A Grand Master Plan....For sixth world domination!, An idea that's so insane its just might work! Options

[DarthSunshine]

Hey ya chummers!

My friends and I play an epic Shadowrun campaign we’ve been running for a good four years now. Since the very start my character has had an extremely ambitious (and insane) plan for gaining ultimate power. *evil laugh*

First off I’d like to start by describing how our game works. Instead of a run by run basis, our game is an epic character ambition driven game. We mostly do high level runs on the side(when we’re not facing assassins, main plot foes etc) to fund our intense ambitions. The three players all have some very grandiose goals such as founding a worldwide ninja clan(our adept), running a major underground mecha fighting league (our hacker), and founding and leading a powerful AAA corporation (out mage that’s me). The GM wants us to succeed in these goals although he’s not handing it on a silver platter for us that’s for certain. We’ve gone a very long way and are getting closer and closer to our goals after four years of campaigning. We still have a long way to go however.

Now for my master plan. Currently after 4 years of hard work I am finishing setting up a public Mech fighting tournament (Ultimate MECH Fighting League!) in Egypt in direct competition with Desert Wars that is designed to propel me into single my A rating. I am currently preparing to apply to the Corporate Court on Zurich-Orbital to get my A rating. My company is recorded much like an NPC with a rating for it’s different working parts. Now I also have a growing secret cult that answers to my mentor spirit and I. This among other things gives my company an edge rating aswell. They are also sorta my trump card and I have already used them to subvert my rivals. At this stage that main goal is to defend my precious assets while growing my corp and advancing my public position by gobbling up smaller corps in my path. All the while I will be using my cult to advance my position within the shadows. I intend to take advantage of the (mostly unused) outer space frontier; I even plan to build a space elevator in Kenya and/or a space habitat at the (still abandoned?)L5 eventually. This is all so I can hopefully get my AA status.

Once AA status is attained (and perhaps well before) is where the really tricky stuff begins. My goal at this stage is to use the power at my disposal to secretly manipulate the sixth world into a global conflict involving both the megacorps and the nations of the world (à la Chancellor Palaptine, Otto von Bismarck, Vito Corleone etc). Yes it’s long shot I know, but that’s the game we’re playing. The idea is to push the megacorps I wanna weaken (Aztechnology and maybe Ares and Wuxing) into opposing power blocs and set them loose against each other World War III style. While this is all happening my corp will continue to advance its position by staying on the sidelines and working in places the other corps don’t bother with (also staying good with media giants like Horizon to keep my PR immaculate!). One of my crazier plans involving sparking the entire war itself by deorbiting the Zurich-Orbital (or Ares-Orbital if ZO proves indispensable) station over a populated area (Gulf of Mexico or Western Europe) and implicating another corp(s) in the disaste (Again Aztechnology probably, I really hate them).

There is a singular purpose to all this violence. I intend to fatally weaken one or more of the megacorps so that when that corp dies out I become ascendant. So far the only way I can see to become a AAA corp is to kill another AAA corp. Naturally the great dragons will probably catch wind of some or all of my plan and will interfere, which will probably mean the end. So that’s where the most ambitious and most deranged portion of my plan comes in.

On May 11th, 2078 there will be a total eclipse of the sun by the moon visible from the city of New Orleans (Coincidentally N.O. is my character’s hometown). My plan is to (SOMEHOW)) lure two(or more) powerful great dragons (Aztlan is gonna be the target here probably) into the city while it is in the middle of a chaotic battle. The plan is to (SOMEHOW) trick or convince the two wyrms into fighting each other, or at least have a very heated argument. During this titanic clash I will use the umbra(shadow) of the moon cast over the city as a gigantic ritual magic circle (FMA:B anyone?) to bind the soul of the weakened dragon(s) to either myself or something else that is able to contain it (my mentor spirit?). Hell I’d just be happy to instead kill one of them out right since it seems that it’s virtually impossible to do it by any normal means in Shadowrun otherwise. If I can pull that kind of crazy stunt off I doubt anything else could possibly stand in the way of me getting my AAA rating (or anything else for that matter) Crazy? Yes. Impossible? Maybe. Worth a try? Absolutely.

Now for the TL;DR version for those who wanna skip my wall of text
Step 1. Build a successful A rating corp (about %85 done) out of Ultimate Mecha Fighting
Step 2. Grow in power and shoot for AA rating, building and developing outer space assets.
Step 3. Manipulate world powers and incite WW III (or rather Corporate War I)
Step 4. (SOMEHOW) Trick/Convince great dragons into fighting over war torn/ruined New Orleans
Step 5. Use solar eclipse to bind great dragon’s soul / assassinate great dragon
Step 6 ? ? ? ?
Step 7 MEGAAA PROFIT!!

Now I’m sure you some of you wanna tell me it can’t be done, and I understand that. It’s a batshit insane plan that would never work in the real world much less the world of Shadowrun. But our campaign is less about the realistic assumptions and more about the epic story our characters make. Feel free to tell me it can’t be done, but what I really wanna hear is some creative suggestions for my plan here. Especially the parts with the big holes in the plan.

For instance: How do I trick two or more great wyrms to forgo a 10,000 year old code of common decency and duke it out over the ruined Big Easy, And who do I choose? (someone else has suggested Ghostwalker to fight Aztlan)
(That one is probably the biggest doosey IMO.)
What are the best way for me to quickly ascend to AA and then AAA by developing outer space or other methods?
Also what shall be my method of inciting the Megacorps/Nations to make war on each other?
And hey if all fails, then I still have a pretty fun piece of fiction to write about. Also I know that because of the fluid nature of rpg games much of this plan is subject to change (and much of it already has) depending on whether I(or others!) win/fail rolls. The timeline wil definitly chang, for instance I may try and shoot for two seperate conflicts (Asia to destroy Wuxing and the Americas to destroy Azzies) and gain AAA before the final battle with the dragons.

Any constructive feedback is much appreciated! Crazy Ideas are welcome as well! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)