 Info on Vancouver, What do we know about Vancouver? |
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 Feb 23 2007, 03:38 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've read the basic stuff about how Vancouver is part of the NAN and is competition for Seattle economically. What else do we know about them? What company provides security there? Should I assume they're like Seattle, but with lower population density and more anti-anglo bias?
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Feb 23 2007, 03:48 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
The page or so in SONA suggest it's like Seattle but with less corp presence, and a demolished suburb that belongs to gangers, smugglers, and shedim.
Oh, and some triad smuggling Salish-legal drugs out into places where they are restricted as well as normal triad behavior. As for security, I found a reference to "Salish Rangers" who served as a high firepower police force, covering civil issues as well as minor military affairs. So they probably don't use Lone Star. |
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Feb 23 2007, 03:55 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
It's not much, but here's what the Timeline Explorer has to say:
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Feb 23 2007, 04:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 269 Joined: 8-November 04 Member No.: 6,817 |
It's the home of the Draco Foundation too isn't it?
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Feb 23 2007, 06:27 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 392 |
I think you may be thinking about Universal Omnitech and some smaller player called Pacific Cybernetics Inc. They both have their HQ there.
I was thinking about making a proposal for Vancouver for Feral Cities until I read what that book is actually going to be about. If people are interested we could collaborate to get something made. I at least already have a list of all the tribes in the Vancouver Island/Lower Mainland (it was a pain to get a listing of BC tribes). Theme was basically that while SSC is organized at the top levels the individual tribes have a lot of leeway. So all the tribes in VI/LM are Cascade Crow but each nation has certain rights to run its territory its own way. The Musqueam were of course helping the Triads and the Cascade Ork to smuggle. Vancouver (except for Point Grey), Burnaby, parts of Victoria, Whistler, and part of New Westminister were like an Anglo reservation. The rest was tribal land. The farmlands in eastern Richmond and the Fraser Valley (as far as Chiliwack/Sardis) were convereted to wilderness with some subsistence and research farming (especially in conjunction with the Sioux biotech company). Lots of talismongering in the mountains to the north between West/North Vancouver and Squamish/Whistler-Blackcomb and in the Fraser Valley. |
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Feb 23 2007, 09:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
On of the last FASA novels was set there. something about lucky coins from the Big D's hoard
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Feb 24 2007, 01:06 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
That was 'Tails You Lose' by Lisa Smedman I believe.
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Feb 25 2007, 09:46 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 18-September 06 Member No.: 9,412 |
What is the book going to be about? Where did you read details about it? Book starved fans want to know. |
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Feb 26 2007, 01:32 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 392 |
My search fu is weak right now so I can't find the thread right now but I was looking for the thread from Synner I believe about how to prepare a submission for FanPro when I found a thread where one of the freelancers said that Feral Cities was slated to be about cities that are in chaos or on the brink of chaos. |
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Feb 26 2007, 02:49 AM
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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 |
Huh, I'd submit something about DeeCee, but I doubt that's the sort of chaos they're thinking about.
Thanks for the info so far, guys. Every bit is useful. I didn't remember that Tails, You Lose was written in Vancouver. That was a surprisingly not sucky book. |
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Feb 26 2007, 03:59 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
I would also assume that even though it's non NAN land, there should still be a huge asian population. |
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Mar 1 2007, 09:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
That sounds right. It gives a good image of a modern NAN city. It even has a war memmorial. |
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