| From: | TopCat <topcat@******.net> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Killing in Shadowrun... |
| Date: | Sun, 19 May 1996 18:05:57 -0500 |
>>two points in the market by lowering stockholder confidence in the ability
>>of the corp to retain it's assets. Do you realize how much money that
>>represents? A lot more than it would take to send a small army after team X
>>to exact a little vengeance.
>Who is going to know? Corp Z (the employers of Team X) aren't going to
>advertise. Corp Y isn't going to advertise. Team X isn't going to brag
>about it too much. So no-one knows. Meanwhile, while Corp Y is looking
>the other way, Corp Z might be planning another move. If Corp Y is too
>concerned about a revenge that won't get the noted physicist back anyway,
>then they're going to be blindsided. And it still won't put the stock
>back up.
If corp Y is so small that sending out a small group after a single runner
team will open them up from all other directions, then corp Z will certainly
be able to capitalize. Corps aren't tiny little mom & pop stores just off
the freeway, they're multinational organizations with as much manpower as
some countries. Some even are countries. They also control a huge percent
of the world's economy. So I think they can afford to nail down a
shadowrunner team without finding themselves open in any way.
And nobody has to brag about anything. Word will get out that a physicist
disappeared from corp Y and ended up in corp Z. Corp Y employees will be
awfully bitter about it, while corp Z employees might be suspicious of how
this happened. The shadows are built on information and someone somewhere
will know what the runners did and they'll try to dump off the info for what
the market will pay for it. All in all, the information may not come out
immediately, but it will come out.
Why wouldn't it build the stock of a corporation to show that they won't
take attacks on their assets lying down? That's worth at least the cost of
the shareholders finding out that they did get attacked. Confidence is the
most important thing in the stock market, if you don't build it, you get
eaten up. If you do build it and solidify your stances,you will be rewarded
by a higher market share.
-------------------------------------
"I was thinking of the immortal words
of Socrates, who said: I drank what?"
-- Real Genius
-------------------------------------
TopCat at the bottom...
