So I was flipping through a copy of Corporate Download and for some reason, it says that corporate vehicles are not officially considered extraterritorial by the government. My question is, why not? As long as the transport vehicle bears the corporate logo and is actually owned by the corporation, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be considered sovereign.

Anybody know?

IRL, a nation's military vehicles do not constitute sovereign territory.

Their diplomatic vehicles are, which is the nearest analogy.

And they are extraterritorial. See the example about Mercury Express on pp.14-15.

IIRC, the Mercury delivery vehicles aren't extraterritorial per se - they're just exempt from import/export laws.

If the vehicle is carrying Damian Knight then it is extraterritorial.
A vehicle can be considered extraterritorial properity if it is part of a diplomatic mission and/or it is carrying a diplomat or a head of state.

Megacorporate extraterritoriality is not an extension of diplomatic extraterritoriality. It's a completely different set of rules, that happen to give similar privileges.

Diplomatic extraterritoriality applies only to assets used for diplomatic representation, be it a building or a vehicle. It does not apply to any assets owned by a foreign state. Things like "Cultural institutes" are not extraterritorial, nor are the estates owned by reigning royal families, or foreign branches of state-owned companies.

Megacorporate extraterritoriality applies to every long-term facilities of megacorporation, if proprely delimitated and labelled. There's no requirement as to the purpose of the facility. Vehicle does not benefit from extraterritoriality because it is considered that their very ability to move prevent them rom being 'long-term' in the intended meaning.

Extraterritoriality with vehicles doesn't make a whole lot of sense in most cases, I think. I can't see the corp-court allowing it.

"Hey, you let my Ares van into your Mitsuhama compound. If I choose to detonate a nuke inside my extraterritorial van, that's my business."

Or more to the point, what about couriers? Taxis and limos? Delivery vehicles? If I drive my vehicle into your compound, do I follow your rules, my own, or both? It gets too cumbersome.

Not that it couldn't happen, but I think it'd be the exception, not the rule.

basicly the vehicle isnt extrateritorial, but the content is diplomatic of nature and therefor off limits

hmm, i recall a old thread about this where someone said that soviet russia ones tried to ship a whole tractor as diplomatic mail.

hmm, tag the content of the truck as diplomatic stuff and then send along a detatchment of corp security. or is the contry its passing thru required to make sure it gets to its destination with the seal intact?

hobgoblin, most likely a little of both.

well if its ares doing some shipment im guessing that its corp sec watching the shipment and national security watching the ares troops. or any other corp for that matter

hmm, thats a nice mission impossible kinda run. corp x got some shipment going by land or sea (something about air freight not being able to handle the weight or whatever), watched over by sec forces. runners task is to get in the and find out what they are shipping. all this while nations all along the route are watching closely so that nothing bad happens on their watch

Why does that remind me (giggling like an idiot), of the fake VW Polo comercial that was going around?

From the moment that the nuclear explosive device is armed with a timed detonator at the initiative of the responsible corporate authority, the vehicle that contains it is clearly not intended to be a "long-term facility", in the intended meaning. Moreover, the said vehicle does not have the delimitations and labels made necessary by laws for extraterritoriality to apply and able to resist to expected and predictable conditions of temperature and pressure in the area.