Could we have a quick summary?

Cutting Black events take place between July 2080 and March 2081.

I saw President Angela Colloton mentionned. Just realized it means after being elected in 2068 and reelected in 2072 and 2076, those events should have taken place in the midst of her fourth campaign, prior to her becoming the first President of the Union to serve four terms (after being the first woman elected to the presidency).

*waves hand vaguely at COnstitution*

The Neo-Anarchist Guide to North America
Road to Denver
[...] It says something about the desperate mentality of the country that Jarman was returned to office in 2020 despite a disastrous first term. Then came the 29th Amendment to the Constitution, which allowed a president to serve an unlimited number of terms in office. This radical development could have come about through the powerful control that the corporations exerted over government and the people's confusion in the midst of chaos. Jarman won the election in 2024, becoming the first three-term president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

UCAS GOVERNMENT - THE CONSTITUTION
[...] The president and vice president are elected to four-year terms, but by a simple majority of the popular ballot. The UCAS has no electoral college. There is also no limit on the number of terms a president may serve.

Cutting Black events take place between July 2080 and March 2081.

I saw President Angela Colloton mentionned. Just realized it means after being elected in 2068 and reelected in 2072 and 2076, those events should have taken place in the midst of her fourth campaign, prior to her becoming the first President of the Union to serve four terms (after being the first woman elected to the presidency).

For those worried by good ol' 22nd Amendment, it had been settled a while ago in Shadowrun.

To expand on that, according to NAGNA the UCAS constitution includes the Bill of Rights, but the rest may have been incorporated into the main text, simply dropped, or even reversed. The 13th amendment to the UCAS constitution does not abolish slavery, it's the Fugitive Slave Act for wageslaves.

Is there a reference for this that I could look up? Just yesterday I made a joke to my players about the 13th Amendment of the UCAS Constitution, "presuming they kept that article". Sounds like maybe it's different than I thought. I like to keep my worlds as canon as possible, so if anyone knows where the UCAS Constitution is described then that would be awesome.

THECONSTITUTION
We, the people of the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, restore domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and procure the blessings ofliberty and security for ourselves and our posterity, in spite of all enemies foreign and domestic, and the travails ofour two nations, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United Canadian and American States.


So goes the preamble of the UCAS Constitution. Though similar to the old U.S. Constitution, its differences are telling enough to reveal the terrifying social disorders that gave birth to the Act of Union and the establishment of the UCAS.
Many amendments to the U. S. Constitution were incorporated into the body of the UCAS document. Deadwood was eliminated, including the 18th and 21st Amendments (Prohibition and its repeal).
The president and vice president are elected to four- year terms, but by a simple majority of the popular ballot. The UCAS has no electoral college. There is also no limit on the number of terms a president may serve.
The UCAS legislative branch is constituted much as it was under the U. S. Constitution, with a Senate and House of Representatives. Each state, and Seattle, elects two senators to six-year terms. Representatives are elected by districts of approximatelymately 50,000 full citizens and reapportioned based on a census held every ten years. Neither probationary citizens nor out-and-out SINIess inhabitants count toward congressional districts, and they cannot vote.
The federal judiciary is structured exactly as it was in the U.S., and U.S. Supreme Court decisions are consid- ered binding precedents in UCAS law.
The UCAS can suspend habeas corpus and various other civil rights in time of war, insurrection, or declared national emergency. Over the past two decades, various regions of the country have been declared in a state of emergency for periods of up to two years.
The first ten amendments of the U. S. Constitution exist unchanged in the UCAS Constitution, and are still referred to as the Bill of Rights. Much of their effectiveness has been weakened by recent Supreme Court decisions, however.
Other amendments to the UCAS Constitution in- clude:
• 11th Amendment—The rights of UCAS citizenship, by birth or naturalization, are not to be denied to any individual due to race or creed.
•12th and 15th Amendments—Expanded powers to state and local (i.e., Metroplex) governments. The central power of the UCAS government is greatly reduced.
•13th Amendment—UCAS recognizes contracts between corporations and their employees as binding. Upon due process of law in a Contract Court, corporations may extradite persons found guilty of unlawfully breaking their employment contract.
•14th Amendment—The so-called "SIN Amendment," ratified in 2036, established the System Identifi- cation Number, requiring the registration of every UCAS citizen. Individuals residing in the UCAS without SINs are defined as "probationary citizens," with sharply limited civil rights. Probationary citizens are not permitted to vote in federal elections. Species other than Homo sapiens are eligible for probationary citizenship in UCAS, but full citizenship may be granted to a non-human/non- metahuman only by act of Congress.

Like Sengir mentioned it's in the Neo-Anarchist Guide to North America, specifically page 82 which shows as follows:

According to reddit, Insect Spirits lack the Inhabitation power and so can only exist on the astral, and don't have immunity to natural weapons or even Hardened Armor anymore

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowrun/comments...stral_but_dont/

I can't confirm this because I haven't decided to get the book yet, and my friend with it is asleep, but I'm guessing this is true.

Also, isn't the sea dragon taking over seattle as ghostwalker did with denver missing?

She didn't conquer Seattle like Ghostie did with Denver, Seattle was already going towards independence and she showed up offering protection...as well as (literally) tons of gold.

it's a dragon. assuming the shadowrun team haven't screwed up another thing royally, it was the kind of offer that a mafia don makes (ie the kind you don't refuse). and the gold is probably being given to the city only in the sense that the dragon now owns the city, therefore it is essentially giving the gold to itself.

again, assuming the devs didn't just get the brain worms and now dragons are all friendly and helpful without expecting more in return.

Of course she probably has other motives than just the kindness of her lizard heart, although I'm not so sure she's after a direct profit.


But my point was that she didn't walz into the place like GW did in Denver, but instead supported an existing independence movement in return for a just bit of real estate, which does not seem exceedingly valuable. Which sounds much more like the hyper-intelligent creatures with a planning horizon of millennia that dragons are supposed to be than Ghostzilla.

i dunno. ghostwalker pretty much owns a city, which he can now use as part of his plans for future millenia.

the sea dragon does not.

it's a bit hard to argue that ghostwalker is the dumb one at this point.

if the sea dragon agreed to protect the city and gave them a bunch of money for crappy real estate (considering the *standard* trade would be a smaller amount of money for crappy real estate that nobody wants, with no requirement for a promise to take on potential armies with tanks and fighter jets and such), and isn't getting a ton more in exchange, they've done a pretty bad job of depicting that dragon in my opinion.

IC taking over the city worked out for him, but is was a risky and expensive move...all those spirits helping him certainly did not act out of the goodness of their non-hearts, GW must have called in or promised a lot of favors.

OOC, the whole Ghostzilla was received as a really dumb idea, so it's nice to see a dragon taking over a city in a more subtle way.


That assumes the real estate she got is indeed crappy from the POV of an immortal being with close to unlimited magical power

so far, we've seen no sign at all that she took over the city, just some land that nobody wanted. that's part of the problem.

again: she could have just bought it for cheap without revealing her hand at all. just had some human agent do it for her with regular money. crappy land (or land that people think is crappy) is not hard to get. she wouldn't need to promise to help protect the city against any potential enemies, many of which could be as powerful or more powerful than her. she wouldn't need to reveal that she's interested in the land, it could just be in some holding company that you've never heard of. and she could've done it long ago.

and then she could use the resources she saved to get things that will increase her power further. investments that will increase her money (and thus power). as a creature with a long life span, she could harness the power of compound interest, even if she doesn't feel confident in investing her money in more effective ways to gain power at a faster rate (although she probably should have that confidence).