From:	Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject:	Re: Submission : NERPS Guide to the World
Date:	Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:48:16 -0400

I'm going to forgo decker style and instead comment on the
ideas/presentation itself.

My first question is: what is the context of this history? Is it supposed to
be lifted from a history book or its it the work of a shadowrunner type, or
something else? Or are these just your own thoughts about Africa? Any of
those are fine, I just want to know what I'm reading. You might want to add
something at the beginning to introduce what it is. For example, in
Cyberpirates, each section usually begins with the Shadowland administrator
describing who posted that section. It gives the reader an idea of how much
she should trust the information.

>Responding to a Libyan chemical weapons attack on Ghaddafi(sp) Day,

The Universal Almanac spells it "Qaddafi", but I've seen a bunch of other
spellings as well.


>South Africa absorbs Swaziland,
>Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The Nation of Azania is
>born on the 1st of February 2011.

Cyberpirates makes it seem like Azania is not much larger than modern South
Africa.

>[2014 : The collapse of the White government (FASA) ignored]

I'm not sure I understand this notation. I think you're saying "FASA says
the white government collapses, but I'm pretending that did not happen in
this history". Is that right? If so, where is this reference?

>2011-2021 : African Isolation.

One thing that's very important to Africa here is VITAS, which killed 750
million people in Africa (cp.93). That's a quarter of the population, and
that would have some serious social and political ramifications.

>2045 : Madagsacar

This is a pretty far cry from official FASA party lines. If I recall, one of
the concepts of the Guide to the World is that we would stick to FASAs
version whenever possible.

>2047 : Rumours from the desert.

Interesting. Any hints on what this is?

Wordman