Tengan Enterprises

Tengan Enterprises (天願企業) was a powerful and reputable Japanese conglomerate specialising in the creation, selling and distribution of state-of-the-art forms of technology, urban construction, military vehicles and even spacecraft parts. It also had smaller businesses such as various clothing outlets and toy manufacturers both in Japan and overseas.

### Early Formation

Tengan Enterprises started life in the 60's by Saburo Tengan as a relatively humble camera manufacturer in downtown Tokyo, then the company was known as Tengan Photech Ltd. When his son, Isao Tengan, already a technology genius at 18, took over in 1978, he wanted to move the company in a new direction, much to the dismay of his father.

Despite his father's insistence, Isao went behind his father's back, claiming Saburo had started developing dementia, and took on the role of what was essentially a liquidation company throughout the 80's, where he renamed the company Tengan Enterprises.

### Expansion

During this time he acquired various company assets and began building his own consumer technology, from electronics to toys, but soon began to delve into more advanced forms of electronic computer tech for the Japanese Government and the Military.

While his ailing grandfather still ran what essentially became a sub-division of Tengan Enterprises selling cameras, TV's and the likes, Saburo refused to talk to his son for almost a decade until in 1990 he suffered a stroke that almost killed him. Promising to take care of him and give him a degree of control over the company and renaming his father's old company Saburo Photech, but by then Saburo was just happy he could see his son again.

Isao had a son in 1989, Hidaki, who would later become even more of a genius than his father, creating the Asahi Project and using Tengan Technologies to fund Supersamurai in 2002.

### Subsidiaries and Cooperatives

Tenchi Enterprises had a number of subsidiaries and company ownerships including:

- **Arc Military Supplies** - A global manufacturer of body and vehicle armour, and safety equipment previously owned by Augustine Corporation.

- **Deepsteel**- A cooperative between Claymore Industries and Tengan executing various undersea mining operations off the coast of Japan and cooperated in industrial metallurgy for the benefit of both companies, as well as aiding the construction of new Tengan Enterprises buildings and facilities. Deepsteel aided the construction of Tartarus.

- **Kasoteku -** Also known as PlasTech in the US, Canada and the UK**,** produces industrial plastics and resins, some of which experimental.

- **JippiGo** - A small but increasingly popular manufacturer of electric bikes and compact cars across Asia.

- **Kakurega Locks** - Manufactures state-of-the-art electronic and mechanical locks, security systems and deposit safes.

- **Kennō-Flo** - Produces various industrial chemicals and fuels.

- **Kōshin Suru** - Produces parts and equipment for the construction of renewable energy resources.

- **Makuda** - A company that manufactures and sells fireproof and acid resistant materials and clothing.

- **Saburo Photech** - Produces household electronics, cameras, computer accessories and phones.

- **Sekai Teki Ginkō** - A small but lucrative global investment bank that acts as Tengan's financial backer.

- **Tengan Aerospace** - A direct branch of Tengan Enterprises that designs and creates parts and materials for air and spacecraft.

- **Tengan Technologies** - A direct branch of the main company founded by Hidaki Tenchi that specialises in advanced robotics and experimental technology research and (secret) development and testing.

-**Tengan-Bailey Meditech** - Often abbreviated as TBMeditech or TBM, a cooperative subsidiary of UK company Bailey Industries and Tengan that create medical tools and technology, they also aid in biological research.

- **Uton** - A Russian/German toy manufacturer that specialises in highly detailed collectors items and pop culture figurines.

### Rivals

Tenchi as a company has multiple, powerful business rivals, although most of them are beneath the conglomerate as a whole, have been known to launch takeover bids on their smaller companies.

**Argent Scientific** - A fringe and somewhat secretive bioscience company and growing conglomerate run by Theodore Lind, he looked to purchase some of Tengan's companies for considerable profit to help him develop an advanced robotics subsidiary, but unknown to Tengan, Argent also experimented on and produced alts, somewhat unsuccessfully, and had links to Russia that Tengan didn't like. As most of Argent's work was top-secret and refused to divulge certain monetary resources, Tengan refused to do business with them.

-**Augustine Corporation** - A military company that once worked on early robotic programming with Tengan before Hidaki founded Tengan Technologies as a subdivision. They almost won a long-standing legal battle with Tengan over production rights of military supplies made by Arc, Augustine, a Euro-American weapons and military robotics manufacturer who Arc previously contracted with, claim that Tengan relinquished manufacturing rights a month before their departure from the Augustine contract, and that Tengan held patents on possible top-secret Augustine projects. However while the early takeover of Arc was disputed and won as a technical error, no proof of Tengan Enterprises holding any weapon schematics beyond their own non-lethal and experimental systems were found; during this time Augustine was embroiled in a scandle involving the company willingly selling weapons to various terrorist organisations in the Ukraine, believing that the corporation did so for political reasons.

-**Midori Bioscience** - A powerful biotech and biomechanics industry, Midori are known for their aggressive business models and Tengan's Senior Chairmen do not get along with the Midori Board of Directors, finding their motives too politically driven. Unknown to the Tengan Chairmen, Midori Bioscience was producing alts and cybrid in secret in cooperation with Nami-Atarashi Biogenics, making enemies of the company. Midori were also direct enemies of TenTech in particular, with Eito Yoshida, the father of cybrid Hachi, who was a lead scientist at the company and who himself produced Haru and the beetle cybrid Kabuto through cybridisation via artificial insemination. Reporting to Supersamurai his findings Hidaki ensured that Tengan would never do business with them lest they call out their breech of ethics.

- **Takashi-Starr Software Solutions** - A cooperative company that grew from two international software companies, Takashi Software of Japan and Starr Solutions of the UK. Together they grew a powerful sway over Japan's computer and software industry and for a while helped Tengan program and upgrade much of their main headquarters's computer systems in the 90's. Volt's best friend Brendan worked for this company when he lived in Japan for a few years, but left when he found out that the Yakuza's Mantis Clan had been using the company to hack Tengan Technologies as well as use it's UK links to steal early PGI Research data and sell the secret of cybrid creation to Midori Bioscience. Takashi-Starr's contract was ended suddenly, though the company denied involvement themselves and despite pleads, Tengan refused to cooperate with them in the future, this led to them being further competitive against Tengan.

- **Tōshi Seisan** - A small but growing conglomerate based in Osaka, have recently made various bids on Tengan's high-value companies, most of which have failed.