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Message no. 1
From: Les Ward <lward@*******.COM>
Subject: Idea for Salt Lake
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:06:16 -0400
This is an idea for Elton Robb (the guy doing Salt Lake), but I
thought I'd make it public to invite comments.

Elton, I'm not sure what you have planned for Salt Lake, so feel free
to totally ignore this, but as you probably know, the Mormons have a
bit of any obsession with geneology. They have one of the largest
databases of family lineage in the world. Shadowrun being Shadowrun,
I've always considered this obsession to have an ulterior motive in
the world of Shadowrun. In particular, I've always considered the
purpose of all this genetic data gathering to be an effort to
track/predict immortal elves.

Why would they do this? No clue, but this implies that Mormons (or at
least one of the higher ups) had knowledge of such elves long before
the Awakening.

I dunno. Make of it what you will.

Wordman
Message no. 2
From: Barbie <barbie@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Idea for Salt Lake
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:41:41 -0500
At 04-Sep-97 wrote Les Ward:

>This is an idea for Elton Robb (the guy doing Salt Lake), but I
>thought I'd make it public to invite comments.

>Elton, I'm not sure what you have planned for Salt Lake, so feel free
>to totally ignore this.

And one from me: Salt Lake City is in fact in one of the NAN books from
FASA., So are you want to do a overhaul, or will you do a new writing?

--
Barbie


One lived hour is still living.
Message no. 3
From: Glenn Robb <GLENNROBB@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: Idea for Salt Lake
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 17:11:58 -0600
An expansion, Barbie.

— Elton Robb

Barbie wrote:

> At 04-Sep-97 wrote Les Ward:
>
> >This is an idea for Elton Robb (the guy doing Salt Lake), but I
> >thought I'd make it public to invite comments.
>
> >Elton, I'm not sure what you have planned for Salt Lake, so feel free
> >to totally ignore this.
>
> And one from me: Salt Lake City is in fact in one of the NAN books from
> FASA., So are you want to do a overhaul, or will you do a new writing?
>
> --
> Barbie
>
> One lived hour is still living.
Message no. 4
From: GKoth2258@***.COM
Subject: Re: Idea for Salt Lake
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:45:36 -0400
I love that idea. It makes a lot of sense too. EVERY piece of information
is power. And given the SR world, why not give the Mormons some sort of
inside track like that? According to SR, the Catholics have some sort of
inside knowledge. Maybe there is some sort of information hidden in those
genealogies that is just waiting for the right Awakened clue to reveal.

Also, don't forget that the Mormon Church is extremely wealthy. I think
second only the the Roman Catholic church. The Mormons have been very
schrewd investors with their money (cash infusions from the very regular
tithings of members; get a few millionaires like Steve Jones, QB for the SF
49ers (American football for our non-American cousins) or Wally Joyner of
baseball (with the Padres?) giving their tithes, and that can be a lot of
money to be put into the stock market...). So they are likely to wield a
whole lot more power than you would think they should just based on
membership (sort of like they do now). Maybe with their wealth they have a
church seat on the Ares board or something...

Of course, if they do have that sort of power, the Mormon Church isn't likely
to go around telling everyone. The Church has always had a tendency to keep
to itself and be very closed-lipped; sometimes even when it would be to it's
advantage to put out a press release or something.

Erik J.
Message no. 5
From: Glenn Robb <GLENNROBB@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: Idea for Salt Lake
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:29:37 -0600
> I love that idea. It makes a lot of sense too. EVERY piece of information
> is power. And given the SR world, why not give the Mormons some sort of
> inside track like that? According to SR, the Catholics have some sort of
> inside knowledge. Maybe there is some sort of information hidden in those
> genealogies that is just waiting for the right Awakened clue to reveal.
>
> Also, don't forget that the Mormon Church is extremely wealthy. I think
> second only the the Roman Catholic church. The Mormons have been very
> schrewd investors with their money (cash infusions from the very regular
> tithings of members; get a few millionaires like Steve Jones, QB for the SF
> 49ers (American football for our non-American cousins) or Wally Joyner of
> baseball (with the Padres?) giving their tithes, and that can be a lot of
> money to be put into the stock market...). So they are likely to wield a
> whole lot more power than you would think they should just based on
> membership (sort of like they do now). Maybe with their wealth they have a
> church seat on the Ares board or something...
>
> Of course, if they do have that sort of power, the Mormon Church isn't likely
> to go around telling everyone. The Church has always had a tendency to keep
> to itself and be very closed-lipped; sometimes even when it would be to it's
> advantage to put out a press release or something.
>
> Erik J.

My Church is very wealthy. But it doesn't use it's power like a lot of
special interest groups might. It uses it's wealth for the good of Mankind
(<meta>humans in the Church's view).

See, I told you I would insert a genetic counseling agency. HAR! HAR!

— Elton Robb :)

My laugh wasn't meant to make fun of my Church.

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