Building Shadowrun Stories, Keys to writing strong shadowrun fiction Options

[eralston]

So, a post I just wrote has me thinking about a few things.

Mostly, I would like to hear from the hardcore shadowrun populous on their opinions concerning the necessary and sufficient structure of shadowrun fiction. IE What does a story NEED to have before it has completely covered shadowrun?

To pull an example from the real world, Dungeons and Dragons (the movie, released in 2000) was a terrible movie. It wasn't a terrible movie just for its effects. It wasn't a terrible movie just for its acting. It was a terrible movie because the characters and plot didn't sufficiently encompass D&D, not express it as an organic whole.

Both the Shadowrun Movie Treatment and Shadowrun: One Night involved the concerted brainstorming of necessary elements of the shadowrun universe (a group of concepts that must be used in a story about Shadowrun to cover every broad concept sufficiently). Such thoughts I had include (these are pulled from pre-written stuff, but formulated into shorter forms for your benefit, they are in no particular order):

1) The three worlds of shadowrun storytelling are: "Real World", Astral Plane, and The Matrix

2) There must be at least one instance of each meta-type (either a character, or a reference with an example)

3) Necessary magic users are Adepts and any on of Mage, and Shaman

4) At least one rigger character must have focus (this almost inexorably means a vehicle chase or assault of some kind)

5) At least one Decker character must have focus (at least on Matrix run)

6) At least one incident must happen entirely in astral space to establish its semi-independence from reality (a purely astral combat or, less likely, an astral quest).

7) There must be at least one instance of Mr. Johnson

8) There must be at least one conflict between at least two megacoporations that drive at least one plot point

9) There must be at least one conflict that is related to love, hate, revenge, abandonment, personal neurosis/psychosis, etc on the part of at least one of the characters

10) There must be at least one moment of focues on the existence of fantasy races and the new forms of racism motivated by them

11) There must be at least one moment of focus on the existence of cyberware

What are your opinons, counterarguments, or furhter observations?