Suzuki-Zhang Corporate Conglomerate

The largest industrial megacorporation in the Solar System, Suzuki-Zhang has dominated engineering, technological manufactoring, mining, and recently exo-atmospheric industry since 2032. A major contributor to the AOC's colonial efforts, Suzuki-Zhang provided many prefabricated biodomes and arcologies to uninhabitable worlds, as well as the equipment to terraform Mars to a habitable planet, and was the majority contributor to the AOC's mining operations throughout the Solar System. Since the collapse, Suzuki-Zhang has been working to utilise a new dependancy for assistance the AOC remnants may have due to advanced infrastructure without the unified peoples to support it.

## General Information

### Subsidaries

Security, Engineering, Robotics, Arms, Space

## Locations

### Headquarters

Xin Shanghai, Luna, EarthXin Beijing, Callisto, Jupiter

### Major Branches

Shanghai, China
Beijing, China

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Tamar, Hong Kong, China

Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China

Tokyo, Kanto, Japan

Keihanshin, Kansai, Japan

## History

### Early

Yoko Suzuki and Qing Zhang were two friends living in Beijing in early China. Both having visited America in 1920, they became infatuated with automobiles. They began in 1924 as one of the first car companies in China, Suzuki-Zhang saw itself being able to survive China's turbulent history. However, after Yoko perished in a Japanese attack in 1938, Zhang fled to the Phillipines, to India, and then to Hong Kong once the war was over. Zhang, a brilliant mind, would soon be bearing not only most of communist China's automotive needs, but also began handling most of their military vehicles as well. They began an aerospace and space subdivision as well in the 60s, shortly before Zhang would die to a tumor which had gone undiagnosed. The company was handed to his 19-year-old son, who was not as well trusted among the Chinese oligarchs as his father, but the boy did push the factories to make a very high quality product, being a major reason why the United States capitulated so fast in 1968, not being able to match the superior tactics and technology of the NVA and VC. In 1998, Suzuki Zhang was responsible for the first non-American on the moon, beating the only record of Apollo 11 by 4 days. In 2022, Suzuki Zhang, now ran by a great-grandaughter of the Patriarch, began secretly supporting the Central Asian's push into western China, supplying them with trainers on how to navigate Tibet and Xinjiang's horrid terrain. In 2032, being headquartered in Hong Kong, began pushing for the reunification of China under a Hong Kong rule. And they got their wish, also allowing China to be the first country on the Mars, exceling what looked to be a country previously devastated by a civil war was now a world superpower, with America failing to be able to compete as it faced utter economic collapse under the rule of President DeSantis. Suzuki Zhang also was a major contributor for the global effort to terraform Mars. They set up multiple mining colonies on the later island of Olympus, now obviously destroyed. They set up multiple mining colonies across the solar system, including most of the 8 planets, excluding planets like Neptune and Uranus where habitable mining colonies could be pursued. They became a major bankroll of the AOC, supplying it with most of their weaponry and spaceflight engines. In 2094, a Suzuki-Zhang scientist also discovered an engine that could theoretically travel faster than light, which would later become the RTL-5050.

## Influence

### External Reputation

To those outside of the corporation, Suzuki-Zhang is only known as the company with their logo on most machinery found in the system, as well as their largest monopoly on mining of materials and extracting of natural gas. The conglomerate has little positive or negative reputation, or even public presence, although a high up career is seen as highly desireable to aspiring university graduates.

### Internal Reputation

To employees, Suzuki-Zhang offers many benefits that most other corporations are unable to afford to it's employees (better pay, hours, amenities, bonuses), and it's workplace safety and welfare are renown. For this, employees are expected to be loyal without question, and work to their hardest, or end up with a quick termination. Disgraced former employees often cite the predatory nature of the workplace is utilised to keep employees under control, the standard being that you must work harder than employees of all other corporations to forward SZ interests at whatever means possible.

## Executives and People of Interest

### Board of Directors

* The chairwoman is Bai Zhang, descendant of Qing Zhang
* Chen Yong, Li Xinhai, Chang Yang, Mary Liu, and Yu Lang are all directors
* influential shareholders are A Jae-Hwa, Chang Kyu-Bong, Gyo Hoe, Taketa Hikaru, Asa Azumi, Muranaka Cho, and Murano Kyou

### C-Level Officers

* Chief Executive Officer Bai Zhang, Chairwoman
* Chief Operating Officer Suzuki Ryota, President
* Chief Security Officer Eto Shoichi, Senior Vice President
* Chief Technology Officer Tiêu Trúc Lâm, Senior Vice President
* Chief Legal Officer Hwangmok Hyun, Senior Vice President
* Chief Fiancial Officer Sako Osamu, Vice President
* Chief Marketing Officer Dam Seoyeon, Vice President
* Chief Business Officer Kah Eun-Jung, Vice President
* Chief Reputation Officer Yeom Young-Mi, Vice President

### POIs

* Oshiro Kiku, a Japanese immigrant who won the state championship for robotics, and went on to be one of the head of robotics at Suzuki Zhang.
* Hwangbo Jiwoo, a Korean man who moved to Manchuria in his 30s for work. He "discovered" an engine which revolutionized warp technology and would developthe RTL5050.
* Lucas Zhang, a Locustian bastard child aged 18 who resides in the capital city of Locustia after running away to Locustia. He is a stain on the company's reputation, denouncing the company and revealing details he picked up on as a kid. He is very bright, apparently having a Photographic memory. This worries Bai Zhang, because Lucas was very close with Jiwoo when he discovered the FTL technology. He is unofficially being hunted.

## Products

### RTL-500 Warp Drive

The RTL5050 is a revolutionary piece of tech recently unveiled by Suzuki Zhang meant to speed up warp travel by leaps. The RTL5050 has been in testing for 10 years, and has shown a near 99% success rate. It works by plasmifying all of the onboard particles into subatomic particles before rearranging them at or near the target. The 1% margin of error causes a small nuclear explosion if the particles collide enough, so it is to be used out of atmosphere only. Tests estimate it can travel about 1 lightyear per 2 minutes, so about 30 ly/h. It has a range of 120 ly, charging for an hour after that. This should make space travel much easier.