In the food fight adventure in the quickstart rules the elf that is the target of the attack is the mistress of a VP of Alliance Corporation. My PCs managed to convince they could help her, and now plan on using her blackmail potential on Alliance to get her sanctuary with another corp and hopefully get themselves paid a bit. The problem is I have very little idea who Alliance corp is, what they sell, or who they're competing with or owned by. I could just create my own backstory, but I would like to be as true to the setting as possible. any help?

Alliance Corporation does not ring a bell. Correct me if I´m wrong, but I assume this is a story hook to be fleshed out by the GM.

Alliance Corp could be a part of a larger Corporation. See any corp storyline you like? I´m sure you´ll get help developing the idea.

Oh, I can think of a few, my party already hates Aztech, so they'd like to do battle with them, Mostly this thread was to make sure that I wasn't the only one who didn't know who these guys were. It is very much a story hook for GMs, I just wanted to know if Alliance was mentioned anywhere else or if I could create it from whole cloth. I'll post again when I've got more of a plot outlined.

There's a group out there that likes them?

Well Aztech likes Aztech... I think (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

Clockwork likes them.
Because they pay hard cold cash.

I know my runners hated them even though I only gave them minimal background on all the corps.

My players hate them because their name is a horrendous pun, and the elf wishes he'd thought of it first. That and he's a Dragonslayer Shaman. Aztech's too schemey and untrustworthy.

This is going back a bit, but wasn't Alliance one of the co-ops growing food in farmtown Snohomish?
Alliance Co-Op Foods?

Eh, have fun:)

-Tir

hmm. . . that seems a bit too rural for my team to run into at a Stuffer Shack. Still could be good.

The closest match (according to Nath's 2065 Corporate Index ) would be Allianz Versicherungsverbund AG, an insurance company owned by the Frankfurter Bankverein (the bank that's trying to mess with Lofwyr), but I doubt it exists outside Europe.

A corps with that name could really be anything. I'd almost rather make it a subsidiary of a corp the runners have a little respect for, which usually means Horizon or EVO

Wait... 'Runners have respect for any of the Corps?

Well, if I was a gunbunny I would respect Ares for their high-quality weapons...

OK, I can understand that one.

My friend's Jaguar shapechanger works for them. But I don't think that is quite the same thing as respect.

No, that's being their B****. Well, it would be, if said Shapechanger was a Wolf instead of a Jaguar. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

He's their purring kitty and lolcat pet!

Oh man, I'd rather be a B****.

Maybe "Distrust less" would have been a more appropriate way of saying it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

If you trust the Megas at all, you're not being paranoid enough.

Money is power, chummer.

Also, fear is respect... In a twisted way...



I have to admit, Ares was always my favorite corp OOC for mostly that reason -- and usually my street sams were ambivalent to them for that reason. When playing, it seems like my GMs let Ares give us all the good "safe" runs (just like how all the screw your ass over ones seemed to be for Renraku).



Especially if you're working for Aztechnology or Renraku... How anybody could trust EITHER of those corps is beyond the pale.

"...when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women." - Tony Montana

I would go with Allianz/FBA. Unfortunately, I overlooked the paragraph when I recently used the scenario, and already rolled up NeoNET as Brandeen´s/Cody´s employer. Also a nice story, cuz Cody is a researchmage in the good old Chevillard Research Center now (Brandeen worked in financing and noticed his black funds (though she does not know that he has permission to use these as a Johnson for black ops ;-P)).

Actually, running against Allianz would be a great setup for future runs involving S-K. One of my potential future plots is gonna involve the Dragon a bit, even if the players may not see his claws. Running against the bank trying to take him down would be a great way to get noticed.