Alphazon Industries

~ DON'T BE EVIL ~

Description

Turns out gigantic unaccountable tech firms employing a panopticon of international global surveillance and data harvesting, are pretty damn good at finding hidden secrets and knowing things they have no business knowing. This secret megacorp is the king of tech as a monopoly over just about every piece of hardware or software you've seen in civilized markets, Western and Chinese. It wasn't long before they started having questions, and finding the answers for themselves, and figuring out that politics weren't just a game about money changing hands or the right bribes, but uncovered the influence of paranormal entities and witches. They began running their own private blacksites as part of their investigations, abducting people they algorithmically detected as probable witches, followed by direct surveillance to catch them in an act. While the ORC|Orcs have their head in the clouds chasing fairy tales and saving the world, Alphazon was rising to power within the public domain, among humans, with a board of directors begining to view themselves as gods greater than any single country and with no allegiance or nationality save for themselves. They rapidly diverted resources into occult research with modern machinery and supercomputing, able to do in a few years what took decades for the ORC back in the day.

Alphazon is brutal and has transcended mere profit for the pursuit of actual power and secrets beyond their mortal limitations. Cocky and two-faced, if you thought politician speak was bad, there's nothing more belittling, insulting, and disingenuous than corporate speak. At least we at the ORC stand for something and have an identity, and try to operate within shared values. Actual shared values, not some PR pitch. They'll invade every aspect of your life and privacy, any device a bug of its own to listen in, even send actors to interact with you and pry information and sus out your potential and cooperativeness and run a risk assessment. Too high, you'll never be seen again. Moderately high, you'll wake up in a cage as they soften you up and try literal brainwashing techniques. Just right and they'll directly talk about recruitment. Too low and you might not be worth the effort. As an agent for Alphazon you'd be implanted with trackers and full passive surveilance of your biology and recording what you percieve, and put somewhere optimized for your skill set from making potions to running spy work, or hit jobs to knock off problem witches and humans alike or convincing new tech firms to sell or drop lawsuits, and you'd have access to using these mass surveillance systems for your own benefit as you please. Alphazon has almost as much government and alphabet soup agencies as the ORC does, who increasingly rely on Alphazon tech originally to try to game the system since it's not technically government surveillance now is it? It's a private company, they can do what they want. And they do. Depends on the person I guess, some might enjoy working for them. It has its perks, and some don't mind a lack or privacy, I may be biased, I joined the ORC after being bagged myself.

Word on the wire from the Lunabellans is that Alphazon has set up a research base on Mars employing several known Hespatians, just one of many, it's hard to keep up with and those are just the ones we know of when they're admittedly much better at this game than we are. From experimental vaults raising people in isolation under different testing paramiters, to large puzzle ridden facilities because they can. Many of their facilities can be classified as Anomalies themselves, and are responsible for a significant uptick in anomalous activity when their projects get out of hand for the ORC to clean up. They disavow, of course. We've also heard rumors of advanced stealth technologies and the phrase "Godsight Arrays". I don't like the sound of that. One thing we do know is that Alphazon run "Data Crypts" to keep even their human employees with access to it effectively immortal, or kept happy in digital afterlives until needed, and they have advanced Virtual Reality equipment, and experiments in advanced general AI.

Location

Alphazon has no fancy magic realm or extra-dimensional space; It instead has a real tangible presence on Earth among mortals. Towering skyscrapers around the globe with sleek ultramodern design full of hidden elevators and rooms, and penthouse suites, luxury retreats, anything money can buy and more, things not open to the public, including an experimental space station with stealth fields and gravity generation thanks to occult research teams. Flying cars that can shuttle you anywhere in the world or orbit within 45 minutes, though they've established gateways to key locations and important executives have portal witch pets I mean bodyguards, though that might not actually be much of a joke.

Relations

Alphazon are universally hated by all except the Hespatian Coven, including the ORC though we maintain a tense alliance. There are "unproven" connections between Alphazon and Hespatian families.

Gold Card
After becoming an agent of Alphazon and getting your Observer implants, you are issued your Nixium Gold Card, which has the benefits of the top 10 most exclusive credit cards (Google it), and Alphazon covers all expenses placed on the card stemming from card benefits / services, transportation, and businesses owned by Alphazon (Alphabet / Google, Apple, Amazon, Huawei, Tencent, Samsung, Sony...ect). Otherwise you recieve a bimonthly paycheck of 1 mil in USD, automatically converting to any digital currency. Naturally, you lose your account if you turncoat on the company, which would the least of your problems.