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I can see that we have very different ideas about what the Megacorps are in SR. From what I'm gathering, you see them as an extension of today's corporations. Sure they bribe people to get what they want, blackmail, and occasionally break laws, but they're mostly playing by the rules as we see them today.
Uhm, no.
You said they'd turn off utilities and file lawsuits if governments grounded them. Please do not put words I did not say in my mouth again,
like when you edited my post to include spelling errors for whatever bizarre reason you did that. I said that, if a government of some development - which SR corps depend on for a lot of things, reading any SR corp book ever, was to go total war on a corp, they could masively hurt that corp. The megas might omega order the government, which would probably at least coordinate their response, but
that is not what you brought up. You brought up that they essentially turn off utilitiers.
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I see them from the Cyberpunk perspective where they do all the aforementioned but I add kidnapped, brutalized, raped, pillaged, and killed to get where they are today.
How is that different from most major corporations of the real world?
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If you're talking to high-up lawyer from the Big 10 as a governmental official, he's not just a lawyer, he's the lawyer that weaseled, threatened, and killed (most likely through proxy, but maybe not) to be where he is today.
So it'd be like ... talking to a politican?
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Which is common in SR corporations what with their Machiavellian machinations and Ubermensch "nothing is forbidden as long as you win" mentality. In our example, this merciless murderer that is perfectly willing to do pretty much anything to get what his corp wants, is telling several high ranking governmental figures the way of the world when you are a part of the Big Ten, and then there is everyone else below them on bent knee because the government fucking with them will only be a blip on their annual spreadsheet.
The way Colloton bowed before Renraku and let them keep the arcology, I presume? But it seems we're talking about two different things: the canonical setting and your home setting, which sounds a lot more like CP2020 than SR.
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As for costs, the stuff is already in place. They blow it up and simply walk away. There is no occupation. There is no protracted insurgency. Maybe a week of high-intensity operations and the corps have Miller Time, leaving behind a country that used to be at the forefront if technology but is now a really fancy looking Myanmar. Your country being completely buttfucked is an example to everyone else, nothing more.
Uhm, that assumes corps build EVERYTHING basically from explosives? And that corps somehow are perfectly organized - which I can tell you from personal experience: They're not, and it gets worse the larger a company is; SR megas are state-sized and very likely to have at least state-level inertia. Probably more, since companies see much more infighting, especially in a cyberpunbk setting, where disruptive events like murder are relatively common. Wreaks havoc on command structures you need in such an event.
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As for "guns pointed at everyone", it's kinda funny how all the really important folks were quietly transferred to other offices, on vacation with their families out of the country, sick relative abroad, etc and the guys they need to run the week-long offensive operations replaced them.
So the corp also has access to teleporters?

Seriously, thast's just not gonna fly in a surveillance society like Shadowrun (or reality, for that matter). Besides, important deciders in protective custody have a very hared time relaying orders to executive organs. If the brain runs off to the Caymans, the body goes into headless chicken mode.
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Nationalization is great, when the corps you deal with are a pack of chumps willing to spend millions and/or billions on the company assets without any sort of contingency plans to make sure that such assets are unusable in the case of such a clumsy, and ultimately stupid, attempt by the host nation.
If the company is made up entirely of red-eyed, white-haired god-demon Mary Sues maybe. With people? Not liklely to happen.
Look, we can go about this for a very long series of posts, but ultimatelyx, I think we just fundamentally disagree on the setting. My view is basically shaped by the setting's canon, which strongly favors a corp/state symbiosis. Yours sounds a lot like CP2020, which is far more "corps replace nations". Best, let's agree to disagree.
Oh, and please, don't insert spelling errors into my posts again if you quote them. That is just plain weird.