SR Nuclear Weapons, An Exploration of Nukes in SR Options

[Nath]

I'm not so worried about the Corporate Court angle; they have no hold on Amazonia, and there are no extraterritorial corporate properties in Amazonia for Aztlan to worry about hitting, and I intend to play this thing as a fearful slide towards war motivated by unintended incidents and perhaps certain malefactors who'd like to see everything burn (I recall a nuclear winter being Winternight's Plan B) rather than some consciously preplanned offensive.

The megacorporation nonetheless have assets in Amazonia, even if those do not receive extraterritorial privileges. Only Aztechnology is banned from operating there. For any other corporations, a 250 millions people market base is simply too big to ignore, even if it requires to run business "the old way". I remember a book mentions Evo contracts with the Amazonian air force.

[Fatum]

Sorry to drag an ancient thread back to the forefront, but it's become very relevant in my current game. I'm running a tempo arc that's going to lead into some Amazonia/Aztlan brinksmanship as a plotline. If things go Defcon 1, and we assume that nuclear weapons work normally, is Amazonia's magic in any way going to protect it from Aztlan ICBMs? Are there likely to be any countermeasures on the ground of any sort, or would a power be purely reliant on space-based defensive systems and the like?

ICBMs are most vulnerable when first climbing up the well, because that's when they're going the slowest. Minding that effective area denial is next to impossible on astral, I suggest simply powerful spirits manifesting at launch sites or above them and destroying the missiles via whatever means necessary being a simple but effective way to destroy them. Actually, that'd explain the rise of the new Awakened powers like the NAN, Amazonia or the Awakened Yakut.

Look at israels IRON DOME system, one of the best anti missile systems around

Iron Dome is getting more publicity than its effectiveness warrants. It's used against unguided MLRS-type rockets coming one at a time, and it still misses its targets. Against these, CIWS installations like these or other decent anti-air systems like Tunguska or Pantsir would work no worse.
But anyway, Iron Dome has little to do with protection from ICBM, if only because with nukes, you can't afford the risk of missing even a single warhead from a single missile.