CONSPIRACY THEORIES

      Shadowrun is a game fullof conspiracies and conspiracy theorist, but for some reason nobody on the net (nobody I know at least) have ever written their theories on the world on Shadowrun and its future... This new category of articles aims at telling what some people might think, and inspire thought.

      Dunkelzahn isn't dead!

      The big D actually faked his own death! The three major questions you must be asking yourselves is what makes you think that, how and why. First, reading the reports of the witnesses it seems clear that something weird happened. First, there wasn't any debris of the limo or Dunky and the vet seems to think it was armored heavily. A limo exploding containing a dragon (even in human form) without leaving a trace and everybody thinks its because the explosion was so powerful. Right. And I'm Santa Claus. Another thing, nobody was able to film or record anything from the explosion. Sounds like some kind of mana illusion to me, making a relatively small explosion look like a really big one. That would explain why the radius of victims was small compared to the radius of the explosion (as the vet points out). Another thing, the old lady saw him leave astrally at the moment of the explosion, and I don't buy her explaination of him becoming a god. It seems like the big D made a fake assassination of himself at the moment where he left magically in some way the site.

      How did he set that up? Like I said, there must have been an explosive powerful enough to destroy the car following the limo, but not enough to destroy the heavily armored limo. With some mana magical effect (which explains why there wasn't any recording of sound) an illusion of a very powerful explosion covered the smaller real explosion. Now, with some unknown magic he teleports himself, and the limo, somewhere else (notice that teleportation was mentionned in the Threat file concerning the black lodge). As you all know, if that magic existed it would have to be incredibly powerful, which leaves us considering the mana cloud over the site of the assassination. The cloud might be some side-effect of the teleportation effect cast.

      What is left is the most important point: why did he did that? Let's look at the Draco foundation. This foundation now have enough money to rival the Big 8s and can relatively easily climb up the ladder to become one of the future Big 9. As everybody knows, popularity is one of the most important part of a corp. If Dunky had built a new corp with its money, would people love it? No, they would consider it like any other corp. Now if he tried to become president, promising new hope to everybody, in fact promising a new, brighter future. As we saw, he became incredibly popular. Now, and could he become even more popular? He just had to die! Elvis, JFK, lady Diana all became incredibly popular when they died, which happened with the Big D. Now being "dead" he was able to do like all the dragons love to do, control everything from behind the scene. The Draco Foundation being what's left of him, everybody loves the foundation, making it probably one the most, if not the most, popular corp in the world. So why would he have faked his death? To control from behind the scene one of richest and most popular corporation in the world! Seems like the kind of complicated scheme a dragon could devise, doesn't it...

      Encounter of the third kind by Ares!

      Dunkelzahn's will has revealed three very interesting photography from the now Ares-owned Nasa. These photos show what look like buildings, a very classical-looking flying saucer and some kind of technological debris. If we relate this to the gift of the Big D to Captain Chaos (the encrypted file JackBNimble), which is a message that could contain "some communication from another world", we can think that this file comes from Mars. How would Dunky have got such a file? Let's remember that he owned Gavilan Ventures, which owns 12% of Ares. That makes him the third most important man (dragon) on the board of Ares, thus enabling him to know almost everything happening in the megacorp, including communication with aliens. The last point of interest in the will is the gift to "the parties the Draco Foundation agrees have achieved breakthroughts in the inventions necessary  to succesful deep-space living and travel" which relates to habited trips to Mars.

      Dunkelzahn can see in the future!

      A couple of in the Big D's will that relate to KSAF make me think that he can see in the future! In the Threats file it was mentionned that the tv station KSAF could predict future by some way. A little note in the Dunkelzahn's Secrets file mentionned that they had lost their ability: they were filming something else when Dunky blew up. You can easilly see the relation: the Big D didn't want anyone to film the accident, so he certainly wouldn't have sent KSAF to the site if he controlled them. Now, another thing indicates that foreseeing talent: in its will he gives a couple of books and the order in which to read what's inside them to KSAF. Since he's supposed to be dead, the dragon gave indication on what to film and when to KSAF. It seems pretty clear that the dragon can look in the future... If he can see in the future, why didn't he predict his own death? Because he didn't have to predict it, he was setting it up himself! That's another indication that Dunky didn't die, he just faked it...