From: | jjvanp@*****.com (Jan Jaap van Poelgeest) |
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Subject: | Corporations and war in SR |
Date: | Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:48:19 -0700 (PDT) |
After the bit about the MBTs, I was musing on what a
6th world war would entail, especially if its a
country/corp doing the warring (Aztechnology).
Would the corporate branch of the nation claim
non-affiliation with the territory? Otherwise any
Aztech facilities inside "enemy territory" would
probably be impounded, or at least taken out of
commission. In short: matters would just get far too
complicated for an open conflict to be practical.
Even if the war is between two nations; let's say
Japan and.... Germany? Would Saeder-Krupp and the
various Japanacorps pick sides? Could they even avoid
doing so? All in all I suspect that economical
interests are generally considered vastly more
important than any notion of national pride or even
perceived justice (wait, this is about a fantasy set
in the year 2065, right?).
Anyway, as it is I can't see how territorial gain, or
political advantages could have sufficient value at a
sufficiently low risk to any megacorp for them to
allow any kind of real warfare to occur between
developed (i.e.: those with significant megacorp
presence) nations. A cold war of the bottom line
ensues, the corporate court ends up being the real
body of power, the Zurich-Orbital the world's throne.
Something tells me SR4 might see the Z-O come crashing
down (or did this already happen? Not too hot on my
recent canon..). Perhaps Lofwyr wings it into space at
great personal risk and eats it *sniggles*.
cheers,
Jan Jaap
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