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TIMELINE FOR MODERN DAY CAMPAIGN
2010: Social security doesn't pay ANYONE enough to live on.
2010: National ID card (has tracer chips in it, without card cannot
get into government buildings, board airlines, etc.). Finger prints,
retina scan, etc are in there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID
2011: CHOOH2 (alternative to gas) developed by the company
Biotechnia.
2012: As the US cor****ations have found it much more 'cost effective'
to relocate their manufacturing overseas (or Mexico). Unemployment
rampant. The same cor****ations that relocated their plants putting
hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs wonder why their US sales
are down.
2013: TRC (transferred reflex conditioning) biologic interface chip
developed in Munich, Germany.
2013: Arab fundamentalists blow up part of NY with a nuke. 15,000
die initially, thousands more eventually. Martial law declared in
US. (This goes on for YEARS). Arabs stuck into modern concentration
camps.
2013: Nulls (no tracing chips, no ID cards) begin to make their
appearance. At first, they are imprisoned. Eventually, it becomes a
passive resistance movement. Nomads also developed (many are nulls).
2015: Implanted chip - takes care of money, ID, etc. Needless to
say, bone saws become more popular.
2015: Middle east has permanent troop encampments in it; needless to
say the Arabs are doing lots of resistance fighting and such but the
USA firmly holds on to the oil.
2016: US begins withdraw of military from countries in which no
current combat is going on. Crime continues on the upswing (too many
unemployed) in the US - troops begin to supplement the local police
departments.
2016: Musical group "Cassilda's Dance" begins recording. Gives
adults recurring nightmares. Warning labels on it. Gives plus to
Cthulhu Mythos skill and loss of SAN with every CD! Great stocking
stuffers!
2016: Lots of unemployed and homeless - it is continuing to grow.
2016: Cor****ations begin to experiment on people under the guise of
'free medical clinics'.
2017: Cor****ations begin training their own armies.
2017: Arabs nuke their own lands in order to get rid of the fuel
sources OR they put in some sort of chemical thing that renders the
oil useless. 'Flame of Allah' is an example of one of the dozen
'terrorist' groups that spring up.
2017: Tycho makes a neat space station.
2017: Rip Doc cyber phase. All cyberware is VERY iffy and runs on
batteries.
2017: Chips implanted into people - (has tracer chips in it, without
card cannot get into government buildings, board airlines, etc.).
Finger prints, retina scan, etc are in there. As these are put into
the right hand, certain religious groups having read Revelations get
ready for the antichrist (some possible modules with this but the
short answer is they are still suspecting the end after another
hundred years).
2017: Baby boomers discover that when they remove some money (to live
on) from their stocks that, when a lot of people do this all at once,
that the price of the stock plummets. In a panic, the baby boomers
(now senior citizens) attempt to withdraw their money from the ill
conceived 401K system. As a result, several companies are heavily hit
- some even collapse entirely and are absorbed by larger companies.
More people become unemployed as they are dismissed from the newly
acquired companies perpetuating the entire cycle. 401K is now
regarded as a wild gamble.
2018: First appearance of trauma teams. Due to the difficulty of
getting people to pay, it is required to have money on account.
Trauma teams are armed and, if you have enough money on account, they
might wade in to extract you from combat.
2018: US troops withdraw from Arabic places. Arabs hate the US
forever and ever. Possibly future bombings and reprisals for next
hundred years.
2018: Lots of new diseases break out - government suspects the Arabs;
it could be them or the cor****ations exploring new possibilities, etc.
2018: Huge droughts in the 'bread basket' of America. People begin
to call it the 'greater depression'. American food ex****ts end. Food
riots begin. Crime setting new records.
2018: Huge cor****ations (mega-corps) continue to suck up the little
guy.
2018: Abandoned or partially abandoned cities with inadequate police
protection become 'Combat Zones'. Police work more on containment
than law enforcement with them.
2018: Matrix 1.0 (new internet) released. Company 'Thompson' (see
also Thompson Eyephones) wants to 'steal away' the head developer
(possible kidnap/extraction module).
2018: Thompson Eyephones (ala Johnny Mnemonic) comes out. Using
cobbled together eyephones, gloves and mats, visual surfing gets under
way.
2018: Social security announced a total failure and abolished.
2019: The Federal Weapons Statute is established. Firearms may now
be carried openly for 'protection of self and property'. Crime falls
by 30% within the year. The cor****ations (who lobbied for this bill)
immediately arm their troops to the teeth.
2019: Massive firestorms rage over the 'bread basket' of the US
destroying lots of crops and grasslands. This causes a LOT of
religious nuts to pop up. The end is near!
2019: Space stations; we need a good reason for those to pop up -
maybe we finally got a signal from a different galaxy and people want
to go explore it in hopes of profit?
2020: Lawyer purge? End of stupid suing?
2020: Texas secedes from US? "Free state"?
2020: Military cyber phase begins - the military begins to cyber up
the troops. It is a trade off - if you get cybered, you are theirs
until they decide they no longer need you.
2020: ADVENTURE: EDGE ON
2020: Lots of food rioting. Elderly die off in droves. Government
begins to break down.
2020: Fleeing radiation, war, famine, economic and industrial failure
causes several 'ghost towns' to spring up. Some are havens for gangs
and criminals, others are testing grounds for cor****ations.
2020: More religious nuts; many are highly agitated that the world
has not yet ended and begin to take steps toward bringing that around.
2021: Alaska attempts to secede from the US but the US wants that oil
so they send in troops to keep it.
2021: The framework for the new (visual) internet is now firmly in
place (WorldSat Network)
2021: ADVENTURE CRASHPOINT
2021: First appearance of the Wasting Plague in Greece. It spreads.
2021: Most nomads (and lots of other people) are Zero's or
'SINless'. They are tolerated as cheap labor.
2022: Bioplagues.
2022: New tech: EMP proof chip.
2022: New tech: Level 2 wired reflexes.
2024: First cor****ate war; EMB vs Transworld Air and Orbital. See
also 'Solo of Fortune' page 51.
2025: CyberModem invented. This requires an isolation tank and room
sized equipment. Most using it fry or go insane - 1 in 10 chance of
survival.
2025: More work on cloning goes on.
2025: 'Medicine' Cyber Phase.
2025: Elections found to be rigged - like Florida back in the 2000's
but this time the citizens (already unemployed, hungry and desperate)
freak out and riot. The US government wanes in strength to that of a
cor****ation.
2026: Stage three human clones that only live for six hours.
2026: EEC scientists begin secret work on "Operation Green Man" to
create a human fit to colonize mars.
2026: Full cyberlimbs are now in use standard with US Military
forces.
2026: Government martial law repealed except for around government
facilities as they don't have the resources to keep it up. End of
tyrannical rule.
2027: Braindance developed at UC Santa Cruz. "Dreamtime" = Jail time
in Braindance. "Brain Potato" = Braindance addict.
2027: Cyber modems improve - up to one in six chance of living.
2028: Space war.
2028: Second cor****ate war. Antarctic module?
2028: Braindance disc starts up but still too expensive for market
penetration.
2029: Main cyberware phase.
2029: Adventure: Nightsider
2029: Adventure: Greenwar (for cor****ate intrigue)
2029: Adventure: Shadows of the underworld
2029: Adventure: One stage before.
2029: First braindance/simsense megahit 'Free Fall' sells millions.
2030: Food riots (lots of people die)
2030: Module: Northwest passage
2030: Module: All fall down
2031: Crystal Palace (space station) completed.
2031: Adventure: Divided Assets
2031: Adventure: Vat Job and A Star is Dead from Shadowland book.
2031: Level 3 wired reflexes are invented.
2032: Module: Ivy and Chrome
2032: Module: Dark Angel
2032: "Operation Green Man" uncovered by the public. They make a big
show of shutting it down but keep going in secret.
2033: First true AI developed at MicroTech's Pasadena facility.
2033: Specialized cyber phase.
2033: Adventure: Near orbit - start on page 46.
2033: Stage four cloned limbs are perfected, but the techniques are
inadequate for the creation of the self-viable human clones, as the
drugs used to accelerate growth create non-functional brains.
2033: Memory drives are developed. Capability to record memories
into digital format. (Smuggling files like the movie 'Johnny
Mnemonic').
2034: Adventures: Night City Stories.
2034: Adventures: Necrology.
2034: Adventure: Tales of the Forelorn Hope.
2035: Adventure: Media Junkie (1&2)
2035: Adventure: Double Exposure.
2035: Nanotech.
2036: Adventure: Harlequin's Back
2036: New Tech: Cloning advancements combined with modern cyberware
to power itself off of the natural electric fields of human bodies.
2037: Mission to colonize mars departs.
2037: Several biodomes are made by people who think humans will blow
themselves up, etc. These can later be used in "Logan's Run" or
"Paranoia" or whatever. These people are extremely isolationistic and
violent toward those who want to invade their privacy.
2038: Fairly reliable cyber modems - one in two chance of living -
still huge but getting smaller.
2038: New tech: ICE systems put in place to protect cyberspace
network.
2038: First (preemptive) laws to prohibit cloning passed in Europe -
these are called the 7th day laws (see the movie Sixth Day for
details).
2039: Mars mission reaches Mars.
2040: New Tech: Move by wire.
2040: Cyber foot ball played - hideously violent s****t.
2040: They make a fully human clone, people want to destroy it but it
escapes.
2040: Adventure: Land of the Free
2041: Mars base made. Tridium and Uridium discovered. This allows
vehicles to hover. See movies 'total recall' and 'fifth element'.
2041: Repet opens (see movie Sixth Day).
2042: Massive mining on mars.
2043: Weird alien crap found on Mars - hushed up by the government
(do something different than the 'Total Recall' plot.
2044: First true hover vehicles finally emerge.
2044: New tech: Chip skills.
2047: Cyber decks down to keyboard size.
2047: Cloning of human limbs only takes a few hours instead of days.
2048: Cyberspace reaches maturity.
2049: Neural interface become somewhat commonplace.
2061: Hover vehicles common (see movie: Fifth Element)
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