| From: | Damion Milliken <dam01@***.EDU.AU> |
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| Subject: | Cal Free State Pirates |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:54:48 +1100 |
And a Merry Christmas to you all too!
Anyway, the real reason for my post: The Pirates/Freetraders that inhabit
the southern region of the Big Sur Coast of the Cal Free State. Let me give
a little background first. My team of runners is a primarily Seattle based
group, with the occasional excursion elsewhere (the Tir, Denver, London, NAN
nations). However, recently, I ran an adventure that I like to call
"Heat". Lets just say that the results of this adventure were the entire
team fleeing Seattle and running for the Cal Free State. Not too long ago
the team had sold some vehicles to one of the Big Sur Pirates, and so they
decided that once they'd hightailed it out of Seattle, that they'd drop in
and spend some time in the Big Sur while things cooled off back home (and
while they hopefully made enough nuyen to pay for the banshee ride there,
and the one they hoped to catch home). Anyway, I've done a little bit of
looking, reading, web surfing, and pondering, and am in need of a few ideas
for the location.
The runners ended up with Captain Monday, at Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo.
Now, today San Luis Obispo is some 40,000 people, and Morro Bay is some
30,000. However, from what the Cal Free State sourcebook says, about 90% of
the population fled after the succession of the Cal Free State and the
withdrawal of government troops and authority from the region. This places
the population of Captain Morros domain at 5,000-10,000. That's still a lot
of people. What I'm curious about is, well, what the frag do they all do?
They can't all be smugglers, pirates, and associated miscreant criminals.
What drives the local economy (smuggling, I know - but just how do the
dymanics of smuggling work, where's the money come and go, what kind of
things are smuggled, to where, from where, who does it, etc.)? What kind of
local order, law enforcement, control, "government", etc., is present? I
assume the latter is run by the local Pirate baron.
What kind of people and places are there likely to be in an area such as
this?
You get the idea. I'd love some info on the place from anyone who's there,
or who's been there too. But more importantly, what would you have the area
be like?
Thanks one and all!
--
Damion Milliken University of Wollongong E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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