2015: year of war
In the year 2015 a massive war erupted between high powered warlords from East Asia and forces from the United Nations. Knowing that a UN victory would give the governing force a hold on the worlds economic trade spine, many high powered weapons and cybernetic corporations made secretive deals with the War Lords, trading weapons and equipment for promises of military and civilian contracts. Several Nations such as the US and UK, who recently succeeded from the Corrupted UN, as well as OPEC, also secretly aided their support.
During the war, several Corporations- such as Joubu of New Japan and Cyberus de’ amore of France- recorded record profits, generating a nearly limitless stock pile of funds. With such funds the Corporations were able to produce larger and more powerful weapons. With such a large advantage in money and weaponry the war lords were able to decimate the UN, forcing them to exhaust their funds and personal.
As promised the corporations were granted their contracts and able to establish alliances with powerful nations not affected by the war as well as common alliances with other operations. As a result of these deals the world market became dominated by these new corporate factions, leaving the smaller independents to fall into bankruptcy leaving the worlds income circulating through the hands of few. Every aspect of life became corporate related. Schools and medical centers became privatized, places for recruiting and training. Eventually governing establishments were integrated, a cancer slowly eating away at the ruling structure. Whole nations fell. Others, such as the US, were able to remain in control to a certain point. Still, the pacific coast fell into the hands of Joubu and it’s new CEO, Arashi.
Now at the dawn of 2039, 24 years after the great war, the world has found a complacent peace, chaos ended by the banners of those created to serve the civil world. Businesses are traded, sold, or taken over with lethal acts of assassinations; people are abducted and forced through corporate training, or manipulated into serving the new masters in any manner they deem fit. Those who have not pledged loyalty are removed from the records, loosing their identity, and forced to live in exile, unable to work or generate a living. They are known as Yuurei, or ” ghosts”. Though forgotten, they are not powerless. Many Yuurei have formed small clusters threatening civil unrest and small scale rebellion.
