FUTURE
未来开场我得承认,或许开始这份报告前我在零G喝了太多杯了。重点是,你得醉到一定程度才可能诚实地报告新网的未来。我们内部的人可以看到她正在倒塌,但没有哪个与其席位相称的三A超企会在斧头落下、马戏上演之前暴露真实情况。也就是说,我们这些内部的还在展望未来,但我们中那些在低G喝多了合成酒精的家伙则愿意预告新网的未来。我要趁我还说着诚实的胡话时尽量话唠一番,但为了防止我摔清醒了,话唠的我想要谈及以下话题:1)塞勒迪尔和有关超统-艾瑞卡和阿瑞斯的奇怪传言(是啊,真疯狂);2)马斯坦和非洲的广大未来;3)泛拉脱维亚(狡猾的毒蛇);4)理查德·维里斯和强尼·斯普兰德;5)新网缓降的计划。好,一共五点。我会一条一条来,看看我能讲到哪。我还会用一个我绝对想不起来的、发疯的词把这部分锁上,防止我再修改,以保证这份酒后胡言的诚实。系统管理员或许咋舌我干得不漂亮,但诚实正是凶残而丑陋的东西。
塞勒迪尔:巨龙何处降落?到他想去的任何地方!好吧。不完全是真的,但似乎塞勒迪尔正在考察几个落脚平台。第一个是老家。波士顿的混乱开始之后,他已经愉快地在卡利恩的巢穴里待了不少时间了。超统-神经网络独立存在的可能性总是有的。他们是否能在超企重评估后(Revision)之后保有任何重要地位则是另一个猜球游戏,但我相信巨龙能够搞明白。下一个,他与亚瑟·沃格尔*的会面激发了加入阿瑞斯的猜想。北美权力内部的问题让加入这个疯人院的考虑显得有点古怪,但龙能看见许多我们区区凡人看不到的东西。第三种考虑,理查德·维里斯有几次到威尔士的临时旅行,我们都知道威尔士除了绵羊和塞勒迪尔之外再没什么可看的。维里斯也不喜欢绵羊。这两人可能在谋划着什么。我不太喜欢维里斯接受塞勒迪尔提出的某种条件这个想法,但理查德最近有些有趣的举动。
*译注:Arthur Vogel,阿瑞斯的大股东,2079年在底特律的阿瑞斯总部爆炸中失踪(死亡),爆炸与虫精魂有关。剧透 - :
If Celedyr returns to Caerleon, and Transys-Neuronet
goes the route of independence and breaks out of Transys-Erika, it puts him dangerously close to Saeder-Krupp.
Not that the two corporations aren’t already competing,
but the focus will be more exact with T-N rather than
NeoNET, if NeoNET goes the way of the dodo. If Transys-Erika sticks together, Celedyr and Malmstein will
be up to their ears in S-K Prime operatives looking to
make sure their return to the old world isn’t pleasant.
Now don’t get me wrong, these are megacorporations
all on their own and they never left their European roots
behind, but being part of NeoNET was like an umbrella.
They still got wet, but they had a major buffer from the
rain. Being back in Caerleon has already ramped up the
shadow activity in the UK as everyone tries to see what’s
next and works to get operatives into his growing infrastructure.
Mentioning the growth of Caerleon allows me to roll
smoothly into talk about how ridiculous these rumors
about Celedyr joining Ares are. Just because my boy C
is messaging with Vogel does not mean the pair are developing some plot to bring T-N, and maybe T-E, into the
Ares fold. In fact, Celedyr should be looking for a home
closer to Detroit if he was moving to Ares, instead of
restructuring his Welsh properties.
如果塞勒迪尔回到卡利恩、超统-神经网络和超统-艾瑞卡分家重回独立的老路,他会过份靠近赛德-克虏伯。不是说两家公司现在没在竞争,但若新网步了渡渡鸟的后尘,竞争的重心便会转向T-N而不是新网。如果超统-艾瑞卡保持联合,塞勒迪尔和马斯坦将会被S-K总部行动淹没,他们将保证回归旧世界之旅一定不会愉快。
现在别误会了,这些公司仅凭自己也是超企,他们从没把欧洲的根基抛下,但成为新网的一部分就像躲在保护伞下。他们还是会被淋湿,但至少有个屏蔽挡掉大部分雨水。回归卡利恩已经在UK的暗影活动中激起了千层浪,所有人都试图看清下一步、试图渗透进扩张中的建设里。
提及卡利恩的扩建后,让我流畅地转到塞勒迪尔加入阿瑞斯的流言有多滑稽。就因为我的C男孩和沃格尔通信了,不代表他们正在策划将T-N,或者T-E纳入阿瑞斯旗下。事实上,如果塞勒迪尔要加入阿瑞斯,他该在靠近底特律的地方找房子,而不是重建他在威尔士的住宅。
那么,如果不是关于加入,这两家公司的头面任务会面是为了什么呢?魔法!不是说魔法让他们交谈,而是他们谈的是魔法。更具体来说,用魔法清洁环境的技术。沃格尔一直有绿色环保的企划,但一个阿瑞斯从来不是山大王的领域就是魔法了。他们是超企,他们有魔法相关的产业,但没有巨龙等级的魔法,也没有一头热衷将技术与魔法结合的龙。以我的观点,沃格尔没有资源将T-E或T-N直接吃下,为了让阿瑞斯支持这项计划,他还得让计划通过奈特和加维兰*的代理人。
译注:David Gavilan,回声蜃影的领导者,实际是就是达米安·奈特=_=塞勒迪尔和维里斯的谈话则是你能想象到世界上最大的超企之一的两位大股东会做的。矩阵能够轻地实现。但让我怀疑有更大动静的原因是维里斯亲自去了威尔士。我相信两人会担心有窃听,但他们共同所有着世界上最大的矩阵技术公司。他们能够建立安全的连接。他们想面对面的原因是要谈大生意,都想给对方传达某种信息。 塞勒迪尔确保会面发生在自己的土地上,展示了他在公司里较低的地位。维里斯则确保塞勒迪尔清楚他没有因和龙打交道而感到畏惧。这是两个随心所欲的角色之间的意志之战。
>维里斯去威尔士不只是为了见塞勒迪尔。他因为这样那样的原因在几乎所有十大还有至少十多家AA公司的高层人员那里都停留了。要记得,除了新网可能崩塌,还有公司审查、新的SIN倡议,波士顿的大规模掩护行动还在继续。超企执行官们有很多东西可谈。
>Mr.Bonds
>这些都是伪装,塞勒迪尔要带着JRJ的金色入场券去斯普兰德,他用仪式杀了萨曼莎、确保马丁被隔离在波士顿后从维里斯那里得到了金色入场券。这是他的迂回战术,给维里斯足够的新网控制权好推动塞勒迪尔的计划,又不让人看出这是这头龙的动作。
>Plan 9
>啊,对。老套的大阴谋理论。谢了,9。
>Slamm-0!
我认为关于塞勒迪尔,要考虑的最重要的问题是他不想管理公司。他想管理一个研究部门。超统加入艾瑞卡后塞勒迪尔一直远离公司办公室。他会为了更多实验室自由投票、使用股权、利用各种关系,但他不愿意玩公司游戏。塞勒迪尔回到卡利恩而不是在圣路易斯周围找地方已经说明了他毫无兴趣。没人能保证他们知道塞勒迪尔会去哪,甚至他是否会真的离开也不一定,但他真正的行动还有其他人的猜想会将会带来大量的工作。
>提到猜想——搬到圣路易斯绝对不是塞勒迪尔的首选。幽魂行者已经动用暗处力量将希丝塔比赶出他的后院,他承认了塞勒迪尔在东海岸行动。现在新网踏入中西部,塞勒迪尔将会比希丝塔比更靠近幽魂行者,很可能会触到他的逆鳞。
>Frosty
马斯坦:安德斯不受愚弄安德斯·马斯坦时新网主要成员里知名度最低的一位。他依然是世界上第二大超企的CEO,所以也不能说他是无名之辈。只是,他不是个维里斯也不是龙,因此他在新网乐团里占据第三把交椅。这不意味着他没有权力、他不聪明、或是不有钱——只能说明他不喜欢露脸。如果新网倒下,马斯坦会将会让人大吃一惊,毕竟没人注意他在干什么。他们都太关注迪克与巨龙秀了。
>不完全是真的——没哪个超企的执行官会被完全忽视。但利用所有人都在看另一个方向这一优势也不是坏主意。
>Sunshine
剧透 - :
So what is old Anders up to while the other faces of
NeoNET hog all the trid time? A lot. Two of the biggest
things going on with Malmstein involve the future of
Transys-Erika, especially in less-developed areas of the
world, and a possible megacorporate deal to move the
T-E assets to a different Big Ten mega if NeoNET collapses. All of these hinge on so many things happening that it’s crazy to even consider, but the Sixth World is full of
crazier things.
> And runners spend a lot of time greasing or blowing
those hinges!
> Kane
Transys-Erika has given a lot of attention, and funding, to Africa in recent years. The megacorp has been
investing and developing the infrastructure under the
guise of product testing and marketing research. Erika
commlinks are the most popular ’links is Africa. This increase in commlink count, along with the new Matrix,
has pulled a lot of African tribes toward the modern
world. The changes will take a few generations, but the
long-term goal could be for Erika alone, or perhaps Transys-Erika, to become the frst mega-Africorp.
While Malmstein might be looking to grow Erika, it’s
not entirely clear that he intends it to be independent,
part of NeoNET, or part of some other corp in the future. If Malmstein wants to simply be head of a massive
corp, he could do fne taking the independent route.
If he wants the glamor of being part of a AAA, with
everything it entails, he’ll need to fnd a partner. And
as is the case with so many parts of NeoNET right now,
the dance partner that gets mentioned most often is
Spinrad..
The rumor mill says Anders may jump ship early, fnding a good place to land without waiting for a Corporate Court decision on NeoNET’s involvement with the quarantine of Boston. Fingers are pointing at Novatech rather than
Transys-Erika, and Malmstein is looking to keep the value
of his piece of the pie up, by whatever means necessary.
那么其他新网头面人物占据着三维节目时间的时候,老马斯坦在干什么呢?很多事情。马斯坦做的两件大事与超统-艾瑞卡的未来有关,尤其是在某个地球上欠发达区域,还有若新网倒下,将T-E资产转至另一个十大超企的可能交易。这些都需要于众多事件关节,单是想想就很疯狂,但第六纪充满了更疯狂地事。
>狂奔者花了大把时间给这些关节上油或者把它们炸了!
>Kane
近年来,超统-艾瑞卡在非洲收获了许多注意和资金。这家超企以产品测试和市场调研为幌子进行基建投资和发展。艾瑞卡通讯链是非洲最流行的通讯链。增长的通讯链使用,以及新矩阵,将许多非洲部落拉入了现代。变革或许要好几代人,但其长期目标或许会让艾瑞卡,或者超统-艾瑞卡成为第一家非洲超企。
虽然马斯坦似乎在拓展艾瑞卡,但在他希望在未来独立发展、作为新网的一部分、或是作为其它超企的一部分,则完全不明。如果马斯坦只想当一家巨型公司的头,选择独立路线会不错。如果他想要AAA的光环,以及所有附加优势,他就得找个搭档。如果是这样,那么和现在新网的很多分部一样,最常被提及的舞伴是斯普兰德。
传言都在说安德斯会找找跳船,找个好下家,免得等公司法庭对新网牵涉波士顿隔离区的事件做出判决。指责指向了超新科技而不是超统-艾瑞卡,马斯坦则正在用一切手段保证自己的蛋糕不贬值。
剧透 - :
TRANS-LATVIA ENTERPRISES
These dirty dark-room dealing ghosts are like a tumor
in NeoNET that won’t go away. It’s the bad penny, the
one you make one deal with to get clear of trouble and
then it keeps coming back. I’ve never liked Trans-Latvia, even before rumors of their connection to Ordo
Maximus and secret vampiric cabals. They’re leeches—
no, tapeworms—living inside NeoNET and feeding off
the hard work of its citizens. I usually bite my tongue
and avoid giving them any airtime, but today I’m going
to let a little bottled rage out.
> I like drunk Icarus!
> Slamm-0!
Trans-Latvia sounds sinister and vampiric, but their
connection to Ordo Maximus is with the high-society
frat-boy club. The connection got mixed up because the
guys who are connected to T-L and OM are also members of the European Mafa. It’s no wonder that Villiers
wasn’t able to buy back the shares he sold off to T-L,
because that’s how the mob works. They get a hook in
and then don’t let go.
While that may reveal a little more than anyone
knew before about Trans-Latvia, it helps as the foundation for the dirt on Swaraj Verghese, a.k.a. Sascha Vojchetevsky, a.k.a. the Hammer. The current vote proxy for
the Trans-Latvia percentage of NeoNET is a former mob
enforcer who earned his violent nickname as a child and
then proved how smart he was to move up the ranks.
Trans-Latvia is going to be pulling a lot of work into the
shadows to try to keep their share valuable. They won’t
want to see a dissolved NeoNET, independent Novatech, or even a Corporate Court decision against the
mega. Mobs are good at getting judges in their pockets,
and T-L is going to be trying to get some CC judges firmly in hand before anything drastic occurs.
> And the pool pays off to … Icarus. Wait a minute. This
info needs corroboration before we pay out. Not that
I’m doubting the honesty of Icarus in his drunken state,
but we can’t pay off bets on speculation. Hard data or
no payoff!
> Chainmaker
> Vojchetevsky is a known member of Ordo Maximus.
When he disappeared years back, folks presumed he was
Infected or killed for fnding out the truth. Interesting to
think this might be true since rumors had The Hammer
connected to Martin de Vries.
> Hannibelle
泛拉脱维亚公司这些在暗处操纵的肮脏鬼魂就像新网体内无法切除的肿瘤。烂钱,那种你交易一次希望扫除麻烦但老是回来的那种。我从来就不喜欢泛拉脱维亚,在他们和至高结社和吸血鬼组织有关的传言之前就讨厌他们。他们是生活在新网体内的水蛭——不,是绦虫,以新网公民的劳动为食。我一般会咬住舌头不给他们任何曝光时间,但今天我要释放一点封锁的怒气。
>我喜欢喝醉了的Icarus!
>Slamm-0!
泛拉脱维亚听起来像邪恶的吸血鬼,但他们和至高结社的联系只是都在上流社会的兄弟会俱乐部里。这种联系相互交杂,原因是与T-L和OM有联系的家伙还是欧洲黑手党的成员。毫不意外维里斯没能买回他卖给T-L的股份,这就是帮派的作风。他们钩住了就绝不放手。
除了人尽皆知的内容,这或许能揭露一点泛拉脱维亚的底细,推论的基础是斯瓦拉杰·瓦吉斯(Swaraj Verghese),也即是萨沙·沃切特夫斯基(Sascha Vojchetevsky),也即是“锤子”。当起泛拉脱维亚在新网的股权投票代表是一位前帮派打手,他在儿童时期就获得了这个诨名,随后在提拔中证明了自己的才智。
泛拉脱维亚将要给暗影带来许多工作好保证持有股份的价值。他们不愿见到新网解散、超新科技独立,也不愿见到公司法庭对这家超企做出不利判决。帮派擅长让法官听从摆布,T-L会努力在大事发生前将一些CC法官牢牢攥在手心。
>奖金获得者是……Icarus。等等。支付前我们要确认这份信息。不是说我怀疑醉酒状态的Icarusde的诚实,但我们不能只凭猜想清账。硬数据或者不结账!
>Chainmaker
>Vojchetevsky已知是至高结社的成员。他多年前失踪了,人们推测他要么被感染了,要么发现真相被杀了。有趣的是这可能是真的,有传言将“锤子”与马丁·德·弗里斯*联系起来。
>Hannibelle
*译注:Martin de Vries,吸血鬼吸血鬼猎人。维里斯与斯普兰德
又名,把我们的生活搞得一团糟的有钱佬现在清醒了。要是在我醉着的时候谈到这个题目,我无法想象我会说出什么内容。幸运是(某些人看来则不是),我清醒了,能够在这个和下个题目上讲出明确的内容而不是吐出我打听到的所有谣言和说法。哪怕是像我这样身居高位,两家公司合并的留言之风依然强劲。我不能想象底下会传得怎样。好吧,实际上我能,这也是为什么我脑子清醒比较好。
强尼·斯普兰德和理查德·维里斯两人我都见过。两人都散发着自信与魅力,让你想立刻加入他们。两人同时同处一个空间,可能带来世界变革,也可能是史诗级大灾难,这取决与两人的目标是否朝着同一方向。我见到强尼时,他正在拜访空间站*,实地调查、拉拢人心,看看这里是否就是他踏出密封舱落会地球的地点。到他离开时(不是通过密封舱),他已经让每个站上的人都想为他喝彩、蹦到他身边。
维里斯上来过这里几次。会议、社交活动,甚至还有次简短的度假扫去身上的尘埃。将要进行重要讨论,而他又特别渴望事情按他的意愿发展时,他就会上来。总有人可能对他说不——看看他生命中的女性,但当他本人出现时,“不”的可能性降低至几乎为零。
*译注:可能是指苏黎世-轨道。剧透 - :
You could probably imagine what comes from these
two men in the same place revolving around the same
topic. When others are present, it’s a battle of charisma
as they sway the people to their sides and the room becomes divided. When it’s just them, it’s a miasma of charisma thick enough to choke a dinosaur. But if you get
the two of them together, going in the same direction,
everyone had better watch out. While they were probably head to head working out a deal, they won’t be if
some kind of merger occurs. What that means is all of
their opponents are going to need extra trash to fling,
and shadowrunners around the world are going to be
working as garbagemen focused on this pair. Anything
that hasn’t been discovered is going to work its way to
the light, and some of it is going to be made up. The
other side is going to be dipping into the Spinrad/Villiers coffers to discredit, disavow, and destroy every bit
of dirty cream coming to the top.
The play here isn’t just some simple merger. SpIn
and NeoNET are not going to become SpInNET, because Villiers hasn’t been including any of the other
partners in his dealings with Johnny. This is all about
Villiers’ Golden Ticket getting SpIn into the big leagues,
because everyone can smell another Villiers corporate
collapse coming. At best we’ll be looking at a weakened NeoNET as one of their megacorporate assets
takes the blame and the brunt of the blowback. Money’s on the remains of Novatech or Fuchi and a big hit
to Villiers, but those two are small potatoes compared
to the damage done to Boston and everything else that
will suddenly get linked to CFD if that connection goes
public. And one of the biggest clues as to Villiers’ plan
is the fact that he’s sold off and devalued tons of Fuchi
and Novatech stock. NeoNET’s worth took a small hit,
but Villiers timely exit still had his net worth come out
higher than it went in.
你或许能够想象这两人出现在同一地点关注同一目标的时会发生什么。当对方出现时,这会是感召力的战场,他们动摇旁人,将他们引至麾下,让空间泾渭分明。只有他们时,气场的毒气足够呛死一头恐龙。但若你把他们放在一起,朝着同一个目标,那么所有人最好当心。尽管他们可能携手达成协议,但不会有什么合并。意思是,他们的对手需要扔额外的垃圾,而全世界的狂奔者将以两人为目标充当清洁工的角色。任何未被发现之事都将暴露与阳光之下,有的还需要捏造。另一方将会渗入斯普兰德/维里斯的保险库,抹黑、抵赖、摧毁任何一滴丑闻雪糕上的装饰。
这场戏不只是普通的合并。斯普和新网不会成为斯普网,原因是维里斯没把他的任何商业伙伴纳入他与强尼的交易中。一切都是关于维里斯手中能让斯普进入大联盟的金色入场券,因为所有人都嗅出维里斯又有一家公司要倒闭。最好的情况下,我们会看到新网被削弱,他的部分超企资产担下罪名和和惩罚。可以打赌担罪的是超新科技或富积的剩余,会对维里斯造成很大损失,但和波士顿受到的损失和若此种联系一旦被公布后所有东西都会联系上CFD的后果,这两家公司只是小意思。而维里斯的计划的最大的一条线索就是他卖出和贬值了大量的富积和超新科技股份。新网的市值受到了少许冲击,但维里斯及时的退场依然让他的净市值卖出价高于买入价。
另一方面,斯普兰德则在清仓某些资产,没有再投资的迹象。要么他在准备一笔帐外的大买卖,要么他在建立自己的秘密现金储备以备世界末日。强尼不是那种“把钱藏起来”的类型,他会欣然接受末日中和末日后的每日刺激。那些认为他不会堕落到找维里斯弄到金色入场券坐上公司法庭席位的人推测这些钱是用来买下足够多的小公司,好让他的AA总值超过足够数量的三A,给他一个有力的理由提出谁应该而谁不应该有CC席位。
>超企的事从没有简单直接的。他们永远像摆弄棱镜一样多方利用。如果强尼既是为了金色入场券也是为了扩大资产,我不会惊讶。没理由在有些人能够两边行事双倍获益时只玩一边的把戏。
>Snopes
>而且强尼已经被证明是个比达米安·奈特胆子更大的冒险者。
>Sticks