Arasaka's power in Night City has almost entirely transitioned to Ascension Technology.
If it were just that, it wouldn't be much, but the key is that Ascension Technology isn't satisfied with this; they also want to meddle in more affairs of the Night City Government.
While the Night City Government reduces NCPD funding and scale each year, at least the security power of Night City is still in their hands, right?
What Ascension Technology wants now is not just the money for contracting police services; the proposal also mentions that Ascension Technology has the subjective power to control urban areas and modify crime behavior standards.
Any normal politician would not agree to such absurd terms, outsourcing all power.
But unfortunately, there aren't many normal people left in the Night City Government.
Ascension Technology successfully took over the power Otto left in Night City and extended its reach.
Coupled with Arasaka's unconditional support, even for such an extremely absurd proposal, there were voices of support throughout the council.
The remaining councilors, despite raising numerous objections, still could not stop the general trend of the two companies uniting.
It's no exaggeration to say that there's no difference between the Night City Government and being completely controlled by Ascension Technology.
Ascension Technology's influence in Night City reached its peak, becoming the representative corporation of Night City.
But controlling Night City was just the beginning of Ascension Technology's plan.
The entire world outside of Night City was Luoqi's target.
With Arasaka's help, utilizing their resources and influence worldwide, Ascension Technology's name began to appear in other countries and cities outside of Night City.
Ascension Technology absorbed some of Arasaka's bases, transforming them into their own branch bases, and expanded their business outwards.
And the first thing implemented was the expansion plan for Ascension Network.
This corporation, famous in Night City, began appearing in the eyes of people worldwide, and as soon as they appeared, they brought about such an absolutely explosive event.
"Ascension Technology, the representative corporation from the Free State of Night City in North America, maintains close cooperation with Arasaka and possesses strong capabilities.
Just now, this technology company, which is very unfamiliar to everyone, launched a brand new network project, Ascension Network.
According to Ascension Technology, this is a brand new interconnected network, with no Blackwall obstruction and no dangerous AI, a great network that can reconnect the world.
And according to what we understand, this network project is not a newly launched project by Ascension Technology, but a project that was deployed and implemented in Night City early on and has received widespread recognition and praise from local citizens."
News channels everywhere are reporting.
Ascension Network was officially launched to the world this time.
Just like the situation in Night City initially, Ascension Technology's powerful performance unsurprisingly gained people's approval, and a large number of netizens flocked to Ascension Network.
But this situation did not last long, as an unfamiliar corporation suddenly launched a network project and poached their existing network users.
Network communication companies around the world naturally would not agree, and under the pressure from these companies, governments everywhere quickly issued bans on this newly opened network space.
Of course, many companies also saw the huge potential of Ascension Network, ignored the so-called suppression by various communication companies, and began contacting Ascension Technology, preparing to use the services provided by Ascension Network long-term for global communication to assist company operations.
These companies are not involved in the network industry, but their daily operations require the use of networks; the efficient and secure Ascension Network naturally gains their favor.
There aren't many such companies, but it's not a small number either, and this also caused dissatisfaction among the World Satellite Communication Network company, WCN.
You should know that these companies were basically WCN's clients originally.
WCN monopolizes a large number of communication satellites and specializes in cross-border communication, providing network services to a large number of companies around the world.
But the emergence of Ascension Technology is undoubtedly seizing their market.
The loss of a large number of clients made them extremely angry.
Europe.
WCN Headquarters.
An emergency high-level meeting was held here.
"The appearance of Ascension Network has dealt a huge blow to our business; it must be resolved as soon as possible," a high-level executive mentioned first.
The appearance of Ascension Network completely broke WCN's comfort zone; for a long time, they relied on satellite monopoly to firmly control the network communication industry market and held a steady position as a European corporate giant.
This was the first time in recent years they had convened all high-level executives so seriously to discuss a matter.
"Is there any news from the European Aviation Authority?" a high-level executive asked in a deep voice.
"Absolutely none, Ascension Technology has not registered any satellites with them. No satellites belonging to Ascension Technology have been found in Earth orbit either."
Another person shook their head.
As a European corporate giant, WCN has huge influence in Europe and is deeply connected with various European organizations.
They are trying to obtain information about Ascension Technology's network satellites through the European Aviation Authority.
A global cross-regional communication network is naturally not something ordinary urban network equipment can achieve.
To achieve this, under their normal way of thinking, it clearly requires a satellite network to be successfully built.
That's why they used their connections, hoping to find the satellites where the Ascension Network servers are located, and then research how to deal with it.
But unfortunately, they couldn't have imagined that the construction of Ascension Network didn't use satellites at all, and the European Aviation Authority naturally couldn't find any information.
"No matter what, such a massive network absolutely cannot be detached from satellite servers. It's probably hidden too deeply, which is why the European Aviation Authority didn't find it.... What is the background of this company?"
"A Night City corporation, its strength is unknown but definitely not weak, and it's very close to Arasaka. The recent power struggle within Arasaka was assisted by Ascension Technology from behind the scenes.
This matter cannot be viewed solely as Ascension Technology; Arasaka must also be included."
"That means Ascension Technology's servers are likely on Arasaka's satellites..."
The topic reached this point, and all the high-level executives fell silent.
Following their way of thinking and the recent actions of Ascension Technology and Arasaka, they naturally arrived at this conclusion.
And this is also the reason they gathered here.
If the opponent were truly just a small company that had never shown its face worldwide, they naturally wouldn't need to go to great lengths.
Using their own power, WCN could easily make such a company disappear.
But the appearance of Arasaka now made WCN cautious.
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