Shadowrun is a bit like 40K there. Humainty prevails not because of some cosmic power, but despite several. Humanity is pretty good at enduring under pressure. Dragons and Immortals occasionally help, but mostly are selfish and uncaring entities that view humanity as pawns at best.
Hestaby being one of the more insidious dragons. Lofwyr actually is the "best" of the flock because he is very straightforward about what he is, how he sees himself and where he'd put humanity. The elven court kind of hasa vested interest in humanity's survival (wheel of spirits and all), and some immortals fashion themselves humanity's savior, however incompetent they may be in this (Aina, I'm looking at you).
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Anybody old enough to have survived the 4rth world (without being corrupted by the horrors) doesn't want the horrors coming back
Aina also doesn't want them back. She just lacks competence in following this up. None of the named immortals does, including dragons and spirits. Not even the Invae would like the Horrors eating them.
Harley isn't in it for good. Harley's main motivation for life is lulz and to piss off Erhan. Harley isn't interested in the Horrors' return, but less for them devouring humanity (though no doubt he'd miss them) but more because of self interest.
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I sort suspect Horizon is a good guy, mostly because the Consensus being a benign force is funnier than it being an evil hive mind.
No, it isn't. It would only make them even more annoying.
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I don't trust Horizon. I don't care what anyone says; they sound like the Universal Brotherhood 2.0 to me. Put on a happy face and a good front to sucker everyone in, then bam. And considering they focus on the matrix, entertainment, and public relations? Those are the big three means of controlling people. And what's one of their other big industries? Pharmaceuticals. I mean, COME ON.
Ares is often portrayed as good, at least as far as megacorporations go. Their methods are every bit as corrupt as any other megacorp, but at least they try to put on a good show of it. I tend to view Wuxing the same way, though I haven't read much about them.
Horizon sounds like a bigger and meaner version of Scientology to me, from what I gather from the current writeups (disregarding the highly annoying way it was pushed to become a AAA corp instead of a producer of crap software). I don't see where they're the worst mega of them all; they're neither in league with forces of doom, like Aztech or Ares, nor do they have the dangerous habit to generate mass murder programs (Raku) and cover their existence up, or destroy entire countries for profit (MCT, Shiawase, Raku), support massive genocide (again, MCT, Raku, Shiawase) or have a secret inner cabal of WTF (cross). They also are not led by veritable monsters (Evo/Yamatetsu, Saeder-Krupp).
I'd rank NeoNET (Transys/Novatech/Erica), Evo and S-K as the least non-benign megas, because all they are is a bit uncaring towards people. The Japanacorps (Renraku, MCT, Shiawase) are mid-range evil, Horizon and Wuxin are a bit of wild cards, but probably mid-range too. Aztech (Horrors) and Ares (Invae) lead the field. Of course, hints have been dropped that Wuxing may suffer from Horror Infestation too, so they may also be worse than they appear.
One needs also keep in mind ALL megas have a benign puzblic face. Aztech's dark secrets are SECRETS to all but the few initiated. It is NOT common knowledge, any more than what really went down in the arcology is, or Knight's pet Invae are, or Celedyr's habit of putting people in brain jars and using them for organic computers (Wonder if he keeps some Mi-Go hidden somewhere)