Trauma Team International (TTI) // 2097

Motto: "Your Life is Our Business."

Corporate Evolution: From First Responders to Health Sovereigns

Following the chaos of the Time of the Red and the Corporate Wars 2.0, Trauma Team underwent a radical transformation. They realized that merely responding to emergencies was a reactive, and therefore limited, business model. To become truly indispensable, they needed to control the entire lifecycle of health and crisis.

The Four Pillars of TTI in 2097:

  1. The Aegis Division (Platinum & Corporate Tier):

    • Service: The classic, iconic Trauma Team response. Heavily armed AV-4s and combat-medics responding to subscriber emergencies with overwhelming force.

    • Evolution: Aegis now operates as the rapid-deployment military wing of TTI. Their clients are not just individuals, but entire corporate departments, high-level executives, and government officials. Aegis teams are equipped to not only extract a client from a firefight but to end the firefight, acting as deniable corporate shock troops under the legal guise of "medical retrieval."

  2. The Caduceus Network (Gold & Silver Tier):

    • Service: Proactive health monitoring and maintenance. Subscribers wear biosensors that feed real-time data to TTI AIs. The system predicts cardiac events, cyberpsychosis flare-ups, and immune deficiencies before they become critical.

    • Evolution: This data is TTI's most valuable asset. They sell anonymized datasets to corps like Biotechnica for research and to Shivanti Systems to improve their predictive models. Failure to pay premiums can result in "predictive service degradation"—your biosensor will warn you of an impending health crisis, but the dispatch button will be disabled.

  3. The Mimir Initiative (Black-Ops & Government Tier):

    • Service: Digital consciousness extraction and continuity. This is TTI's direct, and highly secret, entry into the "soul market."

    • Evolution: For their highest-tier clients (or those they deem strategically valuable), TTI offers the "Mimir Protocol." If a client's biosensors detect imminent, unavoidable fatality, the system triggers a localized, rapid Soulkiller-derived subroutine to capture the client's engram at the moment of death. The body is lost, but the digital ghost is secured for transfer to the client's chosen destination—be it an Arasaka data fortress, a Lazarus clone vat, or a Sovereign Church server. This makes TTI a critical, neutral gateway in the digital afterlife industry.

  4. The Public "Charity" Wing (The Iron Tier):

    • Service: Bare-bones emergency response for non-subscribers.

    • Evolution: This is not charity; it's a PR tool and a recruitment pipeline. Response times are slow and service is basic, but it maintains the illusion of civic duty. Furthermore, the fine print on the "Iron Care" waiver allows TTI to harvest genetic material and organically viable cyberware from the deceased (or those too poor to pay for life-saving procedures) for their "organic surplus" program, which they then sell to partners like the Lazarus Group.

TTI's Role in the Corporate Cold War

  • Relationship with Arasaka: A tense, respectful rivalry. Both are in the security business, but TTI specializes in ultra-rapid, medicalized extraction, while Arasaka focuses on prolonged dominance. They often find themselves on opposite sides of a corporate skirmish.

  • Relationship with Lazarus Group: Key partners and rivals. TTI is a primary supplier of "fresh organic material" for Lazarus's projects. However, they are in direct competition in the "life extension" market—TTI offers pre-death engram capture, while Lazarus offers post-death physical reanimation.

  • Relationship with The Sovereign Church: Occasional clients and ideological opponents. The Church's Tech Clergy often requires high-risk medical support for their chrome installations, but they preach against TTI's commodification of the soul, which they see as a perversion of their own beliefs in synthetic divinity.

  • Relationship with Helios Orbital: Contracted service providers. TTI holds the exclusive medical response contract for Selene Prime and Helios orbital stations, a hugely profitable but politically delicate arrangement that forces them to navigate Helios's oxygen-based hierarchy.

Street-Level Perspective

The sight of a TTI AV-4 screaming overhead is more than just an ambulance; it's a stark, audible reminder of the value of life in 2097.

  • Aphorism: "Hear the Ospreys? That's the sound of money breathing."

  • The Ultimate Insult: "Don't call a Trauma Team, they'll just repo your organs."

  • The Harsh Reality: For the vast majority in Night City, a medical emergency means a desperate call to a back-alley ripperdoc or a slow death. Trauma Team is a service for the privileged, a floating fortress in the sky that the masses can only look up at, a symbol of a world where salvation is a subscription service you can't afford.