From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	Re: Maxim ideas
Date:	Fri, 29 Dec 1995 00:21:46 -0800 (PST)

AUGH! Sorry for the double post: my emailer just went haywire.

According to ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD:
>
> Now, my ideas:
[chomp]
> 4: The Big 8 decide to send a messsage as in #1, but do it themselves
> like they did to Aztechnology in the Aztlan sourcebook. Again, one of
> the terms is consolidation of the nukes, and the runners, perhaps
> supported somwhat by SI, wipe them out.
>
> 5: The Big 8 get all fired up to splat Maxim, and decide not to when
> Maxim offers to consolidate the nukes and processing facilities into a
> single location, which then gets splattered by the runners.
>
> 6: Same idea as 5, but instead the runners are provided with heavy
> support from the Big 8.

Hmm....4 and 6 both look pretty nice. I guess the only real difference is
whether the mere threat of collective action by the Big 8 could get
Maxim to make the concessions to save their ass (#6) or whether the Big 8
and/or Maxim are pugilistic enough to precipitate direct conflict (#4). I
think there's enough breadth of personality in the ruling cadre of the Big 8
to make either option possible from their end...which of the two seems more
in character for Maxim? In either case, the net result is that there are
some nukes somewhere specific, and someone helps some runners to wreck that
somewhere at the appropriate moment. I like it. =)

As I don't have the Aztlan sourcebook, what sort of sanctions are we talking
about in #4 anyway? =)
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