[lokii]

I hope the French users around here can help me with completing a list of French additional content for translated Shadowrun books.

The Shadowhelix has this overview: http://shadowhelix.pegasus.de/Meta:%C3%9Cbersicht_franz%C3%B6sische_Erg%C3%A4nzungen

So far on the list: Marseille, Lille, Clermont-Ferrand and a SOX campaign in Capitales des Ombres, Enclaves Corporatistes, Jungles Urbaines and SOX - Ombres Radioactives d'Europe respectively. Anything else?

[Marzhin]

No, I believe that's all. AFAIK, so far there has been no special French content for the SR5 books.

A long time ago Jeux Descartes also published a France sourcebook, but it's not very good and in mostly uncanonical anyway (the few interesting ideas, such as the Mist, were reworked and much improved for Shadows of Europe).

[RowanTheFox]

I wish I knew more about Marseille in the SR world. I saw something somewhere once about how thee hammer came down on them for illegal metahuman experimentation, but I haven't been able to find anything concrete about that. I'm really curious how Harlequin felt about that, since he lives right off the coast.

I'd be surprised if he didn't pitch an unholy drek fit over that, and those have a tendency to be fraggin spectacular.

[lokii]

@Marzhin: Thanks. France would go on another list.


@EiraHaexa: I copied the index for Marseille to the Shadowrun Wiki: http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Marseille

The story about the experiments can be found in a SoE outtake: Spinrad. It was less about Marseille and more about Spinrad Industries facilities there and possibly rivalry between Spinrad and Lofwyr. Still available through the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20130228082147/http://old.shadowrun4.com/resources/soe_spinrad.shtml

According to this version, Spinrad's [Johnny Spinrad] engrossment with thrill-seeking and the pursuit of personal pleasure blinded him to what was going on at SI [Spinrad Industries] [..]

According to this version SI's CEO at the time Diego Erentxun decided to shortcut R&D expenses and ignore legal restrictions on implanting 'volunteers' with experimental cybertech prototypes. Initially, the move pushed R&D into high gear and for half a year they reemerged as industry leaders in Europe. Then in 2051 a scathing exposë report came out on a Sol Media news show revealing the extent of SI's illegal experiments in Marseille. Forced into action by the high profile report, the French government filed a landmark suit against the AA corporation in the Corporate Court, fining them and forbidding them from owning any production and research facilities in France. Saeder Krupp's decisive swing vote on the Corporate Court cost Spinrad Industries an additional 8 billion nuyen, striped it of its extraterritoriality AA rating and almost sealed its fate.

[Nath]

The Shadows of Europe book also contains a small reference that give some details on the experiments :

Shadows of Europe, page 88
> Spinrad enjoys certain privileges in Monaco. The local police "forgot" the investiage Khaled Al-shawi's "drowning" in the marine. Al-Shawi was the man in charge of Spinrad's scandalous guinea pig abductions in Algeria a decade back. He'd been working for Tamanous in Southern Africa since Marseille's events, but it looks like Spinrad finally tied up that loose end.
> Black Jack Tarr