Editing Myosho-Shintar Experiment (section)

===Commercial===

====Auctioneer 9000====
''Wealthy Popular Trade Cartel''<br>
Auctioneer 9000 (aka AE9000, AE9K, Auctioneer, Auction House, Market) is the AI interface to the interactive marketplace of the Myosho Consortium. Designed and managed by the Kinoshita Family, AE9K is a central database and purchasing interface listing every good sold and traded within Myosho space. Featuring seventeen personality algorithms, EncyptoSecure (TM) interfaces with every communications medium known to man, and a real-time catalog of over five octodecillion products, Auctioneer is your personalized concierge to anything and everything you could possibly desire.

===="Freelancers"====
''Eclectic Warrant Registry''<br>
The Division of Freelance Interdiction Specialists or D-FIS, also known as Freelancers in police, military, and criminal circles, is a commercial enterprise run by Family Ueno, a subsidiary family of the Sugimoto, Murata, and Takeuchi families who supply many of the members of the rank-and-file Protectorate bloc in government and the military. The D-FIS charter is to support government agencies in the securement and delivery of Myosho citizenry attempting violation of their terms of parole. That role has since expanded to serving warrants of any kind, though that function remains an unofficial one as far as the strict letter of the charter is concerned.

Freelancers come in all stripes; once certified and made part of the D-FIS registry, a D-FIS agent is free to deputize a team and to pursue their bounties in the manner they see fit under the loose oversight of the agency.

====Nakamura Information Technology====
''Popular Merchant Corporation''<br>
Officially, the Nakamura specialize in entertainment, information, and data technologies. Unofficially, their most valuable commodity is information. Think Google meets the NSA--they gather information on anything that could be remotely useful, from simple marketing data to the secrets of powerful individuals and organizations. No one really knows just how much data the clan really possesses; they have an entire department dedicated just to sifting through the vast databases for useful or valuable information. NITech is a member of the Planners Bloc.

=====Department of Public Esteem=====
NITech's Department of Public Esteem (Marketing & PR, basically) is headed by a staunch traditionalist who remembers a time when the Nakamura name was synonymous with quality products, not shady information-gathering (whether such a time actually existed is debatable). She is opposed to the very existence of the SPT, and while the department doesn't necessarily have a lot of sway in the company, they do have media contacts and the department head has powerful friends inside & outside the company. Worse, she appears to be entirely clean (to wit, lacking exploitable secrets). The department doesn't often take direct action against SPT, but isn't above undermining their operations.

=====Special Projects Team=====
''Secretive High-Tech Corporation''<br>
A subsidiary of the Data Acquisition & Application Department of Nakamura Information Technology (NITech), the Special Projects Team is a small unit with a mandate to acquire and apply information in ways that benefit the clan, and they have a great deal of leeway in how they interpret that mandate. They're effectively a privately run intelligence agency, with all that implies. They work extensively with freelancers (though they can bring Nakamura resources to bear, if need be) and aren't above working as freelancers themselves.

Special Project Team's relationship with the the B3I is complicated and often comes down to individual members of each organization. Officially, NITech cooperates fully with law enforcement and provides some of their gear. Off the books, NITech's cooperation often takes the form of B3I requisitioning information from them while pointedly ignoring how the information was obtained. But occasionally, SPT operatives go too far or run afoul of a B3I agent who refuses to look the other way, so NITech has had to leave a few "rogue" employees (and quite a few freelancers) on the proverbial hook. There are some within the agency that would love to shut down the SPT and confiscate all of NITech's data.

Division 56 mostly hates SPT. They resent having "civilian spies" interfering in their sphere of influence and they really resent NITech's attempts to gather information on Division 56 activities.

====Fujita Enterprises====
''Austere Political Corporation''<br>
Fujita Enterprises produces comparable technology to NITech, but claims not to have the same sort of information gathering apparatus that their rival does (they do; it just isn't as comprehensive). They bill themselves as a more honest answer to NITech, and have parleyed their reputation into better contracts with the government and military, particularly Division 56. NITech is slightly more cutting edge than Fujita, but between their government contracts and widespread appeal, Fujita is actually the more financially successful company.