country's uproar at the EU Summit, where President Rennicke diplomatically rampaged against the union centralizing around an alliance between England and France. And now reports have claimed that the head of Germany's Department of Projects has taken meetings with American corporations, Hyperion Enterprises in particular.
The Pacific Union, consisting primarily of Japan, China, and Korea, continue innovations in robotics with The Samurai Program. The first generation of cybernetically enhanced officers, called "Akuma," were rendered defunct, each country taking the technology birthed from the union and using it to pioneer their own independent projects. China has led the way in practicality with Project Dao, an inventory of construction droids, robots capable of carrying many time their weight and escalating walls without assistance. However, whereas China pursued a different application of the robotics, Japan has improved upon Akuma with the second generation of cybernetic police officers, Benzaiten, also know as Benzai. Japanese Prime Minister, Takeshi Kusugi, has given his word to the global community that the Benzai's sonic weapons are only capable of disorienting targets, but rumors still persists claiming the technology is more severe than reported. Scientists from America and the EU have expressed concerns about the hazards of focused sonic energy on the human body, stating some in particular may have extreme sensitivities to the kind of physiological disturbances being hit with a sonic wave may cause. In the end though, Dr. Akihiro Chino, head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Sciences, has had the last word, stating that the sonic weapons are less dangerous than the firearms still in use in every other country. Whether or not evidence will be found concerning the Benzaitens' full capabilities remains unclear, but also unlikely. Claiming the vague reasons of security and the necessity of stabilization, the Pacific Union has put up an iron wall, virtually ceasing all travel and media flow to and from the union, much to the dismay of the other unions. The third major force in the PU, Korea, has taken advantage of the wall, never revealing their take on the Akuma project. However, talk has arisen that the country will be leading the next Pacific Summit, where plans will be formalized to begin work on another Great Project as a collective.
The last major player in unionization is the United States. The early years of The Great Deal were filled with tension and power struggles. Due to the conflict between the White House and major corporations, the world power lagged behind the progress of the European and Pacific Unions. American corporations refused to gather around President Hampton. The stagnation in progress inspired voters to put the rival party in the White House, and President Gardner found a solution still in effect until today, for the government to assist the corporations that pursued Great Projects through grants, loans, and tax incentives. Initially, the attempts at compromise were ridiculed, the U.S. government deemed weak, the corporations judged as too corrupt, flying their corporate narcissism under the banner of hope and recovery provided by The Great Deal. Critics cried "corporate communism," fearing a world where CEO's owned and operated the country. But people underestimated President Gardner. The projects proposed by most of the corporations were rejected by the new Department of Great Projects, and huge submission fees and fines for project rejection discouraged companies from submitting. Not until Richard Sutheford, founder and CEO of Hyperion Enterprises, presented his project, ten years into The Great Era, did America find its Great Project. Working with NASA, the Department of Clean Energy, and other federal research centers, Hyperion started work on The Livable Space Program, constructing two self-sustaining habitat domes: one a natural habitat in the New Mexican desert, the other a
The Pacific Union, consisting primarily of Japan, China, and Korea, continue innovations in robotics with The Samurai Program. The first generation of cybernetically enhanced officers, called "Akuma," were rendered defunct, each country taking the technology birthed from the union and using it to pioneer their own independent projects. China has led the way in practicality with Project Dao, an inventory of construction droids, robots capable of carrying many time their weight and escalating walls without assistance. However, whereas China pursued a different application of the robotics, Japan has improved upon Akuma with the second generation of cybernetic police officers, Benzaiten, also know as Benzai. Japanese Prime Minister, Takeshi Kusugi, has given his word to the global community that the Benzai's sonic weapons are only capable of disorienting targets, but rumors still persists claiming the technology is more severe than reported. Scientists from America and the EU have expressed concerns about the hazards of focused sonic energy on the human body, stating some in particular may have extreme sensitivities to the kind of physiological disturbances being hit with a sonic wave may cause. In the end though, Dr. Akihiro Chino, head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Sciences, has had the last word, stating that the sonic weapons are less dangerous than the firearms still in use in every other country. Whether or not evidence will be found concerning the Benzaitens' full capabilities remains unclear, but also unlikely. Claiming the vague reasons of security and the necessity of stabilization, the Pacific Union has put up an iron wall, virtually ceasing all travel and media flow to and from the union, much to the dismay of the other unions. The third major force in the PU, Korea, has taken advantage of the wall, never revealing their take on the Akuma project. However, talk has arisen that the country will be leading the next Pacific Summit, where plans will be formalized to begin work on another Great Project as a collective.
The last major player in unionization is the United States. The early years of The Great Deal were filled with tension and power struggles. Due to the conflict between the White House and major corporations, the world power lagged behind the progress of the European and Pacific Unions. American corporations refused to gather around President Hampton. The stagnation in progress inspired voters to put the rival party in the White House, and President Gardner found a solution still in effect until today, for the government to assist the corporations that pursued Great Projects through grants, loans, and tax incentives. Initially, the attempts at compromise were ridiculed, the U.S. government deemed weak, the corporations judged as too corrupt, flying their corporate narcissism under the banner of hope and recovery provided by The Great Deal. Critics cried "corporate communism," fearing a world where CEO's owned and operated the country. But people underestimated President Gardner. The projects proposed by most of the corporations were rejected by the new Department of Great Projects, and huge submission fees and fines for project rejection discouraged companies from submitting. Not until Richard Sutheford, founder and CEO of Hyperion Enterprises, presented his project, ten years into The Great Era, did America find its Great Project. Working with NASA, the Department of Clean Energy, and other federal research centers, Hyperion started work on The Livable Space Program, constructing two self-sustaining habitat domes: one a natural habitat in the New Mexican desert, the other a
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