I'm preparing to run this for my group this upcoming Tuesday and after a couple reads through, I've found a few spots that are likely to cause a little stress.
Problem A: From the mission before, I strongly believe that my group will react to the Black Cats in a overly violent way. To be prepared, I was copying down their stats to an NPC cheatsheet that I prepared and I realized that they have no gear. No armor, no weapons, no commlinks, nothing. Now I know that they should have some gear, but I don't really know how well I should trick them out. It's looking like I'll have six to eight players so I don't feel worried about giving them good gear for a challenge, but whatever I do equip them with will likely fall into the player's hands after the fight so I was wondering if there were general guidelines for this so that I don't give the players too much loot.
Problem B: Our group has one hacker who I am absolutely positive will attempt to hack into Ares for the paydata (Thrill Seeker and Compulsion: Hacking into Corporate Databases) when given the chance. However, she is also one hundred percent self serving and greedy. Its likely that no one else in the group will even know about paydata until she fences it at the end and I'm filling out the debriefing logs. Is it normal for this to happen and one character to get a large chunk of money more than the rest (If she gets all paydata and the same players are playing it would be 45,000¥).