And, if we steal some details from Crash - no, hear me out - the corporate side doesn't need to be just Sylia's project.
Linna's Entry Level Stocks-worker bit there could easily suggest some kind of business or economics degree, making her an ideal co-conspirator for the economic attack angle...
Hm.
And if we assume that Priss's musical talents are enough of a standout to be folded into the long-term planning, she'd be a great way of signal boosting.
As for the aesthetics, I think that it ultimately comes down to the reform-vs-revolution question. Which is appropriate enough, given cyberpunk's role as a social mirror. And I think that which of the two is intended, from a narrative perspective, to be Correct, is actually immaterial. Because I think that Sylia is ultimately something of a chess player, personality-wise, and that she'd favor the more theoretically elegant, less visceral approach.
And if that turned out to be completely unworkable, she'd adapt and come up with something different at that point.
As for the ADP, the line I was quoting was from the Adam Warren comic - a news interview with an ADP trooper standing in front of a memorial wall covered in dozens of photographs and names of dead troopers, gesturing behind him as he spoke. So I think it's appropriate to separate the entirely legitimate Issues present with police use of force IRL from the in-setting reality of regular killdozer events. Using the Police to address the 'rogue boomer' problem at all might well be the wrong answer - I'm inclined to think so - but that decision having been made, and the ADP having been given that role, the casualty rates we see them take indicate that they lack the tools, training, or both to actually do the job.
Whatever ends up happening with the ADP as a whole, though, I think that the most important thing to keep in mind is to not let - as 2040 did - changes in updating contexts change what kind of people given characters are. 'ACAB, Leon is a cop, therefore, Leon is a bastard' might be realistic, but it wouldn't be satisfying.
Linna's Entry Level Stocks-worker bit there could easily suggest some kind of business or economics degree, making her an ideal co-conspirator for the economic attack angle...
Hm.
And if we assume that Priss's musical talents are enough of a standout to be folded into the long-term planning, she'd be a great way of signal boosting.
As for the aesthetics, I think that it ultimately comes down to the reform-vs-revolution question. Which is appropriate enough, given cyberpunk's role as a social mirror. And I think that which of the two is intended, from a narrative perspective, to be Correct, is actually immaterial. Because I think that Sylia is ultimately something of a chess player, personality-wise, and that she'd favor the more theoretically elegant, less visceral approach.
And if that turned out to be completely unworkable, she'd adapt and come up with something different at that point.
As for the ADP, the line I was quoting was from the Adam Warren comic - a news interview with an ADP trooper standing in front of a memorial wall covered in dozens of photographs and names of dead troopers, gesturing behind him as he spoke. So I think it's appropriate to separate the entirely legitimate Issues present with police use of force IRL from the in-setting reality of regular killdozer events. Using the Police to address the 'rogue boomer' problem at all might well be the wrong answer - I'm inclined to think so - but that decision having been made, and the ADP having been given that role, the casualty rates we see them take indicate that they lack the tools, training, or both to actually do the job.
Whatever ends up happening with the ADP as a whole, though, I think that the most important thing to keep in mind is to not let - as 2040 did - changes in updating contexts change what kind of people given characters are. 'ACAB, Leon is a cop, therefore, Leon is a bastard' might be realistic, but it wouldn't be satisfying.