there are alot of traitors how would this be a devestating if it got out?

which company, and again I don't see a detriment to this

sellout? add a day job to this and maybe we have something. shadowrunners suddenly dissappearing hrm....

anyone who gives you info is a snitch, I don't see this as bad either

why are the corps bad?

Would YOU want to work with/for a known backstabber?

Whichever one the locals hate the most. And being tied too heavily to one company in the shadows can end in tears.

I would think this would mean literally selling runners out to corps. See betrayer/company man.

Runners don't mind it when people snitch to them. What they dislike is being snitched ON. Particularly to the Law. Someone who has a habit of doing this is going to get a bad rep.

I think the question is better put, "Why are the corps bad for runners?" And the answer is simply that the more the corps know about the runners, the worse off the runners are.

500 and a free ZJ.

Well that depends on the GM; how much value does the GM put on an NPC's life? Killing civilians doesn't exactly help Shadowrunner's rep. Or, at least it shouldn't. Personally, I like to keep my games as close to my players' reality in terms of ethics.

Please tell me this wasn't FF VII based.

...gee, that theme sounds very familiar...

"I have some incriminating evidence I want you to plant in this person's car, You will need to do it before the Ferry docks at the downtown pier during the morning commute..."

130 dead commuters later and KK4.2 was off to her old dojo in Kyoto Japan for a very long time.

Ticklish?

If she was still living in the area with the people she betrayed.

If she betrayed her running team, the current one.

She is currently working for a terrorist organization bent on overthrowing the local government.

Everyone in the shadows is anonymous and can generally disappear at will. There is very little trust anywhere, and business relationships in the shadows (buying guns, setting up runs etc) are based on trust, as they have to be. Being a traitor of some kind means that people don't trust you and therefore won't deal with you. It's risky enough to trust someone enough to ask them to participate in an illegal activity, imagine making this request of someone you knew to be untrustworthy, or traitorous. It just would not happen.

Dark secrets like being an undercover lone star officer are good because, quite frankly, if you are found out your fixer will have you murdered slowly and horribly and then left in pieces out the front of your home precinct. This is a tame response compared to what any organised crime contacts will do to you and your family.

I have used Dark Secrets of a terrorist past before, as combined with Government File type flaws. Nothing gets the acronyms (FBI, CIA, NSA, SS, OOO etc) gunning for you like being revealed as the guy who planted the fuel-air explosive that killed two thousand people in Singapore.

Depends a bit on the background and character type. A social adept type is easy - anything that would remove their contacts will do it. Deckers could have a past as a "Judas IC" victim (is he cured? can we really take the chance?), riggers can have a past as someone who did horrible things whilst jacked in (killed an entire team that was working with him using drones, therefore how can we trust him to jack in near our team ever?).

I find that comic Dark Secrets are funny for one game and lame for the rest of the campaign.