Wetting Conglomerate

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Wetting Conglomerate
Original Name	韦廷财团
Type	Corporate conglomerate with private military and security forces 6 19.
Area of Operations	District 25, with major interests in the Alt and Moslika districts 27 29.
Governance	Board of directors; Jonas Wetting is its heir and a prospective board member 2 29.
Industries	Pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, healthcare, machinery production, and weapons development 4 5 29 35.
Status	Active; retains control of its Alt branch after successive attacks 27 47.
First Appearance	Named in Chapter 2 2.

Organization and Leadership

At Jonas’s introduction, the conglomerate lacks someone in charge, and his impending board appointment offers him a route into its highest leadership. His position as heir does not give him unrestricted access to corporate personnel or military resources 2 6 13.

The board actively obstructs his rise. Directors can block the transfer of cybersecurity specialists, offer the recovering Alt District contracts it cannot yet fulfill, and assign Jonas an unfinished weapons project they expect him to fail 13 23 36.

Key Personnel

• Jonas Wetting — Corporate heir overseeing the Alt District response and pursuing a board seat. He directs security operations, negotiations, and the revival of the Weiton Project 5 27 35.
• Eiffel Margarita — Steward and one of the conglomerate’s youngest management members. Handles intelligence, logistics, financial reports, and negotiations on Jonas’s behalf 5 13 27.
• Esnie Nora, “Black Valkyrie” — Rapidly promoted contractual employee and elite mercenary. Her intervention during the Destiny Organization’s assault keeps corporate losses within acceptable limits 2 25 33.
• Iris Chelsea, “Brain-Melding Witch” — Hacker recruited by Jonas to address the Alt branch’s cybersecurity crisis. Locates the attacking hacker groups without headquarters’ Network Security Department participating 13 19 20.

Operations and Properties

Property / Interest	Function and Significance
Alt District production and storage base	The conglomerate’s largest base for pharmaceuticals and medical equipment; losing the district would cause substantial financial damage 5.
Alt Branch Building	Local corporate and security hub, containing valuable resources, servers, confinement facilities, and Jonas’s top-floor office 6 12 13 33.
Corporate hospitals	Jonas orders Celine Nora transferred discreetly to a conglomerate-owned hospital. Steltert Hospital later treats an injured Destiny Organization member 4 27.
Moslika District machinery production	Wetting’s involvement pushes production toward privatization, disrupting equipment updates for the Peacekeeping Forces 29.
Strien Grand Hotel	Conglomerate-owned hotel in Strien District, visited by Jonas while Shigure Ryoko tracks him 48.

Wetting buildings are known for their height; Jonas can survey much of the city from his office 4.

Capabilities and Resources

Medical Technology

The conglomerate represents the cutting edge of medical technology, making it Esnie’s last hope for treating Celine’s Ellison Muscular Atrophy 4.

• Owns hospitals and maintains extensive pharmaceutical and medical-equipment facilities 4 5.
• Its reputation does not establish a cure: available medical technology cannot support surgery for Celine’s condition, and her chances of full recovery remain slim 4.

Military and Physical Security

Wetting maintains special operatives, armed guards, and mechanical security units, but sudden mobilization is limited by time and internal authority 6 27.

• Rapid-response force: Jonas assembles twenty-five operatives in second-generation tactical armor. The force can challenge security-level-two peacekeeping troops, but is insufficient to overwhelm an entire district 6.
• Concealed defenses: Jonas’s office contains hovering cannons and miniature machine guns covering potential escape routes. The security system is described as capable of resisting a fully armed Mecha Corps unit 3.
• Special Operations Force: Conducts coordinated raids against hackers and arrests survivors. During one raid, an operative kills a hacker who challenges Wetting’s authority to arrest him without a Peacekeeping Forces warrant 19.
• Mechanical security: The Number Two Mechanical Security Force is destroyed during the Destiny Organization’s failed rescue operation 27.

Cybersecurity and Research

The conglomerate possesses highly capable in-house hackers, but access to them is subject to board approval 13.

• Alt branch firewall: Riot damage creates expensive maintenance requirements and opportunities for further attacks; initial repairs are expected to take at least twenty days 13.
• Controlled vulnerabilities: Jonas deliberately switches a confinement room’s surface security to E2-S encryption so Amau Sueko can uncover information he wants her to find 12 13.
• Counterattack and tracing: Iris defeats attacking hacker teams and identifies their locations for corporate raids 19 20.
• Chip analysis: The research and development department nearly dismantles the stolen Nathen II Tactical Chip’s tracking system before fully decoding the chip itself 47.

Equipment and Development Projects

• Wetting second-generation tactical armor — Standard equipment for the twenty-five operatives accompanying Jonas into the Alt District riot 6.
• Type III tactical drone — Expensive drone with a shield capable of blocking most physical bullets, but prone to damage 25.
• Bond latest-generation tactical suits — Ten suits obtained from Sirka Bond under a research pretext and subsequently implicated in the attack on Nathen’s shipment 43 46.
• Nathen II Tactical Chip — Stolen technological asset that greatly enhances tactical-suit computing performance. It cannot be mass-produced and is among District 25’s most advanced achievements 45.
• Weiton Project — Infantry-weapons development program intended to supply major security companies. It was indefinitely extended rather than formally terminated, then handed to Jonas as supposed compensation 35 36.

External Relationships

• Destiny Organization — Insurgent enemy responsible for attacks on Wetting’s Alt branch. Its numerous bases and corporate connections prevent Wetting from eliminating it without antagonizing other conglomerates 24 27.
• Peacekeeping Forces — Security institution and weapons partner. Relations deteriorate over Moslika’s privatization, while the forces also increase Alt District patrols following the unrest 24 29.
• Bond Conglomerate / Sirka Bond — Smaller corporate counterpart pressured into ending dealings with Destiny. Jonas subsequently offers Sirka Weiton profits and Wetting’s support in exchange for investment and development resources 16 34 35.
• Tayne Consortium — Suspected backer of the Alt District riot; the attacking gangs possess its second-generation tactical suits 6.
• Nathen Conglomerate — Powerful rival whose chip Jonas steals. Chelsea Claudi considers the companies unequal in strength and orders Jonas brought in for questioning 45 46.
• Levi Conglomerate — Rival that originally hires the Madfire Gang to steal Nathen’s research chip. Jonas’s intervention threatens its intended acquisition 42 43.

History

Alt District Riot

A gang riot breaks Wetting’s control of the Alt District and defeats a fully armed corporate special-forces unit. Because the district houses its largest pharmaceutical and medical-equipment base, Jonas personally enters the crisis with Eiffel and a limited tactical force 4 5 6.

Gang leader Ston attacks the Alt branch using deployment intelligence from “K,” later identified as Amau Sueko. Headquarters recognizes the danger too late to reinforce the branch, but Jonas turns the assault into a trap. He captures and kills Ston, traces Sueko, and brings her into corporate custody 7 8.

Manhunt and Firewall Recovery

Wetting offers rewards of 50,000–500,000 credit points for information about the riot’s accomplices. Its pursuit extends across practically all twenty-six districts surrounding Alt 11.

The damaged firewall remains costly to maintain, and the board’s hostility prevents Jonas from easily obtaining an internal specialist. He recruits Iris instead; her counterattack enables simultaneous raids that deter further hacker attacks throughout the surrounding twenty-five districts 13 19 20.

Destruction of the Rescue Force

Jonas coerces Ian Strala into guiding Destiny reinforcements into an ambush. The organization stages a bombing diversion and enters the Alt branch through an apparently weak emergency passage, only to encounter prepared troops and concealed gunfire 12 24.

Esnie kills the wounded Kinoshita Ren during the assault. Chapter 27 records the destruction of all thirty-four members of Destiny’s Fourth Special Operations Team, against Wetting’s losses of the Number Two Mechanical Security Force and two armed guards 25 27.

Jonas accepts damage to the branch as the price of deterrence. With Wetting’s organizational structure already near completion and rapid expansion difficult, he instead seeks to slow Destiny’s development 27.

Moslika Negotiations

Yucas Amili approaches Jonas to resolve the machinery-production dispute. Wetting’s privatization policy has left Peacekeeping Forces equipment at least two generations behind, and earlier negotiations have reached a stalemate 29.

Jonas rejects support for his board appointment as insufficient compensation. He first demands seventy percent of Moslika trade profits, then offers an alternative contract requiring Yucas to serve as his maid for three months 29.

Pressure on Destiny

Jonas returns the unconscious Sueko to Enlis District while arranging the circulation of footage showing her killing Ian. He also sends evidence concerning Aungus Ian to the Federal Tax Bureau, compounding Destiny’s internal distrust with an external investigation 32 33.

The investigation restricts Destiny’s operations, and the Bond Conglomerate withdraws from further cooperation. Sueko later discovers that her exculpatory files have been deleted, leaving only a Wetting logo; Jonas subsequently sends photographs of the dead attackers to intensify her guilt 34 37 38.

Weiton Revival and Nathen Chip Theft

Jonas seeks to restart Weiton with Sirka’s backing: at least five million credit points, equipment, and materials in exchange for thirty percent of project profits and Wetting’s support. The board expects failure because Jonas lacks a fully equipped development team 35 36.

He later obtains ten Bond tactical suits and intervenes in the planned Nathen–Levi chip conflict. His masked force kills the convoy’s representatives and takes the Nathen II Tactical Chip. Sirka’s interrogation exposes Jonas’s involvement, prompting Chelsea to dispatch Shigure Ryoko after him while Wetting’s researchers work to disable the chip’s tracker 43 44 45 46 47.

Original Game Timeline

These outcomes belong to the game story Jonas remembers, not to the altered events above 1 2.

• Corporate defeat: The original villain eventually annexes the other conglomerates but is defeated by the Resistance protagonist and recruited former subordinates 2.
• Esnie’s defection: She joins the Resistance after bonding with the protagonist and kills Jonas in one ending 1 2.
• Iris’s betrayal: Mistreatment as a corporate tool contributes to her recruitment by the protagonist; she leaks secrets and inflicts major losses through hacking 1 2.
• Noel’s opposition: The abused, paralyzed strategic commander becomes the Resistance’s military adviser and enables a successful decapitation operation 2.
• Eiffel’s loyalty: She almost never betrays Wetting, but can fall with the conglomerate or die after failing to reconcile loyalty with doing what is right 5.
• Lost weapons partnership: A gang clash exposes the Peacekeeping Forces’ outdated equipment, causing them to abandon Wetting for Nathen. Jonas contacts Yucas early to address this anticipated danger 42.