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Message no. 1
From: Mike Elkins <MikeE@*********.COM>
Subject: Chronology...
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:48:34 -0500
Could someone who has the books handy tell me what the dates are for the
following events?

The riots in DC
VITAS waves
The first Otaku
The founding of the Universal Brotherhood

I'm working up some character backgrounds and need to make sure I create TOO
many inconsistencies.

Thanks,
Double-Domed Mike
Message no. 2
From: Rick Jones <rick@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:55:20 -0600
Mike Elkins wrote:
>
> Could someone who has the books handy tell me what the dates are for the
> following events?
>

Use the "Shadowrun Explorer". It's very good.
http://www.interware.it/scripts/sr/explorer.pl?
--
Rick Jones Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to
rick@******.com other people's needs. Very sad life.Probably have very
sad death, but at least there is symmetry.
http://www-ece.rice.edu/~rickj/ --Zathras, Babylon 5, War Without End
Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:12:23 +0100
Rick Jones said on 15:55/29 Oct 96...

> Use the "Shadowrun Explorer". It's very good.

That's not what I just read on NERPS... I haven't taken a look at it
myself, but from the comments there, it seems it's filled with stuff from
somebody's campaign that deviates somewhat from FASA's world.

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Message no. 4
From: Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:45:13 GMT
Mike Elkins writes

> Could someone who has the books handy tell me what the dates are for the
> following events?
>
> The riots in DC
?????, cannot remember

> VITAS waves
Try and so it came to pass SR2 as a first bet, or a SR timeline (eg
in worlds without end)

> The first Otaku
I don't think you can be sure, first mentioned in Denver i think, so
early 2050's probably , 'maybe' 2054/55?????

> The founding of the Universal Brotherhood
Its in the UB file (Zeb wanderly), something like 2041 or so from
memory but someone will have to check.

>
> I'm working up some character backgrounds and need to make sure I create TOO
> many inconsistencies.
>
Mark
Message no. 5
From: Peter Leitch <pleitch_hpcs@*******.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:53:06 +1100
At 16:48 29/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>The riots in DC
Started as a result of the computer crash in 2029 and died away in 2031

>VITAS waves
First wave in New Delhi in 2010 killed 25% of the world's population;
Second wave killed a further 10% of the world's population in 2022;
Something called para-VITAS occured in northern Engleand in 2047, killing
approx. 150,000 people;
A wave which was incorrectly called VITAS-4 struck Seattle in 2054

>The first Otaku
There is nothing that I can find on when otaku *first* came about, but they
are discussed in the Denver Boxed Set and more (of course) in VR2.0. My
guess, and that's all it is, is that they first arose about 2050 or a
little later. My reasoning is that the latest generation cyberterminals
and data jacks are only improvements over the radical inventions which
ended about 2048 or so. Give the youngsters a few years of cruisin'
cyberspace and refining their skills, and you get otaku about when I said.
IMHO the oldest otaku would be about nineteen, and he or she are not as
good as the kids of today (that's *today* 2057, not today 1996). If you
are going to have an otaku in your campaign, make them about fourteen.
Actually, I just looked up VR2.0 and they say that the oldest otaku is in
their late teens. How's that for a memory?

>The founding of the Universal Brotherhood
In 2043, the Universal Brotherhood, a humanitarian organization that
preaches a philosophy based on the group consciousness equations of Dr.
Caitlin O'Connal (actually a combination of New Age pseudo-mysticism and a
healthy dose of Madison Avenue marketing smarts) opens its first chapters
in California: two in San Francisco, one in Ukiah, and one in Gilroy. Dr.
O'Connal dicovered these group consciousness equations in June 2039. No
scientific journals would publish her work.


PML

***************************************
Peter Leitch
<pleitch_hpcs@*******.com.au>
Canberra, Australia
Message no. 6
From: Rick Jones <rick@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:47:29 -0600
Gurth wrote:
> Rick Jones said on 15:55/29 Oct 96...
> > Use the "Shadowrun Explorer". It's very good.
> That's not what I just read on NERPS... I haven't taken a look at it
> myself, but from the comments there, it seems it's filled with stuff from
> somebody's campaign that deviates somewhat from FASA's world.

Hurm. I hadn't gone through it year by year, but it seemed to have just the
normal stuff. YMMV.
--
Rick Jones Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to
rick@******.com other people's needs. Very sad life.Probably have very
sad death, but at least there is symmetry.
http://www-ece.rice.edu/~rickj/ --Zathras, Babylon 5, War Without End
Message no. 7
From: Rick Jones <rick@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:48:46 -0600
Mark Steedman wrote:
> Mike Elkins writes
> > Could someone who has the books handy tell me what the dates are for the
> > following events?
> > The riots in DC
> ?????, cannot remember

The "Just Compensation" Riots happened about the same time (down to a
week or so) that the Chicago Bug-Breakout did. If there were other
riots, you'd have to check the Neo-Anarchists Guide to North America.

--
Rick Jones Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to
rick@******.com other people's needs. Very sad life.Probably have very
sad death, but at least there is symmetry.
http://www-ece.rice.edu/~rickj/ --Zathras, Babylon 5, War Without End
Message no. 8
From: olafur gunnarsson <olafurg@******.IS>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:04:41 GMT
Well since we are talking about chronology does anyone remember when the
first dwarfs
and elfs were born to the world.I know that orcs and trolls came in 2021
but for the life of me i cant remember wether the dandelion eaters and rock
heads
were born in 2011 or sooner.
(and no im not talking about those blasted immortals may they rest in pieces:))
-Olafur G
Message no. 9
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:31:20 +0100
olafur gunnarsson said on 16:04/30 Oct 96...

> Well since we are talking about chronology does anyone remember when
> the first dwarfs and elfs were born to the world.I know that orcs and
> trolls came in 2021 but for the life of me i cant remember wether the
> dandelion eaters and rock heads were born in 2011 or sooner.

2011 is the correct year, 10 years before orks and trolls. Note that this
is not including the spike babies, of course (or that elf magician from
Dreamchipper, who's 43 years old in an adventure set in 2050. The first
appearance of a spike baby perhaps?).

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Message no. 10
From: Elfman & Danita <elf-dani@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:06:32 -0700
----------
> From: Rick Jones <rick@******.COM>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Chronology...
> Date: Tuesday, October 29, 1996 2:55 PM
>
> Use the "Shadowrun Explorer". It's very good.
> http://www.interware.it/scripts/sr/explorer.pl?

I tried going to this addy, but only got a bunch of code, what might
be up?

Sgt Pepper
Visit Elfman's World at http://www.spots.ab.ca/~elf-dani
Message no. 11
From: The Crucible <crucible@******.MUR.CSU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Chronology...
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:24:44 +1100
On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Elfman & Danita wrote:

> > Use the "Shadowrun Explorer". It's very good.
> > http://www.interware.it/scripts/sr/explorer.pl?
>
> I tried going to this addy, but only got a bunch of code, what might
> be up?
>

The fact that it -is- a bunch of code? Its a perl script like for when
you make an automated guestbook... this is the part that seperates what
comes in from a form and makes the response...

Ie there should be somewhere that calls this code... probably on
the shadowrun page at http://www.interware.it/sr/ and there will be a
link from there (I think thats the addy... if not try /shadowrun/ ...)
There will be a link for shadowrun explorer and that will -call- the perl
script

Crucible

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Message no. 12
From: shadowrn@*********.com (marco z)
Subject: Chronology
Date: Mon Mar 4 03:25:00 2002
Is there anywhere in the web a chronology of all
published Shadowrun adventures? Some of them have got
recurring characters (like Blackwing) and I would like
to keep track of their development in the world of
Shadowrun.


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Message no. 13
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Damion Milliken)
Subject: Chronology
Date: Mon Mar 4 03:35:00 2002
marco z writes:

> Is there anywhere in the web a chronology of all
> published Shadowrun adventures? Some of them have got
> recurring characters (like Blackwing) and I would like
> to keep track of their development in the world of
> Shadowrun.

Try: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/shadowrun/adventure%20dates.html

PS: Gurth, you _seriously_ need to fix all those broken links on your site
that fail to include the "/shadowrun/" directory.

--
Damion Milliken University of Wollongong
Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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Message no. 14
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: Chronology
Date: Mon Mar 4 05:15:03 2002
According to Damion Milliken, on Mon, 04 Mar 2002 the word on the street was...

> Try: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/shadowrun/adventure%20dates.html

Thanks for the advertising :)

> PS: Gurth, you _seriously_ need to fix all those broken links on your
> site that fail to include the "/shadowrun/" directory.

What I need is to finish the completely-revised version of the reviews, which
should have none of these problems. But that's yet another item on my To Do
list...

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Message no. 15
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Valeu John EMFA)
Subject: Chronology
Date: Mon Mar 4 13:35:01 2002
>Is there anywhere in the web a chronology of all
>published Shadowrun adventures? Some of them have got
>recurring characters (like Blackwing) and I would like
>to keep track of their development in the world of
>Shadowrun.


Crap, someone on the list sent me this (Gurth was that you?)
but I deleted it when I made a back-up copy. And of course the backup
was stolen. And it only covered 1st and 2nd ed.

EMFN John Valeu
-AKA- TimeKeeper
"Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today, because it's just a
matter of time."
Message no. 16
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lars Wagner Hansen)
Subject: Chronology
Date: Sat Mar 16 07:00:01 2002
From: "marco z" <d3b0c1p8@*****.com>
> Is there anywhere in the web a chronology of all
> published Shadowrun adventures? Some of them have got
> recurring characters (like Blackwing) and I would like
> to keep track of their development in the world of
> Shadowrun.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/shadowrun/adventure%20dates.html has been
mentioned, but there is also a listing on
http://members.aol.com/masn/source/adventures.html which has more
explanations why he has guestimated the start date for the adventure, plus
it includes a few adventures that Gurth hasn't got on his list (Shadows of
the Underworld, Prototype Envy, Corporate Punishment and Brainscan).

Lars

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