Tsunami

Tsunami Defense Systems (Tsunami Design Bureau or Tsunami Arms) is one of the four biggest weapons manufactures located in Japan. It's also one of the top three tier weapons manufacturers in the world.

Tsunami is up there with Arasaka, as one of the best weapons manufacturers in the world. These three mysterious individuals originally started out making airsoft guns in the 1990s. When the government made it possible for private companies to get weapon production licenses in 1998, Tsunami was at the front of the line. Tsunami became a secretive, innovative company, a favorite of weapon Otakus. If a person was interested had enough money and they happen to like that said person, they might special-order a particular gun for that person. Tsunami in the present day continues to make model guns for solos of the future.

1990s - 2010s
Tsunami was founded by three friends Toshio Yamabatsu, Timothy Davidson, and Michelle Teguchi in Osaka, Japan on the bones of a Japanese airgun company, Tsunami was born in the Net, and this had flavored its feel: Tsunami was a very eclectic, loosely organized corporation. Tsunami utilized the latest in computer-assisted design and manufacturing equipment and had maintained a reputation of being more than a little ahead of the cutting edge of technology, a reputation that had many mystified, as they would appear to lack the resources and manpower to rival giants like Militech in terms of research and development.

First and foremost, Tsunami was in the business of designing, building, and testing prototype weapons; once it met their approval, they then license the design to another manufacturer. Who would then take care of producing and marketing the weapons. During the 2010s, many independent weapon manufacturers had several designs originally by Tsunami, usually high-end, rutting-edge weapons.

Tsunami, under the name Tsunami Arms, also produced an extensive line of limited issue weapons of their own: railguns, lasers, special-purpose weapons, powered armor sidearms, and specialized handguns. Many of these designs were custom made to a customer’s specifications.

A third area of business was weapon customization and the production of individual custom weaponry for private individuals. Most of these were competition pieces.

The R&D department was Tsunami's smallest branch. Tsunami was at the cutting edge of most areas of technology, aided by a crack team of researchers and Net-surfers. While not a major income source, their think-tank was well respected for its ability to come up with solutions to almost any technical problem, even if that solution could not be implemented due to technical failings.

2020
By 2020, Tsunami was one of the four major weapon suppliers of the Japan’s Self Defense Force. The corporation while still small was one of the top weapons manufacturers.

Some point A rogue AI named Muramasa was stolen/escaped from its parent company the Arasaka Corporation and was employed by Tsunami. In Japan rumors circulated of its capture as Tsunami flatly denied such claims. A notorious AI hunter known as Blackheart had been searching for Muramasa due to a bounty put on it by Arasaka. Blackheart came close to finding Muramasa, which could have been disastrous for the AI and Tsunami and because of it they hired a team from Night City to travel to Hong Kong and intercept Blackheart.

For many years prior, Tsunami had been a top-secret organization, working strictly behind the scenes, providing designs to governments and a few select corporations, but from 2017 to 2020 they had expanded their services into the public market. The response was excellent, and Tsunami's economic growth had been almost frightening.

2077
In 2077, Tsunami Defense Systems is one of three top tier weapons manufacturers in the world. The corporation was known best for its elite and dizzyingly expensive sniper rifles that utilized cutting edge technology. Tsunami’s flagship pistol the Nue became one of their most popular products to take off as a reliable and an unchallenged leader of the pistol market.

Personnel
Tsunami's employees are an eclectic bunch, ranging from R&D experts with three doctorates working in the machine shop to streetwise techies working in the high-energy lab. They are, without exception, innovative geniuses, multi-disciplinarians, and combat trained. (Tsunami's dress code is simple-wear clothes, and always have a gun on you.) They are well paid, well treated, and devoted to the company with a loyalty that borders on fanaticism.

Allies & Enemies
Tsunami is on good terms with most of their competitors, simply because of their specialized niche and market and the additional revenues brought in by high-quality designs tested by Tsunami and marketed by the various companies. They are especially friendly with Militech who are creating a joint project with Tsunami called Hurricane Arms, and Raven Microcybnetics; RMC has a large contract with Tsunami for security small arms.

Tsunami has also cultivated a good working relationship with InfoComp, which many analysts theorize has played more than a small role in Tsunami's disproportionate amount of breakthrough developments.

One notable exception to Tsunami's generally genial relations is Arasaka, with whom Tsunami has maintained a state of low-level hostility almost from the beginning. This was escalated by Arasaka to near-war in 2017, and only quick action by lnfoComp and Militech prevented Tsunami's takeover or annihilation. The reasons for this mutual enmity are unknown.

Resources
Tsunami has well kept medical facilities in each of their offices. They maintain a fleet of AV craft, helicopters, and corporate jets. Although their security and covert operatives are extremely well armed with conventional and heavy weapons, they have immediate access to little in the way of military grade vehicles or artillery. Tsunami maintains at least three top secret testing and construction facilities, one somewhere in Japan, one in the NUSA, and a third in an as yet unknown location (most rumors point to a crater outside Tycho base, but as Tsunami is not known to possess any space transports, this is hardly credible).

Products Line-Up 2020
Tsunami Arms is one of the most prominent weapons manufactures in the world. Making top of the line weapons for edgerunners to purchase worldwide.

Products Line-Up 2077
Tsunami Defense Systems weapons are cutting edge technology and our top of the line in 2077. Tsunami is mainly reserved for the upper class who can afford it. This list provides all products available to V in.

Trivia

 * CD Projekt Red, developers of, have a meeting room done in the style of the Tsunami Arms weapons manufacturing shop.