Continental Brands

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Continental Brands

Overview

A corporation with manufacturing and distribution operations in the Night City area. Best known locally as the producer of chocolate kibble (Choco Kibble) — a mass-market food product. Beneath the bland product line, they appear to be involved in pharmaceutical or chemical operations: their shipping containers were used to smuggle a compound called Nonh, which Dr. Willie processed into the street drug Vilify.

Continental Brands maintains a private security force capable of rapid armed response — six corporate mercs in heavy armor arrived by helicopter at Nexus Mods at the end of Session 02.

Known Facts

  • Manufactures Choco Kibble (chocolate-flavored kibble food product) distributed through South Bay
  • Had a shipping container stolen from the South Bay docks by the Piranhas, on Dr. Willie’s instructions; the Nonh compound was hidden inside the container with the kibble
  • Has corporate security with helicopter transport capability; mercs wore the Continental Brands insignia and were in “fairly heavy armor”
  • Mercs’ stated priority: recovering stolen goods and parties involved in the theft; explicitly stated no interest in the Escalante data cube
  • Lead merc was professional and diplomatic: offered crew safety in exchange for cooperation, escorted them to CB headquarters
  • Possible connection to Escalante: Mr. Zip noted the CB mercs were “Broker’s” — suggesting a corporate relationship between Escalante and Continental Brands; unconfirmed
  • South Town HQ: a fenced-off, run-down building near the South Bay docks; “clearly temporary” in appearance
  • CB representative on-site: Mr. Continental, who operates in shadow, flanked by guards; professional and blunt
  • Authorized a 3,000 EB retainer to the crew — tasks: identify the internal leak, estimate remaining Vilify supply on the street, find a treatment path for addicts
  • Internal leak: likely Martin Gorsky, a CB shipping dock worker who noticed the Nonh in their containers and brought it to Dr. Willie; went missing weeks before the raid
  • The Nonh compound arriving in their containers contained nanomachines — whether CB placed them there or was itself unknowing is unclear
  • The Escalante data cube’s encrypted contents include CB directory structures, moon mining subdirectories, and “lunar-this, lunar-that” — suggesting a connection between CB and orbital or lunar operations
  • Currently holding Dr. Willie in custody at the South Town facility
  • Session 05: paid the crew’s full 3,000 EB retainer for treating Professor Jackson and Misty; took both into custody for further treatment/study, along with knowledge of The Calling’s new accelerated assimilation method
  • Session 05: began an active armed purge of The Calling’s sewer facility after being warned containment was broken — killed (presumed) Dr. Brightowski at Kowalski Clinic despite Kenny explicitly asking for him to be spared
  • Session 06: the crew raided CB’s South Town facility to break the purge, free Dr. Willie, and extract Misty — Mr. Continental was deceived by forged intel, lost his helicopter, was forced to surrender, and retreated on foot with his surviving men
  • Session 06 — mandate confirmed: internal emails found on Mr. Continental’s open terminal confirm CB was sent to South Town explicitly as a cleanup crew, with the top priority being suppression of any word that Vilify was adapted from CB’s own Nonh chemicals; South City was meant as a test bed for future Nonh shipments, a plan abandoned once the supply chain was destroyed
  • Session 06 — Nonh supply confirmed: no further significant Nonh supply exists in CB’s local records; the primary source ships down from the Moon, synthesizable only under low-gravity conditions — inaccessible to the crew or The Calling
  • Session 07: Alvin Partridge is still actively pursuing an Escalante partnership with CB, unaware his own hireling Broker’s crew carried out the Session 06 raid; a still-unnamed third party (working through Zach the Hot Dog Maniac) is now offering the crew money specifically to steal a sample of CB’s lunar chemical and hurt the company’s off-world operation

Open Questions

  • What is CB’s relationship to the nanomachines in the Nonh compound? Do they know?
  • What are their lunar operations, referenced in the data cube?
  • What was the Escalante data cube doing in their container?
  • What is their relationship to Escalante and Alvin Partridge?
  • Are they now an enemy? Kenny privately believes so after the Kowalski Clinic raid — confirmed further after Session 06’s very public defeat
  • Will Mr. Continental or Continental Brands retaliate for the Session 06 raid?
  • What will they do with the “accelerated” assimilation knowledge briefly in their possession via Professor Jackson?

Appearances

  • Session 01 — Stolen shipping container mentioned; Nonh as possible Vilify ingredient flagged
  • Session 02 — Corporate mercs arrived by helicopter at Nexus Mods; took custody of the scene; escorted the crew to CB headquarters
  • Session 03 — Mr. Continental met the crew at South Town HQ; retainer negotiated; Dr. Willie interrogated; Martin Gorsky identified as the likely leak
  • Session 05 — Paid the crew’s retainer in full; took Jackson and Misty into custody; began an armed purge of The Calling’s sewer facility, presumed killing Dr. Brightowski in the process
  • Session 06 — Crew raided the South Town facility during CB’s purge of The Calling; Mr. Continental deceived, defeated, and forced to retreat; Dr. Willie freed; CB’s South Town mandate and off-world Nonh supply chain confirmed via looted intel
  • Session 07 — Alvin Partridge (unwittingly) continues pursuing a partnership with CB; a third party puts a bounty on stealing a sample of CB’s lunar chemical operation

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