Are you sure about that? I thought Dunkelzahn was just the first non metahuman UCAS citizen...

Correct in spirit, perhaps, but drastically incorrect in terms of what happened. Dunk was the first non-metahuman given citizenship, but there were PLENTY of Orks, Trolls, Elves, and Dwarves that had SINs before he came along.

For proof of this, simply look at first and early 2nd edition sourcebooks. PLENTY of legal citizens were metahuman. To deny a full 10-20% of the UCAS population citizenship despite their parentage wouldn't have caused a Night of Rage, it would have caused a year of partisan fighting.

Now... if an ork or a troll was to slip through the cracks, welll... Homeland Security can't be held accountable if they take their sweet time getting them a SIN back... say, after a crash in 2064, neh? Or informing them the paperwork is lost? Or they can't do anything without a signed birth certificate, which just HAPPENS to be on a system destroyed by the crash virus, neh?

The System wants and needs SINless, as cheap and expendible labor. To do the dirty work. To be written off. To be blamed and scapegoated. But the system can't come out and say that, and it especially can't say that it's based on race. Look at illegal immigrants in southern california. Us SoCal folks NEED them to make the economy run. If we deport them, we're out our cheap and expendible labor. If we naturalize them, we have to give them benefits. So they're a tacitly accepted and encouraged part of life here - a part that can, on an individual level, disappear if a message to be sent. But you'll never, ever catch any california politicians saying so out loud, because it'd be political suicide.

Despite the fact that anyone who's lived down here for any time knows that's how the system is currently running.

Page 32, SR3:

Keep in mind that's from a section discussing the troubled relations between humans and the rest of the metahumans. The same thing is repeated, in a shorter form, in SR4. In context, "homo sapiens" can only refer to one subspecies: humans. Traditionally, that's the group it refers to anyway, so that just means that technical classification doesn't change public concepts. Science community can say elves are part of homo sapiens all the want, but Joe Blow Citizen is probably going to think "human" when they hear the term.

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Then have a chat with the writers of history for SR3 and SR4, because the wording specifically implies otherwise.

I'm just saying that, as worded, it led me to conclude that metahumans, besides humans, were not issued SINs until after Dunk. All I have is SR3 and SR4 to go on in this case, and neither section really makes it entirely clear.

Not maybe.

The military also does quite a bit to encourage its members not to marry non-citizens, making paperwork complicated, amongst other things. Besides trying to prevent immigration through marriage, I'm sure there's a security concern there as well.

Hey, I'll come as far as "maybe" in this one.

Well, what's to stop them from making it even more complicated? The potential spouse must pass security checking, be scanned by technology and mages, tested for diseases, have their genetic code put and kept on file, and would only be allowed into public areas aside from the home, all the while having a security escort the entire time they are out.

No, but he was already a citizen. He became a citizen in 2056. I remember reading about (but can't find the actual cite) of him shaking hands with President Steele upon receiving the honor.

Really? I just skimmed through And So It Came To Pass (a copy of which is at srrpg.com) and it didn't even mention that issue.

A-ha. The money quote:

And here is the quote I was thinking of specifically

Not to say that there aren't plenty of miswording and screwups whenever SR gets into politics (especially Kenson, who wrote most of the Election 2057 material). That issue didn't have to be based upon the grandfathering in of Canadians (or Americans) in any way different from how the U.S. Constitution works. Allowing foreign-born citizens (more specifically than Dunk would be Nadja Daviar) to become President or VP is another matter altogether.

Then again, And So It Came To Pass has mistakes of its own:

She wouldn't have been pro tem (which is a wholly separate title for someone else), or Acting President. She would have been President Pritchard. Period.

He'd ceased to be VP-Elect at noon on the day of the inaguration and assassination.

Heh. I can't even think of how many Marine embassy guards I know that came back with local wives. So sorry son, but your analogy just got shot full of more holes than a prostitute at a golf tournament.

My brother in law takes it badly when he has a bad round of golf. Maybe this guy just takes it a lot further.

1 - Not exactly but I see what you mean.

More specifically, AA and AAA Megacorps have extraterritoriality which means that enclave clearly indicated as belonging to one of these corps is considered much like an embassy.

2 - I'm surethere are plenty of corp cotizens. For Corporations fans of the Arcologies or vast enclave where your citizens/employees can spend their lives and their paycheck that's a pretty good option.

But it seems logical to me that people that work on corporate but live outside just have the equivalent of temporary visa or work permit. The point of the corporate enclave is just economic but also security. If your best scientists live on corp territory, you can protect them with extreme measures that are illegal on UCAS soil. But if your GM assembly line worker live outside of an Ares enclave... it really doesn't matter much, does it? If you desesperately want them to spend their Ares salary on Ares product you just give them a 5% discount and voilà.

Finally, there is no obligation whatsoever to award citizenship to the spouse. Each Megacorp would have their own policies on the subject. It's like becoming a US citizen VS becoming a citizen of Japan. Believe me, one is tougher than the other!

Similarly, I figure not all megas are equal when it comes to recognizing new citizens.