Re: So why would anyone become a shadowrunner, anyway?

"Bira" <u.alberton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On 11/17/06, Zebulin M <zebulingod@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I don't agree that Shadowrunners are unrealistic. After all, look at
all 
>> the
>> movies and books and whatnot who's main focus are "secret agents".
Better
>> yet, the ones where a company keeps certain people around to ensure 
>> things
>> are "taken care of" such as the security goons in that lawyer book (the

>> name
>> escapes me at the moment, but the actor was in top gun, and days of
>> thunder... gah!)
>
> As you said it yourself, they're /agents/, rather than freelance
> adventurers.

I'd say they're more like /contractors/, used by governments/cor****ations 
for plausible deniability. Look at the number of private security firms 
operating in Iraq and Afghanistan right now. They could easily be hired
for 
extra-legal activities.

Glenn D.