"That’s it," confirmed Nightwalker. "All the big corps signed it. They agreed that none of them would ever try to reconstruct the technology. And, if any other corp—one of the smaller fry, maybe—tried to do it, all the Concord signatories would come after them and stomp them flat." The runner laughed. "You can bet that all the signatories were running off to their private labs even before the ink was dry, trying to beat all the others to recreating the tech. But the Concord still did some good. Because of it nobody could put too many resources into the search without somebody else finding out. And then there’d be fragging hell to pay. No corp—not even the big boys—wants to slot off the Corporate Court. Not unless they’ve got a big fragging stick to threaten Zurich Gemeinschaft with."