Hi folks. I've been away from SR and RPGs in general for a few years while I was away from my old group on a job in Washington, DC. Now that I'm back with them and the new SR4 is comming out I'm being asked to GM a game. I'm toying with the idea of using the DeeCee sprawl as a setting. As I said, however, I've been a bit out of it for a while and I know I've probably missed some references etc in the various sourcebooks. I've read the Shadows of NA bit on DeeCee (more of a footnote really) but that's all I know. Anyone out there have any cannonical material I should add?

Another question about the area is that I read somewhere that CAS and UCAS split VA in half as a sort of buffer zone. All the maps I've looked at, however, seem to show all of VA as being in CAS. Anyone have an idea what is technically in CAS and what is in UCAS in that area? Is it Arlington only or something?

Obviously I'll be modifying the cannon if it doesn't fit my setting but I like to stick as close to it as possible.

Thanks for your help.

Well, depends on how far back you want to go. pp 86 to 101 of NAGNA has a fair bit on the DeeCee Sprawl circa 2050. SoNA is probably your best bet for the most up-to-date information. There's precious little information on the Sixth World Wiki:
http://wiki.dumpshock.com/index.php/Washington_FDC

Virginia is all CAS as far as I know, but there was a rebellious faction that was trying to secede into North Virginia for a while (as a UCAS state). Details of this are quite unclear, but I think it was in a couple of the novels.

From what I remember (which isn't much), I thought all of Arlington and Alexandria remained with UCAS, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's not a larger chunk than that. It could easily go farther out, all the way to Dulles and and much farther south. Though not Quantico, the USMC remained with the CAS. I do wonder though about areas such as Woodbridge, less than an hour from DeeCee. But eh, this is from what I thought I remembered about reading.

I thought it was sticking point to the CAS gov't that Northern VA remained with UCAS.

A map of the Virginia/North Virginia border and Federal District courtesy of Raygun, and Jon Szeto IIRC.

Awesome! thanks for the map. Hmmm.. Yikes. so the UCAS do have Quantico. Ok, great training facilities then for the FBI still. lol.

I don't think the map's canon canon, but it's as near to it as you can get without it appearing in one of the books or on the site.

Right, I remember reading that novel and how the group tangling up with some Marine Ferrets. Whatever happened to the fan sites that did some special focus on specific military units? I managed to find it once but there were so many broken links for many of the units.

Thanks for all the great info. The buffer zone in that map is a bit bigger than I had anticipated (Souty of Fredericksburg?) but that's very cool. I was planning on running the setting such that NE of the Potomac are tightly controlled and policed for governmental security reasons. So much so that I was going to maintain the ban on firearms for private citizens (not that it means there aren't any, its just bad to get caught with one). SW of the river, however, is a different story. As a buffer zone its a bit of a free trade zone with various goods from CAS and UCAS exchanging hands not to mention your standard run of the mill black markets. Of course, much of this is still guided and controlled by the politicians in DeeCee but hey, they've got vices too. It looks like according to the Wiki, however, FDC annexed all of Fairfax and Arlington which may make it a place with very few shadows... hrmm.

The point was to do something that isn't Seattle but that I've got enough personal knowledge of geography etc to make it playable for me as a GM.

Sounds pretty good. Yeah, Neo-Anarchist's guide is *GREAT*. You might want to look on ebay. I don't think it'll be released for some time.

I always assumed NoVa was split off because Northern Virginia is completely different from the rest of the state. It really is like an extension of DC.

Alright, I don't have a lot to say that hasn't already been covered, but as I have my location listed as "DeeCee", I felt compelled to at least say 'hi'.

Jumped from Beltsville to Silver Spring (wooo! D area to C!) I'm trying to keep out of VA. Your side of the beltway is nuts.

An old "Shadows of DeeCee" DSF thread