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 Expendable Cities, any good ideas for one? |
| Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_* |
 Jul 12 2004, 04:04 AM
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Florida is fair game. It should be carved off from the mainland and allowed to float freely so as to leave the rest of us the hell alone.
Phoenix, PCC. It's the home of Phoenix Biotechnologies, one of the larger biotech/pharma corps in SR. It's also a city of over 1 million and hosts several other things that are of importance to PCC but not to any metaplot I know of (unless Aztlan somehow miraculously gets its shit together and somehow decided invading PCC is a good idea). And, BTW guys, there are cities west of the Mississippi. |
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Jul 12 2004, 09:37 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 830 Joined: 3-April 04 From: Columbus, Ohio Member No.: 6,215 |
I gotta wonder if my name's getting put on a list for having participated in a thread about which cities can be blown up, and who among us would miss them...
And as for there being cities West of the Mississippi, I doubt it. At least, I've never seen them, except for one time when I had a layover in LA, and even then it was dark and foggy. So when you prove it to me, I'll believe it. Seriously, though, in SR, how many of them would be left? I've always been under the impression most places got emptied out after the Amerindian wars, and the NAN are a lot less urban centered than the old US was. |
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Jul 12 2004, 10:35 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 218 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Raleigh/Durham, CAS Member No.: 149 |
I always figured the bigger cities of certian states/teritories were turned into the Anglo reservations in some wierd twist of irony...
I kinda pictured Boise, ID as one recently for the Wiki project mentioned on the Mailing list. |
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Jul 12 2004, 11:16 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Most pinkskins were driven out of the NAN. Some cities were kept but yeah, there's a lot more open space. NAN population was one of the biggest "oops" back when SR came out in '89 and they've never quite solved it-the indians aren't that populous to cover half the continent in fully functional nationstates. even with them making babies like mad, 50 years on still will not have come close to that part of the population that is displaced.
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Jul 12 2004, 02:05 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 403 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Kill Em All Member No.: 2,018 |
I've never lived in Tallahassee, but I die there all the time. I recommend New Jersey. Nobody will miss Jersey, except the mob. And they still have Upstate New York to dump the bodies in. |
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Jul 12 2004, 02:10 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
Dayton, OH also has the Wright-Pat Air force base. (where Project Bluebook, Project Mogul, and several other projects and most of the shenannegans that may or may not have happened in Roswell, NM was moved)
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Jul 12 2004, 03:50 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Clones.
With a genetic drift tossed in to avoid exact duplication of parent cells. -Siege |
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Jul 12 2004, 04:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 654 |
You could go with New London or Providence too (do you suppose with the loss of the south they might move the Atlantic fleet back to Quanset?)
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| Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_* |
Jul 12 2004, 11:49 PM
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Yeah, but the Pine Barrens are much better for dumping bodies... except Russian ones. |
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| Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_* |
Jul 12 2004, 11:53 PM
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Hmm... Denver Phoenix Los Angeles San Francisco Sacramento Las Vegas SLC Seattle Portland Vancouver New Orleans Houston Dallas Austin Oklahoma City Kansas City St. Louis Calgary Edmonton Albuquerque Cheyenne San Diego } Assuming you don't San Antonio } mind being South of the Border Nope. No cities west of the Mississip. None at all... |
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Jul 13 2004, 12:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 1-April 04 Member No.: 6,211 |
Ahhhhhhhhhh, geo-bias, gotta love it.
"fly over country" indeed. St. Louis has a thriving medical research community and is exactly what you're looking for. We've got several major hospitals that tie in to Washington University, one of the best medical schools in teh county and St. Louis University, also a top notch school. Biomedical companies are taking advantage of the boom to the West. We've got major road, air and water access. And since you didn't even realize it was here, would you miss it? Would any coasters, who seem to think the country stops about 100 miles from either coast? Prolly not. |
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Jul 13 2004, 01:09 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,049 Joined: 24-March 03 Member No.: 4,323 |
I was going to suggest St Louis (dont forget Monsanto and Sigma Aldritch in addition to Wash U and SLU - STL is really quite a hub for bio/chemtech), but it *is* mentioned in SONA as being the only city to exist as part of both the UCAS and the CAS, and being a major smuggling haven as a result of that fact.
On the other hand, I do have my doubts that STL will be directly involved in any metaplot in the forseeable future (as evidenced here, its status as a decently large city tends to be ignored). So maybe you should go ahead and use it. The smuggling center aspect even gives a convenient excuse to plop your runners there. |
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Jul 13 2004, 04:28 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 1-April 04 Member No.: 6,211 |
That's exactly what I'm using it for in my campaign. I didn't know my city was mentioned in SONA, I'll have to pick up the book now. But it's nice to know that my homebrew ideas don't conflict with canon. yay me, I guess.
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Jul 13 2004, 07:05 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 113 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 460 |
Personally I think you should get rid of a French City. Who'd miss one of those?
:D *Runs away from Snow Fox* |
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Jul 13 2004, 07:25 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,747 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
*You bump into me*
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Jul 13 2004, 07:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 113 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 460 |
Doh!
*whistles innocently* *backs up slowly* *Runs in a direction perpendicular to his former route* |
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Jul 13 2004, 11:37 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
*Looks oddly at the Nephyte that just ran headlong into him*
~J |
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Jul 14 2004, 09:16 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 402 Joined: 23-April 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 4,491 |
Do you mind! There's an independent delta clinic in there! p.54 M&M. |
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Jul 14 2004, 09:43 AM
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Senior GM Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,406 Joined: 12-April 03 From: Redmond, WA Member No.: 4,442 |
I vote along with BGMFH. Disrupt Atlantic City, New Jersey. Besides the Casinos, the characters may enjoy driving around in a city that feels like a Monopoly board.
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Jul 14 2004, 04:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 269 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 752 |
I live in Columbus Ohio
they have Ross Laboratories and OSU is a top rate research university. it's said to be an important as a transportation hub as well as the capital of ohio but it's nothing that couldn't be taken over by robotic trucking/monorails and or cleveland cincinatti. nuke us please. |
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Jul 14 2004, 05:43 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 256 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,709 |
Sounds like a great place to have some technological nightmare rise up then! |
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Jul 14 2004, 06:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 897 Joined: 26-February 02 From: TIME OUT Member No.: 1,989 |
having lived ten years in cleveland i have to say it really is the mistake on the lake, and should be bombed to all hell and back, it is a disposable city, nobody would miss it :)
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Jul 15 2004, 04:46 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Sadly, as of the last count Worcester is bigger then Springfield, and unlike Springfield, its not bankrupt either. As for a location, its great. Especally seeing as Boston was pretty f*ed up (bio-toxens in the Harbor tend to do that). But If you want the north east, Hartford CN , Manchester NH, Providance RI are still all good choices. Albany Ny would also be a good choice, as its farther away from the BAMA line. Besides, who would notice if Albany went away, NYC would be the capital then =p |
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Jul 15 2004, 07:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 214 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Wilton NH Member No.: 3,872 |
I thought Worcester was only the second biggest city during the school year. 20 colleges can do that to a town. Former WPIer here... And don't get me started on Manch-Vegas, New Hamster.... thats my old hometown... How 'bout you get rid of something a bit more southerly... like Manhatten... Heck. Just barricade the bridges like in Escape from NY, and your all set. |
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Jul 16 2004, 01:15 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
NYC is corp-owned, so it's not going to be capital of anything ever.
Worcester is a possibility. I'd have to work in the College of the Holy Cross and some insane Classics majors then, though. ~J |
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