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Arax Dvorak
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preparing to GM a 2E SR campaign (for various and sundry reasons, not making the transition to latter editions or adopting some of the cannon that has come post-2E, such as Dunkelzhan dying or the Corporate Court existing, but want to at least use cannon as my point of departure), campaign will be set in late 2056, so taking a look at what the cannon says about the election of 2056 (e.g. the wikia page, plus bought a copy of "Dunkelzhan for President" (Dfp) which gets into the 2057 election) and judging how to incorporate it into my campaign... my understanding is:

1) in 2048, the Democrats ran Alan Adams, with a Technocratic running mate, Thomas Steele and that ticket won

2) President Adams died, right after being re-elected in 2052, reportedly of a heart-attack (though this being Shadowrun, magic or nanotech could have simulated the effects of a heart attack? there's shadowtalk to this effect in DfP), vice president Thomas Steele becomes President, Secretary of State James Booth (also a Technocrat) becomes the new veep

3) in June of 2056, the UCAS Congress formally recognizes the great dragon Dunkelzahn as a legal citizen, boosting the Technocrats to the top of the polls (e.g. pandering to the Awakened vote, and people who thought adding a great dragon to the tax base would be great for UCAS)

4) November 2056, Thomas Steele and James Booth apparently win "the most boring election of the 21st century"

5) it is exposed that the matrix-based election was rigged, Republican Speaker of the House Betty Jo Prichards becomes the interim President (and first female president of UCAS)

6) a special election is held in 2057, with the lineup being:
Dunkelzahn and Kyle Haeffner, Independent: "A New Golden Age"
Arthur Vogel and Gary Gray for the Democratic Party: "Save the Earth" (and judging from DfP, Vogel has an eco-terrorist past?)
Dr Rozilyn Hernandez and Ramsay McMulkin for the New Century Party: "Our Magical Futures" (a splinter from the Technocratic Party)
James Booth and Brandon Ekimasu for the Technocratic Party: "The Status Quo" (impeached vice president trying to make a comeback)
General Franklin Yeats and Anne Penchyk for the Republican Party: "Rebuild America" (hawkish survivor of Bug City who seems like he'd start a war with NAN)
Kenneth Brackhaven and William Ager for the Archconservative Party: "A holy War for the Soul of the Nation" (thinly disguised front for Humanis)

what I have not found in all my digging is:

A) was Alan Adams actually assassinated? I'm assuming they deliberately left it as vague? thought naming the new vice president who benefited from Adam's death with the same surname as Lincoln's assassin certainly seems like a deliberately heavy-handed hint...

B) who rigged the 2056 election? presumably the technocratic incumbents or someone associated with them (e.g. megacorp backers), but why? if they were at the top of the polls? or were they rigged too? the only in-cannon reason I could see for them having a tough re-election is the events of Bug City / erection of the Chicago Containment Zone

C) were the Republicans in control of the House prior to the 2056 elections (e.g. at the time my campaign is set, is Betty Jo Prichards already the Speaker?), I'm assuming so, but don't see it explicitly stated, and it's possible the Technocrats won a rigged presidential election at the same time the Republicans took control of the House

D) were Vogel/Gray and Yeats/Penchyk the Democratic and Republican tickets in 2056? or did they run new slates in 2057? I'm assuming the former (not least because it let's me potential adapt material on the 2057 election from DfP into my current campaign)

E) was Brackhaven running as a "fourth party" candidate in 2056 as well, or was his 2057 bid an opportunistic jumping in after the scandal and the annulment of the 2056 election?


in terms of my upcoming campaign, due to events in my previous campaigns, I'm comfortable saying Steele's plans to give Dunkelzhan citizenship were derailed and DOA with Congress (like two or three big earth-shaking PC-involved non-canonical events, at least one of which would have resulted in Congressional hearings)... and that Steele-Booth are not doing as well in the polls... so if they were wanting to rig the elections, there would be a much more obvious disconnect between the polling and the reported election results...
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