Hasekura

***Hasekura (支倉)*** is a rival synthetic genetics company to ARCDA, who are notorious within ARCDA for stealing a lot of their work and synths, and are looked down upon with disdain as being 'bootleggers' and failures. Despite these claims, Hasekura is still a very successful genetics company.

## History

Initially Hasekura was a much smaller company that had a partnership with Arcadia, at the time just referred to as AC. Hasekura had many of their scientists poached by ARCDA as it expanded and so resorted to insider trading, sabotage, and theft of property to keep up.

## Hasekura as a Company

Hasekura's market focuses on genetic engineering and genetic manipulation.

### Company Priorities

Hasekura prioritises genetic manipulation and alteration of naturally existing creatures over synthetically producing organisms. This primarily domestic animals, however, this does extend to animals that are in a pre-extinction classification.

De-extinction is a priority of the company, with a focus on recently extinct animals such as the tasmanian tiger, Carolina Parakeet, socorro dove, spix macaw, baiji dolphin, vaqueta, ivory billed woodpecker, american lion, and asiatic cheetah.

Their greatest success with this however didn't come from the de-extinction of animals but of fruits and plants, to increase the genetic diversity and thus increase greater resistance to pesticides, over farming, soil degradation, and global warming. Along with this came alterations and adaptations to existing crops.

It has managed to outperform ARCDA in construction and manufacturing medication. Whilst ARCDA relies on Atlas to test things and spend time experimenting with what it could become, Hasekura is able to produce, test, and release medication in half the time.

### Company Logo

Hasekura has a few different logos that appear to be different between continents, but still feature the same flower motif.

* Logo 1 (USA) : Two crescent horns crossed over each other with a flower in the centre.
* Logo 2 (UK): . A five petaled flower with a double-helix within each petal

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### Hasekura vs ARCDA

Hasekura has often fallen behind as ARCDA overtakes the market in genetic engineering and enhancement.

It has managed to outperform ARCDA in construction and manufacturing medication. Whilst ARCDA relies on Atlas to test things and spend time experimenting with what it could become, Hasekura is able to produce, test, and release medication in half the time.

ARCDA boasts that they produce better Synths than Hasekura, however a lot of this is propaganda. As having an 'enemy' helps to drive

## Hasekura Synths

Hasekuran Synths are very similar to ARCDA Synths as much of their genetics were stolen from ARCDA over time, however there are some visual differences between them such as:

* A more human look to Hasekuran Preternaturals
* A more animalistic look to Synths that are based upon animal species. They often appear larger, rougher, and to many ARCDA based synths, scarier.
	+ Storm on Hasekuran Pards: Hasekuran Pards always looked more intense and terrifying than the ones made by ARCDA. They almost looked like critters since they were entirely fur covered and oddly proportioned
		- ***See Also***: Kuros, Hasekuran Canids.
* Higher focus on Tribrids.
* Being unable to create Reptile based synths.
* More focus on Genetic Enhancement and altering of existing species; ex: horses, dogs, chickens.
* Projects involving deextinction over synthetic creation.
* Much cheaper in production costs at the expense of more things going wrong.

When they are given the task of creating custom Synths, Hasekura actually outperforms ARCDA in terms of design and work. They either put in 100% work effort and dedication or they don't.

## Hasekuran Agents

Although Hasekura primarily uses paid Freelancers to hunt down Synths and collect lost cargo, they do have their own \*\*agents\*\* who perform much more high level work that requires care and delicacy in a mission. Similar to the Sapphire Elites of ARCDA, these are operatives who have a wide skillset and can perform espionage works such as genetic sabotage, insider trading, and genome theft (usually referred to as Biopiracy) as well as having the training for dispatching witnesses. These agents range from being some of Hasekura's own Synths to even some of their doctors (who easily sneak into ARCDA's ranks and have better success at theft due to their knowledge in topic areas).

Although they do not act as assassins, if needs must, they will kill. A primary cause of death for those who cross the path of these agents is poisoning. Hasekura has a huge library of venoms, poisons, and toxins many of which they have created themselves, and only they hold antidotes to.

## See Also

* ARCDA
* Katana Tsume

## Trivia

* Hasekura is named after the samurai and diplomat, Hasekura Tsunenaga
* Hasekura use EMI weapons primarily as they are used to stun and disable targets.

## References

1. ↑ Silverbird: Chapter 6
2. ↑ Hasekura Tsunenaga

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