From:	Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:	Re: State of emergency
Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:14:48 +1300

> 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.

Yes, of course there'll be repercussions... large sums in compensation, the
responsible parties in management being executed... umm, I mean commiting
suicide in shame, etc. But you're missing the point that the people who
start it are not thinking, they're making hasty decisions in anger, and
losing control slightly thereafter. Everyone comes to their senses
eventually, but plenty of damage will have been done by then (nothing that
deserves an Omega order though, it's only Seattle).

PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON