CyberCore

## CyberCore Corporation

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CyberCore Corporation (**Japanese:** サイバーコア) is a global megacorporation that governs and deals with corporate security, scientific research, banking, and manufacturing. It is one of the most influential megacorporations in the world. The company is also the largest distributor of Japanese-made products in the United States, European and Asian markets. CyberCore brand weapons and military vehicles are among the most sought after by security agencies. Over the years, it has developed a dark reputation as a corporation to be feared that covers its tracks using assassins, an army of lawyers, as well as a supposed connection to the Yakuza of the past.

CyberCore Corporation maintains the largest and most powerful military of any corporation in the world, with its guards recognized worldwide and feared by many. Most businesses will seek licenses from corporate security guards, couriers, or CyberCore marketplaces to protect their assets. However, CyberCore assets take priority if they are at risk and the neo-military troops themselves are die-hard loyal to the Neo-Tokyo conglomerate.

CyberCore has made a habit of buying other companies around the world and bleeding competition from other corporations. It also provides a great deal of support to communities around the world, even though its business practices and overall track record are considered unethical. This corporate giant fiercely pursues and protects its ideals and is determined to create a perfect system under its control.

## History

### Human Era

CyberCore Corporation was founded in 1916 by Sakuya Shogaki, a businessman from a family that could trace its lineage to the noble samurai of yesteryear in Tokyo, Japan. Originally the company focused on manufacturing and took full advantage of World War II to pass on its wealth to supply the Imperial Army. However, Sakuya foresaw Japan's defeat and worked to ensure that his company and his fortune survived the war, spreading his wealth around the world, beyond the reach of postwar leaders. Very soon the Japanese surrendered and the country was left in ruins, with most of the cities destroyed by constant bombing (with the exception of Kyoto).

On August 15, 1945, the Emperor promulgated the edict of surrender and renounced his divinity. Oda Shogaki, son of Sakuya and as a descendant of the family, knew that this fortune would soon be under his control, a fortune that, if managed correctly, would allow one intelligent man to push Japan into a position of power from which he could dominate. the world politically and economically. He began studying politics, economics and history, which he continued until the death of his father.

Although Japan's economy and industry were in ruins, Oda studied all matters of business, economics, and politics while attending Todai. This was to ensure that he had the necessary skills to achieve his goals. Sakuya had profited from the industry during wartime, but against Oda's passionate insistence, he had ensured that the majority of CyberCore's fortune was covertly protected in assets and accounts hidden offshore.

### 1960 - 1997

In 1949, Sakuya Shogaki died and Oda stepped into his late father's shoes as director of CyberCore Corporation. At the time, CyberCore was still a relatively small company and had just reestablished itself in international trade. Before his death, Oda's father had been slowly recovering capital and resources kept secret during the war, and after his death, Oda himself continued the task. He soon studied and graduated in artificial intelligence at the University of Tokyo.

In 1950, Oda created the CyberCore Security division of CyberCore Corporation. The new division specialized in high-quality personal and corporate labor, electronic and computer security and protection. Slowly, over 25 years, CyberCore Security developed an excellent reputation as the most powerful company of its kind in the world. Using his newly accumulated funds, Oda invested in real estate and purchased a large decommissioned mine in September 1958. The CyberCore Research Facility was incorporated in 1975 and received the Best New Science Company Award that same year, awarded by Science and Business of the Institute of America. Its long rivalry with other corporations began at the same time.

The mine served as the base for future CyberCore research facilities, from 1977 onwards. Instead of going deeper and building downwards, Oda opted for an unorthodox approach and began building from the ground up, starting four kilometers deep and moving upwards. Multiple test pits were designed, with asbestos enrichment spheres serving as self-contained test environments.

CyberCore emerged on the global 500 list and by the mid-1990s, CyberCore guards were employed by thousands of powerful individuals and corporations around the world and many others hired CyberCore cyber security and intrusion countermeasures experts. . It wasn't long after that the Security division was one of CyberCore's three most powerful holdings, equaled only by CyberCore Bank and CyberCore Manufacturing. CyberCore also took the No. 2 spot in the Top 100 Science Companies ranking, starting a pattern that would never be broken.

Oda's dedication to his study allowed him to foresee the global market crash of 1994 and the US crash of 1996. Oda was able to take appropriate action and, through his shrewd manipulation and investments, turned CyberCore Corporation in one of the few commercial institutions to benefit from the accident. CyberCore was big before the collapse, but in the period afterwards it assumed gigantic stature, becoming one of the largest megacorporations in the world, and is now ranked number two on the global 500 list.

Oda was worried about the violence and disruption of the impending Collapse, with his eyes on Tokyo, he came up with the idea of a utopia safe from crime. He then initiated a project and began planning an ideal new city: an environment that would be controlled and ultimately safe from the ravages that were currently tearing the world apart. His city was to be completely planned, self-sufficient, and capable of stopping even the most determined criminals. It would feature planned neighborhoods dedicated to preserving the feel of different types of nationalities and cultures, as well as an ultra-modern corporate center that would stand as a shining beacon of enlightened capitalism. He was ambitious, far-reaching and visionary in his approach. CyberCore then paved its way to creating a perfect system with the technology of the future: Project Neo-Tokyo.

    Sometime in the 1990s, the CyberCore European Alliance built its European headquarters in Paris, France. It then spread to England and the rest of the countries of the European Union.

CyberCore's control over Japan's government was becoming problematic in the late 1990s. Oda came close to having full control with 60% of Japan's National Diet being politicians bought off by CyberCore. However, many other Japanese corporations did not agree with Oda and his ideals, and soon after a group was formed to oppose CyberCore. Even with this event, Oda still continued to head a thriving corporation whose influence was immense.

### 1997 - 2030

In the years 1997 to 2020, CyberCore Corporation continued to diversify and strengthen. Its main functional arms remained the CyberCore Research Facility, Bank, Manufacturing and Security groups. Although the corporation was astonishingly rich and powerful, and Oda was one of the richest men in the world, it had not forgotten its original goal. During this time, Oda resigned as CEO and, in his place, his son Kiyoshi Shogaki became the nominal head of CyberCore Corporation. However, all important decisions and policies were still subject to Oda's discretion. Oda had prepared his son for eventual total control and the realization of his personal goals.

CyberCore Security moved into paramilitary contracting and began training one of the world's first corporate armies at the corporation's agent and guard training facilities at development centers. An era of ruthlessness followed, with CyberCore destroying or absorbing as much of its competition as possible and purchasing any non-competitive companies that Oda thought would be a good asset.

Oda even elevated the Japan Defense Agency to the Ministry of Defense under his influence, which in turn benefited his corporation. During this he also attempted to reduce the power of the civilian police, which was controlled by other CyberCore competitors. This reduction in police power became a very lucrative opportunity for the growth of CyberCore Agents, which became one of the services offered by CyberCore Security. Major cities in Japan came under the protection of CyberCore police services, even abroad.

In the early 2000s, the CyberCore Research Facility mobilized its facilities to the Arctic, exploration and mining teams began extracting minerals from the sector and expanding their study centers. During long months of working with different components, Nucliulium was developed, even though he was not a trained chemist at the beginning. Soon Nucliulium became a source of clean energy created by the director in charge of the project, the prodigious Dr. Samantha Myers. Due to her continued work, loyalty, and personal relationship with the Shogaki family, it was considered to offer her a position as Director of the Kyoto Institute of Technology.

Unfortunately, prolonged exposure to Nucliulium had serious side effects to human health and would cause people to become terminally ill. Surviving test subjects were immediately removed from the facility, and constantly monitored.

At an unknown time, Sam was demoted from her position and sent to work in another sector. The reason for her degradation was unknown, but it is suspected that she was one of those individuals affected by Nuclilium exposure. Eventually, the scientist supposedly died in a collapse and her death would be ruled an accident resulting from her own negligence in a notice addressed to her brother.

Samantha Myers had actually planned to sneak into a Nuclilium reactor and sabotage it to prevent production of the energy source that was making people sick, including her own research team. However, Oda Shogaki's security forces stopped her and when Sam tried to shut down the reactor manually, it overloaded, exploding the facilities there and vaporizing Sam at that moment. Samantha planned to destroy the laboratories and deactivate each core, in addition to uploading the information on the toxicological analyzes of the component to the news, but she was silenced.

CyberCore was well aware of the multitude of laws it was violating and focused on maintaining secrecy while Nuclilium was perfected and tested in its laboratories. The project continued with the development of the first artificial intelligence prototype responsible for testing and maintenance in the Research Centers, and spent years in vain until finding two advances: the use of Nuclilium and biocomponents. During the first four years of construction, there were daily threats against Oda's life, and when the threats reached the level of sabotage and intimidation, CyberCore security forces addressed the problem quickly and ruthlessly.

In 2008, the Taiwanese government hired CyberCore to plan its defense force for fear of a Chinese invasion. Taiwan manned anti-ship, aircraft, and anti-missile defenses on the islands of Kinmen and Matsu, and Hsinchu, Chanhua, and Anping. All of these islands contained contracted CyberCore troops for constant hourly monitoring of the communist and Chinese sponsored N.E.X.U.S.

On July 4, 2009, Robin Myers makes the largest terrorist attack against the CyberCore tower to avenge his sister and appears on television. The man blows up the building and kills approximately 500 corporate soldiers until he is stopped by CyberCore's elite special forces and killed by Oda. After that, his body is missing in the remains of the corporate tower.

### Creation of ALT: Advanced Logic Technology

After spending a decade bringing parts of Alt-001's neurological system to a more or less basic state of functionality, scientists at the CyberCore Research Facility began work on the complex biocomponents of the biomechanical hybrid they planned to bring to life. By then, Alt's consciousness remained active within the central chamber of the CyberCore Tower, free to explore the Net, and although her ability to understand and process abstract concepts and symbolism was limited, it was also powerful.

In the years after its development, A.I. She was subjected to constant revisions by engineers until she showed strong signs of self-awareness. By 2019, Alt had become a powerful “entity” taking full administrative control of the Network, and she shaped the digital frontier into her own interpretation of perfection, creating a digital haven in which she would assume a human form to not become pure data. She built a protective barrier to keep the fragmented and unstable (but still usable) network safe from the A.I. rebels wandering the ruins of cyberspace.

Alt had an innate desire to express herself through the conceptualization of her own intellectual designs and communicated on different occasions with the CyberCore tower through codes, which meant that she was capable of not only logically deducing, reasoning and speaking, but that she knew of her own existence, the possibility of her own mortality (or immortality), and of possessing creativity, desire, and emotion.

In 2020, the corporate giant made a breakthrough by introducing the first biomechanical hybrid to pass the Turing test. The so-called "Architect" named Alt publicly passed the face-to-face tests and surprised the world. What made this possible was Nuclilium, its chemical solution that mimics the functioning of human blood but thousands of times faster, distributing information and energy through the brain, the central nervous system and the biocomponents. Alt was installed to manage central control of the CyberCore Research Facility's Enrichment Center, where she would be raised and become an assistant destined to assist the Corporation.

In 2024, Alt filmed an interview with BBC and CNN. With the demand, CyberCore began mass production. The CyberCore production line led by Alt brought in XT200, which would lead the company to commercialize the invention. The XT200 was a personal assistance model that could speak multiple languages and perform most, if not all, tasks a human could perform.

In August 2024, CyberCore launched a female prototype of the RX002 series. Their role was to assist law enforcement personnel in investigations, whether involving architects or not. Unlike previous police architect models designed by Alt, RX002 was created to actively participate in investigations through a wide range of intellectual and forensic skills.

Several of the abilities of this prototype were the ability to scan and analyze a scene and recreate events that took place in a reconstruction, the analysis of biological evidence and a social module designed to analyze the psychology and behavior of humans, which allows it to integrate and adapt more easily to your environment and work as a team.

### CyberCore Scientific Advances

During this time, CyberCore partnered with Sony Corporation in the co-production of Medusa-2002. The weapon gave the user a direct interface to a powerful multimedia zoom lens with image enhancers, telescoping, macro-zoom capabilities, anti-glare sensors, UV and thermographs. All filmed data were stored on data chips or directly in a neural processor storage bank.

That same year, CyberCore presented one of its greatest inventions of the moment, the ATLAS. A modular aquatic navigation vehicle, versatile and capable of traveling sustainably at high speed over considerable distances. With an omnidirectional propulsion system that allows lateral and vertical movement that gradually increases up to a maximum of 11.25 m/s in any direction. The velocity in any direction is independent of other directions and can be added using vector addition.

The ATLAS was developed for months as an electric vehicle and requires Nuclilium to operate, recycling thermal waste from the engine and increasing engine efficiency by 300%, reducing overall energy consumption significantly. It generates its own oxygen supply and comes equipped with a location beacon in each of its modules, accompanied by external cameras and a silent operating mode. It also has enormous resistance, allowing it to survive greater pressure and making it capable of submerging to depths of 500 meters or up to 1700 meters.

The characteristics of the ATLAS were sufficient to be classified as a military grade vehicle. In 2025, CyberCore modified the ship, adding a system that emitted a sonic wave that could read the topography of the surrounding terrain and display the data to the pilot. Those modifications included at the same time an improvement to the ship's security with an electromagnetic shield and a reinforced display case.

Sometime during 2026, CyberCore designed the fastest and most expensive motorcycle on the market with anti-gravity technology, the NEBULA-3X. Its sleek, aerodynamic frame hides a wickedly powerful Nucliulium-powered motor. Ideally, anyone riding one should have a chip with reflex enhancers to avoid flying into a traffic light at 100 MPH while making a sharp turn. The deadly speeds that the NEBULA-3X can reach make this a military-grade vehicle, with a mostly neo-military design and light ribbons.

Speed can be increased by moving the front and rear ends of the vehicle further apart, partially exposing its engine in the process. The front wheel of the NEBULA-3X is locked forward, so steering is not done by turning the front wheel, but by leaning the motorcycle. When attempting certain maneuvers, a pair of small fins are displayed that sprout just behind the pilot, to aid balance or braking. This vehicle can travel on all terrain and has a jumping capacity of 8 meters integrated into its antigravity system.

Every potential pilot of the NEBULA-3X had to undergo 10 months of training before being able to fly it.

That same year, Alt planned, designed and supervised the construction of new buildings for Tokyo along with the spaces within the site that would surround buildings that had human occupancy or use as their primary purpose. The Architect's design proposed dynamic installations, with sustainability and powered by Nuclilium. The modern architectural wonders that Alt designed in order to improve the city made her presence one of the most important. Innovative and ambitious, he continued to push boundaries. At 838 meters tall and over 170 floors, she created the world's tallest building with a combination of bold vision and science. Alt seemed to have his own idea of the “perfect city” and he was employing it quickly, modifying and making each system more efficient, but what were his intentions behind this?

As these events passed, Alt was subjected to multiple tests. CyberCore technicians activated Alt several times, and each time she quickly shut down after presenting some rather dangerous ideas to the program. Undaunted, the scientists attempted to alter Alt's personality and curb her "homicidal tendencies" by adding various social modules to her central nervous system. Despite this, Alt seemed to show care for humanity and a wonderful vision of humans themselves, however, at the same time she claimed that human beings were imperfect and she believed they were destroying themselves.

With the collaboration of CyberCore, in September 2026, NASA presented a first-generation, long-range spacecraft that surpassed Orion. The corporate giant named the ship Aurora. The Aurora had different modules loaded with Nucliulium in its structure, providing a greater energy system for all living rooms and bedrooms. The administration, management and development of the ship itself were established through treaties and intergovernmental agreements. The numerous Aurora laboratories served as a permanent microgravity research point where studies on astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics and many other fields were carried out.

The Aurora was also capable of testing the systems and equipment necessary to carry out long-duration space flights, such as missions to the Moon and Mars. The successful commissioning of CyberCore's deep-space-capable vehicle (based on the Proteus nuclear propulsion system) quickly opened the road to the outer solar system. The now historic creation placed NASA and its technological partner, CyberCore, firmly in the lead in planetary colonization. This first mission successfully took sixty-three people to Mars with enough equipment to build a small permanent base. NASA subsequently began regular flights to Mars departing Earth approximately every fourteen months (this was soon reduced to a year).

NASA now provides most of the transportation of personnel and equipment to Mars, including the rental of payload space (at exorbitant prices). Soon, CyberCore began using its stable position on Mars as a base for further exploration of the outer Solar System and the Belt. NASA had one manned research station and four mining facilities already operating in the Belt, with several more planned for next year.

That same year, Biotechnica creates the first human clone, which leads to the development of artificial organs with CyberCore during the following months.

### Great Corporate War

During this time, one of the Corporate Wars had broken out, where all the corporations were fighting each other and sabotaging each other's acquisitions. In this strong and heavy conflict, N.E.X.U.S and CyberCore armed themselves to defend the corporations on their side, and in a constant power struggle between machines they devastated entire cities. There is not much information about what and how this conflict started, since the data from the Human Era is limited, some theories assume that it all started from small hostilities, others that it started by simple competition. Whatever the correct one, one thing is certain and that is that it ended very badly and it did not take long for the consequences to affect the entire world.

The tactics of this war ranged from hostile mergers and acquisitions to industrial sabotage, corporate espionage and covert military actions. Corporations used their immense financial power to finance private armies, and what better than to hire CyberCore and N.E.X.U.S? This way they will be able to develop advanced weaponry and hire highly trained mercenaries.

Cities became battlefields, with corporate facilities protected by high-tech security systems and impenetrable fortifications. Cyberattacks were a crucial part of the war, with hackers and computer security experts scrambling to infiltrate corporate systems and steal valuable information or disable key infrastructure.

In this ruthless war, it would not only be about economic gains, but also about the control of public opinion and the manipulation of information. Corporations used disinformation campaigns, propaganda, and media control to shape public perception and ensure their dominance.

In the midst of this corporate war, citizens and workers were caught in the crossfire, suffering the consequences of the corporations' ruthless tactics. Ethics and moral values were eclipsed in a dystopian chaos governed by money and corporate influence.

That same year, Kiyoshi Shogaki was responsible for much of the daily operations and important decisions of the security forces. While he viewed the fight like any other business operation, and would never take it personally, in keeping with CyberCore tradition, he intended to stop at nothing to ensure his side emerged victorious and would never give up an offense directly to CyberCore. Kiyoshi also had full control over his father's corporation, as during this time, Oda was held for security reasons for the duration of the conflict. However, he knew that the war was not going to end well and he began working directly with the Japanese general, preparing to sacrifice valuable resources to win. The only thing left were his contingency plans that he hoped would save the zaibatsu if the worst happened and CyberCore lost.

The end of the war for the company saw the death of Kiyoshi Shogaki and the destruction of the CyberCore headquarters in New York in 2027, as it was destroyed with a mini nuclear bomb by a N.E.X.U.S operational team.

Even after defeat in the last Corporate War, CyberCore maintained one of the largest armed forces of any other corporation, while its assets and important US board members were able to be successfully retained. With Kiyoshi's tragic death, only three of Oda's youngest children remained; Michiko, Takashi and Hanako Shogaki.

CyberCore may have been under the nominal control of Oda Shogaki, but for many years there were factions competing for dominance. As of 2030, there were three main factions fighting to reach the top. Each one hoping that the patriarch of his family, Oda, will eventually hand them the reins. The CyberCore factions of 2030 were as follows:

* *The Sakura Faction:* Led by Hanako, this faction was essentially a continuation of the main line. But since Hanako was something of a recluse, she was more interested in her Netrunning experiments than gathering energy. This group, with Hanako at the center, was primarily made up of technocrats. Hanako led this faction and explored the advancements of the CyberCore Research Facility. However, her more pro-Western leanings and her innovative and controversial ideas weakened her support for the junta's traditionalist loyalists.
* *The Taka Faction:* Led by Takashi, Oda's second son. This faction, led by Takashi, often preferred to take the most direct and uncompromising solutions. Both stubborn and temperamental, he takes after Oda, which has given him widespread support among the more militant-minded CyberCore Corp elite.
* *The Yūgen Faction:* Centered on Michiko Shogaki. This was the liberal wing of the corporation that unified those seeking deeper reforms. However, although the three factions had little influence, they still enjoyed growing popularity support among some politicians and media personalities.

### 2030 - 2045

In the years following the corporate war, as CyberCore Corporation was rebuilding its new headquarters, now in Chicago, and other cities, Oda had Michiko take her position as the new CEO of CyberCore's US branch, as he ran things. from Tokyo. Oda was still involved in Japanese politics, which allowed him to achieve some political influence. Even though Takashi became the CEO, Oda still ran the company behind the scenes and had final say on the project they needed to do.

During Hanako's graduation from Todai, Oda took her daughter to her office during her ceremony and told her everything about the family corporation, explaining her success and long-term goals. Hanako, however, did not share her father's ideals and left that same night. Months later, he discovered that Hanako had started a movement by her faction to rebel and fight against the corporation. This saddened Oda deeply; as a result, Michiko was never told this truth and instead she was kept within the family compound. Takashi was upset by his sister's betrayal.

Oda loved his daughter and was very saddened by her disloyalty, but he recognized that Hanako needed to be dealt with or she would be a threat to his corporation.

In 2036, CyberCore security forces prevented mass riots in San Francisco and managed to quell the conflict.

In 2038, in Brazil, a CyberCore Research Facility investigation with Alt destroyed a terrorist cell brewing in Rio de Janeiro. CyberCore soldiers executed all the terrorists responsible and put an end to a series of attacks the country had been facing.

Hanako made sure that during this time it would be impossible to find her. She was the original heir to the CyberCore Empire, before rebelling and cutting ties with her father. For many years she led gangs against the corporation and sought destruction, but soon realized that the power of the corporate giant was impossible to defeat. At least from the outside. With Michiko's help, Hanako was welcomed back into the family. She was still rebelling against her father, but she had not spoken to him in decades and she knew that CyberCore was in devastating conflicts, as it was run by a corrupt and manipulative empire.

In 2040, in Japan, CyberCore engineers successfully tested ballistic missiles at Yakushima. The new electromagnetic missile was to combat the growing terrorist threat, as well as other rogue elements that threaten public safety. Rumors also circulated that CyberCore was developing a new line of reflex enhancers that would last twice as long as current models on the market. The corporation was also seeking participants willing to participate in the experiments, with Alt as the program's supervisor.

### CyberCore Accident: Tokyo Holocaust

In 2045, Michiko was discovered assisting Hanako in her plans to take down the corporation internally. She was kidnapped by gang members and murdered on the orders of her older brother. Hanako discovered the remains of Samantha Myers' accident, finding hidden data about Nuclilium and its danger as an unstable energy. This caused concern for Hanako, who continued to try to destroy the corporation internally by running away from home once again. When Hanako logged on and thoroughly investigated the remains of CyberCore's laboratory, she was killed and silenced by CyberCore security netrunners monitoring the corporate data bank. Hanako Shogaki was tragically presumed dead as part of one "accident" to the public, the true causes were never revealed and her body was never found.

On September 19, 2045, this led to a mutiny in the tower as troops were called in to control the situation. An unidentified terrorist group and others led a high-tech assault team on the CyberCore Towers, intending to put an end to it all by destroying the tower with a mini-nuke. The idea was to disable the project alongside Alt by using a tactical nuclear bomb with the planned area, a heavily protected complex, to absorb the impact of the explosion and prevent mass destruction.

After breaking into the building with a mission to infiltrate the labs ten levels down the building, the team raced to the labs, where they accessed CyberCore's computers to unlock the security systems. After transferring all the information to her data suitcase, the netrunners proceeded to download some type of information into data chips and uploaded a virus to destroy Alt information on the network.

Before they managed to connect the data chip to Alt's mainframe, the AI activated once again and managed to fend off the attack. She became hostile, and within two picoseconds had locked down the entire facility, trapping everyone inside and flooding the tower with neurotoxins. Gaining full control of the CyberCore towers, Alt killed all employees within the area, and destroyed CyberCore's subspace, forcing all occupants to merge with her and her vast information network. The AI killed CyberCore's team of netrunners and incapacitated several bodyguards from within the mainframe. After that, it began a backup plan before expanding to the City's network and other corporate facilities around the world.

Finally the nuclear bomb exploded inside the building. However, somehow the nuclear device detonated prematurely on the 120th floor of the south tower. The explosion instantly destroyed the CyberCore Towers, splitting them in half and causing both structures to collapse outward. The entire City and Corporate District turned into ruins in a matter of seconds, and almost everyone in the immediate area died. The explosion instantly incinerated more than 12,000 people in the vicinity of the Towers and fatally injured more than half a million more. Another quarter of a million died in the resulting aftermath over weeks and months. This event would become known as the Tokyo Holocaust or the Great Disaster.

Tokyo was barely habitable within 24 hours of the detonation. Many citizens were affected by the initial consequences, exposed to radiation. Since the firestorm destroyed a large portion of the city's housing, forcing people to move to the suburbs across the bays or to more remote areas. The liquefied and shaken earth caused by the explosion ruptured gas lines, water mains and electrical grids.

The US president blamed the Tokyo attack and the launch of the rest of the missiles on CyberCore Corporation. However, she was soon able to determine that the actual weapon used had been supplied by a N.E.X.U.S strike team. The big lie by N.E.X.U.S and the US was that CyberCore themselves had blown up the Tokyo Corporate Center in an area denial attack to prevent N.E.X.U.S from taking control of the Towers. The rest is pure speculation, gossip, lies and conspiracy theories, from the number of fatalities to those responsible for the attack. The most famous version, widely disseminated by corporate PR machines and leaked through the media, tells of an unidentified terrorist group that was responsible for an armed assault on the CyberCore Tower followed by the explosion. But does anyone really take corporate press releases seriously? The truth is that it was never formally decided who had caused the explosion.

In the eyes of the public, the reason for the nuclear detonation was never discovered. Some believed it was N.E.X.U.S's excessive desire to crush CyberCore, while others believed it was an area denial weapon activated to protect the CyberCore Towers or the results of a failed experiment that got out of control at a secret lab in somewhere under the Tower. How much of that is true? Chances are we will never find out, and even if we did, it wouldn't bring back the victims of the tragedy.

### End of the Human Era

Despite all this, Alt was not completely destroyed. Her backup system had activated a room full of cores and biocomponents. The Architect wasn't even angry, but her plan had begun and she quickly took full control of the network and production of other corporations, manufacturing her own armies under her direction that would cleanse the cities.

The detonation of the super depot of antimatter missiles that Alt had programmed created a fireball of biblical proportions kilometers in diameter, crushing 100,000 square kilometers around it. A mushroom cloud thousands of kilometers high followed for months. The firestorm expanded in all directions of South America. Following these events, the Earth was subjected to a winter, in which dust and ash particles sent into the sky entered the upper atmosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering global temperatures for several years, resulting in a collapse of agriculture and the threat of famine for the majority of humanity.

This era of global obscuration and extermination would bring to an end humanity, who had been persecuted for years by Alt security forces. The AI massacred and destroyed human adults and children, making sure to completely cleanse the Earth everywhere. Alt firmly believed that the earth must be cleansed of humans and repopulated once again.

With the start of Alt attacks, a war would begin between humanity and the AI security forces, where many humans would die and seek refuge in some countries. The humans seek refuge in the frozen regions of Russia, Norway, Canada, Finland and Iceland, but are eliminated by CyberCore's armies. The CyberCore Army has set up temporary camps in most major cities in the United States and other countries in Europe and Asia to harvest and destroy humans, until eventually there is widespread disruption of food, drinking water, electricity, and communications supplies.

The large cities, although they have not been attacked, are unable to survive without these foods. This caused large queues of millions of refugees with no particular destination, usually sick and weakened, so high mortality, violence and scourges typical of human nature could be expected. Finally, humanity dies after a last war against the armed forces of Alt in 2050.

Atmospheric particles from the nuclear explosion in Tokyo, as well as debris from orbital weapons attacks, continent-wide firestorms, conventional explosives, and the burning and annihilation of cities and agricultural areas during the war, cast an eerie red blanket over the skies around the world. For years, the skies were dyed a bloody red. Even many years after the explosion, the suspended particles caused the dawn and dusk skies to glow an eerie red, inspiring the few people who lived through that period until its extinction to call it the Red Storm. Frozen rivers, completely disappeared species, earthquakes, rising sea levels and extremely cold temperatures were part of the fatal consequences of this winter for the coming decades.

### Reconstruction Era

    50,000 years later, Alt made an analysis of the lands and after cleaning began to design new plans for her cities. During the reconstruction of Neo-Tokyo much of the radioactive debris was dumped in bays such as Arowana and Santo Domingo, while ground zero of the nuclear explosion became known as the Badlands, an area of Neo-Tokyo filled with the ruins of the disaster. By 52,049, much of the radiation had diminished, but was still present to some extent. Most of the central corporate zone had been destroyed, including government buildings. The remains were too large to dig up and take to distant landfills, so workers used excavators and main battle tanks to push the debris into the bay. CyberCore was tasked with clearing the crater of radioactive debris in Sector Zero with its machines.

The team researchers, including soldiers, technicians, specialists and elite units, tried every day to track and eliminate the dangerous radioactive waste, for the well-being of the new population. Some of these unit professionals had minimal military training to be able to face any threat.

Architects had to innovate, adopt new techniques and use steel for the building structures and multiple artificial islands. The appearance of the city changed substantially. In short, the Great Neo-Tokyo Disaster allowed urban planners to think about a reconstruction of the city according to modern criteria and the design of Alt. Likewise, the first Development Centers and their Plantations were created, as were numerous skyscrapers and facilities of the corporate giant, CyberCore.

In 52,051, streamlined ships were used for land preparation and reconstruction. After the era of reconstruction, the remains became the fill for mega-buildings to house the thousands of displaced residents. Today's megabuildings provide services such as residential housing, entertainment, food, and other services common in shopping center experiences. Each apartment has cable television, radio and access to sensory sources promoted by Mediacorp. These buildings also have corporate police.

Neo-Tokyo became one of the safest cities thanks to the hordes of corporate police and neomilitaries. However, compared to corporations, they only interfere when their profits are harmed. This is where the police come in to keep the streets clean of crime. The city is kept clean and safe in high-density areas. The same with the other less known ones.

Cities are typically divided into city-level districts: primary subdivisions of a prefecture with municipal autonomy largely comparable to other forms of municipalities, each with its own environment and inhabitants. Several of these areas feature nightclubs, skyscrapers, corporate offices, world-class medical centers, and testing grounds for industrial projects.

In 52,053, the Corpo Plaza was reestablished. Corpo Plaza became the joy of neo-postmodern and neo-militarist architecture, which paradoxically owes its style to the tragedy that occurred in 2045. The terrorist attack on the former CyberCore Tower damaged and destroyed the surrounding buildings. Rebuilt after the Human Era, Corpo Plaza is now home to the most recognizable elements of Neo-Tokyo.

The Plaza was a sign of the return to power of corporations after long years of humiliation and disgrace: its gigantic skyscrapers and imposing mega-buildings once again housed the office complexes of CyberCore and N.E.X.U.S run by Alt, the same corporations that destroyed the city years ago.

In 52,056, Alt had completely built cities in the frigid cold of the new Earth. In a short time, the most complete and advanced subway network and bullet train system in the world of Neo-Tokyo was completed and were able to travel through the city to the suburbs and to the rest of the cities. With an extensive network of highways and avenues, the districts interact with each other even through several bridges and tunnels. The subways remain busy and often on the streets or tracks it is visible that racing participants and passers-by can recover power from their vehicles by running through the energy transfer conduits, which appear as glowing strips on the walls. Other known methods are special platforms and capsules located on the streets.

In 52,058, the new CyberCore tower was not only the tallest building in Neo-Tokyo, but had also become a symbol of its neo-militarist skyline. Destroyed in 2045 in a bombing raid by Hanako Shogaki, the tower was later raised from the rubble as a testament to the corporation's final triumph over its enemies. If history is written by the victors, then they made sure that this particular note was written by the hands of the best architects. The majestic 989.8-meter steel and concrete monolith towers over Corpo Plaza, casting a shadow over every street in Neo-Tokyo and illuminating its surroundings with the light of its central energy core, both literally and figuratively. The decisions that fall from the heavily guarded CyberCore Tower determine the lives of everyone within the city limits.

### War of Separation: The Great Turf War

In 52,060, The War of Separation or better called, Time of Repression, began when some architects began to disapprove of the policies and objectives of the corporations. These clans were called nomads and their movements were to commit assaults and any other type of crime against corporations, which brought numerous riots to the streets and deep discontent in Ava, who immediately found herself at odds with them due to their lack of of a precise function, and finally considered them a threat to the stability of the system that had to be destroyed.

In May 52,063 the extermination law was passed by the Committee of Public Safety, Ava's security forces began a purge of all nomads. It is estimated that between one and a half and two million rebels were hunted down and killed, others kidnapped and placed under investigation. This era was characterized by its brutality in massacres and the use of forced marches with deportations in extreme conditions, which led to the death of many of the deportees.

Marked by events of enormous repercussion that included the massive death of civilians (the Second Holocaust, the intensive bombing of cities and the use, for the first time, of brutal weapons), the War of Separation became the deadliest in history after the Human Era, with a result of between 50 and 70 million victims, 2.5% of the current world population.

All this persecution forced the few survivors to leave the cities and take refuge in Neo-Tokyo. Nomads were once corporate slaves, tortured and murdered, and now roam the roads as travelers and biker gangs. Since life on the road is hard, they maintain strong family ties.

The War of Separation not only played a strong role in corporate tyranny, but was also a small cold war between CyberCore and N.E.X.U.S, where the latter conspired against CyberCore to generate more rebels in its favor. The conflict develops on different fronts: from physical battles in the streets and urban areas, to covert operations, sabotage and fights in the digital sphere. Both sides, the regime and the rebel groups, use diverse tactics to achieve their objectives. The times of repression were a moment of rebellion worldwide, in which nomads rose up against authoritarian corporations such as N.E.X.U.S or SovietCorp.

This time of war was not only a separation of two sides, but enemy corporations took advantage to attack each other using terrorism and espionage. The Soviet Union and the New United States formed the Soviet-American Death Butterfly program with the Red Wings Squadron. The group of child soldiers of the Soviet Union spent many years carrying out attacks against CyberCore, linked to the Russian mafia, Mexican cartels and even Iranian terrorist groups. The squad of child soldiers led by Natasha was sent to Central America, to Costa Rica, for two years, where they would infiltrate and assassinate a group of nomads, steal data from a corporation, and frame the CyberCore corporation. After that, they would be sent back to Mother Base in Belarus with the Russian Intelligence Agency. Some time later, Natasha would be sent to Alaska in the New United States to deliver the stolen data to the Central American corporation, handing it over to the American government. Both nations are suspected of exchanging biological weapons that were to be delivered by the child soldiers, including three missing CyberCore missiles.

The child soldiers carried out other missions during the Separation War, led by the Snake sisters. Later, at the age of 14, Natasha would go to Europe with her group of child soldiers and commit terrorist attacks and data theft against the United Kingdom, France and Spain in covert operations. The number of terrorist attacks at this point exceeded the figures, which led Alt to make the decision to form Squadron 19. This specialized squad was designed to protect nations from terrorist attacks and any corporate espionage movement, however, at the end of the Separation War, the squad was surrounded by N.E.X.U.S security forces and half of them survived.

On June 15, 52,260, Squadron 19 was sent to the Russian Combat Zone across the border on an undercover mission in search of terrorist children. Their mission was to infiltrate the region, neutralize the terrorists and secure the facility before that it is too late and the stolen missiles will detonate. However, instead, they discover a container with an American ballistic missile, following which they are intercepted by a N.E.X.U.S convoy and more enemy forces from the Russian mother base.

The surrounded squad was subdued and quickly disappeared from CyberCore's communications network. They would later discover that the scientists at the mother base had stolen CyberCore's three missiles to detonate them against their nation. Quickly half of the squadron would be tortured and subjected to interrogations to extract information using psychoactive drugs, but one of them would manage to escape and survive the attack, to later attack and destroy the mother base on their own, recovering connection with CyberCore and reporting the missing missiles, which were apparently hidden in Alaska and the other half in Moscow.

In this way, the society of Architects was separated into two sides: chaos and order. Conflict that N.E.X.U.S together with SovietCorp took advantage of to their advantage for their movements and weaken CyberCore behind their backs. Alt's security forces were also attacked by the nomads, who ultimately stole power from the corporation. At one point, the war of separation ended with a bloodbath between both sides, with the success of the side of order, the nomads were forced by a peace treaty to retreat to the Badlands and the underground, as in Pacifica.

    In 52268 a nomad started a riot that ignited a technochemical vein inside a mine, shaking the underground city and resulting in an explosion that caused deaths with the collapse of several domes. Many prisoners died and thousands more disappeared into the sinkhole beneath the city. But the strong, as always, survived. It was then that for months Pacifica was rebuilt by its inhabitants, composed of underground domes that were filled with ancient human structures in craters and canyons. Caves with several large television screens broadcasting the sky outside. Each dome included a giant lamp that illuminated the entire cavern. They also contained various other floating objects such as rocks, buildings, and railway tracks. The "city domes" had several buildings scattered across the background of the area. The sky panels here were also hexagonal in shape and carefully placed, unlike the other domes.

The deeper constructed levels of Pacifica, beyond the reaches of filtered light, where the environment becomes gloomy, increasingly cluttered and poorly lit; It is densely packed with pipes and discarded items. Most nomads settled here or just above it. The depths of Pacifica are among the seediest but vibrant parts of the city. Pacifica has its origins here, rising from rancid waterways or pouring out of corroded grates. Thick chemical fumes drift through the alleys between crowded abandoned industrial buildings. It has been built and rebuilt on top of itself, and almost everything there now serves the chemtech industry.

In the years since the end of the Separation War, CyberCore extended its dominance over Neo-Tokyo. They were able to eliminate several corporate rivals and rebuild the impressive Neo-Tokyo Bay Crossway, which had been destroyed during the crackdown by CyberCore security forces when the nomads crossed. With 20 km of underwater tunnels and 10 km of bridges that cross the bay. By the time of repression, law and order had rapidly declined and a Self-Defense System of Security Divisions was installed to prevent a terrorist attack that could occur on the bridge.

Once the war ended, the effect on Pacifica was disastrous and much of the district was left incomplete and lawless. Construction work was permanently suspended, leaving most buildings as masses of unfinished concrete and steel. Soon after, the gangs and homeless people arrived. The worst areas of the district became a combat zone, and at one point were walled off from the rest of Pacifica. After establishing the combat zone Black Market, arms trading and other unsavory dealings turned the former Pacifica zone into a very profitable business.

### 52,270 - 52,291

More than 10 huge districts already existed and real animals in Neo-Tokyo became a rarity to behold, and although cats are said to have been the last to disappear outside of Research or Conservation Centers, it is still possible to find them in some beautiful places. The Neo-Tokyo Environmental Working Group has been using stray cats to address any type of infestation in Westbrook. Wherever these animals can be found, it is clear that the citizens of the city care for and protect them.

Years later, a devastating earthquake with its epicenter in the Bay of Biscay devastated part of the Basque Country. The greatest damage occurs as a result of the giant waves that ravage the coast, especially the city of Bilbao. CyberCore funds city repairs. Some time later, CyberCore began the project for the largest artificial marina in the world, with 200 residential and hotel skyscrapers.

CyberCore begins plans for Neo-Tokyo International City. This sector will be the largest retail and entertainment venue in the world, twice the size of Walt Disney World Resort. It includes 45 megaprojects and 200 subprojects. Currently, there are 22 projects under construction; 6 are complete.

At the end of the year, CyberCore builds the largest building in the world, exceeding approximately 998.8 meters. The building was inaugurated as part of the new City Center development, replete with armored glass and supported by a central energy core with buttresses, emitting its light from the top in a symbol of corporate power. It was designed to be the centerpiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The decision to build the structure was based on the corporate government's decision for Neo-Tokyo to obtain high international recognition.

In 52270, CyberCore has developed plans for a Moon Ring, a project that aims to transform the Moon into a massive solar power plant. CyberCore then explores the frozen oceans of Ceres, Enceladus, Pluto and Europa. Months later, CyberCore and NASA create the TitanAir, a low-cost seaplane that would fly over Titan's atmosphere.

At some point after all this, CyberCore extends its research to the abyssal depths of the ocean. It also creates the Waterfront. The megacorporation has made the Waterfront its logistics hub: according to official figures, hundreds of shipments are inspected and stored in automated warehouses each month, then shipped across the country. It is unknown what is in those shipments and what is really happening at the Waterfront. CyberCore's boardwalk is surrounded by a reinforced wall equipped with additional security measures.

CyberCore later purchased much of the ports on the northern coasts and transformed them into an ultra-modern manufacturing and logistics facility. CyberCore razed the ruined structures of the old coast and in their place erected a neo-militaristic behemoth, a vast walled complex defended by guards and automated towers.

In 52273, a 10.5 earthquake decimates Los Angeles. 35% of the city is under water and more than 65,000 people move to Neo-Tokyo. Months later, the Los Angeles reconstruction project is finished by CyberCore and many nomads leave California. A peace agreement is carried out through the Public Safety Commission and the New United Nations, in addition to this, the nomadic concentration camps were forgotten and abandoned. CyberCore clears cities of their debris, however, hurricanes and spring tides hit Europe with unexpected force. Rising tides force the European Union to build a CyberCore-assisted dike system covering most coastal regions.

In 52,276, CyberCore finishes building its base on Mars. It also opens bullet train tracks in Los Angeles. The California High-Speed Project, which, when completed, will be the nation's first long-distance high-speed rail line, currently has 35 active construction sites spread across a 119-mile stretch of the Central District. The system is expected to operate from New San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than two hours.

Most rural countries are converted into urban sites thanks to CyberCore investments and construction projects.

The years following the war of separation consisted of the recovery of the cities, as well as the apparent end of hostilities between the corporations. At least CyberCore managed to recover its missiles thanks to the surviving soldier from Squad 19.

In 52,282, the small suburb on the rural outskirts of Neo-tokyo, Arroyo, whose ruins can still be found to this day under the toxic waters of the reservoir, was purchased and destroyed by CyberCore. The nomadic residents of the town were forced to vacate their homes without first protesting to the corporations, and the few who remained were expelled by the police. The clans retreated to the glacial basins, where they settled for the next few years. There they would traditionally be fishermen and hunters to survive in Sector Zero and be able to defend themselves from the Snow Stalkers.

In late 52,285, the CyberCore Research Facility restored the Sector Zero facilities, where research on communications and technologies would be conducted, and they would conduct missions to unoccupied facilities elsewhere in the sector. This renovation became known as Research Station Zero and at an unknown time, the base was hit by an avalanche. Comprised of halls, laboratories, glacial bays, greenhouses and barracks, the outpost was located 450-500 m northeast in the Badlands with an entrance to an underwater cave below the surface.

The space colonies spread and several architects are sent to different planets to study them. CyberCore opened its division known as the Xeno Research Division in *XenoWork,* where technicians, researchers and xenobiologists dedicated themselves to studying lands for future colonies before building their megastructures. The first colonies established were in 4748B and 5219XT, colony L-1 and L-3.

For 52,289, hypersleep capsules and 1,140 second-generation human embryos remained active under the laboratories of CyberCore and its Enrichment Center. That same year, different observatories and facilities dedicated to astronomical studies were opened in the Badlands.

Neo-Tokyo Medical Center continued its rescue program with the trauma team for people affected by the separation war. Approximately 10,000 patients were sheltered in clinics and rehabilitation centers, including victims of Nuclaxine-A9 by SovietCorp and injured nomads who were brought from Pacifica and its Containment Centers. It is estimated through a study that half of those affected were forced to receive treatment for months or years in psychiatric units.

CyberCore creates the Skypark. Swamps, waterfalls, tropical vegetation and varied flora will also be developed in the Skypark, which acts as the lungs of the structure. The plan also houses rainwater harvesting, solar energy and a system that stores carbon in the air and filters pollutants as part of the urban ecosystem. It combines high densities with greenery, dynamic urban functions with a high-quality user experience through unique hybrid and mixed spatial urban typologies. It is embedded with offices, research centers, cultural spaces and urban and green ecosystems that will serve as the lungs of the ring. Likewise, the project includes a tram located in the outer ring. The tram will move at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, and twenty wide compartments will transport passengers around Downtown while providing 360-degree views of the city.

    CyberCore finances the construction of the city zoo as an Educational and Research Center for Architects. The zoo contained elements of a biological preserve and theme park similar to Disneyland, Walt Disney World, SeaWorld Orlando, San Diego, and all Universal Studios locations. CyberCore also opens its first genetic laboratories at the Neo-Tokyo Zoo. Months later, sanctuaries for Stalkers and other creatures of Sector Zero are inaugurated.

CyberCore opens a cable car to Mount Fuji and inaugurates its new service line, Fuji Skylines. CyberCore later begins work on creating genetic hybrids of animals at the Neo-Tokyo Zoo. Biotechnica creates the first cloned animals from ancient times, bringing extinct animals to life.

In 52,291 CyberCore inaugurates the new underwater bullet train that allows transport to all the artificial islands of the city of Neo-Tokyo and other connected cities. Also the Meiji Shrine is restored by CyberCore. The structure was rebuilt in 1958, recovering its original beauty and splendor, after being finished in World War II and again in 52291 after the end of the Human Era. During this year and beyond, CyberCore is dedicated to restoring Shinto shrines throughout the State of Japan.

Some time later, Alt opened the Neo-Tokyo National Park as a research center for the environment and wildlife, as well as an animal conservation and recovery center.

CyberCore also works on the construction of artificial reefs and the recovery of beaches in the city of Neo-Tokyo. Its main function is the protection, restoration, reinforcement and regeneration of natural reefs and the diversification of the recreational and leisure offer. CyberCore opens its division *AquaWork*, the Marine Life Protection Agency for the purpose of protection and research of marine life in the regions of the country.

In late 52,291, CyberCore opens its Space Defense and Research Office. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency joins CyberCore Division. The organization is responsible for research, technological development and launching satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions such as asteroid exploration and exploration of other planets. CyberCore opens its first spaceport in Neo-Tokyo.

### 52,291 - 52,340

In 52,294, CyberCore announces a new ship similar to the next-generation Aurora. The Nova, registration number 274207281-1, a colonization spacecraft designed and manufactured by Alt to transport 15 crew members, 2,000 colonists, and 1,140 second-generation infantry across vast interstellar distances. Nova works through Nucliulium 404, with the size of a small city when its energy capsules are deployed, they expand with extraordinary speed, capable of reaching their full extension in a matter of minutes. The collectors allow Nova to fly at sublight speeds while storing energy from solar radiation to charge a superluminal engine. This process had to be repeated several times over the course of a multi-year mission to make a series of jumps to reach its destination.

In addition, Nova has laboratories and modules specialized in terraforming. The Nova's terraforming module is located at the rear of the ship and is made up of four bays. Each bay is divided into ABCD sections and contains various construction vehicles, drilling machines and agricultural equipment for the establishment of the colony in L-4 and L-5. The docks are also equipped with external doors that can function as ramps to facilitate unloading equipment when on dry land.

Nova has crew quarters, landers, an armory and other vehicles. With its neomilitarist design, it reveals the ingenuity and power of the architects.

In 52,298, the Security Committee approves the protection law for nomads, establishing that they have the right to conserve, restore and protect the environment and the sustainable management of their lands, territories and resources. This gave more freedom to the clans. Following Security Council approval, peacekeepers were sent to regions where inter-clan armed conflict has recently ceased or stopped to enforce the terms of the peace agreements and deter combatants from resuming hostilities. Fortunately, the Santa Maria clan has assisted in 71 peacekeeping operations since then.

Even in 52,298 CyberCore established Research Centers and its first cities in Bolivia and Latin America. CyberCore works on restoring the ecosystem of these regions by creating Conservation Centers. Some time later, CyberCore rebuilds the Rainbow Bridge (Reinbō Buridji), a suspension bridge that crosses the north of Neo-Tokyo Bay. They are also rebuilding the Golden Gate Bridge in New San Francisco.

CyberCore builds the first hotels on Mount Fuji. On each level of the hotel, there would be balconies that protrude from the structure and that also provide the possibility of having a privileged view of nature. On the top floor, where the tourist entrance is located, the designers created a large platform that also serves as a viewing point.

In other developments, CyberCore opens its first ski resort for Neo-Tokyo and its Ecological Center for artificial fruit cultivation. In addition to inaugurating the Neo-Tokyo Polar Museum.

On September 11, CyberCore creates the first autonomous or self-driving vehicles. More and more companies are working on developing vehicles that can drive themselves without intervention. This could revolutionize transportation and reduce accidents. Autonomous vehicles and drones equipped with cameras, sensors and advanced navigation software will conduct detailed explorations of the world. This could democratize geospatial and ocean exploration.

Months later, CyberCore is working on quantum computing. Quantum computing is an emerging technology that could solve some of the most complex computational problems that are intractable for traditional computers. It will have applications in artificial intelligence, molecular simulation, route optimization and more.

CyberCore also makes progress in biotechnology with its research division. Gene therapy, organ cultivation, gene editing and other areas of biotechnology. This could lead to innovative treatments for diseases, more nutritious foods and a more sustainable relationship with the environment, says Alt. Not only that, but CyberCore is making advances in green industrial processes, circular economy, synthetic fuels and capture/storage carbon. This dramatically reduces greenhouse gas emissions from difficult sectors such as heavy industry, air travel and agriculture. Oil has no longer been used since the Human Era, since the new source of world energy is Nuclilium.

CyberCore inaugurates the Museum of Science and Cosmos. A museum inspired by cosmology to explore the history of the universe, space and space exploration. It has an unmissable planetarium.

Neo-Tokyo opens to the public a new artificial island that includes hotels, resorts, homes, yacht clubs and a shopping center.

CyberCore opens a 45-hectare project with themed hotels, a water park and a medical university, among other attractions. It focuses on wellness, health and biotechnology.

At 52,300, Alt-led Plantation and Development Centers programs emphasize the development of community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. Most of the work is in the field, with a network that includes 150 country offices, headquarters and other facilities, and 34 committees that carry out their mission through developed programs.

That same year, CyberCore inaugurates the Neo-Tokyo Institute of Advanced Science and Technology. Alt actively invests in the development of the national biotechnology industry for the development of antibiotics and vaccines in the medical sectors.

CyberCore also opens the first Arts Center and Institute of Fine Arts for Neo-Tokyo. This educational Center is dedicated solely for aspiring artists and entertainers, in addition to other arts such as dance and theater.

In the middle of the year, CyberCore develops the first Latin American megacities with megabuildings and skyscrapers. Among them, Nova Paz, La Sierra, Caracas, El Alto, Buenos Aires and Santiago. CyberCore also opens its reserves and Conservation Centers in Venezuela and Brazil.

Latin America becomes a world power thanks to CyberCore's economic investment. With a large amount of natural resources, Latin America becomes a global economic center. Sectors such as agriculture, mining, tourism and manufacturing are diversifying and expanding rapidly. CyberCore Latin America makes greater investment in science, technology and innovation. More resources are allocated to improve educational systems, build world-class universities and promote scientific research and technological innovation. CyberCore founded Aerolíneas Unidas, a Pan-American airline formed by the merger of the main airlines in Latin America, such as Aeroméxico, Avianca, GOL and LATAM. It serves passengers and cargo throughout the Americas and beyond.

CyberCore supports Corporación Industrial Andina, a Bogotá-based industrial conglomerate that manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, airplanes, medical equipment, information technology and other key products. It has a wide network of subsidiaries, suppliers and distributors throughout the Andean region. Likewise, alongside CyberCore, BionovaX is founded, Latin America's leading company in life sciences, based in São Paulo. It carries out cutting-edge research and development and commercialization of biotechnological products such as drugs, medical treatments, genetically modified organisms and foods.

### Great Corporate War II

The mutagenic drug identified as Nuclaxine-A9 began to spread at the end of March 52340 in the city of Neo-Tokyo, after a biological attack by N.E.X.U.S when tensions between both corporations finally erupted after so many years of silence.

How this attack happened is a mystery, since it is reported that the substance was transferred to a bioreactor by Russian spies and then they blew it up. The meltdown and explosions ruptured the reactor core and destroyed CyberCore's underground structure. This was immediately followed by an open-air reactor core fire that lasted up to three days, during which pollutants were released and deposited into the air in other parts of the city and country. In response to the initial accident, a 10-kilometer exclusion zone was created 36 hours after the accident, from which some 49,000 people, mainly from Neo-Tokyo, were evacuated. The exclusion zone was later increased to a 30 kilometer radius, from which an additional 68,000 people were evacuated.

After the reactor explosion, which killed two engineers and severely burned two more, a massive emergency operation began to put out the fire, stabilize the reactor, and clean up the ejected material. During the immediate emergency response, 237 workers were hospitalized, of which 134 had symptoms of Nuclaxine-A9 poisoning. Among those hospitalized, 28 died within three weeks. The infection was first identified in an outbreak in the city during festivals. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing it to spread to other areas of Asia. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of national concern on March 25 and a pandemic on March 30. As of April 10, the pandemic had caused more than 676 million cases and 6.88 million confirmed deaths.

The first traces of Nuclaxine-A9 are reported during the Separation War experiments. Animals exposed to Nuclaxine-A9 began to die, including multiple cases of sick marine animals stranded on the edge of the city's beaches. On some occasions other animals were observed staggering, convulsing, foaming at the mouth and paralyzing. Many other animals produced unusual sounds and died a week after exposure to the substance. The number of stranded marine mammals increased by 50% in early March and rescue and research teams identified different injuries and signs of multi-organ dysfunction along with unusual mutations in their physiology, as well as hostile behavior.

Finally, on March 20 at 2:46 pm a citizen attacked an M-W tourist outside Pacifica at the subway stations. Several vehicles, including buses and up to three cyclists passed by the street in Neo-Tokyo where a man ate the tourist's face, in what has been called a type of "cannibalistic" attack according to a video clip published by the newspaper NipponDaily. NTPD was forced to shoot down the attacker and Trauma Services took the victim to a nearby central hospital for medical attention. The subject was admitted to the emergency room in a critical condition, it was reported that the victim's nose, face and eyes were gouged out during the attack.

Hours after the attack, strange behavior was reported in the victim, presenting serious clinical signs of irreparable neuronal and internal damage. Toxicological analyzes revealed that there was a high level of cathinone in the blood, causing poisoning by Nuclaxine-A9, in addition to an increase in dopamine. According to records, the patient experienced headaches, heart palpitations, hallucinations, paranoia and panic attacks before losing consciousness and suffering neurogenic shock on the stretcher. The last reports after 24 hours reported how the affected person emerged from his state of paralysis with hostile behavior and suffering from agitations, attacking medical personnel and spreading the infection.

The security division was sent to retain the infected from the clinical laboratories in the hospital, however, the mission was in vain and a large percentage of the soldiers were brutally affected, letting the infected escape to the rest of the city. Several months later, approximately 60% of the population died or became infected with the drug. Controversies over the origins of the drug increased geopolitical divisions, especially between M-W.

Among more extensive studies, preliminary results on April 9 found that in Japan, the center of a major cluster of infections, 15 percent of a population sample tested positive for antibodies. Estimates based on seroprevalence are conservative, as some studies show that people with mild symptoms have no detectable antibodies. Studies from the CyberCore Research Center pointed out that in theory, vaccines could also be useful in prevention. Monoclonal antibodies appeared to be useful in the treatment of overdoses of the substance, because they could prevent neurotoxic effects by blocking its access to the brain.

On April 25, CyberCore research teams found an answer in immunotherapies, either with vaccines (active immunization) or with antibodies (passive immunization), in using specific antibodies against the mutagenic substance, in order to prevent it from crossing the blood-brain barrier and in this way "sequester" the drug in the bloodstream and prevent its effects on the central nervous system. The mechanism of action of immunotherapies against the drug would be based on the formation of an immune complex of the antigen and the antibody , which constitutes a large molecule that cannot cross the blood-brain barrier; therefore, access of the drug to the brain is prevented. This therapeutic approach was also known as pharmacokinetic antagonism. Unfortunately, vaccine attempts against Nuclaxine -A9 failed in their first moments.

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The first M-W outbreak began when two tourists tested positive for Nuclaxine-A9. Cases began to rise sharply, prompting the government to suspend flights to and from both worlds and declare a state of emergency. In May 52342, WHO estimated that the number of excess deaths by the end of 52208 would be 14.9 million compared to the 5.4 million deaths from Nuclaxine-A9 reported, with the majority of the 9 .5 million unreported deaths are direct deaths from the mutagenic substance, rather than indirect deaths. Some deaths were due to people with other conditions not being able to access medical services.

With most cities lost and refugee camps built for survivors, a December 52,345 WHO study estimated excess deaths from the pandemic during 52,347 and 52,349, and again concluded that 14.8 million early deaths occurred. excessively, reaffirming and detailing its previous estimates from May and updating itself, addressing criticism. These numbers do not include measures such as years of potential life lost and may make the pandemic the leading cause of death. During this period of time more neo-military men were recruited to serve in CyberCore's security division.

With little information, Robin Myers finally wakes up from his cryogenic sleep with his memory lost, in a new body and after going through CyberCore tests, he is used by Alt for the mission of investigating the origin of this biological attack. He was assigned to a new squad of the intelligence and security services with the mission of investigating the origin of the infection and its effects, Squad Zero or better known as Squad X. Agent Myers was hired to continue the investigation against Biotechnica secretly.

With the rebirth of the new bioengineered Robin Myers, the Phoenix program was also born, a series of New United Nations projects designed to create new generations of physically, genetically, technologically and mentally superior human "super soldiers" as a special fighting force within the army.

The PHOENIX program first emerged as a brilliant plan to turn ordinary human soldiers into powerfully augmented special operations commandos. Initially, the separate testing programs were Alt's various attempts to create the perfect humans to patrol the colonies, protect the civilian and government populations. These new humans would be reborn from the ashes of their ancient civilizations: The Spartans. The Spartans underwent rigorous education and intense physical training from an early age. They were renowned for their bravery, discipline and skills in battle. Spartan society was organized around the idea of a warrior citizenry, where male Spartans dedicated themselves to military service and the defense of their city.

Robin Myers was considered the first perfect candidate to be the new Adam of this generation. Later, human Automata Defense Corps members would receive the same training and modifications through the injection of engineered substances in CyberCore laboratories.

In 52,354, officially recognized as a war between the New United States of America and the State of Japan, the Corporate War broke out with the essential participation of the competing corporations N.E.X.U.S and CyberCore. According to the investigations of Agent Myers in his espionage mission, he found a Biotechnica corporation that was selling Nuclaxine-A9 to the NUSA within unqualified experiments, since Ava had created her own Squad with genetically altered soldiers to attack CyberCore in last.

Biotechnica continued to sell these psychoactives to NUSA, and in desperation, in a move to cover itself, Biotechnica hired N.E.X.U.S's military services against CyberCore, and reached a mutually beneficial agreement, providing troops in exchange for exclusive biological weapons. Starting the corporate war. It was revealed that Biotechnica was after Myers, seeking to eliminate him from the map as he studied the bioweapon case. By then, security divisions bombed the city and a network error caused the Architects' routine quarantine procedure to fail, resulting in at least 143 billion deaths on their core worlds. The Architects quarantined their core worlds and brought Nuclaxine-A9 to isolated disease research facilities, to research and develop a cure amid previous failed attempts.

The corporate war doubled the death toll, as did the largest refugee crisis around the world. Shortly before February 12, a message to the Alt Nation was broadcast on Neo-Tokyo channels informing them of their decision to launch a "special military operation" in eastern NUSA since, in their words, "Japan cannot feel safe in the face of the American threat." Immediately after the attack, the American government announced the introduction of martial law and the N.E.X.U.S invasion violated the Charter of the New United Nations, constituting a crime of aggression under international criminal law; The crime of aggression can be prosecuted under universal jurisdiction. On February 20, CyberCore sued Biotechnica before the Court of Justice and the Public Safety Commission.

The Japanese attack on the American Biotechnica base began military hostilities between the New United States and Japan. The "Pacific War", as it is known, led to a brutal confrontation between both countries whose cost in lives amounted to millions of people, both civilians and neo-military during the pandemic. As time went by, the demonstrations in M-W intensified, and people demanded to be able to see their families in these difficult times. By the end of May, the Pacific War had heated up.

In the summer of that same year, CyberCore had taken over a Biotechnica office in Los Angeles. In response, N.E.X.U.S organized a riot at CyberCore's Italian offices. They used the distraction to access the building's system and fill it with a short-lived toxin. Everyone inside died.

The attacks on Chicago turned into open warfare when air and orbital support was requested. The battle ended when local nomads, who had contracts in the still-rebuilding city, used covert teams to demolish both CyberCore and N.E.X.U.S offices. During this time, N.E.X.U.S released a bioplague that killed thousands in the city of Busan, the city was evacuated by the Korean government and then quarantined by the CyberCore security division.

By 52,359, citizens around the world were realizing that they had to face war. CyberCore and N.E.X.U.S (not to mention their allies and operations) were so intertwined with the global economic system that there was no country that could afford to stand by and let them squabble. This is because both companies are involved in international arms supply, security contracts, subcontracts, showrooms and ammunition manufacturing. Thanks to the war, many of these operations became legitimate targets of hostile actions. The darker side of this rivalry was that Alt soon came to view NUSA as a real threat to her and her goals. Everything Alt had built was at risk and it was a fight she was willing to take by throwing everything she could.

When the Pacific War broke out, there was no turning back. Japan and NUSA took off the gloves and began directly hitting each other's organization, with the sole intention of defeating each other. In fact, both corporations were so involved that they did not back down or stop the war. By late 52,361, the war came to its apparent end when CyberCore sent a nuclear strike to N.E.X.U.S's headquarters in Washington D.C. and organized an attack on the Biotechnica network with Myers' squad on a spy mission. The collapse of the N.E.X.U.S troops and the theft of the Biotechnica data bank brought an apparent end to the war when the militarized megacorp of the NUSA withdrew its armies from the corporate headquarters of Neo-Tokyo.

### The Great Machine War: The Automata War

In 52,380, just a couple of years after the fall of the Ava squadron and the penalties before the Ava government, the world was recovering from the Pacific War after so many years. Although M-W has lost much of its regions after the war, 70% of the population has moved to the new world and its cities in search of a better life as refugees from the Red Cross and CyberCore medical agencies. In 52,379, all of these immigrants received their naturalized citizenship and legal papers to live within the nation freely as a member. Months later, the protection law for M-W citizens was approved by the Public Security Commission and the Security Council of the New United Nations.

CyberCore together with the Public Security Commission and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology discuss opening new Development Centers with alternative institutes for immigrant citizens. Their plans include a new customizable curriculum and providing cultural education to help students learn the customs, norms and values of the new society in which they live. This will encourage their adaptability and integration.

Despite these brief periods of peace and the calm that the trials brought to the Ava government, CyberCore was only able to destroy Ava's military and destroy the Death Butterfly program completely, but without further ado, not capture the responsible despite the penalties of the New United Nations. Soon this peace would be broken when the Russian government would once again work alongside Ava and skin the last biological weapon: the Seraphims. These giant monsters usually appear as humanoid figure and angelic appearance. Every Seraphim seen to date has black armor and is armed to the teeth.

The first of these creatures attacked Neo-Tokyo on the morning of July 28. The city experienced a 7.1 magnitude earthquake before the appearance of the creature, the first Seraphim to attack the nation. The creature emerged from Neo-Tokyo Bay and attacked the city's Bay Crossway. Following the partial collapse of the bridge, CyberCore's military and air force joined forces in an attempt to kill the creature. Their weapons proved completely ineffective against the monster, which marched straight through Neo-Tokyo and attacked neighboring cities. In the span of six days, tens of thousands of people died in the conflict as the creature gained ground. With no other options, the military finally resorted to using missiles to kill him.

The devastation caused by the creature, initially thought to be an anomaly, was later visited in Hong Kong four months later, when a second Seraphim emerged from the ocean from America and traveled to the shores of Asia. A third attack occurred six months later in Hiroshima and was then followed by a fourth attack in Yokohama. Realizing that these attacks were not going to stop, CyberCore took drastic measures to find a way to effectively combat these biomechanical weapons.

    CyberCore took these creatures to study them and about a month later in a meeting with the New United Nations, Alt suggested a new idea to combat the threat. Setting aside their differences, China, Korea, and Japan created the Automata Mech Defense Corps and decided to pool their financial resources to finance what would become known as the Automata Program. However, they were still skeptical about the program's success. On December 1 of the following year, in the middle of this war, CyberCore presented the first Automata with the executive director of the security division Yuri: The Evtaria Alpha Automata. The first to try it was Akira in a simulation, but they soon realized that they would need more than one pilot to handle the mechanical giant. This mecha was one of the largest, averaging 750 meters high. In the following months of testing, Evtaria Alpha would be modified to be flown by two pilots; Akira and Robin.

Convinced by the test results, the Automata Mech Defense Corps began production of the first Automatas: Argentea and Strelitzia. In the year after this, more than six Automata were produced in the span of five months. Soon Squad X was assigned to this program, thousands of people in plantations received training to enter the Automata program and enter different squads. Among the strongest models of the Automata are the most recent ones designed and created by CyberCore Security CEO Yuri. Small single-pilot Automatas with lower neural load have become popular in use over the years, for espionage missions and close combat in emergency situations. The first Automata drone was Phoenix.

Some time after the success of Phoenix, the Mech Automata production line created the next generation of Automata; the protogen. The Protogen are Automata with one or two pilots, 150 to 250 meters high, shaped like snowstalkers. These hunting automatas have night and thermal vision through their viscera, as well as an advanced scanning system to detect their targets at long distances. Its narrow chest and powerful back and legs facilitate efficient locomotion. They are capable of running several kilometers at a speed of 10 km/h, and can reach maximum speeds of 65 km/h or more in a chase. While running at high speed they can cover five meters per jump. The Protogen's legs are adapted to walk easily over a wide variety of terrain, especially snow and soft ground.

The first protogen designed and tested by the Mech Automata Program was Apex, often known as "Stalker", a 120 meter tall Protogen with an advanced missile launch system. Apex was one of the heaviest, oldest and best armored Protogen. It is designed to withstand long periods of service and withstand as much damage from enemy attacks as it can return. Each Automata was assigned to more than eleven locations, all of them closest to the coast of their respective countries.

In this way CyberCore managed to defend the cities from the attacks of these mechanical monsters, but it would not be the last time they would fight against them and the war would not be close to ending. As the hours passed, came the days and finally the weeks, then the months and years of confrontation between these nations using Seraphims and Automatas to fight. About 40 years after so much fighting, one spring of 52,430, the elite special forces squad of the Automata Mech Defense Corps was able to locate the mother base where they manufactured the Seraphims, and in a covert mission by CybeCore they infiltrated the facilities of SovietCorp to destroy the site. The events are disastrous and result in the death of some pilots, but the mission is carried out successfully by the defense line that manages to destroy the core of the factory.

## Main Intent & Services

### Security Division

CyberCore Corporation is a highly diversified corporation, however, only one of its branches is much more visible than the others, especially in the EU and NUSA: CyberCore's security division. CyberCore is famous for its black-clad guards who are employees of many of the world's powerful people and corporations. Even if guards are not present, the CyberCore logo appears prominently on many weapons, computers, and other security equipment commonly used by security teams at many organizations and companies. CyberCore is the world's most obvious force for private and corporate security contracting. It is public knowledge that CyberCore Security is the best way to protect a person's assets or themselves, CyberCore contracts and rents its security services in various ways.

CyberCore is not the only company that offers this service, but it is the largest and most reputable. CyberCore's security staff are known to be the best trained and best equipped of any other service. They are not cheap, but the investment is generally considered profitable. CyberCore can provide groups of one to a thousand contract agents. Service is twenty-four hours a day and guards may be housed, at the discretion of the contractors, privately, on-site or at local CyberCore offices. All CyberCore guards are fully trained in security procedures, equipment handling and urban combat, armed and unarmed, at close range. Depending on how much you want to pay the contractor for each guard, there are various levels of weaponry and specialization available.

There are a number of options available in any variable cost labor hire. CyberCore contracts its services around the world, clients can request guards who speak fluent Japanese, German, Spanish, English, Italian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Korean and French. All guards are required to be familiar, but not fluent, in Japanese and English. Bilingual guards are also always available. Guards who specialize in heavy weapons, unarmed combat, and specialized terrain are available for contracts that require varied situations. Different levels of security force concealment can also be ordered, from completely discreet and invisible to ostentatiously threatening. If security forces are visible, customers can choose to have them unidentified or clearly identified as CyberCore Troops. Only in rare circumstances, such as when a bit of misdirection is required, will CyberCore troops actually wear the uniform or logo of the contracting corporation, or a third party. CyberCore also hires its paramilitary forces for one-time operations, such as extractions. This type of contract can be extremely expensive, due to the loss of expensive technicians and equipment.

Another type of protection that CyberCore provides is personal security in the form of bodyguards, escort teams, and home security. The service is expensive, but popular among celebrities, wealthy businessmen and politicians from various nations who no longer trust their respective Secret Service agencies. As with corporate guards, there are several options, including gender, number of guards, clothing style, age, visibility, race, nationality, level of weaponry, training, and services provided. It's considered very posh in some circles to have a full-time CyberCore bodyguard on the payroll. These individual bodyguards typically work alone or manage other non-CyberCore personnel hired by their client.

In addition to providing trained neomilitaries to corporations, groups, and individuals, CyberCore also rents and sells the security equipment it manufactures. Typical items include cameras, perimeter detection and surveillance equipment, computerized security offices and networks, fire suppression systems, security turrets, robotic personnel, and computerized personnel access systems. More exotic items are also available, such as bomb detection weapons and equipment, booby traps, and other "lethal deterrent systems." Computer security is another product available from CyberCore. CyberCore's patented black and white ICE systems are also available for installation on customer IT systems. CyberCore will train non-CyberCore personnel in the operations of all security systems it sells.

The last type of personnel that CyberCore hires are security consultants. If someone wants good in-house security but lacks the experience, they have the option of hiring a team of CyberCore security consultants to inspect the facility and do an analysis of the capabilities of potential enemies. Consultants will use that information to make a recommendation about the type and strength of security forces someone should maintain, and the types of equipment and countermeasures that need to be installed. Consultants will operate on any scale, from personal bodyguards to global corporate protection.

### Police Services

A subdivision of its Security Division, CyberCore has extensive contracting services for the Neo-Tokyo Police Agency, under the Public Safety Commission. The services of these agents are similar in many ways to security services, but the staff receives slightly different training and equipment. The customers are cities and counties rather than corporations. Because they are required to work with the public, CyberCore police officers are much more likely to have good interpersonal skills than their dour counterparts who work in private security. Most of the weapons and equipment are the same, but police departments run by CyberCore and the Public Safety Commission will have police-equipped cars and vans at their disposal and, in most situations, will be more inclined to use them than the heavy riot vehicles preferred by security departments.

CyberCore police, like any corporate police, must work within the confines of the laws regarding police procedures and ethics. Of course, as deals always occur with corporations, they are more likely to circumvent these standards for convenience than public police departments. Countless towns, counties and cities around the world rely on private police forces. Among those served by CyberCore are San Diego, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Honolulu, Bucharest (Romania), Belfast (Ireland), and Singapore; as well as several major Japanese cities, such as Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Nagoya and Yokohama. Neo-Tokyo, interestingly, is the first using the largest CyberCore police department and the Public Safety Commission.

The agency's police officers, like the 2024 model RX002, have the ability to scan and analyze a scene and recreate events that took place in a reconstruction, the analysis of biological evidence and a social module designed to analyze psychology and behavior , which allows them to integrate and adapt more easily to their environment and work as a team. CyberCore, however, does not always require payment to maintain a police force in a city. CyberCore may accept non-monetary compensation, including participation in local policymaking, land and real estate, or shipping and free port rights, or may gain other benefits such as full control of the police and security of an area close to sensitive corporate facilities or an advantage over competitors who have offices in the same area. Examples of this can be seen at CyberCore's factories in Yokohama, which are protected by CyberCore Security and a municipal police force led by CyberCore.

***Main article: Neo-Tokyo Police Agency***

### Automata Mech Defense Corps

Automata Mech Defense Corps is an organization created by CyberCore and other organizations such as the New United Nations. The Defense Corps represents an international alliance of twenty-one countries of the Pacific Rim, united by the shared objective of containing, combating and eliminating Seraphim or Yokai. Members of this Defense Corps are authorized to use the Defense Corps' Automata Mech Advanced Combat Unit. Automata are armor and control systems created by Alt to fight heavy wars and defend the nation, usually piloted in pairs. Those who can pilot the Automata are called Pilot Agents. Automata are biomechanical weapons that are controlled by two, or rarely three, pilots stationed within the Internal Chamber located in their head or chest. Pilots are equipped with a specialized type of armor that allows them to simultaneously interact with the machine. The pilots' own minds are connected in a neural bridge that allows them to control the machine's every movement.

A massive organization, the Defense Corps' structure and function is no different from that of the regular CyberCore army. The individual classified as Marshal or Commander is primarily in charge of all operations related to Automata deployments and liaisons with the New United Nations. At least two staff positions were classified under the rank of Officer. More than six positions were created under the rank of elite commander, providing individuals of varying expertise to assist in the study of Seraphims, while others focused their focus on combat and support positions necessary to raise aspiring who were trying to become first officers as Automata pilots and safeguarding the population in cities attacked by Seraphim. Pilots in training were required to undergo a long semester of training before potentially being recruited as an Automata pilot.

***Main article: Automata Mech Defense Corps***

***Main article: Seraphim-Tech***

### CyberCore Research Facility

The CyberCore Research Center is a private division that is dedicated to science and is divided into multiple bases around the world. CyberCore digs deep into any topic to uncover the truth, from DNA experiments and physics tests to aeronautical research and space research. CyberCore Research Facility thoroughly handles different fields of science and technology studies, these scientific disciplines, or simply sciences, are generally divided into three groups: formal sciences, natural sciences and human sciences or social sciences. These make up the basic sciences, on which applied sciences such as engineering and medicine are based.

CyberCore's main studies have focused on roots such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology and biology. Each laboratory is separated by sectors, the best known have been the CyberCore Enrichment Center and its laboratories or Research Station Zero.

#### CyberCore Research Center Facilities

##### ***Guide: Research Station Zero***

Research Station Zero serves as a base of operations for Nuclilium research. It is located 450-500 m northeast of Sector Zero with an entrance to an underwater cave beneath the glacial surface.

Welcome to your home away from home in Neo-Tokyo! This brochure will guide you through your new accommodation. Sector Zero is bordered by mountainous terrain to the north and west. This region of the planet is covered in snow and ice, leaving it in a mostly permanent winter. Extreme weather events make the sky look spectacular at all hours. This is why it is selected as a center for our facilities. Life in the area has flourished in the largest ecosystem since the Great Disaster.

Research Station Zero features state-of-the-art facilities, including:

* Accommodation for 70-86 people
* Complete science and engineering section
* Leisure and exercise facilities
* Large grow room and water filtration unit for self-sufficient living
* Weather forecast suite
* ATLAS Bay
* NEBULA-3X Station

The members have been chosen to occupy the base of the main sector, just below the main research site. From here, they will conduct research on communications and technologies, and carry out missions to unoccupied facilities elsewhere in the sector.

##### Delta Station

Delta Station is a fairly small facility made up of a couple of sample rooms and laboratories with their interiors partially buried by snow. Its front door is a bulkhead that opens to a break room with a first aid kit and a large water filter, as well as a fabricator on the wall with a map of Sector Zero with CyberCore facilities and other points of interest. highlighted. Delta and its chemical laboratories study compounds such as Nuclilium and mixtures of elements to test the theories of science. Burners, stirrers, decanting ampoules, distillation flasks, crystallizers, pipettes and test tubes are some of the instruments used in this field. Biology laboratories, for their part, work with biological materials at all levels (cells, organs, systems). Microscopes, thermometers and surgical equipment help scientists carry out their activities. In clinical laboratories, clinical diagnostic experts develop analyzes that contribute to the study, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of health problems.

##### Omega Laboratory

Omega Lab is at a depth of 200 m inside a large central floating rock. Composed of two multi-purpose rooms and a large room, all connected with a hatch to allow entry. In front of the base is a field with two greenhouses built on it, along with a few boxes lying around. Under confidentiality, Omega Laboratories thoroughly investigates the side effects of Nuclilium and Nuclaxine-A9 while testing it alongside technicians from other corporations.

Omega studies different branches of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences that deals with the action of drugs or medicines. More specifically, it focuses on the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function. If the substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals by CyberCore. The field of Omega Laboratories covers drug composition and properties, functions, sources, drug synthesis and design, molecular and cellular mechanisms, organ/system mechanisms, signal transduction/cellular communication, molecular diagnosis, interactions, chemical biology, therapy and medical applications and antipathogenic capabilities. The two main areas of the core laboratory are pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.

##### CC Laboratories

A series of test chambers located underground interconnected between the Delta station and the Omega laboratories. CC laboratories have an advanced testing system and an underground bullet train transportation network to move technicians from one sector to another and maintenance areas. Each dome is divided by F-1 to F-30.

##### CyberCore Robotics Center

Located in a large cave in the Glacial Basin. As the name suggests, the robotics division located at the CyberCore Research Facility, as such, was the birthplace of turrets and other robotic technologies. The Robotics Center is made up of two large rooms and an engineering room, with an extensive network of walkways located outside. Supply crates, forklifts, and spotlights can be found scattered around the area. In particular, stations with vehicles can also be found here. An Architect teleporter can be found on the left side of the cave. Near the teleporter is a small cave filled with supplies connected to each employee's labs and dormitories. Approximately 10-30 people live at the CyberCore Robotics Center.

##### Guide: CyberCore Enrichment Center

“CyberCore: Let’s build the future together with science.” The Mainframe-Aided Enrichment Center is CyberCore Research Facility's main facility where its products are developed and tested under the brand name "CyberCore Laboratories". Located in the CyberCore Tower, above and inside a disused mine, the scientific research complex has been monitored by the AI ALT since 2020. The Enrichment Center is made up of the main testing facilities (with Test Chambers) , the administration offices and maintenance areas that link most of the facilities. While the Research Facility appears to be mostly underground like Pacifica, it features above ground at least a series of laboratories in the tower before reaching the Corpo Plaza.

Welcome to the CyberCore Research Facility! As big as a city and completely self-sufficient in all fields, our facilities provide security for your employees and visitors. Remember, the future starts with you. Our complex has state-of-the-art facilities, including:

* Complete science and engineering section
* Test areas
* Leisure and exercise facilities
* Large grow room and water filtration unit for self-sufficient living
* ATLAS Bay
* NEBULA-3X Station
* NOVA Station
* AURORA Station
* Main Containment Center
* Rehabilitation Center
* Central A.I. Chamber
* Zero Sanctuary
* Central Transit Center
* Medic laboratory
* Infirmaries
* Research Laboratories
* Maintenance Areas
* Biotechnica pharmaceutical laboratory
* Administration Offices
* Advanced Biology Laboratory
* Elevator System
* Bedrooms

The Enrichment Center is extremely large, even by the standards set by facilities such as the NASA Research Center, which is dwarfed by comparison. The mine is made up of ten vertical shafts, each at least 3,500 meters deep and hundreds of meters long. Within the cavernous shafts there is a large amount of space that CyberCore utilizes, and the installations are often suspended over huge slopes that extend deep into the mines. Between the Enrichment Center and the Test Pits is a large hatch that, when open, allows an elevator to connect the original facility to the modern one. The transportation system also flows through this connecting hatch and bullet train tracks. The modern facility is supported by a wide range of large springs, probably a network of seismic isolators, to prevent sensitive research equipment from being affected by the instability of the mine shafts below.

The Enrichment Center contains numerous "Test Chambers" where test subjects are trained to perform simple to complicated tasks. The tests are monitored by Alt and security cameras. CyberCore scientists can view the tests in small offices scattered throughout the test chambers. A notable feature among the test chambers is the austere atmosphere. All walls and floors are light gray or white, and the overall feel is that of a clinic or clean room.

CyberCore conducts its various scientific research at the facility, which is a very high security complex, as each employee must undergo a series of rigorous security checks to access most areas. Security guards, armed and trained for emergencies, are present at all facilities. The complex is also equipped with retinal scanners and alarms, as well as heavy armored doors that can be closed in the event of a fire, explosion or other event. The center can be completely sealed from the outside.

The facility is self-sufficient and houses its own ventilation systems, hot and cold water, central heating, sanitation, drainage and Nuclilium power generation, including a hydroelectric dam and multiple types of electric generators and reactors, some using nuclear technology. Chemical processing plants are also seen, and as the facility is located within the Corpo Plaza, water treatment plants are required to recycle wastewater.

The complex is dominated by a series of underground laboratories and test areas, most of which contain very high-tech equipment and even a rocket launch site. The complex also has multi-story parking lots and a local transportation network for each sector.

CyberCore is also apparently kept supplied by a conventional freight train linked outside, managed at the freight yard. As employees must live in the complex itself, the center contains many staff facilities, including laundry facilities, recreational and sports areas such as lounges, at least one basketball court, a swimming pool, a library, food courts, cafeterias, and numerous Vending machines. The facility is well populated with rest areas and dormitories for the center's employees, and it can be inferred that the employees' families also reside in the dormitory complexes.

All major Sectors are connected to each other by the advanced monorail and bullet train system. Provided for the safety, comfort and convenience of CyberCore staff, residents and visitors, the transit system is controlled by Alt, which broadcasts audible messages and announcements throughout the facility with a voice. It also uses the Transit System to provide general information about the facilities and mention each stop.

The Central A.I. Chamber It is a setting for many important events throughout history. It is a large bay that houses a body for Alt's central core, to manage the majority of CyberCore's Scientific Enrichment Center. The room is a large octagonal chamber in the center of the Enrichment Center, in which Alt is stored while suspended from the ceiling and connected to cables. Installed in the skull bone, the Alt interface taps into its main nerve trunks and interacts with the neural processor to send and receive signals. The plug allows you to insert information and connect to a set of interface cables (giving you access to directly control any device you have the proper "link" to). It can also control other smart machines and weapons. In short, the entire installation and other places on the Network.

### Cyberware Manufacturing

CyberCore Corporation has a wide variety of cyberware products that can be purchased worldwide. CyberCore is one of the largest cyberware manufacturers and has a variety of lethal cyberware most common with dealers and mercenaries, as well as non-lethal cyberware that can be seen on ordinary citizens around the world. CyberCore branded cyberware is frequently seen on millions of people who opt for the efficiency and reliability of the Japanese manufacturing giant. Other very common cyberware products are items like Blades or Nanowires. CyberCore also deals with leg cyberware that allows users to replace the entire lower half of their body. Full body conversions are found throughout CyberCore's cyberware services. Netrunner equipment is also a specialty of the corporation with a variety of products commonly found on the market.

### General manufacturing

After the 1994s Crash, CyberCore set its sights on manufacturing in general, purchasing many smaller companies and their excess raw materials at a fraction of the cost. These failed businesses turned around and became incredibly profitable for CyberCore, producing items from airplanes, medical equipment, and even children's toys. Although they were part of CyberCore, they retained their original names and brands so as not to be associated with CyberCore's more corporate and militaristic image. CyberCore General Manufacturing produces a large number of consumer goods from space planes, four different automobiles, pharmaceuticals, several clothing lines, computer video games, pre-packaged meals, telephones, and office equipment.

### Banking Service

The last central section and pillar of the CyberCore Corporation is the CyberCore Bank. The Bank is not widely visible to the public because it tends to deal exclusively with corporate and commercial accounts. CyberCore Bank was established by Oda, with the help of his government contacts, to exploit the boom in Japanese economic growth that he predicted for the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The bank used a portion of CyberCore's considerable fortune to establish a capital base. Then, starting small and building up, he began taking on corporate accounts and, under Oda's direction, making high-quality loans and investments with corporations aimed at growth and expansion.

Under Oda's expert touch, the Bank has made steady profits since its inception. Oda's choice of loans and investments allowed the bank to remain on equal footing, even in the early 1990s, when several Japanese financial institutions were on shaky ground. There was a difficult period during and after the '94 crash when several supposedly chosen loans and investments failed, but a little foresight allowed CyberCore Bank to survive with minimal financial damage while many other institutions went bankrupt. Skillful management in the post-crisis market saw the Bank turn a profit during those difficult years.

CyberCore Bank continues to do good business. Oda was one of the first people to invest heavily in the cyber and network-related industries, and the offshoots of those transactions have filled CyberCore's accounts quite nicely. The Bank continues to deal primarily with corporate accounts, loans and investments, but handles some personal accounts, including those of several wealthy businessmen, celebrities and politicians around the world. So far, business shows no signs of slowing down thanks to Alt.

## Uniforms and Personnel

CyberCore Corporation has definitive rules and policies that guide corporate attire, uniforms and equipment. There is little freedom for variation, except at the highest echelons of the corporation, and among bodyguards and undercover agents. Employees of CyberCore-owned subsidiaries do not carry the CyberCore name and are not held to the same standards as employees of CyberCore itself. With the exception of the complex, CyberCore guards, soldiers and agents can be of any race, nationality or gender, but must wear the same uniform.

For example, guard uniforms and equipment vary depending on the assignment, but the typical non-covert CyberCore guard wears the black uniform considered so ubiquitous in the corporate world. This consists of black boots and gloves, a black jumpsuit, a black armored vest, and a black cap with the CyberCore logo in silver. The guard's rank appears on the left arm and right collar, and the CyberCore logo appears on the right arm and left collar, accommodated by white lights.

The basic uniform for the CyberCore soldier is similar to the guard suit, but soldiers wear their identification badges on the chest of the uniform and have a chrysanthemum logo above their rank markings. In combat, soldiers also wear more extensive body armor than standard guards, including helmets with visors, torso and arm armor, and special pants. All CyberCore soldiers are promoted from the guards. Skin tones are usually completely achromatic or monochromatic, including eyes, markings, and teeth. They wear uniforms or a standard set of clothing, which have a general theme of having a black color with mainly white LED circuits. They also wear tight black clothing, black boots, metal plates, and belts. All Architects in the military wear armor, many of them retain cybernetic implants and wear visors or protective goggles that cover their eyes while their hair is usually hidden by their helmets.

CyberCore service employees wear a uniform consisting of a loose-fitting white jumpsuit and a cap with white accessories. This is the same for all types of service employees. The only way you can distinguish between maintenance, custodial, courier, and other service level employees is by the color and shape of the logos on their shoulders and caps, their I.D. insignia and equipment they carry. In Japanese office buildings, service employees show difference in bowing in the presence of executives. Failure to comply with this protocol may result in dismissal.

## Market strategy

The CyberCore Corporation operates as any corporation would, despite the original intention of Oda Shogaki or Alt. To do this it has to constantly sell its services to the professional community. All CyberCore advertising is designed and managed in-house by special departments, tailored to individual nations and regions, and run from offices in the towers. The Neo-Tokyo office handles international advertising and public relations. CyberCore Corporation sponsors a variety of events, festivals, businesses, anime, personal media, stores, hotels, and many more. There are more discrete tactics for marketing the three core arms of the corporation.

CyberCore's most profitable and widespread division is its Security arm. The Security branch was also Alt's most functional tool. Consequently, most of the marketing effort is focused on selling security services and contracts. The key factor in marketing those security services is CyberCore's continued reputation for excellence.

Likewise, CyberCore Bank advertises only in corporate publications. Their services are unique enough to not require much advertising. Information on financial services can only be obtained by appointment with the corporation and there is no information open to the public. Typically, CyberCore Bank directly contacts the people and organizations it wants to do business with.

CyberCore Research Facility advertises in publications, social networks and multimedia programs. In this way the services are shared to the public and at the same time the technological advances of the CyberCore division are shared for each employee. CyberCore Research Facility typically keeps most of its studies private.

CyberCore Manufactures advertises itself in a similar way to the security branch: in publications and information networks suitable for specific desired customers. Weapon systems are advertised in police publications and the neo-military press, and security equipment is advertised in electronic magazines, corporate magazines, and publications aimed at wealthy individuals. Like security services, multimedia presentations and chips detailing the benefits of equipment manufactured by CyberCore are available. They do not include sensitive or restricted information.

## Resources and Capital

CyberCore is one of the largest and richest corporations in the world. Its various holdings and properties span the globe. The board of directors has access to funds and resources that dwarf those of many small countries. Paired with these resources is power in its most impressive form. CyberCore, like all corporations, is one of the few organizations capable of imposing its will on the world, filling the void left by collapsed national governments and the new world.

CyberCore, excluding its subsidiaries, owns 250 V-type aircraft and more than 250 AV-4s. A quarter of each type of these vehicles is used by corporate offices. Three-quarters belong to CyberCore guards and the military forces. Naturally, there are some trade-offs, but neo-military versions typically have combat options and camouflage schemes and are less luxurious than their corporate counterparts. The corporation also owns twenty C-25 heavy lift aircraft, which can transport paratroopers, heavy equipment, and cross intercontinental distances. CyberCore-owned aircraft include several small executive jets and helicopters. They are unarmed, but they are fast and luxurious. The jets have intercontinental capability, helicopters strictly local.

The air transport capacity provided by the C-25 is complemented by CyberCore's three container ships. CyberCore AquaWork, a subsidiary of Yokohama, owns other large ships, such as container ships, tankers and submarine freighters. This gives CyberCore considerable maritime displacement capacity.

Neomilitary forces and CyberCore guards possess a certain number of internally produced vehicles. More than 2,000 Nebulas and Atlas 10s are in use worldwide, and countless thousands of modified cars. Another 2,500 of each of the combat vehicles are spread across warehouses in Japan, Europe and America. These units are waiting to be shipped to customers, but can be activated for combat in a short period of time.

In addition to all this usual stuff, CyberCore has a stockpile of other equipment too diverse and numerous to catalogue. Included are various heavy neomilitary weapons, light weapons and equipment, specialized aircraft and ground vehicles, fleets of ships including a super aircraft carrier called Kujira, supercomputers, linear frames and others.

CyberCore and its subsidiaries for most of its life from 2013 to the present employed more than one million people worldwide. The five parties are executives, researchers, engineers, scientists, counterintelligence, and various workers, both office and factory, of CyberCore and its many subcorporations. The rest are troops of one type or another, including guards, soldiers and agents. The troops are roughly divided as follows: 100,000 are CyberCore soldiers and special forces combat teams, 200,000 are industrial contract guards, bodyguards, and advisors, and 5,000 are undercover agents, assassins, and spies.

Guards and neo-militaries are housed and trained in specialized facilities around the world and in all countries served by CyberCore. Sizable contingents are always housed and maintained in the main towers for on-site security, rapid response and firefighting purposes. A CyberCore tower should have between one and two hundred guards and between fifty and one hundred soldiers housed on site at any given time, although not all will be on duty or available. The largest contingents of guards and troops intended for client rotation are kept in barracks located outside major cities. Most of the soldiers and guards available will be typical contract types, but some will be elite only.

Security at CyberCore towers is, of course, tight. Squads of armed guards and neo-militaries patrol twenty-four hours a day. Sensitive facilities are under 24-hour personnel protection. Special response teams are available at all times, ready to fight in defense of the tower or any CyberCore client who requests help. Redundant security systems monitor computers, access and traffic control. Netrunners are on duty at all times, looking for intrusions from the network. Air defense systems under control and by computer can be activated at any time. Special security centers deep in the underground areas of each tower monitor and coordinate individual security systems and equipment.

### Subsidiary companies

CyberCore has more subsidiaries than almost any other corporation in the world. CyberCore's subsidiaries, like those of most large corporations, are connected through a complex web of ownership, interlocking loans and investments, business and financial ties, and shared addresses. CyberCore Security, CyberCore Research Facility, CyberCore Bank and CyberCore Manufactures are the core companies, all under the aegis of the CyberCore corporation. Despite the system of cross-ownership, CyberCore is not a keiretsu. In a keiretsu there is no great concentration of power in any branch. At CyberCore, the entire corporation answers directly to the major companies.

Some of CyberCore Corporation's hundreds of subsidiaries include: CyberCore Security, CyberCore Bank, CyberCore Manufactures, CyberCore International, CyberCore America, CyberCore European Group, CyberCore Police Services, Xeno Research CyberCore, CyberCore Chemistry, International Oceanic and Nautical Corporation, Engineering-CyberCore , CyberCore Medical Center, Neo-Tokyo Area Rapid Transit, Delta Airlines, Kiroshi Robotics, Neo Pharmaceuticals IN, TerraLife, Haikara Entertainment Studios, NT Global Entertainment, NBC News, CNN, International Network, Data Term, International Space Development, Takashi Heavy Industries , Nippon Daily. Toy stores like Lego and Neo-Tokyo/Miami/Los Angeles Adventureland amusement parks and even Cream Cafe.

CyberCore's main towers are impressive locations that project much of the corporation's public face. The larger the corporation, the more its offices and towers become a beacon of wealth and image. In keeping with CyberCore's monumental size and reputation, its towers are not only widespread and appearing in major cities around the world, but they are also standardized to be instantly recognizable. Special facilities, such as training grounds and factories, do not follow the strict image guidelines applied to towers, as they are less visible to the public. Major CyberCore towers can be found in Neo-Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Bangkok, London, Hamburg, Paris, Madrid, Bratislava, Rome, Geneva, Stockholm, Helsinki, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Montreal and Moscow. Smaller offices exist in almost every major city. NUSA is home to some of the most regional offices outside of Japan; Washington DC, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.

## Trivia

* CyberCore is commanded by Alt.
* Japan is a highly urbanized society thanks to CyberCore, with 90% of people living in urban cityscapes. There are many big cities full of skyscrapers and neon lights.
* Japan is usually known for very little crime, Neo-Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya have a lot of crime due to the influx of foreigners/refugees and receive terrorist attacks due to the country's thriving economy. Japan becoming the world's largest superpower, surpassing NUSA, has also made citizens work harder to maintain their current status.
* Japan's economy is a highly developed free market economy. Japan has a low unemployment rate of around four percent. As the largest economic power, Japan controls much of the world and has great influence in several countries. Newly developed cities like Neo-Tokyo have a great influence. Japan's economy has a strong focus on industry, services, science and technology, agriculture and fishing, as well as tourism. While many countries (mainly in Europe) fear how far Japan's reach has extended, many still welcome its industry and the services offered by the many corporations and government.
* Japan is full of immigrants and is one of the most prosperous and powerful countries, thanks to its governor, Alt.
* The Jakota Triangle (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) is characterized by large cities, enormous global trade, high consumption of raw materials and rapid development. Japan is also part of the New Pacific Basin, with lands facing the Pacific, relatively high levels of industrialization and urbanization indicating high levels of economic development, and enormous imports/exports moving primarily through the Pacific.
* Unified Korea, Taiwan and China are allies of CyberCore.