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From:	Lehlan Decker <DeckerL@******.COM>
Subject:	Re: The Corp War (Spoilers for BiB)
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:45:17 -0500

Message no. 1 <SNIP What is the corp war>
In a nutshell, (and hopefully without any spoilers) it's a massive
restructuring of the megacorps, and the whole thing started after
Dunk's Will left various things to various people. In the end, 1 megacorp
goes under, serveral new ones arise, and a few relocate/restructure.
I'll add some spoilers now.

Ok. Hopefully that should be enough, just in case.
Short version. Fuchi self destructs. Reasons are tied to their Head
of security getting large chunk of Renraku stock etc. Eventually
Villiers leaves and forms Novatech with most of Fuchi's North
american possessions. Remains of Fuchi, part merges with Renraku
the other part with Yametsu. So no more Fuchi.

Cross Allied Tech joins the corp court.
Wuxing Inc joins the corp court.

Yamestu(sp?) relocated to Vladivostock from Japan.
Ares goes through some shakeups, when Aurelius leaves, sells
stock to Vogel, and joins up with Cross Allied.

Big 8 is now the Big 10.

That's Blood in the Boardroom in a nutshell. It has timelines, and all
sorst of other good stuff. I high recommend it.

From:	Scott W <see_scott_run@*****.COM>
Subject:	Re: The Corp War (Spoilers for BiB)
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 1998 07:18:19 -0800

Message no. 2 ---Lehlan Decker <DeckerL@******.COM> wrote:
> <SNIP What is the corp war>
> In a nutshell, (and hopefully without any spoilers)
> it's a massive restructuring of the megacorps, and
> the whole thing started after Dunk's Will left
> various things to various people. In the end, 1
> megacorp goes under, serveral new ones arise, and a
> few relocate/restructure.

Thank you, and Christopher as well. That's in BBB3
I guess...I had just gotten the idea that the 'war'
was a very open one (that is to say, more obvious to
the public), with the level of conflict between corps
increasing dramatically. Maybe I'm on the wrong track
here...was there actually a war, and how was it waged?
In the usual manner, with shadowrunners? Or with
high-profile operations done by corporate squads?

Scott
==

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From:	Lehlan Decker <DeckerL@******.COM>
Subject:	Re: The Corp War (Spoilers for BiB)
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:21:21 -0500

Message no. 3 <SNIP>
No problem, glad to help.
There never was a true "war" as far as I can tell. (I don't read all
the novels). Although BiB mentions shadow activity in Japan, Boston,and
Calfree going through the roof, when the Fuchi Factions fought with
each other. I believe it also mention Renraku and Fuchi mobilizing various
units and such, during some of their negotiations concerning Miles
Lanier. (I think this is mentioned in one of the novels with the Otaku
Babel, the name escapes me).
The nicest thing about BiB is it gives a chronological calendar of
when events take place. Great for the GM trying to work it into
his campaign. A new book (similiar to the old Corp Shadowfiles) is
rumored to be on the drawing board for next year, and should update
all the info on the corps old and new and their changes.

From:	Matt Penn <steelclaw@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: The Corp War (Spoilers for BiB)
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:51:59 -0500

Message no. 4 On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:21:21 -0500 Lehlan Decker <DeckerL@******.COM>
writes:
><SNIP>
>No problem, glad to help.
>There never was a true "war" as far as I can tell. (I don't read all
>the novels). Although BiB mentions shadow activity in Japan, Boston,and
>Calfree going through the roof, when the Fuchi Factions fought with
>each other. I believe it also mention Renraku and Fuchi mobilizing
various
>units and such, during some of their negotiations concerning Miles
>Lanier. (I think this is mentioned in one of the novels with the Otaku
>Babel, the name escapes me).

This answers a few questions for me, but there's one I've got that's been
a big pondering point for me. What are the Desert Wars? From my
understanding, it's where the Corps settle differences with their
personal armies. Am I missing something? That could also be the literal
war that was talked about.

-Matt, Homo Sapiens Robustus
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From:	Lehlan Decker <DeckerL@******.COM>
Subject:	Re: The Corp War (Spoilers for BiB)
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 1998 11:03:38 -0500

Message no. 5 >This answers a few questions for me, but there's one I've got that's
>been
>a big pondering point for me. What are the Desert Wars? From my
>understanding, it's where the Corps settle differences with their
>personal armies. Am I missing something? That could also be the literal
>war that was talked about.

The desert wars originally a way for corps to settle their disputes.
Then the networks got ahold of it, and the corps made more money
off the broadcast rights, then the court settlement.
Now they tend to rotate their troups through these exercises to
keep them trained. This is detailed in Corp Shadowfiles I think.
I can't think of any module that uses a scenario like this, although
a bunch of characters always seem to be Desert Wars Vets.
BiB and the Corp Shadowfiles books, both mention some corp conflict
but most of it was long before the megacorps were this powerful.
These days they tend to keep it "civilized" more or less.

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