Arasaka in Maelstrom

#news #4cw N54, July 2021, Deep Six

Arasaka's stock has fallen by 10.5%, causing massive loses to the company's planned projects, including the shutdown of many construction projects in LEO and in the eastern Neo-Sov.

While the claims are still disputed, data (emails, videos, shards) have been leaked anonymously on the NET, gaining virality after the NET crashed for 29.3 minutes. When it came back, NetWatch was not able to remove the pop-up appearing on every browser instance: "Read the Arasaka Files".

The files contain supposed links between the heir to the empire, Kei Arasaka, and the CZ gang known as Maelstrom. While weak evidence, these have stirred quite the outrage amongst the general populace of Night City.

We reached out to Lucas Yang-Zho, one of Arasaka's key negotiators in the recent economic investments into Night Corp. He issued a formal apology to the shareholders affected by this sudden influx of false information and assured us that all of these claims would be disproven with time.

Arasaka's stock is still reeling after its 3.7% fall two weeks ago, when Gen. Donald Lundee of the rival Militech, accused Arasaka of carrying out the assassination of 17 high-ranking members of the corporation.