Gaddafi tries to stop Shadowrun timeline, just in time for the divergence |
Gaddafi tries to stop Shadowrun timeline, just in time for the divergence |
Dec 19 2003, 11:07 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,756 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
[BBC] Lybia is to give up chemical and biological arsenal as year 2003 comes to an end. It will very probably prevent his chemical attack against Israel as schduled for 2004. No attack, no nuclear counter-attack, no wastelands and no place to conduct Desert Wars. All the people claiming Desert Wars were a silly idea are proved right :D
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Dec 19 2003, 11:09 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
We'll just pick a deffirent desert.
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Dec 19 2003, 11:13 PM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
doh! I was thinking Iran.
*shuffles quietly away* |
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Dec 19 2003, 11:21 PM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
They do. Libya is in North Africa you know. :)
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Dec 19 2003, 11:26 PM
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Avatar of Mediocrity Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 725 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle, WA (err, UCAS) Member No.: 277 |
First the Shiawase Decision and the Century Ferret, and now this? I guess it's fiction after all. :(
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Dec 19 2003, 11:31 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 3-October 03 Member No.: 5,677 |
Oi vey...Three strikes and we're out, eh, chummer? :D Ah well. You can't win 'em all. But hey, we're actually ahead of schedule in the cybernetics dept. :cyber: |
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Dec 19 2003, 11:32 PM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
The only date that matters is the day the dragons show up.
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Dec 20 2003, 12:09 AM
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Avatar of Mediocrity Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 725 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle, WA (err, UCAS) Member No.: 277 |
No Century Ferret kinda hints at no dragons, I'm afraid.
'Course, maybe we just can't find the little bastards. :) Here's hoping. |
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Dec 20 2003, 12:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 611 Joined: 21-October 03 From: Yorkshire Toxic Zone Member No.: 5,752 |
Yeah. Pesky dragons. |
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Dec 20 2003, 02:40 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 3-October 03 Member No.: 5,677 |
What is a century ferret? :?
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Dec 20 2003, 03:09 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
it's like a regular ferret, but awakened. i don't recall what powers they have, but they're not impressive. their only claim to fame is that their species awakened in 2000. they would have been called the millennium ferret, but that would've opened up way too many bad star wars jokes.
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Dec 20 2003, 07:41 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 2-September 03 From: San Antonio Member No.: 5,571 |
Wouldn't be the first time that small furry critters related to the SW's universe ended up objects of extreme ridicule.
And as far as missing the time line, SR has FOOD RIOTS in the States in 1998. I guess the SR creators supposed every twinky, frito, and taco would vanish in about ten years. |
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Dec 20 2003, 01:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 266 Joined: 16-April 02 From: DC Member No.: 2,605 |
Well, I for one am curious what the timeline is going to be like in europe. I'm looking forward to the SoE because I think with the fall of the Soviet Union that kind of makes the Euro Wars not longer possible. because if I remember correctly doesn't the Soviet Union invade? Also I don't think the SR creators foresaw the EUs integration.
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Dec 20 2003, 07:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 402 Joined: 23-April 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 4,491 |
As for the Euro Wars, it says that Russia attacks and provokes the Euro Wars. Doesn't matter about whether or not it was the Soviet Union at the time.
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Dec 20 2003, 07:39 PM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
Doesn't matter- the Shadowrun timeline diverged from our own a while back, 1980 I think it was. Anything that happens after that in our world doesn't make any difference to Shadowrun's. |
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Dec 20 2003, 09:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 266 Joined: 16-April 02 From: DC Member No.: 2,605 |
I know the SR timeline diverges from ours in the early 80s, the same time SR first edition came out. I looked into my 3rd edition book and there's nothing before 1999. My 1st and 2nd edition books are currently in my parents attic many miles away. I know European integration has been a gradual thing staring after WW2 and progressed significantly with Maastrict in 1991. The SR timeline also didn't foresee the downturn in the Japanese economy in the mid 90s either; or the dominant currency wouldn't have been the nuyen.
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Dec 20 2003, 10:14 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,129 Joined: 11-June 03 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 4,712 |
This might be so that they don't have to constantly be making errata to fix their version of what's now our past. <shrugs> |
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Dec 22 2003, 06:52 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
I keep reading the thread title as "Gandalf tries to stop Shadowrun timeline"...
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