 Halferville, Help?!? |
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 Jul 5 2006, 08:48 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 20-January 06 Member No.: 8,185  |
I'm trying to put together an SR4 setting in San Francisco. A quick surf through the timeline explorer reveals little that would trip me up with canon, except for one thing; a few cryptic mentions of 'Halferville', 'Diablo Valley', and the 'East Bay Dwarves'.
Someone mind explaining what these refer to so I don't need to go dig up some 10-year-old rulebook for a few page's worth? |
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Jul 5 2006, 09:03 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 20-January 06 Member No.: 8,185 |
*shameless bump*
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Jul 5 2006, 09:19 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
I just want to say it's pretty funny you bump a topic that's not even 30 minutes old.
I'd half to guess that, just like Orks, elves and ghouls, dwarves got a half-wit idea to make their own little community. No idea how successful they are, but they're never short on good puns. |
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Jul 5 2006, 10:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 27-October 02 From: Chicago Containment Zone Member No.: 3,504 |
I can't give you much, but SONA details Halferville as controlling the Caldecot Tunnel, a pivotal entryway for most of the East Bay residential areas. It seems they're militant enough to discourage Saito and the Japanacorps from moving in, but I don't know if it's anything more than a bedroom community. At the very least, it's got a lot of dwarves.
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Jul 5 2006, 10:20 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 |
They had rebuilt the tunnel after the '48 earthquake and were given all manner of mineral and land rights in return for allowing others to use it. |
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Jul 5 2006, 10:26 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 20-January 06 Member No.: 8,185 |
So the Caldecot tunnel is a highway? A shipping canal?
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Jul 5 2006, 10:32 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,213 Joined: 10-March 02 From: Back from the abyss. Member No.: 2,316 |
Google.com gives this link http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/caldecott/history.htm I would say its a traffic tunnel.
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Jul 5 2006, 10:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 24-August 05 From: Luxembourg, Luxembourg Member No.: 7,611 |
The Caldecot tunnel connects Oakland/Berkeley and Concord/Walnut Creek via highway 24. Highway 24 also connects highways 80 and 680. There's an alternate route (like all highways here in the US) that takes approx 25min longer.
Essentially, there's a big range of hills about 10 miles east of the SF bay, and a limited number of places to cross over them. /*Edit more info from the books*/ It looks like Halferville is a maze of tunnels and chambers the run the entire length of the Hayward hills from Oakland/Berkeley to Fremont. That's about a 30 mile length. CFS says it's an engineering marvel and oddly beautiful. (CFS 67-69) |
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Jul 6 2006, 12:29 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 27-October 02 From: Chicago Containment Zone Member No.: 3,504 |
Socks,
Thanks for the added info on location. I didn't delve too much into the background of the tunnel, so when I read about it in SONA, I thought it to be underwater and going towards more the Hayward and Union City areas. Thanks to your added bits of info, it's now much more of a fun location in my book, rather than just some tunnel to isolate corpers. Given, though, that Orkland/Berkeley's between San Fran and Walnut Creek, you'd think they'd have air transport instead. |
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