GAIA Corporation

'''GAIA corporation'''

GAIA, or the Geographic anomaly information associates corporation, is a AA corp rarely seen or talked about. Preferring to work in the background, GAIA acts primarily as a global means of geographical monitoring especially in regards to astral anomalies. Aside from the government contracts to do so, GAIA offers a service of discreet cleanup of such anomalies so other corporation’s or individual’s stocks aren’t threatened. With its impressive funding, GAIA’s few laboratories are advanced even by AAA corp standards with an endless cash flow pouring in to whatever the researchers require. Despite their monetary might, their assets are spread far and wide in what would seem to an outsider as a disorganized mess. With their access to information that could severely damage countless high profile individuals and even some other corporations, and impeccable ability to seem otherwise uninteresting to others, they are left to dabble seemingly unrestricted on whatever pet project they set their sights on.

While originally founded by conspiracy theorists, GAIA is lead by the great dragon Typhon, the alleged legendary monster of greek origin. Whether or not this is true, something happened to him during the matrix crash and he is rumored to have merged with the resonance, making him the only known dragon technomancer. If he has a true physical form, only the other dragons are known to have witnessed it. Whatever occurred during that time has given Typhon a soft spot for artificial intelligence, emphasized by him appointing the ex shadowrunner A.I. Nola as his chief CEO. Nola was renowned for her brutality and cunning in the shadow world, and it has served her exceedingly well in corporate life.

Considering the vast number of A.I. and e-ghosts in leadership positions in GAIA it is little wonder they are extremely protective of the entities, going out of their way to place digital life under their shield from governments. This of course, provided they add themselves to the GAIA registry as insurance they do not try to initiate a new world order.

GAIA’s technology is decades above the rest of the world, able to sport energy weapons and advanced armors that anyone else can only dream about. Much of this is thanks to its chief research advisor Chernobyl, a deeply sarcastic and self-righteous AI capable of replicating himself perfectly hundreds of times over, making him a near unstoppable force, and giving him enough ‘worthy minds’ to outwit near anything that threatens the corporation. Due to his potential capacity to become a global threat, his source code and his very existence are kept in constant check by Typhon, who hints at having an instant kill switch against the AI, though it has never been revealed what this is.