| From: | TopCat <topcat@******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: Killing in Shadowrun... |
| Date: | Tue, 21 May 1996 01:03:15 -0500 |
>That's the first problem: Corps are no persons. Maybe people IN a corp
>have nasty feelings toward a Runnerteam, but the corp as whole would
>look after the bottom line, which means: Don't throw money out if you
>can't regain it. And to counter your favourite answer to the bottom
>line statement: What would be more sensible: To gain 0.000001 pts
>increase in stockmarket because "we wasted 4 people iwth our whole
>corp" or risking massive damage to your goods because every runnerteam
>will try not to be recognized and waste anything around 'em to
>obscure their trails?
If a corp sent out everything it had against a runner team, there's would be
missing chunks of real estate the size of Alaska around the target area and
the runners wouldn't last one hour longer than the order went out. This
won't happen, of course.
0.000001 points is hundreds of millions of dollars.
Money lost to another corp is worse than cash spent. If you can nullify
their benefit, then it is worth a great deal of money. You, after all, have
the beginnings of the research to fall back on, they don't.
>>I'd hire them, set
>>them up, and kill them.
>(Some) Persons do that. Gives you that fuzzy feeling in the ... wherever.
>But it does not pay out.
Cost is X APDS rounds, where X equals the number of runners, as fired by
snipers. You never pay the runner team anything, maybe last respects. And
it would give any corp a warm fuzzy feeling to end a threat.
>>Ruling through fear is much easier than ruling through trust and far less
>>likely to hurt you in the end.
>...and much more expensive, but you seem to think corps grow through losses,
>you may have your point. Somewhere. Maybe.
><font size=-3>Maybe not.</font>
The corp lost no-one of their own. Spent a little pocket change, killed off
a threat that was working for another corp, solidified their stance on how
they deal with threats. All in a day's work.
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