| What IS Night Corporation? Richard Night's legacy. The foundation stone of Night City. Its silent, watchful guardian. |
Night Corporation (commonly stylized as Night Corp) is headquartered in Night City. Night Corp is a very unique corporation as it puts its full attention on Night City and its affairs. The company is the largest contractor of public procurements within the boundaries of the city, building and renovating facilities such as roads, bridges, tunnels, metro lines, power plants, net transmitters, waterworks, and sewerage. Night Corp is also known for their charities designed to aid the poor children of Night City, and scholarship programs to benefit gifted youth - Jefferson Peralez was among them. The company is also heavily invested in research for ecology and alternate power sources.
Originally founded by Richard Night as Night International (or Night Industries), it was later restructured into Night's Foundation in 1999 by Richard's wife and widow Miriam Night, and later again into Night Corporation.
History
1990s - 2020
Richard Night founded Night International during the early 1990s to gain the resources to create his utopian dream of Coronado City, which would later be known as Night City.[1] After his death in 1998, his wife Miriam Night restructured the company and founded Night's Foundation. The company's official primary goal was to protect and promote Richard Night's vision of the perfect city.[2]
During the infamous Mob War set between 2009 and 2011, years after Night's death, the foundation attempted to gain megacorporate support to end the reign of crime in the city, but to no avail. After the conflict, Night's Foundation was restructured, returning to its corporate roots, and renamed Night Corporation - Night Corp for short. Allegedly, Miriam realized that to have any power in the city, you have to play by the rules of big businesses to get ahead. Since then, the corporation remained a constant presence in Night City, expanding their field of activity but avoiding power struggles with other major corporations. Although Miriam stepped down from the role of CEO long before, her legacy and ideals were upheld by her successors.[2]
2020 - 2045
After the AHQ Disaster in 2023, Night Corp offered generous pay and free cyberware and biomonitor upgrades to anyone willing to help clean up the crater of radioactive rubble at ground zero. Both the corporation and the City Council claimed that casualties were kept to a minimum, while at the same time they didn't provide official statistics to substantiate said claim. Nevertheless, they have never been under pressure to release such documents since - after all - most rescue, engineering, and rubble cleanup teams were not local Night Citizens, but nomads, especially from the Aldecaldo nation.
In 2030, Night Corp gave a grant to the recently founded Ziggurat corporation in order to help them transform the old fiber-optic Data Term network into a new system - creating one of the first CitiNets and Data Pools in the world - and restore cheap and reliable communication across NC.
Behind the scenes
Night Corp's seclusive and often downright secretive policies have
become the subject of much speculation over the years. This topic comes
from time to time, until it loses public interest, is proven to be a
hoax, or is shut down by corporate authorities. Night Corp supposedly
owns their own satellites, and rumors also tell of their underwater
works in Del Coronado Bay,
secretive engagement in mayoral elections, and their shares in the
orbital station projects. Any potential attempts by the press or by
other corporations to uncover the truth have failed so far. Despite
being a public contracting company, Night Corp has very tight security,
and it seems that none of the other corporations want to mess with them
on their own territory. |