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Message no. 1
From: Scott Koch <heydrich@*******.NET>
Subject: Minnesota Info
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:11:14 -0600
Here is some Info I picked up from a Shadowrun Timeline, I hope I got
everybody the credit they deserve:

Compiled by John Maniha
Additional Formatting by Bryan Jones
HTML conversion by Paolo Marcucci


2002
Mitsuhama Computer Technologies opens its office in St. Paul
Minnesota.
Governor Rudd of Minnesota opens discussion with Native American
tribal leaders of major reservations to prevent exploitation of the
resources of Minnesota.

2005
Minnesota and leading Ojibwa tribal leaders prevents the exploitation
of resources on Ojibwa land.

2008
Four months after Texas authorizes urban militia units, Minnesota
follows their example and passes the "Firearm Education Law."
A meteor impacts with the Mir space platform (recently sold by the
Russians to the Harris-3M corporation) killing two of the crew
outright. The rest die later when Harris-3M fails to launch a rescue
mission. The orbit of the station begins to decay.
On November 25 Harris-3M, determining that the Mir platform cannot be
saved, place a Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE) on board and destroys it.

2009
The "Battle" of Bagley is fought in Minneapolis, Minnesota between
security and gang forces.

2010
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the New Metropolitan Council (NMC), a group
formed to handle the riots and chaos of the VITAS outbreaks, is
formed. The group's members have their identities concealed to all but
themselves and Governor Haroldson (Governor Rudd's successor) in order
to protect them.

2011
The Minneapolis NMC is granted further governing powers. The
Metropolitan Security Directorate (MSD) and Metropolitan Police Corps
(MPC) are established to exercise these new powers and to keep the
state from falling into anarchy.

2015
The Magic Hat, a professional organization for practice of real magic
opens in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2017
In Minnesota the Awakened Forest, an area teeming with awakened
lifeforms, begins to grow.

2019
The Red Lake "Invasion" occurs when street gangs invade the Red Lake
district of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The 1st Minnesota Regulars are formed to battle the increasing gang
violence.

2022
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, federal troops attempting to control a food
riot in a northern suburb accidentally drop several high explosive
bombs. 20,000 people are killed and an estimated 45,000+ are crippled
or injured. Fires rage out of control for ten days.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the political parties are realigned. A
coalition is now needed to pass any legislation.

2023
The International Trade Zone of Saint Paul, Minnesota is moved south
of the Mississippi River to occupy that section of Saint Paul.
In response to the federal bombings of Minneapolis, Federal troops are
restricted to federal land in Minnesota.

2024
The metropolitan area inside the `94 Loop' in Minnesota is designated
as the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metroplex (MSP) under the rule of the
NMC.
Grain wars between corporations in MSP result in a trucking war. It is
short lived as the NMC intervenes.
The University of Minnesota develops a Multi-User/Multi-Input (MUMI)
program using a Cray donated mainframe computer.

2025
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) changes its name to 4M by
adding magic to its industries.

2027
Parabiologicals appear in Northern Minnesota carrying new and
dangerous virus strains.
A mass exodus of dwarves (who appear immune to the new viruses) begin
to migrate north from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, to Duluth in particular.

2029
Satisfaction Safaris, a company that gives tours of the Awakened
Forest in Northern Minnesota, is founded.
A major gang crisis in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota forces the
MPC to get active assistance from the MSD crisis response teams.

2030
Tong & Anvil Mining Company (an exclusive dwarvish corporation) is
founded in Duluth, Minnesota.
The suburb in Minneapolis-Saint Paul Minnesota that was bombed during
the food riot is walled off and made into "Crystal City"-Minnesota
Maximum Security Facility. Every inmate of this new penitentiary is
fitted with a security collar which has a timer, a transceiver, and a
plastic explosive charge. Any attempt to tamper with the collar or to
leave the area of the prison and the transmitters on the prison walls,
results in detonation of the collar. When the inmate's sentence is
over, the explosive dissolves, destroys the transceiver, and the
collar falls off. Each inmate is left to his own devices as to how to
survive the length of his sentence.

2032
The Genesis Foundation, a corporation specializing in genetic and
biological research, is founded in Minnesota/Saint Paul Minnesota.
The dwarvish majority is recognized in Duluth, Minnesota when a
dwarvish mayor is elected.

2034
A major gang war breaks out inside MSP and destroys most of South
Saint Paul. The area is rebuilt and redesignated as Corps Saint Paul.

2035
The last major gangs inside the MSP metroplex are forcibly disbanded.
Gangs inside MSP are outlawed and wearing gang colors becomes a crime
punishable by internment in "Crystal City."

2036
A group of 500 elves from the MSP Metroplex gather to enter the
Awakened Forest and start an independent colony.
Three weeks after entering the Awakened Forest, 75 of the 500 elves
return as broken men. They tell of the forest itself rising up and
killing the other members of the colony.
Within three weeks of their return, all of the 75 survivors of the
Awakened Forest colony are dead. The senior elves of the Great
Northern Council have ideas as to the reason, but make no public
comment.

2037
A group of nonsmokers in Minneapolis, UCAS organizes themselves into a
paramilitary organization called the Nonsmokers' Supremacy League
(NSL) to combat public smoking. Armed with small arms, they begin a
campaign of raiding restaurants and other public places which no
longer have separate seating for smokers and nonsmokers.

2038
The only successful escape from Crystal City occurs. Criminal
mastermind Wentworth Childe, known as "Brain Childe" is able to escape
by stealing his collar-link transmitter, thereby keeping his collar
from exploding.

2039
Alamos 20,000 attempts a mass murder spree in Duluth, Minnesota.
Eleven members of the terrorist group are captured but escape the day
before being turned over to state authorities.

2040
Despite attempts from the Minneapolis home branch to segregate itself
from the Chicago group, the NSL becomes the focus of nationwide law
enforcement attention.
Hammer & Shield Security, an all dwarvish corporation in the MSP
Metroplex, is founded.

2041
Casinos and nightclubs are opened by the Mafia on White Bear Lake in
the MSP Metroplex.
Vladimir Zorgon, CEO of Zorgon Cybersystems, sends his brother Vasilev
to the MSP Metroplex to open a new facility there.

2042
Several streets in downtown MSP Metroplex collapse. Rather then
rebuild the streets on badly saturated foundations, the sunken areas
are smoothed out and turned into the MSP Canals, allowing boat travel
in the city itself. The area becomes known as "Little Venice."

2043
After a failed attempt at a hostile stock take-over of Tong & Anvil
Mining, 4-M launches a prolonged corp war against the dwarven
corporation.

2044
The Research Division of the New Age Labs corporation in the MSP
Metroplex discovers a room temperature super conducting plasma.
Following this discovery, the New Age Arms corporation is formed and
initially placed under a large contract by the MSD to develop a Plasma
Shock anti-vehicular weapon.
At Lakeshore Laboratories in Minnesota, a synthetic "Generic Gene" is
discovered. This allows for growth of "generic" limbs which can be
coded with recipient's DNA prior to the graft. This cuts down clone
time by 75% but increases rejection rate by 45%.

2045
Aztechnology attempts a corp-war to take-over Control Data in the MSP
Metroplex. The attempt fails and the NMC censures Aztechnology for the
deaths of innocents and demands reparations and weregild for their
actions. Aztechnology refuses and is placed under interdict by the
NMC. They receive no power, no water, and no services.
After two months and two failed firefights with the NMC enforcers,
Aztechnology breaks down and pays the entire sum, which includes a
substantial penalty fee. Funds are used to rebuild the skyways damaged
by Aztechnology.

2047
The Great Dragon Morgor'ash, CEO of Vibra Technologies, becomes CEO of
Fantasy Kingdom Adventureland Theme Park in the MSP Metroplex.
Chrome Centurions becomes the latest rage for security and bodyguards
in the MSP Metroplex. They come in four models: Platinum, Gold,
Silver, and Bronze.

2048
Mitsuhama Computer Technologies is found guilty of sponsoring Yakuza
activities in the MSP Metroplex. The senior executives are sentenced
to fifteen years in Crystal City and the corporation is banned from
MSP Metroplex offices for three years. The senior officers all die
within six months of entering Crystal City.

2049
In Minnesota, UCAS, a flock of over 300 Carrion Crows attacks a small
town on the shores of Lower Red Lake. No less than 35 people are
killed and over 110 are injured.
New Age Arms successfully completes its contract with the MSD and
develops a functioning Plasma Shock weapon.
The Delancy Scandal is exposed in the MSP Metroplex. The Director
General of the MSD is discovered to be involved in the black market
and smuggling operations.

2050
An elvish colony is established in the Arrowhead region of Northern
Minnesota. The Great Northern Elvish Council establishes its
headquarters there.
In Minnesota, UCAS, a simsense film crew is attacked by a pack of
Fenris Wolves near the Boundary Waters. Fifteen crew members are
killed. The only survivors are six crew members on an elevated
platform.
In the MSP Metroplex the MSD shifts the MPC to exclusive use of Plasma
Shock weaponry.

2051
Professor Edmund Pipen of the Lovecraft Institute of arcane studies in
the MSP Metroplex is found insane and raving following an experiment
with astral travel to a "theorized" dimension of the netherworld.
In the MSP Metroplex, six animal trainers at a 4-M facility are killed
trying to train Fenris Wolves as guard animals. A heavy response team
from the MSD are required to put the wolves down.

2052
In the MSP Metroplex's Como Zoo the first litter of Saber-Tooth cat
kittens born in captivity are announced.

2053
In the Seattle Metroplex, three bodies are found floating in Seattle
harbor. At first believed to be squatters, they are later identified
as undercover MSD officers from the MSP Metroplex. The men were
apparently investigating organized crime when their covers were blown.

(c) 1994 The Internet Presence & Publishing Corporation.
Message no. 2
From: Erik_Jameson@*****.COM
Subject: RE> Minnesota Info
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 03:32:06 -0800
RE> Minnesota Info
To Net Enhancements for Roleplaying Shadowrun<NERPS@********.itribe.net>


Would someone please tell me where this crappy info for the
Shadowrun Explorer comes from? Everything I have read from
it is nonsense! Room-temperature plasma cannons? And
that's just the most ludicrous of the bunch! Whoever
entered all the info into the Explorer (which is a great
idea, just poor data) needs to be hurt badly. There is some
really lame stuff there.

Erik
------------------------------
Date: 10/30/96 0:21 AM
To: Jameson, Erik
From: Net Enhancements for Roleplayi


Here is some Info I picked up from a Shadowrun Timeline, I
hope I got
everybody the credit they deserve:

Compiled by John Maniha
Additional Formatting by Bryan Jones
HTML conversion by Paolo Marcucci


2002
Mitsuhama Computer Technologies opens its office in St.
Paul
Minnesota.
Governor Rudd of Minnesota opens discussion with Native
American
tribal leaders of major reservations to prevent
exploitation of the
resources of Minnesota.

2005
Minnesota and leading Ojibwa tribal leaders prevents
the exploitation
of resources on Ojibwa land.

2008
Four months after Texas authorizes urban militia units,
Minnesota
follows their example and passes the "Firearm Education
Law."
A meteor impacts with the Mir space platform (recently
sold by the
Russians to the Harris-3M corporation) killing two of
the crew
outright. The rest die later when Harris-3M fails to
launch a rescue
mission. The orbit of the station begins to decay.
On November 25 Harris-3M, determining that the Mir
platform cannot be
saved, place a Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE) on board and
destroys it.

2009
The "Battle" of Bagley is fought in Minneapolis,
Minnesota between
security and gang forces.

2010
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the New Metropolitan Council
(NMC), a group
formed to handle the riots and chaos of the VITAS
outbreaks, is
formed. The group's members have their identities
concealed to all but
themselves and Governor Haroldson (Governor Rudd's
successor) in order
to protect them.

2011
The Minneapolis NMC is granted further governing
powers. The
Metropolitan Security Directorate (MSD) and
Metropolitan Police Corps
(MPC) are established to exercise these new powers and
to keep the
state from falling into anarchy.

2015
The Magic Hat, a professional organization for practice
of real magic
opens in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2017
In Minnesota the Awakened Forest, an area teeming with
awakened
lifeforms, begins to grow.

2019
The Red Lake "Invasion" occurs when street gangs invade
the Red Lake
district of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The 1st Minnesota Regulars are formed to battle the
increasing gang
violence.

2022
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, federal troops attempting to
control a food
riot in a northern suburb accidentally drop several
high explosive
bombs. 20,000 people are killed and an estimated
45,000+ are crippled
or injured. Fires rage out of control for ten days.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the political parties are
realigned. A
coalition is now needed to pass any legislation.

2023
The International Trade Zone of Saint Paul, Minnesota
is moved south
of the Mississippi River to occupy that section of
Saint Paul.
In response to the federal bombings of Minneapolis,
Federal troops are
restricted to federal land in Minnesota.

2024
The metropolitan area inside the `94 Loop' in Minnesota
is designated
as the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metroplex (MSP) under the
rule of the
NMC.
Grain wars between corporations in MSP result in a
trucking war. It is
short lived as the NMC intervenes.
The University of Minnesota develops a
Multi-User/Multi-Input (MUMI)
program using a Cray donated mainframe computer.

2025
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) changes its
name to 4M by
adding magic to its industries.

2027
Parabiologicals appear in Northern Minnesota carrying
new and
dangerous virus strains.
A mass exodus of dwarves (who appear immune to the new
viruses) begin
to migrate north from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, to Duluth
in particular.

2029
Satisfaction Safaris, a company that gives tours of the
Awakened
Forest in Northern Minnesota, is founded.
A major gang crisis in Minneapolis-Saint Paul,
Minnesota forces the
MPC to get active assistance from the MSD crisis
response teams.

2030
Tong & Anvil Mining Company (an exclusive dwarvish
corporation) is
founded in Duluth, Minnesota.
The suburb in Minneapolis-Saint Paul Minnesota that was
bombed during
the food riot is walled off and made into "Crystal
City"-Minnesota
Maximum Security Facility. Every inmate of this new
penitentiary is
fitted with a security collar which has a timer, a
transceiver, and a
plastic explosive charge. Any attempt to tamper with
the collar or to
leave the area of the prison and the transmitters on
the prison walls,
results in detonation of the collar. When the inmate's
sentence is
over, the explosive dissolves, destroys the
transceiver, and the
collar falls off. Each inmate is left to his own
devices as to how to
survive the length of his sentence.

2032
The Genesis Foundation, a corporation specializing in
genetic and
biological research, is founded in Minnesota/Saint Paul
Minnesota.
The dwarvish majority is recognized in Duluth,
Minnesota when a
dwarvish mayor is elected.

2034
A major gang war breaks out inside MSP and destroys
most of South
Saint Paul. The area is rebuilt and redesignated as
Corps Saint Paul.

2035
The last major gangs inside the MSP metroplex are
forcibly disbanded.
Gangs inside MSP are outlawed and wearing gang colors
becomes a crime
punishable by internment in "Crystal City."

2036
A group of 500 elves from the MSP Metroplex gather to
enter the
Awakened Forest and start an independent colony.
Three weeks after entering the Awakened Forest, 75 of
the 500 elves
return as broken men. They tell of the forest itself
rising up and
killing the other members of the colony.
Within three weeks of their return, all of the 75
survivors of the
Awakened Forest colony are dead. The senior elves of
the Great
Northern Council have ideas as to the reason, but make
no public
comment.

2037
A group of nonsmokers in Minneapolis, UCAS organizes
themselves into a
paramilitary organization called the Nonsmokers'
Supremacy League
(NSL) to combat public smoking. Armed with small arms,
they begin a
campaign of raiding restaurants and other public places
which no
longer have separate seating for smokers and
nonsmokers.

2038
The only successful escape from Crystal City occurs.
Criminal
mastermind Wentworth Childe, known as "Brain Childe" is
able to escape
by stealing his collar-link transmitter, thereby
keeping his collar
from exploding.

2039
Alamos 20,000 attempts a mass murder spree in Duluth,
Minnesota.
Eleven members of the terrorist group are captured but
escape the day
before being turned over to state authorities.

2040
Despite attempts from the Minneapolis home branch to
segregate itself
from the Chicago group, the NSL becomes the focus of
nationwide law
enforcement attention.
Hammer & Shield Security, an all dwarvish corporation
in the MSP
Metroplex, is founded.

2041
Casinos and nightclubs are opened by the Mafia on White
Bear Lake in
the MSP Metroplex.
Vladimir Zorgon, CEO of Zorgon Cybersystems, sends his
brother Vasilev
to the MSP Metroplex to open a new facility there.

2042
Several streets in downtown MSP Metroplex collapse.
Rather then
rebuild the streets on badly saturated foundations, the
sunken areas
are smoothed out and turned into the MSP Canals,
allowing boat travel
in the city itself. The area becomes known as "Little
Venice."

2043
After a failed attempt at a hostile stock take-over of
Tong & Anvil
Mining, 4-M launches a prolonged corp war against the
dwarven
corporation.

2044
The Research Division of the New Age Labs corporation
in the MSP
Metroplex discovers a room temperature super conducting
plasma.
Following this discovery, the New Age Arms corporation
is formed and
initially placed under a large contract by the MSD to
develop a Plasma
Shock anti-vehicular weapon.
At Lakeshore Laboratories in Minnesota, a synthetic
"Generic Gene" is
discovered. This allows for growth of "generic" limbs
which can be
coded with recipient's DNA prior to the graft. This
cuts down clone
time by 75% but increases rejection rate by 45%.

2045
Aztechnology attempts a corp-war to take-over Control
Data in the MSP
Metroplex. The attempt fails and the NMC censures
Aztechnology for the
deaths of innocents and demands reparations and
weregild for their
actions. Aztechnology refuses and is placed under
interdict by the
NMC. They receive no power, no water, and no services.
After two months and two failed firefights with the NMC
enforcers,
Aztechnology breaks down and pays the entire sum, which
includes a
substantial penalty fee. Funds are used to rebuild the
skyways damaged
by Aztechnology.

2047
The Great Dragon Morgor'ash, CEO of Vibra Technologies,
becomes CEO of
Fantasy Kingdom Adventureland Theme Park in the MSP
Metroplex.
Chrome Centurions becomes the latest rage for security
and bodyguards
in the MSP Metroplex. They come in four models:
Platinum, Gold,
Silver, and Bronze.

2048
Mitsuhama Computer Technologies is found guilty of
sponsoring Yakuza
activities in the MSP Metroplex. The senior executives
are sentenced
to fifteen years in Crystal City and the corporation is
banned from
MSP Metroplex offices for three years. The senior
officers all die
within six months of entering Crystal City.

2049
In Minnesota, UCAS, a flock of over 300 Carrion Crows
attacks a small
town on the shores of Lower Red Lake. No less than 35
people are
killed and over 110 are injured.
New Age Arms successfully completes its contract with
the MSD and
develops a functioning Plasma Shock weapon.
The Delancy Scandal is exposed in the MSP Metroplex.
The Director
General of the MSD is discovered to be involved in the
black market
and smuggling operations.

2050
An elvish colony is established in the Arrowhead region
of Northern
Minnesota. The Great Northern Elvish Council
establishes its
headquarters there.
In Minnesota, UCAS, a simsense film crew is attacked by
a pack of
Fenris Wolves near the Boundary Waters. Fifteen crew
members are
killed. The only survivors are six crew members on an
elevated
platform.
In the MSP Metroplex the MSD shifts the MPC to
exclusive use of Plasma
Shock weaponry.

2051
Professor Edmund Pipen of the Lovecraft Institute of
arcane studies in
the MSP Metroplex is found insane and raving following
an experiment
with astral travel to a "theorized" dimension of the
netherworld.
In the MSP Metroplex, six animal trainers at a 4-M
facility are killed
trying to train Fenris Wolves as guard animals. A heavy
response team
from the MSD are required to put the wolves down.

2052
In the MSP Metroplex's Como Zoo the first litter of
Saber-Tooth cat
kittens born in captivity are announced.

2053
In the Seattle Metroplex, three bodies are found
floating in Seattle
harbor. At first believed to be squatters, they are
later identified
as undercover MSD officers from the MSP Metroplex. The
men were
apparently investigating organized crime when their
covers were blown.

(c) 1994 The Internet Presence & Publishing Corporation.
Message no. 3
From: Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Minnesota Info
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:10:47 +1000
> Would someone please tell me where this crappy info for the
> Shadowrun Explorer comes from? Everything I have read from
> it is nonsense! Room-temperature plasma cannons? And
> that's just the most ludicrous of the bunch! Whoever
> entered all the info into the Explorer (which is a great
> idea, just poor data) needs to be hurt badly. There is some
> really lame stuff there.
>
Agreed absolutely.... It sounds like the author has taken the game and
modified it and its timeline for his own campaign. It's a good
timeline, because it's comprehensive, but it's a pain in the arse
sorting out the real sutff from the additions.

I've asked a couple of times on the list who the Author is/was but I got
no response.

I'm wondering if it's possible to edit the timeline information to agree
at least with the stuff that NERPS is going to publish. I'm helping
write the Australian stuff and I'm sure as hell not using all the stuff in
the Explorer timeline.

Disclaimer

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