MetroNews 8/11/2120 National Section [BREAKING NEWS]
Aug 11, 2020 22:29:25 GMT -6
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Aetherstone Corruption Scandal Rocks Japanese Assembly; PM Aso Calls Emergency Cabinet Meeting
By Murasaki Shikibu
By Murasaki Shikibu
MetroNews has learned tonight that the culprit behind a breaking-and-entry into its offices two years prior has been the unnamed source behind Prime Minister Aso's repeated calls for inquiry into Aetherstone's conduct within the borders of the Japanese Federation. From our sources inside the party, we have learned that this mystery mercenary has sold off the data he illegally obtained during his burglary into MetroNew's offices to the government; a burglary attempt that ended with this vandal releasing a shipping crate of augmutants he'd stored in the basement during his preparations into the building, killing five thousand employees and injuring twice that number- not to mention the carnage when the mutants spilled over into the streets, carnage halted only by the valiant efforts of the ASF special operations officers who put them down. The string of augmutant attacks in Metropolis-1 steadily increased following this incident, and they seemed to always catch a valued member of Aetherstone's research and development department in the crossfire- leading ASF investigators to speculate that their suspicions that the cause of these outbreaks was indeed this unnamed mercenary continuing his terrorist crusade across the Japanese mainland, leaving a swath of death and destruction behind him. Despite all this, the Prime Minister's willingness to continue his campaign against Aetherstone Industries based on the faulty information of one criminal has led to calls for impeachment from the opposition parties in the assembly.
However, such attempts to rein in Aso are likely to fail, as the fiery leader is no stranger to controversy; his foreign augment rejection medicine embargo still stands strong after two years of constant attack from the minority parties- an embargo which initially led to mass hospitalization, and mass shortage of emergency stocks of the life saving drugs Synchrozine and Neuridone made by Aetherstone and TriTek respectively. Encephridone- a black market rejection drug rumored to be produced by the shadowy Typhon conglomerate- flourished in the void of safe, legitamite drugs until Japan's native production could be scaled up to meet the demand of federation's 6.6 billion residents. The total number of deaths from this sudden supply shock incident are still unaccounted for, and the Prime Minister seems to no show indication that he will apologize for the likely deaths of hundreds of thousands of his citizens any time soon- just as he has not apologized for the street violence conducted by his party's 'unaffiliated' True Human Society as they cause mass property and personal damage to citizens across the Federation. In fact, Prime Minister Aso has insisted that these followers of his are 'nothing more than street punks' and 'more deserving of the death penalty than the aug-addicted foreigners who cut down their neighbors in mad fits'.
Asked to comment on these most recent calls for sanctions against the company, Aetherstone Industries did not offer an immediate response; this keeps in line with their historical tendency to remain silent despite the abundance of abuse the THP throws at them, and the public certainly seems to have noticed their stalwart demeanor- sales of Aetherstone products have been on a steady rise over the two years Aso has held power, even in light of increasingly stiff competition from TriTek during a cold corporate war in 2119 that frequently grew hot in the region around Sendai. Following a partial collapse of city's superstructure, the Iwaki ward became a battleground between both rock-bottom gangs and the two megacorps as regular citizens struggled to scrape by during the return to order. Economic experts credit both the renewal of fighting on the Eurasian front, and the increasing need for ASF co-policing contracts to handle augmutant outbreaks, with this uptick in company profits- alongside, of course, standard sales of Aetherstone's many goods.
Prime Minister Aso, however, was more than happy to offer a comment to MetroNews when asked to offer his views on the upcoming meeting with his cabinet staff, and the reveal of the information he's gathered to the national assembly. "Aetherstone has long held our nation in its cold, metal grip," stated Aso, "and that is the grip which will have us dead and forgotten long before the Eurasians ever put a single one of their troops onto the soil of our capital. They've bought off an entire political party with their money- and the other is so senile that they do not even remember that our Emperor passed away many years ago, and that an Empress now sits on the throne. That is why the people elevated us to power, despite what the polls your bought-and-paid-for media outlet published to dissuade our supporters from even bothering to go to the ballot boxes- they wished to see us finally lift the boot of this multinational serpent which has poisoned them with its faulty augments and ineffective medicines for generations, all while making themselves out to be humanity's hope for the future. The hope for our future? The Aetherstone twins are rotted corpses trapped in metal tombs of aluminium and copper wire; there are none more stuck in the past than those relics of a century ago. When I speak to the assembly within these next few weeks- when I tell the nation...no, when I tell the world what great crime has been committed against it for years, you shall see such a rage fill the hearts of our citizens that it will make you shiver in awe of its righteousness; when you see them tear down the spires to decadence and decay those half-breed twins built to lord over the land of the rising sun, you shall know then that we are truly a people worthy of carrying the torch of humanity into the future, of carrying it against those communist dogs in Eurasia. But before we can tear down the enemy without, we must first snuff out the enemy within."
The True Human Society has announced a wave of protests throughout Metropolis-1 up until the Prime Minister's speech before the national assembly; ASF security offices have suggested citizens avoid the demonstrations for their own safety.
However, such attempts to rein in Aso are likely to fail, as the fiery leader is no stranger to controversy; his foreign augment rejection medicine embargo still stands strong after two years of constant attack from the minority parties- an embargo which initially led to mass hospitalization, and mass shortage of emergency stocks of the life saving drugs Synchrozine and Neuridone made by Aetherstone and TriTek respectively. Encephridone- a black market rejection drug rumored to be produced by the shadowy Typhon conglomerate- flourished in the void of safe, legitamite drugs until Japan's native production could be scaled up to meet the demand of federation's 6.6 billion residents. The total number of deaths from this sudden supply shock incident are still unaccounted for, and the Prime Minister seems to no show indication that he will apologize for the likely deaths of hundreds of thousands of his citizens any time soon- just as he has not apologized for the street violence conducted by his party's 'unaffiliated' True Human Society as they cause mass property and personal damage to citizens across the Federation. In fact, Prime Minister Aso has insisted that these followers of his are 'nothing more than street punks' and 'more deserving of the death penalty than the aug-addicted foreigners who cut down their neighbors in mad fits'.
Asked to comment on these most recent calls for sanctions against the company, Aetherstone Industries did not offer an immediate response; this keeps in line with their historical tendency to remain silent despite the abundance of abuse the THP throws at them, and the public certainly seems to have noticed their stalwart demeanor- sales of Aetherstone products have been on a steady rise over the two years Aso has held power, even in light of increasingly stiff competition from TriTek during a cold corporate war in 2119 that frequently grew hot in the region around Sendai. Following a partial collapse of city's superstructure, the Iwaki ward became a battleground between both rock-bottom gangs and the two megacorps as regular citizens struggled to scrape by during the return to order. Economic experts credit both the renewal of fighting on the Eurasian front, and the increasing need for ASF co-policing contracts to handle augmutant outbreaks, with this uptick in company profits- alongside, of course, standard sales of Aetherstone's many goods.
Prime Minister Aso, however, was more than happy to offer a comment to MetroNews when asked to offer his views on the upcoming meeting with his cabinet staff, and the reveal of the information he's gathered to the national assembly. "Aetherstone has long held our nation in its cold, metal grip," stated Aso, "and that is the grip which will have us dead and forgotten long before the Eurasians ever put a single one of their troops onto the soil of our capital. They've bought off an entire political party with their money- and the other is so senile that they do not even remember that our Emperor passed away many years ago, and that an Empress now sits on the throne. That is why the people elevated us to power, despite what the polls your bought-and-paid-for media outlet published to dissuade our supporters from even bothering to go to the ballot boxes- they wished to see us finally lift the boot of this multinational serpent which has poisoned them with its faulty augments and ineffective medicines for generations, all while making themselves out to be humanity's hope for the future. The hope for our future? The Aetherstone twins are rotted corpses trapped in metal tombs of aluminium and copper wire; there are none more stuck in the past than those relics of a century ago. When I speak to the assembly within these next few weeks- when I tell the nation...no, when I tell the world what great crime has been committed against it for years, you shall see such a rage fill the hearts of our citizens that it will make you shiver in awe of its righteousness; when you see them tear down the spires to decadence and decay those half-breed twins built to lord over the land of the rising sun, you shall know then that we are truly a people worthy of carrying the torch of humanity into the future, of carrying it against those communist dogs in Eurasia. But before we can tear down the enemy without, we must first snuff out the enemy within."
The True Human Society has announced a wave of protests throughout Metropolis-1 up until the Prime Minister's speech before the national assembly; ASF security offices have suggested citizens avoid the demonstrations for their own safety.