And remember that a political shake-up doesn't necessarily change a whole lot to the dude on the street. Sure, the old Immortal Elf High Prince Muckety-Mucks have gotten the boot...but so what? That doesn't mean pro-alven racists that have lived and bred and raised kids in the Tir for decades are going to suddenly be all nice to humans and orks and stuff, does it? If anything, there's room for backlash. The more racist of the "old school" Tir citizens are probably grouchier than ever about an ork being their High Prince, looking wistfully back at the "good old days" when elves ruled over elves, and blah blah blah...making them more likely to be dicks to some visiting human shadowrunner, in my opinion.
It sucks that the details aren't out and canon yet, but there's still plenty of room in Tir Tairngire's shadows for a GM that wants to have some fun there. Hell, I've been faking it (even just in my fanfics) since the changes happened six, seven, years ago real-time.
Well, from what I remember it seemed that this Elven-only doctrine and Isolation politics was the cause of some uprising and coups. So I doubt that people (even Elven) will turn into what they were fighting against previously...but I may be completely wrong, remember this only sporadicaly...
Yes, their xenophobia and racism were the cause of
some of the uprising.
That's part of what made Rinelle work where other coup attempts in real life haven't -- everyone with a bone to pick with the Tir government basically grabbed a gun or a bomb, put aside their differences temporarily, and stirred shit up.
It's part of why the Rinelle also makes so very little sense, too, mind; but you had a pro-Elven-radical operating in a terrorist cell next to an Orkish mother of eight who wanted government food stamps, getting their orders from a human who wanted an end to institutionalized racism, and then going on a mission alongside a rich Elven nobleman who just wanted the Princes ousted from power so that he could move up in rank and a normal Elven middle-management type that just wanted the next Rite of Progression to happen on schedule, so he could get a better job.
Everyone who wasn't 100% happy with how the Tir government was working was -- supposedly -- on board with the Rinelle ke'Tesrae. It wasn't like the IRA where it was just the most rabid anti-English and pro-Catholic types, or OWS which has been cheerfully stereotyped as nothing but a bunch of dirty, entitled, hippies.
So...then the Princes are gone, Rinelle has "won," and then what?
Then some of them are happy. Most of them, even. The borders are more open, the ports are busier, the economy is getting a little better, there's regular elections, there's greater government transparency, and all that, right? To some people, they've won. Life's better. Mission accomplished. The status quo is mostly back, but it's improved in enough ways that most of the popular support for this home-grown terrorist group has gone away.
But to the ones like the Black Sun, the
Brat'mal, who were the ones bitching because the old Tir government wasn't racist and xenophobic
enough? Yeah, they're still pissed, for instance. And they're just the most extreme members of a whole demographic slice, remember.
