Corporate clandestine warfare event/round

[Midaychi]

 

Hello, and welcome to my next stupid suggestion:

A round that can only be started by an admin, where the crew spawns separated between one installation and two smaller than cyberiad stations on two different zlevels connected over an asteroid or some sort of rich environment.

 

The Reason for the admin-only is because the round would require a human to decide what 'evidence of corporate sabotage' constitutes. If you can find a way to do it fairly and automatically, then ok.

 

Maybe even a planet-based installation? Basically they need something to fight over. Each station has its own heads and staff, but are owned by two separate corporations (that aren't NT but have similar practices).

 

The story is that two major corporations have been fighting over a resource or zoning for a while, and a decision was finally handed down: The government courts decided that both companies must share the resource. To save face, the two corporations launched many buddy-buddy PR campaigns and such.

 

However, the CEOs of the corporations actually hate the shit out of each other, and this sharing business just can't go!

 

Secretly, over encoded fax, each company has sent their installation headstaff secret objectives to accomplish. The orders and evidence of the orders are to be destroyed after being known by the heads to allow the corporation to deny them. These objectives must be accomplished in secret; both Companies must sabotage the other over the duration of the round, but they must do it in a way that can't be proven to the Government as corporate sabotage. If the reality were to come to light, the companies would be publicly ruined, lose their claims, and would incur all sorts of lawsuits.

 

The government has some inkling that this will occur, but no proof, so they've installed a small security outpost on the asteroid between the two turfs. The crew on the small security outpost are tasked with keeping the peace between the corporations, and watching for evidence of sabotage. The small facility is also in charge of escape shuttles and evacuations in case of emergencies, and has at least one fully qualified emergency medical officer.

 

If enough valid evidence is reported to the government, the Government will send in ERT-like forces to secure the stations and evacuate/deal with personnel as the Government sees fit pending shutting down of the offending installation(s).

 

So, Either the government wins and both companies are fucked, one company wins, or both companies draw and no victory.

The corporations and the security outpost are supposed to work together on the surface, but the two corps are trying to secretly fuck the other one over and make it lose face, and the government security outpost is there to keep the peace and watch for evidence of sabotage + report it to admin.

 

AS mentioned in irc, yes. Main way of winning method would be the Government (admin) receiving enough convincing evidence, false or otherwise, that points the finger at one of the corps.

 

Main way of losing would be the Gov (admin) decided too much chaos broke out and decided to either evacuate or deathsquad the area.

 

Another way of winning would be if one corp were able to distract the government workers enough while their crew took out or otherwise sabotaged the opposing corp's stuff beyond viability. Even if it looks like your corp did something horrible.. in the world of corporate lawyers, it doesn't mean anything without hard evidence.

Of course, getting caught doing this would probably screw your corp over, so there are definitely risks involved.

 

The Gov outpost workers are there to be neutral mediators and evidence collectors, but aren't working against either side unless specifically ordered to via fax..