Digital Dam Incorporated

## Description:

Founded in 2018 CE, Digital Dam Inc., commonly shortened to "Digital Dam" or just "The Dam," is a megacorporation centered around damage control, public relations, and data recovery. Digital Dam prides itself on the absolute discretion with which it conducts its business and the 99% success rate which its operatives maintain; the megacorporation is responsible for undoing scandals, settling legal cases, conducting corporate espionage and high-profile assassinations/kidnappings, and the recovery of stolen data/individuals on behalf of client corporations/wealthy clients. Digital Dam has come under significant scrutiny over the years as a result of its unethical business practices and lack of transparency with the public, but this has not stopped it from becoming an incredibly important part of the Megacorporate landscape; everyone has a scandal, leak, or fiasco eventually, and Digital Dam makes sure that it is prepared to swoop in and catch its clients before they fall. Digital Dam's salesmen often market their services as a form of insurance. Digital Dam maintains uneasy relations with all other major Megacorporations; due to its position as a spy-for-hire private mercenary corporation, Digital Dam is treated with careful suspicion by other Megacorporations. Digital Dam has worked with and against most every major global Megacorporation at least once over the course of its long history.

### Organization:

#### Headquarters: [REDACTED], Silicon Valley

Digital Dam's marketing position demands that it operate with the utmost secrecy, anonymity, and discretion; as such, very few people are aware of the Megacorporation's internal workings. Inquiries into the Megacorporation's structure have revealed little, beyond the fact that Digital Dam is owned and operated by its CEO and Board of Directors, although the identities of the Board Members and the investors they represent are kept entirely secret. Below the Board sit the major managers and departmental heads who oversee the corporation's operations. Below the managers are the Handlers and middle-managers, who assign Agents their tasks and oversee progress on them; the Agents sit below the Handlers and are responsible for carrying out the company's services on behalf of its many wealthy clients. Agents are also responsible for managing the teams of mercenaries hired by the company to carry out more dangerous or risky field operations. Notably, Digital Dam maintains a very prominent pyramidal structure, where small numbers of handlers oversee the assignments and conduct of large numbers of Agent, who in turn can oversee large numbers of temporary mercenaries. This system ensures that everyone has at least 1 degree of oversight and aids in the assurance of services provided by the Megacorporation.

Digital Dam recruits according to 2 sets of criteria: 1 set for individuals intended to be hired properly and for a long-term contract, and 1 set for individuals of third-party mercenaries brought onboard for a limited time contract to carry out necessary operations on behalf of the company. The first set of criteria is considerably more intensive, extensive, and demanding than the second set; people applying for a proper position within Digital Dam must be an expert in their given field with top-level education and test scores in addition to passing a rigorous psychological, ethical, and moral test. All Digital Dam employees must also be competent combatants and are required to meet certain physical qualifications in order to be accepted into the company; hired employees are expected to maintain these strict qualifications and continue to expand their martial skills on a regular basis. Employees are tested every year to make sure they are upholding the company's security procedures and keeping up with their mandatory exercises and training classes. These long-term employees are recruited from the top Universities or scouted from other Megacorporations. Digital Dam forces its employees to receive specific Augmentations and implants when they achieve certain positions and ranks within the company, in order to support the individual's work.

The second set of criteria, used when hiring third-party mercenaries for use in the field, is significantly less stringent than the first set. Mercenaries are allowed to come in any range of shapes, colors, and sizes, as long as their specialties line up with the needs of a given assignment. Mercenaries are scouted by Agents and their Handlers via any manner of methods, from private security firms to illegal Fixers. Due to Digital Dam's reliance and widespread use of mercenaries, the Megacorporation has a long and convincing history from which they draw to hire the best freelance sellswords a region has to offer. Digital Dam uses mercenaries for as much of their field work, transportation, and communication as possible to reduce their exposure.

Digital Dam Inc. dedicates all of its resources to protecting the images, brands, and reputations of K4's rich and powerful. The corporation provides this service through the application of advanced surveillance techniques, cutting edge marketing and PR strategies, and top-of-the-line computer equipment to prevent data breaches, seal data leaks, retrieve lost data, etc. Digital Dam also offers damage control services to those who experience a run of bad luck or a nasty leak; Digital Dam will go as far as erasing publicly available information and silencing media outlets in order to totally remake a client's online presence and therefore their reputation. Digital Dam proudly boasts a 99% success rate and a money back guarantee for all of their services. Digital Dam is also unafraid to get its hands dirty when necessary, and will carry out kidnappings, torture of various kinds, and even assassinations in order to protect their clients.

#### List of Major Corporate Branches/Departments:

2. Quality Control: Digital Dam's internal security and counter-intelligence division tasked with ensuring that all employees and hired third-party mercenaries complete their jobs satisfactorily and with absolute discretion; those who do not meet the Department's specifications are terminated.
3. Field Acquisitions Department: Digital Dam's Department dedicated to the discovery and employment of third-party mercenaries who are paid to carry out the Megacorporation's field work; hired mercenaries carry out almost all of the company's in-field operations in order to limit Digital Dam's exposure and prevent enemies from tracing activity back to Digital Dam.

#### Equipment:

Digital Dam is one of the most advanced Megacorporations in the world; the corporation chooses quality over quantity every time, and only uses the most advanced technology available to get the job done. Digital Dam also advertises one of the largest hack-for-hire services in existence, with enough Matrix-based firepower and on-staff hackers to take down entire Supercities if necessary; this has brought Digital Dam in conflict with groups like Cyberscan Security on multiple occasions. The weapons and armor used by Digital Dam's employees are similarly top-of-the-line, but almost always acquired illegally and in manners which are untraceable by even skilled bounty hunters or KPD Investigators; as much of the company's equipment is sourced unofficially as possible, in order to prevent tracking of the company's activities.

Digital Dam has also been accused of conducting human experimentation, using Matrix Torture and various unethical means of incarceration to extract information from captured targets, illegally creating genetically engineered humans for use as Agents, and using mind control, brainwashing, torture, memory manipulation, and PersonaChips to force kidnapped individuals to work with/for the company, either as permanent Agents or sleeper Agents.