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Take out the Whipple
Background:
Nicholas Hurd, the current Assistant Telemetry Control Technician working on the Whipple probe belonging to Novatech, was tired of playing second fiddle. When a man (secretly working for Ares) approached him with a very lucrative offer that would also just happen to put him on top, he was quick to jump on it. All he had to do was discredit and disgrace the Lead Technician, Alpert Yancey, therefore guaranteeing his ascension to the coveted Lead Tech position, and then sabotage the probe. Not a problem, right?

He has managed to slowly sneak out technical documents and information on the probe, and plans to hire someone to plant this damning evidence, along with falsely generated documents indicating that Yancey was planning on jumping ship, at Yancey’s house in Snohomish. With Yancey out of the way, he’d be in position to “guarantee� that the probe wouldn’t reach the Comet. He plans on doing this so that Novatech won’t detect any deliberate tampering, and so the Whipple will appear to have suffered an inflight glitch.

The Job:
The team is hired to plant the false evidence on Yancey's home computer system. Basically a B&E and data planting. All kinds of complications and stuff you could throw in.

Railgun? What railgun?
Synopsis:
Herbert McIntyre is a leading weapons designer, working freelance for whoever will pay him. He works out of his home, of all places, on the 14th floor of the building at 1521 Garatty Avenue, in West-Central Bellvue.

A few months ago, Herbert did some work for Ares, redesigning the Aztechnology Relampago (from stolen plans, no less) for retrofitting onto the Ares Gigas probe. Although he was supposed to have given over all data and materials upon completion of the job, he has actually kept copies of not only the original weapons plans, but all working data and his final plans for the Gigas probe induction guns.

Recently, Kenchi Saitama, a Shiawase tech working on the secret manned version of the Brahe probe, happened to wander into a matrix discussion room about space technology and overheard McIntyre bragging about having kept the designs, and joking that although he had kept them mainly as souvenir of the job and to use as a basis for some future work, he was thinking about “how much he could get for them on the open market�. Saitama approached McIntyre later that night, and asked him to a private room, where he proceeded to ask how much he’d take for the plans. McIntyre refused to sell them, saying that he hadn’t been serious, and left the room.

Frustrated but still interested, Saitama went to his supervisors at Shiawase. In typical corporate fashion, they took all of his information and told him to forget all about it. (This was later “facilitated� by a visit from one of Shiawase’s wage-mages.)

Now, Shiawase wants those plans. They think they can alter them to be used as a space-based weapon for their manned Brahe probe, allowing them to “ensure� that they reach the probe first. One of their local professional Johnsons received a call, and the run is born.

The Job:
The job is to collect all the data, wipe out any trace of it, and make sure that Mr. McIntire will never design another weapon.

Background on McIntire:
He has paid a top security firm to beef up his floor of the building that he lives in. His physical and network security are top notch, due to his reclusive nature. (The tidbit the players caught on when I ran this was that since he never left the house, he must get stuff delivered. They posed as his grocery delivery service.)

IRC one was about a kidnapping a scientist from a Proteus AG launch facility in Guyana. The other was about retrieving the crashed Gagarin probe from a group of native luddites in the great white north. The latter was the most fun because one of the runners was indeed a native american and had lots of conflicts with his trigger-happier friends. Fortunately they could let off steam when the Yamatetsu team arrived...)

There was one that was (is?) in the shadowrunrpg website called Media Spectacle. This is about escorting a journalist to an interview with Pobre in the midst of the Yucatan war and Aztechnology chemical strike.
Another one I called "Rojo" and had a couple of Denver based runners hunt a series of individuals -a show magician, a crazed dwarf, etc. - who actually were different "parts" of a Denver free spirit. The runners were working for Ghostwalker without them knowing. Eventually they got first hand information to "get out of the city fast" in the middle of their last run and just on time to be witness of the Ghostwalker strike.

Finally, a couple runs involving the unveiling of shedim spirits. The first one included stealing some data from the DIMR in Boston and stumbling upon a room which contained a ward and a body. Of course the body animated and attacked the runner who had inadvertedly stepped on the ward pattern, but security arrived fast and they couldn't quite figure out what had happened. For the second one the runners got hired by Ares to kill a muslim leader who favoured peace in the area and was friendly to S-K. The runners smoked the man but he later appeared all live and well, so they had to pull the job again to finally discover Ibn Eisa's secret shedim conspiracy

Synopsis
Players are hired by Ares for a passive surveillance job, to watch a businessman while he is in Seattle. While he is in Seattle, McIntyre becomes increasing difficult to follow as he becomes personally involved with one of the FB managers. Players are forced to follow the pair through their various social and private meetings, getting increasingly narrow time windows to prepare their surveillance. When he finally is extracted by a rival team, the runners must rush to find and rescue (“un-extract�) him before he gives up information sensitive to the runners’ employer, possibly with the cooperation of FB agents.

Background
Rob McIntyre, a naval weapons consultant, was contracted as part of the Gigas probe construction to adapt the naval Magnetic Propulsion Railguns that the probe was to be equipped with. Although instructed to destroy all plans, Ares doesn’t trust McIntyre. Now, he is in Seattle to have talks with Federated Boeing about the possibility of a new contract. Ares has suspicions, now that FB is helping build a rival probe, McIntyre may be the subject of an extraction or even be planning to sell what he knows about Gigas, thus hiring a team to covertly monitor his dealings with FB. Meanwhile, FB’s partners, Aztechnology and Shibata, have overridden FB’s objections to extracting and interrogating McIntyre. They acquire an asset team of their own to deliver McIntyre to them where they plan to find out whatever he knows about the Gigas probe, at any cost.