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Shadowrun RPG => The Corporations => Topic started by: kv on June 20, 2006, 11:16:39 PM
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I was talking with my brother, and I've been trying to put together a big world history for my group of new runners, and I've been introducing them to concepts in the Shadowrun universe, and I've already got them hooked on CalFree and Aztechnology, and I'm going to put them firm onto Fuchi, and then yank that rug out from under them.
Anyway, I was talking with my brother, and I can't figure out who the big seven (later eight, later ten) were.
Fuchi, Aztechnology, Saeder-Krupp, Renracu, Ares, ???, Shiwase?
Yamatetsu made it the 'Big Eight'
So yeah... I thought I would talk to the experts. I was also wondering what ranking the Big Seven would have. (I'm under the impression that Fuchi is number 3, but I could be wrong)
-kv
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Mitsuhama Computer Technologies aka. MCT.
S-K ranked top.
as for the rest, I'd have to look it up, it's (more or less) in the Corporate Shadowfiles.
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Shiawase, Mitsuhama, Renraku, Ares, Aztechnology(aka ORO), Fuchi, Saeder-Krupp
The big Ten are: Shiawase, Mitsuhama, Renraku, Ares, Cross-Biotech, Novatech, Saeder-Krupp, Wuxing, Aztechnology, and Yamatetsu.
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Yamatetsu was formed by one of the ex-Fuchi cobbers, right???
Gabriel
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I thought the last two parts of Fuchi married into Renracu and... Yametetsu?
Also, what ranks are they? I mean, SK is top, and Azteh is the PR King, but what are size/power rankings for them?
-kv
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THey are all AAA megacorporations. That means that they all have superior ratings in at least one or two fields. Corporate Download has a chart in the back of the book showing a breakdown of who does what the best, on a scale of 1 - 10. Each of the megas has 10 in at least one category or a 9 in two categories. So asking who is on top of the list is a bit nebulous. For instance, who is king at consumable products??? Aztechnology by a long margin. S-K doesn't even come close. But who is the top in heavy industry?? That would be S-K and Aztechnology is WAY behind.
Gabriel
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OK, Corporate Shadowfiles had a system for rating corps and their resources/interest/involvelment in various field. The big 8 are noted on p. 118, dated as "April 1-June 30, 2054".
Ares: Total 118
Rates an 11 in aerospace (next competitior is Fuchi, at 7).
Rates a 10 in Military Technology (next competitors are Aztechnology and Fuchi, both at 8).
Fiscal Operations are at a 10, but that's not uncommon to these guys.
Reputation is 10, which is the highest, but closely followed by Renraku at 9.
Otherwise fairly unexceptional given the company.
Aztechnology: Total 114 (lowest of the 8, shared with Yamatetsu)
Noted in Mystical goods/services at 8 (MCT is at 7, no-one else above a 5).
Shared second place in Militrary Tech with Fuchi.
Magical security rates at 9 (next competitor is MCT at 8).
Isn't really leader of anything much, but has fingers in pretty much every pie.
Fuchi: Total 123 (second highest)
Rates an 11 in Computer Engineering (Next is Renraku at 10).
Shares first place in Computer Science with REnraku at 10 (MCT is at 8, no-one else above 6).
Leads Consumer goods wih Ares at 7, and Cybernetics alone at 8.
Tops the list of Matrix Security at 11. MCT and Renraku each rate at 9.
Mitsuhama Computer TEchnologies: Total 121 (third place).
Tops entertainment at 7, and Intelligence operations at 9.
Otherwise even more than the Aztechs, MCT is the "Competitor-at-all-trades-master-of-none".
Lowest reputation score (5), and services (2).
Renraku: Total 120
Compete strongly with Fuchi for pride-of-place in Computer-related categories.
Has a management team as strong as that of Ares (9).
Saeder-Krupp: Total 124 (top dog)
Tops at agriculture at 7 (shared with Yamatetsu), Chemicals at 9, Finance at 8, and Heavy Industries at 10.
Has magical security as hard as that of the Aztech, and physical ditto as good as that of Ares.
Perhaps surprisingly hardly provides anything in Mystical Goods/services (only a 3).
Weak at nothing.
Shiawase: Total 116
Shares top rating with Yamatetsu is Biotechnologies (both rate at 8).
Fights MCT for second place in Heavy Industry.
Top dog at services, raing 8.
Yamatetsu: Total 114 (lowest rung, shared with Aztechnology)
Shares leadership of Agriculture with S-K (rating 7) and Biotech with Shiawase (rating 8).
Coming in second on Cybernetics (rates 7), and fights MCT as second place bankers (Financial Service at 6).
A second place in services is shared with Ares and Renraku.
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Very cool. Thanks, ROOTless, that was exactly what I was looking for!
-kv
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Yamatetsu was formed by one of the ex-Fuchi cobbers, right???
No.
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Yamatetsu was an AA Japana-corp that got a corporate council seat.
Fuchi was split into three different parts. Fuchi America went into the hands of Mr. Richard Villiers to comprise the bulk of Novatech. Fuchi Pan-Europa went into the hands of Shiawase while Fuchi Asia got gobbled up by Renraku.
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Hey, does anyone perhaps have a copy of the Fuchi logo that I can have?
(I'm making up a scrib sheet of all the megacorporations to teach to my runners)
-kv
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This (http://www.intercom.net/user/logan1/fuchi.htm) might help but it's kinda old.
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I'm assuming that you already have this (http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/resources/corp_logos.shtml), seeing as how you're only asking for Fuchi?
EDIT: as far as your previous question above, you might want to browse around a bit on that site, since it quotes the very values I was refering to.
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Yeah, I was going to haXX0r images from the PDF for those, but thank you, ROOTless, that's much more helpful.
I still need a logo for Fuchi, though. Is thier logo really that bland thing with the star?
-kv
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Yeah, that was the logo back in 1st edition. Back when it was all like: "OMG! MacPaint is teh drek with gradientz!1" The logo was pretty much the same in Corporate Shadowfiles: A five-pointed star with a ridge from point to center with each ridge having a lit and shadowed side with the words FUCHI Industrial Electronics.
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I still need a logo for Fuchi, though. Is thier logo really that bland thing with the star?
The Star was the Fuchi logo (and their very famous matrix contruct).
Expect it to be much larger and more prominently displayed than the text bit, though this varies.
The exact design of the star (but not the colouration, it's mentioned as usually being chromed) seems to be important for the logo recognition value.
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Hmmm... a chromed star like that would be okay looking... I guess.
I was hoping for something along the lines of Saeder-Krupp or Renracu.
-kv
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No such luck, sorry.
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Yeah, I don't want to have to look these people in the eye, and say "This is the second largest mega corporation! And... they have a gradient... and a ... you know, star thing... as thier logo."
-kv
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And see, that's why Fuchi ate itself: no imagination. Just a trio of corporate pirates looting and pillaging each other.
Gabriel
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Yeah, I don't want to have to look these people in the eye, and say "This is the second largest mega corporation! And... they have a gradient... and a ... you know, star thing... as thier logo."
Mainly the star, actually, sorry.
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B-b-but it's ClarisWorks FTW!!
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Yeah, I learned Gradients the second day of my photoshop class.
I can do better... although I was thinking of finding an awesome-looking iconic-style stone star, and saying that it's the Fuchi star.
Just for awesomeness.
-kv
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Yeah, the logo in Corporate Shadowfiles was better, but relatively the same thing. A star with a name below it.
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This is the image I ended up with (not that anyone else will ever use it)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/k1d_v1d/FuchiStar.jpg)
-kv
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Yep, that's pretty much it.
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That looks a lot like the one in Corporate Shadowfiles.
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Really? Cause I just stole a image of the brass sculpture "The Lone Star State" from a museum in Texas, cleaned it up a little bit, played with the light and contrast, and then dropped out the background.
-kv
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Yes, really.
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Huh. Weird.
I would say great minds think alike, but I don't really consider myself a 'great mind.'
-kv