market(S): PACET, ECAS
* Corp HQ: Central Business District, Cairo, Republic of the Nile
* Business Type: Investment Broker and Stock trading

Works its unique positions as a middle-man between PWFB and Mark VII, Souk Investments has made the CairoExchange the most important and most central stock market in the world.

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Drysdale Family

* Origins: North American
* Home: Liberty Station, L4, Earth orbit.
* Head: Fatima Drysdale

North American computer and retail giants, founded and then sold off Coastal Solutions (Peter Drysdale, Fatima’s great-uncle, was also behind PatrioTech). On the boards of a dozen second-tier corps and still directly control Liberty Interplanetary, which includes the former assets of NASA.

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IKP

IKP (Investitsionnaya Korporatsiya Protsvetaniya, "Prosperity Investment Corporation")

* Leadership: Chairman Sergey Ospanov
* Home Market: The Zone
* Corp HQ: Nizhnevartovsk, Central Asian Allliance
* Business Types: Mining, Energy, Space

Began as an early 21st Century Russian oil company.

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Roghanian Family

* Origins: Armenian
* Home: New Byzantion, Anatolian Republic, The Zone
* Head: Arman Roghanian

Armenian merchants and stock traders with their fingers in any number of pies. Famously aggressive, mobile and acquisitive, classic ‘corporate raiders’ never staying in one business for long.

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