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==Akuma==
Akuma doesn't exist. At least, that's what all records will say, official and unofficial. If you go to the Daibosatsu office in Harajuku where Akuma, its former security and intelligence division was based, you will find nothing. The building is gutted, all valuable tech looted, all databanks destroyed. Ask Aegis intel operatives, Un-state agencies and corporate info-mercs, and they will all tell you the same thing: Akuma doesn't exist.

But someone is delivering intel. Very good intel, reliable and accurate. The sources are obscure: a dummy body in Dubai, controlled by a shady Cracker in Turkey, who got it from an infocache that was conveniently delivered just last week from Bolivar by a Delver team that say they got it from a friendly AI in a sealed-off infonet section of Howard's Dome in Paris. Try and backtrack it enough, and you come out empty, no trace of the original supplier remains. Infuriating as this is to any self-respecting intelligence operative, the fact remains that both the corps and Aegis have come to rely on this shady source. For some reason, the term for intel collected from this mysterious benefactor is "Akuma". "I got it from Akuma" has become short-hand for "don't ask where it's from, but it's good".

Shady rumors and conspiracy theories surround Akuma. It is alleged that this agency, Daibosatsu's feared "security and internal oversight division", was the first to perform large-scale brainjacking experiments. That at the height of their power, Akuma had hacked the very minds of at least 30% of Daibosatsu employees through their implants, using them to spy on the unmodified. A persistent Cracker legend has it that Akuma developed a high-level autonomous AI to serve as an information filtering and control system, and that this AI took over the entire division by mindhacking every operative at the moment it went online. According to some, this AI and its thralls still persist, and this entity is what is feeding intelligence to both Aegis and the corps. For what reason, with what agenda, not even the nuttiest and most obscure Cracker forum will say. But know this at least, Delver: Akuma doesn't exist. And those who try and find evidence to the contrary often find themselves dead, mindwiped, or disappeared.