| From: | "Paolo Falco, FoxMaster" <Falco@****.IT> |
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| Subject: | Re: NAGTW Iceland part |
| Date: | Wed, 6 Nov 1996 19:15:16 +0000 |
part...
These are excerpts from the Timeline for iceland... Notice anything
strange?
> 2012.England in desparate need of clean Energy after the nuclear
> accidents of the year before. [...]
> 2013.Rebuilding of the capital Reykjavik begin with parts of the
> old city being repaired and flood walls being set into place hopes
> are that much of the city can be reclaimed using technology
> perfected by Holland.
> 2014 To kepp up with Englands need for energy,plans are made to
> built a [...]
> 2016 With signs that the North Atlantic fishing stcoks are reaching
> high enough levels plans are made to start small scale fishing
> again [..]
> 2020. The Trans polar Aleut offers Iceland to join the new
> nation,[...]
> 2024 A study made shows that a disaprobriate number of Icelanders
> are magicaly active with [...]
> 2025 The last of the ten new Undersealines is finished at the same
> time as the new hydroplant and windfarms become opperational
> providing a massive influx of capital[...]
> 2054 on the morning of June the 17th the old National Holiday a
> Message is sent to all major news networks.Were Iceland declares
> itself an Independent country from the TPA[...] They are amushed
> by Rebel Troops using sophisticated small arms and anti vehicle
> weaponry.It is later found out [...] In a searies of short but
> bloody fight the local PF troops are all but wiped out.[...] Once
> it is learned that Iceland has Fielded close to 10.000 troops well
> trained and heavily equiped, plans for an Invasion are droped.
> 2055 Iceland Anounces the creation of the Iceland Corporate
> Enclave as the Countries Goverment built along the lines of the
> Pueblo corporate council.The Enclave begins Rapid economic
> expansion Increasing sales of Energy to England and channeling more
> money into economic builtup.
> 2056 After a peace meeting Hosted by the Scandinavian Union ICE and
> TPA sign a peace treaty and the TPA recocnises Icelands
> Independence.The other native nations follow suit.agreements for
> reasuming sales of energy to the TPA are drawn up and repairs on
> the Undersealines are started.
> 2057 ICE Announces plans to built research stations on the North
> pole and a number of undersea stations plans are to begin in late
> 2057 the first North
> pole station is to be ready in 2059 with the firs Deep sea station
> to be finished a year later in 2060
This was the only thing I had feared about doing a NAGTTW... It's
called "campanilism" in italian, or Thinking That Your Country IS
Better Than (almost) All Others... In other words, olafur has given
us a MIGHTILY optimistic view of iceland in the 2050es. Now, yes, it
is all very detalied and realistic, but will everyone do the same or
will someone have the bravery to describe a real cyberpunk environment
instead of this sort of wishy-washy sort-of-cyberpunk (mixed with a
little Star Wars and a hint that HE himself would like to be a
shaman) stuff?
I mean, if you had come from Great Britain, would you have written
the England Sourcebook??? I takes guts to detail your own country's
future as a wasted, polluted, infested, violent, poor, underground
rainy a**hole in the universe, especially when other people describe
theirs as shiny, magical, rightly rebellious fishing and clean-energy
producing havens (who had the strength to rise up after a big
disaster, to top it all).
But isn't pessimism what cyberpunk is all about?
I don't think this is the right attitude, but that's just my opinion,
of course. In other words, I wouldn't let my PCs play in Iceland. And I
wouldn't buy a supplement with this sort of background, if it came
out. It's not the single event that's not good IMHO, it's the whole
attitude.
Free to disagree, of course, but think about it before coming for my
throat! :)
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