I've read the basic stuff about how Vancouver is part of the NAN and is competition for Seattle economically. What else do we know about them? What company provides security there? Should I assume they're like Seattle, but with lower population density and more anti-anglo bias?

The page or so in SONA suggest it's like Seattle but with less corp presence, and a demolished suburb that belongs to gangers, smugglers, and shedim.

Oh, and some triad smuggling Salish-legal drugs out into places where they are restricted as well as normal triad behavior.

As for security, I found a reference to "Salish Rangers" who served as a high firepower police force, covering civil issues as well as minor military affairs. So they probably don't use Lone Star.

It's not much, but here's what the Timeline Explorer has to say:

It's the home of the Draco Foundation too isn't it?

I think you may be thinking about Universal Omnitech and some smaller player called Pacific Cybernetics Inc. They both have their HQ there.

I was thinking about making a proposal for Vancouver for Feral Cities until I read what that book is actually going to be about. If people are interested we could collaborate to get something made. I at least already have a list of all the tribes in the Vancouver Island/Lower Mainland (it was a pain to get a listing of BC tribes).

Theme was basically that while SSC is organized at the top levels the individual tribes have a lot of leeway. So all the tribes in VI/LM are Cascade Crow but each nation has certain rights to run its territory its own way. The Musqueam were of course helping the Triads and the Cascade Ork to smuggle. Vancouver (except for Point Grey), Burnaby, parts of Victoria, Whistler, and part of New Westminister were like an Anglo reservation. The rest was tribal land.

The farmlands in eastern Richmond and the Fraser Valley (as far as Chiliwack/Sardis) were convereted to wilderness with some subsistence and research farming (especially in conjunction with the Sioux biotech company). Lots of talismongering in the mountains to the north between West/North Vancouver and Squamish/Whistler-Blackcomb and in the Fraser Valley.

On of the last FASA novels was set there. something about lucky coins from the Big D's hoard

That was 'Tails You Lose' by Lisa Smedman I believe.

Huh, I'd submit something about DeeCee, but I doubt that's the sort of chaos they're thinking about.

Thanks for the info so far, guys. Every bit is useful. I didn't remember that Tails, You Lose was written in Vancouver. That was a surprisingly not sucky book.