Editing Alexa Morrison (section)

=== Yakuza Crisis ===
The Yakuza Crisis began shortly after the disbandment of the Bay Rebels. To celebrate their exit, the syndicates hosted a party at Alexa’s penthouse. However, this act of public celebration caught the attention of Edward McHaggis’s former employers—the Yakuza. On his way home from the party, Edward was confronted and pressured into rejoining their ranks. They accused him of leaving dishonourably and demanded reparations.

What followed was a heavy-handed extortion attempt: the Yakuza demanded $100,000,000, a sum Edward could not pay on his own. This debt was soon extended to the entire Big Four. Alexa was immediately frustrated. In her eyes, the crisis was entirely Edward’s fault, and now her businesses were under siege because of his personal entanglements. The Yakuza began seizing narcotics, weapons, and revenue across the city, crippling the Big Four’s trade lines.

To avoid financial collapse, the group brought in [[Hans Naumann]], a well-known German smuggler. Hans agreed to handle the syndicate's exports—narcotics, crates, and illegal goods—in exchange for a share of the earnings. Alexa reluctantly agreed to the plan, though she never liked Hans. She found him smug, clumsy, and ultimately unreliable. More importantly, she resented the fact that her well-oiled operations had to share profits with an outsider due to a crisis caused by Edward. To her, it was a form of "modern stealing"—exploiting a problem to extract a cut. Her doubts were confirmed when the Yakuza raided Hans’s safehouse and stole a [[USB stick]] containing sensitive data.

It was Billy who located the Yakuza’s Los Santos base and led a swift retaliation. Their cell was eliminated, and the USB stick was recovered. When Alexa received the stick, she quickly realized it was no ordinary file drop—it contained deeply encoded material that hinted at high-level criminal connections. She managed to extract partial data, enough to uncover Hans Naumann’s deeper ties to illicit activities and his connection to the circumstances surrounding the death of Jim’s wife. Yet, something about the file remained unresolved. The encryption was advanced and layered—too intricate for its intended purpose. Alexa suspected there was more buried within, something she couldn’t yet access. It left her with an uneasy certainty: the rabbit hole went deeper than she could presently see, and Hans Naumann’s story in Los Santos might not be entirely over.

Jim acted quickly upon learning the truth and confronted Hans at the [[Galileo Observatory]]. Though Alexa was not involved in the confrontation, she was informed of the outcome: Jim, despite having a weapon drawn, chose not to kill Hans. Instead, Hans fled the city. To Alexa, this was a weak and strategic decision. She believed Hans had become a liability the moment he arrived in Los Santos, and letting him go only risked future consequences. Alexa had never trusted Hans, and his exit though welcomed felt incomplete. With the Yakuza eliminated and Hans gone, Alexa quietly restored her operations to full efficiency, reinforcing her view that Edward's carelessness had nearly cost them everything, and that Jim’s reluctance to act decisively could become a future vulnerability.