[Saburo Arasaka: Let's speak plainly: the Burger King Crime Syndicate has seriously disrupted Night City's trade, and we all have reason to work together to deal with this criminal organization.]
A unique online meeting, held through one of the few communication satellites in the world that still worked.
Night City had managed to gather the corporations here and keep them dancing to its tune with its policies largely because it had made concessions to all of them, allowing them to get what they wanted from the city.
Ryan's RBQ theory was a little harsh, but it was the truth.
Now a criminal syndicate had suddenly appeared in the city, sweeping across it with unprecedented destructive force and threatening corporate order and business from the ground up, while also driving the Night City Municipal Government insane--
After the assassination attempt, Ryan had suddenly announced the revival of the Pacific State Development Plan, along with something called Humanitarian Aid and tax increases.
All in all, nothing about it seemed normal. If Night City's mayor kept doing things like that, the city should have been razed to the ground long ago--either razed, or reduced to a barren place where only fishermen fished along the beach, with a band of cyberpsychos showing up every year to carry out a massacre.
Just like more than fifty years ago: when the city was out of control and sliding toward the Abyss, the corporations always stepped in.
[Saburo Arasaka: I know everyone has mixed feelings about those three criminals. He has had some degree of contact with some of us, but if we continue to let him exert his influence in Dogtown, none of us will be the one to emerge victorious.]
[Saburo Arasaka: In that case, let me be frank first: Ryan decided to develop Pacific