That's basically the start of the Shadowrun dystopia. There were a lot of other things that "went wrong", but when the government removed the liability from private security that has been protecting a hazardous materials transport from workers attacking it in the belief that it contained foodstuffs, it legitimized the "megacorp": a corporation sufficiently powerful to impose their own legal system on their private real estate. EDIT: In the previous histories the "Seretech Decision" was on 1999-10-26. Sources: [1](https://people.wku.edu/charles.plemons/shadowrun/into_the_shadows/timeline_shadowrun_history.html) [2](https://www.hoboes.com/pub/Role-Playing/Shadowrun/Timelines/timeline/) [3](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Timeline/Shadowrun) Looks like "6th edition" retconned the fictional history to start 2001-09-11 (Never Forget), so it's unclear what and when the equivalent event is. Source: [4](https://www.shadowrunnersmurf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Shadowrun-Timeline-2.0.pdf)