Corp Ratings, What do they mean Options

[moosegod]

I do not have Corporate Download yet.

So what does AAA, AA, A and unrated mean?

[Frag-o Delux]

AAA are the Big 10

AA are companies like Boweing, they are big and powerful just not AAA

A are what seem like big companies, but they are usually just big in one or two fields or in one geographical area.

Unrated, well that would probably be any other comapny note mentionsed the books, like the local goecry store chain or something.

[FlakJacket]

The A ratings are basically how the corps stratify themselves. The Corporate Court decides who ranks as what. This is going from memory so apologies if I make any mistakes.

Triple A rated corps are the gods of the world. They have extraterritoriality- meaning they're regarded as their own indendent states- and they all have at least one of their employees sitting on the Corporate Court as a judge. This is the only thing that really seperates them from the AA's. Founding members can never have less than one judge, but the others can lose their judge and triple A status so people like Wuxing or CatCo have to be careful.

Double A rated ones are smaller than the AAA corps but still have extraterritoriality and could possible go up against one of the triple A's and survive. They don't get to have a judge on the Corporate Court but are allowed to address the court on things.

Single A rated corps are the massive multinationals that are starting to grow towards megacorporation status. They don't get to address the Corporate Court like the AA's but have to go through the petitioning process like every other corp or nation. This puts them in the unenviable position of being large/interesting enough to be a decent target to the AA/AAA's but without any of the benefits.

Below this they don't bother with A, or any other letter, ratings since they're too small. These are the multinationals that don't make being A rated yet and the normal national corporations.

[Backgammon]

[FlakJacket]

Um, no. Multinationals, this could be as simple as having offices in Seattle and Salish-Shidhe, can still be unrated. It's more to do with size. Just that A rated corps are the largest of that pack.

[Hecatonchires]

Useful clarifications. Here's a question on a related subject. What ever happened to Fuchi Japan? I was under the impression for the longest time that it was only their American holdings that disintergrated. If the Japanese branch is gone, who ate it?

Thanks,

A Noob.

[Frag-o Delux]

Not, sure you would have to find who had the most control over Fuchi Japan, one of the three heads went to Renraku, the other went to Shiawasi. So who ever had control of Fuchi Japan took it where ever they went.

[FlakJacket]

Nakatomi took Fuchi Asia with him to Renraku so I figure they got most of it. Although Corporate Download does say that a number of Fuchi Asia subsidiaries were stolen out from under them whilst at the same time mentioning major facilities located in Tokyo.

[Hecatonchires]

So if Renraku ate most of Fuchi Asia then why all the talk of the corp disintergrating after the Arco Shutdown? I mean, between their existing Asia assets and the swallowed Fuchi assets they would completely dominate the information tech field. (That honor goes to Novatech doesn't it?) Speaking of forgotton mega-corps, no one really talks about MCT anymore. Back in SR1 they were THE bastard corporation (inventors of the zero/zero zone) to 'run against and to work for.

[Nath]