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 Dec 7 2005, 07:58 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 355 Joined: 24-August 02 From: Magna, Ute Nation Member No.: 3,166  |
What's been wrapped up? What loose ends are still dangling?
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Dec 7 2005, 08:03 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
Let's see, I think Cross Applied Technologies is gone, Arthur Dankwalther has been Thor Shot (and their was much rejoicing), obviously the race to develop and deploy a wreless matrix has concluded, and to the best of my knowledge they are now rebuilding Chicago. There may still be some goodies from Dunkelzahn's will unclaimed, Bug Spirits haven't gone away, and Aztechnology is still up to no good.
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Dec 7 2005, 08:09 PM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
System failure will be your best resource for this...If you Search for it over the last 180 days, you can get a pretty good mix of spoilers that explains everything from the Fall of Shadowland and Captain Chaos to who became President and why.
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Dec 7 2005, 10:31 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
What the hell? Where'd you hear about Chicago?
And, yes, who became President is a fun topic. That is, if getting kicked in the nuts is what can be considered "fun." |
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Dec 7 2005, 10:40 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
I'll try to find the Chicago Reference and post it, it's in one of the newer books and it's sort of a passing mention made.
Ok I might have misinterpreted the Hate & Brotherhood section of the History Chapter in SR4 where they say Ares and the UCAS army cleaned up the containment zone. I believed that to mean some reconstruction as well as just clearing out most of the Bugs. However they may very well just mean that they cleaned out 98% of the bugs and left the city to fend for itself. |
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Dec 8 2005, 02:44 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853 |
Oh I can't waite till some source books comeout for SR4!
Any one know whats being developed? |
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Dec 8 2005, 05:12 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Banned Posts: 3,732 Joined: 1-September 05 From: Prague, Czech Republic Member No.: 7,665 |
There are three kinds of source books: game information books, setting books, and published adventures.
Game information books coming down the line are: Street Magic (Magic) Arsenal (Equipment + Vehicles) Gamemaster's Screen Augmentation (Cyberware + Medicine) Unwired (Rigging + Hacking) Running Wild (Paranormal Animals + rules for playing non-humans) Then the crystal ball gets darker, because I don't think titles have been announced. But there will probably be a Companion, which may get divided up into a Gamemaster's Guide and a Player's Guide. According to their site, setting books coming down the line are: Runner Havens (Hong Kong and Seattle, also some other hot spots like Hamburg) Corp Zones (Don't know where this will be, maybe Zurich?) Jacked-up Places* (Probably Chicago, maybe Tortuga?) The smart money is on the next plot book featuring one or more of themajor players or items new to SR4. So it would probably focus on Evo, Horizon, Neonet, or Sprites/Technomancers since those things have never gotten a writeup before. *Not its real name, but I don't think they gave a real name. There is an announced published adventure called On the Run. Also, Shadowrun Missions will switch over to SR4 at Origins 2006. -Frank |
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Dec 8 2005, 06:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853 |
Thanks Frank
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Dec 8 2005, 08:31 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 203 Joined: 18-November 05 Member No.: 7,978 |
Who is this Art guy that eveyone is so glad he got Thor bombed?
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Dec 8 2005, 08:40 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 19-May 05 Member No.: 7,401 |
He was mentioned in Dunkelzahn's will and got a zillion nuyen, and basically declared war on Novatech. I believe that he is in part responsible for them having to go public, but I'm a bit fuzzy on that part. He got shafted by Fuchi and thus hates Villiers. They actually took him out with a Thor shot though? Out of curiosity, where was he, and how many Thor shots have actually been fired offensively, i.e. not as a test of the system? |
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Dec 8 2005, 08:43 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 3-November 05 Member No.: 7,923 |
what is a thor shot?
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Dec 8 2005, 08:50 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
Take a chunk of metal, put it in orbit, strap on a simple guidance package and a chemical rocket. When the time comes to kill something, all you've got to do is fire up the rocket, drop it out of orbit, have it self-guide onto the target, and the pure kinetic energy of this piece of metal hitting it's target at orbital velocities (my understanding is that the space shuttle enters the atmosphere in the mid Mach-20s) will be enough to cause an enormous amount of damage.
Think of it as being a meteor that you're able to guide onto a target. I know the US military was considering these for a while during the Cold War as tank killers, to aid in fighting a tank war against the Russians across eastern Europe, as a thor shot would just destroy an MBT. |
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Dec 8 2005, 08:52 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Banned Posts: 3,732 Joined: 1-September 05 From: Prague, Czech Republic Member No.: 7,665 |
A Thor Shot is a space-based mass driver that drops objects on targets from space. 80 kilometers of free gravitational excelleration plus a medium-sized object = a crap tonne of flaming pain at the target point.
The Chicxulub Crater, for example, was formed when a 10-kilometer wide meteor struck the Earth 65 million years ago with hillarous results all around. The Thor system drops rocks that are much smaller than that, and are intended to take out installations and ships, rather than 70% of all life on Earth. -Frank |
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Dec 8 2005, 09:37 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
I read Feral Places. I also bet there's going to be another version of Target: Awakened Lands. Greece is the only country in Europe not covered between Shadows of Europe and Asia, AFAIK, and I bet there's all sort of crazy-ass magic shit going on just from the various teasers in books released in the last two years. And from what I read, I think it was actually S-K's thor shot (Omega Orders make for strange bedfellows). |
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Dec 8 2005, 09:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 355 Joined: 24-August 02 From: Magna, Ute Nation Member No.: 3,166 |
Cross? Gone? How'd that happen? What book is it in? Who took out 'Ol Artie? What about California? |
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Dec 8 2005, 09:55 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
Lucien died in a mysterious plane crash, and without him to hold it together CATco was essentially parted off.
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Dec 8 2005, 10:32 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
System Failure. California's mentioned in SR4. If you like Cal and reality, I'd suggest skipping that part, though. |
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Dec 8 2005, 10:59 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
The mass driver component is really optional (although I'd understand if the SR versions are driver-based). All you really need is to get that lump of metal moving downwards, and gravity will do the rest of the work. It's a lot harder to find with antisatellite systems, too :) |
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Dec 9 2005, 05:13 AM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
It's not mentioned where the Thor shot hit poor Artie. Iirc three times had thor shots been fired: the incident at hawaii', at jütland/ proteus (mentioned in Schockweellen/ Shockwaves) and Artie. |
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Dec 9 2005, 06:08 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: 30-April 04 Member No.: 6,294 |
What's mysterious about a systems failure caused by an EMP? |
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Dec 9 2005, 06:29 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Well, for starters, 1) Why was he in San Francisco, and 2) how did the Corporate Court let a AAA CEO remain within 100 miles of a known nuclear device.
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Dec 9 2005, 09:26 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 775 Joined: 31-March 05 From: florida Member No.: 7,273 |
THOR shot: see Orbital Based Kinetic Energy Weapon
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Dec 9 2005, 03:42 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
Nothing mysterious, I was trying to limit the post to only being a partial spoiler instead of a total monstrosity of spoilage. |
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Dec 9 2005, 07:44 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 355 Joined: 24-August 02 From: Magna, Ute Nation Member No.: 3,166 |
What's going on with Cali that's so bad? Spoilers won't hurt my feelings. My game is nowhere near 2070, I just want to make sure I throw in some hints in my game, so my players can see something bad coming. |
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Dec 9 2005, 08:23 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,651 Joined: 23-September 05 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 7,773 |
The California basin apparently tried to fall into the ocean, but forgot which way was down. It's now a big island.
You don't typically see that sort of behavior in land masses below sea level. Current speculation focuses on heretofore unknown magical nonsense and/or writers who said "Hey, I know it doesn't make any sense and all, but it'd be cool if..." |
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