[FastJack]

As much as I love Philly, I'd have to say it's probably not the most populous city in the UCAS. Seattle is probably #1, but Philly's definitely in the top 5, if not top #2.

[Mirikon]

I'd love info on the shadows of Atlanta, myself.

[Sichr]

I'd love info on the shadows of Atlanta, myself.

Look for this guy Kirk, here on forums, and ask him nicely to send you some info. We had a PbP started with him as GM...in atlanta, and even we never make it ot the team meeting point, his background article for the area has some beautifull ideas.

[Bull]

if you look at the Manhattan book, New York really didn't empty all that much after the Quake (WHich really only had a major effect on Manhattan Island.  The Impact in the remaining Boroughs seems pretty low.  And with the MDC moving in, buying the land up, and rebuilding most of the Island, it's back to a certain amount of prominence, especially after Boston and the Crash.

Seattle's pretty big.

Detroit would be an interesting write up, since it's mostly owned by Ares lock, stock, and barrell. 

Bull

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

I'd love info on the shadows of Atlanta, myself.

Look for this guy Kirk, here on forums, and ask him nicely to send you some info. We had a PbP started with him as GM...in atlanta, and even we never make it ot the team meeting point, his background article for the area has some beautifull ideas.

An Atlanta update -- rewrite, really, but you gotta cope with whatever crazy shit you've been given* -- is one of the things I'm going to propose if I ever manage to catch the attention of JM Hardy.

* -- Had they ever actually stood on top of Stone Mountain?  You know, with the constant wind and the bloody cold temperature even in the middle of summer, not to mention that you could be shot at from perfect safety from miles away?  And if the mage really wanted to, he could start dropping mana blasts from Kennesaw Mountain?!?

[TheWanderingJewels]

a Lot of people overlook Omaha, Nebraska

In spite of the fact it is the second largest rail transport hub after Chi-Town

it still has all that Fiber-optic and Telecoms hubs left over from the SAC/NORAD Days, now probably home for UCASSPACECOM.

it's a relative hop skip and jump from Sioux Territory (and a not very friendly border) I'm guessing

It could imagine it beinga central hub for one of the non Azzie Agricorps plusa forward base for Corp or UCAS Thunderbird and strike craft squadrons.

just my .02 yen

[CanRay]

Winnipeg is a border town, and Portage La Prairie is Cannon as a T-Bird stop.  My hometown is a border town too, or close enough to.

[kirk]

I'd love info on the shadows of Atlanta, myself.

Look for this guy Kirk, here on forums, and ask him nicely to send you some info. We had a PbP started with him as GM...in atlanta, and even we never make it ot the team meeting point, his background article for the area has some beautifull ideas.

Being fair, I wasn't really using Atlanta, just north Georgia which brought part of Atlanta with it.

The only part of canon that I had - have - trouble swallowing is the height of the Cord Mutual building. 500 stories? When the next highest (the HTB), next door, is "only" 180 stories? I wasn't going to rewrite canon, I just wasn't planning to mention it even if (ever if) the players got into it. It's my sincere hope that if a new book gets written with Atlanta in it, those two buildings get retconned smaller. For reference, real world tallest building in Atlanta is 55 stories and it's currently the 9th tallest building in the US (Bank of America plaza aka the Stubby Pencil). Recommended retcon? 125 and 80 stories, respectively.

I'm not as disturbed about Stone Mountain as the Wyrm is, but that's because I'm from Colorado and I've seen Cheyenne Mountain. Yes, the top of the mountain is vulnerable. Hollow it out some, however, and it's extremely defensible even against mana strikes from Kennesaw Mountain.

As for the "difference", I just looked at the way the people here already are and built from that. And for that... In most of the US, Faulkner is allegorical literature. 'Round here, it's just typical family tales.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

I don't have problems with Stone Mountain's interior being a bunker; far from it.  But for the CAS 'White House' to be plunked down on top of it is a bloody waste.

[CanRay]

*Plays with a lighter*  Just let some Canucks at it, and that won't be a problem for long. 

[Mirikon]

Also, when can we expect more profiles on various Jackpointers (like Fastjack himself)? And how about a Fallen Heroes book, where we can get stuff on memorable dead characters (such as Hachetman, Captain Chaos, and a certain great dragon, among others)?

And if there are rules for AIs and Free Spirits as PCs, why not Free Sprites?

[kirk]

I don't have problems with Stone Mountain's interior being a bunker; far from it.  But for the CAS 'White House' to be plunked down on top of it is a bloody waste.

And again, I don't. In fact... see the Castle in the Clouds, now Carter Hall of Covenant College. It becomes an impressive and distinctive place, and its vulnerability given the assumed bunker is less than it appears.

And, though many might disagree, a dominant characteristic of the south's population is "face". How you present matters.

[Mirikon]

I agree, the kind of attitude it takes to put a major government building in the highest possible profile like that is something that would play very well in the South.

[FastJack]

if you look at the Manhattan book, New York really didn't empty all that much after the Quake (WHich really only had a major effect on Manhattan Island.  The Impact in the remaining Boroughs seems pretty low.  And with the MDC moving in, buying the land up, and rebuilding most of the Island, it's back to a certain amount of prominence, especially after Boston and the Crash.

Seattle's pretty big.

Detroit would be an interesting write up, since it's mostly owned by Ares lock, stock, and barrell. 

Bull

Manhattan isn't part of the UCAS since they incorporated...

[Bull]

We really need to follow up on Season 3 of Missions at some point.  One of the things that was getting built to was potentially the UCAS taking back control of Manhattan Island (Either willingly or unwillingly). 

The 2008 Scramble at Gen Con was actually all about this.  There was a party with UCAS and MDC representatives meeting to discuss the matters, and it looked like the MDC was going to hand things over willingly, but then terrorists (aka, one of the teams of runners) detonated a bomb in the building and disrupted talks, grinding the process to a halt.

SRM 03-12 Elevator Ride to Hell sort of picks this up again.  A rogue faction in the FBI decides to spur the process along by helping an unstable leader in the  Neo Anarchists obtain some nasty Biological Weaponry.  The Neo-A's start some major protests and Riots leading to the MDC locking down the Terminal (Manhattan's version of the Barrens, just more heavily and densely populated) with extreme prejudice.  Meanwhile the Neo-A leader kidnaps a VP for Ares and uses her to get to the top of the MDC building, where he plans to launch canisters of this bio toxin out across the city.  The Players get roped into the middle of it all by accident and end up getting hired by the VPs daughter to stop things. 

The FBI agents set this all up so that they could move in, be the heroes, and show that the MDC wasn't capable of handling the Island anymore and needed UCAS oversight. But the Neo-A's kind of screwed things up and accelerated the timeline.  The Runners complicate it even further, espeically when they stop it.

Bull