| From: | Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ> |
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| Subject: | Re: State of emergency |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Mar 1997 17:08:48 +1300 |
>> of the megas.
>
>Okay, now you set off my bells and whistles. Any time the Big 8 want to
>duke it out big enough to need to call out the guard is cause for major
>world-view changes and is probably getting into the realm of too hot to
>handle for this list. On the guard issue, there is a such thing that the
>creators of Shadowrun wrote into their worldview called corporate
>extraterritoriality meaning: if Fuchi and Aztech want to conduct carpet
>bombing on each other's arcologies, as long as they obey the law in
>Seattle (file legitimate flight plans, etc.), Seattle has no right to
>intervene. Another thing to consider: conducting open warfare in the
>streets is un-economical, not to mention _very_ bad for business. ("When
>you think of dead, innocent civilians, think Saeder-Krupp!") That's why
>shadowrunning was invented in the first place: so they can stick it to
>each other in a safe, disposable, deniable, and cost-effective way.
They'll be hiring shadowrunners for a lot of it, and they won't be
advertising the fact that it's them who's doing it.
>When
>they want to shoot at each other they take it to Desert Wars (although
>since I have never heard differently, I have always been under the
>assumption that Desert Wars used non-lethal ammo, since blowing up
>equipment gets rather expensive in short order).
I've seen no information on that, but I got that impression too.
>Also, I happen to have characters involved in or around one of the megas.
>If you plan on leaving their place of business a smoking crater with or
>without them in it, I would like to have some say. I also figure there
>would be others who would be, shall we say, disgruntled if you suddenly
>had their favorite section of town leveled.
Only one section of town should be levelled. Two, tops. :) Honest.
>Since this matter is a lot more relevant to a discussion on plotd than
>whether or not Shultz can call out the guard, tell us what your idea is.
>If it seems to be too grandiose, I am sure we can all figure out a way to
>prune it back such that you get to tell the story you want to tell, and
>the rest of us don't get our toes stomped on.
Hokely dokely... a certain small corp upsets a fairly powerful individual
in the Seattle division of a certain megacorp. Said powerful individual
finds out some more stuff about the little fish, including the fact that it
is an undercover part of a big fish. Said powerful individual starts to
have little fish eliminated, and the big fish behind little fish tries to
prevent the elimination. Shadowrunners and gangers run wild in the streets,
clashing with each other and assorted corp or LoneStar teams. One thing
leads to another, and there is a fairly large-scale shoot-out at the last
surviving facility belonging to little fish. This battle is broken up when
the feds intervene. The attacking corp backs off. Heads roll at the
management levels, arrests are made, everyone says they're sorry (backing
it up with cash settlements), and it's back to business as usual. The whole
thing is over in less than 24 hours.
On another matter...
>Steven A. Tinner
>...
>"But I don't have any skin!"
Could you explain that last line?
PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON
