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March 11, 2057
Hoi Chummers, just a quick update on the political situation as the 2057 campaigning starts. With all of the parties having chosen candidates, things are about to get very busy in the shadow community. Campaigning starts on the East Coast, and word is that Boston has already seen some nasty political runs. The Federal District of Columbia, word has it, is ready to explode with shadow ops, mostly in and around Georgetown (gotta love ol' Roz Hernandez and her magocracy files). Of course, with Seattle being home of both Kenneth Brackhaven, the Archcon magnate, as well as the home of Hawkshorne Chemical, the first major victim of Dem candidate Arthur "Green Machine" Vogel, things are likely to get nasty here very soon.
Get ready for some serious dirt searching, photo-surveillance, adviser extractions, campaign plan datasteals, and let us not forget, political wetwork. I understand that elements in both Tir Tairngire and the SSC are more than a little worried about General Yeats and his "Reunification" agenda, so any Amerind or elven Johnsons you meet in the coming weeks should be giving you interesting work.
As always, keep your meat safe and always double-check your information.
-CC out
15 comments:
Cap's not kidding. Already we've had four major runs around the capital. Georgetown U. has hired Knight Errant security to beef up their overwrought guards after the explosion in the Thaumaturgy Hall, and the subsequent firefight. I understand they lost twelve campus police.
Just watch yourself running on Brackhaven, chums. His Veep is William Ager, former head of Fuchi America security. He's also handling the campaign's security. My fellow runners from Manhattan can back me up here: The guy is a 0% fuck around. Much safer, I think, to mess with the other candidates.
Great, so we should run against General Yeats, who's security is run by his old marine buddies? Or maybe Roz Hernandez, the initiate mage surrounded by her cult of initiate mages? Oh, I know, how about Arthur Vogel? He's only got like twelve major corps wanting him dead, and he's still alive. Only person that's "safe" to run against is Booth, and nobody's going to want anything he's got anyway!
You whine like dogs.
For all you SINless out there who are wondering how to get a voice in the elections, I'll go ahead and take care of that for you. 300 Nuyen buys you a vote for the candidate of your choice and I'll make sure your ballot is counted. It's a sad statement that despite recent events, our buddies in the UCAS still couldn't keep their hosts safe from a drunken 12 year old... although to be fair I hear tell the kid did have enough headware to make any decker drool even without an RAS override.
You're full of it, Bypass. Screw around too much and the corps will stop pretending that we live in a democracy. Try spending 6 months living with awakened snakes in southeast Asia and you'll start to appreciate how much worse that would be.
I'd just like to say how cute it is that all'y'all in the UCAS pretend that you still live in a democracy. If punk decker like Mr. Bypass can frag with the votes, don't even try to believe that every Megacorp, government and major PoliClub in the world is doing exactly the same thing. Enjoy that warm fuzzy feeling that voting gives you because that's about all its good for.
I'm on vacation for three frackin' months and someone steals my handle. Goddammit. You're lucky I'm something of a pacifist, "deecee", but a heads up--I know better deckers than you'll ever meet in your life, and they've whipped me up a little something locked on to your deck. Let's just say you may want to rethink your handle, or it may be rethought for you.
Don't worry so much about the security of the candidates, slags. There's plenty of cred to be made on much easier targets. Think about it; every candidate has friends, relatives, churches, companies, etc. in their past, and plenty of them hold little databits that can smear your candidate of choice.
...or can be tweaked to smear your candidate. Amazing advances in data manipulation tech these days, ne?
Anyone goin' after Brackhaven can count on a little free help if they drop me a line before things get wet. I've still got a score to settle with Mr. Ager. That's right Billy, guess your boys weren't as "efficient" as you thought. I'm still alive and I'm comin' to see you real soon.
UNHOLY DREK!!! Thug, you're alive? Please look me up. I still have what you gave me right before your last run. I can't believe you're still breathing. I better turn off my audio enhancements before I tell HD. It took me a week to fix them last time she screamed and that news was NOTHING compared to this. Look me up soon, that old drop point near Anjie's is still good.
I believe if anyone has a right to complain about imitators it would be me. I mean I had this name first by a long shot. Go back and check the Newsfax postings on "Local man discovers how to create fire in comfort of own cave" and "New more efficient wheel available. It's Round!"
Sorry DC, couldn't resist.
I know this is going to sound naive, especially on Shadowland, but doesn't it bother any of you that this divisiveness and in-fighing might really be hurting the UCAS? We have a major crisis in Chicago and we're arguing about politics? The dreams of the founders are long gone, aren't they?
Phrase: If you're interested in the survival of the Founding Fathers' dreams, why don't you just move to the CAS? Not only do we still have, y'know, a President, we also got rid of that Electoral College mess years ago.
I'm only sayin'...
Just because you aren't living the dream doesn't mean that the dream is dead.
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