Shivanti Systems

Headquarters: Mumbai Arcoplex, Indian Subcontinent
Founded: 2058, post-Climate Recovery Era
Primary Domains: Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Warfare, Corporate Security, Strategic Analytics
Motto: “The Future is Calculated.”

Origins

Shivanti Systems emerged from the ashes of India’s post-climate collapse rebuilding period. While most megacorps clawed for resources, Shivanti invested in data sovereignty and artificial intelligence, harnessing the chaos of famine, drought, and political instability as training grounds for predictive models. Originally contracted by regional governments to anticipate and prevent civil unrest, Shivanti refined its systems until they became indispensable—first to India, then to the world.

The Samsara Cores

At the heart of Shivanti’s power are the Samsara Cores: neural superintelligences designed to simulate infinite cycles of cause and effect. Each “Core” functions as a digital commander, orchestrating military campaigns, financial collapses, or political realignments with machine precision.

  • Military Commanders: In warfare, Samsara AIs run entire campaigns, predicting enemy troop movements, morale shifts, and supply disruptions before battles even begin. Human generals are obsolete.

  • Civil Predictors: In civilian spheres, Samsara anticipates crime waves, protests, and even stock market turbulence—allowing Shivanti to “stabilize” society for a price.

  • Cultural Branding: Shivanti markets these AIs as guardians of dharma (cosmic order), weaving ancient Indian philosophy into corporate propaganda to present themselves as protectors, not overlords.

Corporate Reach

By 2097, Shivanti Systems controls:

  • Predictive Warfare Contracts across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

  • AI-Driven Armies deployed as security forces, replacing conventional militaries in unstable nations.

  • Financial Networks that use predictive analytics to outmaneuver rival megacorps in acquisitions and black-market deals.

  • Social Control Platforms sold to authoritarian governments under the guise of “stability services.”

Philosophy & Propaganda

Shivanti frames itself not as a conqueror, but as a balancer of chaos. Their corporate doctrine borrows from Vedic cycles of destruction and renewal, suggesting that Shivanti’s interventions are simply restoring harmony in a broken world. Inside Shivanti-controlled territories, billboards declare:

  • “The algorithm sees beyond human folly.”

  • “Order is not enforced—it is calculated.”

For the masses, Shivanti is both savior and silent jailer.

Rivalries

  • Militech: Militech scorns Shivanti’s “soulless” algorithms, clinging to human-led armies. Shivanti, in turn, sees Militech as dinosaurs of war, still bound by human error and ego.

  • Helios Orbital: Helios and Shivanti clash over control of orbital AI systems. Shivanti’s predictive models threaten Helios’s monopoly on lunar logistics and oxygen-based economies.

  • Kang Tao: Kang Tao often supplies Shivanti with modular weapons, but just as often sells backdoors and sabotage tools to Shivanti’s enemies. Shivanti tolerates them—for now.

Reputation in Night City

Within Night City, Shivanti is whispered about as “the invisible hand.” While Militech fields visible armies and Arasaka once ruled through intimidation, Shivanti operates in shadows, pulling strings through calculated inevitability. Gangs, fixers, and even corps fear that Shivanti already knows their next move before they do.