Atsumichi Cybernetics Inc.

Civil Narrative=Atsumichi Cybernetics Incorporated (ACI) is a Japanese family-owned, privately held corporation based in Overcast, that is primarily involved in the transbiologism industry, that which transcends biology. The corp researches, manufactures, attaches, and repairs biomechatronics, otherwise more commonly known as 'cyborg body parts' and other attachments of similar nature. On the surface level, the company is well-known to be a well-motivated advocate for cyborg rights within the Antarctic State, due in part to the AS government's tendency to restrict said rights.

The company is owned by the Atsumichi family at the highest ranks, with CEO Sugarashi Atsumichi being at the very top. Sugarashi inherited the company via his mother handing down the titles of CEO and chairman to him in 2193.

Beginnings
The Atsumichi Cybernetics company finds its origins in 2077, through a passionate man by the name of Ishikawa Atsumichi. Ishikawa had previously acquired a master's degree in biomedical cybernetics, and after working as a member of an existing cybernetics company during his college years, Ishikawa eventually separated from that company and started his own.

While Ishikawa very much enjoyed working with cybernetics, he wanted to work in a different direction than his previous company was on-track for. For example, Ishikawa wished to more directly combat the Antarctic State's restrictive legislation on cyberization and cyborgs themselves.

As a starting employee base, Ishikawa recruited many of his own family members and friends of the family who had relevant experience in bionics. Using his collegiate knowledge, plus that which he learned through hands-on experience at the other company, Ishikawa and his team made staggering progress in research and development, going to lengths that similar companies wouldn't even try, for fear of government scrutiny.

Recent Inheritance
The Atsumichi corporation has been family-owned business since its inception. Traditionally, the title of CEO (and chairman) has been passed down to the presiding CEO's biological son or daughter. The most recent inheritance of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) position occurred in 2193 as a transition between former CEO Misato Atsumichi, a mother, and now current CEO Sugarashi Atsumichi, her son.

Products
ACI is best known for its extensive research, development, and manufacture of biomechatronics. To the average civilian, biomechatronics are better known as "cyborg parts" such the likes of artificial arms, artificial legs, and other artificial organs. The company has product tiers ranging from simple mechanical replacements, up to fully modeled synthetic muscle, bone, and and tissue. ACI's well-developed bionics are generally only bought in order to replace a lost, otherwise natural body part after a severe prior injury.

Services
The Atsumichi corporation offers the leading expertise in surgical and medical services that are inherently involved with biomechatronic products, as only a specific intermingling of the fields of science and medicine is sufficient in order to best understand and implement the processes behind the safe and effective combination of natural flesh and artificial fabrications. They surgically prepare, attach, detach, and repair biomechatronics and their attachment sites; however, stipulation here is that the company only allows the installation of bionics that the company itself produces, as a precaution to ensure the utmost compatibility with its own methods.

Politics
The corporation is well-known for advocating for what are known as "cyborg rights", as in, the company is advocating for extended rights and freedoms of those who have replaced one or more of their body parts with artificial ones.

By contrast, the public (especially Japantown) has long since known the Unitary Government of Cyberia to restrict those very rights, mainly through passing legislation that makes it hard for a person to acquire and maintain biomechatronics. The best example of this comes in the form of restrictions on what can and cannot be covered under insurance policies; if an individual is seeking a biomechatronic addition/replacement for their body, insurance policies cannot legally provide that person insurance on the part, unless it strictly serves a medical purpose. Furthermore, the government has also put forth legislation along the lines of restricting what kinds of biomechatronics a person is allowed to buy, essentially disallowing the purchase of an artificial body part for reasons other than medical needs. Punishments are imposed upon discovery of any action that is 1) the sale of a bionic part for non-medical purposes, 2) the purchase of a bionic part for non-medical purposes, or 3) the usage of a bionic part for non-medical purposes. As most people can see, the legislation surrounding biomechatronics is quite nebulous and open to broad judicial interpretation, which is not a good thing for the people.

It is because of this, that ACI has their hands tied in terms of what they can and cannot sell to the general public; however, the company has so far been quite successful in the provision of very high quality cybernetics to medical fields dealing with testing and restoration of lost bodily function. The Atsumichi corporation seeks to open up the field of bionics to the general public, in that they believe biomechatronics should be available for unrestricted use. At the base level, Atsumichi seeks to grant the public the freedom to enjoy bionics to the fullest extent; no barriers included.|-|Underground Empire=Atsumichi Cybernetics Incorporated (ACI) does much more than simply research and develop cyborg parts. To those who personally live in the neighborhood of the corporation (commonly referred to as Japantown or J-town), the Atsumichi are an organized crime syndicate under the surface of an otherwise legitimate company. ACI has rooted its place in J-town society, controlling the majority of the community's culture and profiting off of it in many symbiotic ways.

This has become doubly true with the recent inheritance of the family company going to Sugarashi Atsumichi, who is a rather eccentric yet arguably effective strategist, and who began to utilize more drastic and violent measures than his predecessors did in order to achieve company goals.

Within the communities they control, the higher-level employees – those who conduct the organized crime operations – are collectively known by many names; the "Atsumichi Men", the "Atsumichi Brotherhood", the "Atsumichi Clan", the "Atsumichi Gang", and sometimes even just "Atsumichi", after the family name of their boss.

Before the Company
The founder of the Atsumichi Corporation, Ishikawa Atsumichi, was once part of a street gang comprised of young high schooler, who shared similar views that opposed the Cyberian government's restrictive policies, especially those which were imposed on the public development of artificial intelligence, androids, and cyborgism. Of course, they had little power to change the course of government legislation on their own, so the gang secluded themselves in their own community J-town to live in blissful ignorance of the law.

This gang later built their profits off of organizing gambling playhouses, both public and underground, and later informally branched out into units that covertly sabotaged their competition.

Formation of the Company
When Ishikawa finished his degree and later established the Atsumichi Cybernetics corporation, he never left behind his private support of the street gang that he was once a part of. Ishikawa used his rising status to lift the gang up with him, while keeping up the facade of a legitimate company to keep their underground operations in the dark, away from government eyes. While avoiding detection, he continued to profit off of both legal and underground gambling services, and soon took higher-level control over the now subordinate owners of various gambling houses within the community.

From there, ACI began to recruit people from these subordinate organizations for either legitimate employment in their growing company, or induction as a troop in their smaller yet more lucrative organized crime business.

Underground Activity
Later into Ishikawa's reign as CEO, the Atsumichi corporation began to gradually increased their control on the J-town community through expanding their influence over more and more small businesses, advising and occasionally strong-arming them under the noses of the ASC government. Despite the occasional aggression, the general public of J-town began to trust ACI's advice and services more than they trusted the government's own. ACI essentially gained unofficial ownership of the businesses they controlled through its trustworthiness, helpfulness, and reliability, and let the former runners operate semi-autonomously under the corp's guidance, like a pet. Ishikawa's company was paid sums of money in the form of either official donations or unreported bank notes, in exchange for the syndicate's employees dispensing a number of dubiously legal services, including but not limited to business advice, business manipulation, and even retaliation. Recurring payments could also be made in order to receive continuous services such as security, protection, and insurance.

On top of the dirty money, the corp also made legitimately legal profits off of the high-end, high quality bionics used for medical ends, such as replacement of a lost limb, eye, or other such injuries. The company often used these and other legal profits, like donations, to launder the money gained from their extralegal business practices.

Internal Structure
At the top of the ACI hierarchy, the high-status members of the company have their own group separate from the lower workers. This group commonly holds mutual respect for one another in high regard as if they were an extended family, even though the majority of them are not blood relatives of the real Atsumichi family. Mutual respect is the way of life within this extended family, even if that same family takes advantage of outsiders on the daily.

Chief Executive Officer
At the very top of the food chain, there lies the Chief Executive Officer of Atsumichi Cybernetics, who is the leader of both the public-facing facade, and the corporate gang that they are better known for within the knowledgeable population of J-town. The CEO position has never been held by anyone other than a blood relative of the Atsumichi family, which is the current established precedent at the company.

Administrators
Administrators are best described as the CEO's henchmen; loyal troops who carry out executive orders without question. Their bodies have been subject to heavy alteration through biomechatronics. It is not uncommon for each henchman to have both arms and both legs completely replaced by top-of-the-line synthetic limbs, granting them highly increased agility and strength compared to even that of the above-average person. Some go as far as replacing their own eyes with bionics, and few go even further beyond in the pursuit of even more power. Administrators are among the highest-paid members of the Atsumichi underground, second only to the CEO themselves. These high-ranking men are always well-dressed in clean, tailored business attire, and act accordingly as a sign of their status in J-town.

After Sugarashi inherited ownership the family's company from his mother, he began to take the syndicate business practices into harsher waters. At the order of their boss, the administrators became increasingly more capable of physical violence, and more willing to use it in the fulfillment of their objectives. They took their otherwise reserved strong-arming tactics and ran further with them, threatening civilians more readily, enacting violent revenge and other acts more often, and even conducting forceful kidnappings for a multitude of different end goals.

Sugarashi at one point had commissioned a swordmaster by the name of Tony, to train his band of administrators in quick, efficient swordfighting. Soon after, the administrators began to appear much more often with a sheathed sword held or strapped at their side, the specific type of which being somewhat subject to the individual company man's preference.

Lawmen
The lawmen of ACI are lawyers of several different kinds, tasked with advising members of the company of all things relevant to Cyberian legislation, be it simple legal advice or how to get away with murder. The lawmen are one of many supporting roles in the Atsumichi corporation, as opposed to the likes of the administrators, who are the physical doers, and are superior to lawmen.

Accountants
Accountants are Atsumichi members that handle the financial situations in the company, and handle them very well. The accountants not only deal with internal finances and money laundering, but they also supervise the finances of the businesses and individuals who have willingly or unwillingly found themselves under the private umbrella of the corporation. They will be the first ones to inform the administrators and CEO alike about a particular person's or group of persons' failure to pay up what is owed. Accountants have just about the same status as lawmen, at least in regards to being subordinate to administrators.

Little Brothers
Little brothers are essentially new recruits of the Atsumichi organized crime syndicate. To other companies, they would be referred to as interns; overworked, and at first unpaid, lower-ranked employees who seek to rise higher in status within the extended family. Despite being burdened with a forcibly fluid schedule and multiple tasks, little brothers are often invited to respectable dinners and ceremonies with higher ranking Atsumichi members as a sign of the mutual respect they expect out of the recruits. Little brothers are regularly tested, whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not. Those higher on the ladder seek to find the little brothers' strengths, weaknesses, and aptitudes, in order to pre-categorize them into future, higher status roles.

Little brothers join ACI for all kinds of reasons, even including those who end up insolvent to the family and must abandon their previous work life to work off their debt with Atsumichi. Most, however, come from those who were a part of many lesser street gangs, which the Atsumichi seek to dissolve in one way or another.

In contrast to little brothers being named "little" brothers, the administrators are said to be the "big" brothers.

Common Workers
On the more legitimate side of operations, ACI employs mostly what are called "common workers" by the crime syndicate side. Common workers are the brains of the company; researchers, developers, programmers, surgeons, maintainers, and PR managers. They are what drives the business through the betterment of the field of biomechanical cybernetics.

Due to the nature of the ASC government's restrictive legislation regarding the development and implementation of bionics, a large portion of the work that goes into them is put under the legal radar anyways, as it would otherwise be illegal to work on bionics for non-medical purposes.

In the Public Eye
In the eyes of the general public, the Atsumichi corporation is most often seen as a somewhat small yet quite noble company that advocates for cyborg rights, in a country where the government tends restricts those rights. Atsumichi company men are almost always seen well-dressed in tailored business suits and driving luxurious vehicles. Some of them even collect swords new and old.

Atsumichi status has become a popular public role model in the J-town communities, to the extent that media such as advertisements and magazines have been made featuring their likenesses.

In the Government Eye
The Unitary Government of Cyberia has mixed feelings about the Atsumichi corporation. On one hand, the government dislikes their advocacy of cyborg rights, but on the other hand the government cannot fault their surface-level legality. ACI is known to pay their corporate taxes in full and on time each year, and has never once denied a request for inspection or questioning. Overall, Atsumichi remains in good standing, business-wise.

Though government remains suspicious of the Atsumichi corp's internal operations, they are unaware of the expertly hidden hard evidence that is necessary to convict the corporation of any crimes committed. Furthermore, government is in fact not completely informed of the nature of Atsumichi's grand role in the shaping and extortion of the Cyberian J-town culture.

In the Underground
The Atsumichi corporation has long since solidified its role as a major kingpin in J-town communities in most but not all cities in Cyberia. The company's origins had been born out of making a profit off of gambling houses, but eventually evolved into more of a well-organized gang with a company that serves the community it grew up in, now as an overhead deity rather than a sole member of society.

Those who have become or have always been disillusioned with the Cyberian government often choose to seclude themselves within these very communities; these dense urban jungles, which are informally majority ruled by the ACI company. Much of the crime in Atsumichi's neighborhoods often goes unreported to the Antarctic State authorities, due to the neighborhood public putting more stock in the company's help, rather than the government's. As such, government authorities have become less and less welcome about the place, though the same authorities often praise the supposed lack of criminal activity.

The Atsumichi company has these strong ties with J-town's underworld culture and economy through connections made and maintained with the numerous smaller businesses. Every storefront in J-town that a person walks into has a likelihood of being controlled by the Atsumichi. Those that aren't, are likely a part of one of a select few rival gangs. ACI territory spans large swathes of Japantown areas, where administrators openly patrol, assist, and antagonize the people.

At the street-level, the administrators are known to be a blessing and a curse, as they both conduct violence and keep people safe from it, in differing capacities. Common low-level crime is reduced due to the fact that administrators patrol and guard their communities against rival crime and gang activity, even if it is only done so the Atsumichi are the ones collecting the public's money at the end of the day.

Street Services
Under CEO Sugarashi, the Atsumichi still extend nearly all of the same underground services that the original founder Ishikawa did under his reign, those being outside-the-law business practices offered to smaller businesses as well as individual people in exchange for monetary compensation. Furthermore, they have also expanded their offers with the addition of giving high-interest loans, conducting interrogations, espionage, info trading, selling firearms, and even carrying out assassinations. The ACI company has come to fill the void that the common distrust in the AS government constantly leaves.

Beyond that, Atsumichi Men also do business dealing out insurance policies. Especially popular is cyborg insurance, where a person who has a bionic body part can pay ACI for insurance on that part, in a country where the government refuses to or at the very least makes it hard for a person with non-medical bionics to have those parts insured.