 Running a Black Ops game, Based a bit off perfect dark. |
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 Mar 21 2010, 06:04 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa  Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830  |
I'm thinking of running a game where the PCs are working in black ops.
So I have a few questions about corp/gov black ops in SR: Are they only for AAA corps or do the smaller coprs have there own? What type of jobs would warrant black ops not Shadowrunners? (I have some ideas) Plus any cannon detals about them in SR? |
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Mar 21 2010, 06:09 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 |
anything where plausible deny ability isn't needed.
- snuffing a runner team - taking back control of a facility - response to a runner team - counter extraction of key personnel |
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Mar 21 2010, 06:31 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,537 Joined: 27-August 06 From: Albuquerque NM Member No.: 9,234 |
Effective special ops teams are expensive. They get well paid, they shoot lots of expensive ammo and need all sorts of expensive toys. Ineffective special ops teams are even more expensive, though not in the the month-to-month kind of way...
Corps exist to make money. The smaller the corp the less profit there is to carry cost centers and the less places to hide them in the books. So unless a corp has a lot of call for them they won't be very many, if the corp doesn't outsource them completely. |
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Mar 21 2010, 09:55 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 271 Joined: 1-September 09 From: Denmark Member No.: 17,583 |
Run it as a CIA black ops. Corp Division. Corps are effectively forreign terretory, and thus falls under the CIA portfolio. Corps answer to themselves, and some of their actions do not necessarily benefit the UCAS. Running black ops against the occasional corp. would IMO thus make sense for governments to do. Sure, runners might be safer to use, due to the deniability, but while skilled, your average runner team doesn't have access to the training, funding, and equipment a true government black ops team would have.
Have fun. |
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Mar 21 2010, 10:42 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
CIA would work well. And would fit my Perfect Dark inspiration for agents with good backup and support.
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Mar 22 2010, 03:27 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
I'm thinking of runnign this on DS after I write up some data/job ect on it. I might run it as an "R&D" group of an AA corp. As in they spend a chunk of R&D budget on lifting paydata/prototypes and the appropriate reverse engeninering and such as well as doing some more interesting jobs. Their black opps devition would be one for clean up and counter extraction or job where loyalty is a must. On a side note is extra-territorial rights AAA only?
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Mar 22 2010, 05:11 PM
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Runner Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,946 Joined: 1-June 09 From: Omaha Member No.: 17,234 |
No, double A's qualify as well in many cases.
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