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Old 02-08-2021, 07:18 PM   #15
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Default Re: (IW) Cyberpunk Worlds

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl View Post
Of course, penetrating the research facilities of TL10+ megacorporations in order to do that might be quite difficult. These are installations hidden well enough and/or secure enough to avoid being compromised by their competitors, so Infinity might have difficulty a) finding out that they exist and b) successfully penetrating them. In the case of cyber/magic or cyber/psi, they also have to deal with megacorporations with divination and/or precognition that has been honed to a razor's edge through competition (while they might not know why the people arriving are interesting, they know that they are visitors with novel technology).
You're looking at it the wrong way. Homeliners don't try to penetrate the research facilities . . . they hire local teams to do it for them. After all, where do you think all those jobs you're getting in Cyberpunk come from?
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