From:	"Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject:	Re: Killing in Shadowrun...
Date:	Tue, 21 May 1996 16:32:25 GMT

TopCat writes

> >Aztechnology tries this stuff, BTW... it doesn't work all that well.
>
> Runners are scared shitless to run against Aztechnology because they handle
> things correctly.
You missed one problem.

> Runners by the horde work for Aztechnology though. Why?
> The cash is there. Only the bravest/most foolhardy even attempt to hit
> them. Most of them don't make it back. They pull in an enormous amount of
> money, don't have public stock (so they don't have to answer to anyone in
> that realm for their actions),
Yes they do actually. Have you checked the 'public relations' limit
in corp shadowfiles, a corporation is limited to a maximum of asset
rating equally double its public rating (although many people don't
care some customers do care what the company they buy off does)
Aztechnology is the smallest rating wise of the big 8 because its rep
is 4 (due to that rule by fear methodology) they do ok in some ways
but it does hurt them.

> and have perhaps the most devastating
> security measures of any corp out there. Of course, they're also a country
> so there's even more money.
>
Its also probably why they get away with so much, a lot of things can
be hidden simply because they have managed to pursuade the public
that Aztechnology is a corp and Atzlan is a nation, most folks assume
the two cannot be the same even if one is in the pocket of the other
which cover so many ills. That 'nationalisation' of corps in Atzlan
was the government not us pleads Aztechnology (as they did the
former!) the business world might not be fooled but they could not do
much about it.

> Aztechnology rules through fear and the shadows do fear them. >
>
Yeah, so what you go visiting you go prepared for them or you dont go
(or your silly in which case they have a nice alter or research lab
waiting)

Mark