Timeline Explorer
2055 - In Tibet, a train wreck leaves 122 people dead. Survivors claim that the crash was caused by a fire elemental as big as a mountain. (Double Exposure)
2055 - Renraku Computer Systems acquires the Genecraft corporation making the megacorporation a major player in cybernetic and bioware technology. (Corporate Download)
2055 - In the UCAS, most major cities report an increase of missing persons cases. (Bug City)
2055 - In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Carlos Rivera, Vice President of Northern Hemisphere Operations for Aztechnology is killed in a chopper crash. (Aztlan Sourcebook)
2055 - In Hawai'i, the military cemetery in Punchbowl crater is converted to a national park. The bodies buried there are exhumed and returned to the UCAS. (Paradise Lost: Hawaii Sourcebook)
2055 - In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Jason Two Spirits, a professor of magic and an Owl shaman, comes to the city warning about a great disaster that will come within the year and, if not stopped, will spread to the entire Midwest. (Bug City)
2055 - In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a running gunfight between Lone Star Security officers and shadowrunners leaves two troopers and eight innocent bystanders dead. The shadowrunners escape. (Double Exposure)
2055 - In the Ukraine, famed cybertechnology scientist Richard Petrosian defects from the Bioenergetica Ukraine (BU) corporation. (Prime Runners)
2055 - In Babenhausen, Germany, an EBM2 mage is killed fighting a wraith at the Babenhausen railroad yards. (Germany Sourcebook)
2055 - In the U.K., Thomasin Martyn, a member of the Reformed Druidic Movement, is named dean of St. Hilda's College. (London Sourcebook)
2055 - In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the club Crusher 495 is bombed by the Humanis Policlub. (Source Unknown)
2055 - In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Gery Alexander, a lawyer disbarred and convicted of taking bribes from Humanis Policlub to add Article 16 to Special Order 162, commits suicide. (Bug City)
2055 - The rumored Black Hammer matrix utility is confirmed real when Lone Star GridSec deckers use it in their arsenal. (Lone Star Sourcebook)
2055 - In the United Netherlands, construction of Proteus AG's Groningen arkoblock is completed. (Target: Smuggler's Havens)
2055 - In Germany, construction of Proteus AG's Wilhelmshaven arkoblock is completed. (Target: Smuggler's Havens)
2055 - In Miami, South Florida, Caribbean League, tourists are murdered and eaten by a street gang in the Overtown district calling itself the Morlocks. In retaliation, Gunderson Security, Lone Star Security, Atlantic Security, and many other companies attack all gang holdings with full military force. They also cover all gang graffiti. Thousands are killed or injured and there is much damage to the neighborhood. The day is later called the Night of Law. In retaliation for causing it with their actions, all Overtown street gangs attack the Morlocks. When they are finished not one Morlock is left alive. (Shadowboxer)
2055 - In New York City, New York, UCAS, an assassination attempt is made on New York City mayor Andrew T. Small by members of the Damascus League. The attempt is foiled by Serrin Shamandar, an elven mage. (Nosferatu)
2055 - In Kansas, UCAS, Senator Moe Dennelly is implicated in black magic rituals resulting in the deaths of four teenagers. (Paradise Lost: Hawaii Sourcebook)
2055 - In Sioux Nation, NAN, Fuchi buys up what is left of FTL Technologies. Steven Z. Ridgemont is offered the opportunity to stay with the company but refuses. Instead, he moves to FRFZ and forms Warpdrive Systems. (Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets)
2055 - In Nashville, Tennessee, CAS, a 200 foot snake not belonging to any known animal species is discovered and then killed. (Paradise Lost: Hawaii Sourcebook)
2055 - Hiroshi Ushida is sent by Renraku Computer Systems to take over management of the construction of the Renraku Arcology in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS. (Blood in the Boardroom)
2055 - In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Alamos 20,000 assassins open fire into the storefront distribution headquarters of the ORC. six people are killed including a four-year-old boy. The target is believed to be the ork activist Preacher. (Paradise Lost: Hawaii Sourcebook)
2055 - In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Colin Gaffney of Fuchs-Auberlien Financial Services is extracted from his corporate offices. His son Shawn, in an attempt to follow his father, becomes entangled in a shadowrunner's climbing harness resulting in that shadowrunner's capture. The entire event is publicized on trid. (Divided Assets)
2055 - In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a group calling itself the Compensation Expedition Force or Compensation Army sets up squatter camps all across the city. The group states that they are people promised recompensation for land lost to the NAN through the Treaty of Denver. They immediately begin picketing most major government offices. (Just Compensation)
2055 - In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Knight Errant corporation buys out Winter Security's contract to defend Truman Technologies property. (Burning Bright)
2055 - In the UCAS, The Universal Brotherhood comes under investigation by the federal government under charges of illegal medical experiments on homeless people. As a result, all Universal Brotherhood chapterhouses are closed down. (Double Exposure)
2055 - In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, terrorist attacks on a former Universal Brotherhood chapterhouse leave hundreds dead, both Eagle Security and civilians. (Burning Bright)
2055 - On August 14, DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, two new bills are introduced to the House of Representatives. On is a bill apportioning voting areas in the former North Virginia counties of Arlington, Fairfax, and Alexandria. The second is a bill granting immediate repayment to all people displaced by the Treaty of Denver. (Just Compensation)
2055 - In CAS, the senate pledges to support all political groups in the UCAS and Caribbean League that have coincidental interests in the CAS. (Just Compensation)
2055 - In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a new group appears within the encampments of the Compensation Army, now in its third month. This group, calling itself the Conscience of the Country, is seen wearing blue berets. They travel within the camps giving aid wherever necessary, although Compensation Army leader Christian Randolph claims that they are not part of the group. They also protest along side the Compensation Army, although their stand seems more militant. As a result tensions within the camps rise and fights break out between the protestors and the police. (Just Compensation)
2055 - On August 15, DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a coalition of megacorporations including Telestrian Industries, Saeder-Krupp, and Renraku Computer Technologies announces that all of their formerly public facilities in the DeeCee Sprawl will be restricted to corp personnel only for the duration of the Compensation Army crisis. (Just Compensation)
2055 - On August 21, DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, North Virginia State Senator Wendell North introduces a bill calling for a referendum concerning the secession of North Virginia from the UCAS. (Just Compensation)
2055 - On August 22, in Chicago Illinois, UCAS, Eagle Security offices are flooded with reports of "giant insects' attacking people. The next day, the UCAS government throws up a quarantine area on the city from Lake Michigan to the Des Plaines River. All houses along that line are destroyed and formed into a wall. Along this wall, now called the Chicago Containment Zone, are stationed soldiers from Eagle Security, the Illinois National Guard, and the UCAS Army. Nobody is allowed in or out of the Zone. Official reports state that the Zone is to contain a new strain of VITAS and the entire Containment Zone is under military quarantine. Establishment of the Zone is protested by Ares Macrotechnology, Federated Boeing, Fuchi America, and Truman Technologies. Later that evening, rioting breaks out in the entire zone. The UCAS troops fire upon the rioters and kill 50 of them. Construction of a real wall begins in earnest. (Bug City)
2055 - In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, unconfirmed reports state that a joint delegation from Tir Tairngire, led by Prince Ehran the Scribe, and Tir na nOg, led by Caoimhe O'Dunn, daughter of the High Steward, meets with President Steele at the White House. Supposedly, the six-hour meeting concerns the events in the Chicago Containment Zone. (Bug City)
2055 - On August 24, DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, tensions between the Compensation Army and the federal government escalate when fedpol troops are sent in to contain the violence. (Just Compensation)
2055 - In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the Compensation Army takes over the Metro stations in Metro Center, Gallery Place, Smithsonian, L'Enfant Plaza, Federal Triangle, Waterfront, and Rosslyn. As a result the government sends in the remaining battalions not currently in Chicago of the army 101st Air Insertion Division under the title Task Force Kemper to control the violence. However instead of ending the violence, it escalates into other districts. Firefighters are prevented from entering the city. Supposedly to protect them. Rumors begin to spread about army execution squads killing any Compensation Army members whether they surrender or not. Further rumors spread that the Conscience of the Country is in actuality a group funded by the CAS to destabilize North Virginia enough to allow it to secede from the UCAS. (Just Compensation)
2055 - In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, the violence ends when it is discovered that General Trahn, the officer in charge of the federal troops, has been plotting against the government in an attempt to initiate a coup. His plan is discovered when his transmission to his fellow conspirators is monitored on a presidential frequency. He is killed by his hostage, Captain Rita Furlann of the army's Thaumaturgical Corps. Once this revelation is discovered most of the fighting dies down and the army returns to more conventional means of ending it. None of Trahn's other conspirators are discovered. (Just Compensation)
2055 - On August 25, Fredericksburg, North Virginia, UCAS, Governor Jefferson, on his way to high level meetings involving the status of North Virginia, is killed when his plane crashes and explodes. (Just Compensation)
2055 - On October 1, in the Chicago Containment Zone, Illinois, UCAS, a massive explosion goes off at the Chicago power plant at Cermak and Racine. The explosion is powerful enough to be that of a small tactical nuclear weapon. However it gives off no radiation. (Bug City)
2055 - In FRFZ, an Aztechnology high priest is extracted from the Aztlan sector by a shadowrunner group. A large number of high explosive weaponry is used resulting in a great deal of death and destruction. The runners escape in a van that is hit with a missile before it can cross into CAS territory. (Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets)
2055 - In the CAS, 12 buildings are firebombed by unknown parties in various states. (Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America)
2055 - In San Francisco, CFS, noted Actress Janna Dream is found dead outside the Chrome Stallion club. The club is owned by William Marshall Ossian, leader of the band Anedonia. (Prime Runners)
2055 - In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Bennet-class light aircraft carrier Wolverine and two Richard A. Dean-class guided missile frigates- the Lucan and the Voight are stationed offshore of the Chicago Containment Zone. (Bug City)
2055 - In the UCAS, irregularities are noticed in the stories about the Chicago Containment Zone. This leads many to believe that the stories of a VITAS plague are some sort of cover-up for a much larger problem. (Bug City)
2055 - In late December, in the FRFZ, a file is downloaded into the Nexus concerning the Chicago Containment Zone. The information in the file states that the Zone is not suffering from a VITAS plague. The real disaster is that the zone has been infested by huge insect spirits that use humans and metahumans for food and reproduction. The Zone has actually been constructed to keep the insect spirits from escaping into the rest of the world. After verifying the contents, the Nexus sysops broadcast the file to all Shadowland computer nodes. The information is distributed to the general public. (Bug City)
2055 - In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Don of Chicago, believed dead in the Chicago Containment Zone, is replaced by Don Leo McCaskill of Milwaukee. (Underworld Sourcebook)
2055 - Worldwide reports of children calling themselves "otaku" abound. These children talk of an experience in the matrix they call the Deep Resonance. Apparently, the otaku are capable of using the Matrix without the need of a cyberdeck. (Shadowrun Third Edition)
2055 - In Aztlan, Emilio Ebanez, captain of the championship-winning Tampico Voladores, disappears from the stadium immediately after his team wins the final championship game. (Blood Sport)
2055 - In Jamaica, Caribbean League, a massive hurricane destroys a large portion of the coffee crops. (Black Madonna)
2055 - In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Biscon Biomedical is bought out by Cross Advanced Technologies. (New Seattle)
2055 - In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Chen Kwan-Ti, a hermetic mage from mainland China, becomes Incense Master of the Octagon Triad. (New Seattle)
2055 - Ares Security International develops the system-control rig emulator (SCRE) as a back up for the Closed Circuit Simsense Systems (CCSS) rigged security system for buildings. (Rigger 3)
2055 - In Tir Tairngire, the government relaxes the cordon around Crater Lake and allows a small number of tourists in the area. (Target: Awakened Lands)
2055 - In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, a minor insect spirit outbreak occurs in Ted Turner Stadium. The outbreak never spreads into the rest of the city though. (Shadows of North America)
2055 - In FRFZ, the Universal Brotherhood's Denver chapterhouse is shut down and destroyed with a fuel-air explosive device. The explosion destroys over a third of the Aurora Warrens slums due to collateral damage. (Shadows of North America)
2055 - In the Sioux Nation, NAN, a large number of insect spirit hives are uncovered and destroyed. As a result, bug paranoia skyrockets and several people are shot accidentally. (Shadows of North America)
2055 - In Tir Tairngire, Ehran the Scribe is officially granted a seat on the Council of Princes. He has secretly held one for years. (Shadows of North America)
2055 - Under the guidance of the Islamic Unity Movement, led by spiritual leader Badr al Din Ibn Eisa several Middle Eastern nations band together as a single country called Arabia. Badr al Din Ibn Eisa names King Kalim Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia as the nation's first Caliph. (Target: Wastelands)
2055 - Fuchi begins construction on the Darkside Junction space station at L2 on the far side of the moon as a deep space outpost. (Target: Wastelands)
2055 - Following Saeder-Krupp's lead, Ares Macrotech establishes the Artemis Lunar Colony near the original Apollo 11 landing site. (Target: Wastelands)
2055 - In U.K., the great dragon Celedyr buys up enough shares of Transys Neuronet to obtain a seat on the board of directors. He designates Fiona Blareth as his proxy representative. (Dragons of the Sixth World)
2055 - The executives and middle managers of HKB who were involved in the acquisition of Transys Neuronet all start dying from untimely and painful causes. (Dragons of the Sixth World)
2055 - In CFS, the Shasta Lodge is founded by Elliot Eyes-of-Wyrm in a defunct ski lodge on the slope of Mount Shasta. (Dragons of the Sixth World) |