Can your Shadowrunners change the world?, What the topic says Options

[Willowhugger]

I was going over my initial campaign notes as we finished up our first adventure tonight and began our next one. It was then I was looking over the nation of Aztlan and thinking about incorporating a couple of adventures based around trying to thwart the government of that nation.

It then occurred to me that a good couple of adventures or maybe more might be devoted by a concentrated effort by the players to bring down the government. I paused at that thought for a second as it seemed distinctly non-Shadowrunish due to the fact that it took away from the Bubblegum Crisis 'we exist solely to destroy this corporation's machinations.'

I was curious how you thought about the benefit of Shadowrunners to being able to effect the entire geopolitical-economic landscape of their world. I don't think this is an issue in most campaigns as unlike many games, the Shadowrunners are not usually interested in attempting to alter the balance of power. They're instead focused on merely doing their jobs.

So is it possible to alter the world in Shadowrun and has it ever happened in your campaigns?