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Shorewater Industries is a company operating in Nova City in Ananta. Its only publicly named employee is the playable character Mechanika, whose official entry lists her Affiliation as "Shorewater Industries" and whose in-game bio describes her as "a ghost worker at Shorewater Industries who can make machines come alive." What the company produces or sells is not named in any published material.

Overview

Shorewater Industries is listed as one of the corporate entities the player encounters across Nova City. Every secondary description of the company echoes the same single data point: it is the employer of Mechanika, and she works there as a "ghost worker." Beyond that single job title, nothing about the company's business, size, leadership, or history has been revealed in official materials.

The name suggests a coastal or maritime branding, which would fit the sun-soaked coastal hub framing Nova City uses in its tourism copy. That branding inference is not explicitly confirmed; treat it as a reasonable observation rather than a stated fact.

Role in Nova City

Ananta's mission structure sends players on errands for "varying organizations like the NCAA, DK9Cat Express and more" per the September 2025 official gameplay trailer post. Shorewater Industries is not named in that list, so it functions more as a setting element than a mission-giver in the published material. Its relevance to gameplay is currently tied to Mechanika's personal storyline and her ability set.

What a "Ghost Worker" Does

Mechanika's official bio describes her as both "ghost worker at Shorewater Industries" and someone who "can make machines come alive" and throws "massive concerts with a bunch of machines." Multiple secondary descriptions of the company repeat this framing. The phrase ghost worker is not defined in any of them. Two reasonable, source-supported readings are:

• A literal reading that plays on her ability to animate machines: Mechanika is effectively a ghost inhabiting the Shorewater machine shop, animating equipment that nobody else sees move.

• A real-world echo of the term (off-books labor, informal shift work) applied to an employee whose job is to keep Shorewater's production lines running invisibly in the background.

Both readings fit what's been published. Because no source clarifies which is canon, this wiki treats the term as an unexplained official job title and avoids picking between the readings.

Notable Members

Relationships with Other Factions

Shorewater Industries has no named partnership, rivalry, or public relationship with any of the other Nova City factions in published material. Mechanika herself is listed among the playable roster alongside members of the A.C.D.NCCAD.P.A.and other factions, which suggests Shorewater is treated as a "civilian" workplace rather than a government or law-enforcement body. The character lineup mixes agents, bureaucrats, and private-sector workers, which positions Shorewater on the private-sector side of that split.

Visual and Branding Design

No logo or branding sheet for Shorewater Industries has been released as of April 2026. Mechanika's character art has not been explicitly tagged with company insignia in published marketing materials. This entry will be updated once an official visual identity is confirmed.

What Remains Unclear

• What Shorewater Industries manufactures, services, or trades in

• Whether "ghost worker" is a literal reference to Mechanika's machine-animating abilities or a real-world-style job classification

• Who runs the company, where its headquarters sit in Nova City, and whether it has a visible presence on the game map

• Whether Shorewater becomes a mission-giver later in the published game or stays purely background

Related

• Mechanika

• A.C.D.

• NCCA

• D.P.A.

• Cat Express