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Old 01-11-2019, 05:47 AM   #57
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Default Re: Comment my megacorporation

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Originally Posted by Alonsua View Post
They dont need to know, thats what hidden facilities and secrets are meant for.
Yes and no amount of pointing to 'Hidden Facilities' and 'Secret' on a character or Boardroom and Curia sheet will make it plausible to apply these to something that isn't a small program ancillary to much larger, legitimate business concerns, but is actually an attempt to take over the world that demands more military infrastructure than almost every nation-state in the world has.

It's theoretically plausible that someplace like Iran or North Korea can conceal some relatively minor aspects of their top secret military acquisitions and research, though in the actual real world, any secrets mostly tend to leak out the moment more than a couple of people know them. No country or polity could claim not to have a military and actually have one capable of world conquest, however. Apple couldn't conceal that instead of being a consumer electronics company, they actually had a more powerful military than China. That's not just comic book hand-waving, it's comic book hand-waving that other comic-book handwaves make fun of in the shower for being weird and off-putting.
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