Doing some research for a piece of fiction I'll be working on in my spare time and I was wondering a couple of things (since I don't have a ton of sourcebooks on me):

1) What're Saeder-Krupp's holdings in UCAS? Do they have any major holdings in Detroit?

2) What shape is the Windsor-Detroit relationship in 2060, what with Windsor now being a part of UCAS? How's the river itself? Polluted, clean, toxic? What the hell lives in it?

3) If a AAA company man screws up an important job and escapes the mandatory .45 caliber headache, can one safely consider them hunted by their former corporation, or are they just not worth the money? What if that person isn't just a company man but is very highly placed in the corporate military (like a Red Samurai or a member of the Firewatch team)? What happens to their past records and SIN? From the SRC, I'd assume that all traces of their existence would be purged from the corporate databases, but I really want to make sure.

4) When should a corporate employee be considered 'worthy' enough to have deltaware implants?

5) Last questions. When did elves start popping up (with the exception of spike babies) in the Sixth World? When did Tir Tairngire become a nation? Was it still possible for a baby of one metatype (like a dwarf) to be born from parents of a completely different metatype (like humans) in the 2030s (no goblinization, just "It's a baby dwarf/ork/elf/troll")? (I don't have my sourcebooks on me at the moment) And when do elves "stop" aging?

Elves and dwarves started showing up in late 2011 along with Ryumyo. Orks and trolls showed up in 2021. Any metatype can be born to any other metatype, but it's extraordinarily rare. Maybe a dozen or so in the entire world in a year. Usually an ork or troll will be born human then goblinize. Elves stop aging about somewhere in their 20s, some as young as 20 and some as old as 28 or so. Well not exactly stop aging, but slow down considerably. That's why Ehlron and Harlequin look like they're much older for elves. They still age, but much more slowly.

As for the company man, odds are the corp wouldn't actively hunt him unless he had knowlege or equipment they wanted back. If he was a Red Samurai or something like that, they'd definately want him in a bodybag because they spent a lot of time and money training, equiping, and cybering him up. They wouldn't want all that going to another company or to the shadows, esp. with his detailed knowlege of their security proceedures. Even then, it would be rare for someone on that level to leave the corp. They're usually deep into the whole corp mindset or else they wouldn't be trusted in that position. To leave the corp or have the corp go against them would be a betrayl on the level of Judas to the corp or the company man.

If he wasn't in the elite guard and didn't have any information that was worth the time and cost to retreive or silence, they'd probably not bother hunting him down. However, they wouldn't pass up the oportunity to cack him if it came up. If he was an Aztechnology Johnson that botched something and ran, he'd better not step into the pyramid for example.

The Abstruse One

Thanks, abtruse. Just thinking a bit more about it, that's all. Doing up a story about a former corp military woman from SK. According to the SR Mil site, they're called Black Dragons, which is what I'll be using for the work. Thanks.

I meant rather than being born as an ork or troll to human parents (as with elves and dwarves), they'd be born as human and then goblinize. It's still incredibly rare, but that's how it would happen the rare times it does.

The Abstruse One

Ah, let it pass. I've decided on something else for the kid.

Hm. OK, wait...not a lot of SK in Detroit, right? How about Canada...er, what was supposed to be Canada, like say, Windsor or Toronto?

*Points to the whole Windsor being absorbed into Detroit sentence/paragraph*

As for Toronto, lets see... Third largest financial centre in the UCAS after New York and Boston. Home of the countries entertainment business and area for varied high tech matrix and software companies. Also has its own Shadowland node. I'd be highly surprised if SK wasn't heavily- albeit quietly- represented somewhere like here.

Hm, that might be fun. Thanks, Flak.

You've got dates and such for the rest. As for Detroit, Target: UCAS is out-of-print, yes? Shadowrun: Detroit

Is that considered strictly legal? Or did they get a pass from somebody?

OK, Flak, here's one. Can a company woman leave a megacorporation on good terms? How about someone from the corporate military?

See, I've kinda run into a snag. There's a point where the mian character's CO tells her, "Look, we all love ya, but you've got...problems."

Well, Flak, you've got experience in this department than I do.

Unless, of course, the company man screws up by discovering that a corp exec's embezzling funds or doing something that isn't benefitting the company's image any. Tries to take care of matters himself, gets caught up in something bigger than he is, and shifted into a very bad position by said crooked exec. Then the cost-to-benefit ratio becomes quite clear.

More or less, Flak. Right now I'm in the process of writing out what this character's had to go through in the Black Dragon Academy - SK's little torture chamber/boot camp - and one thing I've noticed that all SpecOps have in common is that underlying tone of loyalty, loyalty, and more loyalty. Superior training and equipment aside, I'm getting the feeling that it's that devotion to crew, commander and company that makes them so dangerous.

Yeah, you can probably brainwash a 9-to-5 company man, but when it comes to trying to do the same to a SpecOp? No way, Jose. I mean, if came down from the top, I'm sure the soldier might think it was appropriate punishment for letting down the team (or it might be the straw that breaks the camel's back, I'm not sure), but if the orders came from a dubious source...well, then they might have traitors in their midst, and they know what to do with traitors.