Militech Chronicles IV

Crynn POV

"I need a drink, Is there a bottle of water around here?" Before she continued, Aria rubbed her throat in an exaggerated motion of dehydration, is there even water here? Well If there aren't, I still have like dozens in my briefcase. There's a metallic cupboard over there, I'm betting there's gonna be some supplies in there.

I walked over and opened the doors, it was quite smooth actually unlike the metal locker doors which always seem to creak and clank however you fixed it up. Oooh... There's some interesting stuff here, and when I say interesting, there's a digital magazine which is very advanced, a lot of water bottles on the bottom side and some other devices.

"I got your drink," I tossed one over in which Aria readily and precisely caught in the air with a shout of thank you as she easily opened the cap and gulped down half of it, does this aircraft have a toilet? Of course it has, it's in the back with a very conspicuous sign hung on it which makes it indeed a toilet.

"Get me one as well," Calian said and I lobbed another full bottle as well but I ain't getting any, I'm still hydrated you see and I don't drink a lot of water, I'm basically like a camel, I've got an internal water storage or something. "Continue now?" Calian curtly asked, well this history's very intriguing, I'd also like to learn more actually.

"Okay, the EEC, European Union of this world blantantly and shamelessly backstabbed both Militech and Arasaka, shamelessly when they already shamelessly accepted both party's bribes but to be a politician, shame mustn't exist because everything you do is a shame to some degree whether small or large, that's how Donald Trump became president, he's shameless, he made it, as do most presidents around the world."

"They start of small by commanding Militech to Arasaka to cease their war on European grounds, both of the giants don't particularly care because they have already bribed them. They turned caring really quickly when a small shootout in a small Militech showroom gave the EEC a chance to go in."

"Yes such a petty reason of a in this world's terms simple shootout, resulted in the nationalization of Militech and Arasaka's assets in the entirety of Europe from up there in Iceland to the most edge of the Greek Mediterranean Islands. And yes, this world's Great Britain never quite made it towards Brexit."

"The two corporations were beyond furious and accused the EEC of framing them and that the attack was orchestrated by them instead but based on what I'm reading right now, it seems that the whole accusation was just some lies made by indignant corporations. They couldn't react, their main forces aren't stationed in Europe and thus, the EEC nationalizes every European asset in a day."

"Japan themselves, the birthplace and country with the main headquarters of Arasaka also decided to just stab them in the back as well just not as smoothly nor successfully as the EEC. Turns out Arasaka's big owner and top boss, Saburo Arasaka has a whole safe full of paper, what's so valuable about the paper you wonder?"

"Couple of high stacks filled with some sweet juicy blackmail material, the safe is exaggerated because it doesn't say where the blackmail is stored or is it even on paper, I'm just making a point. And so anyway, the Prime Minister was finally defeated by everyone on the National Diet of Japan, everyone, his friends, his underlings, everyone."

"So, Arasaka still has their footing in Japan while Militech in the US is facing some less than favorable outcome with Southern California and the Republic of Texas which is strange but we won't mind how Texas became a republic and move on. So these two states, I presume they're states, they instantly nationalizes Militech's and Arasaka's assets as well."

"Oh actually, there's a continuation on Japan here, turns out they did get Arasaka under control. Because apparently, the Arasaka boss' son is a traitor, his name is Yorinobu Arasaka and his hobby is to feed all kinds of intel and company blackmail to the Japanese as well as erasing a large part of the blackmail data."

"And after days of traitorous deeds, Japan acted with an iron fist, quickly moving their Japanese Self-Defense Force in, seizing and nationalizing all Arasaka local assets, but of course, even then, the prime minister died of suspicious circumstances and the assets that were seized were mostly returned, a big mostly right there because Arasaka is practically in isolation for the next ten years but we're not here for Arasaka, we're here for Militech, what's next right?"

"Thankfully for them, they have an ex-CEO as the President of The United States who made a decisive and clever move to nationalize Militech. Why smart, because the president is Militech's ex-president and with her nationalizing Militech, she's now president of Militech once more, what a scheme right."

"But there was more, Militech isn't done yet now that they returned to their former president's hands, she has a bigger, better and much more explosive idea. She doesn't want Arasaka anywhere in North America, not from Canada down to New Mexico, she wants Militech as sole behemoth ruling over the North, so what better plan than to blow Arasaka sky high!"

"The only major headquarters left belonging to Arasaka is Night City, and it's no any ordinary headquarters, it's their main American headquarters making it much more vital and much more of a bigger target. So, here comes some small characters, mainly one Johnny Silverhand, a street rocker and the gang of mercenaries."

"Based on what I'm reading right here, Johnny seems to bear quite the grudge against Arasaka, one of the reasons being they killed his girlfriend, well love beats all they say but Johnny never got his proper vengeance. His girlfriend is also a prominent figure, much more famous than a street rocker, she's proclaimed as the world's best netrunner which means hacker in this world for some reason."

"He didn't get his vengeance paid until Militech came to him with a very big offer he can't refuse."