Arasaka Corporation

**The Arasaka Trading Corporation**, often simply referred to as "Arasaka," is a megacorporation dominating Nymerian affairs and acts as one of the primary antagonistic organizations of the campaign. Its headquarters is in Elderwynn, a city located in the Valorian Mountains north of the Nymeria capital and is known for being an incredibly well-defended fortress.

Known by the locals as the Corpo or as ‘Saka

The Arasaka Trading Corporation has taken advantage of Nymeria’s Laissez-faire governance, its difficult to navigate terrain, and its relative seclusion to become the connection between Nymeria (and the unincorporated Southern Aurelia Territories) and the rest of the world.

All trade from Nymeria goes through Arasaka—legal or not. All travel in and out of the region has the Corp pulling the strings, watching behind the curtains. All businesses interacting with Nymeria and the unincorporated Southern Aurelia Territories, pay their corpo dues. You don’t fuck with Arasaka.

External competitors do sometimes make plays for the Arasaka throne (hell back in the day the Mendez family just about went to war with Arasaka for the right to traffic their own cargo), but they all capitulate eventually. Arasaka takes on any legal competitors through courts and governances, exercising their political pull in Tarrin or Sirex, and wherever else the competitor may to business, to bleed their venture dry with unfair regulation, taxation, and litigation until the business is left limping—at which point Arasaka cannibalizes it. Illegal competitors, such as the Mendez family, are dealt with directly through marsh and jungle combat via Arasaka’s paramilitary squads, nicknamed “Corpo Crews.” Armed to the teeth with Artificer tech and etherium-powered weapons, these goons enforce the Corpo’s “laws” across Southern Aurelia.

But Arasaka’s real secret weapon is their extensive local support. Arasaka employs—directly or through a subsidiary—an estimated 58% of Nymeria’s working population, and has for hundreds of years. Someone in your family always works for ‘Saka, and if not then your friend does or your neighbor does. So going after ‘Saka is going after family. And Arasaka does have a decent reputation among their workers, they bring food reliably to the table and protect their own—unless you make the mistake of going against the Corp that is. Then they ruin or end your life.

Most local Nymerian governments have an official or unofficial relationship with Arasaka, though many of the more rural communities recuse themselves from Arasaka’s direct dealings (only interacting with the Corp through intermediaries).

Arasaka also benefits from an incredibly close relationship with Sigil, the closest relationship Sigil has with any organization. Sigil is typically very possessive of their technology, only allowing Artificers to build and repair it, and never letting their absolute newest tech go to market. However, for some, not-publicly-known reason, Sigil gives Arasaka carte blanche access to their technology.

Not everyone likes Arasaka though. In fact, many locals harbor quiet resentments of the corporation for exploiting and controlling their resources. Most bury these grievances, but the few brave enough to fight back form the Tyger Claw gang.

## Corpo Crew

*“Let’s go Tyger hunting”*

Corpo Crews are Arasaka Paramilitary Squads. They are deployed all across Southern Aurelia to “defend Arasaka interests” and “enforce Arasaka regulation.” Arasaka does not have the resources to deploy these squads everywhere. However the Corpo prefers these minimally distributed, but incredibly powerful paramilitary squads to a more evenly distributed, but less powerful force. They find that this strategy has given the “Corpo Crews” quite the reputation as terrifying, well-armed squadrons that crush any dissidents.

The ‘Saka playbook is all about efficient resource allocation. Individual, undercover Corpo agents will travel the region, sniffing out Tyger Claw activity or other resistance to the Corp, and then will call in a Corpo Crew to clean up the situation.

Each Corpo Crew typically operates out of an airship, and makes liberal use of drop pods for rapid, safe deployment into the jungle. They are well-armed with Sigil guns and armor and reinforced by advanced Sigil automatons.

## Military

Arasaka military force is divided by its generals into different segments and each other led by a chief airship. Yorinobu has the Spirit of Fire, which has the ability to essentially teleport, making it difficult to board. It also has anti-magic artillery and a metal dragon

* General Kaguro has Ascendant Justice, which can produce a giant pillar of electricity (essentially a laser) that can destroy anything below.
* Shadow of Intent and Leviathan (has powerful shields) are some of the other airships.
* All airships operate separately from one another. There have been rumblings that as Operation Lazarus progresses, the airships are coming together as a singular defensive force, forming a true armada

## The Yorinobu Plan

The Yorinobu plan utilized vast advances in Arasaka's operational capabilities to forcible relocate communities, increase surveillance on the countryside of Arasaka, centralize the relationship between the Kingdoms of Nymeria and Arasaka, and extrajudicial killings of guerilla fighters (and people connected to them). Roughly 15% of the civilian population of Nymeria was forcibly relocated, some to camps, some to the cities, and some to new villages. This relocation scheme has been part and parcel with Arasaka's redevelopment scheme, forcing civilians into more productive areas. For more information on the exact policies utilized by Arasaka look up "The Briggs Plan."

There are also elements of the enclosure movement in this act. Arasaka used the state of emergency to enclose land, creating profitable land for the company and the kingdoms that cooperated with them from previously commonly held land. (Writer's note: this is a step that every industrializing society has taken at some point, to varying degrees of suddenness and violence)

## Notable Members

* **Saburo Arasaka** -
* **Yorinobu Arasaka** -
* General Kagero
* **Red Sun** -
* **Olivia Basak** -
* **Teppei** -