From:	Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: China - PLA Macrotechnology
Date:	Fri, 15 May 1998 13:34:24 -0400

At 04:59 AM 5/15/98 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm not sure how many of you have heard of that particular
>corporation - PLA Macrotechnology, that is. I'd like to call your
>attention to it.

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Ooooh, terribly cool. I was unaware of this company, it looks like both
myself and my contacts are getting rusty.

I'm not sure this company, being governmentally controlled, would have
survived the collapse of the PRC. It's highly likely that they would have
been gobbled up by the Japanacorps, like Mitsuhama and Fuchi, both of which
are supposed to have decent military design/manufacturing wings.

But this is an excellent candidate if you wished to have a Chinese
corporation around, one based on the mainland and not Hong Kong (like
Wuxing). Their tech, especially stuff like cybernetics and Matrix tech, is
probably well behind the cutting edge. Their guns probably are too, but
they could easily be the world's number one manufacturer of cheap
knock-offs. I would think that many of the "M-23s" and "Ingram
Supermachs"
and "Colt Warriors" in the hands of gangers and gutter riff-raff (which
might include your 'runners) would be actually cheap knock-offs made in
China by PLA Macrotech. This would probably be their biggest source of
income *and* headache (I doubt Ares would think too kindly of someone
making money off "their" guns). Much of their weaponry, armor and cheap
cyber or vehicles is also probably sold to the different competing warlords
in mainland China, creating a vicious cycle in which only PLA Macrotech
profits.

They'd probably also be based in Bejing. In my game world, the old PRC
still has a hold on that small area. The PLA could still be controlled by
them, but regardless, I doubt they would really be anywhere else except
maybe Shanghai.

Erik J.


"Oh, the silent helicopters and the men in black fatigues? They're just my
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