1) According to the 6th World Almanac, on June 2, 2042, Damien Knight was reinstated as chairman of Ares. I can't find any source that says that he was removed from this office in the first place or why.
Answered: There was a power struggle within Ares in the late 2040s. See Corporate Shadowfiles, Blood in the Boardroom, Corporate Download, and Corporate Guide.
2) According to the same almanac, on December 8, 2041, Veil agents intercept and destroy all data from the Cydonia Mars probes. What are Veil agents? Where do they come from? Why the destruction? Is this related to the Pyramids and Bones? Any source material for mars?
Answered: See, SR2 Missions campaign book.
3) Are Spider spirits considered Bug spirits? Do they show up at all after Sam Verner kicked Spider's ass?
Answered: No. No.
4) Of the 3 Mars pictures that are on the end of Big D's will, I have read that the UFO one is fake. But I haven't read anything about the other two. Presumably, two are from Operation Discovery (the Pyramids and the bones), and the UFO one was planted on Cydonia. Is this correct?
Answered: Yes. See, SR2 Missions campaign book.
5) Was there ever any "actual" data that survived from Cydonia?
Answered: Yes. See, SR2 Missions campaign book.
6) how does a dragon "become" a great dragon as Masaru did in 2042? I thought I saw that he was already a "great dragon" when he showed up in 2014?
Answered: Not answerable. It's sort of explained in the Earthdawn Dragons book, and speculated upon in Dragons of the Sixth World. There is no overt answer.
Masaru is the first Great Dragon of the Sixth World. Whether he made the transition after awakening or during the Fifth World is unknown.
7) Kenneth Brackhaven "goblinized" in 2023, but went into "remission?" He was cured of his ork-ness? How did this take place? and how/why does it say that his father brought in the best scientists to "cure" him? And it seems to have worked. What is the deal here?
Answered: He wasn't. The real Kenneth Brackhaven Goblinized and was murdered by his father at Seattle General. Gov. "Kenneth Brackhaven" was a SINless kid surreptitiously "adopted" by Ken Sr. and Karl and raised in the dark as to this fact until the UCAS presidential election in 2057. Covered in one of the adventures of Super Tuesday!.
8 ) is there anything known about the "fine old fixer traditions" that Charlie Tarrow was a part of with Wyrd back in the 30's? The only thing I can find is that they were doing and setting up "Shadowruns" before the term was popular. Does this group come up anywhere in the fiction or in a sourcebook?
Answered: Offhand remark to how the profession of "fixer" has been around a considerable time IRL and thus in SR.
9) Was there ever any significant storyline surrounding Thomas Roxborough and his strange brain-in-a-jar condition? Is he still an Azzie shareholder? Is he still in a vat? Has he ever caused problems for runners? I was able to pick up that he was a Decker... does he have an online name?
Answered: He appeared in The Dragonheart Saga novels. His background is explained in Aztlan, Corporate Guide (Universal Omnitech subchapter of Rising Powers).
10) in Missions, Season 4-00 (Back in Business), the runners are sent to find (among other things) something called a "morel stone." My runners kept it, sensing that it was worth more than they were being offered. Is there any properties or stats or further hints as to what this artifact does, or what it can do?
Answered: No further information has been given (yet?)
11) I seem to have gotten the idea in my head that Dodger was the best decker around in the 50s. Yet I keep seeing other places people refer to Fastjack as the best decker ever. Since it appears Dodger is back (or never left), has there ever been a comparison between the two? Is there a reason everyone says Fastjack is the best, other than people saying he's the best? Or is it apples and oranges?
Answered: Generally speaking, FastJack is the GOAT. There are some who may be really close, but he's the benchmark by virtue of age and cunning.
12) The Bot' Kham seem to be popping up all over the underground these days. They also seem to be a pretty violent and unruly gang (even by OU standards). Kham himself seemed to be a pretty decent and down to earth dude. Is there some record of how we got from one to the other after "Never Trust An Elf?"
Answered: To be revealed/discussed at a later date.
13) I know that Horizon had a rep as a "good" corp, until recently, but what was the event (or events) that pulled the curtain back? In other words, we all sortof "knew" that their "goody-two-shoes" act was BS, so what happened that proved us right? Also, sources would be aces.
Answered: The Twilight Horizon.
14) Can someone point me to some reading on Neon Samurai and Night Fire? Something about a feud?
Answered: Fields of Fire.
We seem to be done here.
