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5.1. Circuitos en banda dual
5.1.2. Divisor Wilkinson en banda dual
S-K AFRICA
The Africa division of S-K is headquartered in Cape Town and is lead by Mathis Asamoah, an Afro-German
whose parents fled from Ghana some seventy years ago. He graduated from Saeder-Krupp Business School in Essen and was sent to Cape Town, where he even- tually became division head. The division supervises S-K’s mining and magical resource gathering and re- search in sub-Saharan Africa but also has some limited agricultural and manufacturing interest in some areas. The biggest factory complexes you may find in the corporate enclave around Wenchi on the Ivory Coast (which is not extraterritorial de jure, as there is no coun- try who could grant it). The main antagonists for S-K in this area are DeBeers-Omnitech (UO), Global Sand- storm, and recent arrival Eastern Tiger.
S-K ASIA
Asia was given to Mariene Carstairs, a former manager of the BMW era, who still knew Michel and Mina Beloit personally. But the crisis showed her that she was get- ting old, so she resigned. She moved to Neu-Essen, now working partly via Matrix for a corporate intern consult- ing service. Her successor is Alina Hashem, a business- women from Bangla Commonwealth, where S-K Asia also has its headquarters. While the dragon has nearly full control over the Commonwealth and runs many fac- tories and offices there, in the rest of Asia, S-K is rath- er scattered. They have some financial corps, like Swiss Banking Corporation in Hong Kong and Nippon Credit and Trust in Neo-Tokyo, while their biggest industrial op- erations is probably Messerschmitt-Kawasaki in Kobe, Kansai Sprawl (which has a second HQ in Munich).
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S-K recently made some deals with Korean AA corp YangSu Enterprises to support their agricultural operations in Asia and Australia. One more step to challenge Shi- awase’s agricultural power.
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Baka DaboraS-K AUSTRALIA
S-K Australia’s HQ is situated in Perth and is also re- sponsible for New Zealand and the Pacific. The local executive officer Kura Reed has good contacts to Dr. Makram Zhara, who often visits local Awakened World Research and is rumored to have a personal research group within. Besides magic phenomenon, Reed su- pervises mining and extraction operations via Kinesys and AN Meridian and energy production via Vulcan Systems. But she still has to fend of attacks by Aztech, Shiawase, and ETC, that increased in intensity in recent years. Luckily she has a powerful ally in form of Tana- myre Resources, who have shielded S-K in the past from these attacks. Now Reed and Tanamyre CEO Peter Lawler are working closer to form joint ventures, many in the magical sector.
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The former division head Edwin Hauser wandered intothe Outback in the ’60s and was never seen again. Reed and others never give up hope to find him one day. Every now and then they organize expeditions into the wastes to search for any clues where he might have went.
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CosmoS-K EUROPE
The headquarters of S-K Europa is Neu-Essen, but as every bit of information from every regional office and subsidiary go directly to Lofwyr anyway, there is actual- ly no such thing like a Europe division. The main protag- onists here are Lofwyr (obviously), Vanadis Hyvönen (his “Governor” of Neu-Essen and second-in-com- mand), Julien Sergetti (NEEC politics) and Stanislaw Wiacek (responsible for Eastern Europe). Europe is the heart of Lofwyr’s empire, so he does everything to keep it under his claws. Sure, there are other players, like NeoNET, Z-IC (the biggest European AA), and since the Esprit takeover even Aztechnology and many other AAs that are part of the NEEC challenge S-K every time they can. In the past, they had no luck, as Lofwyr always struck back at them, but recently the other AAs made several attacks during and shortly after the dragon con- flict, and even had some limited success. But now as the power shifts with the Megacorporate Audit, new alliances are forming and bigger attacks on S-K have abruptly stopped. Now S-K is working on a fragile alli- ance with NeoNET in Europe with the sole purpose of helping them get back on top.
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Europe was always densely packed with local corpora-tions that in some cases date back to the nineteenth cen- tury, which made expansion attempts from the outside of- ten unsuccessful. Nonetheless you can find some foreign powers. Aztech sits in the south, NeoNET in the UK and Scandinavia, and Evo is coming from the east. S-K was never as unchallenged as it is often portrayed. Still, S-K is the biggest corp in Europe, and Lofwyr pulls the strings in the background of the NEEC, as he has always done.
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Mr. BondsIn addition to all European activities, the division also handles all assets in space, Arctic, Antarctica, and Trans- Polar-Aleut. They report directly to S-K Europe, as most of them are (undersea) mining operations anyway.
S-K MIDDLE EAST
S-K Middle East was the regional division that was often in the media because of the damage it took in recent years. As Hestaby destroyed the seat of the re- gional division in Dubai, it was forced to move to the Ziggurat arcology in Basra. Neither was the new HQ so glamorous, nor was it in the Arabian Caliphate, which was demanded by Lofwyr. So Reza Mohammad Bakr
pulled every string in his hand to start reconstruction of the Dubai facility. The next disaster was the defec- tion of Saied Bey, Lofwyr’s troubleshooter in Istanbul, to Global Sandstorm. He managed to attract some as- sets to defect with him, including Iraq Oil, which weak- ened the position of S-K in the Middle East. With the reconstruction of the Dubai arcology nearly complete, Bakr has to reclaim S-K’s position in the Middle East and deal with upstarts like GS in order to avoid a “re- location.”
S-K NORTH AMERICA
The Charlotte-based S-K North America had some loss- es in the past years. During the last stages of the drag- on civil war, former division head Ludmilla Reanka was assassinated. This caused some chaos within the divi- sion and encouraged several competitors to attack S-K assets. Just as the division caught some breath, Boston was locked down, and so S-K lost an important site on the East Coast. Now S-K NorthAm is going through a restructuring process, as the new regional manager has arrived. His name is Klaus Basoski. Born in 2033, he became one of the youngest managers of BMW at only thirty-four years old. He is known for his playboy life- style and his fondness for archeology, which made him some friends within the Apep Consortium.
The regional division is split into two subdivisions called S-K Northwest and S-K Northeast. Northwest is located in Portland and supervises every activity on the West Coast (including Seattle) and most of the NAN states. In the past S-K was banned in most of the NAN states but could negotiate some deals after the Crash to gain official business licenses. Northeast is located in Manhattan and is responsible for CAS, UCAS, Québec, Denver, and the Algonkian-Manitou Concil.
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S-K has to look for a new hotspot for its operations toreplace Boston. Though not the biggest S-K site in North America, Boston handled thousands of business custom- ers in Massachusetts and along the East Coast, and op- eratives there were able to keep an eye on NeoNET and Boston’s magical groups and societies.
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SouthieS-K SOUTH AMERICA
The former head of the South American division, Antó- nio Ortega, was recently relocated to Neu-Essen for a special task. He was replaced by Carlos Roberto Lima, an Amazonian refugee living in Argentina, who joined S-K with Ortega. Neither he nor S-K has any love for Amazonia, but the megacorp supported the country in the war with Aztlan. Now, after the war, S-K faces sev- eral attacks by shadowrunners hired by Aztech, as the relationship of the two corps is at an all-time low since Aztech accused Lofwyr of the assassination of Eyes-of-
Wyrm. The Big A is unforgiving. S-K has concentrated their power on certain strongholds, like Montevideo, Kourou in French Guiana, Curacao (personally owned by Lofwyr), and several places in Argentina.