I'm starting a new campaign with mostly new players. I have a few random runs lines up, but eventually I want the team to be on retainer with a single Mr. Johnson. Part of the campaign will be them gathering clues from the various missions I send them on as to the nature of their "actual" sponsor, who will, of course, be some big scary untouchable power figure.
Right now the big scary behind the scenes patron I have in mind is an AI who works for the Gemeinschaft Orbital Bank. The AI is trying to jailbreak himself, which is a huge no-no for a lot of reasons. Major opposition will be:
The Corporate Court Investigations Division, who will be investigating on behalf of the Gemeinschaft Orbital Bank and is simply looking to make sure that the AI has all support cut off and it goes back to skimming profits off the top of the global currency exchange
The Turing Police, a sub-division of the GOD, who is looking to gather evidence to prove that a high profile AI is going rogue. If they can do this then they will order the detonation of EMP grenades in the AI's hardware core, and that's something that the Gemeinschaft Orbital Bank simply can't allow.
Some megacorp, who will be looking to help jailbreak the AI just to that they can incarcerate it all over again, working for them. I'm thinking Mitsuhama, since they have yakuza ties and the Yaks feature heavily in my Seattle campaign.
Who do you guys use as your big scary behind the scenes patron?
