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James Bird

### **Shadowsona: JAMES BIRD**

**Shadowsona Profiles: Supplemental Asset Management Solutions (a Horizon Product)**

**Last Updated 2/26/2076**

* **Identity:** [Withheld by request of Corporate Partners. Refer to identity number PC462931 for more information]
* **Description (Metatype):** Elf (*Homo sapiens nobilis*)
* **Description (Gender):** Male (he/him)
* **Skillset:** Social Engineering, Persuasion, Information Gathering, Infiltration, "Face (Street)" type
* **Affiliation:** Lone Star (former), Koshari (associate)
* **Area of Operations:** Front Range Free Zone
* **Availability:** Medium High
* **Reliability:** High

**Notes:** A former Lone Star officer who was doing time in the CAS prison system for bribery and corruption, ‘James Bird’ has made himself available to area shadowteams for the last year or so in the FRFZ. Considered ‘Lucky’ by fellow runners after avoiding the capture of the rest his own team twice in that time. Known to add value to his services by cultivating a network of unexpected connections.

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Gaeatronics

## Gaeatronics - Pahaska Consortium

*"Gaeatronics. Powering North America. . . Naturally."*

* **Headquarters:**Olympia , Squaxin Island Salish Tribal Lands, Seliš-Bukwus Chíchelh Sq'èp
* **CEO:**David Gray Bear
* **Status:**A. Member of the Pacific Prosperity Group .

Gaeatronics is an A-rated multinational corporation owned by the Salish tribe, with headquarters in Olympia in the Seliš-Bukwus ("Salish-Shidhe") Council. Gaeatronics is the largest corporation in the Seliš-Bukwus and is primarily known for power generation, usually by eco-friendly means. It has a single fusion reactor on the Olympic peninsula, as well as using geothermal, wind, and solar energy. Much to the concern of Shiawase Atomics , Gaetronics has a near-monopoly on electricity production in the Seliš-Bukwus Council, Očéti Šakówiŋ and Niswi-mishkodewinan and provides power to the northern PCC  (formerly the Ute Nation ) Seattle , Tir Tairngire , and the California Free State .

Gaetronics also does geological, ecological, and atmospheric research, some of which it sells to other corporations. Other areas of research include advanced construction processes and alternative power sources, such as microwave power. Gaeatronics has research facilities in the Seliš-Bukwus cities of Missoula, Moscow, Vancouver, and Spokane.

The current CEO is David Gray Bear , brother of Salish tribe chief Harold Gray Bear.

Gaeatronics joined the Pacific Prosperity Group in September of 2059, shortly after its formation.

Major Divisions and Subsidiaries

* Gaeatronics Seattle
* The Pahaska Consortium (joint project with the Očéti Šakówiŋ)
* Omni Electronics, a Matrix provider and research company

### The Pahaska Consortium

* **Regional Headquarters:**Gaeatronics Campus, Pahaska, Wahpetonwan CF, Očéti Šakówiŋ
* **Leadership:**Executive Director Cecily Daybreak Star, Gaeatronics; Special Chief Roberta Cameahwait, BoRM.
* **Status:**The Pahaska Consortium is a joint project of the single-A corporation Gaeatronics and the Očéti Šakówiŋ's Bureau of Resource Management

Gaeatronics has played a major role in the Očéti Šakówiŋ ever since it acquired a government contract to build six geothermal plants in the nation. The first plant, the Pahaska Plant, on the edge of the Yellowstone Wilderness Refuge, began operation in 2062, with the other five up and running by 2066. These plants provide most of the power for the Očéti Šakówiŋ and produce enough surplus to deliver electricity to its neighbors, giving the Gaeatronics/Sioux partnership a monopoly in power production in the Niswi-mishkodewinan and making it a major player in the northern PCC (the former Ute).

The resulting build-up has caused a Gaeatronics company town to grow up around the Pahaska Plant, and the town of Pahaska is the second-largest in Wahpetonwan, eclipsing nearby Sinking Water (formerly Cody WY) and rivaling the Council Fire capital of Chwewamink despite being less than ten years old.

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Frank Hackett

## Frank Hackett, TransForum InfoMedia

* **Name:**Francis Maynard Hackett
* **Position:**Head of Accounts, TransForum InfoMedia
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:**Doctorate in Mathematics, University of Iowa, Masters in Business Architecture, University of Minnesota.
* **DOB:**3/9/2023, Green Bay WI
* **Family:**Diana Christensen (formerly Hackett) (ex-wife, Fargo  RRDMZ ), Robert Hackett (father, Marquette MI, UCAS ), Jordan Hackett (mother, Marquette MI, UCAS), Max Hackett (brother, Tsêhéstáno, Tetonwon CF, Oceti Sakowin ).

One of the top men at TransForum InfoMedia, in the inner circle of President Arthur Jensen . One of the most senior and definitely the most trusted of his executives. Was chosen to head up the internal auditing team from TransForum assigned to assist Corporate Court auditor Huang Hui Yin.

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Black Hawk Policlub

* **Headquarters:** Main headquarters is at 120 W 1300 S, Ti'tsa-pa, Ute Territories, PCC 84115. Also has branch offices in Timpanogas, Uintah and the FRFZ.
* **Leadership:** Colonel (ret.) Kanneache is the current Poowagudt (Shaman-Chairman) of the Policlub, a former combat shaman in the old Ute Army turned media figure and activist.
* **Platform:** The Black Hawk Policlub (named after the Ute freedom fighter Black Hawk/Antonga) has a simple platform, to secure great autonomy, up to and including a restoration of their independent nation. By any means possible.
* **Structure:** The Black Hawk Policlub has adhered to a cell structure. Given PuebSec’s tendency to raid their offices, it is a defensive response. There is the Central Office, the Regional Offices and the Locals. Each Regional Office also has a cell of a Direct Action Team, their most loyal drawn from the Locals, although the identity of the DAT members are kept from even their own cells.
* **Activities:** Publicly, the Black Hawk Policlub uses public relations, protest actions, political and economic pressure and fund-raising to buy PCC voting stock. They also organize community Protection Bands to defend Ute neighborhoods and communities. In all their public statements, the Black Hawk society denounces illegal actions and denies any connection with the armed insurgent groups within the former Ute Nation, however PuebSec has its own, publicly-stated doubts.
* **History:** Formed in late 2067 in the wake of the PCC’s acquisition of the Ute Nation, advertising itself as ‘The Ute People’s Party’, but after badly losing an attempted revote of the PCC board in 2069, what remaining membership reorganized as a registered Policlub, the Black Hawk Policlub. In the last seven years, two Poowagudt have been arrested for contravening Company Policy and Unlawful Associations by PuebSec, leading to the election of Kanneache in 2074. Whether those arrests were justified is a matter of some strong disagreement between PCC Arbiters and Black Hawk Policlub lawyers...

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Gangs

So, let's talk about the gangs out here. There aren't any. OK, that's not true, but they don't really have a street culture like other larger, warmer places. And they don't really have proper gangs, with full time members and shit.

What they do have is more akin to sports hooligans, vigilante groups, militias and other part-time violence merchants. And almost all of them tied to a specific 'Local' or bar or diner or something. Tied in with Fargo's big Pub Culture. Some are into small time pushing or even smuggling, but some are just good ol' boys and girls looking for a little beat-em-up on a Saturday. Still, this is the farm leagues of crime and even big time players here still have their roots at their Locals...

### Fargo

Brawlhallans at Brewhalla

Clans of the Red

Dirty E’s at The Basement

Drummers at Drumconrath

The Herd at Astrourf

Max Lou Crew

Mulies at the Leering Steer

The Pain at The Dike

Reddernecks at the Last Garage

Saturdayers at the Bowler

Smoke Breakers in The Block

SOMA at The Square Round

The Snipe Hunt at the railyards

The Squad

Ten Mile

Woodchippers at Fargo Brewing

### Moorhead

Blind Pigs at Diemert's

Grendel Society in Romkey Park

Icehousers at the Icehouse

Junkyard Dogz at Junkyard Brewing

The Nibs in Romkey Park

The Ralphs at The Corner

Rebels at The StufferShack on Center

The Rom Key Locksmiths in Romkey Park

Swing Blades at The Swing Barrel

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Anog Ite

## Anog Ite (Two Face)

**Taxonomy:** *Homo sapiens ingentis diprospus*

Troll metavariant indigenous primarily in the upper Great Plains of North America. This variant tends to manifest with Diprospus or Craniofacial Duplication, whereby parts (accessories) or all of the face are duplicated on the head. Anog Ite constitute 18% of the estimated 625,500 Trolls in the Oceti Sakowin and 9% of the estimated 202,000 Trolls in the Niswi-mishkodewinan and is rarely manifested outside those territories, making for a total world population of around 130,000.

Unlike in other metahumans, where Craniofacial Duplicaiton it is a congenital defect that results in useless features and decreased quality of life, Anog Ite manifest with two sets of fully functional facial features, both serving the same brain.

The name Anog Ite comes from a Lakotah monster, Two Face Woman, and the stigma against Anog Ita among the more pious adherents of the Wicoh'an Wakan Sakowin is pronounced, often forcing them to the fringes of civilized society or into living situations very similar to those found on the Anglo Reservations in the Oceti Sakowin.

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I-29ers

* **Purpose:**The I-29ers are a hard bunch to pin down. They exist between places. They are the watchers at the crossroads, translators between the wild and civilized, outsiders to both. Their purposes are their own and they do not share them with strangers. And they don't come much stranger than the I-29ers. They serve as the scouts and guardians of the Roamer  clans, priesthood to the SINless , ubiquitous in the underground and the other places not in the direct glare of the glassy eye of modern society, the guardians of those who have nobody else to protect them but the terror of those who do. Or so the stories they tell claim. In reality? Who knows? Nobody but the I-29ers.
* **Headquarters:**As SINless transients, nomads and bums the I-29ers have no headquarters or even permanent homes. That's one of the things they give up when they join. However, as the name implies, their activities do tend towards a territory, generally hiking up and down I-29. I-29 represents a bit of a crossroads, running along the Red River of the North through the Zone  and touching on three nations, the UCAS , Oceti Sakowin and Niswi-mishkodewinan, although by no means are they limited to that, or any, one road.
* **Membership:**Numbers unknown, possibly even to the I-29ers themselves. What is known is that they are largely from the less accepted metatypes, Orks , Trolls  (including Anog Ite), SURGE Changelings (including Riverlings ), and even some infected. There are very few reports of suspected I-29ers that are purely Human  or from one of the UGE  types. There is no known organizational structure, at least not known to outsiders, and new I-29ers tend to learn from individual teachers (both living and, if urban legends be believed, dead).
* **Strictures:**Gaesa (nomadic), Fraternity, Exclusive Membership, Secrecy, Oath (group)
* **Resources:**As far as material resources go, practically none, these are, after all, drifters and beggars. They have what they can carry with them and that's about it. But informationally, they are plugged into the underground and unofficial worlds along the highway and seem to have access to other, less *natural*, sources of information. And fellow members of the I-29ers always seem to 'just happen' to be around when their fellows need assistance.
* **Alliances:**The I-29ers don't officially exist. None of them has a SIN  and none is on the grid. They don't have homes or jobs or anything that could be used to pin them down by the 'System'. They do however maintain close reciprocal ties with the other members of the fringes, the Riverling  crews, the Baba Yaga Society , Setebos,the Night Bazaar, Moorlocks, the Snipe, even the Jacks  sometimes, if urban legend be believed. But their closest bond is with the Roamer Families. They are the dark guardian angels of the Roamers and those few I-29ers who have been identified have mostly been part of Roamer Families.

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Magical Futures

## The Magical Futures Foundation

* **Leadership:**Ananias Harper is the founder and chairman of the Magical Futures Foundation. He has assembled a board of influential backers, from his wife SenatorMariah Baxter-Harper (NC-MN) to Vang Thi Binh, a local telesma wholesaler with ties to theKev Siv Yis, to Matthias Corvin, head of Magical Operations for Evo-4M.
* **Headquarters:**The Harper Building, 700 Raymond Ave #160, St Paul , MN 55114.
* **Mission Statement:**The foundation’s goal is to help identify magical talent in young people at an early age and to help adults who have undiscovered magical talent.

Even a half-century after the Awakening, magic is still a huge disrupter in society. People awakening to any level still struggle with their powers and identity, even in an age where mages who manage to get accepted end up as highly-placed consultants. Especially those born outside the well-off parts of society where testing and training are available still face fear and misunderstanding, with access to power The Magical Futures foundation is dedicated, once you get past the flowery prose in their promotional materials, to moving the Awakened from the one outcome to the other.

Based out of MSPlex, Magical Futures has branches in major urban centers throughout the Midwest, including Milwaukee, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and most recently running some test programs in Chicago itself. The Foundation specializes in reaching out to at-risk and low-income youth, the sort that would never get tested by a corp, finding magical potential and then finding ways, such as community spellcasting classes or adept training, to train and hone that talent, to prepare these kids for successful careers in the Sixth World. The Foundation works with local schools and training academies, as well as funding therapy programs for those touched by the harsher side-effects of their talents.

Magical Futures was founded by Hermetic Mage and wealthy philanthropist Ananias Harper in 2063, Harper had been working with disadvantaged Awakened youth since his grad-school days in the late 2050's. He cites his wife, Mariah Baxter-Harper (currently one of the two Senators from Minnesota to the UCAS) and foster daughter Selby for inspiring him to form the foundation.

Besides its numerous magically-powerful beneficiaries, the Magical Futures foundation also has close ties (as Harpers themselves do) to other powerful magic organizations such as the Draco Foundation and the New Century Party, Ananias Harper sits on the local Draco Foundation board and Senator Baxter-Harper is the senior New Century Party official, with a strong chance for the NC nomination in the 2076 UCAS Presidential elections. Non-Profit it may be, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't command some pretty large resources in the local community.

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Concordia

## Concordia College Moorhead

* **Established:**1891 by a group of a dozen Norwegian Lutheran pastors and laymen.
* **President:**Thor Haldersson
* **Location:**Moorhead , MN, UCAS
* **Nickname:**Cobbers
* **Colors:**Gold and Maroon
* **Division:**NACAA Division III
* **Affiliation:**Concordia College Moorhead is a private university affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, through which the campus enjoys extraterritorial status.
* **Academics:**Concordia is accredited by the Corporate Higher Learning Commission and offers 75 majors and 15 pre-professional programs. Master of Education and Master of Applied Theology (includes Minnesota State magical certification) degrees are offered, and the most popular majors are business, education, magic and communication. The college upholds a curriculum that centers on a Christian and global perspective. Affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, Concordia practices the liberal arts from the Lutheran theological tradition. The college operates by a semester calendar and first-year students are required to take courses in health, communication, religion, and culture.  An honors program is offered for motivated students.
* **Magical Education:**Concordia's award-winning Department of Applied Theology is recognized as a regional leader in Thaumaturgical Studies, and its initiatory group, the Principia, works in Christian partnership with the Pontoppidan Order across the river in Fargo. Of note, the Campus is one of the only plots of land in the Fargo-Moorhead area that completely escaped the ravages of the Ghost Dance, establishing what then-President Colin Kvamme called the "Power of Prayer", the use of faith as a legitimate focus for magick.
* **Music:**The college maintains five choirs, three bands, two orchestras, three jazz ensembles, two percussion ensembles, a synth orchestra and two handbell choirs. Historically, music education began with the college's 1891 formation, when piano and organ lessons were taught by one instructor. The college has since expanded to hold a music department of 104 faculty, which offers seven Bachelor of Music degrees and four Bachelor of Arts degrees. The Concordia Choir is a 78-member mixed choir that travels internationally and has performed at major performance venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Dunkelzahn Center. The choir was founded in 1919 by the college's voice instructor and began touring in 1923 under the direction of Herman Monson.
* **Athletics:**Concordia fields athletic teams in 23 sports, in which more than 800 students participate. It is a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which competes in NACAA Division III. Athletics began when a baseball club was organized in 1903 and a basketball team was formed after the construction of a gymnasium in 1907. Football emerged in 1916 and Concordia joined the MIAC in 1920. Soon after, teams for tennis, golf, wrestling, softball, volleyball, track, cross country running and others transpired.

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Felix Velcro

## Felix Velcro, the world's most dangerous manager

* **Name:**Adam Felix Valchek "Felix Velcro"
* **Position:**Tour manager for Amadeus Nazca at Archon Records.
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**5/11/2030, Philadelphia  PA, UCAS
* **Education:**Uncertain (at different times has claimed both an education from the "School of Hard Knocks" and most of a doctorate from MIT&T)

"Felix Velcro" has worn a lot of hats in his time. Born at the same time the United Canadian and American States was, he has been, in order, an underground Neo-Anarchist  musician and DJ during the 2040's, a DJ, Decker, freelance journalist and (briefly) a shadowrunner in the 2050's (or, as he says "It was the 2050's. Who wasn't a shadowrunner back then?"), before a near-death experience caused him to retire as a fixer-cum-music promoter in the late 50's, early 60's, eventually being black-balled from the shadows in the Year of the Comet for the infamous "Mile High Incident" led to the deaths of an entire initiation group of professional runners, which forced him to flee the Denver FRFZ under a cloud of rumor and suspicion.

He ended up in the MSPlex, under the protection of one of the very megacorps he always so despised, specifically working as Johnson/Talent Scout for Shangri-La Entertainment, recently acquired by his patron, the newly-formed Horizon  Corporation. It was in this capacity that he discovered Alejandro Naches out of Moorhead, going by the stage name of "Amadeus Nazca". Discovering the rising star Nazca was Velcro's entry into the big-time, making him a name in the music industry and, more importantly, making him valuable enough for his patron corp to keep him safe from his many enemies in the shadows. He managed Nazca from 2062 to 2067 when Nazca went over to the Aztechnology-owned Cuīcatlahtōl Recording. By that time, he was also managing several other acts for Horizon, *Rhinestone Warthog*, the *New Elementals* and *SURGE Protector* among them and his career continued for the next several years, dealing with the edgy acts that other managers didn't want to deal with.

Given how much success he'd had in the music business (and as a Horizon Johnson wrangling shadowrunners) it came as a surprise when he suddenly resigned from Horizon last year to join Nazca's Archon Records to manage Nazca's comeback tour. Some said it was guilt for letting Nazca get away, some said it was just that he was getting bored with success, some said Nazca had something over Velcro and some whispered that the long line of grudges against him that he'd been building up in the shadows had finally reached critical mass and the company decided it was less trouble to cut him loose than continue to shelter him.

But with the kind of life Felix Velcro has lived, who knows?

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Blind Pigs

## The Blind Pigs

* **Home Base:**The Pigs are based out of the back room of Diemert's at 315 Main Ave, Moorhead , MN, UCAS56560
* **Leadership:**The Blind Pigs are led by Underberg lieutenant Carla Myhre .
* **Colors/Signs:**The Blind Pigs avoid recognizable signs and colors generally as part of their smuggling operations. Although they do mark their rides, with pig stickers on their license plates and elsewhere. In more rural areas those pig stickers are used to mark marketplaces and to recognize when supplies are in-coming.
* **Description:**Smugglers and middle-men in the midwest, runners and bag men for the Underbergs.
* **Rackets:**The Blind Pigs are pretty much a one-trick pony. They serve as one link in the smuggling chain from the Oceti Sakowin between the Zone and the lake country of Minnesota. They also serve to distribute goods to outlying areas and ship bulk contraband that isn't quite value-dense enough to make it worth the Lake Devils ' while.
* **Allies:**The Blind Pigs do a lot of business with the other black-market gangs in the area: the Junkyard Dogz , the Woodchippers , the Mulies and the Saturdayers. They also have close ties with other Underberg crews such as the Ralphs  and the Dirty E's. They even maintain business relationships with some of the smaller smuggling crews outside of town, like the Lake Devils and the Ladies of the Lakes. On a non-business related note, their boss, Carla's sister Josie  is part of the Pain and the Pigs can sometimes call on them for muscle.
* **Enemies:**The Pigs aren't a fighting gang and generally try to avoid conflict with other crews. However their business sometimes brings them into conflict with some of the other powers outside the city. The Pigs have had conflicts with both the Heathens  and the Winter Cartel , conflicts that they usually have come out on the worse end of. The best strategy they've come up with is better ways to avoid Heathens and Cartel turf.

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Kaldi's

## Kaldi's Koffee House and Espresso Parlor

* **Location:**1910 1st Ave N, Fargo , RRDMZ  58102
* **Style:**Repurposed Shack.
* **Gang:** None (under the protection of the Brawlhallans and the PPU)
* **P2  Rating:**10:34:9
* **Description:**Coffee House and Sandwich Counter

Kaldi's is a no-nonsense little coffee house perched in a strategic location in the middle of the industrial areas west of the Block , near enough to the working class neighborhoods west of University Drive to attract families and near enough Brewhalla  to revive those who's been hitting it a little too hard. Kaldi's main source of customers is, of course, the workers at the various shops and warehouses in the area, who stop by for a hot cup of coffee and a quick sandwich.

Kaldi himself doesn't care, like he always says he just wants people to 'Drink Coffee, Be Happy and Keep me in business'. Kaldi (real name: Khalid Mohammed) is a second generation fargoan (his parents were Somali immigrants) who grew up not a half-dozen blocks from his shop, in the very neighborhoods he now serves. He takes the name Kaldi from the Ethiopian legend  about the discovery of coffee.

While the staple of Kaldi's is the big hoddle of Regular Brew he keeps "Black, Strong and full" for regulars or people on the go, he has decades of experience as a barista, both at his own shop and before that, at a number of different coffee spots in the Block before he opened Kaldi's and has the supplies and equipment to whip up nearly any variety of coffee or espresso drink you can conceive of. Kaldi is a devoutMuslim, so the sandwiches are all kosher/halal, as well as the hummus you can get for a side.

There are really three different crowds that you'll find at Kaldi's depending on the time of day. In the morning, the workers rushing to their jobs, grabbing a sandwich for lunch and cup of coffee to keep them going, during the day, when business is slow, it is the hangout for a lot of the older citizens of the residential neighborhoods, usually former workers themselves, often friends of Kaldi's who hang out, argue politics and play cards or chess. And at night, after the rush home, it becomes a gathering spot for NDRU students and those either on their way to or from the nightlife in the Block.

Its this third bunch that's of the most interest to denizens of the shadows, because this is where you'll find small-time criminals and hot-headed student radicals, including NPL  activists and even the occasional PPU  radical. Kaldi himself is a proud member of the NPL, and a keen observer will note that the Dancing Goat decorations in his shop also resemble the 'Goat That Won't Be Got' mascot of the Non-Partisan League. His own unique political views (the abolishment of nations altogether and the establishment of the 'World of Peace') put him so outside the mainstream that he is effectively neutral in the current debates between Reunionists and Independents within the NPL.

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ASC

## The Alliance for Shapeshifter Citizenship

Again, you can find just about any kind of rads here if you look hard enough, but here’s another one you won’t find elsewhere. The Alliance for Shapeshifter Citizenship is a local group of shapeshifters  lobbying for UCAS citizenship. They’re essentially a peaceful protest group, but they occasionally have to try to drown out or spin problems caused by less law-abiding shifters, such as Kibambangwe  in Como or theBlood Worg smugglers up north. That could be where you come in.

But often as not, it’s more about what they can do for you than vice versa. If you have a shifter on your team, these guys can be extremely helpful in connecting you with the custom gear you need, for a sizable donation to the cause.

*Evo’s  been expanding its line of non-human oriented products as of late. Wonder how long before they become the better place to get the stuff?*
- Wirefrog

*Considering how aligned their goals are, I doubt they’ll have any conflicts they can’t resolve amicably.*
- Iab Npauj

*I’m sure there’s plenty of nyiaj to be made there.*
- Ginebig

*If it’s there to be made, I’m sure you’ll be the one to squeeze it out, dej nab!*
- Phim Kooj Koi

*Hey, has anyone seen these txiv dev “missionaries” hanging around Dick Cassidy Field begging for change and handing out literature. Something about a shapeshifter Jesus or something? Bad enough we have to put up with this mob qua from our fellow monkeys…*
-Tsov Tom

*Well, well, I was wondering how long it would take the pseudo-cyrillics to show up here.*
-Sin-agog

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Herkimer Battle Genie

## IMFU 2030 Herkimer Battle Genie

The Herkimer Battle Genie was a military variant of the Herkimer Genie and considered the pinnacle of IMFU's Herkimer Line, famed for its durability and reliability under adverse conditions.

Herkimer Motorwerks was the military and security line of the Internationale Fahrzeug- und Maschinen-Union AG (IMFU), which was a Munich-based Single A vehicle and industrial equipment company in the 2020's-2050's. Herkimer Motorwerks was based out of the Free City of Mainz in the German Palatine and founded by retired *Bundeswehr*Colonel, and IMFU executive, Nikolas Herkimer in the last years of the late 2020's to take advantage of the increasing militarization of Europe.

The most successful offering of the initial line was the HMW-28 Dschinn (Genie), designed for security and riot-control forces as social order began to break down during the Awakening. It was popular with border control forces especially and when the Eurowars began in 2030, a new variant was produced for military use, the HWM-30 *Kampfdschinn* or, as British troops came to call it "The Herkimer Battle Genie". The HWM-30 and its post-wars successor, the HMW-39 *Kampfteufel*GPT were both used as secure transports and small-squad people-movers by the mercenary army MET2000, in which IMFU was a major shareholder.

By the 2040's IMFU was facing stiff competition (especially from the unstoppable juggernaut of Saeder-Krupp) and was forced to liquidate many of his more niche subsidiaries, including HMW, which ceased to exist as an entity by 2042, despite fairly good showings in its target markets. A lot of Battle Genies were loose on the market, often picked up by freelance bus services, small private security firms and even transporters and smugglers making their livings crossing the dangerous areas between urban enclaves, which is where the Genie gained its nickname, the 'Battle Jitney' from an old slang word for unlicensed taxis.

* **Type:**Wheeled Armored Personnel Carrier
* **Place of Origin:**Mainz, Palatine, AGS
* **In Service:**2030-2042
* **Used By:**MET2000, and European security services
* **Wars:**First and Second EuroWars
* **Manufactor:**Herkimer Motorwerks AG
* **Mass:**16.7 tonnes
* **Length:**7.95 meters
* **Width:**3.15 meters
* **Height:**2.75 meters
* **Crew:**2+8 Passengers
* **Armor:** 16mm Steel-Polymer Plating
* **Engine:**Volkswagen DE564-M Diesel Electric
* **Top Speed:**144 km/hr
Dundas Blackfly

* **Scientific Name:** *Simulium veneifer*
* **Description:** Large completely black insects with short legs and antennae, with poisonous stingers on their abdomen (the larvae are large, dull, black grubs)
* **Habitat:** Forest, coastal areas
* **Range:** Dundas Island,  Seliš-Bukwus Chíchelh Sq'èp (formerly in the  Ts’msyan Wilg̱a̱g̱oosk) and ONLY Dundas Island.
* **Size:** Adults average 5" to 6" inches long (larvae are around 1")
* **Diet:** Carnivorous and Hemovorous (larvae are omnivorous)
* **Behavior:** These flies are swarm hunters. Their bites contain a paralytic venom strong enough that a few dozen of these flies can bring down a cow. The flies drink the blood as well as eat the flesh of their catch. Relentless hunters, they have been known to follow prey for miles, biting and poisoning their prey until the beast finally succumbs. They also use the carcass as an incubator for their young, laying eggs in the remains. These eggs hatch in just a few days and the hatchling larvae feed off the husk for about a week before cocooning. These hatchlings are fiercely omnivorous, capable of consuming any even remotely organic material placed in front of them. A few days after they cocoon, new Dundas Flies emerge. At this stage they are about the size of an average horsefly but quickly reach full maturity in another week to ten days. Reports of these flies make mention of them not leaving Dundas Island. Black flies are central to the transmission of the parasitic nematode *Onchocerca volvulus* which causes onchocerciasis, or "river blindness". It serves as the larval host for the nematode and acts as the vector by which the disease is spread. The parasite lives on human skin and is transmitted to the black fly during feeding.
* **Awakened Qualities:** Blackflies are dual-natured creatures who possess unerring tracking abilities, on par with spirit's 'Search' powers, and some form of magical communication that allows them to swarm in perfect coordination. Their venom may also be enhanced by internal alchemical processes although further study is required on the subject. The larva seem to generate a magical protection that lets them survive until adulthood. The most notable quality, and the one they are most famous for, is the inability of the Dundas Island Blackfly to exist away from Dundas Island itself. Taken off the Island, the flies quickly die and eventually the corpses will crumble to dust. The reasons for this are not well understood and are the subject of a great deal of professional speculation in parazoological circles.
* **Restrictions:** Dundas Island is a class-A restricted area for metahumans, forbidden by the Sovereign Tribal Council.

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MTS

## Moorhead Transit Services

* **Rating:**Wholly-owned subsidiary of the Twin Cities Transit Authority, itself a subsidiary of the AAA EVO-4M.
* **Headquarters:**Moorhead Transit Center, 1313 30th Ave S, Moorhead , MN 56560
* **Leadership:**Kaila Brauner, Managing Director MTS
* **Description:**A publicly-contracted transportation provider working for the City of Moorhead.

While the Moorhead Transit Services are less varied and wide-ranging than its counterpart in Zone Area Transit Solutions across the River  in Fargo , it still manages to see to the needs of the growing metropolitan area.

Moorhead Transit operates four primary divisions:

* **Moorhead Metro Transit** : Responsible for operating a fleet of automated buses to serve the Moorhead-Dillworth-Hawley Metro area. Passes are of a comparable price as Tier 2 passes at ZATS. ZATS and MTS honor each other's passes. College Students at Concordia , MSUM  or MState ride for free.
* **Rural Transit Services**: Operated in partnership with TCTA sister company North Central Roads,  and partially subsidized by the City of Moorhead, Rural Transit uses manned buses to shuttle rural residents in and out of Moorhead, ranging as far afield as Rollag.
* **RideCall**: On-call automated car rental, charges by the kilometer.
* **Moorhead Traffic Solutions**: Has the contract to run Moorhead's GridGuide system. Also has responsibility for the maintenance of the GridGuide (although not the extending of Moorhead's still-incomplete GridGuide system, that contract is in the Kilbourne Urban Design 's hands).

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Big Loop

## The Big Loop Rail Line

   The main maglev arterial that crosses the entirety of the former United States and is the unsung workhourse that moves a healthy percentage of all cross-country freight at discount prices. A fully automated rail line, the Big Loop is a dedicated freight carrier with no provision for carrying passengers.

The railroad's neutrality is guaranteed as part of a rather obscure section of the Denver Treaty and the tracks are not technically part of any one nation, the Sovereign Tribal Council of the NAN is the operating agency. This isn't much of an advantage to smugglers, but it means that national authorities are forbidden from interesting of inspecting trains passing through without explicit authorization from the STC.

Control systems are maintained jointly by remote by the security personnel of a half-dozen nations and are protected by a variety of armed drones and other security measures.
Eric Jonrosh

* **Name:** Eric Cransler Jonrosh
* **Position:** Author, Producer, Actor, Writer, Director, Raconteur, Bon Vivant, Legend, Fabulist
* **Metatype:** Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:** 7/16/2018, Oak Park, IL, USA (later UCAS)
* **Education:** Bachelor's of Film Arts, USC
* **Family:** Clarence Jonrosh (father, *deceased*), Norma [Desmond] Jonrosh (mother, Rockford, IL), Laureighya Samcake (ex-wife, *Hoozdo,* PCC)

Author, Producer, Actor, Writer, Director, Raconteur, Bon Vivant, Legend, Fabulist. Eric Jonrosh is famous for writing over 13 novels and committing over half of them to simsense.

He is perhaps more famous, in fact, as a simsense director than he is as an author, of such popular hits like "Spoils of the Shadows" (2065) and critical darlings like "The Day I Had" (2071). He has won awards at the Supercannes Sim Festival in 2066, 2071 and best Director in 2073.

In 2075, he was hired to record the newest incarnation of the Neil the Ork Barbarian franchise, a remake of the popular "Neil the Ork Barbarian: Dawn of Earth" (2057). He took the filming up to the back woods of Manitoba, which is supposed to have been a complete disaster and resulted in Jonrosh retiring from the project and, for all intents and purposes disappeared in what the studio called "A retreat for his health" and underworld gossip is calling "running for his life".

Its the not the first time Eric Jonrosh has been thought dead, but it might be the last...

### Bibliography

* Spoils Before Dying (Spoils 1)
* Spoils of Alabama (Spoils 2)
* Spoils of Babylon (Spoils 3)
* Spoils Across the Border (Spoils 4)
* Spoils of Beaumont-sur-Mer (Spoils 5)
* Spoils of the Shadows (Spoils 6)
* A Farewell to Spoils (Spoils 7)
* 0101101
* A Season In Time
* This Island Man
* The Rocking Bird
* Before the Future
* An Affair To Have

### Filmography

* \*Spoils Before Dying (2049)
* \*Spoils of Babylon (2052)
* \*Spoils of the Future (2055)
* The Frog Prince (2057)
* \*Spoils of Alabama (2058)
* Boy of Remorse (2060)
* \*An Affair To Have (2061)
* Halley: Astronomer Royal (2062)
* Breaking The End (2063)
* \*Spoils of the Shadows (2065)
* Death is My Leader (2066) - Supercannes Winner: Technical Excellence Award 2066
* Chasing Eternity (2070)
* The Day I Had (2071) - Supercannes Winner: Best Sim 2071
* Emissaries and Descendants (2072)
* \*A Season In Time (2073) - Supercannes Winner: Best Director 2073

-Stars \* indicate adaptations of Jonrosh's own work

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Arcadia Blues

* **Scientific Name:** *Malus somnium*

The Arcadia Blue is an awakened version of the common apple tree (*Malus domestica*) that is only found in a single mountainous region in the south of France. Its rarity is enhanced by the stringent trade restrictions the French government has put on its harvest and export.

Besides their distinctive bright blue color, the exact Awakened qualities of the Arcadia Blue is kept confidential by the Académie d'Agriculture, but scholars from outside the Académie agree that Arcadia Blues have qualities related to dreams and some French druids have claimed that they can use it to brew potions to treatments for 'wounds of the mind and soul', while in the European underground, it is well known that the cider of Arcadia Blues has a powerful effect on the dreams of the drinker and rumors say it does more than just that, allowing people to share dreams and perhaps more than that...
Elk-Sedge

## Elk-Sedge Systems

* **Location:**I-80 and Meridian Ave, Tsêhéstáno , Tetonwan CF, 82001 Očéti Šakówiŋ
* **Status:**Elk-Sedge Systems is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the AAA-Prime Corporation Mitsuhama Computer Technologies.
* **Subsidiaries:**Mitsuhama Industrial Technologies, Elk-Sedge Systems, Black Lotus Software, Dolmen Data Systems, Mitsuhama Magical Services.

Mitsuhama Computer Technologies (MCT) has its Tsêhéstáno offices on the far eastern outskirts of the sprawl along I-80. However, their offices are not listed overtly at MCT, but rather are concealed under one of their subsidiary’s names, Elk-Sedge Systems. Elk-Sedge Systems is believed to have operations in this building, but make no mistake, the parent corporation controls the vast majority of the compound.

The building looks unremarkable from the outside—squat, plain, and only five stories tall. However, immediately beneath the five-story building are 45 sub-levels. The top five stories are used by the Elk-Sedge Systems subsidiary, while everything beneath the ground level is utilized by MCT. What is confirmed about this building by runners who have infiltrated it, is that the sub-levels house a drone assembly factory for Mitsuhama Industrial Technologies. Mitsuhama is also believed to be running their Mitsuhama Computers, Black Lotus Software, and Dolmen Data Systems from this building. Much of the covert research from these subsidiaries revolves around stolen materials coming out of the Oyate Owa Yawa.

MCT is also believed to support their Mitsuhama Magical Services operating out of this building. Many suspect MCT is running a sophisticated talislegging  ring from this building. The rest of the space in the underground facility is still unaccounted for, its function a mystery to those working the shadows. Magic users that have assensed this building have reported a growing and disturbing background count originating, and magical security is tight, particularly on those levels whose uses we don’t know about. It would seem MCT is up to its old tricks again—the same tricks that led to the ruin of Tsimshian.

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Catarones

## The Catarone Family (Minneapolis Combination)

* **Leader:**Don Leo Catarone , head of the Minneapolis Combination

The first family of the Combination  is the Catarone family itself. The Catarones’ moneymakers are gambling, loansharking and other fundamentally financial crimes. Most of the casino-type operations are small and quiet; this is Saint Paul, you’ll probably need to know someone to get in. That said, they don’t shy away from the big and open casino market; the Mystic Lake out in Prior Lake is theirs. Hell, since everybody else moved back inside the ring, they pretty much run the whole suburb. They also run the smuggling operations for the other two families. The volume of product and distances involved are such that a lot of indie T-bird jammers are out there subcontracting with the Mob, doing runs down from T-Bay with Golden Triangle opiates and CalHot BTLs and moving weapons back up. The Don lets the indies move anything else they choose, but makes sure they pay a cut to the Family if they want to keep breathing.

*Wait, so they move the other families’ product? How is that profitable?*
- Red Hawk

*The Don does this intentionally, has operations that cross families, to cut down on infighting. Really, it’s more like one big crime outfit than three smaller ones, which for the Mafia is a bit unusual. For the time being, though, it’s made it a lot stabler than, say, Seattle’s  Mob situatio*n.
- Gopher Eater

*Yeah, but it’s held together by a personality cult. I doubt the Leonization is going to keep the capo di capi in charge forever, and what’s going to happen then?*
- Phim Kooj Koi

*This kind of integration extends to the Mafia crews they’ll send after you if you piss them off. Just because your job was against the Catarones doesn’t mean they won’t have a shaman with them, for instance*.
- Wirefrog

* Don Leo Catarone, head of the Catarone Family and of the entire Combination
* Sonny Catarone , heir apparent to the Family
* Paul the Saint , noted Fixer

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Central Minneapolis

## The Beating Heart

Posted by: Hyasynth

Unlike its sister city, Minneapolis has a lot going on in its core. There’s a lot to do and see in the lively downtown, for starters, even for street scum like us.

   ​​​​​​The western and northwestern parts of downtown are called the Warehouse District, and despite the name, you won’t be finding any operating warehouses here. It’s all nightclubs and party hotspots. It’s busy enough that the clubs here are a common meeting site for runners and Mr. Johnsons . It’s also a good place to make and meet contacts. As far as the actual partying goes, my understanding is we’ll have another section for clubs and nightlife on here anyways, but drop me a line if you need a recommendation or something.
Going east, you first go through the part of downtown with all the actual high-rise offices. Building inhabitants

    include Ares , Saeder-Krupp , Wuxing , Aztechnology , Dakota Financial , and several megacorp subsidiaries. The specific smaller names tend to change all the time, so do your own research. Regardless, it’s a common place to be called upon for corporate espionage. Just remember that unlike Saint Paul, it’s busy down here, and if you get seen doing something suspicious, the cops  will show up. Plenty of people actually live in this downtown, and don’t like their streets getting unruly. Not that they actually use them; the skyways are the way to go here, for wageslaves, but unless you can get through the checkpoints between the different corps smoothly, it can be rough on a SINless  runner. Your best bet is to dress the part and go during rush hour; there’s just too many people for security forces to check them all thoroughly.

At the east end of downtown is the Mills District along the rivers. Some of the old flour mills down here date back a century and a half or more. A lot have been converted to museums, but some are housing or other things now, and there are plenty of new buildings mixed in. Some of the old buildings are big enough that they’re now used for smuggling purposes by the Mob, who keep other crime in the area to a minimum to prevent attention.

*The Fire Girls also run their ‘escort services’ out of one of the old riverfront buildings. The Mob doesn’t seem to have done anything to them yet, but we’ll see if they really leave them to it or not*.
- Brynhild

*The Mob can keep out the local gangs , but go-gangs run amok at night. There’s long straightaways along West River Parkway here that don’t have the first-rate policing that the Parkway does farther south, so bike gangers keep zipping around at night. I used to live around there and it kept me up all the damn time*.
- Iab Npauj

*Poor ntxhais me me.*
- Phim Kooj Koi

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Carol Drummer

## Carol Drummer, NeoNET Site Manager

* **Name:**Carol Michelle Drummer
* **Position:**Site Leader of the Great Plains Campus, NeoNET  Regional Vice President, Upper Midwest.
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**12/7/2027, Chico CA, USA (later California Free State )
* **Education:**Masters of Matrix Architecture from the Yamana School of Design at California Polytechnic State University.

A thorough-going company woman with a proven history of loyalty, Carol Drummer is known among her contemporaries for two things, one is her hands-on approach to management and the other is her almost-prescient ability to anticipate problems.
She was born to a family in the Central Valley of California who had ties to the software companies in the Bay Area, where they had moved once they started having kids. She grew up both going to expensive corp schools in Sacramento and hunting in the nearby Plumas National Forest on weekends.

Starting out in the early 50's as a workflow coordinator and junior manager for Fuchi in the Silicon Valley, Carol's rise to lead the Upper Midwest division of NeoNET has been a steady and careful one. She spent six years in Fuchi's Chicago offices before relocating to Seattle, where she served as the head of a team of deckers charged with business analytics. A long-time Villiers loyalist, she profited from the creation of Novatech, where she made the move to management, although she was still active as a decker on the Matrix, doing a lot of her own decking, until the Second Crash, when her headware became obsolete and her superiors moved her up out of field-facing positions. In the new NeoNET, she was often tasked with managing teams from the different component companies that made up the second-largest conglomerate in the world, making up for a lack of personal charisma with solid professionalism and pro-active responses to rising problems.

After serving on the Iris SEO team for the release of the Navi 7 Operating System, as a reward she was allowed to pick her next post, so, in 2070, Carol was sent to head up the Upper Midwest devision, where she has stayed, and prospered, ever since. A team player, she has gained a reputation for working well with other surrounding NeoNET divisions, including FTL Technologies  in the Oceti Sakowin and WolfWare  in the MSPlex , making the Fargo site live up to its potential as a hub for the NeoNET operations in the middle of the continent. She also enjoys the hunting and fishing in the area which is, she'll be the first to admit, one of the main reasons she picked this posting in the first place.

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