Ever since the early days of the People's University many of the volunteers were rich yuppie kids, doing the whole rebelling from their parents thing and running off to join what they saw as the ultimate crusade against racist bigotry. This small band of blockheaded idealistic rich kids formed the Union of Proactive Students.

In the beginning this was little more than a club, consisting of a small group of rich runaways chasing an idealistic dream. Most of the University paid them little attention, focusing more on the necessities of survival and providing necessary services to the Berkeley sprawl. But some of those kids began to grow into equally idealistic adults, and a couple of them realised that they were in a unique position to go further than just surviving day to day fighting an extended guerilla war with the Japanese invaders.

So they started branching out, using the wealth and influence of their rich parents to make useful contacts outside of the local area. After awhile The Union started to become the public face of the University itself. They were the ones that got both Calfree and UCAS to make the People's University officially accredited as a college, and are the ones that ensure that many degree programs remain accredited in the absense of any sort of official school board. In fact, the offices of "Chancellor" and "Deans" of the school are actually titles held by the leadership of the Union, making the People's University a college truly run by the students. The Union is also the main official recruitment source for the University, attracting students from in-state as well as the NAN and UCAS/CAS and even abroad (though few from Asia and none at all from Japan.)

Through all of this the Union--now usually just called the Student Union--hasn't lost its idealistic roots, and has in a way been blinded by them. Many of the students recruited by the university in recent years hardly even think of the guerilla war as actually being violent, and some are quite surprised when they regularly find themselves being shot at. It's a bit of a rude awakening the first time a "supply run" goes bad and you find yourself dodging hails of bullets and a particularly mean Fire Elemental who was guarding the warehouse you just broke into--just ask Eyes.

You are correct about the two meets. As Slip and Scrap pointed out, I might not have been as aware of the Loveland Quinn’s one because it was not me who scheduled it. You are coordinating the 22:00:00 meet with Scrapheap, so feel free to take yourself there directly or wait a bit, since he still has some stuff to do before he gets there, but see below first. Once we get to the point where Scrapheap’s ready to go to Loveland Quinn’s, I’ll let you take over from there, since you’ll be running the NPC discussed in our email. I’ll pick him up after that meet’s over with.

If you want to take yourself to Tuesday afternoon, the ‘early decker’ Tin Star commissioned will have the information update on Alex Wong for Alleycat by then. You can receive a live action update if you stop there and talk to the decker, or you can get it in ‘flashback’ format if you jump to 22:00:00 on Tuesday, your choice. Hope that all made sense, let me know if you have any questions.

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