Major Corporate Alliance

Great Commerce Alliance is an alliance made up of legacy merchant companies from the Midgar Kingdom. Unbeknownst to the populace, the MCA is secretly a puppet of the Cult of Diablos with their associate, Gettan controlling this alliance from the shadows.

History
The merchant companies notice that the Mitsugoshi Company (Unbeknownst to the populace, that the company is Shadow Garden front) has grow in power and expanded their business with such rapid pace along with the introducing of banking notes to the world that would become very popular among the kingdom's citizens, which ended up drawing the envy of many of their competitors and now they caught the alliance attention.

The Cult notice it and wanted to destroy the Mitsugoshi Company, but they can't do it personally because of Shadow Garden. So, the Cult contacted their associate, Gettan whose aim was to occupy the Knights Round Seat and ordering him to destroy the Mitsugoshi Company by leading the MCA through the Garter Corporation.

Following the introduction of Mitsugoshi bills, the MCA tried to understand their concepts and copies their idea. But, in contrast to Mitsugoshi, the bills of the MCA are easier to counterfeit. So, Gettan decide to tell the MCA to used the cult plan to make many counterfeit and spread it to create a credit crisis in order to bring down Mitsugoshi, and they start the plan when the cult finishing their dealing with the MCA and their asset will be safely withdrawn from the capital.

Unbeknownst for the MCA and the cult around the same time, Shadow also planned on using their same plan ahead of time by join forces with the Spirit Fox Yukime and working together with the Snow Fox Corporation of the Lawless City under the alias "John Smith", waiting for the collapse of both parties.

Great Trade Alliance Conflict
The MCA subsequently attempted to sabotage them by sending their private forces to attack the Mitsugoshi's carriages supply lines and eliminate their 'employees', only for them to encounter the fierce resistance from the Shadow Garden's well-trained forces leading to many of their deaths and a few of them being captured for interrogation. Also, the Mitsugoshi's carriages supply lines kept running smoothly.

Gettan also order all member of his best mercenaries, The Clovers to infiltrate at the Mitsugoshi Ltd's Headquarters with the objective to gathering all confidential documents, the money and manufacturing details, then engaging in sabotage, also pillaging as well as kidnapping important personnel without failure. But, their mission raid was a failure as the Clovers didn’t returned, even Garter private army along with the rear guard whose job was to report back in case the mission failed never came back, either. Gettan feel confident even his mercenaries have been eliminated, because the Mitsugoshi have fallen into the cult's plan.

When the rumors about counterfeits has already spread and reached Gettan's ear through Garter, he decide to check with his superiors. When he heard the news from the Cult’s messenger, Gettan is furious because their counterfeits haven’t been distributed and currently still making it, which means some third party is the one that mass-producing fake bills and he thought that the culprit was the Mitsugoshi Company and using the cult's plan against him. So, Gettan order Garter to tracks down John Smith and recovering their funds in order to salvage the crisis.

With the rumors about the counterfeits are already starting to circulate around the capital and Gettan running out of time because he can't find John Smith, there’s been an increase in people exchanging their bills for gold. Also, a huge liquidation request came, which makes the all company presidents saying that this isn’t what Gettan promised and asking to shut down the exchanges knowing that their reserves won’t hold out.

Gettan confronts Yukime because he knows something suspicious about the huge liquidation order and decided to investigate, which revealed that she was the one who created this situation by working together with John Smith and decide to take back the money they stole, in order to fix the crisis. He fought with Yukime until she is down and decide to kill her until John Smith appeared, and they both clash until Gettan dies.

After Gettan's death, The merchants closed their shop and tried to flee only to be intercepted by the Knight Order who forced them to open their vaults. Once they discovered the duplicity of their reserves, the populace lost their trust with the MCA and the kingdom severely punished the merchants. With the MCA gone, the Mitsugoshi Company's position become more powerful and the cult lost a large portion of their funds and influence in the kingdom.