**Microtech** **Headquarters**: Upper Paradi **Regional Offices**: Dallas, Miami, London, Tokyo **Major Shareholder**: Stephen Lew and family, Upper Paradi, holding 55.5% of total shares. **Employees**: 52,340 worldwide with 1,000 private security and 52 covert operatives. **Background**: Microtech does one thing, and they do it well; build full-size computers. They concentrate all their efforts into improving their mainframe computer systems, without dabbling into cybernetic computers or mini-computers. Indeed, they take pride in the fact that their mainframes and workstations are used by other companies to design those types of systems. They are to the 2030’s what Cray was to the 1980’s and 90’s, but on a larger scale. Microtech is the industry standard. Defense agencies around the world rely on Microtech mainframes and the Euro-Space Agency has several. With it’s hold on the specialized mainframe industry, Microtech is worried not so much about acquiring proprietary data through espionage as it is protecting itself against such theft. This is where most of its covert and security resources go, as well as a sizable amount of its own computer power. Microtech must be vigilant for external threats as well, however, as there are several larger corporations who would like to acquire Microtech, or see it eliminated in order to further the success of their own products. Accordingly, Microtech is attempting to beef up both its financial and military security.