Seres

Biodata

Major Arcs

Protection of the Watanabe family

After Kagoshima Eel Company is targeted by ADM, Watanabe Junichi destroys the company’s eel artificial-breeding technology before taking his own life. His surviving family members seek refuge in Seres, where Jiang Miao arranges work visas and protection. The country’s lack of an extradition agreement with Eastern Ying makes its core territory a secure refuge from Company A’s retaliation 142.

Agricultural breakthrough and grain conflict

Fairy Bean Soybeans become a major strategic advantage for Seres. The varieties possess water-storage root masses, reactivate perennial gene clusters, and regrow after harvest; with adequate light, heat, and fertilizer, they can flower and bear fruit again within roughly half a month 151.

Following successful experimental-planting acceptance and market release, public coverage emphasizes the beans’ broad applicability, drought resistance, high yield, sustainability, and variety. The development destabilizes global grain markets and forces the ABCD consortiums to reassess their strategy toward Seres 182.

Regional integration during the food crisis

As food shortages worsen across Southeast Asia, Seres rejects both unconditional food aid and high-price sales in favor of barter-based cooperation. It proposes the Asian Road and Bridge Plan, Antarctic Solar Energy Development Plan, and Industrial Consortium Plan to bind East Asia, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia into a shared economic system 310.

In the Northern Desert, Seres-linked enterprises employ more than 1.8 million local people, while Hai Lu Feng Company alone recruits about 85,000 workers for desert development 314.

Asian semiconductor realignment

At the Asian Semiconductor Industry Conference, Seres introduces the Nano Glue Injection Machine as a potential substitute for high-end lithography equipment. The resulting Asian Semiconductor Industry Association, centered on Seres, plans to remove European and American semiconductor equipment and materials from its supply and industrial chains through technology and patent exchanges 314.

Economy and Technology

International Relations

• Asian Union — Seres serves as the union’s core power and anchors its semiconductor, infrastructure, and industrial initiatives 314.
• Southeast Asia — Uses barter trade and long-term investment projects to exchange food security for deeper economic cooperation during the regional food crisis 310.
• Egypt — Reaches agreements to settle Suez Canal transit fees in Hua Yuan and construct a seawater-desalination plant in the Qattara Depression 291.
• Northern Desert — Gains access to the Northern Desert Plateau while Seres enterprises undertake agricultural and construction development, including large-scale local hiring 314.
• Watanabe family — Provides refuge and work visas after the family escapes pressure from Company A and Eastern Ying 142.
• ABCD Four Grain Giants — Faces their efforts to suppress Hai Lu Feng Company and contain Seres’ agricultural advances; Fairy Bean Soybeans inflict severe market losses on the consortiums 182 183.
• Lucia — Receives intelligence from Jiang Miao alongside Seres concerning the Ferryman assassination organization, enabling action against the group 195.

Security and Intelligence

• Jiang Miao uses Seres and Lucia as recipients of a large intelligence package containing information on Western consortiums, secret agencies, assassination groups, and the Ferryman organization; he removes traces linking the transmission to himself 195.
• The country’s core territory is treated as a secure jurisdiction for protected individuals because foreign corporate actors cannot easily use formal extradition or legal mechanisms there 142.
• Seres’ regional system increasingly relies on technological self-sufficiency, including domestic materials substitution and independent semiconductor supply chains 306 314.