Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter18 (section)

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'''Babel and the Izumo Company

Babel’s sponsor in DT is the Izumo Company, which funded the construction of Babel in Japan. Izumo was originally a large research laboratory known as the Izumo Aviation Virtual Laboratory, a collection of researchers dating back to before World War Two.

It is now a global corporation and a symbol of Japan, a change that came about from the internal conflict during the Rhythm development race that began in the ‘70s.

In 1983, the Izumo family’s representative went missing and management of Izumo fell to the branch family which established a profit-seeking corporate policy.

This led to an internal split. Several companies fell under the Izumo umbrella during 1983, but they began distancing themselves from the Izumo Aviation Virtual Laboratory. That was when the Izumo Aviation Virtual Laboratory changed its name to IZUMO.

This led to a situation where Izumo was split between the main IZUMO company and the associated companies that had split away. Both sides tried to argue they were '''the real Izumo'''.

The largest of the companies under the Izumo umbrella was IAI (Izumo Aviation Institute) led by Ooshiro Ataru, who had worked directly for the Izumo family representative.

The conflict between the branch family and Ooshiro was set to end with IZUMO’s construction of Babel in Osaka, but this fell through because '''Babel contained an illegal object'''.

IZUMO lost its power when that trouble forced them to abandon Babel, but when the closing of Tokyo led to conflict between east and west Japan, IZUMO’s responsibility was set aside.

IAI used that opportunity to rise to the forefront and arranged to have Babel, which was being managed by the Japanese government, sent to DT. Ooshiro took out a large insurance policy on Babel and had it sent to DT. The tower was presented as a way to seek the word of god regarding a resolution to the trouble around the world.

IAI was prepared for the possibility of Babel collapsing, so it would either bring IAI a great fortune or it would collapse and they would receive their insurance payout which they planned to use to construct another Babel.

That Babel was tentatively known as 3rd Babel and it was based on the initial design plan for Babel as a word cannon meant to blast through the Great Canopy. That Babel’s interior would have been a large gauss gun which would be used to break a hole in the Great Canopy. It was set to be constructed in Daytona, Florida, USA.

The construction technology used for Babel has already been used in a few standard products, so you could call it a symbol of the Izumo brand.

Even if it collapses, the Izumo family intends to rebuild the tower as many times as it takes and that family is said to be the descendants of the wind god who once ruled Japan’s Mystical City – Izumo. Izumo’s corporate side had its beginnings researching aviation in order to ride the winds, but with their representative gone, they are now fixated on constructing a tower up to heaven. There could be some hidden meaning there.