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[blakkie]

I looked up UCAS on the Sixth World map site. They have no canon/semi-canon listed for the state of New England. All i'm looking for is whether it is a big crater, an offical wasteland, spookville central (of the HP Lovecraft and/or Stephen King variety).

[Czar Eggbert]

New England is a region of the united states, not a state it's self. I consists of MA, NH, VT, CT, ME, and RI. I know Boston, MA has been expounded upon in target UCAS, but I don't think the rest of the region has.

-The Eggman

[Ancient History]

New England is a region, not a state. Address it as such again and you will likely be flamed.

Boston and New York City are both corporate sprawls; Salem has a very active tourist industry and Weise activity, DC has the Draco Foundation and UCAS government...not sure if Prince Edward Island would qualify as New England or not, but that has one of DUnkie's houses and a free spirit and the CHildren of the Dragon; the New Dawn is HQ in DC as I recall. So yes, there's stuff there.

[Digital Heroin]

PEI's Maratimes, not New England... I'd love to see the look on a maratimer's face if they were lotted in with the States... :D

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Large Mike]

Other than what's in target UCAS, which basically says that New England is Boston's bitch, the only thing I can think of is the Philidelphia stuff on Blackjack's site. Not sure if Philly counts, though, I'm not American.

I can't believe you called PEI a part of New England. They'd probably rather be called Newfies that Americans.

[Ancient History]

Picky, picky. :sleepy: It's been a long day.

[Digital Heroin]

You've never had a confusing conversation until you've spent a day with a Newfie with a speach impediment...

[Kagetenshi]

I think he meant state of New England as the synonym for condition...

That being said. Boston is now what NYC used to be, except better (/blatant bias) and NYC is mostly corpland.

~J

[Large Mike]

Off topic for a second: I used to work with a bunch of newfies. I have a nasty habit of picking up accents when I'm around them. So for about three hours after I got home every day, none of my roommates could understand a word I said. It was all kinds of fun.

[Shanshu Freeman]

[blakkie]

[Lantzer]

What is in New England?

Mostly rocks.

Really - They don't call New Hampshire "The Granite State" for nothing.... It's also a big reason why New England has always had a big fishing/shipbuilding industry. The soil is nothing really to brag about.

Ok, what's the area like in 2004:

The coast is highly populated. Inland is less so. Cost of living is high, partly due to the fact that the infrastructure is rather primitive compared to regions settled more recently, and partly due to the fact that most food is imported. The farther you go from Boston, the more true this becomes. Land is expensive anywhere within an hour's drive of the coast.

The Penobscot Bay area in Maine is quite pretty. The region has for the past 20 years or so been economically depressed since the end of the big navy shipbuilding boom- but in the past few years, a corporate giant (MBNA) has moved in and has been buying everything and everyone. They chopped the top off a mountain overlooking Camden to put an executive retreat up there. The way land prices (and property taxes) have been rising, all the locals have been selling off any land near the sea because they can't afford to live there anymore. (sorry if I sound bitter - my uncle is busy going broke there - most of his neighbors have sold out and condos are going in).

Projected from current trends, the southern coast of Maine will become a fairly standard suburban region by the 2050's, with lots of summer homes for the wealthy from Boston. How the rest of the region fares depends a great deal on the fishing and logging industries. One bright point - with Idaho lost to the NAN, New England becomes a big supplier of potatoes for the UCAS.

Possible Awakening stuff: In addition to Salem, I can see some activity occuring around a spot called "America's Stonehenge" - It's a archeological dig site in New Hampshire with old indian ruins. It's labeled as a stonehenge because of the placement of a bunch of big boulders at useful locations, astrologically speaking. It also has a bunch of other nifty features, including what appears to be a big grooved altar with a "Oracle's hole" under it. The current theory is that somebody would hide under there, and speak ex-cathedra during ceremonies.

EDIT: Hmm, how could I have missed it: Tourism is a _big_ industry in New England. And antique sales.

[blakkie]

[Seville]

I may be wrong, but in the official game-world, I'm pretty sure that the Red Sox have yet to win a World Series since the Curse of the Bambino.

At least one Shadowrun prediction is likely to come true :)

[Kagetenshi]

Shush, you. This year it'll be different.

~J

[shroud]

The only references to Maine I am aware of is in the beginning of Nyx Smith's novel Who Hunts the Hunter. The book states that Maine has a smugglers route between the UCAS and Quebec. Its called the "Road to Nowhere" and the run is centered on electronics, in particular cyberware, simsense rigs and chips.
Northern Maine is still wooded and very rural. I think it is safe to assume that corps own huge tracks of land. Maine Para-animals mentioned in the book include hell hounds, gargoyles, piasmas, greater wolverines and manticoras. If you are interested in large mundane animals, deer, moose, elk and wolves were also mentioned. I double checked the Para distribution in PAoNA and all those animals can be found in Maine. Finally, Police speed traps consist of two officers in a cruiser and their uniforms are blue.

[kevyn668]

[FlakJacket]

*Starts loading pigs onto the trebuchet*