What time of the year, and what year ist Emergence taking place?

I'm starting a new campaign, and don't want to start to early or too late to later incorporate that events...

Emergence is both an event book and a campaign - it includes several "campaign tracks". The timeline runs from late 2069 (Nov-Dec) to early 2071 (Jan-Feb) with the big events and shockwaves starting in June 2070 and unfolding during the latter half of the year. This should be full compatible with minimal adjustment for most group using the 2070 setting (just advance or rewind the dates a month or two to fit). Note that public awareness of technomancers blooms during the campaign, and that at the start (late-2069) Joe Q. Public thinks technomancers are urban legends on par with otaku and vampiric rockstars who fake their own deaths. What the shadows and the corps know is a whole other story...

So we're talking something on par with System Failure in terms of size, information and time covered?

Seems so.

Well, if that's the case, I just hope it comes out within the next month and a half--I'm getting together a campaign for the summer, and that would work out perfectly.

Edit:

Oh, and I have just one interesting thought that's actually in relation to the book itself:

So, Synner, we're talking a year-and-a-half span or so that the metaplot takes place over? And this is when everyone starts finding out about technomancers? But the Crash was almost five years previously--what had been happening in the interim?

Hmmm... Anyone have any speculation on why, in the hyperconnected world of 2070, where a rumor can reach the other side of the planet before you have closed your mouth, it took so long for the existence of technomancers to become semi-common knowledge? Or, looking at it another way, what was it that, after five years, suddenly brought the the technomancers to the public eye?

Personally? My bet is on Pax and her friends--that metaplot line hasn't been closed like others were.

That's true, there was all that talk about the Dissonance vs The Resonance, without a whole lot of detail about what that entailed, bsides, 'making realms and pools' for each, what ever that means.

Also looking forward to more explanation on Submergance.

With a very special performance by Chow Yun Fat as Agent #4.

*Grabs steering wheel of bus and tries to steer derailed "bus" back on to topic*

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You'll have to read Emergence and find out, natch.

Well for playablity I certainly hope that they don't force Technomancers to have been jacked-in during Crash 2.0.

But then again I'm also hoping against hope that they don't rule that Technos are just another type of Magic.

I did contribute a bit of writing for Emergence.

Synner, dude, thank you! You have no idea how happy that makes me!

Aye, and a hearty second from me on that NightmareX!

A really random thought that just occurred to me:

How is Emergence presented? All the SR3 books are presented as Shadowland e-docs, with Captain Chaos introducing each piece. Since neither Shadowland nor the Captain survived the Crash, will the book be presented as ShadowSea e-docs, whose existence was mentioned in Runner's Havens, or will it be presented as Jackpoint docs, like RH was?

Oh, and judging by the sound of things at the moment, I'll bet money that the book will hit the shelves during exams week--because the world is perverse that way.

To my knowledge, Shadowland survived due to Captain Chaos' sacrafice, though I might be wrong.
We still have FastJack right?

I believe that they made a stand to keep the system online during the crisis minutes when chummers needed the data about the bombs and everything else that was going on. Thus, they paid for those precious minutes with the DDH. Other nodes went offline to protect themselves rather than stick it out, and would have survived, and I assume that they backed up and took offline as much data as they could before the virus got there.

As for the presentation... I'm still holding out for CC to make a jaw-dropping entrance at the intro. Probably wrong, but hey, it'd be dang cool.

No, he's going to turn up at the climax. Or maybe at the very end, the last paragraph of the last page.