Book | In-Universe Date |
Gun H(e)aven 3 | December 19, 2075 |
Coyotes | November 30, 2075 |
*The Assassin's Primer | November 11, 2075 |
Parazoology 2 | August 3, 2075 |
10 Mercs | June 15, 2075 |
*Rigger 4 | April 1, 2075 |
Euro War Antiques | February 20, 2075 |
Storm Front | January 18, 2075 |
The Way of the Samurai | January 12, 2075 |
Sim Dreams & Nightmares | December 27, 2074 |
Montreal 2074 | December 13, 2074 |
Parageology | November 23, 2074 |
Dirty Tricks | November 2, 2074 |
The Land of Promise | September 11, 2074 |
MilSpecTech 2 | July 27, 2074 |
The Clutch of Dragons | July 20, 2074 |
Magical Societies | May 28, 2074 |
Gun H(e)aven 2 | May 10, 2074 |
Hazard Pay | April 28, 2074 |
*Street Legends: Home Edition | April 1, 2074 |
Parabotany | March 21, 2074 |
The Twilight Horizon | March 6, 2074 |
Used Car Lot | February 28, 2074 |
Safehouses | February 28, 2074 |
Jet Set | February 7, 2074 |
Street Legends Supplemental | December 21, 2073 |
State of the Art: 2073 | December 14, 2073 |
Corporate Intrigue | December 13, 2073 |
Conspiracy Theories | October 26, 2073 |
Artifacts Unbound | September 2, 2073 |
Street Legends | August 14, 2073 |
Deadly Waves | July 23, 2073 |
Runner's Black Book | July 23, 2073 |
Gun H(e)aven | June 15, 2073 |
Spy Games | May 19, 2073 |
Attitude | March 21, 2073 |
MilSpecTech | February 20, 2073 |
War! | February 6, 2073 |
*Sixth World Almanac | November 10, 2072 |
The Rotten Apple: Manhattan | October 4, 2072 |
Unfriendly Skies | September 19, 2072 |
The Way of the Adept | August 30, 2072 |
This Old Drone | July 30, 2072 |
Running Wild | July 3, 2072 |
10 Jackpointers | March 5, 2072 |
Vice | February 28, 2072 |
*Corporate Guide | January 1, 2072 |
*Seattle 2072 | January 1, 2072 |
Ghost Cartels | November 27, 2071 |
Feral Cities | October 13, 2071 |
Runner's Companion | July 15, 2071 |
Unwired | May 9, 2071 |
Arsenal | April 20, 2071 |
Corporate Enclaves | February 17, 2071 |
*10 Gangs | January 1, 2071 |
Augmentation | August 20, 2070 |
Emergence | August 7, 2070 |
Street Magic | April 11, 2070 |
Runner Havens | February 3, 2070 |
Below are all the books as they were published in-universe from 2070 through 2075. In particular, take note of the Artifacts Unbound, The Clutch of Dragons, Conspiracy Theories, Corporate Guide, Corporate Intrigue, Spy Games, Storm Front, The Twilight Horizon, Vice, and War!.Thanks! But Clutch of Dragons? I have that one, and I don't remember there being much about corporate plots or corporations, except for the ones related to Lofwyr and Aztlan.
ARES
There have been a few plotlines spiraling around here. The first is the massive infighting between the assorted powers in Ares, with Nadja Daviar, Damien Knight, Auerelias (I can never spell that one!) and Arthur Vogel all having an agenda and wanting to pull the corp in one direction or another.
(I'll do these one at a time, Ithink. Make life easier.)
Thirdly is the ongoing rift with the UCAS, the #1 customer for Ares. President Colloton has had issues with Ares since back when she was 'just' a general and carried that with her. Over her terms in office, she's tried to do battle with the Pentagon (who are pretty much all paid for by Ares) and cut contracts for other suppliers, but the inertia inside the DOD is massive and it's been a huge battle for her. That Ares has a powerful political arm and PR machine hasn't helped.
(I'll do these one at a time, Ithink. Make life easier.)
Just a quick note that Wakshaani's awesome summaries above are coming up the current date, not cutting off at 2075. (I feel like they should get copied into the current metaplots thread, maybe?)
Wow, that's some amazing summaries. But yeah, much of it sounds post-2075 to me, though there's also some stuff that's probably still relevant to the 2070-2075 era. In particular the famine caused by Sirrurg.
I honestly had no idea about Ares. I'm vaguely familiar with Knight and Vogel, but there's a lot more going on. With that kind of internal rivalry, it sounds like they might end up going the way of Fuchi. What are the best books with more info about this?
How exactly did MCT surpass S-K as the largest megacorp? Just the Matrix stuff? Because I thought that was mostly NeoNET territory. I'm obviously not surprised that NeoNET has been overtaken, but if I'm not mistaken, the CFD shit didn't hit the fan until after 2075, so in the 70-75 period, NeoNET would still be king, right? (Didn't NeoNET cut up some technomancers, by the way? Or was that Horizon?)
What is "the Monad situation"? I don't think I've heard of that before.
I'm also interested in Aztechnology's shift away from blood magic. I know them primarily as deeply evil blood magic users with possible horror ties that has a positive public face because they provide all the food and other stuff most people actually need.
Of course this is the period and location of the Ork Underground and Brackhaven plots (and I'm basing the start of my campaign around the season 4 missions), but are there are corporations involved in that? I know some corporations really want to keep Brackhaven around, while others oppose him. Can someone give me a rundown on that?At this point, I don't know how well-involved companies are with Brackhaven, because the dirty evidence on him is only revealed in 2075. He only got pushed out by 2078.
Of course this is the period and location of the Ork Underground and Brackhaven plots (and I'm basing the start of my campaign around the season 4 missions), but are there are corporations involved in that? I know some corporations really want to keep Brackhaven around, while others oppose him. Can someone give me a rundown on that?At this point, I don't know how well-involved companies are with Brackhaven, because the dirty evidence on him is only revealed in 2075. He only got pushed out by 2078.
The new Matrix is end 2074, apparently the failure of Aztech crops is 2074 as well, and the Dragon War ended in 2074 with the banishment of Hestaby, after in 2073 she was busy attacking S-K. The timeline might help a bit: https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Shadowrun_timeline
Which book has luchador vampire hunters? That sounds so amazing! I need to know more.
It's only events, so nothing that goes deeply into a lot of things, but eh. ;DOf course this is the period and location of the Ork Underground and Brackhaven plots (and I'm basing the start of my campaign around the season 4 missions), but are there are corporations involved in that? I know some corporations really want to keep Brackhaven around, while others oppose him. Can someone give me a rundown on that?At this point, I don't know how well-involved companies are with Brackhaven, because the dirty evidence on him is only revealed in 2075. He only got pushed out by 2078.
The new Matrix is end 2074, apparently the failure of Aztech crops is 2074 as well, and the Dragon War ended in 2074 with the banishment of Hestaby, after in 2073 she was busy attacking S-K. The timeline might help a bit: https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Shadowrun_timeline
Oh man, that timeline is great.
And would have save me ALL THE TYPING.
Harumph.
:D
It's only events, so nothing that goes deeply into a lot of things, but eh. ;D
S-KDoes S-K not have a global impact anymore? Or does Pegasus have the exclusive rights to develop them, leading to them getting ignored in the CGL products?
They've been doing stuff. Most of it's in German books which I can't read, so … somebody else will have to handle that one.
SHIAWASEI got the impression from Storm Front that Leonization treatment was somehow related to CFD. Is it? Or was that a red herring?
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They also found out that the current Leonization method (Leonization Type II) had a hidden cost... it didn't impact your Essence but devoured your mind. They decalred it DOA and stopped its use, which lead to everyone else stopping it as well, and returned to the old Type I method … which is owned by Ares. D'oh.
Teh famine's a big one, yeah. Food prices go crazy, real food vanishes from many tables at middle lifestyle or lower, soy gets big again, and there are several crackdowns in cities as the agricorps start going after urban farms … they don't want the competition and this give sthem an excuse. Quite a few people start raising small herb gardens in windowsills or raising chickes on rooftop coops, only to have police bust in and have a corporate lawyer impound the stuff. It's a VERY rough couple of years for Aztechnology until Sirrurg goes down. (If you want to see the whole thing start, take a look at Dirty Tricks for the lowdown.)I am definitely getting Dirty Tricks, also because it seems to be related to the Backhaven plot that SRM4 is partially about.
Monads are … tricky. Short form? A bunch of Ais were rounded up and tortured, but manage dto escape via infecting some nanobots that were being made in the same facility. They gradually got installed into people, rebuilt their bodies, then took ove rtheir brains, erasing the original owners and making a new home for themselves in the meat world. This new race of former-digitals called themselves Monads and wound up taking over Evo's base on Mars, then buying a spacecarft from Evo and most gathered up and flew off to Mars, to be with their own kind. Some remain on Earth, but no one knows how many they are. They're tied in with Boston. Boston … was bad.I know about Boston primarily from the Shadowrun Chronicles computer game, thouh I think they were called headcases there. I guess monads are when their personality has stabilised in its new personality? Storm Front had a scene with some people suddenly talking with completely different personalities, which sounds like something I'd like to use. (Maybe after first confronting my players with Shedim, just to throw them off.)
As for Axtechnology? The blood magic seems to have been mostly at the behest of one person, Mr. Darke, aka Oscuro, and his Blood Mage Gestalt (Around a dozen blood mages who were linked to one another with tubes, which pumped blood from each of them through the next one in line, being in essence a giant organism with massive magical power) he died around 2060, around the same time as President Dunklezahn, and the breaking of the bridge from the Deep Astral and Earth that was being made by some rather terrible astral entities. With his death, the rathe rterrible subordinates he had were either fragged by their corporation mates or went into hiding, leaving a path clear for more traditional, “We're here to make money” sorts to move in. Indeed, as they've since been at the forefront of the “Defend Metahumanity from dragons” movement, they're being seen by some runners as, believe it or not, the GOOD guys!On the one hand I kinda liked Aztechnology as the deeply into evil blood magic company, on the other hand, presenting them as good guys is really going to screw with people's heads. (I've got a player who has all the 2nd edition stuff.) But maybe it's most important that all megacorps have both a good and a bad side. And a bunch of grey ones.
Wow, that's some amazing summaries. But yeah, much of it sounds post-2075 to me, though there's also some stuff that's probably still relevant to the 2070-2075 era. In particular the famine caused by Sirrurg.
I honestly had no idea about Ares. I'm vaguely familiar with Knight and Vogel, but there's a lot more going on. With that kind of internal rivalry, it sounds like they might end up going the way of Fuchi. What are the best books with more info about this?
How exactly did MCT surpass S-K as the largest megacorp? Just the Matrix stuff? Because I thought that was mostly NeoNET territory. I'm obviously not surprised that NeoNET has been overtaken, but if I'm not mistaken, the CFD shit didn't hit the fan until after 2075, so in the 70-75 period, NeoNET would still be king, right? (Didn't NeoNET cut up some technomancers, by the way? Or was that Horizon?)
What is "the Monad situation"? I don't think I've heard of that before.
I'm also interested in Aztechnology's shift away from blood magic. I know them primarily as deeply evil blood magic users with possible horror ties that has a positive public face because they provide all the food and other stuff most people actually need.
I am a fairly avid reader of the sourcebooks, not the fiction, but I do not recall anything about famines. Citation needed?Teh famine's a big one, yeah. Food prices go crazy, real food vanishes from many tables at middle lifestyle or lower, soy gets big again, and there are several crackdowns in cities as the agricorps start going after urban farms … they don't want the competition and this give them an excuse. Quite a few people start raising small herb gardens in windowsills or raising chickes on rooftop coops, only to have police bust in and have a corporate lawyer impound the stuff. It's a VERY rough couple of years for Aztechnology until Sirrurg goes down. (If you want to see the whole thing start, take a look at Dirty Tricks for the lowdown.)I am definitely getting Dirty Tricks, also because it seems to be related to the Backhaven plot that SRM4 is partially about.
I'm surprised that police would crack down on urban farms in the middle of a famine, though. That can't be good for your popularity.
I am a fairly avid reader of the sourcebooks, not the fiction, but I do not recall anything about famines. Citation needed?Teh famine's a big one, yeah. Food prices go crazy, real food vanishes from many tables at middle lifestyle or lower, soy gets big again, and there are several crackdowns in cities as the agricorps start going after urban farms … they don't want the competition and this give them an excuse. Quite a few people start raising small herb gardens in windowsills or raising chickes on rooftop coops, only to have police bust in and have a corporate lawyer impound the stuff. It's a VERY rough couple of years for Aztechnology until Sirrurg goes down. (If you want to see the whole thing start, take a look at Dirty Tricks for the lowdown.)I am definitely getting Dirty Tricks, also because it seems to be related to the Backhaven plot that SRM4 is partially about.
I'm surprised that police would crack down on urban farms in the middle of a famine, though. That can't be good for your popularity.
Yes, while some of the food corps might want to crack down on urban farming and it may have been criminalized, most corporate police are not going to enforce those laws unless it directly benefits them. Sure, they raid a gang holdout, they will tack on illegal chicken raising or if they need an excuse to search a place "suspected urban farm". But the negative publicity combined with the fact that oppressed (or even just regular folk) will fight to keep their food would make it a . . . non-cost effective exercise for Lone Star/KE/other police forces to follow. And non-corpo Police would probably say "Screw off, I'm not enforcing that" to the corpos.
I am a fairly avid reader of the sourcebooks, not the fiction, but I do not recall anything about famines. Citation needed?Teh famine's a big one, yeah. Food prices go crazy, real food vanishes from many tables at middle lifestyle or lower, soy gets big again, and there are several crackdowns in cities as the agricorps start going after urban farms … they don't want the competition and this give them an excuse. Quite a few people start raising small herb gardens in windowsills or raising chickes on rooftop coops, only to have police bust in and have a corporate lawyer impound the stuff. It's a VERY rough couple of years for Aztechnology until Sirrurg goes down. (If you want to see the whole thing start, take a look at Dirty Tricks for the lowdown.)I am definitely getting Dirty Tricks, also because it seems to be related to the Backhaven plot that SRM4 is partially about.
I'm surprised that police would crack down on urban farms in the middle of a famine, though. That can't be good for your popularity.
Yes, while some of the food corps might want to crack down on urban farming and it may have been criminalized, most corporate police are not going to enforce those laws unless it directly benefits them. Sure, they raid a gang holdout, they will tack on illegal chicken raising or if they need an excuse to search a place "suspected urban farm". But the negative publicity combined with the fact that oppressed (or even just regular folk) will fight to keep their food would make it a . . . non-cost effective exercise for Lone Star/KE/other police forces to follow. And non-corpo Police would probably say "Screw off, I'm not enforcing that" to the corpos.