Category / ORG
Power
Corporations, registries, subcultures, families, and criminal networks.
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Bell Europa
The telecommunications company whose perpetually stolen codes give Case a route from Copenhagen’s pirate board into London.
Open field noteBockris Systems GmbH
The Frankfurt subsidiary named in the coded transfer accompanying Kuang Grade Mark Eleven.
Open field noteChristian Scientists in the Sprawl
A briefly glimpsed proselytizing pair whose approach makes three cosmetically altered office workers visibly uneasy.
Open field noteEastern Seaboard Fission Authority
A power authority whose privileged inspection probes and scarlet matrix pyramid make public infrastructure useful camouflage.
Open field noteFuji Electric Company
A real Japanese industrial name glimpsed as an enormous holographic logo in Chiba’s obstructed commercial skyline.
Open field noteJulius Deane Import Export
Deane’s warehouse-front business, where preserved goods, antique furniture, and global contraband meet behind Ninsei.
Open field noteMitsubishi-Genentech
The biotechnology megacorporation whose executive implant turns a salaryman’s body into monitored corporate property.
Open field noteNew York Public Library
A public information institution represented by relatively simple ICE, used by Case as a matrix landmark while riding Molly’s simstim.
Open field noteOperation Screaming Fist Task Force
The Special Forces unit destroyed during Operation Screaming Fist, leaving Willis Corto as the traumatized survivor from whom Wintermute constructs Armitage.
Open field notePanther Moderns
A media-savvy Sprawl youth collective whose body styling, disinformation, and choreographed panic provide cover for the Sense/Net break-in.
Open field noteReinhold Scientific A.G.
The Berne-based Tessier-Ashpool subsidiary above Bockris Systems in the corporate chain attached to Kuang.
Open field noteSense/Net
A media corporation whose secure personality archive holds the Dixie Flatline construct and becomes the target of the novel's first coordinated heist.
Open field noteSons of Christ the King
The obscure satellite-owning sect whose identity and comsat the Panther Moderns hijack for the Sense/Net hoax.
Open field noteTessier-Ashpool S.A.
The orbital corporation that owns Freeside, Villa Straylight, and the paired artificial intelligences at the center of the novel's final heist.
Open field noteThe Chiba Underworld
The overlapping network of dealers, fences, pimps, clinics, bars, and hired violence through which Case survives during his exile in Night City.
Open field noteThe JAL Orbital Shuttle
The commercial carrier whose Orly-to-L5 service turns Case’s first trip to orbit into regulated mass transport and bodily distress.
Open field noteThe Tessier-Ashpool Family
The reclusive orbital clan whose clone succession, cryogenic routines, and divided AI inheritance shape Villa Straylight and the novel's endgame.
Open field noteThe Yakuza
The criminal organization associated with Johnny's assassination and Molly's formative loss, described most fully across Neuromancer and “Johnny Mnemonic.”
Open field noteTuring Registry
The international enforcement body that registers artificial intelligences and intervenes when Wintermute's plan threatens to enlarge an AI beyond legal limits.
Open field noteZaibatsus and the Corporate Order
The novel's wider system of multinational corporate power, in which durable firms, branded technology, and private infrastructure eclipse many public institutions.
Open field noteZion Founders and Elders
The surviving founders and community authorities of Zion, who interpret Wintermute through their own spiritual framework and commit pilots to the Straylight run.
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