Renraku Computer Systems

Renraku stores things. Memory, databases, records — if an institution knows something about you, it is probably sitting on Renraku hardware. Unglamorous business, enormous business.

In Seattle they are also a landmark. The arcology downtown is a corporate city with its own power, water and population, and it does not need the sprawl around it for anything.

Canon reference: Renraku Computer Systems on the Sixth World Wiki, for anybody who wants the published version. Where it and this page disagree, this page is what happened here.

What the crew knows

• Inside the arcology you are inside their country. Not their building — their country. Different laws, different police, no appeal.
• The Red Samurai are their internal security. They are very good, and unlike MCT they will take you alive, which is not obviously the better outcome.
• Tens of thousands of people live in there and go about ordinary lives. Some of them will talk to you for money.
• Their Los Angeles presence is data centres and cable, not towers. In a city with no government, being the company that holds everyone's records is quietly a lot of power.
• Easiest of the Japanese corps to get physically near, hardest to get anything out of.

Standing with the crew

Neutral. They have no reason to know your names.