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Message no. 1
From: Christopher Pratt <valen10@*****.NET>
Subject: Hostile takeovers and corporate wars
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 20:18:09 -0500
As the subject suggests I'm intrested in Hostile takeovers
I am planning a campign involving a corp war/conventional war between Ares/CAS and
Aztechnology/Aztlan
know i know how to run a conventional war (at least in my own deluded mind that is) but
what i am really intrested in is the corporate war
now obvisouly in attempting to take over company you want to drive the price of there
stock down to the point where you can afford a buyout. (BTW i do realize that aztechnoloy
and Ares can not afford to buyout one another, I was thinking in terms of sibsidaries) I
know of all the pretty much illeagle methods, extraction of key personal, destruction
and/or theft of property, sending the leg breakers out to vist the shareholders...
However, what are some legeal methods, how would a company of today go about the methods
of a hostle takeover.

thanks in advance
later
christopher pratt
valen10@*****.net
Message no. 2
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: Hostile takeovers and corporate wars
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:52:41 -0700
Christopher Pratt wrote:
/
/ As the subject suggests I'm intrested in Hostile takeovers / I am
planning a campign involving a corp war/conventional war between
Ares/CAS and / Aztechnology/Aztlan / know i know how to run a

[snip]

Christopher, could you do me a favor? Would you please change the
column width/word wrap setting on your mailer to 70-75
columns/characters? I, and others, use a mailer that does not word
wrap well on its own, and your posts are darn near impossible for me to
read without jumping through some hoops.

And, turn off or disable your reply-to setting. It's overiding the list.

Thanks,
-David
--
"Belief is a truth held in the mind.
Faith is a fire in the heart."
- Joseph F. Newton
--
ShadowRN GridSec
email: dbuehrer@******.carl.org
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm
Message no. 3
From: Airwasp <Airwasp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Hostile takeovers and corporate wars
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:13:01 EST
In a message dated 98-03-30 20:28:33 EST, you write:

> As the subject suggests I'm intrested in Hostile takeovers
> I am planning a campign involving a corp war/conventional war between Ares/
> CAS and
> Aztechnology/Aztlan
> know i know how to run a conventional war (at least in my own deluded mind
> that is) but
> what i am really intrested in is the corporate war

<snip a bunch>

Okay, I had something like this kick in a while back in the home game, and had
some interesting conversations with some of the people in the game, trying to
understand more of what might happen in the situation of both Ares and
Aztechnology. What came out was this, the Corporate Courts told Ares and
Aztechnology to act as resources for providing material and the like to their
respective sides, but they could not actively participate in war by putting in
their corporate forces into the mess.

The reason for this decision was somewhat simple, none of the other megacorps
want for another megacorp to destroy another and then take all of the others
assets as their own, it would give the winning corp too much power, so, by
tying in their ability to function to the nation, which does not have the same
resource level as the megacorp, they would have an influence on the was, but
not a truely heavy influence at all. And I know the above sentence made
almost no sense at all.

And if Aztechnology and Ares were both behind the war, then perhaps the
megacorps would step into the fray, commanding the two nations to cease the
combat or suffer economic consequences resulting from an Omega Order banning
legal trade with both countries and the hold on all assets of the megacorps
from the Geimmenshaft Bank on ZO. I would see one of the biggest Desert Wars
ever performed, with Ares and Aztechnology both putting a set number of
resource points into the amount of toys and soldiers they could put on the
battlefield. This would also have an added effect in the merchandising,
advertising, and trid rights that would ensue for all of the megacorps
involved, this way everyone makes some cred off of the battle and Ares and
Aztechnology both knock the frag out of each other.

Sounds funny does it not ?

Mike

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