From:	Wes Nicholson <wes@********.COM.AU>
Subject:	Re: State of emergency
Date:	Sat, 8 Mar 1997 10:12:01 +1100

>><snip "why two mega's shouldn't fight">
>>Agreed. Add to this that the Corporate Council on Z-O seriously frown on
>>any obvious fighting between the Big 8.
>
>That's one of the major reasons why it'll all be over in under 24hrs. A
>moment of anger, hasty decisions made, escalation as one thing leads to
>another, then the top people drop out of sight and the flunkies just carry
>on doing what they were last told to do. Eventually they come to their
>senses and stop, especially if the Metroplex Guard and ZO Court tell them
>to. It just takes a little time for the orders to go through the channels.
>

Never mind the Corporate Council, it's the Corporate Court that would take
exception to this - even for 24 hours. One of the main reasons the big 8 don't
have permanent warfare between them (apart from economics) is the very real
threat
of an Omega declaration from the court against whichever megacorp starts the
fracas. That's a very nasty threat that all the corps seem to take very
seriously. From memory, all this is in Corporate Shadowfiles.


Wes