Increased anti-terrorist activity in the aftermath, ... of the crash of th 2065? Options

[Warmaster Lah]

Ok so things were in their usual state of equilibrium in the 2060s. Corps were doing their thing. Shadowrunners were running as usual. And small terrorist groups were just a fact of life. That was the way of things…

You might loose a factory once a year to some radical eco-terrorists, but you wrote that off as the cost of doing business, seeing as how your factory is demolishing the local environment by cutting costs anyway, so you saved money.

I assume the reason many of these small terrorists groups exist is because it is not cost effective for the Megacorps to track them down and get rid of them.

Then Winternight and Pax hit.

The cost in lives, and more importantly, the cost in property damage is incredible compared to the size of the group. Even many Megas are hit hard.

After 9-11, we here in the U.S. basically went crazy. We knew of such organizations but never imagined the impact of one of their attacks. So we get incredibly paranoid and security conscious (Not sure if we really are more secure, but hey perception is what it is all about.)

So now after the Crash do the Megacorps take small terrorist groups far more seriously than before? Does panic reign supreme? Do the Megacorps radically increase their security and change procedures? Even if it is only in the short term. Now if a Winternight can cause ridiculous amounts of chaos if not properly stopped, can a cost conscious Mega really afford to let these little “terrorist”groups sprout up and operate without being checked?

Does that mindset sort of trickle down and affect the “regular” shadowrunners.