On the subject of previously published mercenary tickets dealing with corporate
warfare, I mentioned a couple of days ago that I would search my archives.
Well, I did. Ticket IX in "76 Patrons" is for a raid on a SuSAG manufacturing
facility to steal psionics drugs, sponsored by "an underground psionics
organization". Boy...I'd like to see the look on the repatriation bond holder's
faces when they see that in the fine print.
An amber zone in JTAS#3 entitle "Planetoid P-4638", is a mercenary ticket
for a platoon sized raid on a Sternmetal asteroid, sponsored by "an unnamed firm",
for the purpose of stealing the details of a certain proprietary manufacturing
process (that would allow a 5-7% decrease
in the cost of some fairly common commodity). Still sounds more like Hickok and his four commandos than a real military operation to me.
Is it possible that different rules, if you will, apply when there is a clear
(but of course undeclared) trade war going on between two companies? In the
case of an acknowledged conflict, the raid on the manufacturing facility looks
a *little* less like a random criminal
act, and more like a *legitimate* military
operation.
Rob Dean
P.S. Any comments on the vehicles?