The rise of the Security-Industrial Complex
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Cyberpunk is inevitable. We're gonna have corporate wars fought with security forces, while nations' forces will be reduced to ancient honor guard regiments, like Swiss halberdiers, just firearms instead. Corporate security will have all of the cutting edge stuff. Their board members and c-suite will be the new untouchable royalty.
Anyone gets out of line or rocks the boat, there will be video footage to blackmail them back in line. If it doesn't exist, it will be manufactured and authenticated by compromised auditors. Exile or banishment will be easy, they'll just be unpersoned from the system, and wont be able to use money. Midwits will abuse this power so much, entire unpersoned barter/labor towns will form and have to be regularly cleansed by security forces.
Shadowrun without the Earthdawn elements.