| From: | Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: RESUBMIT: AFRICA (with modifications and comments.) |
| Date: | Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:29:35 -0500 |
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 3:01 AM
<snip most of the history, since I don't know enough to comment coherently
on it>
>Entry for 2014 : White Government collapse in South Africa. This
>happened 30 years before in 1994. We are already united and at peace
>(except maybe with ourselves :|)
It would be 20, not 30 years. And when the game was written in 1988, and
published in 1989, Mandela was still in prison and it looked like apartheid
would be there to stay. A lot of variances from the real world happened in
the game world, starting at the point in time they were writing it, and it
seems wrong to me to completely rewrite the game's history because something
different happened in real life.
>2025 : Wildlife
>
>In Africa, the African Rhino becomes extinct in the wild. The only
>survivors are specimens in zoos.
>
>>>>[Not entirely true, if you count the Awakened rhino, which still
>exists but due to it's powers is hard to find.]<<<
>-----Clyde(09/11/60-12:48:55)
>
>>>>[Awakened Crocodiles are common in all rivers. They have the habit
>of looking like trees in the water even at the second glance... wonder
>where I got my nickname?]<<<
>-----One-Leg(09/13/61-16:07:12)
(>) Awakened rhinos aren't hard to find if they're hungry. Of course, by
that time, it's a little late to start looking for them....
(>) Java Nut
"wHADAYA mean I'M DrinKING TOo mUcH CaFFEinE?!"
(Sorry, but I prefer the current style of Shadowland comment; it's not as
easily dated, no pun intended.)
>2054 : Starvation
>
>Stories begin to come out of Somalia and Eritria of massive starvation and
>drought. Some 50 million people are in immediate danger. Aztechnology races
>to be the first corporation to get aid to the hungry. Over the next 3 years
>more than 200 billion yen in support and investment floods into the
>sub-region.
>
>>>>[Still we don't understand why Aztech did this. Knowing all we know
>today they hadn't any real interest in that region. Today, Somalia and
>Eritrea are not a big market for Aztech, and no information indicates
>that this will change or that Aztech plans any developments there.
>Other's suggested that with this direct help Aztech tried to either
>polish their public image or keep the people there helpless and
>dependant, but nothing could be proven.]<<<
>-----M.Foster, Federer Development Fund Intl.(09/13/60-10:18:27)
(>) The same reason Aztechnology goes anywhere: Raw, naked power. Raw, naked
greed. If they're in Somalia or Eritria, you can bet your last nuyen and
every bit of your life that went into earning it that there's some sort of
power to be gained, more than likely magical (though that last part is
subject to interpretation). There could be a major magical artifact, or the
fragging Azzies might just need more volunteers for some of their biogenics
experiments. The "humanitarian aid" dodge just happened to be conveniently
timed, and the Somalians had no way to actually turn the Azzies away.
The question, of course, becomes, "Which is it, power or greed?" I
don't have any answers. Yet.
(>) Les Tango
Shall we dance?
# # #
Thus ends my contribution.
---
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
