Still, it would be a glorious way for one of the other Court members to tweak the noses of SK and NeoNET to have Hestaby be their new Court Justice. And EVO has an opening, with Hino finally revealed as being dead...
That could be a dangerous move. Corporate Court Justice election is a single-step process where AA or AAA megacorporations propose individual candidates. They must name their candidate before the vote takes place. The vote then validates both a candidate and its sponsor status as AAA at the same time.
This is not much of a problem as long as the candidate is a virtual nobody, a loyal corporate lawyer with no global agenda (internal rivalry and career plan are of no concern). Evo only had Yoshiko Hino elected to the court. Should Evo makes Hestaby its candidate to replace her, there would only be two possible outcomes: Hestaby joins the Corporate Court and Evo keeps AAA rating, or Hestaby stays out and Evo loses AAA rating.
Would Evo proposes a more typical candidate, the election would be down to the usual geo-economic considerations on Evo's weight in the global economy and the Corporate Court position in international affairs.
With Hestaby, Evo would take a huge risk over what Lofwyr, Celedyr, Lung and Ryumyo (and possibly Rhonabwy) would be ready to do and how much they would bother about geo-economic considerations to prevent Hestaby from joigning the Court.
Saeder-Krupp and Mitsuhama Computer Technologies would probably vote against Hestaby no matter what. Renraku Computer Systems and Shiawase would jump on the opportunity to get rid of Evo.
Neonet would depends on Celedyr influence and willingness (if he doesn't mind Hestaby being elected, he could still say to the other dragons he wasn't able to overturn Richard Villiers or the board instruction for the vote). Horizon would support Hestaby. Ares Macrotechnology may vote for Hestaby as well.
Though the math is much more complex than "one corp-one vote," Evo would likely need to secure the vote of both Aztechnology and Wuxing. You could
hope those two corporations would vote for a Pacific Prosperity Group fellow member. But Lung may influence Wuxing, and the corporation's ambition of hegemony over the PPG could be compatible with Evo losing. As for trusting Aztechnology for anything (like, voting Dunkelzahn self-proclaimed heir into a position of power...), I sure wouldn't bet my AAA rating on it.
