Hey, hello. Yes, my team is in quite the predicament. Mind to read and help?
SPOILER WARNING: If you want to play a 4th edition adventure where Hans is present and is located in Dubai, please don't read this. Maybe pray for my soul or something. Send some good luck charms as well.
We were interviewed by Hans Brackhaus and then accepted the job along with 72,000 nuyens for expenses: food, travel, weapons, etc. Any spare money and product bought with such money must be returned (food, hotels and bullets are obviously not returned). A job for Hans Brackhaus! That's always bad news but we need money, everyone needs money. He gave us 48 hours to get IMPORTANT information/paydata 'cause he will lose clients: he needs a list of the clients that are being stolen/blackmailed by Ares and NeoNET. Such list means 50 million nuyens.
Ares: Ok, easy. We did it in less than 24 hours and even avoided a major fight. We have the paydata with us. That's 25 million nuyen, maybe.
NeoNET: Our glorious leader made a bad call despite several warnings and we lost half team, 3 members, and our only clue dissapeared while the rest ran to safety. No contact/plot hook will help us now (GM explained that out of game). We failed the mission. We just failed, there's no way on Earth that we can finish the mission within the next 24 hours. A miracle, perhaps, but there's no miracle for Runners, right?
We have 24 hours to escape, outsmart Hans or simply dissapear. We might... No, we ARE gonna get Wanted quality (we can live with that, I guess). To avoid In Debt or something similar, we SHOULD return the money. Issue is money was spent and probably the 3 survivors won't be able to complete the money. Could we blackmail Hans with half the job? "Hey, buddy, I failed, I want to live, take half your product and leave us alone. Go away".
I wish for a proper answer beyond "Make a new PC". This is a roleplaying game, I want my character to try something, to survive. I understand all the metagame implications of the name Hans Brackhaus. I know Megacorporations are impossible to beat by mere Runners but I believe 50 million means NOTHING to such corps.