| From: | Marcin Serkies <yasiu@******.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Runner's Attitudes |
| Date: | Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:25:40 +0200 |
>While I can agree somewhat of the cost-vs.-utility argument of why runners
>aren't a priority for the corps to hunt down, I still figure that it's more a
>matter of the runenrs not being particularly traceable that saves them. They
>don't exist in official databases, have no SIN to link photo IDs, etc. to, have
>no legal drivers' license, or other such baggage. Their residences are usually
>temporary (our characters tended to change apts every few months, and wouldn't
>hesitate to bail out if the heat seemed to be on). A photo ID doesn't mean
>much compared to the population size of a place like Seattle, especially with
>the size of the SINless population. Magical techniques for tracing are
>unreliable at best, and a _very_ expensive, scarce resource. OTOH, doing a
>ritual effect using minute samples of blood found on the site (if one of the
>runners took a hit or three) would be _well_ within what they could do; watch
>out for those first hours after the run, and maybe longer if they're willing to
>keep the sample under a Preserve spell for a while). But if that fails, a
>decker can't trace the group (no data to go on except appearance). So if the
>runners get off-site and away without being traced, they are probably home free
>because the corp cannot _find_ them. Think about the difficulty in finding a
>criminal today if no ID was made of the criminal at the scene, and he makes an
>intelligent escape and doesn't appear in public much. Plastering the vid with
>his mug? Yeah, there're how many channels in Seattle, it'd cost the corp how
>much in an effort likely to turn up nothing? And if you hit a big corp and
>figure they got photo ID of you and are gunning for you, you go under the knife
>for some elective surgery... All this is from brief descriptions of the Solo
>class in CP 2020 and my own POV on how Seattle 205X works, YMMV. I'd just like
>to know how corps track people down in your view. Sure they've got the
>firepower when the time comes, I don't think anyone would argue with you there.
Yep - corporation cannot find runners in direct way But there may be someone
who dislike runners and will make call. Or corpotations can use their own
ppl in shadows to trace runners. I think that there is more ways to find
them... And if they`ll do that... runners have to RUN fast :))
c-ya
Yasiu
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