Full Version: is a shadows of africa book do-able?!
if any one is interested in giving their thoughts on what they think a shadows of africa source book would be like please go ahead; it is about time that shadowrun had a world map. If anyone responds to this I will give a deep disertation on how I think africa would be layed out in the Sixth World, but it would be cool if any one would share their ideas too.
Let's see your dissertation. 
OK, it does seem weird that the world's fifth largest megacity doesn't even get a wink in the official write-ups. That's right Lagos, Nigeria is in 2005 in the top five largest megacity on Earth, edging out Rio-Paulo and Los Angeles. Of course those other urban areas don't get a lot of coverage either - and what coverage they do receive doesn't make a lot of sense.
But Lagos has nearly 20 million people and has controlling interest in one of the larger resevoires of fossil fuels outside the Middle East. It's important globally today, and in a world with no US or China, its importance would be magnified. In my home campaign, I relocated Asamundo there from fraggin Burkina Faso and made it a major player internationally.
Makes for good theatre - the city is called "The Lagos Necropolis" and is run by ghouls. It has one of the largest ghost populations anywhere, but vampires are outlawed and the country is at open war with the Wendigos of the world (whose favorite food is metahumans who have eaten other metahuman flesh). In 2005, Lagos is the home of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, as well as being an entire province all by itself. It's also home to one of the most diverse tribal makeups of any city in Africa - meaning that post Awakening it's one the areas that is most likely to retain government by a national rather than tribal authority. In 2070, I have it being a police state where incinerating the dead is a crime.
-Frank
But Lagos has nearly 20 million people and has controlling interest in one of the larger resevoires of fossil fuels outside the Middle East. It's important globally today, and in a world with no US or China, its importance would be magnified. In my home campaign, I relocated Asamundo there from fraggin Burkina Faso and made it a major player internationally.
Makes for good theatre - the city is called "The Lagos Necropolis" and is run by ghouls. It has one of the largest ghost populations anywhere, but vampires are outlawed and the country is at open war with the Wendigos of the world (whose favorite food is metahumans who have eaten other metahuman flesh). In 2005, Lagos is the home of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, as well as being an entire province all by itself. It's also home to one of the most diverse tribal makeups of any city in Africa - meaning that post Awakening it's one the areas that is most likely to retain government by a national rather than tribal authority. In 2070, I have it being a police state where incinerating the dead is a crime.
-Frank
Cyberpirates
that book is basically an 'Shadows of Africa' book, with some added stuff for the caribbean and the phillipines.
that book is basically an 'Shadows of Africa' book, with some added stuff for the caribbean and the phillipines.
Thank you Frank, for regaling us once again with "How my campaign makes more sense than the standard Shadowrun setting we all know and reference."
I would expect more on africa in the future. Parts of it have been covered before in different places, but considering it contains at least two Awakened states, the mass driver, Madagascar, the Gold and Ivory Coast and the sur-Saharan states of classical antiquity, I think more will definately be done there.
I would expect more on africa in the future. Parts of it have been covered before in different places, but considering it contains at least two Awakened states, the mass driver, Madagascar, the Gold and Ivory Coast and the sur-Saharan states of classical antiquity, I think more will definately be done there.
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| Thank you Frank, for regaling us once again with "How my campaign makes more sense than the standard Shadowrun setting we all know and reference." |
Why do people talking about what they filled holes in the Shadowrun storyline with fill you with such animosity? Lagos is a huge city, and the designers have said precisely dick about it. Busting out the sarcastic barbs because someone had a storyline involving it is just plain bizzare.
If my ideas don't float your boat, fine. You don't have to use them, just don't be a cock about it.
-Frank
Some people here might want to keep an eye on upcoming books.
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| Why do people talking about what they filled holes in the Shadowrun storyline with fill you with such animosity? Lagos is a huge city, and the designers have said precisely dick about it. Busting out the sarcastic barbs because someone had a storyline involving it is just plain bizzare. |
I'm not busting you for having a storyline involving something never covered. I'm giving you a hard time because your means of conveying that storyline were derogatory and because you fell into the all-too-common "Well in my game..." crap trap, which frankly bugs the living shit out of me. "I moved Asamando." Pfft.
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Ah, and here I thought that was my line.
This is Boskop-albatros again, SO there is no arguement why dosen't wiz-kids keep asamondo where it is and divide the admittingly HUGE CITY OF LAGOS-which has offically had nothing written about it and divide it into a Ghoul side of town and a UNINFECTED side of town; the first days of the sixth world in africa were propably NOT TOO PREATTY, but it is probably by 2070 just getting better-there were possibly Ghoul outbeaks in many nations and now that things are settling down the ghouls are now going to have to try to find away to get along with UNINFECTED people
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| This is Boskop-albatros again, SO there is no arguement why dosen't wiz-kids keep asamondo where it is and divide the admittingly HUGE CITY OF LAGOS-which has offically had nothing written about it and divide it into a Ghoul side of town and a UNINFECTED side of town; the first days of the sixth world in africa were propably NOT TOO PREATTY, but it is probably by 2070 just getting better-there were possibly Ghoul outbeaks in many nations and now that things are settling down the ghouls are now going to have to try to find away to get along with UNINFECTED people |
I strongly disgree with everything in your post.
OK then what other suggestions does anyone have for Lagos in the sixth world? I'd figue that Nigeria it self has had to be Reconstructed and may not even be in as good of shape as a reconstructed Central African Repuplic or DRC; So anyone got any ideas for Just Nigeria in the Sixth World?
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| I'm not busting you for having a storyline involving something never covered. I'm giving you a hard time because your means of conveying that storyline were derogatory and because you fell into the all-too-common "Well in my game..." crap trap, which frankly bugs the living shit out of me. |
Honestly, I don't give two shits whether that bugs the living shit out of you. Never have, and I'm not really intending to start any time soon. Shadowrun has been going for 16 years, and is sort of supposed to be a shared world experience. Unfortunately, since we don't all share a hive mind, that's wildly impractical.
My own campaign had a Ghoul Nation with its capital in Lagos since well before Cyber Pirates came out, and while it wasn't called "Asamundo", it was close enough that it makes no odds. From my standpoint, porting things from Cyber Pirates into my home game Lagos is a concession to shared continuity, but home game continuity always has to come first.
And thus, when I talk about something from my home continuity, I mark it as such so that people don't get confused and think it's from "official" continuity. To say anything at all about Lagos (fifth largest city on the planet), I have to mark it with text that describes it as being a house rule, because there is no official description of it even in passing anywhere.
So having you go off on me for doing the polite thing and marking my statements as being based or not based on written source material (and why), is out-the-window crazy talk. If you'd rather that people didn't offer ideas for things to put in important blank spaces on the map, you'd better get off a message board, because that's pretty much what it is for. If you'd rather that people who offer said ideas put no disclaimers that such ideas were home submissions rather footnotes from obscure sourcebooks - then you're just plain nuts.
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A note on Ghoul Nations in general:
A ghoul who gets their share of various corpses can subsist on essentially one whole metahuman body per ghoul every 2 years. Assuming that your Ghoul Nation can successfully distribute one body in every 4 for eating (meaning three out of four are lost in the wilderness, swept out to sea, unrecoverably chemically burned, or hidden by relatives), and the life expectancy in the area is 50 years, that the ghoul population can be supported in a stable fashion indefinately if ghouls are no more than 1% of the populace. If the government can snatch half the corpses for eating, that goes up to 2%, and at 75% of the bodies the ghoul population can be 3%. That means that if you use the Cyberpirates claim of Ghoul-Controlled Burkina Faso (real-world population 13 million), the ghoul population could be as much as 390,000 without doing anything fancy at all.
Of course, ghouls can eat cloned tissue if that's what they want to do. Using old clunky (and probably very cheap) 2050s cloning vats, you can make a human leg in 8 weeks. Human legs don't keep that well once they've been gnawed on, but that means that with 8 cloning vats going you can keep 24 ghouls going forever. Essentially, as long as you have cloning capacity equal to 1/3 of your ghoul population, you don't even need the humans to drop dead.
And that's not home campaign stuff - that's official write-ups of ghouls, cloning, and the reality of the actual place that they placed that country in Cyber Pirates.
-Frank
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That's your perogative man.
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My preference - and it is only that - is that I /don't/ want to hear about how "My world is different from canon, becuase canon is stupid." It's vain, if nothing else, and frankly most of it is derivative. If you want to flesh out Lagos, I'm not gonna bust you on it. Hell, if you want to tell everyone about how you fleshed out Lagos in your game, I'm not gonna bust you on it. What I don't want to hear is you explaining how your game is different from canon especially when you're just bucking canon because you don't like what's written.
Every campaign goes off of canon at some point. It's so bloody obvious that posting your Nth variation on how it happened in your campaign is worthless.
Minor nitpick:
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It has been suggested that a ghoul's dietary needs somehow involve the metahuman aura, hence cloned parts may or may not work.
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| The source of most people's hatred for ghouls comes from their preference for eating human corpses. They must consume approximately 1 percent of their body weight in metahuman flesh per week in order to maintain their health and get needed nutrition, but the bulk of a ghoul's diet may be any other kind of raw flesh. Ghouls find cooked meat indigestible; it can make them ill, just as raw meat does so many metahumans...Scientists have not yet managed to isolate the exact chemicals present in metahuman flesh that ghouls need to survive; a popular theory maintains that the ghouls' need for metahuman flesh has something to do with its metaphysical aura. (ucas, 99)(src3, 32) |
1) If you want to talk about Ghoul Nation, post in this thread, after having read this thread, or you're gonna waste time going over what's already been gone over by Dumpshockers (or resume things here)
2) Lagos, like anything in Central Afirca, is probably a non-concern at this point. Nigeria doesn't exist anymore. Such a city, although it would have been reduced to nothing by VITAS and subsequent complete lack of restoration efforts by any sort of organised group (the local gov having collapsed and international attention diverted), wouldn't be of any international concern, as in it would export nor import nothing. If it were a 20 million ghoul or vampire city, it would have been nuked off the face of the earth. A more likely setting is something that does not attract attention: much lower population of wealth-deprived people. That can still leave enough room to make the place interesting.
2) Lagos, like anything in Central Afirca, is probably a non-concern at this point. Nigeria doesn't exist anymore. Such a city, although it would have been reduced to nothing by VITAS and subsequent complete lack of restoration efforts by any sort of organised group (the local gov having collapsed and international attention diverted), wouldn't be of any international concern, as in it would export nor import nothing. If it were a 20 million ghoul or vampire city, it would have been nuked off the face of the earth. A more likely setting is something that does not attract attention: much lower population of wealth-deprived people. That can still leave enough room to make the place interesting.
Yeah know what? Who cares. If you want to use a Country that may or may not then go for it. To say that X would happen or Y would happen is totally meaningless. You don't know. There's so much we don't know about VITAS and the other plauges. Do certain folks have a natural immunity, could the awakening introduce a natural awakening. There has never been a specific map of how Vitas spread, the mortality levels in different areas, and if certain folks survived it because they had an immunity. As far as I can tell with the first plauge 10% of the world pop. died, second plauge 25% roughly died. Certain poor areas were hit hard? I'm not sure though, I don't think there's a "CURE" for Vitas? I think possibly a spell might help but if you catch it there's not a magic cure? One thing in human history is that those who survive a plauge A. are carriers, and B. have a resistence thus small pox and other disease spread throughout the Americas during the age of exploration. That seems more logical than saying that X would wipe everybody out.....
Ghouls are not all insane. Hell you can play a character who's a ghoul. Sure you like flesh but hey if you can trade internationally ghouls make cheap labor. Wars come and go but I would doubt the city would just disapear. Cities in the last 500 years are pretty stagnat. The borders could change and will but the ports and cities stay. We need to keep the lines of communication open. If you have a good idea then go with it. I don't think because it's against canon you should be quiet. Of course there's stuff about SR that flat out doesn't make sense. Tons of stuff. I tend to use because I run lots of games at cons but alternate ideas are what makes for good content. Even if it's been discussed before why not discuss it again. Just because it was discussed by group A doesn't mean a new group of folks won't have a different idea. I personally find reading lots of threads boring and sometimes confusing, maybe another thread would be more interesting.
Hell if you've got freaking Aliens with fireballs landing from Mars post something. Sure if it's cheesy, but if you don't like it don't read that thread. Let's face the NAN nations are cheese. 4,000,000 Indians (Beaura of Vital Statistics: Census 2000 PHC-T-18. American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes in the United States: 2000) verses 300,000,000 Americans your not going to wind. I don't care how much magic you have ultimately your hosed. But yeah known NAN's hear to stay no matter how cheesy I think it is, I still use it. I've had friends with althernate histories and they're games were alot of fun. So keep the lines of communication open. This is an open forum and if you want to say "My campaign is better than the standard SR because..." go for it. This is a free and open forum. Unless Adam asks otherwise no one has the right to try and silence someone ultimately.
Ghouls are not all insane. Hell you can play a character who's a ghoul. Sure you like flesh but hey if you can trade internationally ghouls make cheap labor. Wars come and go but I would doubt the city would just disapear. Cities in the last 500 years are pretty stagnat. The borders could change and will but the ports and cities stay. We need to keep the lines of communication open. If you have a good idea then go with it. I don't think because it's against canon you should be quiet. Of course there's stuff about SR that flat out doesn't make sense. Tons of stuff. I tend to use because I run lots of games at cons but alternate ideas are what makes for good content. Even if it's been discussed before why not discuss it again. Just because it was discussed by group A doesn't mean a new group of folks won't have a different idea. I personally find reading lots of threads boring and sometimes confusing, maybe another thread would be more interesting.
Hell if you've got freaking Aliens with fireballs landing from Mars post something. Sure if it's cheesy, but if you don't like it don't read that thread. Let's face the NAN nations are cheese. 4,000,000 Indians (Beaura of Vital Statistics: Census 2000 PHC-T-18. American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes in the United States: 2000) verses 300,000,000 Americans your not going to wind. I don't care how much magic you have ultimately your hosed. But yeah known NAN's hear to stay no matter how cheesy I think it is, I still use it. I've had friends with althernate histories and they're games were alot of fun. So keep the lines of communication open. This is an open forum and if you want to say "My campaign is better than the standard SR because..." go for it. This is a free and open forum. Unless Adam asks otherwise no one has the right to try and silence someone ultimately.
Ok this is Bos-Al, This is the beginning of the serious stuff now-THE Tibest Mts in Northern Chad Has a last eruption unknown Volcano- Emi Koussi 3415 M high And TWO active Volacanos, Pic Tousside 3265 M high, And Soborom 3100 M high-----OK OK----- I don't want to be too radical But have you ever wondered where another Great form Sirrash Was?? 
Also shouldn't there be a African equivalent of Chief Daniel Howling Coyote- A Man who uses Post-apocyalptic Magic To Unite The Different Tribes AND even Meta-Types in At least one good multi county stretch of territory After The Horiffying **VITAS** PULAGUES ____ how ever that is might then blame the New Power the CORPS!/ [AS IN EVIL INTERNATIONALISTS!!!ELITES THINNING THE POPULATION OF Planet EARTH!!!!!!!!]..........sO THEN THERE will be No Mega corps at ALL...This will be a Muti-racial, Muti-metatype, MAGICAL Libratarian Solcialist state, So I suggest Trans-Namibia_Kalahari_Botswana_----This is Also where the boskop live; They are S.W. Africian Magical Pirates who live on the Skeleton Coast(Heavy dune desert) of what is now Namibia
Also shouldn't there be a African equivalent of Chief Daniel Howling Coyote- A Man who uses Post-apocyalptic Magic To Unite The Different Tribes AND even Meta-Types in At least one good multi county stretch of territory After The Horiffying **VITAS** PULAGUES ____ how ever that is might then blame the New Power the CORPS!/ [AS IN EVIL INTERNATIONALISTS!!!ELITES THINNING THE POPULATION OF Planet EARTH!!!!!!!!]..........sO THEN THERE will be No Mega corps at ALL...This will be a Muti-racial, Muti-metatype, MAGICAL Libratarian Solcialist state, So I suggest Trans-Namibia_Kalahari_Botswana_----This is Also where the boskop live; They are S.W. Africian Magical Pirates who live on the Skeleton Coast(Heavy dune desert) of what is now Namibia
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| But yeah known NAN's hear to stay no matter how cheesy I think it is, I still use it. I've had friends with althernate histories and they're games were alot of fun. So keep the lines of communication open. This is an open forum and if you want to say "My campaign is better than the standard SR because..." go for it. This is a free and open forum. Unless Adam asks otherwise no one has the right to try and silence someone ultimately. |
I like what you say, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter sir.
Having attempted a full rewrite of SR's history, it... don't bother. I like aliens though. That was an amusing image. I rather like Frank's ideas. They sound pretty neat.
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| Ok this is Bos-Al, This is the beginning of the serious stuff now-THE Tibest Mts in Northern Chad Has a last eruption unknown Volcano- Emi Koussi 3415 M high And TWO active Volacanos, Pic Tousside 3265 M high, And Soborom 3100 M high-----OK OK----- I don't want to be too radical But have you ever wondered where another Great form Sirrash Was?? Also shouldn't there be a African equivalent of Chief Daniel Howling Coyote- A Man who uses Post-apocyalptic Magic To Unite The Different Tribes AND even Meta-Types in At least one good multi county stretch of territory After The Horiffying **VITAS** PULAGUES ____ how ever that is might then blame the New Power the CORPS!/ [AS IN EVIL INTERNATIONALISTS!!!ELITES THINNING THE POPULATION OF Planet EARTH!!!!!!!!]..........sO THEN THERE will be No Mega corps at ALL...This will be a Muti-racial, Muti-metatype, MAGICAL Libratarian Solcialist state, So I suggest Trans-Namibia_Kalahari_Botswana_----This is Also where the boskop live; They are S.W. Africian Magical Pirates who live on the Skeleton Coast(Heavy dune desert) of what is now Namibia |
I love this guy!
Boskop-albatross Again
This is now the dissertation on ALL counties in africa-I will cover Wild Lands/Awakened Zones later--so I won't be talking about any Great Form Sirrashes Right now.
The counties of Africa will fall into 4 categories: Survivors-counties that made it though the VITAS pluages and the Awakening with out major reconstruction or a Name change/alteration: Reconstructed Counties-These are Nation States not too different from the borders and names in our real world's timeline, but to survive in the sixth world had to under go BIG changes (Azainia is a example of this type): Coporate Backed states-some of these states have used the corps to invest in then to rebuild and have been able to keep at least a decent sembalence of Soverenty; while others, the **Small counties mostly ** have been compleatly overwhelmed by The Mega-Corps: And last is TOTAL BRAKEDOWN- some areas of Africa will be Ultra-dangerous Anarchy zones with no government at all (basicaly just an area of the world with a Z or above[as in ZZ or a even ZZZ] security rating.
Survivors: Just Angola and Ethiopia & maybe Eritera-The First two were mentioned in The novel Shadowboxer like they actually had some up-to-date industry (about the only thing that novel was good for), Such as a Matrix Presence-So Luanda and Addis Abbiba Data Havens Would be cool-Also Angola's new name may be The Union of Angola and Cabinda, Cabinda is an enclave separated from the rest of Angola by the DRC, it has Oil and wants idependance of course-Angola would let the corps have a presence there so they could Possibly give Jobs to the people to basicly buy them off; that probably won't work so then you just have an anti-corp rebellion in an enclave that is right next to what has become of the DRC;COULD be some big smuggling Oppertunities There. Eritera will probably find some way to stay idependant of Ethiopia, they will possibly be at least somewhat Super-nationalist, especially if ethiopia does all it's port trade though CORP-RUN Djbouti (more on Djbouti later)-More to come
This is now the dissertation on ALL counties in africa-I will cover Wild Lands/Awakened Zones later--so I won't be talking about any Great Form Sirrashes Right now.
The counties of Africa will fall into 4 categories: Survivors-counties that made it though the VITAS pluages and the Awakening with out major reconstruction or a Name change/alteration: Reconstructed Counties-These are Nation States not too different from the borders and names in our real world's timeline, but to survive in the sixth world had to under go BIG changes (Azainia is a example of this type): Coporate Backed states-some of these states have used the corps to invest in then to rebuild and have been able to keep at least a decent sembalence of Soverenty; while others, the **Small counties mostly ** have been compleatly overwhelmed by The Mega-Corps: And last is TOTAL BRAKEDOWN- some areas of Africa will be Ultra-dangerous Anarchy zones with no government at all (basicaly just an area of the world with a Z or above[as in ZZ or a even ZZZ] security rating.
Survivors: Just Angola and Ethiopia & maybe Eritera-The First two were mentioned in The novel Shadowboxer like they actually had some up-to-date industry (about the only thing that novel was good for), Such as a Matrix Presence-So Luanda and Addis Abbiba Data Havens Would be cool-Also Angola's new name may be The Union of Angola and Cabinda, Cabinda is an enclave separated from the rest of Angola by the DRC, it has Oil and wants idependance of course-Angola would let the corps have a presence there so they could Possibly give Jobs to the people to basicly buy them off; that probably won't work so then you just have an anti-corp rebellion in an enclave that is right next to what has become of the DRC;COULD be some big smuggling Oppertunities There. Eritera will probably find some way to stay idependant of Ethiopia, they will possibly be at least somewhat Super-nationalist, especially if ethiopia does all it's port trade though CORP-RUN Djbouti (more on Djbouti later)-More to come
Reconstructed States- This one will be longer-Azainia is all ready known, but in the lost years (2066-2070) may have changed slightly-Don't know what happend to Lesotho's people when it got swollowed up by Azainia & And I'm expecting that That The Swazi's might of wanted a redress of grivences durring the second crash yearsThe afor mentioned Trans-Namibia-Kalahari-Botswana-Untied the Bantu and Koi-koi[bushmen] peoples in a Magical Revolution durring the awakening-kinda the Africa version of Yakut, just not quite as nuts-will probably be agitating for the Koi-Koi of the western cape to join them and saying that Azaina is Still under Racial and Metatype oppresion
Forgot to mention Gabon yet-probably is one of the more stable counties in Africa, Liberville it's capitol is possibly a big city with alot of corp action-but with Large national parks Gabon will have alot of Awakened wilderness too
The Community of Mozambique- loose federal system to cope with big political polerization-but if the investment pours into Maputo that will hopefully keep the country together
Kingdom of Zambia-I saw it mentioned somewhere about Zambia in the sixth world going back to a monarchy-I agee with that but a constitional monarchy like in the UK would probably work best
Tanzania-has most likely been reconstructed-as in reserected-But Zanzibar most deffinently is independant and on it's way to becoming an African Singapore.
Kenya- This one too has come back from the dead and if all is well would be the beast place for an African Corp to emerge from (besides Azainia)
Republique du Congo (as in Congo Brazzaville) if any cohesion at all only in Brazzaville it's self (maybe with Mega-corp help [Azzies anyone?]) The pool region Ninja rebels (yes thats what they call themselves) will likely be doing well
DRC: THE one No-one wants to try to make sense of The new Name might be THE CONFEDERATED DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO-because they will need a loser state so they don't fight each other as much but a state nonetheless so they will be protected form everybody else who wants to steal Their! resouces
The mining state of Katanga in the south will have Dwarves & maybe Trolls & Orks THE Itruri Forest Awakened Zone will have Wakambi Eves and Pygme Dwarves (You mean you're Three feat tall and weigh 200-250 lbs?!?!?!) This one will be one of the hardest counties to use but could also turn out to be alot of fun-Also If the HMHVV outbreaks are as bad in Africa as some say then we might have a situation where in the CDRC vampires are held in HOSPITAL PRISON CAMPS in an attempt to experiment on them to find a cure (on the other hand the wrong types would be experimenting to weponize the virus) Remember if one night in Bangcock makes a hard man humble then one night in Kinshasha Makes a Hard **Really** Humble
MORE TO COME
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| Thank you Frank, for regaling us once again with "How my campaign makes more sense than the standard Shadowrun setting we all know and reference." |
As opposed to your ego-whoring around these parts? People in glass houses and all that. Not that your page isn't a very nice resource but you can cop an attitude as bad as anyone else's around here every so often.
Short update-had a big one but lost it
Zimbabwe: Gone-divided between the ZANU MUGUMBAISTS in the North around Harare and Trans-N-K-B Supported MDC in the south on Farm Co-Ops; North Zimbabwe is called Zimbabwe ZANU and South Zimbabwe is called Free Zimbabwe
Malawi (Wit-Africa): Was probably Corp Backed But I could see a revolution happening against the Corporate Agricultural Colonies
Kenya: Probably Fell in the Awakening but has since more then likely been reconstructed; if so it is probably the best place for an African Corp to start (After Azainia)
Tanzania: Also a likely reconstruction but I don't think Zanzibar would stick around; Zanzibar is probably on it's way to becoming an African Singapore
Will rap-up list later
Zimbabwe: Gone-divided between the ZANU MUGUMBAISTS in the North around Harare and Trans-N-K-B Supported MDC in the south on Farm Co-Ops; North Zimbabwe is called Zimbabwe ZANU and South Zimbabwe is called Free Zimbabwe
Malawi (Wit-Africa): Was probably Corp Backed But I could see a revolution happening against the Corporate Agricultural Colonies
Kenya: Probably Fell in the Awakening but has since more then likely been reconstructed; if so it is probably the best place for an African Corp to start (After Azainia)
Tanzania: Also a likely reconstruction but I don't think Zanzibar would stick around; Zanzibar is probably on it's way to becoming an African Singapore
Will rap-up list later
Isn't kenya part of Azania? I thought it was in Nosferatu.
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| Isn't kenya part of Azania? I thought it was in Nosferatu. |
I think Kenya is too far north to be part of Azania, but I would have to check.
Flak: <shrug> I'm not perfect, but I'm not throwing stones for anything I've ever personally done. It's not a good answer, but it's the honest one.
I thought Azania was a little more to the south ... like in and around the Zulu lands.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. The Zulu elves in what used to be Kenya.
I'm not an expert on Africa, but I do know the the Zulu, Xhosa and other tribes settled in what is today South Africa, and that South Africa is what the Azanian Confederation grew ut of, I doubt that Azania can claim territory as far away as Kenya.
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Map (to illustrate distance)
SixthWorldWikiMap (not sure of the complete accuracy of this map, but fits my own mental picture for comparison)
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| Kenya: Probably Fell in the Awakening but has since more then likely been reconstructed; if so it is probably the best place for an African Corp to start (After Azainia) |
Well several of the books have mentioned the Kenyan government in passing so I figure there's a functioning government that's under corporate control- how much control it exerts out in the bush away from key areas is an open question. The Addis Ababa bit of SotA 2064 calls it- the city- the only stable area in the Horn of Africa so Somalia is still the hell-hole it is now with Eritrea and Djibouti sliding down to that level as well. With the eastern and northern borders adjoining not so much countries as anarchies the further towards them you get and away from Nairobi I'm guessing less governmental control. Or at least less civil and more military control.
On the is it a part of Azania question, I wouldn't have thought so. I certainly don't remember any of the books ever mentioning it. Having a country with two areas split 1500 miles apart makes about as much sense as the NAN. Still, even if it did say that it's only a novel and easily hand waved away.
Canon! Canon! They'll all say!
Eh. It may have been Mozambique. I really can't remember.
Eh. It may have been Mozambique. I really can't remember.
Ok this is the home stretch Bos-Al
First of all to clear up the slight confusion about Kenya; Azainia in the Parenthesis is just to show that besides Kenya-(after it's reconstruction) Aziania is probably the best place For a Corp NATIVE to Africa to be formed-Their is No way that Aziania and Kenya are the same county; Kenya it self is listed in the Sixth world Wiki so I guess that means it is about SEMI-offical
As for Tanzania That is another County that would probably be reconstructed, except I'd expect Zanzibar to go it's own Way and become one of the Top Corp Havens in Africa (Heck maybe a Native African Mega-Corp could be based there)
The Kinddom of Zambia: I saw it writen somewhere that Zambia would go back to a monarchy after the awakening; I think that is a good idea except it would most likely be a constitional monarchy like the UK, especially since that the UK was once Zambia's colonizer
(Federated) Central African Repuplic: Propably another basket case-This is a situation like the ©DRC-brake up followed by reconstruction becuase the various ethnicities would regroup for their own mutual survival; If this happens then I'd expect Bangui the capital to become one of the smuggling havens of the continet (like Kinshasha and Cabinda)
Camaroon League: Yes another basket grouping of an existing county-if anyone disagrees I don't mind-Camaroon has probably got ALOT OF AWAKENED ACTIVITY,
ALL though the camaroon highlands their are most likely various territories run by verious Metas (Trolls, Orks, Elves, Dwarves,- and even OTHERS) This would also be a good lace for a Dragon Lair
Rawanda-Burundi Co-operatives: Things have probably deteriorated to the point in these two counties where the only form of government would be village to village Co-Operatives
Ugandan Micro states: Alittle better then Rawanda-Burundi, but not much so; possibly trying for reinergration/reconstruction after the second crash however
Nigerian Territories: This is just a convenient label, A Yourba state has probably formed with it's capital in Lagos; Lagos being split between the Mega Corps, Sin-less, and HMHVV infected (you don't want to be in GHOUL TOWN After dark!
) The Niger Delta is Another state possibly using the the old "Biafra" name & in the North an Islanic Sultanate has been formed
First of all to clear up the slight confusion about Kenya; Azainia in the Parenthesis is just to show that besides Kenya-(after it's reconstruction) Aziania is probably the best place For a Corp NATIVE to Africa to be formed-Their is No way that Aziania and Kenya are the same county; Kenya it self is listed in the Sixth world Wiki so I guess that means it is about SEMI-offical
As for Tanzania That is another County that would probably be reconstructed, except I'd expect Zanzibar to go it's own Way and become one of the Top Corp Havens in Africa (Heck maybe a Native African Mega-Corp could be based there)
The Kinddom of Zambia: I saw it writen somewhere that Zambia would go back to a monarchy after the awakening; I think that is a good idea except it would most likely be a constitional monarchy like the UK, especially since that the UK was once Zambia's colonizer
(Federated) Central African Repuplic: Propably another basket case-This is a situation like the ©DRC-brake up followed by reconstruction becuase the various ethnicities would regroup for their own mutual survival; If this happens then I'd expect Bangui the capital to become one of the smuggling havens of the continet (like Kinshasha and Cabinda)
Camaroon League: Yes another basket grouping of an existing county-if anyone disagrees I don't mind-Camaroon has probably got ALOT OF AWAKENED ACTIVITY,
ALL though the camaroon highlands their are most likely various territories run by verious Metas (Trolls, Orks, Elves, Dwarves,- and even OTHERS) This would also be a good lace for a Dragon Lair
Rawanda-Burundi Co-operatives: Things have probably deteriorated to the point in these two counties where the only form of government would be village to village Co-Operatives
Ugandan Micro states: Alittle better then Rawanda-Burundi, but not much so; possibly trying for reinergration/reconstruction after the second crash however
Nigerian Territories: This is just a convenient label, A Yourba state has probably formed with it's capital in Lagos; Lagos being split between the Mega Corps, Sin-less, and HMHVV infected (you don't want to be in GHOUL TOWN After dark!
) The Niger Delta is Another state possibly using the the old "Biafra" name & in the North an Islanic Sultanate has been formed
AND STILL MORE
Ghana: Ok Asamando is In the north part of what used to be Ghana near the border of what was Burkina Faso, The majority of The rest Ghanian Territory is Taken up by Asante and Sekondi with unorganized Territory between the Three of them-As it stands with what happened to Ghana I don't see that there should be any big changes accept if Asante and Sekondi and the unorganized Territories were to try to reunite after the Second Crash (The Ghouls are just fine on their own, thank you)
Benin: Also gone in the Sixth World Wiki, has probably got some sembalence of order on the local level however; The new name could be The Benin Chiefdoms
Togo: This small sliver of a country was once a german colony; Now S-K is supposed to be one of the two leading Megas in Africa (The other one is the Azzies) This to me says "Make Togo a Corp backed puppet state"
Corporate Equatorial Guinea: Now we are getting into the Corp States, Equatorial Guinea Has one of the most corrupt governments in the real world time line and they have probably been compleatly co-oped by the Mega-Corps in the Sixth World; The common people have got to be getting agitated however
Incorperated Sao Tome and Principe: This country is like D
Ghana: Ok Asamando is In the north part of what used to be Ghana near the border of what was Burkina Faso, The majority of The rest Ghanian Territory is Taken up by Asante and Sekondi with unorganized Territory between the Three of them-As it stands with what happened to Ghana I don't see that there should be any big changes accept if Asante and Sekondi and the unorganized Territories were to try to reunite after the Second Crash (The Ghouls are just fine on their own, thank you)
Benin: Also gone in the Sixth World Wiki, has probably got some sembalence of order on the local level however; The new name could be The Benin Chiefdoms
Togo: This small sliver of a country was once a german colony; Now S-K is supposed to be one of the two leading Megas in Africa (The other one is the Azzies) This to me says "Make Togo a Corp backed puppet state"
Corporate Equatorial Guinea: Now we are getting into the Corp States, Equatorial Guinea Has one of the most corrupt governments in the real world time line and they have probably been compleatly co-oped by the Mega-Corps in the Sixth World; The common people have got to be getting agitated however
Incorperated Sao Tome and Principe: This country is like D
AND STILL MORE
Ghana: Ok Asamando is In the north part of what used to be Ghana near the border of what was Burkina Faso, The majority of The rest Ghanian Territory is Taken up by Asante and Sekondi with unorganized Territory between the Three of them-As it stands with what happened to Ghana I don't see that there should be any big changes accept if Asante and Sekondi and the unorganized Territories were to try to reunite after the Second Crash (The Ghouls are just fine on their own, thank you)
Benin: Also gone in the Sixth World Wiki, has probably got some sembalence of order on the local level however; The new name could be The Benin Chiefdoms
Togo: This small sliver of a country was once a german colony; Now S-K is supposed to be one of the two leading Megas in Africa (The other one is the Azzies) This to me says "Make Togo a Corp backed puppet state"
Corporate Equatorial Guinea: Now we are getting into the Corp States, Equatorial Guinea Has one of the most corrupt governments in the real world time line and they have probably been compleatly co-oped by the Mega-Corps in the Sixth World; The common people have got to be getting agitated however
Incorperated Sao Tome and Principe: This country is like Day To Corp-Equ-Guinea's night; Probably got good consesions from the Megas for them to come there; Also a good place for an Underwater Arcology between the two islands-Can you say Sao Tome & Principe Underwater City?
West African Ecconomic Confrence: This is another conbined country that is made up of Liberia/Sierra Leone/Guinea/Guinea-Bissau- As the continent was rebuilt These 4 states probably got together to get their share of Mega-Corp money and probably even got decent terms from them-The Guinea Highlands(In GUINEA) are probably a Awakened Zone with an Elven Majority however (Zulu can't have all the African Elves)
Djibouti: Another Corp-State with the Corps on top, probably the top port in the horn of Africa and another Smuggling Haven
Somalia: Bad, but not as bad as some others(when I get to sudan you'll see there is worse) Kept week and tribal by the Megas- with Mogadishu basicly being the JAPANESE-Megas African Playgroud; After the second crah though the clans of Somalia have united and are marching from the new Capitol of Johowr To Mogadishu to kick them out-Who's side will the large HACKER/TECHNOMANCER community take?
Federation of the Sahel: The Black African parts of Mauritania, Mali,Niger, & all of Burkina Faso,Senagal & Gambia-Probably a very Loose state
Al-Magreb: The arabic parts of Mauritania,Mali, Niger,; Also a very loose state
Both of these countries could be said to be an African version of Turkistan form Shadows of Asia
Chad: Well the southern Black African part is probably around in some capacity, (at worst only as a name on a map)
As for The Northern Part-Well thats the BEST PLACE for a second Great Form Sirrah
Western Sahara Disputed Zone: Still claimed by Morocco, but that is probably meaningless with the mana storms and all
Morocco: Basicly covered by Shadows of Europe- The king is has got to be back now
Algeria(n) (Theocracy) Also covered by shadows of Europe-It might not be a Theocracy, at least not by the 2070's; it's absorbtion of Libya makes sense too (Because Libya Got Nuked!)
Egypt: About the same as it says in the Sixth world Wiki, with Egypt absorbing the arab part of the Sudan
As for the rest of the sudan IT'S GONE- the name is't even used anymore- The Southern part of the Sudan would then be called DARFUR, I don't know how strong a Country Darfur would be but it would be a County nontheless
Thats it for the main land-The Macarene islands shouldn't be too hard along with a partial reworking of Madagascar
If anyone likes these ideas say so if anyone does not then say so too; Bye for now
Ghana: Ok Asamando is In the north part of what used to be Ghana near the border of what was Burkina Faso, The majority of The rest Ghanian Territory is Taken up by Asante and Sekondi with unorganized Territory between the Three of them-As it stands with what happened to Ghana I don't see that there should be any big changes accept if Asante and Sekondi and the unorganized Territories were to try to reunite after the Second Crash (The Ghouls are just fine on their own, thank you)
Benin: Also gone in the Sixth World Wiki, has probably got some sembalence of order on the local level however; The new name could be The Benin Chiefdoms
Togo: This small sliver of a country was once a german colony; Now S-K is supposed to be one of the two leading Megas in Africa (The other one is the Azzies) This to me says "Make Togo a Corp backed puppet state"
Corporate Equatorial Guinea: Now we are getting into the Corp States, Equatorial Guinea Has one of the most corrupt governments in the real world time line and they have probably been compleatly co-oped by the Mega-Corps in the Sixth World; The common people have got to be getting agitated however
Incorperated Sao Tome and Principe: This country is like Day To Corp-Equ-Guinea's night; Probably got good consesions from the Megas for them to come there; Also a good place for an Underwater Arcology between the two islands-Can you say Sao Tome & Principe Underwater City?
West African Ecconomic Confrence: This is another conbined country that is made up of Liberia/Sierra Leone/Guinea/Guinea-Bissau- As the continent was rebuilt These 4 states probably got together to get their share of Mega-Corp money and probably even got decent terms from them-The Guinea Highlands(In GUINEA) are probably a Awakened Zone with an Elven Majority however (Zulu can't have all the African Elves)
Djibouti: Another Corp-State with the Corps on top, probably the top port in the horn of Africa and another Smuggling Haven
Somalia: Bad, but not as bad as some others(when I get to sudan you'll see there is worse) Kept week and tribal by the Megas- with Mogadishu basicly being the JAPANESE-Megas African Playgroud; After the second crah though the clans of Somalia have united and are marching from the new Capitol of Johowr To Mogadishu to kick them out-Who's side will the large HACKER/TECHNOMANCER community take?
Federation of the Sahel: The Black African parts of Mauritania, Mali,Niger, & all of Burkina Faso,Senagal & Gambia-Probably a very Loose state
Al-Magreb: The arabic parts of Mauritania,Mali, Niger,; Also a very loose state
Both of these countries could be said to be an African version of Turkistan form Shadows of Asia
Chad: Well the southern Black African part is probably around in some capacity, (at worst only as a name on a map)
As for The Northern Part-Well thats the BEST PLACE for a second Great Form Sirrah
Western Sahara Disputed Zone: Still claimed by Morocco, but that is probably meaningless with the mana storms and all
Morocco: Basicly covered by Shadows of Europe- The king is has got to be back now
Algeria(n) (Theocracy) Also covered by shadows of Europe-It might not be a Theocracy, at least not by the 2070's; it's absorbtion of Libya makes sense too (Because Libya Got Nuked!)
Egypt: About the same as it says in the Sixth world Wiki, with Egypt absorbing the arab part of the Sudan
As for the rest of the sudan IT'S GONE- the name is't even used anymore- The Southern part of the Sudan would then be called DARFUR, I don't know how strong a Country Darfur would be but it would be a County nontheless
Thats it for the main land-The Macarene islands shouldn't be too hard along with a partial reworking of Madagascar
If anyone likes these ideas say so if anyone does not then say so too; Bye for now
Sorry left out the Ivory Coast
The Ivory Coast: Well In Cyberpirates The Buale State covered much of what was the Southern Ivory Coast-It's probably Not Changed too much-As for the Northern Ivory Coast It could be called (Rebel Held-Real World) The Rebellious Territories
The Ivory Coast: Well In Cyberpirates The Buale State covered much of what was the Southern Ivory Coast-It's probably Not Changed too much-As for the Northern Ivory Coast It could be called (Rebel Held-Real World) The Rebellious Territories
Mascarene Islands and Madagasgar
Seychelles-(Awakened Vacation Zone Incorporated): The place were tourism goes magical; The Awakened Islands Magic is harnessed for your tropical dreams; Just keep things calm though-becuase this place is really like the village form the old British show the Prisoner-For the guest's safety of course
Reunion: Not too different-Just don't let the Dodo Bird trap you in a pocket dimension
Mauritius: Same thing goes for any formally thought extinct birds on this island
(Since both islands speak french they may both be the same nation by the 2070's)
Cormoros: Just now reunited under a reformist Islamic Republic(Not impossible)
Mayotte: Independant by now with a more european style gov then the Cormoros
(ALL INDIAN OCEAN island wil be favored staging areas for undersea arcologies)
Magagascar: Ok now I've got a question-IF VITAS KILLED ALL THE LEAMURS OFF THEN WHY DIDN'T IT KILL ALL THE HIGHER APES IN THE WORLD (CHIMPS, GORILLAS, ORANGATANGS, SASQUACHES?) OFF ALONG WITH THE HUMANS-and if someone says local mutation then if it happened on one preatty big island why didn't it repeat it's self idependantly all over the world? I just want my Giant awakened Leamur shaman thats all
Maldives: Yes really asia and it might of been covered all ready-if so I think it said in Shadows of Asia it used magic not to sink from global warming-then again may be not?
Thats it I'm finally done!!!!
Seychelles-(Awakened Vacation Zone Incorporated): The place were tourism goes magical; The Awakened Islands Magic is harnessed for your tropical dreams; Just keep things calm though-becuase this place is really like the village form the old British show the Prisoner-For the guest's safety of course
Reunion: Not too different-Just don't let the Dodo Bird trap you in a pocket dimension
Mauritius: Same thing goes for any formally thought extinct birds on this island
(Since both islands speak french they may both be the same nation by the 2070's)
Cormoros: Just now reunited under a reformist Islamic Republic(Not impossible)
Mayotte: Independant by now with a more european style gov then the Cormoros
(ALL INDIAN OCEAN island wil be favored staging areas for undersea arcologies)
Magagascar: Ok now I've got a question-IF VITAS KILLED ALL THE LEAMURS OFF THEN WHY DIDN'T IT KILL ALL THE HIGHER APES IN THE WORLD (CHIMPS, GORILLAS, ORANGATANGS, SASQUACHES?) OFF ALONG WITH THE HUMANS-and if someone says local mutation then if it happened on one preatty big island why didn't it repeat it's self idependantly all over the world? I just want my Giant awakened Leamur shaman thats all
Maldives: Yes really asia and it might of been covered all ready-if so I think it said in Shadows of Asia it used magic not to sink from global warming-then again may be not?
Thats it I'm finally done!!!!
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| Maldives: Yes really asia and it might of been covered all ready-if so I think it said in Shadows of Asia it used magic not to sink from global warming-then again may be not? |
You're probably thinking of the Oceania section, which pretty much covers the same situation in the Pacific - global warming and rising sea levels. See the bits about Micronesia, especially Autonomour Realm of Kiribati to get an idea of what might have happened there. Just didn't have the word count to cover the Indian Ocean islands.
Nice to see some serious thinking about the Lost Continent though. BTW, about the Kenya & Zulus thing - to my knowledge Zulus are definately local to South Africa whereas the Masai are the predominant tribe in Kenya.
The main thing I like about Africa as a continent though is the natural geography and its wilderness locations. If you check out the canon, that's were the most holes seem to be: Madagascar and the Ivory Coast are covered in Cyberpirates; South Africa is given the overview in one of the novels; the Sahara and Namibian deserts are covered in Target: Wastelands, not to mention various references to North Africa and Egypt in many other areas. Oh yes, and then there's the "space elevator" launch site being developed by the megas around Mt Kilamjiro. Still, it would be nice to have a complete Shadows of... series of sourcebooks. (As would it be likewise for a Paranormal Animals of...)
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| If you check out the canon, that's were the most holes seem to be: Madagascar and the Ivory Coast are covered in Cyberpirates; South Africa is given the overview in one of the novels; the Sahara and Namibian deserts are covered in Target: Wastelands, not to mention various references to North Africa and Egypt in many other areas. |
You're forgetting the strange goings on in the Congo as well.
Oh, you mean the killer white gorillas?
I can neither confirm or deny that statement. Mainly because they'd eat me if I did... Oh, crap.
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| Benin: Also gone in the Sixth World Wiki, has probably got some sembalence of order on the local level however; The new name could be The Benin Chiefdoms |
If going the tribal ways, Benin could as well reassume its historical name, as Dahomey. "Benin" was adopted as a name after the Bight of Benin, only in 1975 when Marxist militaryies overthrew the government. I guess Marxist weren't too fond of the Dahomey name simply because it originally was a kingdom of Dahomey there (the Marxist policy was since abandonned in the 1980s, and President Mathieu Kérékou even accepted to step down after losing the 1991 election, a rarity in Africa, though he returned to power by winning the 1996 election).
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| Togo: This small sliver of a country was once a german colony; Now S-K is supposed to be one of the two leading Megas in Africa (The other one is the Azzies) This to me says "Make Togo a Corp backed puppet state" |
Togoland was a German colony for 34 years, between 1884 and 1918. Then it was split between the Brits and the French. British Togoland merged with Ghana in 1956, and French Togoland became the independant République Togolaise in 1960, after 42 years of French mandate. Togo's official language is French, its currency is CFA Franc (the currency of 14 African countries, controlled by the French Treasure, a splendid remnant of colonialism if you ask me). Main trade partners outside of Africa are China, India and France, and those inside of Africa being all French or English speaking countries, for the same reason that Togo is.
Now, if you ask me, the "nationality" of megacorps has often been overplayed. By their very nature, megacorps are supposed to transcend their origin. Saeder-Krupp is not "just German" ; its first President/CEO, who expanded the company's operations in Africa and the Middle East, was French, as is S-K main rep on the Corporate Court. This is not completely genuine, when you know how French politics and French-African diplomacy uses to work through networks. Also, France would be an important pole for S-K business in armament, aerospace, telecom, environment and energy sectors (especially the nuclear sector, where the German industry and research simply does not have the expertise to take the lead on its own).
Togo could still be a puppet of Saeder-Krupp, but saying that it's because it had been a German colony at some point makes as much sense as having, says, amerindian states in North America with population in the millions
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| Algeria(n) (Theocracy) Also covered by shadows of Europe-It might not be a Theocracy, at least not by the 2070's; it's absorbtion of Libya makes sense too (Because Libya Got Nuked!) Egypt: About the same as it says in the Sixth world Wiki, with Egypt absorbing the arab part of the Sudan As for the rest of the sudan IT'S GONE- the name is't even used anymore- The Southern part of the Sudan would then be called DARFUR, I don't know how strong a Country Darfur would be but it would be a County nontheless |
Sixth World Wiki is based upon the work of Wordman. Parts of his projections for Africa, Asia and South America have been since contradicted in canon by newly published books. For Sudan, there are explicit references to Sudan in Dragons of the Sixth World (pp.56-57) and Shadows of Europe (p.27), for those I can remember. Lybia is covered in Target:Wastelands, saying that it's Egypt that made a (formal) claim over it, with megacorps still doing pretty much what they want.
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| Reunion: Not too different-Just don't let the Dodo Bird trap you in a pocket dimension Mauritius: Same thing goes for any formally thought extinct birds on this island (Since both islands speak french they may both be the same nation by the 2070's) |
Well, all of Africa basically speaks either French, English or Arab. That's clearly not enough to make countries go together.
Mauritius is a former british colony, independent since 1968, with English as the official language, while French and Creole are in facts more widely spoken and used by the population. Reunion remains to this day a French overseas region. The history of wether or not it became indenpendent in SR as yet to be written. Unlike New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the Pacific, there are no serious independentists movements in Reunion, nor in French Guiana, Martinique and Guadeloupe (well, not much more than in Hawai, now I think about it). If anything, local politicians use the idea of independence to frighten the population, who heavily benefits from state welfare (the military presence also gives a certain economic boost). If they lose that, then, joining Mauritius, which is twice or three times richer than Reunion, could make sense.
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