Shadowrun
Shadowrun General => The Secret History => Topic started by: Belker on <06-30-15/1524:38>
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I'm hunting down sources in the canon about Russia, and my initial take is that there's surprisingly little. I've so far confirmed the following sources:
- Core books - history write-ups
- Sixth World Almanac
- Target: Smuggler Havens - Information on Vladivostok
- Germany Sourcebook - Eurowars
- London & Germany sourcebooks - relationships with England and Germany
- A bit on organized crime in the Underworld Sourceook
- Assorted bits in Corporate Downloads and Year of the Comet
- Shadows of Asia (per Crimsondude)
I do have Shadows of Europe but only in hardcopy, but I expect there's at least something in there. And of course there's the bit where the Patriarch gets Rasputin's Heart in Dunklezahn's will, so I imagine there's something in Portfolio of a Dragon. And the fiction piece set in Vladivostok.
But that's all I've located in my first search. Is there anything else significant that I'm missing? Other cool if insignificant stuff I should check out?
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theres a little bit of "color" in the book Vladivostok Gauntlet on DTRPG http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/119271/Shadowrun-The-Vladivostok-Gauntlet dont know if it will help, but its an interesting read. lots of wolf shifters.
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Only thing I can add is way back in Target: Matrix pg 51 - 53, the Beppu Data Haven relocated to Vladivostok after their main servers were slagged in '59 and renamed it Mosaic.
Mosaic supported an otaku tribe numbering around a dozen at one point and would be interesting to see if these made it over to TMs or what happened with them.
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As i recall, most organized Otaku met their demise at the hands of Pax and Winternight agents....
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Try SR3-Shadows Of Asia, SR4-Vice, SR4-Spy Games, SR4-Euro War Antiques. I think there's more but only snippets spread far and wide.
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Vice talks about the Red Vory/Western Vory split and how it relates to the (then current) power structure in Russia.
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Thanks folks. It sounds like I'm not missing any major sources, but there may be key information in unusual places. (You're all shocked, I know.)
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Chrome Flesh has a teensy bit in there as well. I *think* it's in the Protein Queen section.
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As i recall, most organized Otaku met their demise at the hands of Pax and Winternight agents....
Very, very, very wrong. The post-Arcology otaku clash was between Overwatch (the bloated monstrosity it had become, some 150+ otaku), Deus's Network members (whom they were trying to hinder), Ex Pacis (led by Pax who wanted Deus back together so she could destroy him), and Winternight (who was working with Pax, but who wanted to destroy the Matrix and usher in the end of the world). Otaku outside of that fight may have died in the crossfire or for other reasons, but there were plenty of tribes that got along just fine outside of that little clash.
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Thanks folks. It sounds like I'm not missing any major sources, but there may be key information in unusual places. (You're all shocked, I know.)
Except for Shadows of Asia, which has a 23-page chapter on Russia. So you definitely want that.
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As i recall, most organized Otaku met their demise at the hands of Pax and Winternight agents....
Very, very, very wrong. The post-Arcology otaku clash was between Overwatch (the bloated monstrosity it had become, some 150+ otaku), Deus's Network members (whom they were trying to hinder), Ex Pacis (led by Pax who wanted Deus back together so she could destroy him), and Winternight (who was working with Pax, but who wanted to destroy the Matrix and usher in the end of the world). Otaku outside of that fight may have died in the crossfire or for other reasons, but there were plenty of tribes that got along just fine outside of that little clash.
Hmmm, I remember that differently, Guess I got some re-reading to do.
Thanks!
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As i recall, most organized Otaku met their demise at the hands of Pax and Winternight agents....
Very, very, very wrong. The post-Arcology otaku clash was between Overwatch (the bloated monstrosity it had become, some 150+ otaku), Deus's Network members (whom they were trying to hinder), Ex Pacis (led by Pax who wanted Deus back together so she could destroy him), and Winternight (who was working with Pax, but who wanted to destroy the Matrix and usher in the end of the world). Otaku outside of that fight may have died in the crossfire or for other reasons, but there were plenty of tribes that got along just fine outside of that little clash.
Hmmm, I remember that differently, Guess I got some re-reading to do.
Thanks!
Both are equally plausible. It depends on how much you read into System Failure about the battles that broke out between each AI faction and to what extent it drew unaligned Otaku, which was the vast majority of them, to be honest, into their war. System Failure wants to suggest that it was basically WW2 in the streets between tribes, even or especially tribes that didn't start out having anything to do with the three AI. At the same time, Wyrm is generally right that most Otaku had nothing to do with Deus or the others, so the conflict was generally contained to a minority of Otaku. I'm inclined to agree with Wyrm, but I can't say for sure.
ANYWAY, I'm pretty sure the Mosaic doesn't exist. It was always being threatened, and neither it nor Tenchi, the sysop, have been mentioned since Shadows of Asia.
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Thanks for the tip on Shadows of Asia, Crimsondude. Added to the pile.