Osborne’s accusation could only mean Renraku had violated the unwritten law of not covering your tracks well enough. That meant that either Renraku was getting sloppy, in which case they deserved some kind of punishment to remind them to be more careful, or that Renraku was becoming so powerful or desperate that they didn’t care if they got caught. The latter was not a pleasant prospect. The megacorps all operated by a very delicate set of rules of conduct. If one of the most powerful megas was willing to flagrantly ignore those rules, it threatened a breakdown of the whole structure. No member of the Corporate Court could stand by and allow that to happen.