The thing that separates the Dawkins Group from people like the Red Samurai, whoever MCT uses, etc. is that the Dawkins Group are primarily faces or social adepts, meaning they worm their way into your group without you ever knowing there's a problem until everything comes crashing down around your ears. Whereas with Red Samurai, you know to run, pure and simple.
You think the other major -- AAA and AA -- corporations don't have some section, department, group, team, or however they want to phrase it that's
just like this?? The Dawkins Group is the first one that's been brought so blatantly, in such a dire fashion, to the shadowrunning world, i.e. us readers. I specifically didn't refer to the Red Samurai or that group of shamans that Ares has for a very important reason -- they're physical/magical threats.
Shiawase has the MFID; CATCo had the Seraphim (which, if I hadn't known any better, I would have suspected was the collaborative idea of Mssrs Sargent and Gasciogne). Saeder-Krupp has Saeder-Krupp Prime. Every megacorporation has something like this, some group or team that keeps an eye on what they consider threats or opportunities or tools, finds out all they can about them, and then files that information away until it becomes useful. Hell, this is exactly what the 'Dossier On File' negative is all about -- someone's done their homework on you.
Don't think that just because this is the first one that's really,
really been highlighted in the texts that the other corporations haven't been doing this all along...
