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... THERE it is.
The two Golden Rules of the corporate court, which really means the
only two rules for the corporations:
- Don't try to overthrow a national government unless you can get away with it.
Corps tend to frown on knocking over governments, because bringing down a government means that somebody gets stuck dealing with garbage collection and other background noise. Taking care of such minutiae in lieu of a legitimate government distracts the corps from their manifest destiny of making grotesque amounts of nuyen.
- If you break it (or geek it), pay for it.
If another corp can prove that you "wastefully" expended some of their assets by blowing up their lab or killing their people or whatever, you have to pay them a sum equal to the replacement cost of the assets.
Translated: Don't knock over a gov, subvert them. Exhibit A: MCT and the Tsimshian government, allowing MCT to utterly strip Tsimshian lands of everything useful and turn the place into toxic hell before waving good-bye and leaving the government to simultaneously collapse and be overthrown.
Translated: Use somebody deniable to wreck, steal, kill, or otherwise waste another corp's assets. Exhibit B: Shadowrunners. "Oh, hell no, that wasn't us, Corporate Court Investigator, sir. It looks like it was some of those pesky criminals. BeanieBaby Inc. must have really pissed them off when they stopped producing Samurai Rabbit ..." The key word up there is, of course,
prove. Make it unprovable, put enough distance between you and the people you hire, and you're golden.