That the AfA/Second Ottoman Jihad/EuroWars 2: Electric Boogaloo was incorporated — not only because it was nonsensical, but it was from the worst SR sourcebook (Germany), which took a few liberties with canon — will never cease to amaze me.
In the beginning, the US
German Sourcebook actually kept the Eurowar 2 reference to a minimum, removing most of the German
Deutschland in der Shatten. The original text mentions attacks from Pakistan on India, Morocco on Algiers, Iran on Turkmenistan, and Turkey on Greece and Bulgaria, and Balkan states failing to resist. The English translation only mentions an alliance that included Turkey and other unspecified countries, attacked Europe through the Balkans.
I think the German sourcebook
Walzer, Punks & Schwarzes Ice was the first to specifically mention attack on Hungaria and Slovenia (which is as northwest as you can go in the Balkans). When
Shadows of Europe was written, there was an attempt to reconcile both sources (as the FanPro ownership came with a half-hearted promise of joint development). And so the threatening of Vienna was included into US canon.
Shadows of Asia carried on, describing the all-out attack against Israel, the alliance move into Armenia and Azerbaijan that prompted Russian to deploy forces in the Caucause, and a semi-related conflict between in India and Pakistan.
As far as I can remember, it's
SoE who introduced for the first time attacks from Morocco onto Spain using speedboats and guerilla tactics. But
Euro War Antiques would later turn that into full naval engagement, with Morocco destroying most of the French, Spanish and Italian navy in a single attack to dominate the surface of sea for the rest of the war.
Germany was written during First Edition, and predated Corporate Shadowfiles. So Saeder-Krupp's competitors come off tougher and more powerful than they really ought to have been once that book was published and
established the rules for how megacorps and the global economy works.
Prior to
Deutschland in der Schatten, Saeder-Krupp only mention (for all of North America that has been described at this point) was as a member of the Manhattan consortium. The German
Deutschland in der Schatten actually has a "Johanna de Vries" sitting in the Präsidentin office of S-K. The US
Germany Sourcebook was edited to mention Lofwyr as President/CEO and S-K rank as one of the top ten corporation, in accordance to 2nd corebook edition mention of Lofwyr and the upcoming
Tir Tairngire and
Corporate Shadowfiles.
Actually, prior to the
Germany Sourcebook edit, there wasn't even a mention of top eight or top ten. All megacorporations were considered pretty much equal (which is how the largest corporations in Seattle, who would fill up most of the Big Eight roster later, could actually be pretty much absent from the rest of North America as described in the
Neo-anarchist Guide to North America and the NAN sourcebooks).
Nuke fears? The SOX covers the entire country of Luxembourg.
The city of Luxembourg is 23 kilometers north of the Cattenom nuclear power plant. About two thirds of the country population live within 30 kilometers of Cattenom, which is the size of Chernobyl exclusion zone, and about three quarters within 50 kilometers. If you compare to the size of the French and German subzone, Northern Luxembourg could have been left out, but that would have implied that the rest of the population was supposed to relocate there (to sum it up, the largest city in the area would be Diekirch, 5,000, to be compared with the city of Luxembourg 100,000). So it may not be that far-fetched to imagine that the government and banks of Luxembourg run away with the money to set up a "government-in-exile" and let the French and German governments and corporations build a wall around the zone. I'm not sure which one is the most cyberpunk, compared to Glow City six-block-wide exclusion zone in Redmond.
In real life, Cattenom was a much hotter issue at the time of
Deutschland in der Schatten released, as it first went online in 1987 and the construction by the French of a nuclear plant so close to the border was considered as an "unfriendly move" by the German and Luxembourg population.
And then there are the six Great Dragons living in a country the size of Wisconsin.
Germany is much closer to the size of Montana, and more than twice the size of Wisconsin. It's still an extraordinary density.
