| From: | Robert Watkins <robertdw@*******.com.au> |
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| Subject: | Re: Killing in Shadowrun... |
| Date: | Mon, 20 May 96 17:21:23 +1030 |
>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.
Trying to hunt down a shadowrunning team is a costly endeavour. You're
talking some serious assets, both in the investigative side and the final
"elimination" phase. Now, if you go about doing this for EVERY hit
against you (and you said this is happening every day), then I don't care
if you are Ares Macrotechnology: you are consuming a hell of a lot of
funds, and you ARE going to have to cut corners elsewhere.
When you get right down to it, what is it worth? The other corp payed out
maybe 100K Y for the run, maybe more. Call it an operating budget of 250K
Y. The target in question was worth probably no more than about 3,4
million (gee, as if), and at THAT, it's probably only worth that much for
your corp and the other corp. Gee... ONE corp strike team, with magical
support, can cost that much. And you STILL won't get your asset back,
probably.
Sure, Ares might put several billion into security. However, they've got
THOUSANDS, maybe millions, of sites to protect. It's not worth the
expenditure.
And besides, there just aren't all that many top-level running teams. If
you eliminate a few, then the others aren't going to run against you, but
they won't run for you either. And if you start doing it, then your
competitors will too, and soon there won't be any running teams left.
Sounds good so far? But the corps DO want running teams out there. If
they didn't, they wouldn't hire them.
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