Tsunami

Tsunami Arms or Tsunami Design Bureau is one of the four biggest weapons manufactures located in Osaka, Japan. These 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. Now Tsunami is a secretive, innovative company, a favorite of weapon Otakus. As most people can tell from looking at their list of arsenal, their weapons are for "special-purpose" only. If a person interested has 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.

History
Formed by three friends on the bones of a Japanese airgun company, Tsunami was born in the Net, and this has flavored its feel to this day : Tsunami is a very eclectic, loosely organized corporation. Tsunami utilizes the latest in computer-assisted design and manufacturing equipment, and has maintained a reputation of being more than a little ahead of the cutting edge of technology, a rep that has many mystified, as they would appear to lack the resources and manpower to rival giants like Militech in terms of research and development. Rumors abound of a rogue AI (stolen from either the Pentagon or Arasaka), but Tsunami flatly denies such claims and there has been absolutely no proof brought to light on this topic. For many years, Tsunami was a top secret organization, working strictly behind the scenes, providing designs to governments and a few select corporations, but in the last three years they have expanded their services into the public market. Response has been excellent, and Tsunami's economic growth has been almost frightening.

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.

Management

 * CEO: Toshio Yamabatsu
 * CEO: Timothy Davidson
 * CEO: Michelle Teguchi

Board of Directors

 * Director Internal Affairs: Shoji Takashi
 * Director Foreign Affairs: Saigi Moru

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, Lazarus whose ops units frequently are able to field test pre-release designs, 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 eighteen AV craft (mostly AV-4s, but at least 2 AV-6s and an AV-8 are kept for testing purposes), six helicopters, and six corporate jets. Although their security and covert operatives are extremely well armed with conventional and heavy weapons (much of it not available on the market...), they have immediate access to little in the way of military grade vehicles or artillery (although they own at least six PA suits, all custom). They can, of course, call on the impressive assets of Militech and Lazarus when necessary. Tsunami maintains at least three top secret testing and construction facilities, one somewhere in Japan, one in the Rockies, 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). Tsunami is rumored to have a powerful "rogue" AI, possibly named Muramasa, at their command, as well as several lesser computer systems, all very well defended.

Assault Rifles

 * TSUNAMI ARMS BR-404

Snipers

 * Tsunami Arms Ramjet Rifle
 * Tsunami Arms Raijin Type 17
 * Tsunami Arms Mandolin
 * Tsunami Arms Horizon

Shotguns

 * TSUNAMI ARMS "Ragnarok" CAWS
 * Tsunami Arms Helix

Pistols

 * TSUNAMI ARMS "Airhammer" Air Pistol
 * Tsunami Express Racegun
 * Tsunami Arms "Raimei" Ramjet Pistol
 * Tsunami Arms CLAB-4

Heavy Weapons

 * TSUNAMI ARMS "MicroMortar" AGL
 * TSUNAMI ARMS "Raijin" ANTI-ARMOR RIFLE

Exotic

 * TSUNAMI ARMS Underbarrel Capacitor Lasers/Microwavers
 * Tsunami Arms SS-56

Trivia

 * CD Projekt Red, developers of Cyberpunk 2077, have a meeting room done in the style of the Tsunami Arms weapons manufacturing shop.