Where else could it be mentioned?
1- The timeline in the 6WA.
2- The timeline in the Core rulebook
3- The description of UCAS and CAS in the Core rulebook. They had time to mention that Miami is part of the Caribbean League in this exact same section (page 28 of SR4A). Instead, this section says that Virginia seceded, not 66% of Virginia.
And again Conspiracy Theories comes up in a conversation about geography based on what's said in Spy Games. I've already explained why that's a pretty lousy excuse not to have covered it in the same book that mentions Miami is part of the Caribbean League.
EDIT
If the North Virginia question isn't showing in the Almanac (and I don't have time to research it at the moment), then someone fumbled. And the mapping issue regarding North Virginia has been an issue since at least 1990, if not back to the very beginning of the game.
It's not just not showing up on the maps in the Almanac, it's also not showing up in SR4A and SR4 (Catalyst's printing). In other words, I can't find a map in the entirety of 4th Edition that shows Virginia having split up. The only thing currently out in print for the entire game that tells anyone not familiar with previous editions of Shadowrun is a single line in 6WA describing DeeCee that doesn't even mention which Virginian counties.
1 & 2) Timelines are intended to be summaries of major events. Not details on what the new borders of a nation are. If you look in any modern history books, do the timelines detail how much the Soviet/Russian borders change over the last 50 years? Or do they simply say that the Soviet Union was created December 29, 1922 and leave the major details elsewhere? (
Timeline of Russian HistoryAnd honestly, you're being pretty generous with North Virginia being 33% of Virginia. At most, I'd give NV Shenandoah, Frederick, Winchester, Warren, Clarke, Page, Madison, Rapphannock, Prince William, Loudoun, Culpeper, Fauquier, Manassas, Manassas Park, Fredericksburg, Fairfax, Falis Church, Alexandria, Stafford, King George, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Richmond, Lancaster, Northampton, and Accomack counties.
MAYBE a quarter of the current state, and that's being generous.
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I'm sorry, what was I talking about? Ah yes, from
Conspiracy Theories, we know that Fredericksburg is the capital of North Virginia, which is right along the Rappahannock river (the one that creates the inlet into the Chesapeake Bay, below the inlet that separates NV from Maryland) and that this is prime smuggling territory between the borders of the UCAS and CAS. So I figure the line follows the river and county lines from there to the western edge of the state.
Granted, yes, the maps could be a bit more detailed in their depictions, but they also create the maps with the current borders overlayed so that we can get a better idea of where everything is. To have both the overlay and new state/region borders may be a bit too much.
Of course, in the end, I'd like to see updated maps as well, and drop the overlays of current borders.