I'm trying to put together an SR4 setting in San Francisco. A quick surf through the timeline explorer reveals little that would trip me up with canon, except for one thing; a few cryptic mentions of 'Halferville', 'Diablo Valley', and the 'East Bay Dwarves'.

Someone mind explaining what these refer to so I don't need to go dig up some 10-year-old rulebook for a few page's worth?

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I just want to say it's pretty funny you bump a topic that's not even 30 minutes old.

I'd half to guess that, just like Orks, elves and ghouls, dwarves got a half-wit idea to make their own little community. No idea how successful they are, but they're never short on good puns.

I can't give you much, but SONA details Halferville as controlling the Caldecot Tunnel, a pivotal entryway for most of the East Bay residential areas. It seems they're militant enough to discourage Saito and the Japanacorps from moving in, but I don't know if it's anything more than a bedroom community. At the very least, it's got a lot of dwarves.

So the Caldecot tunnel is a highway? A shipping canal?

Google.com gives this link http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/caldecott/history.htm I would say its a traffic tunnel.

The Caldecot tunnel connects Oakland/Berkeley and Concord/Walnut Creek via highway 24. Highway 24 also connects highways 80 and 680. There's an alternate route (like all highways here in the US) that takes approx 25min longer.

Essentially, there's a big range of hills about 10 miles east of the SF bay, and a limited number of places to cross over them.


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It looks like Halferville is a maze of tunnels and chambers the run the entire length of the Hayward hills from Oakland/Berkeley to Fremont. That's about a 30 mile length. CFS says it's an engineering marvel and oddly beautiful. (CFS 67-69)

Socks,

Thanks for the added info on location. I didn't delve too much into the background of the tunnel, so when I read about it in SONA, I thought it to be underwater and going towards more the Hayward and Union City areas. Thanks to your added bits of info, it's now much more of a fun location in my book, rather than just some tunnel to isolate corpers.

Given, though, that Orkland/Berkeley's between San Fran and Walnut Creek, you'd think they'd have air transport instead.