| From: | TopCat <topcat@******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: Corp Revenge |
| Date: | Fri, 24 May 1996 05:07:56 -0500 |
>>>Fine, that makes sense... but having a team that only works for one or
>>>two corps is a trail. A smart corp wouldn't do that, because they get a
>>>trail that leads back to them.
>>Only if the runners get caught often, which may happen, but if they even get
>>caught once, the corp would drop them from the shadow-payroll.
>It doesn't matter... the trail builds up over time. "Well, three years
>ago, this team hit us, stealing our plans for DataChip X. This turned up
>at Fuchi. They hit Renraku 18 months ago. Again the stuff ended up at
>Fuchi. There are six other incidents where they've got stuff that ended
>up at Fuchi. Odds are, the stuff they took this time too ended up at
>Fuchi. Let's start the search there, shall we?"
So they call up Fuchi and they get a whole lot of "what are you talking
about?". And then Fuchi refuses to call the runners for work anymore. Or
maybe they start huntring for threads connecting a group of runners to
Fuchi. Probbaly aren't going to find any solid info unless you really get
digging. By that time Fuchi will know something is up and they will have
cut off the runner team from further employ.
>And no matter how careful you are, you can be traced... besides that,
>your Rep (10% of all earned Karma, remember) gives an automatic chance
>that they know what corps you work for regularly. This represents street
>buzz about what's happening. Also, fixers probably quietly advertise what
>kind of runs their teams have managed, to prove competence.
Now, I don't know how anyone else runs the Johnson/Fixer/Runner triangle,
but this is how it goes in the campaigns I've been a part of. Johnson will
contact Fixer about work. Fixer goes through who he knows and their
capabilities and starts making calls to see who's the most capable. Once he
knows who's interested, he talks to the Johnson and explains what he can
get. If this is satisfactory, then meets can be set up. These meets can be
between the Johnson and the Runners or between the Johnson and the Fixer.
If the latter, there will be a meet between the Fixer and the Runners later
on. As the latter also complicates things a great deal unless the job is
very straightforward, it is very rare. Right now it's 2:00 am and I'm
trying to figure out exactly why I wrote this. Dunno, I hope it helps
explain something.
God, I'm tired...
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