Moti-Com

"Stay In Touch"

Motisan Communication Systems is a telecommunications giant and one of the major sponsors of the Super Modified League. Joining in 2048, Moti-Com has made use of a reverse engineered Whirlwind AG-Unit (used with permission from Whirlwind) to allow their car to handle stronger shields and weapons while still staying quick. However, this leads to an unintended side effect: their cars have a "drifty" feel to them when driven.

## History

Motisan Communications was started around 1996, becoming a conglomerate of 4 telecommunications component companies that provided a major amount of infrastructure from Japan and the US: Mitori Sate-Coms, Opelia Wireless, Trion Cellular, and Inori Fiber. Choosing to combine their companies in the name of efficiency, they took the first letters of their names and then combined them to create "Moti", becoming a major worldwide player in communications. As such, throughout the late 90s to the 2000s, Moti expanded their interests, creating a worldwide empire controlling 45% of the world's telecommunications and internet access with a wide reach and lower prices than the local competition, even taking over under local marques with their reach making it to even the Micronesian islands and Greenland. Around 2035, they even ended up buying out the Sunset Island based Eventide Media as their entertainment division, making their way into the Metro Meridian region as a major role to the economy.

As such, they took notice of the Super Modified League's presence in the Metro Meridian region of the US, and with their financial muscle, Eventide managed to become the main broadcaster of the events, with Afterimage's live feed services giving beautifully sharp and clean video of every race. As such, Moti-Com decided it was time to enter a team into the competition as a PR stunt. Deciding to help fund Whirlwind's research on AG-Technology in exchange for blueprints for AG units, Moti-Com now became an AG-Enabled team with specialized but blank functioning AG drives. While trying to decide on a marque, however, the 2 design teams in the Moti-Com paddocks disagreed on what they should do with their AG drives: One side wanted practicality, the other wanted entertainment value from the drives by doing stunts. This caused the teams to split entirely, and Eventide took in the stunt team while Moti-Com retained the practical application team, which caused the vehicles from both teams to fray wildly since their initial developments.

Moti-Com's cars are incredibly powerful due to their focus on practicality, with heavier weapon and defensive systems on average compared to other teams, alongside having enough speed and acceleration to stay competitive on most circuits, though, unsurprisingly enough, the use of a powerful AG drive to support all the extra weight has led to an unintended side effect. Moti-Com cars *drift*, and not in an easily controlled manner, almost as if they're on a slippery surface despite the tires touching the ground. Due to this, Moti-Com vehicles tend to require highly skilled and specialized drivers to handle the slippery and hard to control nature of their cars, and almost any means they've tried to counteract this somewhat hard-to-control nature has been for naught.

With the 2048 season being their first outing into the league, their somewhat sporadic high placed finishes and spectacular fights have given them a lot of good PR, but with how severe their AG-drives effects are, against veteran teams like Markza, Hanrai and their main rival as a drift team, Arctic, they seem to have less control over their vehicles than they want you to believe, and the fact that they have never won a championship has come into question how "practical" their drives really are compared to their slightly more successful sister team, Eventide.

## Super Modified Team Info

> *"Motisan Communication Systems is a newcomer to the league and is currently employing a new "low-float" AG system being developed with financial permission from Whirlwind R&D. This new system allows for a vehicle to handle the weight of heavy weapons and shields while still retaining decent speed and acceleration. However, this weak low-grav state causes cars to not grip the ground as easily, causing them to retain quite a lot of lateral momentum in turns, in essence, drifting with a low power AG drive."*
> - Super Modified Team Info
>
>

Moti-Com's performance is overall remarkable due to how well balanced and practical their stats are, but a lack of grip due to their AG drives causes a lot of problems with performing well. A single mistake can send you into the wall, and not in a funny way, either, as an impact with the wall will tend to be at a high enough velocity to cause a significant amount of damage to their tough shields. Their weapons are above average and their top speed and acceleration are enough to keep them in a good fight, so if you can handle the more slippery nature of their vehicles, you'll place higher than you'd think, but if you can't, expect a lot of surface impacts. This team will struggle on technical courses for the uninitiated to their unique style of handling, but if you can get how to counteract the sliding (with Afterburner allowing rapid grip regain when it's truly needed), you'll be able to aim high with one of the strongest teams in terms of just raw statistics.

## Team Stats

### Strategy

* Learn how their vehicles slip and how to react accordingly when you have a point where just throttle won't work. A little ~~foreplay~~ Afterburner use ain't ever hurt nobody, right? ,';)
* Dodging with this team can be punishing if you react badly, as this can send you careening into a side wall and make you lose massive amounts of speed and shield energy. Better than getting hit by a Railcannon, though, right?
* If you can, use your car to bodyblock other drivers. The shields on this team are built incredibly tough and can take a bit of rough play if you're really feeling ballsy.

## 2058 Background

*Technology nowadays comes and goes, but one constant since the 90s has been Motisan Communications, a now international telecommunications corporation that spans through routers and satellite communications to entertainment media with a secondary division. With exclusive broadcasting rights to the Super Modified League's races, Moti-Com has had one of the most profitable business in recent years, and as such, they decided to set up not just one, but TWO racing teams.*

*The Moti-Com racing team are poised for high finishes with how strong and powerful their vehicles are, but test drivers have consistently had complaints since they joined the league, where their cars lack grip due to their incredibly strong AG drives, so they may have problems on the tougher and tighter circuits where reactivity really matters.*

## 2058 Message

**Motisan Communication Systems HQ Pavilion, Yokohama, Japan, Announcement and Status Update, April 18th, 2058**

I thank you all for coming here today. We have quite a lot to go over, but most of it is the same old news that we've gone over in past meetings. We know our team has been performing at a middling pace, and we are entirely aware that Eventide's development team has made greater strides within the Super Modified League with higher placed finishes on average. As such, we have been training our drivers to learn the systems and general faults of our vehicles and turn them into advantages. We know our weaknesses, but we are turning them into strengths, little by little.

As long as our team keeps moving and improving with the technology we have, victory and our first title will become attainable this season. We can promise on that. From all of us at Motisan Communication, we thank you for staying dedicated fans, and we are willing to show just what we are truly made of this season just for you at home, and those here too.

## Gallery

Moti-Com's 488, Used as an alternate to their Lynk & Co 03+.Moti-Com's Lynk & Co 03+ Cyan, their main entry for the Super Modified class.Moti-Com's Lynk & Co 03 TCR, a secondary choice for the Super Modified class.Moti-Com's Nissan Silvia S15 RB, their secondary choice for the Super Tuner class.Moti-Com's Nissan 240SX RB (RB26), their main vehicle for use in the Super Tuner class.
## Trivia

* Moti-Com takes basis from AG-Systems for its design, and Protonic for the handling model.
* This team has jokingly taken on the nickname as the "Trans Flag Team" by a few people.