Fiddling with canon history, Player Warning: Deadly Thread. Options

[Lantzer]

Here's a thread for those of us who like playing "what-if"?

I'm running a game set in 2053... and time will pass. I'm hoping for a full 10 years, game time. Now, I've got a few players who have played since 1st Ed, so are pretty familiar with the canon history. So I'm throwing a few curve balls to them, so they don't necessarily know what to expect (Guess you shouldn't have sold short on Fuchi, huh...).

I've already come up with a few ideas on how to play with:

Bug City
The Arc shutdown (this one is gonna be fun! And scary!)
The Election of '60

And I'm actually very happy with some of those ideas. (Insert Evil Gm Chuckle).

But The Corp War /Fuchi Implosion is still a little up in the air - and I've got some time to play with it yet....But here's the point - I'm not to happy with my current ideas on how to modify the timeline.

Option 1 - Fuchi implodes, but for different reasons.
Option 2 - _Somebody_ implodes, but not Fuchi - this will change the list of AAAs, no doubt. Possible Corps with internal tension:
Ares - Knight vs Aurelius
Yamatesu - Meta-freindly vs traditional Japanese.
Shiawase - Family tensions go out of control.
Renraku - The combination of the Arc and Dunkie's Will proves too much.

I'm looking for thoughts, feelings, ideas, jokes... Anything to spark new ideas.