Timeline Explorer 2044-2058

Update: 02.01.2000

Time Line Explorer 2044 - 2058

by John Maniha and Paolo Marcucci collected by Stefanie Pulla, 10.06.1998

1990-2044 (All) 2044-2058 (All) 1990-2058 (Germany)

2044: In Germany, deckers and system operators engage in an "arms race" between invasive and protective programs.
2044: In Australasia, A.I. Proncs is named as the new head of ANZAC's Special Services division.
2044: In Portland, Tir Tairngire, construction is completed on the Tir Tairngire Civic Building.
2044: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the Research Division of the New Age Labs corporation discovers a room temperature super conducting plasma. Following this discovery, the New Age Arms corporation is formed and initially placed under a large contract by the MSD to develop a Plasma Shock anti-vehicular weapon.
2044: The International Olympic Committee is officially revived. The results of the unofficial games of the past 12 years are stricken from Olympic record. The games are also opened to multinational corporate teams.
2044: In New York City, New York, UCAS, The rebuilding of the city is completed.
2044: In Texas, CAS, trade sanctions are initiated against Aztlan to protest the annexation of Mexico.
2044: Using the corporate war as a screen, Aztlan annexes most of what is left of Mexico. The exception is the Yucatan, where rebel forces foil all takeover attempts.
2044: In Tir na nOg, further acts of Constitution concentrates even more power into the Senate. It also states that every Tir citizen has a right to gainful employment.
2044: In Aztlan, in response to the business nationalization, Semi-open warfare breaks out as some corporations attempt to hold on to their properties.
2044: On February 23, in New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, three humans and an elf attack and nearly destroy a Downtown Metro Security precinct. Two humans and the elf are killed, but the remaining human is captured and revealed to be a vampire. Before her execution the vampire reveals that a small group of her kind, led by an ancient vampire/mage named Bartholomew, is plotting to conquer New Orleans. "This is our age, not the age of man," she is quoted as saying. "We will rain hell on this city until the blood runs in the streets and we turn it into our hunting ground."
2044: In Aztlan, 4.2 megapulses of information is added to the constitution. The contents of this text is kept secret, "for security reasons".
2044: In Tir na nOg, the Ulster museum is half destroyed in a terrorist attack by the URF.
2044: In the UCAS, General Steven Coe Bowling is appointed by President Preston as Director of the CIA to replace William Sessions III after a series of scandals involving clandestine programs to undermine the Sioux Nation and Pueblo Corporate Council.
2044: In the UCAS, Judge Richard Scott is appointed to the UCAS Supreme Court.
2044: In Tir na nOg, the country suffers from a massive heatwave induced by chemical pollution in the air from Great Britain.
2044: In UCAS, well-known financier Charles Brackhaven dies.
2044: In Aztlan, the government nationalizes all foreign-owned businesses, under heavy pressure from the Aztechnology Corporation.
2044: In Germany, Chancelor Hunggarten attempts to break the monopoly of foreign corporations. As a result, on May 10, all south German datagrids turn off for 72 hours, causing massive economic problems and causing the Association of German Unions (AGV) to call for a strike. Twenty-four hours later, a flight of dragons flies in formation over Munich and Stuttgart, which many residents see as a bad omen. On the sixth day of the crisis, foreign governments worldwide freeze all assets of the South German Federation held in their banks. The following day MET2000 ends its contract with the South German government, depriving it of an army. On the eighth day of the crisis, Chancelor Hunggarten is forced to resign.
2044: In Aztlan, the president dies. She is replaced by Francisco Gortari.
2044: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, within six months of their founding, the Night Stalkers have scored twenty vampire kills. Every suspected member of the New Orleans vampire group except Bartholemew is dead. The closest they come to capturing Bartholemew is finding a massive library of grimoires and tomes belonging to him. Magical experts who examine the books call them black magic, dealing with beings of alien dimensions and how to summon them. The books are put under lock, key, and spell at Tulane University.
2044: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, in response to the vampire attacks and the inability of Metro Security to do any thing about them, the city government of New Orleans organizes a specially trained and equipped group of Metro Security Officers to battle the vampires and their troops. Combined with mages to fight the elementals and other awakened creatures, the elite force is named the "Night Stalkers." They are sent out in two to four-man patrols to deal with the vampire threat.
2044: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, within days of the precinct attack, ghouls, hellhounds, and elementals, all lead by one or more of the vampires, direct more deadly attacks on New Orleans corporate and city property.
2044: In Panama, the government becomes economically incapable of maintaining the Panama Canal.
2044: In Scotland, U.K., one week after the MacGregor incident, the military base that housed the submarine is attacked by a bean sidhe of the Macgregor clan. It kills one man a week for nearly a year.
2044: In the UCAS, President Preston is re-elected President of the UCAS.
2044: In FRFZ, a massive blizzard covers the city.
2044: In Aztlan, the revolutionary group La Venta is formed by the feathered serpent Henequen.
2044: In England, U.K., a group of radical feminist trolls manage to gain an elected majority on the Croydon council. Although they are only in office for a year, they manage to create all sorts of chaos on the other branches of Croydon government.
2044: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Thomas Lake Mining and Oil is founded by a group of dwarves who discover large deposits of precious metal. Overnight the owners become the richest dwarves in the UCAS.
2044: After six disputed decisions over whether the carrier was still alive when he entered the goal circle, the Internationaler Stadtskrieg Sport Verein (ISSV) modifies the rules of professional urban brawl that as long as the ball is in the brawler's hands or somehow attached to his body when he gets into the goal, it doesn't matter whether he is alive or dead.
2044: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, police unsuccessfully try to shut down Eskimo Nell's, the club of well known fixer Mr. Crick.
2044: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dr. Richard Raven, an Amerindian elf, and his assistant Wolfgang Kies, formerly a suspect due to his unique shamanic ability to shape change into his totem wolf, track down the Full Moon Slasher. This is the first known appearance of Dr. Raven who, along with his operatives, will go on to become high-profile shadowrunners in Seattle.
2044: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a serial killer begins a spree of murders. The media nicknames the killer the Full Moon Slasher due to the pattern of only killing on the full moon. Due to the severity of the crimes, The High Prince of Tir Tairngire sends a group of Paladins to deal with the Slasher.
2044: Lone Star Security forms the Department of Organized Crime.
2044: San Francisco, CFS, is now almost totally controlled by Japanese corporations.
2044: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the new eight-million dollar Wind Transit bus terminal is officially opened.
2044: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Hanzo Shotozumi is appointed as head of the Seattle Yakuza. His strongarm tactics once again start hostilities between the Mafia and the Yakuza.
2044: In Scotland, U.K., a boat containing men of the MacGregor clan is sunk in Loch Arkaig. It is suspected that a British army submarine is responsible.
2044: In Minnesota, UCAS, at Lakeshore Laboratories a synthetic "Generic Gene" is discovered. This allows for growth of "generic" limbs which can be coded with recipient's DNA prior to the graft. This cuts down clone time by 75% but increases rejection rate by 45%.
2044: In Germany, the Public Servants' Supplementary Earnings Taxation Act makes it legal to bribe public servants although very unprofitable due to heavy taxation of all income received regardless of source.
2044: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Due to many members leaving because of discrimination the Metahuman Research Assembly, an organization dedicated to discussion and research of new technology for metahumans, now has less than one dozen non-dwarves in the organization.
2044: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, at the Club Penumbra, Concrete Dreams plays their last concert appearance.
2044: In the CAS, Texas leads an embargo on all Aztlan goods after the Aztlan annexation of Mexico.
2044: In the CAS, President Alexander is reelected. Mississippi Senator Timothy Newstrom is the new Vice President.
2044: The CAS is accepted into the United Nations.
2044: In England, U.K., United Meat Products is revealed to have hazardous levels of photochemical carcinogen in their products.
2044: In the UCAS, noted cyberware expert Ernesto Dante begins working with B.E.O.R.N. corporation on unspecified projects.
2044: On November 6, in New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, the mayor declares the vampire war finished, even though Bartholemew is never found.
2045: In Babenhausen, Germany, Greenwar begins a series of attempted attacks on the Gross-Auheim nuclear power plant.
2045: In Belfast, Tir na nOg, the City Corporation, long having struggled under lack of adequate resources, is suspended. Tir nan n'Og)
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS in the downtown Council Chamber, a disgruntled councilman shoots a fellow councilman for authorizing a gun-control bill.
2045: In Tir Tairngire, the government raises its age of majority to 17
2045: In Germany, the city of Franconia declares its independence from Bavaria. At the same time however, the city of Aschaffenburg secedes from Franconia to become part of Greater Frankfurt. This serves to worsen Greater Frankfurt's terrible longshoreman strike, escalating it into a more violent protest.
2045: In the UCAS, the commission on physical adepts in pro-sports rules that physical adepts can compete in professional sports as long as they have absolutely no cybernetic modifications.
2045: A major junk bond crash occurs in the stock market causing disastrous economic damage.
2045: In Germany, the Anarchosyndikalistsche Union (ASU) is founded as an election platform for various syndicates.
2045: In Australasia, the Aboriginal Tribal Council overthrow the Tasmanian government by blocking the entrances to the Tasmanian cities (which have been moved underground to allow natural flora and fauna to return) and using chemical weaponry to neutralize the local security forces. The take-over is achieved without excessive fatalities.
2045: In New Zealand, Australasia, the Maoris begin taking control of the island, claiming it as a sovereign nation. Government response is swift but futile, as the Maoris use magic and guerilla warfare techniques learned during the PNG Emergency.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Don Patrick Finnigan fails to hold off the Yakuza advancement into the city. The Commissione decides to take Don James O'Malley out of retirement and appoint him as the new head of the Seattle Mafia.
2045: Lone Star Security opens its Division of Investigation. John S. Patrelli is appointed to head this division.
2045: In England, U.K., the Democratic party officially announces support for the Green party.
2045: UCAS relations with the Sioux Nation grow tense when the Sioux nation refuses to allow UCAS troops to carry out war games on Sioux soil. For two weeks the entire Sioux military hovers just short of war-readiness. The UCAS eventually backs down.
2045: In Xpujil, Aztlan, rioting engulfs the city. The military quickly ends the riots.
2045: In Los Angeles, CFS, the outdated fusion generator of an off-shore oil rig being used as a research facility by Aztechnology explodes causing a massive tidal wave. Bel Air and the Palisades are destroyed by the wave and polluted by the radiation. They are rebuilt on higher ground.
2045: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, a previously unknown strain of meningitis strikes the city. 12 schoolchildren die from the disease.
2045: In the CAS, Secretary of State Gabriel McCoy fills the Vice Presidency by popular vote despite fierce mudslinging. Vice President McCoy becomes the only force keeping the CAS cabinet in check.
2045: In Aztlan, over the next two years, the government annexes the nations of Guatemala Beliize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
2045: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, President Preston is again inaugurated as President of the UCAS.
2045: In the CAS, Vice President Newstrom assumes the presidency, becoming little more than a puppet for cabinet members.
2045: In the CAS, President Alexander dies in office. Though some believe he is assassinated, no conclusive proof emerges.
2045: In Hawai'i, King Kamehameha IV dies. He is succeeded by his son Gordon Ho who takes the title King Kamehameha V.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the first known appearance of the wiz-kid go-gang called the Merlyns. Two gangmembers wearing their symbol (an elaborate bird-of-prey) are killed at the Dante Corporate Complex during the kidnapping of their top paranormal researcher, Dr. Marcus Loman.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Charles Gates, CEO of the microdeck corporation and The Gates Casino disappears leaving his son, Brian W. Gates III in charge of his financial empire.
2045: In Germany, Franconia tries unsuccessfully to regain control over Aschaffenburg.
2045: In Aschaffenburg, Greater Frankfurt, Germany, striking longshoremen attack the city from two hijacked barges. Aschaffenburg calls the BIS who intercept the attackers outside of Stockstadt. The two forces engage in combat resulting in many longshoremen being killed.
2045: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Fuchi attempts to buy land without paying off the local alderman. The alderman refuses to sell and Fuchi attempts strongarm techniques to change his mind. The local Mafia backs the alderman and a firefight ensues leaving most of the mob soldiers dead. The next day no Chicago resident shows up for work at any Fuchi facility. This goes on for days until Fuchi pays off the alderman and the land is sold to them. 120 families are left homeless as a result of the sale.
2045: In Babenhausen, Germany, a bomb explodes on the B469 railroad pass, derailing a train onto the road and killing the train crew and three drivers.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the new Metroplex Supreme Court is erected.
2045: On September 8, in Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, the inhabitants of the Fulton County Stadium pour out in a mass exodus, taking refuge around the coliseum and building crude shelters in the parking lots. Media teams who investigate the scene report that the membrane has gradually deteriorated to where it no longer allows enough food to be produced for the masses living inside the dome. The former leaders have remained inside with their families, taking what food the dome membrane produces. A ritual is created where an outside "domer" can earn a position inside the dome by dethroning an inside "domer" in a gladiatorial battle.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Snohomish Optical Incorporated corporation is founded.
2045: In Germany, the entire district of Unna is annexed by the neighboring district of Dortmund.
2045: The U.N. passes a decision making the construction and production of robots for use in military combat a violation of international law.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Loman Kidnapping case is closed due to lack of evidence.
2045: In the UCAS, Noted journalist McBean, having been involved in all facets of public life, retires from public view.
2045: Paul Grigg, his mental health already deteriorated, commits suicide.
2045: In Tir Tairngire, the Museum of Science and Technology opens a "simsense theme park" using state of the art simsense technology.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Universal Brotherhood opens its first headquarters in that part of the nation.
2045: In the UCAS, Mitsuhama Corporation extracts Keith "the Suit" Hannigan, a noted interface technician and programmer, from Fuchi Incorporated. Hannigan's wife and daughter are killed in the extraction.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Colonel Winston Gajeway is appointed Commander of the Metroplex Guard of the UCAS and District Mayor of Fort Lewis by Governor Schultz.
2045: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, after two months and two failed firefights with the NMC enforcers, Aztechnology breaks down and pays the entire sum, which includes a substantial penalty fee. Funds are used to rebuild the skyways damaged by Aztechnology.
2045: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, Aztechnology attempts a corp-war to take-over Control Data. The attempt fails and the NMC censures Aztechnology for the deaths of innocents and demands reparations and weregild for their actions. Aztechnology refuses and is placed under interdict by the NMC. They receive no power, no water, and no services.
2045: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Seoulpa rings begin to make a name for themselves in criminal society by encroaching on the territories of other, better established, organizations.
2045: On May 8, in Germany, in response to a call for a constitutional congress to establish new rules for cooperation between the Lander and after a year of deliberation, a new German constitution establishes the Allied German States (Allianz Deutscher Lander) in place of the old Federal Republic of Germany. Several disputed areas are given special associate status. These include the Troll Kingdom, the dwarf Duchy of Westrhine-Luxembourg, the elven Duchy of Pomorya, the individual states of the Upper Palatinate Forest, the Saarland Special Legislative Zone (SOX), and the Free City of Berlin. The entire Spreewald hill country is given to the neighboring state of Brandenburg.
2045: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Puyallup Mafia is almost destroyed by Jeannette Twenten, a street shaman, when they attempt to muscle in on her restaurant.
2046: In CFS, a group of rogue deckers destroy the computerized results of the gubernatorial election. The deckers are rumored to be part of an El Infierno street gang. This action prompts the government to declare war on crime in Los Angeles. The army and corporate mercenary teams are sent in to destroy the El Infierno district. They soon discover they are killing mostly innocent civilians and pull back. Two days later the CFS government responds by declaring Los Angeles a Free City.
2046: In Minnesota, UCAS, the Adventures in Time corporation announces the invention of SensorTech body armor and VibraTech weapons. These devices act much like virtual reality by simulating the actual effect of the weapon or armor they are modeled after.
2046: Researchers Bruckner and Langer discover a new strain of HMHVV virus that is lethal to nonhumans. The result of this disease on humans is transformation into nosferatu.
2046: In Germany, Dr. Robert Kortmann of the ESP party is elected Confederate President.
2046: Three megacorporations, Aztechnology, Shiawase, and Universal Omnitech, announce publicly that they have fully decoded the mundane segments of the human/metahuman genome.
2046: In Panama, a landslide in the Gaillard Cut closes the Panama Canal to all but small ships. The Panama government asks Aztlan for help in maintaining and repairing the Canal. Aztlan agrees.
2046: In Scotland, U.K., researchers discover a freshwater serpent living in Loch Ness.
2046: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a local union organizer's house is torched by arsonists. The fire spreads throughout the entire neighborhood causing untold deaths and damage. ("It's All Done With Mirrors") Into the Shadows)
2046: In FRFZ, DocWagon offers all services to city residents.
2046: The first international Urban Brawl World Cup is held.
2046: In Germany, the Staatssicherheitsgesetz (State Security Act) is signed into law. This act further defines what groups are considered terrorist.
2046: In the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe, a massive volcanic storm erupts.
2046: In Managua, Aztlan, a major earthquake results in the deaths of over 14,000 people.
2046: The policlub idea migrates to North America. The movement spreads quickly, but with violence in its wake. The Humanis Policlub, in particular, attracts a major following that cuts across economic, social and political divisions. In a series of paid advertisements, Mothers of Metahumans (MOM) denounces Humanis as an arm of the Alamos 20,000 terrorist group.
2046: The rock group Shield Wall releases their first album.
2046: In the UCAS, the first simsense megahit, "Free Fall" ,starring Honey Brighton, is released.
2046: In FRFZ, Samuel Clemens Waybridge is appointed administrator of the UCAS sector.
2046: In the NAN, the Souix Nation strikes a deal with the Trans-Polar Aleut Nation for military training and high-technology weapons.
2046: In Vermont, UCAS, the incumbent of the House of Representatives dies in a boating accident.
2046: In Maine, UCAS, Senatorial candidate Dale deVere is revealed to have taken large bribes from Mitsuhama Computer Technologies in return for loosening regulations on corporate magic research. As a result deVere's opponent Melissa Washington, an elf known for her support of regulating magic due to her son's death in a freak magical accident, wins the election.
2046: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dr. Marcus Loman is declared legally dead.
2046: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a brutal robbery by a gang of orks and elves leaves 20 guests and employees of the Chez Ogino restaurant dead.
2046: In Japan, Noguri Owaru, an executive with Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, is kidnapped from his high-security apartment complex. His body is later found in Chiba, Japan, apparently the victim of a professional execution. Rumors of Noguri's Yakuza connections are denied by MCT.
2046: The effects of HMHVV virus on dwarves is first documented. The effect of the disease on dwarves is transformation into goblins.
2046: In Tir Tairngire, the Hemlad Cartel wins a bid for a new club in baseball's North American League and establishes the Portland Lords baseball team.
2046: In Tenochtitlan, Aztlan, Simon Xaltepec is elected as mayor.
2046: In their first game, the Portland Lords beat the L.A. Dodgers 5-0.
2046: Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaft Bank executive Sol Weinstein is killed when his personal shuttle burns up during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. This leaves a hole in the bank's board of directors.
2046: In Germany, a single, unknown individual takes over the import, production, and distribution of all BTL chips in the country.
2046: In Detroit, Michigan, UCAS, Ares Macrotechnology sponsors a citywide celebration in honor of the 150th anniversary of the invention of the automobile.
2046: Plasma shock weapons are demonstrated in theory following the formation of New Age Arms Company.
2046: The rock musician ME-109 makes his first appearance.
2046: In London, England, U.K., the StyleNet channel goes on the air.
2046: In Vermont, UCAS Sarah Lynn returns to the UCAS in time to run for the House of Representatives. Although her pro-environmental policies initially frighten off voters, she eventually gains in the poles and wins the seat.
2046: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Wolfgar Marrson, president of the Metahuman Research Assembly passes an official resolution forbidding non-dwarves from joining.
2047: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, Dougan Rose joins the New Orleans Buzzsaws combat biker team and quickly becomes a huge fan-favorite.
2047: In the UCAS, the North American Basketball Association (NABA) finally allows cybertech on players after lengthy, bitter arguments.
2047: In June, in London, England, U.K., London Bridge station is bombed by an unknown terrorist group. The station is declared irreparable and closed down.
2047: In Germany, the southern part of Hesse outside Frankfurt joins the state of Franconia.
2047: In Chicago Illinois, UCAS, Professor Matthew Hawkins puts forward his Intelligence-Generated Reality Inversion Field theory (IGRIF) at the Chicago Thaumaturgical Research institute. This theory states that the fact that magic and certain metahuman races feature so prominently and so frequently in folklore shows that these legends are undoubtedly based on a previous Awakening, or possibly Awakenings. Given that these legends are true, how could stories have come about of, for example, humans destroying dragons, when anybody attacking a dragon with a sword would be fried by a spell before he could do any damage? Based on this theory Hawkins concludes that there must be people immune to magic. And if they existed then, they must exist now. Hawkins embarks on a worldwide search for magically immune people.
2047: In Tir na nOg, The Tir government takes over possession of Lismore Castle and begins renovations.
2047: In Quebec, Celinne Barbeau, a Quebecoise elf, is booted from the National Assembly of Quebec for her membership of the Alliance Metahumaine. She emigrates to Tir Tairngire.
2047: In Aztlan the Mafia begins using more aggressive practices. The government responds with violent and bloody retribution. As a result, the Mafia backs off.
2047: In Germany, the terrorist group Green War Europe commits a nighttime missile attack on the empty showrooms of the Chemexpo.
2047: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Maria Mercurial plays her first show at Underworld 93.
2047: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz reelected for a second time.
2047: In Australasia, Steven Monash, a dwarf, takes over as CEO of ANZAC.
2047: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the Policlub Blut und Ehre initiates a string of chopper raids in the Government Zone of airspace.
2047: In Los Angeles, CFS, prostitutes are discovered ritually dissected on Venice Beach with the word "Arzoth" written in blood. The killer is discovered to be a latent mage using the life energy from the murders to supposedly elevate himself into godhood.
2047: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dr. Freeman, head of Seattle General Hospital's controversial goblinization research project and head of hospital services, dies.
2047: In London, England, U.K., Soy Joy products in London are exposed as having high levels of neuromodulator-inhibiting algal residues in their pastas and pizzas.
2047: In Provo, Ute Nation, NAN, a large shipment of Pueblo Corporate Council-imported computer equipment is stolen from a warehouse. The entire supply is dumped into Utah Lake.
2047: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, actress Meg Owens disappears from public view.
2047: In Germany, the Neo-Nazi Partei Der Nationalen Erneuerung (PNE), achieves membership in the coalition government in Hesse-Kassel for the next 4 years.
2047: In England, U.K., a para-VITAS outbreak kills 120,000 people in Newcastle, Tynesprawl. The outbreak is believed to be the work of an unknown eco-terrorist group.
2047: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Cougar Mountain Resort in the Renton district is completed.
2047: In Tir Tairngire, an assassination attempt is directed at High Prince Lugh Surehand as he tours a municipal building in the city of Eugene. The attempt fails due to magical intervention.
2047: In Greece, the fishing village of Agnondas on the isle of Skopelos is destroyed by a gorgon. Eleven people are discovered petrified, fourteen ripped apart, and another ten are found dead of no visible causes.
2047: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, Chrome Centurions becomes the latest rage for security and bodyguards. They come in four models: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
2047: Honda-GM wins the NorAm Sports Car Circuit Gold Cup with its Honda-GM 3220 ZX Turbo.
2047: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Keiji Hiroshige takes over of the Yakuza operations in Chicago.
2047: In Karlsruhe, Germany, Hedwig Gabler, a known racist against metahumans, is elected Lord Mayoress. She immediately begins a program of building an army to attack the ork and troll kingdom in the Black Forest.
2047: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Sea-Tac Mall is bombed in a terrorist attack that leaves 5 people dead.
2047: In Scotland, U.K., a series of killings at the Inverness naval base is identified to be the work of a Each-Uisge. The animal escapes one attempt from the military to kill it before it is destroyed by a local shadowrunner.
2047: In Seattle, Metroplex, UCAS, a terrorist bomb destroys much of Everett Beacon Mall.
2047: Richard Villiers, one of the three owners of Fuchi Industrial Electronics, divorces his wife Samantha, the head of the Fuchi Systems Design group.
2047: In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, CAS, the death of a prominent senator's daughter from BTL use causes a massive crack down on the sale of BTL chips.
2047: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, due to a rumor that he is alive, the kidnaping case of Dr. Marcus Loman is temporarily reopened.
2047: In Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, the Tsawassen band, an anglo tribe, try to block the development of Vancouver International Airport as a protest against "intrusive technology."
2047: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, a series of brutal murders and disappearances begin in Nitemare Alley. These events remain unsolved.
2047: The Salish-Shidhe Council Rangers and the Sioux Nation Special Forces "Wildcats" stage a war game. The Sioux "Wildcats" barely win with a winning point total of just 5% higher than the Salish-Shidhe Rangers.
2047: In Germany, the Labor Union Congress is bombed by the NA terrorist group.
2047: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the Great Dragon Morgor'ash, CEO of Vibra Technologies, becomes CEO of Fantasy Kingdom Adventureland Theme Park.
2047: In Tir Tairngire, the Portland Civic Stadium is rebuilt to accommodate 25,000 people.
2047: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, Miriam Kozlowski takes over as head of the New Orleans Mafia.
2047: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Robert Khamdeng, a paramedic for DocWagon, is featured on Korp Kudos for his dedication and heroism. He is later portrayed on the cover of Time-Ares and becomes a nationwide hero affectionately known as "Doctor Bob".
2047: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Don Jim "Tools" O'Toole taks over as head of the Chicago Mafia.
2047: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Metahuman Research Assembly changes its name to the Dwarven Technical Guild and elects Wolfgar Marrson as Guildmaster for life.
2047: Mullins Chadwick releases his new book Wake Up Call: Living in the Awakened World.
2047: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, response to the Blut und Ehre chopper attacks the FedPols develop major enforcement over the Government Zone of airspace.
2047: The Zoroastrian faith is reported to have less than 200,000 followers worldwide. Most of these are in Bombay, India.
2047: On October 13, in Osthofen, Germany, The Scherist-Manngold AG Arkologie is opened despite numerous accidents and problems during its construction. Soon after the grand opening, the main building suffers an explosion and catches fire. The building collapses in on itself and the fire spreads to the other buildings. Hundreds are killed and the buildings are eventually abandoned.
2048: In the UCAS, Pacific Rim Communications Unlimited purchases Pacific Northwest Bell.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Carl B. Vanderslam, Mayor of Renton, is elected for his third term.
2048: Zorgon Cybersystems becomes a world leader in the manufacturing of skillwires and the coding of skillsofts.
2048: In the CAS, the sim chips "Visiting Scenic Japan" and "Visiting the Hills of Thailand" are recalled due to extreme headaches and temporary blindness caused by viewing them.
2048: In the UCAS, Maria Mercurial makes her first hit single, "Who Weeps for the Children?"
2048: In the UCAS, Queen Euphoria makes her first simsense production, "Shotgun Blues."
2048: In Berlin, Germany, the eleven Meaters brothers, attempt to establish a foothold in the market for their airline service. They enlist the aid of officials at Tempelhof and Tegel airports. They also hire deckers to obtain cash reserves. Over the next few months they obtain control of council seats, hire an army of special operatives as well as a crack dwarven mercenary group. An informer within the organization however reveals the plot to the public and the Meaters brothers are murdered and stuffed into a steamer trunk.
2048: In FRFZ, the old State Capitol Building is demolished to make room for a new one.
2048: In Los Angeles, CFS, Harry "Ironjaw" Bartlett retires from the L.A. Dodgers with a lifetime record of 5,301 thrown strikeouts, beating Nolan Ryan's final total of 5,299.
2048: The Zoroastrian faith, long known for it's insular practices, opens it's doors to outsiders and converts for the first time in it's history. As a result, membership slowly begins to increase.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Mayor Daniel Feddersen is killed in a suspicious car accident.
2048: In Germany, the Magnetschwebebahn maglev suspension railway is opened in the Rhine-Rhur Megaplex.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Councilman Bob Perkins of the First Hill area in is filmed taking money from Lone Star and FBI agents disguised as soldiers of Mafia Don James O'Malley. Perkins receives only a two-year suspended sentence.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Thomas Martelli of Global Technologies Inc. dies, naming Urlan Manes as the new CEO.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Ivar J. Lindstrom, Mayor of downtown Seattle is reelected for his third term in office.
2048: In Tripoli, Lybia, a corporate conflict breaks out between Mitsuhama Computer Technologies and EBMM. EBMM wins the conflict due to the efforts of troll mercenary Colonel Steely Sam Hampton and earns a 250 million nuyen settlement. The conflict is televised and earns the highest ratings in the history of the Battle Channels. ("Tailchaser") Into the Shadows)
2048: In the UCAS, Legendary rock-star Jetblack disappears on his way home from a concert. He is later presumed dead due to street violence.
2048: In San Francisco, CFS, while the government is trying to allocate funds, the East Bay Dwarves, repair the Caldecott Tunnel. In Lieu of payment, all mineral, access and other rights to former national and state parklands are ceded to the dwarves. The dwarves maintain the tunnel and pay a modest mineral tax in return.
2048: In Tir na nOg, a law is passed making possession or selling of equipment of receiving international broadcast signals legal but using such equipment a crime. Tir nan n'Og)
2048: In the UCAS, the United Oil Corporation hires Haesslich, a western dragon, to be their new head of security. Shadowrun Preview Pamphlet)
2048: The Corporate Court discusses extreme sanctions against Aztlan for their nationalization of businesses. Aztlan offers concessions in other parts of the world. Although some minor corporations accept, few of the major ones do.
2048: In Aztlan, the government annexes the nation of Panama. The Canal Zone is declared a "megacorporate protectorate" under the jurisdiction of the Corporate Court. It is renamed the Pan-Corporate Zone.
2048: In Aztlan, Ares Macrotechnology, Fuchi Industrial Electronics, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, Sarder-Krupp Corporation, Renraku Computer Systems, Shiawase Corporation, and Yamatetsu Corporation initiate a military strike against an Aztlan military facility in Ensenada. Although the facility is only damaged by 10% the attack is meant as a warning to Aztechnology to back off on the nationalization issue.
2048: In Aztlan, the government negotiates the Veracruz Settlement with several megacorps, in the wake of the corporate military strike on Ensenada.
2048: Aztechnology unsuccessfully tries to take control of the Federated-Boeing Corporation.
2048: In the CAS, Edna Wallace, former governor of Louisiana, becomes president. Jeanette Malory returns to the Vice Presidency.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Zax Pound-Down is elected as Mayor of Auburn.
2048: In Louisiana, CAS, former president Newstrom retreats to self-imposed exile to the Louisiana swamps.
2048: In Germany, The neo-Nazi PNE party achieves membership in the coalition government of Saxony for the next 4 years.
2048: In Louisiana, CAS, anonymous death threats against Newstrom force Governor Ivory McCabe to declare martial law in the southern portion of the state.
2048: In the CAS, Secretary of State Douglas Bennett is discovered dead with his elven mistress. Innuendos of policlub involvement fill the press.
2048: In the CAS, President Wallace approves a gag order on police and federal investigators assigned to the Bennett murder. The press accuses Wallace of initiating a government cover-up. National Guard units are called to escort the suspect from the courthouse following the arraignment.
2048: In the NAN, new border skirmishes flare up between the Ute Nation and the Pueblo Corporate Council.
2048: In San Francisco, CFS, an earthquake strikes the bay area causing massive damage. Although the quake is not as bad as predicted the Caldecott Tunnel connecting Diablo Valley and San Francisco is destroyed.
2048: In Toronto, UCAS, food shortages result in massive riots.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Samantha Tilliam, Mayor of Everett, is reelected for her second term in office.
2048: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies is found guilty of sponsoring Yakuza activities. The senior executives are sentenced to fifteen years in Crystal City and the corporation is banned from MSP Metroplex offices for three years. The senior officers all die within six months of entering Crystal City.
2048: In New York, UCAS, Designer Zoe enters the world of high fashion by designing custom-fitted, one-of-a-kind outfits for an exclusive client list.
2048: In Sweden, a herd of Dakkarynes breaches the Storsjon dam complex in Ostersund. Using their corrosive secretions they burn away the plascrete side-locks releasing millions of gallons of various toxic wastes into the water supplies of the city and surrounding military bases.
2048: In London, England, U.K., the London Police lose the controversial McFadden case, prompting them to make a policy to respond to calls within five minutes.
2048: In Hamburg, Germany, Gunther Steadman, the leader of the Der Nachtmachen policlub, is assassinated.
2048: Fuchi Incorporated hires Professor Susan Athenson, a noted psychologist and matrix programmer right after she turns in her doctoral thesis.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Shavan, the shadow-liege of the Revenants policlub is murdered. A connection is suspected between her death and that of Gunther Steadman.
2048: Bikes 'R' Us names the Harley-Davidson Scorpion the "Best Highway Bike" of the year for the fifth year in a row.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a major food riot breaks out in the Lakewood Center area in response to a truckers strike, leaving Villa Plaza and the Salish International Store burned and looted.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies purchases Maximillion's, a popular restaurant, and turns it into a center for their intelligence agents.
2048: The Salish-Shidhe Council announces grants to any business that implements pollution control in Puyallup, Seattle.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Hawkshorne Chemicals is forced to remove one of its pesticides from the market due to a class-action lawsuit claiming it has detrimental effects on humans and metahumans.
2048: In the UCAS, Alan Adams, former CEO of the Colbert Group, an Illinois-based multinational corporation, is elected President of the UCAS.
2048: In FRFZ, the Humanis Policlub initiate a series of riots and attacks in Chinatown.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Seattle General Hospital is declared a national landmark as an excellent example of late 1990's architecture.
2048: In England, U.K., a 500 foot plume of flaming toxic gasses erupts from the ground north of Merseysprawl. The plume of mildly neurotoxic materials continues for a week before going out.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Mike Walstrong is elected as mayor of Snohomish.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Jeffrey Gasston is elected Mayor of Redmond.
2048: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, Drew Anderson is elected as Mayor.
2048: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Good Samaritan Hospital is completed in Puyallup.
2048: In Germany, the state of Munster blocks the water supply from the Haltern reservoir for two months due to a "technical failure". 2000 people die of thirst in Recklinghausen and Gelsenkirchen.
2048: Doctors Eileen Van Buren and Peter Carmine publish their highly controversial book, Studies in Awakened Biology.
2048: In the UCAS, Sim-K-Tel starts distribution of old movies in simsense.
2048: In the U.K., the British government announces that, although the conflict with the Lambeth Martyrs has not been resolved, they will begin redevelopment grants to bring employment back into the district.
2048: In Florence, Italy, Lady With Primroses, the only known surviving statue by Leonardo Da Vinci, is relocated from the Museo del Bargello to the Baptistery.
2048: In the Ute Nation, NAN, a subsidiary of the Yokogawa corporation is fined over three million nuyen for Effluent release into the Escalante River.
2048: In the UCAS, with the help of Sandra Willowfall, the elven mage bass player for the group Til Es Hault, the rock band Eight Immortals is caught using magic to hype up audiences. The lead singer Tony Li and his magician hirelings are all convicted of magical assault.
2048: In France, the Bordeaux grape vineries are struck by a phylloxera plague which all but destroys them.
2048: In Finland, the Children of Uranus, an obscure religious sect, is revealed to have been manipulated by a blackberry cat.
2048: The International Mercenaries Guild votes the M22A2 assault rifle as the Best New Weapon of the year.
2048: Honda Motors wins the NorAm Sports Car Circuit Gold Cup for the second year in a row with the Honda-GM 3220 ZX Turbo.
2048: In Nottingham, England, U.K., Chinese Tong crime groups kill 32 members of a rival Indian crime family in what becomes known as the Hirwani massacre.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Eva W. Pratt is named as Mayor Michael Alvarado's successor.
2049: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, The Delancy Scandal is exposed. The Director General of the MSD is discovered to be involved in the black market and smuggling operations.
2049: The first Nobel Prize for magic is awarded to a group of mages from Germany and the Czech Republic.
2049: In Germany, the first maritime fusion engines are developed. The Vulkan Wharf in Wilhelmshaven begin constructing a new class of surface and submersible warships, followed closely by the shipbuilding magnate Blohm & Voss.
2049: In Tir Tairngire, Portland begins planning for a cutting-edge subway system connecting the downtown core with the outlying regions of the city.
2049: In Ute Nation, NAN, an official proposal comes before the Elected Council to create a tribe to be known as the Wasatch Awakened. It is tabled for further consideration.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a wire-addicted secretary in the downtown Council Chamber goes berserk and opens fire on the councilmen. One is killed and three are wounded.
2049: In Germany, The State Security Act is further defined with amendments.
2049: On September 10, in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Mayor Michael Alvarado of Tacoma is murdered in front of the Tacoma Sheraton. While leaving his limousine he is accosted by a woman who claims he is the father of her child. She then pulls out a knife and stabs Alvarado twice in the chest. After whispering something in his ear the woman runs off. She is never caught for the killing.
2049: Lock-on Lorenzo Hayes, left fielder for the Manhattan Yankees, tops the records of Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Sauharu Oh with 847 career home-runs and 4,195 hits.
2049: The UCC names the Everett district of Seattle the best area to start a new business.
2049: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, New Age Arms successfully completes its contract with the MSD and develops a functioning Plasma Shock weapon.
2049: The Chrome Centurions security corporation discovers a light-weight, high-strength crystal-metal alloy. This enables them to develop a highly superior armor protection for its security personnel at a fraction of the weight of conventional armor.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, tensions between the Yakuza and the Mafia in Auburn explode when The Yakuza attempt to assassinate several Mafia leaders at Eric's Italian Restaurant in Enumclaw. The gunfire of "Eric's Ten-Minute War" leaves 20 people dead, 14 of which are innocent bystanders.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Mayor Pound-Down of Auburn is forced to fire his personal assistant Kevin Delancy for his ties to the Yakuza.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, two Ork gunmen rob the patrons of the Gray Line, a partially submerged restaurant in Puget Sound. When surrounded by guards and police, a gun fight breaks out. Stray bullets destroy one of the underwater observation windows, flooding the lower section of the establishment and drowning twelve people. The loot that the gunmen collected, including several pieces of jewelry worth over 100,000 nuyen, is never recovered.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz of signs an exclusive trade deal with representatives of Tir Tairngire. Seattle, already a major cultural and economic center for the UCAS, NAN and large segments of the Awakened population, now takes on new importance as the only access to Elven goods and services.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Warren Cartwright, guitarist for Concrete Dreams, hosts an impromptu acoustic jam session at Club Penumbra. Over a dozen musicians, including Maria Mercurial, sit in.
2049: In the UCAS, Maria Mercurial releases her second album, "Puta".
2049: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Alan Adams is inaugurated President of the UCAS.
2049: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Chancellor of Germany is assassinated at O'Hare Airport.
2049: In Louisiana, CAS, a major oil spill breaks out on the Louisiana Coast.
2049: In England, U.K., 31 members of the British nobility are killed in Dartmoor forest by the group Deep Green while on a hunt.
2049: On April 23, in Germany, Bundeswehr units from Palatinate and Wurttemberg take over the city of Karlsruhe from Lord Mayoress Gabler and her swiftly growing mercenary army. Gabler and her deputies are captured and the city is declared to be a Special Legislative Zone ruled directly from Hannover.
2049: In Prince Edward Island, Maine, UCAS, actress Meg Owens briefly re-appears in a summer stock theater company before disappearing again.
2049: In Texas, CAS, the government, seeing that the former Mexico territories are prospering under Aztlan rule, lifts the trade sanctions against Aztlan.
2049: In the UCAS, General Steven Coe Bowling is dismissed by President Adams as Director of the CIA.
2049: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, Kyle Dremen, a notorious bocor, is found innocent of practicing ju-ju (a form of magic illegal in Louisiana due to its use of (meta)human blood sacrifice). The ruling is given despite the five zombies raised by Dremen produced as witnesses.
2049: In Minnesota, UCAS, a flock of over 300 Carrion Crows attacks a small town on the shores of Lower Red Lake. No less than 35 people are killed and over 110 are injured.
2049: In Aztlan, Thomas Roxborough, one of the board of directors of Aztechnology, announces he is dying of an autoimmune disease that causes his body to metabolize its own tissue. As a result he partakes in an experiment with Universal Omnitech to keep him alive through an experimental treatment. The procedure keeps him alive, although he cannot leave the biotank his body was placed in. His mind is kept intact but his body is somehow altered.
2049: In CAS, the "Racial Revenge" trial of Douglas Bennett's accused murderer begins. Despite President Wallace's gag order, several facts important to the defense are aired on Atlanta's evening news. Hostile witnesses from both sides confuse the issue with dogma and political slogans. A mistrial is declared near years end. The suspect is moved to Texas' new maximum-security facility to await a change of venue. Texas Ranger Units replace the National Guardsmen outside the prison.
2049: Lopez, captain of the Aztlan Court Ball Union champion Ensenada Eagles, dies in a plane crash.
2049: In Germany, the Dissemination of Personality-Enhancing Substances and Instruments Act is passed. This act divides addictive and personality-enhancing substances into several classes with different legal penalties for violation of each class.
2049: In Tir Tairngire, Celinne Barbeau becomes mayor of Salem.
2049: In the UCAS, Professor Matthew Hawkins reappears from his search with Miles Freeman, the worlds first reported nega-magician (magically immune person).
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, William Louden is named head of Lone Star Seattle.
2049: In Amazonia, the government sends forces to annex much of Columbia and Venezuela. Aztlan forces prevent a full takeover of Columbia.
2049: A student of paranaturalism discovers that a creature once believed to be a cat shapeshifter is actually a new awakened animal. The creature is named the Talis Cat.
2049: In Detroit, Michigan, UCAS, Leonard Aurelius manages to buy a controlling percentage of Ares Macrotechnology. After a closed-door meeting with Damien Knight the two make an announcement that due to Knight owning two-tenths of a percent more than Aurelius, Knight will remain CEO of Ares Macrotechnology.
2049: In Malaysia, the ruling Communist government is overthrown by the Malaysian peoples Front.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Rubber Suit Club, known as a Yakuza hangout, is strafed with automatic weapons fire. The Mafia is blamed for the attack.
2049: In Berlin, Germany, the Daimler-Benz skyscraper is torn down and replaced with a new one.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Redmond General Hospital is opened.
2049: In Tir na nOg, another Establishment act is passed placing the Church of Ireland as the official church of the nation as well as implicitly excluding the Catholic church.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Farazad Samji, a mage from India, opens a magical store specializing in Far-East talismonger supplies. His store is especially noted for selling cuneiform-inscribed glazed bricks. Samji claims that they are from ancient Babylon and can be used to create alchemical kilns.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the president of the uncompleted Bellevue Vista Mall disappears, along with 65 million nuyen and leaving the project incomplete.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Ling Ho, a popular Chinese restaurant is destroyed in a suspicious fire.
2049: In Georgia, CAS, the political commentary show the Macmillan Group first airs.
2049: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, noted media reporter Ren Martindale divorces his wife Marta.
2049: In FRFZ, Hector Ramirez becomes Aztlan's representative on the Council of Denver.
2049: In Zurich, Switzerland, Rogue CIA agent Mary Jo Doonan is spotted.
2049: In DeeCee sprawl, UCAS, Baudelaire's Bastards, a vicious extortion gang, is convicted of murder due to the testimony of local ork fixer Sherlock.
2049: In New Jersey, UCAS, a Euroflot spaceplane on approach to Kennedy Airport is vaporized by a misfiring ABM system.
2049: In Aztlan, the tri-V stations broadcast the execution by decapitation of a prisoner found guilty of treason. The execution takes place atop Tenochtitlan's teocalli (temple).
2049: In Henan Province, China, word comes out of a new form of magic based on Chinese hermetic principles. These new magicians begin to collaborate in training methods in a loose confederation.
2049: Leonard Aurelius, through a cunning proxy campaign, ousts Damien Knight as chairman of the board of Ares Macrotechnology.
2049: Saab Motors brings home its fifth consecutive win at the Euro-Rally with the Dynamit 776TI.
2049: In Aztlan, all security border posts are privatized and leased out to Aztechnology security forces.
2049: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a total of four non-hostile planes are shot down over the Government airspace zone due to mistakes in security.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the kidnapping case of Dr. Marcus Loman is again reopened due to a reported sighting.
2049: The Zeta-Impchem corporation develops a chemical that when used against a Bayard horse, it inflicts excruciating pain on them when they try to use their powers of mist form, thus making them easier to capture.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the security at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is massively increased with personnel from Lone Star, Federated Boeing, Renraku, Aztechnology and Mitsuhama. Reasons for the increase are never given.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Chief Medical examiner Charles Selko of Snohomish Medical center is arrested for selling body parts to street doctors. It is later discovered that the entire morgue of Snohomish Medical Center has been used as a pirating operation for black market body parts.
2049: In San Francisco, CFS, famed computer software designer Terrible Tony is hired by Renraku.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Humanis Policlub initiates a major recruitment drive.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Sons of Sauron respond to continued Humanis Policlub attacks into the Ork Underground with a major assault against Humanis Policlub holdings. 38 people are killed and hundreds are wounded.
2049: A single mated pair of normally solitary cerberus hounds is photographed for the first time.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Lloyd Le Blanc, a high-ranking Mafioso is assassinated just outside the Green River Inn.
2049: Leaders in the fashion world begin to market designer clothes in the "street mercenary" style.
2049: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Ultra Resort is opened on Tapps Island.
2049: In the UCAS, Tina Cole, wife of suspected embezzler Andrew Cole, dies of natural causes.
2049: Ryoi Shawase, a major shareholder of the Shiawase Corporation is killed. According to rumor, Shiawase is killed when an assassination attempt upon Sadato Shiawase from Soko Shiawase goes bad.
2050: On October 31 in Tir na nOg, four unknown elven mages gather at the Knockeen dolmen site and raze it to the ground in a ceremony lasting hours.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, the NightDancer Home Protection company opens.
2050: In Quebec, highway fatalities increase by 23%. This will continue for another 2 years.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a grand slam by Billy Rogers of the Seattle Mariners against "Smiley" Jones of the White Sox results in happy fans storming the outer bunkers. Sixty people are hurt during the riot.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Kevin Talbot, a local decker, is found murdered in an alley behind the Grand Attraction restaurant. Mitch Stiffarm, the Manager of Grand Attraction and a main suspect in the killing, disappears soon after. Grand Attraction is closed as a result.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Maple Valley Mall is closed as a result of a series of unexplained bizarre and violent magical manifestations.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dr. Vanessa Sanderson of Maple Valley Hospital is discovered to be running an illegal body shop but disappears before she can be arrested.
2050: In Australasia, Steven Monash announces a surprise holiday. As a result ANZAC stock drops three points and corporate employees experience extreme panic.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dr. Jason Kethers, Chief of Pathology at Seattle General Hospital is arrested for running an illegal body parts operation.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Sea-Tac Mall president Nicanor Rodriguez receives a warning from the Black February terrorist group that another bombing will occur "that will rock that den of Human overlords and their Metahuman lackeys."
2050: In Germany, terrorists attack the First Senate. They almost succeed in destroying it but are stopped at the last minute.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, seven-year old Tamsin Douglas-Kinsal is killed when to unidentified go-gang members run her down with their bikes.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, three squatters are killed in the Alki district when the empty building they have been living in burns to the ground.
2050: In Tir Tairngire, the Rite of Progression is held.
2050: Harold Jonathan Mason, one of the Founders of the Metahuman Order of Occultists, Sorcerers, and Enchanters (MOOSE) dies.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, before MegaMedia's new Honey Brighton simsense "Rock Solid" can be released, both Honey Brighton and "Rock Solid's" director Wilt Lipton defect to MegaMedia's closest competitor Brilliant Genesis, taking with them all known copies of "Rock Solid."
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dr. Richard Raven and his operatives rescue Moira Alianha, an elven princess, from Seattle crime lord Etienne La Plante.
2050: In CAS, Oklahoma City is named as the new trial site for the Bennett murder trial. Each side prepares new expert witnesses, cautioned that inflammatory remarks will be punished by stiff jail sentences. Evidence linking the defendant to a brutal policlub surfaces, further injuring the defense case.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Emon Kuze, a project director with BioDynamics, is killed in a car accident. ("Striper") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz appoints Judge Evan Gooch to her Seattle Crime Commission Select Panel on Containment.
2050: In Tir na nOg, Eireann Tir Publishers announces a new line of ergonomically-created, learning intensive software environments. Tir nan n'Og)
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Natural Vat executive James Yamamoto is killed in a street shooting. ( "It's All Done With Mirrors") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Danielle Alcene-Davies, wife of a vice president at Saeder-Krupp, vanishes without a trace. ("A Plague of Demons") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Kyra Shon, supervising director of marketing for the Seattle News-Intelligencer, disappears. ("A Plague of Demons") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a mercenary raid against a United Oil research facility results in many dead on both sides and the complete destruction of the building the mercenaries were using as headquarters. ("Tailchaser") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dominic Freise, an employee with BioDynamics, is found murdered. ("Striper") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, three mercenaries are killed outside Dirty Rikki's while attempting to apprehend a woman for her bounty. The woman, known to locals as Striper, kills all three with little effort. ("Striper") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, two local street samurai, known as Uza and Sonny, are found murdered in a parking garage. Their bodies are discovered to have been partially devoured by some form of large cat. Into the Shadows)
2050: In Minnesota, UCAS, an elvish colony is established in the Arrowhead region. The Great Northern Elvish Council establishes its headquarters there.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the top floors of the Fairview Tower building are destroyed in an explosion. The unknown party responsible escapes after killing many Lone Star troops sent to apprehend them. ("It's All Done With Mirrors") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Campeche, Aztlan, a riot breaks out just outside the city. The government responds with military intervention. Hundreds of unarmed civilians are killed.
2050: The seventh generation cyberdeck is introduced, now down to keyboard size.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, A suspicious fire, shuts down the new production factory of Edmonds Instruments for a total of 4 months.
2050: In the UCAS, Scott Mislan, image coordinator for the MegaMedia corporation, announces the sale of the-50 millionth copy of Honey Brighton's simsense megahit "Free Fall." Mislan also announces that the next Honey Brighton simsense, "Rock Solid" is currently in post production at MegaMedia's Seattle studios, under the hand of Free Fall's famed director, Wilt Lipton.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, at the estate of William Howell, a massive firefight breaks out between Lone Star forces, the Redwing gang of Kid Stealth (a street samurai operative of Dr. Richard Raven), and forces of the Mizu-Kagayaite Yakuza over Nadia Mirin, Vice President of the Natural Vat corporation. Also involved in the battle Are the great western dragon Haesslich and Mizu-Kagayaite oyabun Hidiki Yamamoto. The battle is so violent that it is later referred to as the Night of Fire.
2050: In the Algonkian-Manitoo Council, NAN, the populace suffers food shortages when an attempt to genetically engineer improved nitrogen fixing for their genetically altered grains results in a microorganism that decreases the root viability in the crops.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Alf Luckiesh, chief designer of Edmonds Instruments is murdered.
2050: On March 19, Randall Grant, one of the first theoretical thaumaturges, is killed in a freak accident. Rumors spread that he was actually murdered by Alamos 20,000 to keep him from revealing their connection to Dr. Armand Duplessis, a leading member of the Materialists, a group that claims magic is nothing more than a combination of hysteria, psionics, and other natural forces.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Madigan Army Hospital suffers a mysterious radiation leakage along with the repeated disappearance of radioactive materials.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Bob's Cartage and Freight warehouse is burned to the ground killing many people inside. Rumors blame the Yakuza for the incident. ("Turtle in the Tower") Into the Shadows)
2050: In Honduras, Rogue CIA agent Mary Jo Doonan is spotted after a year of hiding.
2050: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, thousands of orks, trolls, elves, and dwarves converge on the capital, calling for increased awareness of the metahumans's plight. Members of the militant Metahuman Organized Rebellion (MOR) accuse the CAS of encouraging genocide by their inaction.
2050: In Hawai'i, a record cold spell of 11 degrees Celsius causes a massive shutdown of the city of Honolulu.
2050: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the MSD shifts the MPC to exclusive use of Plasma Shock weaponry.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Blood Monies Software, a company known for ingenious designs and unfailing business honesty, goes into a limited partnership with Renraku Computer Systems.
2050: In Portland, Tir Tairngire, Construction begins on the Portland subway system.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Reverend Dr. Lawrence Roberts, a Seattle-based televangelist, is killed by the ghost of his former partner Thomas Harrison, a small-time con man whom Roberts had murdered earlier for possession of the 500,000 nuyen worth of bearer credsticks embezzled by Andrew Cole.
2050: Mitsuhama Computer Technologies makes a 10 year, 500 million nuyen donation to environmental causes. Rumors circulate that the reason is to compensate for being caught in an environmental dumping scandal in FRFZ.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz initiates a program of urban renewal in the Redmond Barrens by installing new street lighting. The lamps are promptly shot out by the residents.
2050: In Tenochtitlan, Aztlan, Simon Xaltepec is elected for a second term as mayor.
2050: Armored clothing is now considered high fashion.
2050: In the New England states, UCAS, A series of child murders is uncovered. Twelve children are murdered in New England hospitals by Wilhemina Keene, a registered nurse and mage adept, for use in a magical ritual. Before she can commit the thirteenth killing, she is captured by FBI agent Kyle Teller.
2050: The first closed-circuit simsense (CCSS) systems are released. These systems separate a building's security systems from the Matrix and leave its maintenance in the hands of riggers.
2050: In Tir Tairngire, Ellard Dragonfletcher is named head of security for NuGene corporation.
2050: In London, England, U.K., Tong lord Kung Soo gives an interview to the London Times.
2050: He declares that the Tong's future lies in control of the Matrix.
2050: In the CAS, Hurricane Lou strikes the east coast.
2050: In Boston Massachusetts, UCAS, Mayor Charles O'Neill, at an election day speech, declares the city of Boston to be "the cultural, economic, and historical of our nation" and forsees "great hings from our city in the years to come."
2050: In Hawai'i, the Na Kama'aina party takes control of Project Sunfire: the Hawai'ian Ghost Dance-style magic project.
2050: In Naples, Italy, a toxic dumping scandal is uncovered by media personality Madeleine Muller.
2050: The Suzuki Aurora Racing Bike wins the top three places in the Pan-Pacific Motorcycle Circuit.
2050: In Germany, a corruption scandal leads to massive government reform.
2050: In Aztlan, a new lethal game show is introduced for high-cash prizes like "Suerte y Muerte" (a gladiatorial amateur contest where citizens, condemned criminals, and other such people fight contract fighters for a 100,000 nuyen purse.)
2050: The Universal Brotherhood enjoys international growth. Consul Gail Walker is elected president of the organization.
2050: In the Tsimshian Nation, a ferry is dragged underwater by a creature believed to be a kraken. There are no survivors.
2050: In Aztlan, De Brize, captain of the Aztlan Court Ball Union champion Zempoala Cats, is killed during a war between two Veracruz go-gangs.
2050: Major advancements in Cyber- and Biotechnology occur.
2050: Axe Slayer, an up and coming neo-metal revivalist rock star, is killed during a performance when his exploding codpiece detonates prematurely. Sales of the video of this performance make millions.
2050: In Minnesota, UCAS, a simsense film crew is attacked by a pack of Fenris Wolves near the Boundary Waters. Fifteen crew members are killed. The only survivors are six crew members on an elevated platform.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Life-Eez Appliances in Redmond is bombed three times to protest their hiring of metahumans.
2050: In San Francisco, CFS, small businesses begin to sprout up with surprising speed.
2050: In England, U.K., Duke Charles Hamilton of Cambridge dies.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, twelve doctors at Cougar Mountain Hospital are discovered to be running an illegal body parts ring.
2050: In the U.K., The British government establishes a Royal Commission to investigate an outbreak of cholera and typhoid fever in Merseysprawl caused by the terminal collapse of the sewer system.
2050: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, Mayor Michelle Herbert is elected to her second term.
2050: In Tir Tairngire, Malcolm Jenice-Goodine is elected mayor of Eugene.
2050: Chrome Centurions security corporation introduces a security service with personnel wearing their revolutionary new body armor. This armor has the same amount of protection as medium security body armor but, in addition, has built-in sensors and increased battlefield management capabilities.
2050: GMC Motors completes its twenty-millionth 4201 jeep at its DeeCee plant.
2050: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Aaron Rand, a local Seattle playboy dies of simsense overload at Pulse, an exclusive simsense club. Rumors abound that he was slipped a snuff-BTL chip.
2050: In Aztlan, forces are sent to retake Venezuela. Although they succeed in taking a small portion, a full reconquest is deemed impossible.
2051: In Montreal, Quebec, an outbreak of a VITAS-like disease claims the lives of 16 UCAS tourists. The Quebec government denies the existence of the disease.
2051: In Tir Tairngire, Marta Morgenstern, Sam Virtue, David Buckley, Bob Sinclair, Rino Elverhoy, Albion Foss, and Lija Tatras are elected Reves of Salem.
2051: Simsense star Euphoria releases her new production "Final Fling".
2051: In the UCAS, a merger between Fuchi Industrial Electronics and Futisama Research ventures results in a massive firefight between the security forces of the two corporations. Despite public apathy, the government initiates an investigation.
2051: The Revenants policlub explode a bomb onboard the Werner-Voss corporate shuttle on its run from Berlin to London. All 175 people on board are killed.
2051: In Australasia, a demonstration of government workers demanding higher pay is forcibly disbanded with the help of corporate security teams.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, urban brawler "Mauler" Tate of the Seattle Screamers is unconditionally fired for his refusal to take experimental steroids.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, three berserk fire elementals set large numbers of fires at the Renraku Arcology. Dozens of people are injured.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a fight breaks out at a local club over a new ban on wearing any living animal as jewelry.
2051: In the UCAS, Baseball Commissioner Michael Mount McKinley retains the "Dwarf at the Plate" rule which restricts pinch-hit appearances by players shorter than 1.5 meters.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Concrete Dreams plays an unannounced show at Club Zor.
2051: Elven rock star Darkvine makes his first appearance out of Tir Tairngire.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, former Vice President of Global Technologies Edgar Kepple is found dead in his downtown apartment five days after his resignation from Global Technologies. The cause of death is apparently strangulation.
2051: In U.K., the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment is assassinated by a radical environmental group.
2051: In Schwarzkoppe, Germany, a western dragon named Schwarzkopf flies into the town and declares itself the new ruler. The Weise Duchess of Furth tries to fight but she is unsuccessful.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a massive firefight involving 15-20 people occurs behind a popular Seattle establishment. None of the participants are identified.
2051: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, massive rioting breaks out at the Fulton County Stadium.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Seattle Kingdome is attacked by a street gang known as the Red Death. Considerable damage is done to the stadium.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz initiates investigations against Shiawase Envirotech on allegations of bid rigging.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Honey Brighton releases "Ninja Dragon Wars", her first simsense production since defecting to Brilliant Genesis.
2051: In the UCAS, Dr. Richard Raven reveals that Global Technologies is producing a number of illegal BTL chips with a full range of emotions and the skills of a complete persona.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, riots break out at the Seattle City Hall between the Humanis Policlub and various metahuman rights groups after the city government announce plans to declare the second Monday in December official Awakening Day.
2051: In Louisiana, CAS, Governor Ivory McCabe of Louisiana disappears mysteriously.
2051: In Tir Tairngire, Construction is completed on the first line of the Tir Tairngire subway system, connecting Lloyd Center, the Convention Center, the Memorial Coliseum, the Port of Portland Terminal 1, Northwest Lovejoy Street and Northwest 19th Avenue, West Burnside Street and Broadway, and the civic building on Northwest Gilsan.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Watermark Greetings slogan writer Jonathan Trainer is abducted from the Neon Spraygun nightclub. The motive is believed to be corporate extraction.
2051: Wendy Mandescheid retires as board chairman of Lone Star Security. James Wilson takes over her position and arranges Theodore W. D. Winslow to be the new CEO.
2051: In March, in MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the Lovecraft Institute hosts the International Association of Arcane Academia (IAAA).
2051: In Panama, the government is purged by Aztechnology.
2051: On April 7, in CFS, inhabitants of the towns of Gilroy and San Martin seemingly go mad and start a war between each other. By the time the police step in and control the situation both are almost empty of people. 10% of both town's populations are dead. The rest have fled to safer areas.
2051: In Nanking, China, a massive earthquake strikes the area.
2051: In England, U.K., the Bodmin Hunt group is killed by a pack of hell hounds.
2051: In Australasia, the Queensland University of Technology Magical Studies Department suffers a total of seven fatalities.
2051: In Germany, the Hannover government normalizes relations with Russia, signing a treaty allowing cultural and economic exchanges. They also make the first attempts at detente with the Alliance for Allah.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Haesslich, a great Western Dragon and chief of security of United Oil's Seattle branch, is killed in a fight with well-armed shadowrunners.
2051: In the UCAS, UCAS Supreme Court Chief Justice Malcom Bayh suffers a massive stroke. He is replaced by Justice Richard Scott.
2051: Rumors spread of a CAS air attack on the Aztlan border in which a jet was shot down in Aztlan territory. Neither side will admit to the incident.
2051: During a debate between corporate security officers and shadowrunners on the show Heavy Hitters, the host Jermaine Jerard is injured when a street shaman's conjured spirit shoves Jerard's head into a holocam.
2051: In Big Sur Coast, CFS, Dread Pirate Paco steals a fleet of fast running boats from his employer Captain Monday to create his own pirate empire.
2051: In Tir Tairngire, Stefanie Orlowski, Jan Houde, Carole Hegedos, Ken Janske, Betty Scott, Chuck Pogue, and Der-Hoy Yi are elected Reves of Eugene.
2051: In Tir Tairngire, Concrete Dreams performs one of their famous improvisational drop-ins at the Chrome Rat in Salem.
2051: In Marseilles, France, a series of illegal experiments is uncovered by media personality Madeleine Muller. Muller is almost killed investigating this story.
2051: Princess Caroline of Great Britain marries Swiss banking magnate Jurgen Meier, further strengthening links between their two nations.
2051: In Pueblo Corporate Council, NAN, an Airlink Transit plane collides with a dragon. Two passengers on the plane are killed.
2051: In Germany, Confederate President Dr. Robert Kortmann is elected for a second term.
2051: In the Algonkian-Manitoo Council, NAN, an anti-industrial terrorist group called the Manitoo Brotherhood bombs a GMC plant. Fifteen workers are killed.
2051: Maranouchi Entertainment merges with Hatari Computers. The new conglomerate is named Nihon Enterprises.
2051: In Tir na nOg, a terrorist bomb explodes killing over one hundred innocent people.
2051: In Germany, the ISDN matrix exceeds its built in capability, resulting in regular breakdowns.
2051: In Aztlan, Chamac, captain of the Aztlan Court Ball Union champion Tenochtitlan Tigers, is found washed up on a beach in Cancun, apparently drowned.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Farazad Samji sells his magical store and hires on with Mitsuhama Computer Technologies as a research mage.
2051: Akae Ono of Ares Macrotechnology is elected to the Corporate Court.
2051: In Louisiana, CAS, Governor McCabe is replaced by Edwin W. Edwards III.
2051: In the MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, six animal trainers at a 4-M facility are killed trying to train Fenris Wolves as guard animals. A heavy response team from the MSD are required to put the wolves down.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a brutal gang war breaks out betweens the Ancients and the Meat Junkies. The Ancient's leader is killed and, in revenge, the Ancients decimate the Meat Junkies.
2051: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, terrorist Julio "Chico" Hernandez blows up a steamship on the Mississippi River filled with officials from Aztechnology.
2051: In Spain, a pro-animal rights group liberates six terminally ill crested barbarians from Cordoba labs. The labs hire street samurai and call in military choppers to recover the animals before they start an epidemic. Five of the crested barbarians are recovered. One is never accounted for.
2051: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, William Casey, a magician noted for locating "unique" magical items opens a magic shop a few blocks from Emory University.
2051: In the Sioux Nation, NAN, Shiela Wolffriend becomes the new director of the Office of Military Intelligence.
2051: The Zurich-Orbital Habitat initiate a policy of only hiring staff that have family members.
2051: In the U.K., Ambri Costellor replaces Henry Carmichael of director of Research and Development for Armor International.
2051: In Armagh, Tir na nOg, director of Armaments Eireann-Tir Thomas O'Neill is killed in a car bomb.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Five people are killed when a bomb goes off at the Universal Brotherhood Chapterhouse in Tacoma, Seattle.
2051: In the CAS Magical Studies Journal, Dr. Jean-Paul Dumaillier writes his article Voudoun in the Modern Age. This article brings forth the study of the Voodoo school of magic.
2051: Independent reporter Reid exposes a takeover attempt by the Graz-Burya Corporation of the MosTrans manufacturing division. Graz-Burya denies any hostile takeover attempt and MosTrans manufacturing division is instead taken over by Ares Macrotechnology.
2051: In Tir na nOg, Flaithri O'Connor, a skillwire designer for Eireann-Tir Publishers, has a "cerebral accident". He is sequestered in their forest hideout in Killarney.
2051: Noted journalist Domingo Higuera releases his award-winning simsense documentary, Born Lucky: The "Teela Brown" Factor in Shadowrunning. The story details the life of a shadowrunner with an unusual luck factor.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, noted marine biologist Luke Emerson of the Seattle Paranormal Facility is killed in a feeding frenzy of torpedo sharks.
2051: In Cannes, France, Knight Errant Securities wins the Association of Advertising Producers best commercial art of 2051.
2051: In FRFZ, a massive blizzard disrupts city operations.
2051: In Europe, noted mage and vampire hunter Martin de Vris disappears.
2051: In San Francisco, CFS, several tracks of the BART line are destroyed by explosives set by the anti-Japanese underground.
2051: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, media reporter Ren Martindale uncovers a scandal in which the Dryden Steel corporation is hiring shadowrunners against a rival company, KRN Inc.
2051: In Yucatan, Aztlan, rebel forces initiated commando raids against government facilities. These attacks escalate over the next four years into full-scale civil war.
2051: The band Anhedonia releases its first album She Will Be Leaving.
2051: Anthropologist Helen Rainwater, in a study of ancient ninja clans, brings forth the theory of the physical mage. These individuals supposedly combine the abilities of mages and physical adepts.
2051: In the U.K., 37 people are arrested at the equinox celebrations at Stonehenge amidst reports of widespread rioting and major supernatural happenings.
2051: On April 19, in Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, A hitchhiker, identified as Gareth Hill, is found dead in the Imnaha River near Hell's Canyon. The body is terribly mutilated. Hill was famous for being saved from a murder conviction in Salish-Shidhe by reporter Frederick Davitt.
2051: In Salish-Shidhe Council, UCAS, Dr. Caitlin O'Connal is killed when a minigun being cleaned by a bodyguard accidently goes off.
2051: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, reporter Frederick Davitt is found bludgeoned to death in a dumpster behind his apartment building.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, reporter Zebediah Wanderly, a known associate of Frederick Davitt, is killed when Grodin's Tavern explodes. Juli Parkhurst, a decker who goes by the name Icepick, is also killed in the explosion. Evidence suggests that Wanderly was trying to cause the explosion himself when Parkhurst discovered him and tried to interfere.
2051: On April 30, in Roanoke, Virginia, CAS, Mary-Beth Tyre is kidnaped from her home by unknown parties.
2051: On June 3, in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Gloria Yu, a grocery store owner, is assaulted by an Ork street gang. Baily Security Control Systems uses the incident as an extremely successful marketing gimmick for their products.
2051: In San Diego, CFS, the Yamatetsu Corporation purchases of Biogene Technologies.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a raid on Saxkatcher Industries in reveals evidence that the Merlyns go-gang is involved in BTL running.
2051: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, Professor Edmund Pipen of the Lovecraft Institute of arcane studies is found insane and raving following an experiment with astral travel to a "theorized" dimension of the netherworld.
2051: In Barcelona, Spain, a massive riot breaks out. Witnesses claim to see wraiths, which may be responsible for the riot due to their emotion control powers.
2051: In October, in the UCAS, New Age Arms begins an 18-month testing period of Plasma Shock weaponry with Knight Errant Security in Seattle, New York, and Chicago metroplexes.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, local businessman Tokugawa Tetsuo vanishes without a trace.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Lone Star Securities takes control of the bail bond industry.
2051: In Quebec, severe electrical storms disrupt telecommunications, the Matrix, and electrical power in much of the nation.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a group of new boars wreck havok in the downtown district.
2051: In Japan, 5 corporate officials of the KAN-Triangle corporation are found after having committed suicide together.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, several bodies from rival gangs are discovered in a Little Japan warehouse.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, the freighter Adelaide Mistress loses power off of Maury Island and requires rescue from the Metroplex Guard. The ship is discovered to be holding over three hundred people aboard. The owners refuse to comment why the ship is so overcrowded.
2051: In the Tsimshian Nation, a local wilderness area is discovered as having no animal life in it whatsoever. Rumors begin to circulate that the area is a "dead zone". The government denies such rumors.
2051: In San Francisco, CFS, the entire Bay area is rocked by an earthquake 5.5 on the Richter scale.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, nine Laubenstein paintings are stolen from the Laubenstiein Plaza Hotel lobby gallery.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, an unidentified gunman opens fire with an assault rifle in the Seattle Downtown Lone Star precinct, killing two officers and injuring another.
2051: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a number of bodies later identified to be a number of ghouls, a vampire, a dzoo-noo-qua, four banshees and several dismembered bodies of the Church of the Whole Earth Inc are discovered near an open crypt in Brando Memorial Cemetery.
2051: The style of armored clothing becomes much more exaggerated and starts to copy the lines and textures of heavier armor.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Daniel Walters dies on the air five days after his injury of some form of seizure.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a fire at the Bannockburn Bakery offers evidence of a protection operation run by the Merlyns go-gang.
2052: The street mercenary style of clothing begins to lose favor in the fashion world.
2052: Chrome Centurions security corporation introduces a new combat armor, which provides the same amount of protection as heavy security armor but, like their body armor, is equipped with a full range of sensors and a battle management system.
2052: In Tir na nOg, Prisona-presumptive Tuam O'Connor and Raine O'Reilly are married.
2052: In the UCAS, a new type of BTL chip called 2XS enters the black market. This chip is more potent and addictive than regular BTL chips and it works on the physiological system of the human body.
2052: In the UCAS, Crashcart, a new company offering emergency extraction and medical service, enters the market in competition with DocWagon. They claim that they will make extractions where DocWagon won't and at better rates.
2052: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a wave of killings strikes the Redmond Barrens. Bodies are found mutilated for many weeks.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Crashcart makes big news when they extract Daniel Waters, a news anchorman with KOMA, from a gang attack after a DocWagon team fails to break through the gunfire.
2052: Tokyo, Japan wins the bid for the Olympics of 2056. They immediately announces that, in keeping with the Yamato ideal, metahumans will not be permitted to compete with humans in the 2056 Olympics in Tokyo, but will be scheduled in special "exhibition" contests. Tir Tairngire and Tir na nOg respond furiously with U.N. resolutions.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Buddy, one of the original deckers of Echo Mirage, dies of neural damage sustained in the Matrix.
2052: In FRFZ, Margaret Stands Firm is appointed administrator of the Ute Sector.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Crashcart is acquired by the Seattle branch of the Yamatetsu corporation. Yamatetsu fires most of the upper echelon, some of which later disappear.
2052: In London, England, U.K., the city experiences a wave of serial murders dubbed the Bone Boy Killings. The murders are performed in a daily pattern of one killing the first night, then two, and so on up to seven when the pattern goes back to one. The bodies are found mutilated as if skinned and chewed on. The hearts are removed. These killings last less than a month when they abruptly cease. No official explanation is given by the police.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Miles Otaka, one time senior manager for Lochlann products, is found dead in his Matthews Beach condominium. Originally thought to be the victim of an apparent suicide, the death is later attributed to natural causes.
2052: In Tir na nOg, 25 elves from New York emigrate en masse to Tir na nOg. The event receives major media coverage. Tir nan n'Og)
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Mariane Corbeau, Lone Star Security's Vice President of Enforcement, is almost killed in a car crash.
2052: In Aztlan, Xochitalco, captain of the Aztlan Court Ball Union champion Tenochtitlan Jaguars, kills himself during the award ceremony when he dedicates his win and his death to Tezcatlipoca and jams a snap blade into his own chest.
2052: In Tir na nOg, the minister of culture inadvertently reveals on the Jerry Mulligan chatshow that his ministry's ties with the media are non-existent "except for looking for myself being mentioned". Tir nan n'Og)
2052: Breakthroughs in cyber and biotechnology lead to worldwide increases in human augmentation.
2052: In the Algonkian-Manitoo Council, NAN, the Manitoo Brotherhood terrorist group bombs a plant owned by Litton Industries on the false rumor that they are building guidance modules for long-range tactical nuclear weapons.
2052: In Tir na nOg, tighter traveling restrictions for non-elves seeking entrance are announced.
2052: In Tir Tairngire, the government diverts its trade flow from Portland and begins negotiations with the Seattle Metroplex to shift a large percentage of its international trade from Portland to the Seattle ports.
2052: In Las Vegas, Ute Nation, NAN, Governor Mabel Fox orders a major crackdown on Mafia operations. Many Mafia soldiers are killed as a result. Two weeks later the Mafia retaliate by attempting unsuccessfully to kill Fox. As a result she steps up her operations against them.
2052: In Aztlan, Aztechnology begins a slash-and-burn program in an area of the Yucatan. A radical environmental group responds by attacking the Aztechnology facility in the area. Public opinion turns against the environmental group and Aztechnology effectively destroys it. It is later rumored that the environmental group, which until the attack was using legal means to block Aztechnology, was not involved in the attack at all. The rumors say that Aztechnology staged the attack to sway public opinion.
2052: In Tir Tairngire, the NuGene Corporation changes its focus from biomedical facility development to research.
2052: In Greece, the Athens Intelligencer documents the first footage of the petrification powers of gorgons.
2052: In Fort Pierce, Florida, CAS, the train tracks near a proposed meeting between environmentalists and Saeder-Krupp officials are blown up. 17 corporate officials are killed and 35 are hurt. The Deep Green group claims responsibility by coded message. Terrorist Julio "Chico" Hernandez is blamed for planting the bomb.
2052: In New York City, New York, UCAS, Rogue CIA agent Mary Jo Doonan sends a trid of herself to the office of the New York Times. In it she claims to have a great many secrets to reveal about her covert actions with the CIA which she will reveal for several hundred thousand nuyen. The paper pays the fee but is prevented from printing the information by court order.
2052: In the UCAS, the East Coast suffers a record breaking heat wave resulting in violence, millions in lost nuyen, and the near bankruptcy of Boston, Massachusetts.
2052: In the Mojave Desert, CFS, talismongers cut down half of the Joshua Trees at the former Joshua Tree National Monument. As a result, Anasazi Indian tribes step up their patrols of that area.
2052: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Zheng Li Kwan takes over as head of the Yellow Lotus Triad.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, governor Schultz's controversial tax bill is voted down due primarily to the efforts of Humanis Policlub.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Wyld Lyons go-gang attacks Echo Lake before being driven back by Lone Star.
2052: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the Como Zoo the first litter of Saber-Tooth cat kittens born in captivity are announced.
2052: Peter James Self writes his book Rage Turned Within. The work becomes a cult classic among the European academic community.
2052: In Germany, the State Security Act is further amended.
2052: In New York City, New York, UCAS, a group of militant homeless people living under Manhattan Bridge take over the struts beneath it. Lone Star Security introduces a Department of Shore and Water Patrol on the trid-magazine show Manuel Jardine Tonight which puts down the uprising.
2052: In FRFZ, the Humanis Policlub-led riots in Chinatown suddenly stop. Rumors hint to an agreement between Humanis Policlub and local business interests.
2052: In FRFZ, the wife of David Vaas, owner of the Raintree Inn, is murdered.
2052: In Europe, vampire hunting mage Martin de Vris resurfaces, apparently infected with HMVV himself.
2052: In FRFZ, Jonathan Pope becomes the Pueblo Corporate Council's representative on the Council of Denver.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Pier 69, a popular club, is temporarily closed following an accident involving a hovercraft crashing into the building's structural supports.
2052: The band Anhedonia releases it album, Across a Thousand Blades.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a major gang war supposedly started by the ancients leave many people wounded or killed. It is later proven by Lone Star that the Ancients are not responsible for the violence.
2052: In the DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Rosslyn is subjected to blood dust. This further decreases property values.
2052: In Sioux Nation, NAN, Fuchi tries to buy out FTL Technologies. Steven Z. Ridgemont refuses to sell. Fuchi responds buy suing FTL Technologies.
2052: In the UCAS, President Adams is re-elected President of the UCAS.
2052: In the CAS, President Wallace is re-elected President of the CAS.
2052: In the UCAS, famed ecologist and lawyer Arthur Vogel forms the One World Association, a Democratic party affiliate devoted to ecological issues.
2052: Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) is released on the market. This compound forces the skin to absorb chemicals that have been bound to it.
2052: In FRFZ, William Huhuseca becomes the Ute Nation's representative on the Council of Denver.
2052: The Eastern Tiger Corporation of Korea attempts a takeover of the Mitsuhama controlled Highstar Corporation. In a surprise move the Renraku Corporation prevents the takeover by buying a major portion of Highstar stock. This is under secret agreement with Mitsuhama and that Renraku has agreed to sell the stock back to Mitsuhama once the Eastern Tiger threat is gone. When Eastern Tiger loses interest in Highstar, Renraku refuses to sell its Highstar stock to Mitsuhama. Mitsuhama Seattle's president, Toshikazu Nakamura, appeals to the Corporate Court, but to no avail.
2052: In England, U.K., a fire breaks out in the Devonshire area. Thousands of residents are forced to flee their homes.
2052: In Mallow, County Munster Tir na nOg, three operatives of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) are murdered at Meager's Bar.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the British royal family pays a visit to Fort Lewis, the resulting crowds of observers are so large that there are some light casualties.
2052: In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, CAS, rival gangs start an especially vicious gang war. For four days the gangs fight over what appears to be local turf.
2052: In Tir Tairngire, the age of majority is raised to 18.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Leo, a popular rock star, knocks loose the lighting supports at his show at the Skeleton Club, sending the entire rack of lights crashing to the stage. Despite the fires and small explosions, Leo continues his show and it is a huge success.
2052: Mariene Carstairs of Saeder-Krupp is elected to the Corporate Court.
2052: In Germany, French aristocratic style clothing becomes hugely popular. This later moves to neo-baroque style.
2052: In Chiba, Japan, the Chiba Virtual Stock Exchange crashes in the middle of trading. This prevents the Yamana takeover attempt from succeeding.
2052: Mitsuhama Seattle's president, Toshikazu Nakamura, is sent back to Japan in disgrace. He is later found dead of multiple beating wounds and two gunshot wounds in the back of the head. The police rule Nakamura's death as a suicide.
2052: Martha S. Grimes is elected chairman of the Highstar Corporation's board of directors. Grimes is well known as VP Marketing for Renraku Seattle.
2052: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a major storm breaks out along the coastline of the city. It is rumored to have been magically conjured using a focus called the Hurricane Rattle by an unknown shaman.
2052: In the CAS, a major price-fixing scandal is uncovered by regulatory agents. A large consortium of pharmaceutical firms is discovered to be artificially jacking up the prices of immunosuppressants used in implant surgery. The agency charges all of the corporations involved, then without explanation, withdraws the charges.
2052: The Microengineering Division of Fuchi Industrial Electronics announces a major breakthrough in "growing" specialized crystals in the microgravity of their orbital lab. They also announce that the first shipment of these crystals will reach Earth for release on the market very soon. Almost overnight Fuchi stock jumps 450 percent.
2052: Rumors hit the market that the Fuchi organic crystals are flawed and Fuchi Microengineering will not be able to fill the orders on time. Fuchi stock prices begin to drastically fall. The Yamana family (one of the three controlling families of Fuchi) begin to buy up stocks at an astounding rate.
2052: In UCAS, UCAS Data Systems withdraws funding from Dr. Ronald Halbersham's secret Matrix Born project.
2052: Gerard and Alain of the French retro-acoustic rock band L'Infame, try to kill each other. Although neither is successful, Gerard's legs are severely damaged. It is later revealed that both men are BTL users.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the University of Seattle labs of Dr. Silvus Nyberg explodes leveling a large section of the building's physics wing.
2053: A Seattle University research expedition returns from Southeast Asia with only four of its twelve person crew alive. Unconfirmed reports state that the expedition ran afoul of a Vietnamese bandit king.
2053: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, children are found brutally murdered. The killings become known as the Minneapolis blood slaughters.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Seattle branch of the Yamatetsu corporation goes through corporate reorganization. The shock waves caused in the corporate community causes many smaller corporate corporations, mainly subsidiaries of Yamatetsu, out of business.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a giant Geoduck the size of a motorbike is found by boaters in Puget Sound.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex UCAS, a car explodes at Matchstick's Jazz club. The car's owner, Ellen Donnelly, is killed instantly. Miss Donnelly's reputed mob ties are suspected to be the motive.
2053: Hurricane Ethelbert strikes the east coast of the UCAS. Extensive damage is caused to the DeeCee-New York Corridor. Many areas are put under martial law.
2053: In Belfast, Tir na nOg, the father of McBride's hotel owner Sean McBride is kidnaped by the New Ulster Revolutionary Movement. Tir nan n'Og)
2053: In St. Louis, Missouri, UCAS, the landmark Moolah Temple is burned to the ground. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
2053: As of May 29, in Germany, German telecom boasts 19 simsense channels, 47 trideo channels, 21 private, 2D TV stations, 38 radio stations, and 51 NewsFax/EFax/ScreamFax services.
2053: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a sit in led by the Ork Rights Committee becomes a massive riot. 10 people are killed and seventy five are injured.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Jonathan Highstar, former executive president of Highstar Incorporated, a prominent Seattle-based entertainment company, commits suicide.
2053: In Scotland, U.K., fourteen members of the MacDonald clan and their servants, including Alexander and Rory MacDonald, twin nephews of clan leader Sir Iain Macdonald and Sir Iain's daughter Morag, are killed in what appears to be a massacre initiated by the rival Campbell clan.
2053: In Lisbon, Portugal, Johnny Spinrad, owner of Spinrad industries, announces the planned acquisition of the Principality of Monaco.
2053: Robert Gray Bear, 14 year old son of Gaetronics Corporation President David Gray Bear, disappears.
2053: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the offices of Crusader Security are attacked, apparently in retaliation for Crusader attacks against the Byrne metahuman housing projects.
2053: In Berlin, Germany, Matthias Garau becomes the new Chief Executive Officer for European Motor Company.
2053: In New Zealand, Australasia, a mysterious blue slime several hundred kilometers in diameter washes up on the shoreline.
2053: Doctors John Clark and Terri-Anne Clybourne publish their Essence-Integrity Theory in the April Journal of Metaphysical Proceedings. Their theory basically states that the reason for cyberware related essence drain fatality has nothing to do with bodily rejection. Instead it is caused by a dysfunction in the subject's astral template. When the body is altered in any way, such as by the addition of cyberware, The astral template of that deviates from that person and prevents the transfer of mana. Too much of a deviation will kill the person by preventing it from adapting.
2053: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, President Adams is again inaugurated as President of the UCAS.
2053: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the Day after his inauguration President Adams dies of a massive stroke. He is replaced by his vice president Thomas Steele.
2053: Hohiro Sato, Vice President of Operations of the Renraku Corporation and executive assistant of Renraku President Inazo Aneki, disappears.
2053: In Tir Tairngire, the government announces further restrictions for visitors and persons wishing citizenship. In addition, it announces increased border patrols and a large upgrade of equipment for defense of its lands.
2053: In U.K., fourteen members of the British Army are killed in their barracks by a radical environmental group.
2053: In Toledo, Ohio, UCAS, notorious serial killer Corey Martin begins his killing spree by murdering a homeless drifter named Arlon Morrow. He then goes on to kill his father, and somehow induces his sister Layla to shoot his mother and oldest brother. He then kills two strangers and another brother and flees the state.
2053: In Japan, a group of unarmed metahumans are fired upon by soldiers, killing seven.
2053: A Spirit Air jumbo jet crashes in the Andes Mountains with 254 passengers aboard.
2053: In Hawai'i, free spirit Dion Kimber discovers an awakened orchid that has an extremely strong astral aura. The plant is named Tess' Bloom.
2053: In San Francisco, CFS, on June 7, the Underground issues a statement disassociates itself from a splinter group called the Burakumin.
2053: In Germany, election turnout reaches 62.9%. The Anarchosyndikalistische Union (ASU0, Unabhangige Sozialistsche Partei Deutschlands (USPD), Europaische Sozialdemokratische Partei (ESP), Liberaldemokratische Foderalistische Partei (LDFP), Christlichec Volkspartei (CVP), Deutschnationale Partei (DNP), and Partei Der Nationalen Erneuerung (PNE) take more than 3% of the votes. Big gains in the Christian-Democratic CVP persuades President Kortmann to entrust them with forming a government.
2053: In Aztlan, Flavia de la Rosa defeats Francisco Gortari in the presidential elections.
2053: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Justice Network exposes the "Mather Syndicate" story. The city government, bowing to public pressure, resumes control of Cabrini Green. However they declare the buildings abandoned.
2053: Richard Petrosian publishes a new paper in the International Journal of Neurotechnology which lays down the foundation for an entirely new method of tactical human implants.
2053: In Aschaffenburg, Greater Frankfurt, Germany, Fuchi offers to lease the abandoned American military barracks from the city. Less than a month after the offer is made, project director Heinrich Masska is killed by street violence. Succeeding directors meet with similar fates. As a result, Fuchi withdraws the offer.
2053: New magical theorems are published detailing a new skill; anchoring. This ability allows one to cast a spell but not have it go off until a specific circumstance triggers it.
2053: The new techno-thrash group calling themselves Epinephrine Max releases their album "Basilar Membrane."
2053: In Japan, the government announces that two soldiers under investigation for firing upon the metahuman crowd will not be prosecuted. A riot breaks out in response and troops are sent to disperse the rioters. 38 people are reported injured, though none are killed.
2053: Jeptha Barnes, CEO of Barnes Pharmaceutical Inc. Disappears without a trace. Owner ship of the company falls to Barnes' five children.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, during an open council meeting, an ork calling himself Preacher makes his first public appearance. He soon goes on to be a well known spokesman for metahuman rights.
2053: In Tir Tairngire, the elven rock group Til Es Hault, known for playing at sold-out stadiums, plays three nights to a standing-room-only crowd at the Chrome Rat in Salem.
2053: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, Ares Macrotechnology takes over the Atlanta-based Syntronic Biotech corporation, recently divested from Saeder-Krupp.
2053: In the UCAS, a UCAStrak maglev-bullet train going from Seattle to San Francisco derails. 157 passengers are killed. Within an hour UCAStrak's stock plummets 32 percent. UCAStrak blames the accident on Tir Tairngire-based ecoterrorists.
2053: In the UCAS, Independent reporter Maria Thorpe, reveals proof that the UCAStrak crash was caused by substandard maintenance on the train. Thorpe accuses UCAStrak of criminal negligence. This causes UCAStrak stock to fall even further.
2053: In the UCAS, the Shiawase corporation buys out UCAStrak through its subsidiary, the Ressha Corporation. This prevents UCAStrak from going bankrupt.
2053: In Japan, an Aztechnology-controlled gengineering lab explodes. Rumors persist that Aztechnology blew up its own lab to keep it from being taken over by Mitsuhama Computer Technologies.
2053: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCAS, a fire breaks out at the Germantown research center of the Special Projects Unit of the Kono-Furata-Ko International corporation (KFK). The fire is reportedly due to an accident in magical research. Of the seven researchers present, only Robert Neiman, Steven Jorge, Thomas Harris, and Adam Malik escape alive.
2053: In Tir na nOg, two famous test cases make membership in the Unseelie Court difficult to bring to trial due to the fact that no one has established that the organization actually exists.
2053: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, many violent confrontations inexplicably break out between corporate forces and just as suddenly stop soon after. Corporate leaders have no comment on the incident.
2053: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, a United Oil tanker ruptures its hull resulting in millions of gallons of petrochemicals being dumped into Boston Harbor. Much of the marine life in the Harbor is killed and what remains is severely mutated. The event becomes known as the Toxic Tea Party.
2053: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Special Order 162 is passed. This controversial act recognizes ghouls as a metahuman race with full rights.
2053: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Cabrini Refuge Act is passed making the former Cabrini Green Housing development a haven for Ghouls.
2053: Peter James Self writes his book The Privacy of Nobodies. The book, detailing the lives of a group of societal cast-offs in Milan, Italy, becomes an instant cult hit.
2053: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, two months after its opening, a group of Humanis Policlub members attack the Cabrini Refuge with automatic weapons. The ghouls, apparently having prepared for such an event, move underground. When the Humanis soldiers step onto Cabrini Refuge territory, the Ghouls attack in force. 100 Humanis members are killed and eaten. Lawyers for the Cabrini Refuge point out that under Article 16 of Special Order 162, Cabrini Refuge inhabitants have the right to eat anyone found on their property. This as well as rumors of a government plan to exterminate the ghouls of Cabrini Refuge bring tensions between the ghouls and humans to an all time high. Knight-Errant, hired to provide security to Cabrini Refuge, fulfills its contract but refuses to renew it. The day of the end of Knight-Errant's contract, Humanis Policlub tries to frame the ghouls for a massacre by attaching nerve gas canisters to ghoul children. A riot breaks out and many people and ghouls are killed. As a result the UCAS government repeals Special Order 162 and contains the entire Cabrini Refuge in a prefab wall.
2053: In FRFZ, an alarming number of cattle are found mutilated just outside of the city.
2053: The Hausser Life Survey lists patrolmen as having the highest risk occupations in the law enforcement industry.
2053: Jacques Barnard, executive vice president of Yamatetsu North America, relocates from Seattle to Kyoto, Japan.
2053: In Australasia, ANZAC, a major producer of food products in Australasia, suffers a major strike, slowing production to almost a standstill.
2053: In CFS, a Tir Tairngire strike team attempts to take over Shasta Dam. They are chased off by the great dragon Hestaby. Hestaby takes control of the dam and much of the surrounding area.
2053: In the CAS, Robert Coventry, husband of CAS Environmental Director Catherine Coventry, disappears after last being seen at his residence.
2053: Talks between the CAS and Aztlan concerning acid rain caused by Aztlan factories break down after four seemingly productive days when Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Juan Cuatal suddenly announces that Aztlan was no longer interested in talks and the CAS could ". . . rot in their own bile." The announcement comes mere hours after it was disclosed that the husband of CAS Environmental Director, Catherine Coventry, is missing. As a result, both nations go on peak military alert.
2053: In the Salish Shidhe Council, NAN, the government suspends coastal fishing rights for two weeks due to attacks by the terrorist group The Seven Riders.
2053: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a plastic container filled with the ash remains of Traxx, a suspected shadowrunner, is left on the front doorstep of Governor Shultz. No reason for this is given.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Aztechnology begins negotiations with the Dwarven Technical Guild for what many believe to be the largest outside contract Aztechnology has ever offered. Details on the project cannot be obtained but it is believed to involve orbital weaponry.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a group calling itself Street Mimes Against Rogues and Thieves (SMART) goes on the offensive and arms themselves against potential violence.
2053: In the Sioux Nation, NAN the Office of Military Intelligence undergoes major reconstruction. Many members are relocated and some, including director Shiela Wolffriend, vanish.
2053: The cities of Seattle Metroplex, UCAS and Brisbane, Australasia begin negotiations for a mutual trade agreement to speed customs clearing of shipments between the two cities.
2053: An Eco-terrorist group calling themselves North Americans for North America (NANA) shoots down a Boeing C7-10 Cargo carrier over the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff. The crew of three are killed and the cargo of expensive electronics is lost.
2053: In the DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Dr Frazer Williams publishes It's All in Your Head: A Guide to Magical Disciplines. His book theorizes infinite variations between shamans and mages. As a result of this work he is appointed Department Chairman of the Magical Studies division of Georgetown University.
2053: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, a major chemical spill strikes Boston Harbor. Environmental damage is kept to a minimum but a large number of fish die due to contamination.
2053: The group Epinephirine Max breaks up after a fight on stage between members Dirk Blitzmeister and Dashing Death.
2053: During a Boston-Seattle Urban Brawl game, a player carrying the ball is blown in half by his opponent's blaster. The body flies ten meters and the half with the ball lands in the opposing goal zone. The ISSV rules the goal legal due to the rule that goals are counted as valid whether the scoring player reaches the goal under his own power or not.
2053: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, three bodies are found floating in Seattle harbor. At first believed to be squatters, they are later identified as undercover MSD officers from the MSP Metroplex. The men were apparently investigating organized crime when their covers were blown.
2053: In San Francisco, CAS, the tube rail is taken off line for a nine-day upgrade that will increase its efficiency dramatically.
2053: The CAS Destroyer Garfish disappears on a routine mission. Communication with the ship was lost seven days previous but trouble was not suspected due to the communication interference caused by a storm front that hovered over the coastal area for the previous week.
2053: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS an explosion goes off during an Urban Brawl game between the Berlin Backbreakers and the Renraku Invincibles. Six players are killed. No one claims responsibility for the explosion.
2054: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, a team of scholars and archaeologists report a major archaeological find 130 miles off the coast of Crete, Greece. The expedition, funded by the Atlantean Foundation, discovers a major treasure trove of artifacts in an area reported by historical records to be the former location of an island called Thera. Thera is known as a possible location of the legendary lost city of Atlantis.
2054: In the Yucatan, Aztlan, Rebel forces blow up an oil refinery killing 127 technicians. The government promises swift and brutal retribution.
2054: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCAS, Robert Neiman, Steven Jorge, and Thomas Harris, three of the survivors of the KFK Special Projects research lab fire of the previous year, as well as Bernard Ohara, head of KFK, are killed execution style. Robert Malik, the last survivor is suspected but never found by Minuteman Security. Another suspect, a female assassin known worldwide as Striper, escapes Philadelphia in the company of a local street mercenary known as Ripsaw. Both disappear.
2054: In Tir Tairngire, Lacrima, a self-styled "mage-historian", declares that the exact date of the volcanic eruption that formed Crater Lake in Tir Tairngire is 3454 B.C., July 22, 09:35 hours. The scientific community, known for denouncing Lacrima's theories, responds with total silence.
2054: In Tir Tairngire, the military seals off Crater Lake for unrevealed reasons. Access is completely restricted and secured by land vehicles, combat drones, jet patrols, and magical security.
2054: In FRFZ, a Tir Tairngire commando team initiates a raid against Data Haven, the home base of the Shadowland computer network, in order to prevent information on Tir Tairngire from being released. The team accidentally strays into Sioux territory and is attacked by a group of the Sioux Special Forces Wildcats. The event causes a large, yet short lived, diplomatic incident and is unsuccessful at preventing the Tir Tairngire files from being broadcasted.
2054: In Tir Tairngire, a terrorist smuggles a bomb into the Telestrian Habitat in Portland. The bomb detonates killing both the terrorist and twelve inhabitants. Hard Green, Alamos 20,000, the Muslim Ork Army, TerraFirst!, the Nuevo Kachinas, and half a dozen other terrorist groups claim responsibility.
2054: In Tir Tairngire, Aiden FitzGerald, President/CEO of Matsushima Computer Technologies (Tir Tairngire) is arrested for espionage against NeuroTech and Willamette Compustat. The Matsushima's Tir Tairngire assets are all confiscated by the Tir Tairngire government.
2054: In Tir Tairngire, a Sioux-registered airbus suffers engine and servo systems failure and crashes into the Crater Lake area of Tir Tairngire. There are no survivors.
2054: In Tir Tairngire, Count Gerard McCoy, a civilian member of the Board of Military Advisors with which the Council of Princes consults on Military matters and frequent companion of Prince Jenna Ni'Fairra, disappears from public view.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, radical ork activist Preacher holds a rally attended by seven thousand orks and trolls. Preacher encourages all listeners to "take up the torch" and fight back against metahuman racism "at all times, and with due force." Soon after the rally, supporters of Preacher begin a policy of active resistance against Lone Star Security.
2054: In the NAN, a chartered plane carrying 13 members of the Tacoma Wings urban brawl team crashes over Sioux territory.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Janie Lamet, a young human child, is rescued by Solista, a sasquatch, from a cave-in after two days of being trapped. The media immediately cashes in on the event with made-for-trideo features.
2054: The Banco Euro Internationale is discovered to be forging accounts. Bank President Fellipe Tolonka and fourteen bank officers are arrested after a week-long undercover investigation. The initial tip given from a clerk who noticed a discrepancy in one of the accounts of which the only possible cause could be a bank officer. The financial damage to the European Economic Community is estimated to be in the billions, possibly trillions. Over one hundred corporations face financial collapse due to the scheme.
2054: In the Salish Shidhe Council, NAN, a Sea Drake that has been attacking shipping lanes resulting in destroyed property and many deaths, is caught. The creature is discovered to have been cybernetically altered by unknown parties.
2054: In the UCAS, AWS announces the field testing of new powered military armor.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Flex Lenard, a popular trideo interviewer known for extreme ultra-conservative views, is abducted after a gunfight leaving his four bodyguards dead.
2054: In Japan, a semibalistic flight to Tokyo crashes just short of Narita Airport. All 109 passengers plus a flight and cabin crew of ten are killed. Among the passengers are Martha S. Grimes, chairman of the Board of the Highstar Corporation, and 17 members of her personal security party.
2054: In Gilroy, CFS, Valerie Stupnikov, a known shadowrunner, is found murdered execution-style.
2054: In London, England, U.K., a rash of murders break out. The victims are all women with names identical to the victims of the 1888 "Jack the Ripper" slayings. All are prostitutes and all are found horribly mutilated. The media all but ignores these killings.
2054: The luxury vessel Gilded Hope is lost while trying to cross through the security veil of Tir Na nOg. All 8 crew and passengers are lost.
2054: In UCAS, famed army General Franklin Yeats retires from military service.
2054: In London, England, U.K., after the fourth London Ripper murder, the killer is revealed by Lord Geraint of Wales to be a clone of Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward Windsor, Duke of Clarence and one of the suspects of the original Ripper killings of 1888. The clone, created by the Transys Neuronet corporation and later killed by Lord Geraint, is the first recorded fully cloned human being.
2054: In Tir na nOg, Sean O'Brien and Patrick Robinson of the New Ulster Revolutionary Movement are arrested and convicted of 12 counts of murder.
2054: In Portland, Tir Tairngire, NuGene Corporation CEO Torin Silverstaff is killed in a street mugging. His son Tavis takes over the corporation as the new CEO.
2054: The CAS destroyer Garfish is found at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. No bodies are found onboard.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, rumors of a new assassin group spreads through the Seattle Metroplex criminal community. This group, called Chimera, is supposedly made up of ex members of a KGB hit squad called Kamera gone independent.
2054: In Tenochtitlan, Aztlan, Simon Xaltepec is elected for his third and final term as mayor.
2054: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the Minneapolis blood slaughters, after one child killed a month for fifteen months, abruptly stop.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Robert "Doctor Bob" Khamdeng and his entire DocWagon crew is killed during a routine call that turns into a major gunfight.
2054: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCAS, there is a rash of serial murders characterized by the extreme mutilation of the bodies to the extent that gender cannot immediately be identified. The media dubs them the cannibal killings.
2054: Fuchi Industrial Electronics introduces its Put an Eye Out surveillance program to prevent trid broadcasting by unauthorized personnel of Fuchi employees.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, various nodes of the matrix are inexplicably burnt out entirely. The destruction seems to be limited to nodes pertaining to religion. Many deckers begin to panic noting the similarity between this destruction and the Computer Crash of 2029.
2054: The NANA terrorist group shoots down three Lone Star helicopters. Lone Star responds by initiating a joint raid against NANA with the Salish Shidhe security forces. Eight terrorists are killed and four wounded. The NANA leader escapes.
2054: In the North Sea, the luxury liner Pride of Ulster, carrying 342 crewmembers and 1,052 passengers, sinks at 12:29 am GMT when all routine contact with the vessel fails. The New Ulster Revolutionary Movement claims responsibility for the act. Their statement says "You'll not find survivors, unless you look in the hereafter."
2054: In the MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, New Age Arms facilities are struck by chemical fires for four days straight. It is speculated that the fires are caused by plasma shock weapon testing.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the city is lit by strange lights in the sky similar to the Aurora Borealis. The lights cause is unknown but they are reported to originate in southern NAN territory.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Haversby theater for elven-style theater opens to an enthusiastic crowd. The opening show is considered a huge success.
2054: In the CFS, a military observation post just south of Redding explodes. Tir Tairngire involvement is suspected.
2054: In Australasia, the ANZAC strike ends.
2054: The Seattle-Brisbane Trade Agreement is signed.
2054: On March 13, in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a routine military training exercise is initiated using two pilots flying FB1680 attack jets against a Cheetah remote drone piloted by a ground tech. The two pilots are using an experimental simsense hook-up that allows them to access each other's senses. One of the pilots flies too close to Tir Tairngire territory and fires two Rattlesnake III air-to-air missiles at the drone. One missile destroys the drone but the other flies into Multnomah Falls Park and impacts with a tour bus containing the children of Tir Tairngire corporate executives. 200 children are killed. The two pilots, Jonathan Winger and Tamara Ny as well as the ground tech, Theodore Rico, are arrested and sentenced to five years in a military prison at Fairfax, North Virginia.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, construction on the Renraku Arcology is completed.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Farazad Samji is found dead in an alley. His body has been burned from the inside out. No explanation can initially be found. But a film of the incident provided by KKRU shows Samji being killed by a previously unknown type of magical spirit composed entirely of light.
2054: In the UCAS, Mycroft Tek, a small adult simsense company enters the arms business with the AWX-11 Terminator Pistol.
2054: In Germany, the popular clothing style changes to an emphasis on disquieting natural colors.
2054: In FRFZ, a fight between two shamanic adepts at the Raintree Inn leads to one of them spontaneously combusting.
2054: In Austin, Texas, CAS, an explosion occurs over Duval Street. No explanation is given for the cause.
2054: In the Midwest UCAS, an unbroken series of torrential downpours causes massive flooding. These floods, larger than any experienced in the area, causes massive destruction to the grain belt. This gives rise to fierce commodities trading.
2054: Keno Spandeau, President and Chairman of the Floundering Karriko conglomerate, is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This causes the Karriko conglomerate to suffer even greater losses.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, during the Battle of the Bands in Kowalins park, the second place winners, the band Iguana, opens fire on both the judges and the spectators for not winning first place. Several deaths result from the attack.
2054: In Yokohama, Japan, several unexplained fires break out at 9 industrial sites. 6 of the destroyed complexes are owned by Ares Macrotechnology. Witnesses near the scene of the fires report seeing a dragon flying in the area several minutes prior to the fire.
2054: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, two local shadowrunners, Ennio Franzetti and Jackie Forester are found dead floating in Lake Pontchartrain.
2054: A computer virus infects the stock market computer causing a massive economic crash. The event is later called Black Friday and results in the market being closed until the virus can be purged from the system.
2054: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Eagle Security forces encounter serial murderer Corey Martin. Although they shoot him more than 60 times, Martin escapes, indicating that he is somehow magically active.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a Renraku Computer Technologies facility is bombed. An anarchist group called the Apostles of the Apocalypse claims responsibility.
2054: In FRFZ, the Ute sector inexplicably cuts off all transport in or out except for approved trips to the Ute Nation. The close-out is short lived.
2054: Rumors begin to spread of a new matrix utility called Black Hammer. This program is alleged to mimic the lethal properties of black IC.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Seattle Timberwolves player "Scratch" Potter is names as one of three defendants in a grand jury indictment involving charges of racketeering and points-fixing.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the terrorist group Apostles of the Apocalypse are killed in a raid by Lone Star Security Services. Their leader, Solomon Kane, is identified as Anjiro Torii, whose father was an executive for Renraku Computer Technologies until six months ago. Detective Sergeant Jordan Hallis, who discovered their location, is killed in the raid. He is awarded the department's Medal of Honor.
2054: In San Francisco, CFS, the terrorist group Burakumin get into a shootout with the SFPD. Seven officers are killed in the fight.
2054: The band Anhedonia releases its album, "Sad Eyed Angel Falls".
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, the Church of Devine Truth and Light gain a reputation for feeding an housing the poor, as well as renewing Redmond Barren neighborhoods.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a minor breakout of a new retrovirus, inaccurately labeled VITAS 4, strikes in contained areas. For some unknown reason it seems to primarily strike members of the street gang subculture.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the magical shop of Aziz, a known mage-researcher is destroyed in a fire.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the ORC, having tried numerous times to arrange a meeting with Governor Schultz over the treatment of orks and trolls by Lone Star officers, stages a massive demonstration in front of the Metroplex Hall. The demonstration quickly gets out of control when Lone Star officers try to break it up. Hundreds are arrested, hurt, or killed.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, an out-of-town shadowrunner by the name of Raven and his elven partner try to force Miyuki Kishi, a low-level corporate executive, and her boyfriend Akira Hirota to talk with him. The confrontation swiftly becomes a fight. Raven, Kishi, and Hirota are all killed instantly. The unidentified elf dies on the way to the hospital.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Yao Wah, a known Ork Underground journalist, is killed in a supposed robbery attempt.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Gus Deighton, an employee with Renraku Computer Technologies, is killed in a lab fire of supposed magical origin.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, two Lone Star officers, Corporal Larry Torno and Private Renny "Reno" Mellor are attacked in their vehicle by the light spirit that killed Farazad Samji. Both officers barely survive the attack and deny that the spirit was involved. However, both officers are later implicated and arrested for the murder of three homeless ork children. The children were gunned down in cold blood and the officer's vehicle computer log shows that it has been tampered with. Lone Star Chief William Louden calls the officers actions isolated incidents and denies that Lone Star has a problem with racist officers.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, an Orks First! pirate broadcast identifies the cause of the matrix attacks as the light spirit that killed Farazad Samji. Apparently the spirit is capable of traveling through fiber optic networks and destroying matrix sites. With the help of Renraku Computer Systems and Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, a young ork shaman by the name of Patti Dewar is able to contain and banish the spirit forever. In gratitude, both companies pay her 30,000 nuyen which she then donates to the Street Savers shelter for homeless children.
2054: In Sioux Nation, NAN, the Fuchi Lawsuit against FTL Technologies ends inconclusively but with FTL Technologies in shambles. Fuchi Industrial Electronics initiates a hostile takeover of FTL Technologies.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, grunge rock star Fetid Nikky is found dead in a dumpster behind the Viper Club by Rikki Ratman, a bartender at the club. Reports indicate that the body is drained of all fluids and severely beaten.
2054: In the former Yugoslavia, Serbian and Croatian hostilities flare up again.
2054: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Sunito Hiroshige, wife of Yakuza boss Keiji Hiroshige, dies.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, Lone Star corporation executives Sarah Layton, Vince McMartin, and Marcus Drummond are killed in an automobile accident.
2054: On May, 16, in Osaka, Japan, a series of unexplained explosions set off massive fires. The fires gut the city's downtown area.
2054: On June 5, in FRFZ, the home of Yakuza Oyabun Kasigi Toda is bombed, although Toda is not home during the explosion, his wife and two children are killed.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dr. Theodore Drumming Bear, a beloved magical physician known for his low cost treatment of street people, is found murdered.
2054: In Tir na nOg, government officials announce a relaxation of their strict policy of isolation and separatism.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, trideo personality Flex Lenard is rescued from his kidnappers after over 150 days in captivity. He is slightly injured during the rescue attempt in which 3 members of the Knight Errant strike team leading the rescue are injured. All 7 of the kidnappers are killed.
2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, two inmates, Ironhead Tiamartz and Wilson Gressman, escape from the Hollywood Correctional Facility. After an intense three-week manhunt, they are recaptured and sent back to prison.
2054: In the CFS, the "Ghostman" simsense chip is released to massive riots of people waiting to buy it.
2054: Alamais, the western dragon leader of Der Nachtmachen is rumored killed.
2055: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Gery Alexander, a lawyer disbarred and convicted of taking bribes from Humanis Policlub to add Article 16 to Special Order 162, commits suicide.
2055: In Tibet, a train wreck leaves 122 people dead. Survivors claim that the crash was caused by a fire elemental as big as a mountain.
2055: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a group calling itself the Compensation Expedition Force or Compensation Army sets up squatter camps all across the city. The group state that they are people promised recompensation for land lost to the NAN through the Treaty of Denver. They immediately begin picketing most major government offices.
2055: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Colin Gaffney of Fuchs-Auberlien Financial Services is extracted from his corporate offices. His son Shawn, in an attempt to follow his father, becomes entangled in a shadowrunner's climbing harness resulting in that shadowrunner's capture. The entire event is publicized on trid.
2055: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Alamos 20,000 assassins open fire into the storefront distribution headquarters of the ORC. six people are killed including a four-year-old boy. The target is believed to be the ork activist Preacher.
2055: In Nashville, Tennessee, CAS, a 200 foot snake not belonging to any known animal species is discovered and then killed.
2055: In Sioux Nation, NAN, Fuchi buys up what is left of FTL Technologies. Steven Z. Ridgemont is offered the opportunity to stay with the company but refuses. Instead, he moves to FRFZ and forms Warpdrive Systems.
2055: In Kansas, UCAS, Senator Moe Dennelly is implicated in black magic rituals resulting in the deaths of four teenagers.
2055: In New York City, New York, UCAS, an assassination attempt is made on New York City mayor Andrew T. Small by members of the Damascus League. The attempt is foiled by Serrin Shamandar, an elven mage.
2055: In UCAS, The Universal Brotherhood comes under investigation by the federal government under charges of illegal medical experiments on homeless people. As a result, all Universal Brotherhood chapterhouses are closed down.
2055: The rumored Black Hammer matrix utility is confirmed real when Lone Star GridSec deckers use it in their arsenal.
2055: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, terrorist attacks on a former Universal Brotherhood chapterhouse leave hundreds dead, both Eagle Security and civilians.
2055: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the club Crusher 495 is bombed by the Humanis Policlub.
2055: In the U.K., Thomasin Martyn, a member of the Reformed Druidic Movement, is named dean of St. Hilda's College.
2055: In Babenhausen, Germany, an EBM2 mage is killed fighting a wraith at the Babenhausen railroad yards.
2055: In the Ukraine, famed cybertechnology scientist Richard Petrosian defects from the Bioenergetica Ukraine (BU) corporation.
2055: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a running gunfight between Lone Star Security officers and shadowrunners leaves two troopers and eight innocent bystanders dead. The shadowrunners escape.
2055: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Jason Two Spirits, a professor of magic and an Owl shaman, comes to the city warning about a great disaster that will come within the year and, if not stopped, will spread to the entire Midwest.
2055: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Carlos Rivera, Vice President of Northern Hemisphere Operations for Aztechnology is killed in a chopper crash.
2055: In the UCAS, most major cities report an increase of missing persons cases.
2055: In Miami, Carribean League, tourists are murdered and eaten by a street gang in the Overtown district calling itself the Morlocks. In retaliation, Gunderson Security, Lone Star Security, Atlantic Security, and many other companies attack all gang holdings with full military force. They also cover all gang graffiti. Thousands are killed or injured and there is much damage to the neighborhood. The day is later called the Night of Law. In retaliation for causing it with their actions, all Overtown street gangs attack the Morlocks. When they are finished not one Morlock is left alive.
2055: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the Compensation Army takes over the Metro stations in Metro Center, Gallery Place, Smithsonian, L'Enfant Plaza, Federal Triangle, Waterfront, and Rosslyn. As a result the government sends in the remaining battalions not currently in Chicago of the army 101st Air Insertion Division under the title Task Force Kemper to control the violence. However instead of ending the violence, it escalates into other districts. Firefighters are prevented from entering the city. Supposedly to protect them. Rumors begin to spread about army execution squads killing any Compensation Army members whether they surrender or not. Further rumors spread that the Conscience of the Country is in actuality a group funded by the CAS to destabilize North Virginia enough to allow it to secede from the UCAS.
2055: In Chicago, Illinois, the Don of Chicago, believed dead in the Chicago Containment Zone, is replaced by Don Leo McCaskill of Milwaukee.
2055: In late December, in the FRFZ, a file is downloaded into the Nexus concerning the Chicago Containment Zone. The information in the file states that the Zone is not suffering from a VITAS plague. The real disaster is that the zone has been infested by huge insect spirits that use humans and metahumans for food and reproduction. The Zone has actually been constructed to keep the insect spirits from escaping into the rest of the world. After verifying the contents, the Nexus sysops broadcast the file to all Shadowland computer nodes. The information is distributed to the general public.
2055: In the UCAS, irregularities are noticed in the stories about the Chicago Containment Zone. This leads many to believe that the stories of a VITAS plague are some sort of cover-up for a much larger problem.
2055: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Bennet-class light aircraft carrier Wolverine and two Richard A. Dean-class guided missile frigates- the Lucan and the Voight are stationed offshore of the Chicago Containment Zone.
2055: In San Francisco, CFS, noted Actress Janna Dream is found dead outside the Chrome Stallion club. The club is owned by William Marshall Ossian, leader of the band Anedonia.
2055: In the CAS, 12 buildings are firebombed by unknown parties in various states.
2055: In FRFZ, an Aztechnology high priest is extracted from the Aztlan sector by a shadowrunner group. A large number of high explosive weaponry is used resulting in a great deal of death and destruction. The runners escape in a van that is hit with a missile before it can cross into CAS territory.
2055: On October 1, in the Chicago Containment Zone, Illinois, UCAS, massive explosion goes off at the Chicago power plant at Cermak and Racine. The explosion is powerful enough to be that of a small tactical nuclear weapon. However it gives off no radiation.
2055: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Knight Errant corporation buys out Winter Security's contract to defend Truman Technologies property.
2055: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the violence ends when it is discovered that General Trahn, the officer in charge of the federal troops, has been plotting against the government in an attempt to initiate a coup. His plan is discovered when his transmission to his fellow conspirators is monitored on a presidential frequency. He is killed by his hostage Captain Rita Furlann of the army's Thaumaturgical Corps. Once this revelation is discovered most of the fighting dies down and the army returns to more conventional means of ending it. None of Trahn's other conspirators are discovered.
2055: In Jamaica, Caribbean League, a massive hurricane destroys a large portion of the coffee crops.
2055: On August 24, DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, tensions between the Compensation Army and the federal government escalate when fedpol troops are sent in to contain the violence.
2055: In the DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, unconfirmed reports state that a joint delegation from Tir Tairngire, led by Prince Ehran the Scribe, and Tir na nOg, led by Caoimhe O'Dunn, daughter of the High Steward, meets with President Steele at the White House. Supposedly, the six-hour meeting concerns the events in the Chicago Containment Zone.
2055: On August 22, in Chicago Illinois, UCAS, Eagle Security offices are flooded with reports of "giant insects' attacking people. The next day, the UCAS government throws up a quarantine area on the city from Lake Michigan to the Des Plaines River. All houses along that line are destroyed and formed into a wall. Along this wall, now called the Chicago Containment Zone, are stationed soldiers from Eagle Security, the Illinois National Guard, and the UCAS Army. Nobody is allowed in or out of the Zone. Official reports state that the Zone is to contain a new strain of VITAS and the entire Containment Zone is under military quarantine. Establishment of the Zone is protested by Ares Macrotechnology, Federated Boeing, Fuchi America, and Truman Technologies. Later that evening, rioting breaks out in the entire zone. The UCAS troops fire upon the rioters and kill 50 of them. Construction of a real wall begins in earnest.
2055: On August 21, DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, North Virginia State Senator Wendell North introduces a bill calling for a referendum concerning the secession of North Virginia from the UCAS.
2055: On August 15, DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a coalition of megacorporations including Telestrian Industries, Saeder-Krupp, and Renraku Computer Technologies announces that all of their formerly public facilities in the DeeCee Sprawl will be restricted to corp personnel only for the duration of the Compensation Army crisis.
2055: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a new group appears within the encampments of the Compensation Army, now in its third month. This group, calling itself the Conscience of the Country, is seen wearing blue berets. They travel within the camps giving aid wherever necessary, although Compensation Army leader Christian Randolph claims that they are not part of the group. They also protest along side the Compensation Army, although their stand seems more militant. As a result tensions within the camps rise and fights break out between the protestors and the police.
2055: In CAS, the senate pledges to support all political groups in the UCAS and Caribbean League that have coincidental interests in the CAS.
2055: On August 14th, DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, two new bills are introduced to the House of Representatives. On is a bill apportioning voting areas in the former North Virginia counties of Arlington, Fairfax, and Alexandria. The second is a bill granting immediate repayment to all people displaced by the Treaty of Denver.
2055: On August 25, Fredericksburg North Virginia, UCAS, Governor Jefferson, on his way to high level meetings involving the status of North Virginia, is killed when his plane crashes and explodes.
2056: In Illinois, UCAS, the diaries of Tamir Grey, an influential ghoul trapped within the Chicago Containment Zone, are smuggled out and distributed to the outside world. They portray the life of the refuge worker who became a ghoul as a noble creature who has suffered great hardship in his life. These diaries spark nationwide public sympathy for ghouls as a race.
2056: In Aztlan, Aztechnology goes through a corporate shakeup to remove traitors. Four high ranking members of Aztechnology intelligence are killed for undisclosed reasons.
2056: In Tokyo, Japan, the Olympic games are held. Due to the Japanese government's refusal to allow metahumans to compete with humans, 60% of the nations invited refuse to attend. Furthermore, no nation boycotting the games televise them. In response the IOC forms a "World" team for athletes from the boycotting nations to compete in as independents. Still, the 2056 Olympics has the lowest attendance record in Olympic history. To deal with this problem the IOC cancels the 2060 Olympics until the metahuman question is dealt with.
2056: In Kaneohe Bay, Hawai'i, Yakuza Oyabun Ekei Tokudaiji is assassinated by a radical faction of Na Kama'aina and ALOHA in an attempt to purge Hawai'i of corporate interests.
2056: In Corporate Sector, Hawai'i, riots break out in protest to corporate influence over Hawai'ian sovereignty. Corporate security fires on the protesters killing many of them. In retaliation the protesters detonate explosive devices in the Renraku and Monobe facilities resulting in massive fatalities. The riots eventually spread to the royal palace and protesters call out against Ali'i Kamehameha V.
2056: In Hawai'i, using the riots as a catalyst, the Na Kama'aina party and ALOHA stage a coup against Ali'i Kamehameha V. They instil his distant cousin in his place.
2056: In Hawai'i, the corporate council, responding to the growing violence against corporate interests, fires a group of Thor projectiles into the ocean as a warning. The Hawai'ian dissidents respond by shooting down a Saeder-Krupp helicopter. Open violence rages throughout the Islands. Witnesses claim that in the midst of the violence, massive storms and aurora-like lights can be seen on Mount Haleakala.
2056: In Hawai'i, a month after the Na Kama'aina/ALOHA coup, Ali'i Kamehameha V stages a countercoup. Na Kama'aina is put back in their place and ALOHA is almost destroyed as a group.
2056: In Hong Kong, the police estimate that one in six citizens are members of a triad gang.
2056: In New York City, New York, UCAS, the Metascience facility of the Hurley-Cooper corporation is destroyed in a massive explosion. Three employees, Dr. Liron Phalen, Dr. Benjamin Hill, and a project aid are killed. No cause is given for the blast.
2056: In Fairfax, North Virginia, UCAS, Tamara Ny, Jonathan Winger, and Theodore Rica are released after two years of a five year sentence for accidentally killing 200 children during a training exercise. Ny and Winger join the Los Angeles Sabers combat biker team and quickly become huge fan favorites.
2056: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a shadowrunner by the name of Lensman enters the Stuffer Shack at the Renraku Arcology and opens fire with an FN-HAR assault rifle screaming about "the dark coming to get him." Many people are killed by his attack before he himself is killed by Renraku security.
2056: In Aztlan, rebel forces destroy a ferry running from Cancun to Cozumel. 200 civilians are killed.
2056: In Los Angeles, CFS, Daniel Truman of Truman Technologies officially relocates his business from Chicago to Los Angeles.
2056: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, a street samurai named Gallow Joe is found murdered outside of the Red Hat club. The body is found with a broken neck which is surprising due to Gallow Joe's muscle mass.
2056: In Los Angeles, CFS, unidentified people begin burning whole city blocks surrounding the walled enclaves of the rich. These blocks are bought up and used to expand the enclaves.
2056: In the UCAS, President Thomas Steele is re-elected President of the UCAS in an uninspiring campaign.
2056: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a serial killer simply called the Ripper brutally murders four women and three men. The killings mysteriously stop soon after they begin.
2056: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Silas Betancourt, a psychologist for Lone Star Securities, falls from his seventeenth floor office at the Lone Star Securities Office. Witnesses report that the corpse of Mr Betancourt liquefies and dissolves soon after impact.
2056: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz is re-elected in an uninspiring election.
2056: In San Francisco, CFS, a bomb goes off during the Liberation Day parade killing several Fuchi executives and Imperial marines.
2056: In UCAS, Dunkelzahn is awarded UCAS citizenship by a special Congressional act. At his swearing-in ceremony, President Steele personally shakes his hand. His official home is changed from Lake Louise to Prince Edward Island.
2057: On August 1, in the UCAS, the deadline for receipt of absentee election ballots is reached.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, NuGene corporation CEO announces his intention to open a corporate facility in the city. He soon after announces a new breakthrough by his company in artificial transplant tissue.
2057: In Tir Tairngire, an arms smuggling plane is shot down trying to cross the border.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Ariadne and Tavis Silverstaff announce the birth of their new daughter.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the laughing death disease is traced to faulty vat tissue at Doc Wagon facilities. As a result, Governor Schultz tries to suspend Doc Wagon activity in the city.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a monorail car derails resulting in its explosion. Noted mafia boss Conrad McKenzie is killed in the blast.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Doris Chan, senior VP of Tangent Technologies, Seattle, is killed when a car bomb explodes at her home. No reason is ever given.
2057: In the UCAS, a new national flag is finally agreed upon.
2057: In Aztlan, Aztechnology cordons off an area 35 kilometers south of Austin, Texas, CAS, for what appears to be an archaeological dig. The site is heavily patrolled by Jaguar Guards and no comment is forthcoming from Aztechnology.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the UCAS military sends a group of mages to examine the astral rift. One of them, Tanya Reilly, goes into astral space to get a closer look. Her astral form is then sucked into the rift without a trace. Her physical body remains catatonic. As a result the government cordons off the entire area and posts astral warning signs for any mage who gets too close.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, local businesswoman Ingrid Hatlelid dies of a massive heart attack in her apartment.
2057: In Tir Tairngire, the Rite of Progression is postponed indefinitely. No reason is given.
2057: On August 7, in the UCAS, Dunkelzahn the dragon wins the 2057 Presidential election by a narrow margin of votes. He is the first nonhuman elected to the office in either U.S., Canadian, or UCAS history.
2057: In the UCAS, the Ohio chapter of the New Century Party files a law suit against the main branch on allegations of violating the party chapter and mismanagement of funds.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, former presidential candidate Anne Penchyk forms the Empowerment Coalition, a group intended to raising funds for female candidates in all branches of government.
2057: On August 8, in the UCAS, metahumans and their supporters around the country celebrate the victory of Dunkelzahn.
2057: On August 9, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Dunkelzahn and his VP Kyle Haeffner are sworn into office.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the night of his inauguration, President Dunkelzahn attends the Mrs. Grundland's Peanut Butter Cookie Inaugural Ball at the Watergate Hotel. The event is a huge success and many influential people in the political, industrial, and entertainment fields attend. While at the ball, he receives a phone call that apparently disturbs him. He leaves the ball twenty one minutes earlier than he had planned. He enters his limousine which begins to drive away. Witnesses claim that he is talking to someone they can't see. Seconds after the limousine leaves, an explosion erupts from the street and completely destroys the car. One witness claims that there are actually two explosions: One which simply threw the heavily armored limousine in the air, and another which originated inside the car and exploded outward in a dark cloud of worm like creatures. Although the bodies of the five-man security detail escorting President Dunkelzahn are found, neither President Dunkelzahn's body nor that of the driver are recovered from the blast site.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a minute after the explosion, a huge rift in astral space opens over the site of the blast. A witness claims she sees President Dunkelzahn's astral form fly into the rift.
2057: In UCAS, on the eve of his inauguration, President Steele is accused of election fraud. Speaker of the House Betty Jo Pritchard declares the election invalid and a new election is scheduled for August of this year. Pritchard becomes President by default. This ironically makes her the first woman to hold this office. Soon after, Democratic "One World" party member Arthur Vogel, New Century Party member Dr. Rozilyn Hernandez, Technocratic Party member and former Vice-President James Booth, Republican Party member, General Franklin Yeats, and Archconservative Party member Kenneth Brackhaven declare their candidacies.
2057: On July 18, in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Republican Presidential candidate General Franklin Yeats is murdered by a wasp spirit who possessed one of his FBI guards. His running-mate Anne Penchyk plans to run in his place.
2057: In Venice, Italy, the government reports that, due to an ongoing project, the amount of toxins in the surrounding water has decreased dramatically.
2057: In on February 28, in Claremont, New Hampshire, UCAS, presidential candidates James Booth and Franklin Yeats hold a nationally televised debate.
2057: On March 15, on his show Wyrm Talk, Dunkelzahn the dragon stuns the world by announcing his intention to run for UCAS President as an Independent.
2057: In Sacremento, CFS, Knight Errant Security replaces Renraku Security to patrol the Sacremento Matrix.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, The Capitol night club is opened.
2057: In the UCAS, rumors persist that Ares Macrotechnology is trying to get government officials to authorize the use of the Chicago Containment Zone as a test range for new weapons.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, presidential candidate General Franklin Yeats declares his intention, if elected, to reunify CFS with the UCAS.
2057: In Big Sur Coast, CFS, 10 workers are killed by unexplained accidents in various aquaculture facilities.
2057: In the UCAS, it is revealed that presidential candidate Kenneth Brackhaven is not really the son of Charles Brackhaven. The real Kenneth Brackhaven is revealed to have goblinized and died in 2032. The man currently known as Kenneth Brackhaven is an orphan Charles Brackhaven adopted to replace his son. This causes a drastic, if short lived, drop in Brackhaven's standing in the polls.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Tir Tairngire freighter ship Sapphire Seahawk explodes in bordering international waters.
2057: In the UCAS, several companies nationwide report the theft of chemicals and virus samples that could theoretically be made into weapons. No group claims responsibility for these thefts.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a new disease appears called laughing death. The disease causes insanity in the victim causing him/her to perform cannibalism on the nearest (meta)human.
2057: In France, the Rennes-le-Chateau is destroyed by an unidentified mercenary team.
2057: In Venice, Italy, the Doge announces that his wife has given birth to twins. A day of celebration is declared. At the celebration, unexplained visions of blood spirits and the Magdalene bearing the head of John the Baptist result in massive rioting.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, shadowrunner Rodney James Goodhue, also known as Roderigo is found dead at his cyberdeck from unexplained causes.
2057: On May 2, Worldwide, four executives among the eight major megacorporations suffer heart attacks at 12 midnight.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Brigadier General Lucius Harding murders his wife and four children. He then enters his office at the Pentagon and detonates an explosive device, killing himself. No reason is given for this action.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, DocWagon initiates its Temporary Response Personnel program on a test basis using mercenaries to protect DocWagon High Threat Response Teams.
2057: In the UCAS, all major cities suffer an increase in shadowrun-related violence.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dynamic Systems Corporations opens its doors as a manufacturer of logistical analysis software. It rises quickly in the field making sales of over 35 million nuyen.
2057: On August 10, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Vice President Kyle Haeffner is sworn in as President.
2057: In Oroville, CFS, the body of shadowrunner Fred Lister, aka Listerman, is found in pieces among several city dumpsters.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, The Victory night club is opened.
2057: On October 2, a series of investigations on the objects bequeathed by former President Dunkelzahn is released on the Shadowland BBS by sysop Captain Chaos. The files indicate a high level of magic in some of the items. (Portfolio of a Dragon)
2057: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, local businessman Xander Brand is found murdered in his home. Police seek a shadowrunner named Hawke in connection with the killing.
2057: On November 8, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the Scott Commission releases its first official statement entitled Alpha Interview #1. This document clears President Haefner of any involvement in the assassination of former President Dunkelzahn.
2057: On November 11, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the Draco Foundation closes its doors to claimants of inheritances. They will reopen their doors on the 3rd of every month for seven days to deal with further claims and other business.
2057: On November 12, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Scott Commission questioning of Nadja Daviar begins.
2057: On November 14, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Congress begins its approval process on President Haefner's Cabinet list.
2057: In Seattle DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, David Emerson, a minor functionary in President Dunkelzahn's campain, begins preaching at the site of the explosion. He claims that President Dunkelzahn was a divine incarnation sent to save metahumanity. He further claims that he receives visions from the dead president. Two months later he gathers up his few followers and leaves.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, an apartment building is completely gutted by fire. Witnesses claim that a devil started the fire.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the FBI receives over five hundred claims of responsibility for the assassination. The first of these claims, from the Red Dawn terrorist group, is declared a hoax due to their referring to having "fired the fatal bullet". Most other claims are also declared hoaxes.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Joe Two Feathers, a high-up member of the ORC, is shot through the head while walking down the street. The murderer is never caught.
2057: On September 5, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the Scott Commission begins its hearings with the interview of President Haefner. Chief Justice Scott announces that copies of the hearings will be released after each witness is interviewed and the commission reaches a majority decision.
2057: In Los Angeles, CFS, during a combat biker match between the Los Angeles Sabers and the New Orleans Buzzsaws famed Sabers member Tamara Ny is killed when veteran Buzzsaws linebacker Dougan Rose illegally uses cyberspurs against Ny and accidentally cuts her throat Ny's close friend Jonathan Winger, a known rival of Rose, attacks and seriously injures him. Rose is charged with illegal use of cyberspurs and grounded for part of the game but suffers no further penalties. His injuries at Winger's hands are not severe enough to ground him for their next game.
2057: In Los Angeles, CFS, soon after her death, the home of Tamara Ny is bombed by unknown parties. Two people are killed in the explosion.
2057: In Los Angeles, CFS, the helicopter pad and penthouse of the Venice Hilton is destroyed in an explosion. The cause of the explosion is unknown.
2057: In Los Angeles, CFS, Luc Tashika, executive vice president of Mitsuhama Computer Technologies' entertainment division, is killed by the Steppin' Wulf street gang during a war with a rival gang.
2057: In Los Angeles, CFS, Andreas Michaelson, senior executive vice president at Saeder-Krupp, disappears without a trace.
2057: In Los Angeles, CFS, during a combat biker game between the Los Angeles Sabers and the New Orleans Buzzsaws, Jonathan Winger, in a fit of vengeance for the death of his friend Tamara Ny during a previous game, straps a bomb to his cycle and drives it straight into the bike of his rival Dougan Rose. The bomb explodes and kills Winger almost immediately. Rose miraculously survives the explosion.
2057: In the UCAS, David Emerson reappears in public on the show UCAS Today. He claims that his new name is David Dragonson and announces the formation of the Children of the Dragon. This organization, he claims, is a society dedicated to spreading the word of Dunkelzahn. He further displays new magical power that he supposedly did not have before. The group begins to swiftly attract followers.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Van Roggen is killed by some sort of poison by an unknown assassin.
2057: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Professor Miles Swinburne, considered the father of hermetic magic, takes a leave of absence from his teaching position at the University of Seattle to begin a new project of magical research. Long believed to have lost his magic during the Euro-Wars, Swinburne apparently has been able to use magic all along and has been subconsciously summoning spirits in the form of arcana from the tarot deck. The UCAS Journal of Thaumaturgy asks Professor Swinburne to write a series of articles on his experiences and The University of Seattle funds his research on the subject.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Nadja Daviar issues her first press release as Chairperson of the Draco Foundation. In it she swears to uphold the former President Dunkelzahn's wishes in both the distribution of his possessions and the administration of the Draco Foundation.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, President Haeffner meets with Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Richard Scott and forms the Scott Commission on the Assassination of President Dunkelzahn.
2057: In Tir Tairngire, the Council of Princes, in response to the assassination of President Dunkelzahn, tightens border security and begins censoring incoming and outgoing news broadcasts for content that could be "threatening to the security of Tir Tairngire."
2057: In the UCAS, civil unrest grows in all UCAS cities. Due to fear of another Night of Rage the UCAS military as well as local police and, it is rumored, Ares Macrotechnology security forces are mobilized and put on Red Alert status. Although the riots don't get any worse, they show no signs of ending.
2057: On August 11, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, witnesses report seeing a flight of at least a dozen dragons (one of which tentatively is identified as Lofwyr) performing a complicated aerial dance over the site of former President Dunkelzahn's assassination. This performance lasts for about an hour and has security agents in near panic. Many news reporters attempt to film the event but no sign of the dragons appear on any video shot.
2057: On August 11, at Lake Louise, Athabascan Council, NAN, President Dunkelzahn's funeral is held. Hundreds of people of all types attend. Each person is given a chance to speak about President Dunkelzahn and what he meant to them. Holly Brighton sings "Ave Maria" while Nadja Daviar plays the harp. The pinnacle event is when a group of centaurs, long thought to be non-sentient, sings a beautiful version of "Amazing Grace".
2057: On August 12, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, President Haefner goes before Congress and names Nadja Daviar as his Vice Presidential nominee. This is a great shock to the nation due to Daviar's status as former President Dunkelzahn's interpreter. President Haefner responds by saying, "Daviar was the voice of Dunkelzahn, and now must serve to speak to us of his heart and soul." Congress decides to delay the vote on Daviar's appointment until the Scott Commission can begin hearings.
2057: On August 15, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Nadja Daviar reads former President Dunkelzahn's will at the Watergate Hotel. The will is 12 pages long and leaves inheritances to 216 different parties. Some are specific people of varying social classes. Others are groups. The will indicates that former President Dunkelzahn's financial holdings reached trillions of nuyen and only covers a portion of what he owned. In the will Daviar herself is named as the executor of former President Dunkelzahn's estate and head of the Draco Foundation, an organization to be established to help oversee the last wishes of former President Dunkelzahn and to finance exploration in the fields of technology, science, magic, and social enterprises for the betterment of all races. Although some parties receive their inheritances immediately, the majority will receive their bequests beginning in September.
2057: Copies of the will are distributed across the matrix almost immediately after the reading . No hints are given as to where or how the various matrix groups got their hands on it.
2057: In Hong Kong, Sun Yat-sun, a local fisherman and the recipient of the First Coin of Luck from former President Dunkelzahn, is found shot to death on his boat.
2057: In Eugene, Tir Tairngire, a research facility owned by the Atlantean Foundation is severely damaged by a massive explosion.
2057: In Hong Kong, Daniel Kwan, an executive with Minh-Pao Imports, is killed in a chemical explosion at a company warehouse.
2057: On August 18, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, President Haefner submits a complete list of names to fill Cabinet positions. This is surprising because it is traditional to submit the names one at a time. The list contains many metahumans and magically active people. Congress decides to hold off on voting on the list until after the Scott Commission can question both President Haefner and Daviar.
2057: On August 22, "shadow information" on former President Dunkelzahn's will is uploaded onto the matrix by the Shadowland BBS sysop Captain Chaos.
2057: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Aztlan doubles its guard at their embassy and recalls their ambassador.
2057: In the UCAS, Anne Penchyk moves her Empowerment Coalition under the banner of the John Timmons Memorial Fund, of which she was granted the chairmanship in former President Dunkelzahn's will.
2057: On August 25, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the names of the Scott Commission are released. Headed by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Richard Scott, they are: Sen. David Ralph (Dem., Illinois), Sen. Melissa Washington (Rep., Maine), Rep. Jess Summers (Tech., Iowa), Rep. Sarah Lynn (Independent, Vermont), Carla Brooks, advisor to former President Dunkelzahn and President Haefner, Dr. Frazer Williams, Director of Magic and Occult Studies , Georgetown University, and General Steven Coe Bowling, former director of the CIA.
2057: On August 31, a file entitled The Players is posted onto the matrix by Shadowland BBS sysop Captain Chaos. The file details several power brokers in the awakened world that had involvement with former President Dunkelzahn.
2057: On September 1, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Nadja Daviar releases the list of the Board of Directors of the Draco Foundation. Headed by Chairperson Nadja Daviar, they are: Vice Chairperson Aina Dupree, and Chairpersons Frank Hardy, Milo Czerda, Midori Kanematsu, Manuel Torres, and Grace Friel. None of these individuals have any previous reputation or history with this sort of work.
2057: On September 3, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the Draco Foundation opens its doors to its new headquarters. People from across the world converge on the building to claim their inheritances.
2057: In Prince Edward Island, Maine, UCAS, the Children of the Dragon purchase a large parcel of land intended to be the site of their first temple to President Dunkelzahn.
2057: In Sacramento, CFS, former UCAS presidential candidate Arthur Vogel takes over as chairman of Sierra, Incorporated.
2058: In Newark Sprawl, New Jersey, UCAS, a major firefight occurs at the Slag Heap toxic waste zone between soldiers of the Nagato Combine and an unidentified armed group. Supposedly these are the same people responsible for the bombings at Nagato Combine gatherings. The unidentified group is eventually destroyed by the Nagato force.
2058: On January 4th, in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the funeral of Don James O'Malley is held. All major Mafia figures in the city attend. Yakuza boss Hanzo Shotozumi also appears with an honor guard to pay his respects. After the funeral, O'Malley's daughter, Rowena O'Malley announces her intention to claim leadership of her father's Family. The announcement causes quite a reaction among other Mafia bosses but she soon gains the support of the Finnigan family with the help of her father's advisor, Al Cavalieri.
2058: On January 5th, the Shadowland matrix network posts the first of the Underworld information files detailing the problems in Seattle Metroplex's organized crime community.
2058: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Rowena O'Malley formally delivers her intention to become Capa of Seattle Metroplex to the other Seattle Mafia families as well as to Don McCaskill and the Commissione. The Commissionne places the decision in the hands of McCaskill.
2058: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Yakuza began hiring massive numbers of street gangs in an attempt to use the confusion in the Mafia to take back territory they have lost.
2058: On January 7th, in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Yakuza attack Mafia gambling operations and businesses. This breaks into sporadic fighting between the Mafia and the Yakuza.
2058: On January 8th, in the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, an assassination attempt is made on the life of Rowena O'Malley. The attempt is narrowly avoided and O'Malley's resolve is only strengthened.
2058: In Brooklyn, New York, UCAS, a major firefight breaks out between the Duelists go-gang and members of the Green Serpent Guard (GSG), an elite bodyguard unit of the Nagato Combine chairman Okido Honjowara. The Duelists are no match for the GSG and are wiped out.
2058: On January 1st, in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Don James O'Malley is shot and killed by an unknown assassin outside of his home.
2058: In Brooklyn, New York, UCAS, a magical attack at the Chrysanthemum Palace Hotel on Nagato Corporation chairman Okida Honjowara leaves over 57 people dead. Honjowara however escapes injury. The attack is thought to be the work of noted anti-metahuman terrorist Gamma and his group the White Octogon.
2058: Miles Lanier, former head of internal security for Fuchi Industrial Electronics, appears at the board of directors meeting of Renraku Computer Systems to claim his seat left to him by President Dunkelzahn.
2058: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the FBI initiates a search on the offices of the Illuminates of the New Dawn on suspicion of "magical conspiracy". No evidence is found and the organization threatens a major lawsuit.
2058: In the Chicago Containment Zone, Illinois, UCAS, Ares Macrotechnology initiates a secret assault on the bug spirits using a new bacterial weapon. The bacteria, known as Strain-III beta, attaches itself to any magically active life form and devours its magical energy. This includes mages/shamans, spirits, and dual-natured creatures. Ares Macrotechnology troops under the code name Operation Extermination, without the permission or knowledge of the UCAS government, saturate the Chicago Containment Zone with Strain-III beta. This weakens the insect spirits to the point where they can be killed with conventional weapons. It also causes the death of many magically active and dual-natured beings including the ghouls of Cabrini Refuge. A secondary effect is zones where magic doesn't work properly known as voids.
2058: In February, in DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, President Haeffner gives the State of the Union Address. Among other things, he announces that due to the success of the Ares Macrotechnology-led Operation Extermination in killing the insect spirits within, the quarantine on the Chicago Containment Zone is officially lifted. He also announces the formation of the Magical Security Task Force. This organization, under the supervision of the Justice Department and Attorney General Mira Pantorelli, will work with the FBI, and local law enforcement agencies at the corporate and governmental level as well as the governments of Tir Tairngire, the NAN, and universities world-wide. The new agency will be responsible for maintaining paranormal, astral and magical defense of all UCAS territory.
2058: In the Chicago Containment Zone, Illinois, UCAS, soon after President Haeffner's announcement of the lifting of the zone, thousands of people previously trapped rush over the now unguarded wall. Many people outside the zone, afraid that insect spirits will escape into the general population, attack the refugees resulting in a riot. Authorities eventually manage to contain the riot and maintain an uneasy peace. Many people inside the zone refuse to leave either through fear of remaining insect spirits and gang members or through attraction of the lawless society that has developed within.
2058: In Aztlan, rumors persist that Aztechnology CEO Juan Atzcapotzalco has vanished due to opening a box left to him in President Dunkelzahn's will at the Day of the Dead festival. Although Atzcapotzalco continues to make broadcast appearances, the rumors state that these are falsified images.
2058: In Miami, Carribean League, Adam Two Bears, a noted dwarf businessman, dies.
2058: In Miami, Carribean League, Scott Gordon, a noted writer, is killed in his apartment. Also found at the scene are the corpses of many armed men killed by gunfire.
2058: In Miami, Carribean League, Sharon Palmer, an executive for the Gunderson Corporation, and her escort are kidnaped by unknown assailants and taken to the Overtown district. When Gunderson Security tries to retrieve them with an armed team it sparks a massive riot resulting in massive damage and injuries.
2058: In New York City, New York, UCAS, a terrorist bomb explodes at the Nagato complex during a meeting of the board of directors killing and injuring many passers-by. (Steel Rain)

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