Secure:Vincente Sumiyama
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| Real Name | Vincente Sumiyama |
| Code Name | That Son Of A Bitch Sumiyama |
| Race | {{{race}}} |
| Gender | {{{gender}}} |
| Creator(s) | {{{creator}}} |
| Serial Number | {{{sn}}} |
| Faction | Civilians |
| Function | Phoenix Communications CEO |
| Primary Specialty | King Of All Media |
| Secondary Specialty | Being A Greasy Jerk |
| IC E-Mail | {{{icemail}}} |
| Divisions | {{{divisions}}} |
| Weapon | 360 Degree Coverage |
| Weapon Type | Blunt Barrier |
| Buster | Yellow and Orange |
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| Function | {{{vfunction}}} |
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| Soul Unison | {{{su}}} |
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Character Data
"People used to look into the fire for answers, but now they look to TV."
Profile
Vincente Sumiyama started out at the very bottom; a mixed-race child of oil rig workers in Brazil, a country known for its instability and racial stratification. Fortunately, Vincente had the right combination of talent, boldness and luck to work his way out of poverty, get into a good university and start pursuing the creation of a media empire. Through the creation of new and innovative programs, as well as crafty business deals, Vincente turned fluff and dreams into dollars and cents. He was a millionaire by the time he graduated from college, and used his skills to found the increasingly dominant Phoenix Communications media conglomerate. Vincente fancies himself something of a cowboy ("maverick" is a dirty word), and models himself after the great media moguls of the 20th century.
Background
Vicente Sumiyama was born on December 4, 2184. Vincente is the son of Haru Sumiyama and Fia Branco. Haru was a laborer on a Citgo oil rig, and Fia was an engineer. Their romance was like something out of a romance novel, full of intensity and daring, and they married within two years of meeting each other. Vincente was their first child, and he has three siblings; Maria (2185, younger sister), Hisa (2187, younger sister) and Washi (2188, youngest brother). Vincente's parents have since retired and live in northern Brazil.
Vincente, as the oldest, was the most responsible and driven of his siblings. He worked his way up through the rough western Brazilian public school system, eventually being able to attend the Universidade de São Paulo. He worked to support himself while staying in school at a local television station, and through this work soon found his passion in broadcasting. Ruggedly good looking, Vincente first tried his hand at being in front of the cameras, but was continually butting heads with his superiors. He concluded that the power came from being the one who signed the checks, and focused on learning about business at university.
Vincente lived hard through his twenties, burning up zenny as fast as he could bring it in. He struggled to create his own production company while trying to get his business degree, attempting to leverage content into wealth he could use to buy media outlets. Several years of failure finally reaped results when a vanity television pilot he made for a wealthy French socialite as a favor was picked up by a major regional television outlet and soon went international. The program, "Let Them Eat Tosh", was a particularly vapid piece of work reminiscent of Absolutely Fabulous and The Young Ones. However, it began a dominant six-year run that fueled Vincente's coffers and allowed him to make strategic moves both in purchasing capital and stock. He had cleared his debts and made his first solid million by the time he finally graduated from university.
Some say Vincente was more lucky than good -- someone who just happened to be in the right place at the right time. However, Vincente loudly insists his own skill got him to where he is today, and has apparently started writing a book to detail his experiences. In any event, his company, Phoenix Communications, has risen up to become a dominant player across Brazil. It has followed the Fox model and purchased up weak television and radio stations and re-branded them into its network, giving them elite content that has allowed them to gain market share against competitors like GNN and POX.
Phoenix Communications is based out of Rio, but plans to open a new North American headquarters in Dallas-Fort Worth in the next few years.
IMPERATOR Data Dump (Aug 29, 2220)
Sumiyama: Home
Prismatic aims IMPERATOR at Vincente Sumiyama. Outside of the N1 building, his data security is much less robust. His home, located in the southern hills about 20 kilometers away from Rio, is accessible by helicopter with a freight entrance by a main road guarded by a small group of goons. The villa is above the haze of the city, giving it a spectacular view of the megacity's skyline.
The home is inhabited by Sumiyama himself, Sumiyama's siblings (Maria, 35; Hisa, 33; Washi, 32), Maria's husband and son (8), Hisa's husband and twin daughters (6), and whatever girlfriend Washi has this week. A housekeeping staff keeps the place up despite the small army of people who live there. It's /still/ huge even with almost 10 people living there; every family has their own swath of the villa that is self-contained with a few common areas (a large kitchen, a giant den). The home appeared to be designed to have four distinct areas for independent groups of people to live in.
The web of data traffic around the villa is primarily Applesoft-made. It isn't hard to figure out most of it, but most of it is just the usual house-based stuff you see in the homes of the wealthy. You can get into his entertainment center, his toaster, his refrigerator and whatnot without working /too/ hard, though all of this stuff has been patched to the latest security measures (which is abnormal).
Sumiyama's security system is harder to get into. The entire system is TEMPEST hardened, but you can use the satellite cameras to get around some of that if you need to. It's all wire-based, meaning that you'd have to actually get into the site to bug it. That's also abnormal, as most everyone uses wireless systems because they are allegedly just as secure as wire systems. But you know differently, Prismatic Spider. And so does Sumiyama. Maybe there's a hacker somewhere in there after all.
Sumiyama: Network (1)
There's a ton of network activity around the home, and it appears to be administrated by a competent person. The low-encryption traffic is easily observed; Vincente's siblings and family members checking email, browsing different Internet sites, buying things, having phone conversations and so on.
Maria takes an active part in her son's education and is in regular communication with the private school she sends him to, while her husband, an N1 executive from another part of Vincente's inner circle, trawls around free content sites constantly looking for new talent. You see him recruit one person during your observation period. Maria's son does research on the Internet when he's being watched but primarily uses the network to play Fantasy Quest.
Hisa is more low key. She works for N1 in public relations and so is always doing work from home. Hisa is involved in the company's community outreach, and seems to be especially interested in sponsoring media literacy campaigns in libraries and schools. She reads a lot of Internet sites about early childhood education and regularly purchases new books online to read to her daughters. Her husband is from Vincente's old neighborhood and is a professional fisherman, so he's gone most of the time. The email that Hisa and her husband exchange is loving and often racy. Their daughters aren't old enough to do much on the Internet except poke around N1's kids areas or play pedestrian video games. They seem to like the Harvest Moon-variant that Cinnamon stars in.
Washi is Sumiyama's main henchman and is the weak link into Vincente's heavily armored dataspace. You can see the conversations Washi and Vincente have over instant messaging and email. Their conversations are encrypted but not uncrackable, and primarily revolve around Vincente giving orders and Washi immediately following them. Washi is less careful about securing his stuff, and as a result you can see pretty much everything he does.
Washi's task in life is to follow around Vincente as his sidekick. Washi arranges all of Vincente's personal appearances, attends to all the detail work of his grand plans, pays whatever bribes are needed to get things done in Rio, and acts as an efficient beacon to locate Vincente at any given moment. During the course of a normal day, Washi is no more than 100 meters away from Vincente at any given moment (and can do the 100 meter dash in about 30 seconds). You can glean inferences to trade secrets through Vincente and Washi's conversations that would probably make you a small fortune on the stock market.
Washi doesn't have much of a private life. Vincente throws beautiful women at him, who Washi generally takes off for sexual activity within a day or two of meeting them. The relationships are transient as the starlets figure out that Washi isn't where the juice is, but seems to feed Washi's desire to be important to someone. Washi's lot has improved recently, as he refers to no longer getting Vincente's "leftovers" in one message to his lord and master. Vincente laughs it off.
Sumiyama: Network (2)
Vincente's data traffic requires dedicated effort to get into. You have trends and patterns through Washi, which helps you narrow down the kinds of things he does while he's at home. He does check his email a few times on a PDA, though it's all encrypted traffic. You can pick through the usual spam (even Vincente Sumiyama gets it), internal messages on what appears to be the Sumiyama family listserv dealing with scheduling deliveries and the transport of children (as well as the occasional multi-party fight), and Vincente's work email.
Vincente's work email is encrypted harder than his internal family email. You have to fight more to beat your way in, but persistence pays off. You see a variety of internal N1 business, a lot of it dealing with mundane stuff like buying office supplies, negotiating advertising deals with different firms, and attending to promotions, demotions, hiring and firing. A lot of /that/ is family business, as Sumiyama has filled his company with his own blood.
Vincente has apparently recently hired Higure Higsby on. They have a conversation in email that discusses Vincente's new 'mobile command unit' for Higsby, and Vincente giving Higsby his absolute confidence that Higsby won't betray all of the 'benefits' that Vincente has already given him. There's no mention of Vincente giving marching orders to Higsby to rampage, but they probably wouldn't do that in subpeonable email.
There is also a record of Vincente undertaking tremendous organizational efforts to achieve a variety of stunts in the interest of wooing a person named Mai Sanagawa. You can see how the Cold Curry deal went down, as well as a variety of other stunts; hiring an aerial midget, having N1's special effects people derive a way of flying balloon flowers from the N1 building to the Magrevich Industries building, booking tables at restaurants for months at a time, and the development of a web-based program with several A-list soap stars that is apparently a broad fictionalization of what it is Mai Sanagawa does over at MI.
Relatively recently, Vincente apparently did an acoustic concert for Mai while she was gone for two weeks doing something or other for MI, recorded it, and sent it to her. The concert was produced by several high-up music people, and you can intercept tracks and watch the sweetening process by reading the old emails. Mai appeared to have a positive response to that. Beyond stunts, Vincente occasionally sends Mai fairly standard 'hey, how are you' emails, and the two tend to engage in friendly if not very exciting conversation.
Vincente is currently hammering the White House attack hard. He's pushed N1's news division to cover it in the most critical possible light. In general, Vincente seems to think little of America and American politics, but doesn't mind giving Thackery air time to blast the current leadership so long as it does harm to the Maverick Hunters.
Sumiyama: Routine
Through all of this effort, you get a general idea of Sumiyama's schedule. He sleeps in an opulent master bedroom facing the rising sun. Sumiyama gets up at sunrise every morning regardless of what time it might actually be, cleans himself up, then goes downstairs to eat. His brother/henchman Washi is there before he is and has already prepared a continental breakfast.
Sumiyama eats while immediately getting on the phone to get status reports from his various henchmen. The conversations are encrypted, but Prismatic Spider can crack the bursts within a few hours of dedicated work. They deal with N1-type business; the problems and choices faced by an enormous media conglomerate. This stuff probably bores Prismatic to tears, but Vincente is intimately involved with the decision-making of the company at evey level.
Usually Sumiyama leaves his estate by 9 am and takes a short flight from his home to the N1 ziggurat. IMPERATOR labors to follow him in there, with security measures on the building making it a near-impervious data fortress. You gather that Sumiyama spends much of the day in his lavish office when he's not walking around the building to take meetings. Sumiyama typically leaves the building at lunch to network with other CEOs, and sometimes goes out on golf outings or to other parties during the day being held by N1 or other firms. A few times a week, he'll go to the gym just before or just after his lunch hour to do mixed martial arts with his personal trainer.
Sumiyama otherwise works until well after dark. He only stops when there is not one last ray of sunlight in the sky, and then usually works a half-hour past that. He heads back home at around 7:30 or 7:45 so he can be home in time to watch N1's prime-time lineup on the main feed. During this time, Sumiyama has dinner, then gets on the phone again and calls up various producers, marketing people and assorted others who are not in the Rio timezone and takes additional meetings via telepresence until around 11 pm Rio time.
After the prime time feed is over, and Sumiyama has bothered everyone he possibly can, Sumiyama goes down to the basement of his villa and enters a cube-shaped area about 2 meters in volume that IMPERATOR detects as a shielded Faraday cage. The satellites can't penetrate it, his security system is nowhere near it, and as far as you can tell the only person who ever goes into that zone is him. Sumiyama spends about an hour inside of the box before leaving, heading back upstairs, and going through his preparations to go to bed. He cleans himself, puts on pajamas, and goes to sleep to wake up again when the sun rises.
If you watch him for a long enough time, you'll see that the weekend is about the same. Vincente works a half-day on Saturdays, telecommuting unless something incites him enough to fly back to the building to give someone the business. On the rest of the day on Saturdays, Vincente will look for real estate to develop, go to more networking things and golf outings, or spend time on his enormous yacht. When he's out on the ocean, he will occasionally meet up with the even more enormous yacht he bought for his parents (that they seem to live on) and spend some time with them.
Vincente will not work on Sundays. He goes to Mass with his family early in the morning, and afterward watches the Sunday news programs to gather intelligence. He eats every meal with his family on Sunday and spends time talking to them about their week. The rest of his time is spent back on his yacht or in the strange cube-shaped space in his basement.
Sumiyama: Identity
One of the real secrets of Vincente Sumiyama is that when he's not "in character", he's a very serious, boring person who is devoted to his company and to the well-being of his family.
Vincente's reputation as a playboy and a drunkard appears to have been created by the mogul in the interest of furthering his bad-boy image. He doesn't bring any women home (any more?) and appears to drink only a little when he's out of the public eye. Vincente eats a balanced diet and goes to the gym a few times a week to engage in what appears to be mixed martial arts with a personal trainer. You don't see him ever bring Mai home. He's almost always surrounded by people except for that hour in the basement, but he doesn't seem to really open up to anyone. Mai doesn't seem to be forming much in the way of intimacy with him despite his diligent effort to crowbar her panties off.
Vincente loves his family. Despite his public abuse of Washi as a comic figure, he seems to legitimately care about Washi and does what he can to improve the quality of his life. He spends time with his nephews and nieces and takes an interest in their education when he can spare a moment to. He's still got a good relationship with his parents, and has personally seen to the welfare of his siblings. There are numerous cousins and other relatives that Vincente also employs in various tasks so that their families can be taken care of.
Not much of his vast wealth is spent on himself. Aside from several big-ticket items, Vincente appoints his homes just enough to be "in character" and otherwise focuses on reinvesting his wealth in his company or in developing real estate. He will spend lavishly -- outrageously -- on his friends, and is sinking enormous amounts of cash into wooing Mai Sanagawa. He likes good wine and comfortable accommodations, and has a special fondness for hot tubs and whirlpools. Apparently Vincente also likes to fish a lot, as he subscribes to a variety of ocean fishing periodicals.
Supervillains. Go figure.
