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Wind River

## The Wind River Corporation

* **Headquarters:**Laramie, Tetonwan CF, Oceti Sakowin
* **CEO:**Franklin Wirasaup
* **Status:** While Wind River alone would qualify for Single-A Status, it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Horizon, a AAA-Prime Corporation and their entry into the Sioux marketplace.

The largest business sector of the Sioux Nation’s economy  is agriculture, and the Wind River Corporation (WRC) is the biggest player, having bankrupted and absorbed most other agribusiness interests in the country after their massive hydroponic and aeroponic facilities came online in 2062. Although it has not applied for status with the Corporate Court , WRC would be classed as a multinational, with operations in most NAN  countries and wholly owned subsidiaries in the Caribbean League and Amazonia . For the last decade WRC has been investing in acquisitions of agri-businesses and farming rights in the Seliš-Bukwus Chíchelh Sq'èp , Na-Dené Nén , and California Free State . WRC has even started to challenge Aztechnology subsidiary Genetique for their market-share in the Azzie-dominated Niswi-mishkodewinan .

Within the Sioux Nation, it operates five massive hydroponic/ aeroponic facilities that grow everything from genetically enhanced wheat to pineapples, and it touts a string of successful patents and technology innovations in high-density farming that are widely licensed throughout the world under the direction of award-winning executive research director Martin Darkhorse. These complexes are heavily automated and environmentally sealed, allowing them to grow crops year-round, free of diseases, harmful insects, and the notoriously fickle Sioux weather.

Those farms, while now the jewel in Wind River's crown, almost sunk the company in the 2060's, coming in years behind schedule and millions of nuyen over budget. In order to save itself it was forced (after fierce competition between rival buyers) to sell out to the Horizon Corporation in 2067, single-handed making Horizon the biggest single agricorp in North America, rivaling the state farms of Aztlan.

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Smoke Breakers

*I'm not ever supposed to BE here today...*

I debated even listing these guys under "Gangs". Its more a sub-class of people than anything like an 'organized' gang (and taking into account that I didn't hesitate including The Herd and Ten Miles on that list, that's saying something).

OK, let's back up a little, because a little background is needed here. First fact, floors 11-13 of The Block have been converted into The West Acres Memorial Shopping Center (commonly known as the 'Mem'), a perfect recreation of the old West Acres Shopping Mall, which serves as an all-hours, all-purpose shopping center for residents of the Block who don't want to mingle with the grubby masses down in the ground-floor shopping district. Second fact, there is a smoking ban in all public areas of the Block (and indeed on all Group properties), which in the Mem is enforced through omnipresent surveillance (along with shop-lifting, vandalism, complaining about company policy and taking too long in the toilet), tabulated through the Performance and Adherence Linking System (PALS "*You're never alone with your PALS*"). However, fact Three, because most of the actual floor-level employees are on constant call (with their schedules broadcast via AR), and dealing with the entitled customers and residents of this pseudo-arcology is impossible without some kind of chemical assistance, Retail Employees Will Smoke. That's just science.

The way the contradiction between fact 2 and fact 3 is resolved is that veteran workers have found the service spaces and gaps in the architecture where the surveillance doesn't cover and if you don't piss off the "lifers" they might show you where you can get out of range of your PALS monitor and catch a quick smoke and bitch about management. Management (especially lower level management who are often former Lifers themselves) know about these place, but don't report them up the ladder because they serve as a useful safety valve for the workforce.

Over time, these have developed from just places to smoke and bitch to a place for any activity that is best done out of management's view. Not just things like doing drugs and having a quickie during lunch break like you'd expect, but plan Labor Actions (slow-downs, work-to-rule, even a bit of light sabotage), trade or smuggle out 'slippage' (inventory theft) and decide who is IN and who is OUT for being a douchebag. Those invited to these sitdowns, even if it is only to grab a smoke are referred to as 'Smoke Breakers'. This isn't really a gang because nobody's really following each other, its sort of a grey-market-come-social-group. In fact, members of the Smoke Breakers have been members of other gangs, both current and former and the business they do is sometimes run through those gangs (largely Ten Miles , Woodchippers  and Dirty E's).

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The Dike

* **Location:**100 2nd St S, Fargo  RRDMZ  58102
* **Style:**Retropunk DIY sports bar
* **Gang:**The Pain
* **P2  Rating:**10:3:7
* **Description:**Roller girls headquarters on the River.

So, here's a thing I bet you didn't know. Rollerball is still big in the Upper Midwest. For most of North America this missing link between skating and Combat Biking is a quaint relic of the early twenty-first century. But in this area its big, probably the fifth most popular sport after football (american), Urban Brawl, Combat Biking, and Curling (freakin' dwarves).

And the local league of this largely-women, largely-amateur sport has a place where they all hang out. The Dike.

The Dike is built on the last remaining bits of the original dike system designed to keepthe Red River in check. It stands just south of the Block and just east of Park Island, connected to the shore by a thin strip of land, a bit of a peninsula all to itself.

And yeah, there is a joke to be made about a bar called 'the Dike' with a clientele that's mostly women, but I'm not going to make it (the ladies who drink here, on the other hand, make it all the time). Partially 'cause even I'm classier than that and partially because these 'Derby Girls' scare the drek out of me. And that's even the ones who aren't modded or Adepts. There's also a lot of crossover between the local derby girl leagues and Biodynamicists and Craftpunks and the owner 'Lilith Wolf' is also a noted local crafter herself.

The big question everybody has is how this patch of land that the Dike stands on is still standing at all when the Red smashed through the rest of the flood control structures like a wrecking ball. Some people say it was just good luck, others mutter about sacrifices and bargains, sill others point out that the owner is a close personal friend of Lady Lightrider, the mage on Fargo's major shadowteam, who also happens to be a regular there...

You figure out which, you let me know, chummer.

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Novus Ordo Seclorum

*Order of the New Era*

* **Purpose:**The Novus Ordo Seclorum is the initiatory group sponsored by the New Century Party and it reflects not only its researches and magical techniques from the knowledge pool of its members but also the founding ideology of the Party, which holds that those with The Gift are better able to guide society than those without.
* **Headquarters:**4147 Xerxes Ave S, Minneapolis , MN 55410, UCAS
* **Membership:**Membership is open to all dues-paying members of the New Century Party, as well as alumni of the Magical Futures training programs.
* **Strictures:**Belief (New Century platform), Dues, Fraternity
* **Resources:**The New Century Party has a small popular base but it does command several pretty heavy wealthy patrons and the NOS commands great resources thanks to their patronage.
* **Allies:**The Novus Ordo Seclorum makes a point of forging ties with magical groups across the country, especially other politically active Hermetic Groups. Locally, the Novus Ordo Seclorum sponsors outreach programs with the Tri-College Working Group , the Supermodern Design Team and the Masonic Temple of the Western Bank.

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Voices From The West

In 2062, St. Petersburg Goblin Rocker CrimeTime invented orksploitation when he released Djoto, the first album ever composed and performed entirely in Or'zet. Since then, CrimeTime has performed & written exclusively in Or'zet. In 2060, however, he released his first non-Russian language album, Voices From The West, exclusively in English. It was immediately banned, and remains illegal in Russia to this day.

Politically conscious thrash metal, its first single, *Six Feet Under*, includes the lyrics:

> *Under their boot I lace my boots up*
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> *Under their flag I fly my freak flag*
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> *Under their radar I start my shoot up*
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> *Under their tow I let my chain drag*
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> *Subconscious, say I’m submonstrous*
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> *Subliminal say I’m sub-criminal*
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> *Lumpenproletariat Judas Iscariot*
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> *Say somethin’s scary at? Where you gonna bury it?*
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Romkey Park

## The Romkey Park Barrens

There are no "Z-Zones" in Moorhead. Do you know how we know? Because the Moorhead City Council and Knight Errant both tell us so. And they mean it. After all, its not a Z-Zone if it never gets a classification, right omae?

But if Moorhead did have a Z-Zone or a Barrens it would be the area around Romkey Park. Always has been. This is the area east of the Colleges  but west of the industrial areas across the tracks. Its always been a kind of no-man's land, with the highest population density and the lowest income bracket in the Moorhead area. And consequentially the highest crime rate in Moorhead. Of course, in the old days before the Awakening high crime meant that the cops were always present in the neighborhood, while in the modern world that means that the cops  NEVER go there.

Living in a vacuum between extraterritorial tracts, between MSUM and corporate country, the locals have been forced to see to their own protection and their own welfare, so they have formed their own neighborhood associations to deal with things. These are somewhere between utility groups and gangs, including the Grendel Society, the Nibs, and the Rom Key Locksmiths. These gangs are the only thing keeping this part of town, mostly duplexes and apartment buildings, running. Rumor has it Moorlocks also have a major lair in the area, but since people here don't talk to outsiders, its hard to tell.

Its a good place to hide out, beyond the eyes of Knight Errant, but because it is beyond the eyes of Knight Errant you're on your own as far as protection goes....

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SmartBucket!

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The Flying 14th

Unlike the UCANavy and UCAMC, who practice unit integration of their magical assets, the UCAS Army and Air Force maintain specialist units of magically-active assets, further dividing them into Spell-Capable (SC) and Non-Spell-Capable (NSC) units. SC Mages are usually assigned to MSS 'Magical Support Squadrons' while NSC Adepts are usually assigned to UCAAF Special Warfare units.

Based out of Ft Snelling in the Twin Cities , the 14th Magical Support Squadron is part of the Western Border Support Group, (WeBSuGro), which coordinates a number of smaller units distributed around the UCAS's frontier postings. The 14th Company is an SC Squadron split into Alpha and Bravo Flights as well as an Administrative Flight back in Fort Snelling. Alpha Squadron is embedded in the 319th Reconnaissance Wing at Grand Forks AFB (Region 2, RRDMZ) and Bravo supports the 119th Fighter Group at Hector AFB  (Region 3, RRDMZ), dispatched to the Zone Frontier during its formation in early 2065.

### Flying 14th Initiatory System, MPD14

* **Purpose:**The Flying 14th is the UCAAF Initiatory group for the 14th MSS, as laid out by the Unified Magical Service Doctrine (UMSDoc) [Revision.2064] with the stated purpose "To provide a clear and effective path for the Development of magical and astral capabilities in magical specialists to maximize possible range and effectiveness to situations on both strategic and tactical scales, for the good of the service and defence of the nation."
* **Membership:**MPD14 includes all the active SC-certified personnel serving in the 14th MSS. At current strength, this encompasses 18 full mages and 28 SC-partial "Mystic Adepts". MPD14.B "The Hector Circle", has a compliment of five full SC casters and eight SC-partials. The ritual leaders are 1st Lt. Amber Ladouceur and Mage-Sergeant Dominique Freeman.
* **Strictures:**Oath (Group), Obedience, Service, Fraternity, Exclusive Ritual, Exclusive Membership, Attendance
* **Resources:**High. The Magical Support Corp is one of the high-prestige front-line roles in the UCAAF and has top priority for material, financial and personnel resources, something that only annoys the Hector CO, Major Chang , a little bit. The MPD14.B also has a Lockheed A-3100 VTOL craft at their disposal with full crew and facilities.
* **Allies:**MPD14.B works as an integrated part of the 119th Fighter Group at Hector AFB, seconded to the command of the base commander and acts as part of the larger UCAAF and often provides magical backup for the UCAS elements of the Zone Patrol. They also independently pursue the UCAS' strategic and security goals through liaisons with local magical groups that have been identified as having similar aims, such as the Supermodern Design Team , the Pontoppidan Order and Principia .

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Orb

**ORB** is the latest and most popular version of the long-running Iris OS, originally published by Erika for Transys Neuronet, now supported by NeoNET after the merger.

While not the top of the line for operating systems, it does consistently rate as one of the most user-friendly and has been the top seller for several years in a row. The ubiquity of its built-in search functions has given rise to the term 'orb' for searching for something on the Matrix.

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Sundog Renaissance

## Sundog Renaissance Business Solutions

* **Location:**4550 42nd Ave S, Fargo , RRDMZ , 58104. On the grounds of the Great Plains Common Campus .
* **Rating:**BB (National, Expansive)
* **CEO:**Autumn Wurtzler-Janssen
* **Status:**A publically-traded company, 48% of stock is held by private individuals and investment funds, the other 52% is divided among corporate holders, such as EVO , Horizon , NeoNET  and Saeder-Krupp .
* **Business:**Sundog Renaissance bills itself a 'Business Infrastructure Specialist' firm. It provides services as diverse as business technology management, marketing, data analysis, staffing solutions, construction contracting and building maintenance. Largely a middleman, this current incarnation Sundog specializes in connecting customers with the proper sub-contractors for their needs.
* **History:**Founded as Sundog Interactive, a website construction company, in the mid-1990's, Sundog developed into a major player in the Fargo business scene and a marketing and business solutions firm, taking over the Multiband Tower on 45th St just before the Awakening . Which was unfortunate, as the Tower was near enough to the epicenter of the West Acres disaster to be devestated in the Ghost Dance. Today it stands as a mutant-infested ruin in Wasted Acres . The company had taken a blow, but it reorganized as Sundog Renaissance and acquired the assets of several competing firms in the area, contracting its services out to the growing economic Group  forming in downtown Fargo. Today, it stands stronger than ever among the major players in the Zone, with clients as far as the rebuilding efforts in Chicago and as close as right here in the Zone. The new CEO, Wurtzler-Janssen, is left with the mixed legacy of its previous brilliant but unstable CEO.

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Religion

Affiliation of those who identify as Religious (of an est.72.1% of total Population)

* 52% Christian (27% Lutheran, 14% Catholic, 11% Other denomination)
* 21% Midewiwin
* 10% Muslim
* 8% Wicoh'an Wakan Sakowin
* 3% Mixed Traditionalist (Asatru/Neopagan etc)
* 1% Jewish
* 5% Other/Spiritual

Fargo, like a lot of bergs in the west, has always been a pretty religious town and the faiths here (originally Lutheran and Roman Catholic Christianity, but that's diversified in the last century or so) have always been a factor in the basic infrastructure of the place, in how people make decisions and in how they pick sides. And since the area is a place where they've had a couple  of wars  against another religion made manifest through magic, and where they've got an angry, personified River Spirit right on the their doorstep who needs propitiation, this is likely not something that's going to be going away anytime soon.

Not everyone does, but there are still a lot of people who take their faiths very seriously. Which should be reason enough to pay attention to what they're believing...

* Christian (Evangelical Lutheran Church of North America)
* Christian (Roman Catholic Diocese of Fargo)
* Christian (Fargo Free Church)
* Wicoh'an Wakan Sakowin
* Midewiwin
* Rivering
* Islamic Society of Fargo
* Temple Beth El
* Omame xapiripë
* Asatru
* Vodou

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Paul the Saint

* **Name:**Paul Andrej Walshowski
* **Position:**Owner of NowYen Payday Loans, also Capo of the Payne-Phalen territories of the Catarone Family , Minneapolis Combination .
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**3/18/2020, Lyons IL.

*A little something from the backfiles. Now don’t say I never gave you nothing, ’Frog*.
-3yearsleft

**Briefing Notes, 5.1.68, SPPD headquarters. Captain Hugo Martin speaking.**

**“The suspect is one Paul Andrej Walshowski, who most of you already know as Paul the Saint. For those of you in town from our Federal and Corporate partners for the festivities, let me introduce you.”**

*Alright, so the Catarones  are Italian, the Callahans  are Irish, the Vangs  are Hmong. Where’s some polack hood fit in*?
-GWN

*Get your head out of the simuflicks and do it quick. Walshowski’s a Catarone man to the bone. You don’t get two chances to screw that up, believe you me.*
-3yearsleft

**“Mister Walshowski’s a bit of a downtown Saint Paul institution. He’s old-school, came up with the Russo crew in the forties, used to run some of Tommy Tic-Tac’s gambling operations before graduating to running loan-sharking, gambling and any kind of contraband you care to name, and several you wouldn’t, on his own turf in Payne-Phalen, all behind the veil of his chain of payday loan kiosks, those obnoxious NowYen ads that show up on late-night download sites. Now, I know what a lot of you are thinking. You’re thinking ‘we were called down to deal with the Iraultza, what’s a bunch of hard-ass Basque terrorists got to do with a midwestern loan shark? Everything. Because it’s a well-known and inadmissible fact that any crime he isn’t into himself, he can, and has, set up for the right price. The Iraultza have to have had a contact in the city to slip in under our watch and the evidence, circumstantial as it is, points at Paul the Saint. Alright, now we’re all up to date, I want the individual squad leaders in my briefing room and we’ll go over specific assignments, Lieutenant Kortgaard , let’s do this first…”**

*Except that Paulie the Saint’s still walking around free. How did…?*
-True That

*Knight Errant got an anonymous tip later that day that led them to the location of the Iraultza without ever having to inconvenience Mister Walshowski, who was never implicated in any of their affairs.*
-NoComment

*Partially, one suspects, because none of the Iraultza were taken alive*.
-CzechMate

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Olin-Miroku Arms

* **Local Office:**2500 11th St N, Moorhead , MN 56560
* **Head Office:**190 Carondelet Plaza, Suite 1530
Clayton, MO 63105  UCAS
* **Rating:**According to Corporate Court guidelines, Olin-Miroku Arms would rate a single 'A' rating, however, a recent takeover, in which the AAA Prime Corporation Saeder-Krupp ended up with 76% percent of public stock and the Board voted for a merger, classifies it as a subsidiary of a AAA.
* **CEO:**Taggart Olin
* **Senior Local Officer:**Rawling Miculek, Site Manager
* **Territoriality:**Locally Olin-Miroku Arms controls the extraterritorial tract that the local Winchester factory sits on. Globally, it is one of twenty-five extraterritorial tracts ceded to Olin-Miroku throughout North America and Asia.
* **Business:**Olin-Miroku is an arms company that produces largely small arms, ammunition and vehicle-mounted weapons. Among their most famous imprints are Browning, Beretta and Winchester. The Moorhead Factory is noted for producing the Winchester Model 2070 Shotgun and the Winchester Airbow.
* **History:**The Olin Corporation has been producing arms since 1893 as the "Equitable Powder Company" and Miroku since 1893, but it wasn't until 2046 that a merger brought them together as Olin-Miroku, at the time the third largest producer of firearms in the world. Outmatched by Ares Arms' market dominance during the '50's, Olin-Miroku went into a decline that led to its acquisition in the late 2060's by S-K.

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Tsêhéstáno Regional Airport

* **Location:**8619 Dell Range Blvd, Tsêhéstáno, Tetonwan CF, 82009, Očéti Šakówiŋ

By most standards, the current Tsêhéstáno Regional Airport is outdated and obsolete. The Tsêhéstáno Regional Airport typically handles flights within the Očéti Šakówiŋ and is unable to handle larger airliners. Mostly the shuttle runs up to the main airport in Caspar. The international flights that originate from the regional airport usually only go as far as Denver FRFZ and Santa Fe in the Pueblo. The Seven Council Fires  finally decided that such an outdated airport was not sufficient to serve government and the three million citizens based in the national capital.

So in April 2075, the Council appropriated two billion nuyen to purchase the land and begin building a new, state-of-the-art international airport just outside the current city limits of Tsêhéstáno. This airport will be able to handle all major air traffic for the region and should be an economic windfall for Tsêhéstáno. Because the new airport will be a good distance away from downtown, it will support a large number of privately owned air taxis, something that the old regional airport could not handle. The new Tsêhéstáno airport will also be able to handle sub-orbital takeoffs and landings, allowing Tsêhéstáno to bring in revenue from the sub-orbital airline industry. Saeder-Krupp was awarded the two billion nuyen contract, with the strict stipulation that no nanites are to be used in the construction of the airport. Due to this limitation, the construction for the new airport will take longer than usual, with an estimated completion date of January 31, 2078.

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VA

## Veteran's Administration

First off, you can always stop by the Old VA. It’s a big building near Minnehaha Park that was used as a veteran’s hospital in the days of the US. After Minnehaha Park went to hell and the Ghost Dance War took the country apart, street clinics moved in, taking advantage of the facility to treat desperate, often SINless  Minnehaha squatters. It was tolerated at the time as a necessary evil, to help the poor in Minnehaha Park, but it’s really only gotten more and more shady over the decades. Now if you go in there, bring a friend to watch over you while you’re unconscious, or you might get taken apart for scraps by a doctor on Tamanous ’ payroll. Still, that means no questions and no records when you need that new armblade or bone lacing installed.

*Dr. Landon’s who you want to see in here, on the second floor. He’s surprisingly legit for a streetdoc,and he won’t screw you over if you treat him right. Can’t ask for more than that*.
- Fight Owl

*Landon’s probably the best independent. I could tell you a few that are probably more skilled and better equipped, but they’re Mob-controlled through and through, so I’d only use them if you’re tight with the Mafia .*
- Iab Npauj

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Telspot

## Telspot Armaments

* **Headquarters:**131 Jetway Dr, Belgrade, Wahpekute CF, 59714 Oceti Sakowin
* **President:**Noreen Shoots Well
* **Rating:**DDD
* **Business:**Small arms accessories and customization services.

There are a lot of arms companies in the Sioux Nation, appropriate given how well-armed the Sioux citizenry is. And in that competitive atmosphere, Telspot Armaments has survived as long as it has by carving out a unique niche in the arms industry. Instead of competing with the big arms producers like Ares  or Nemesis Arms in wholesale arms manufacturing, Telspot has focused on weapons accessories and customization at any of its workshops or showrooms across the Oceti Sakowin.

Telspot is especially well known for their installation and customization work, for which Telspot has won awards and, more importantly, maintenance and customization contracts from big clients like Eagle and Blue Thunder. They also dabble in manufacturing their own accessories. Telspot is famous as being the sole SmartLink  manufacturer registered in the Oceti Sakowin. Famous and infamous for it. During the 2050's Telspot SmartLinks were made cheaply, and got a reputation for unreliability, which led to Telspot discontinuing its smartlink in the early 2060's, and wouldn't take it up again until Noreen Shoots Well took over the company in 2069.

In her drive to revamp the Telspot brand "On the Spot with Telspot", she poured a lot of money (some of it her own) into redesigning and revamping a post-Second Crash SmartLink, resulting in the Telspot *Alúutkaashe* SmartGun Link in 2071. Although a darling of the critics and reviewers, and generally acknowledged to be a top notch SmartLink by technical experts, its sales have been lackluster, hampered by the Telspot reputation as a bad SmartLink, although it no longer reflect the reality of the product.

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New Revelations

## New Revelations Ale Works

* **Location:**146 S Atlantic Ave, Hallock, MN ,UCAS 56728

Back in 2017, at the end of the Craft Beer Revolution, a brewery in the small town of Hallock MN, Revelation Ale Works, and in 2019, a distillery Far North Spirits, run by several of the same people. However, Hallock was on the front lines of the Awakening. And what touched Hallock effected Revelation. The town was all but abandoned and the brewery was left empty while the staff got jobs at various breweries in the burgeoning MSPlex.

However, the dream that was Revelation was not dead and when, in the 2040's, Hallock was resettled, old brewers, now middle-age and their contacts, returned to Hallock to reclaim the old facilities, and open 'New Revelations Brewery and Distillery', which has been one of the staples of Hallock for nearly thirty years at this point.

Products Include:

* Gigawatt DIPA
* Cosmic Revelations Hopped Lager
* Seven Heads Blended Sour
* Thoughts and Prayers Porter

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Zone Patrol

## Red River Joint Enforcement ("Zone Patrol")

**The Red River Joint Enforcement Group**

The RRJEG is the joint Security Forces of the RRDMZ, a combination effort between the UCAS  Army and the SDF to keep the peace in the Zone. Patrols are 2 to 4 troopers generally, to allow for even numbers of UCAS and Sioux soldiers and are responsible for keeping the peace in areas that have not contracted with other licensed Security Firms to provide protection.

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McLovin's

## McLovin's Truck Stop

* **Location:**3150 39th St S Ste A, Fargo , RRDMZ  58104
* **Gangs:**Heathens MC
* **Description:**Full-service Truck Stop, Drone Hub, Restaurant and Bar.

McLovin's is the single largest chain of full service truck stops on the North American continent (a fully owned subsidiary of Ares Motors ). As a major transport hub, Fargo is equipped with a full-service station that includes fuel, food, drink, an A-grade Drone Server, a coffin motel, and full vehicle servicing. It even has emergency facilities in case of manastorm or attack, including a bunker beneath the facility.

More a part of the roads that go through Fargo than Fargo itself, it sits near the exits for I-29 and thus, lies in the territory of the Heathens MC, who use it as a local base of operations and a hub for their own smuggling. And run it as a hub for other people's smuggling as well, doing most of their business with the Underbergs  and Tiospaye  through here. The local Ares branch office knew they'd kind of lost control of their own outpost, but didn't quite know what to do about it (or the rumors that some members of the Ares old guard might even be in on it).

When Sonja Oxnard took over the Ares branch, retaking the McLovin's became one of her priorities and in fall of '75, she authorized a joint Knight Errant/BSI operation to drive out the Heathens. Which seems to have worked for the moment, although its hard to keep corruption entirely out of a place where people are constantly coming and going every hour of every day...

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StufferShack

## The StufferShack on Center

* **Location:**1707 Center Ave W, Dilworth, MN UCAS  56529
* **Style:**Its a StufferShack, chummer.
* **Gang:** Rebels
* **P2  Rating:**[see corporate matrixsite ]
* **Description:**See Above (Its a StufferShack)

There are a lot of StufferShacks in the Red River Valley. Heck, there's something like 50 of them on Moorhead's side of the river alone. So what makes this one, at the city limits between Moorhead and its suburb Dilworth worth mentioning? Well, like the real estate guys used to say, three things: Location, Location, Location.

Its along Center Avenue, the main drag that leads through the heart of the whole of the Greater Moorhead area, through Moorhead, Dilworth, Glyndon and Hawley before turning into Highway 10 and heading deeper into the UCAS  state of Minnesota. It also sits between several of the big shopping mallplexes, including the Kong-Wal Mart (an Aztechnology  company), Saeder-Krupp's S-Mart and the Ares-owned CredWise 'Plex and within easy driving distance of both the Moorhead and Dilworth high-schools. Which makes it a perfect place for teens and kids from several different neighborhoods to meet and hang out and get into trouble at.

But why the StufferShack? Don't be an idiot. You know why. The same reason you used to hang out at the StufferShack. Its not just the cheap snacks and a place to both plug in your car and fuel up your driver with an energy drink. Its the lack of supervision. StufferShacks and their many knock-offs and competitors are completely automated. Which everybody knows but not everybody thinks about.

But trust me, growing up in the micro-managed mallplexes and education centers in the gated and protected bedroom communities of the more respectable parts of the Sixth World? That lack of supervision is EVERYTHING to bored kids in the 'burbs. Sure, sure, I know there are supposed to be people at the local security companies watching those cameras, and security algorithms to tag actionable behavior but everybody knows that the people don't much care what happens in or around a StufferShack and the algorithm was coded by the lowest bidder and isn't hard to fool.

Which makes it the perfect place to come and buy drugs or get an older kid to buy you vape juice or race cars or get into fights or try and look cool in front of your friends and potential loves of your life (this week), or even just hang out with kids from poorer neighborhoods without your wage-slave parents throwing a fit. If you don't belong or know, this place is invisible, you won't even know it exists except as a place to power up your car and get an Aztecola (tm). But if you do, for the few years you do, a place like this can be the world.

And at the edge of two security zones (between Moorhead's Knight Errant and NCR's  TranSec), its always easier to get out of the trouble you get into there, at least with the law...

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Path of the Wheel

## The Paths of the Wheel

   Claimed by Tír na nÓg to be the ancient faith of the elves , followers of the Paths see all life as a journey of discovery, change, growth, and ascendancy. Throughout an elf's life, they tread a metaphysical pathway represented by the Wheel of Life. The Wheel contains five paths, each corresponding to different stages of life. As an elf ages, they journey along the Wheel leads him until they reach the Wheel's heart. At this still center of being, they prepare for their final journey toward enlightenment and total understanding (some mystics and outliers claim that this is a literal Ascension into the metaplanes, to the mystical place known as the Citadel of the Shining Ones, but most mainstream believers don't hold with that).

Each Path represents ever-greater spiritual maturity. Each Path has certain regalia and rituals associated with it that mark its followers and Awakened followers have mentor spirits specific to each Path. Though a few sects disagree, most accept the following five paths:

* *Mes ti'Maeaerthsa*, the Path of the Warrior
* *Mes ti'Perritaesa*, the Path of the Steward
* *Mes ti'Cirolletishsa*, the Path of the Bard
* *Mes ti'Telenetishsa*, the Path of the Druid
* *Mes ti'Raeghsa*, the Path of the Righ

A note about magic. The use of magic in the Paths is very formalized; several tomes outlining these practices exist. Or at least that’s the claim, as very few people not part of the Paths have ever seen these volumes. The volumes describing the Path of the Rígh, which is reserved for the highest levels of Tír society, are said to contain rituals handed down from the Fourth World or earlier, which outstrip anything we think we know about magic.

In the local area , the only practitioners of the Paths of the Wheel are at the Lindenwood Elven School .

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Solving Problems for Integrated Realtime Information Technology

## SPIRIT (Solving Problems for Integrated Realtime Information Technologies)

* **Rating:**C-equivalent (SPIRIT is registered in the Oceti Sakowin, which is not a signee of the Business Recognition Accords)
* **Ownership:**SPIRIT is a privately-held corporation, and holds the membership of its owners as confidential. President Jerome Bison Robe in Mni Lúzahaŋ Otȟúŋwahe represents the shareholders and Vice President Lucy Rains All The Time at their Fargo  location.
* **Locations:**Company headquarters is at 2828 Plant St #2, Mni Lúzahaŋ Otȟúŋwahe, Lower Yankton CF 57702. They also maintain locations at 1661 Great Lodge Way Suite 102 LL, Ituhtaáwe, Upper Yankton CF 58501 and at the Navi Building, Suite 201, Great Plains NeoNET Campus, 3900 Great Plains Dr S, Fargo, RRDMZ 58104.
* **Business:**To quote SPIRIT's matrixsite "SPIRIT is a full-service software and matrix architecture firm, with an eye towards enhancing security, efficiency and convenience in you matrix business. SPIRIT stands for everything from hardware installation to advanced encryption and more!"

SPIRIT didn't exist ten years ago, the firm came into being in the wake of the Očéti Šakówiŋ's recovery from the Second Crash, one of a number of firms formed to profit from the rebuilding of the Očéti Šakówiŋ's all-important Matrix Sector. SPIRIT seems to be involved, in a peripheral way, in most major matrix projects, government and private, that have taken place in the western Očéti Šakówiŋ since it was formed, an increasingly successful consultancy, ubiquitous enough that nobody bats an eye at their presence in any major undertaking. Which is probably how they like it.

Naturally, the very private nature of the ownership and their consultancy on several very sensitive projects has led rumors to crop up around them (including the obvious), which, if its part of a marketing strategy to keep up people's interest, is working pretty well...

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Wyatt Schroeder

* **Name:** Wyatt Robert Schroeder
* **Position:** Chief Operations Officer of Ares Aerospace
* **Metatype:** Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:** Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Drexler University, Master of Business Administration from Penn State.
* **DOB:** 2/7/33, Allentown, PA, UCAS
* **Family:** Joseph 'Joe' Schroeder (father, Quoque, NY, UCAS), Rosemary Cooper (mother, Free City of Miami, Caribbean League), Gabriel Schroeder (brother, Reseda, Los Angeles, PCC), Valerie Martins-Schroeder (sister-in-law, Reseda, Los Angeles, PCC), Rialto Schroeder (niece, Reseda, Los Angeles, PCC), Paloma Schroeder (niece, Huerta, Los Angeles, PCC) , Maria Cooper (sister, Atlanta, GA, CAS), Dante Schroeder (brother, Manhatten, New York, UCAS)

Wyatt Schroeder is one of the up-and-coming stars of the “New Ares”, young execs who came up the ladder since the Crash. A company kid, Wyatt grew up on a rotation of various Ares postings, following his parents’ careers as highly-placed technical consultants and troubleshooters. Wyatt was groomed to follow in their footsteps, but while he was just middle of his class in technical matters, he was the equivalent of valedictorian in the time-honored art of networking.

Using the high-level contacts his parents had built up over the decades, Wyatt secured himself a position with Ares’ internal Matrix department, leveraging his ability to speak fluent “techie” to serve as an interpreter between the worlds of product development and the C-Suite. That’s how he gained the eye and favor his patron, Max Aurelius (a great-nephew of company founder Nicholas Aurelius) over in Ares Motors. From there, he did a stint as assistant to the head of Product Development in Ares Arms before taking a position at Ares Aerospace (coincidentally just before the botched Ares Excalibur fiasco…), where he’s flourished, accepting the COO position just under two years ago, making him second only to the division's head Charles Pollack, and the head of Aerospace's Detroit officers.

Wyatt’s meteoric rise is due partially to a deeper-than-usual understanding of the products he represents, but more to do with an ability to figure out what his superiors want and a certain ‘moral flexibility’ combined with the will to do whatever he has to make the next step in his career…

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Unhcegila

## Unhcegila (North American Horned Serpent)

* **Scientific Name:***Nerodia sipedon terribilicornu*
* **Habitat:**Freshwater, lakes and streams
* **Range:**North America, Mississippi Drainage Basin
* **Size:**Unhcegila can range between 15' and 50' feet in length, averaging between 350-750 lbs in weight.
* **Diet:**Carnivorous
* **Behavior:**Solitary predator, active during the day and at night. It is most often seen basking on rocks, stumps, or brush. During the day, it hunts among plants at the water's edge, looking for prey. At night, it concentrates hunting underwater. It hunts using smell and sight.
* **Awakened qualities:**The massive Unhcegila has an automatic effect, when submerged it magically attracts water to the area it is swimming in, allowing the depth of water the massive creature needs, and also causing flooding in its wake.
* **Attacks:**Besides its powerful attacks of teeth and horn, it can also release a debilitating toxic musk when attacked and its saliva contains a powerful anti-coagulant that keeps bite wounds from healing.
* **Relations:** There is a growing consensus that the Unhcegila may be related to the Minhocão of Amazonia, which is nearly identical to the Unhcegila except for coloring and an awakened power over earth instead of water.

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Symington Yard

* **Location:** 560 Plessis Road, Winnipeg, Region 1, RRDMZ R2C 2Z4
* **Status:** Owned and Operated by the Big Loop Consortium operated by the Transit Commission of the Sovereign Tribal Council of the NAN
* **Description:** Railway Hump Yard, major rail junction

Symington Yard is one of the largest rail yards in the world. The intermodal facility is located next to the Windsor Park area of Winnipeg. Built in 1962 and named for former CNR Director Herbert James Symington (1881–1965), it handles, on average, 7,000 train cars a day and can store up to 15,000 cars.

When the STC formed the Big Loop Railway, the Symington Yard, which was at the time the largest railyard in the former nation of 'Canada', was purchased to service its eastern routes into the UCAS and Niswi-mishkodewinan. The yard was upgraded to more than double its capacity and entirely automated. Its hard-wired network actually spared it from the Second Crash and to this day remains one of the largest intact networks of first-Matrix technology still in operation.

The Yard is entirely automated, and requires no metahumans on site. Only a small supervisory staff oversees the automatic operations from an office at the STC Headquarters in Tsehestano, communicating to a single encrypted node at the heart of the great machine, which is the only piece of wireless tech in the entire complex. Over the years, its said that the processes and algorithms coded into its ancient servers have evolved so far that even the techs back in Tsehestano don't really understand how it does what it does. And so long as it remains one of the most productive and efficient Yards on the line, they're not likely to pry to far into it...

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Toldeen Tech

* **Headquarters:**Tsêhéstáno, Tetonwan CF, Oceti Sakowin
* **Leadership:**Elliot New Moon, Chief Executive Officer, White Crane Woman, Butte office
* **Rating:**BB

Toldeen Tech is one of a handful of Sioux cybernetic manufacturers. The company makes several components for other cybernetic companies, such as micro optic processors, fiber optics, and neurostimulators. Like many other companies, Toldeen Tech has recently moved part of its business to Butte  in order to avoid tariffs on, and transportation of, raw materials.

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NABS

## North American Broadcasting Service

* **Rating:** While not a signer on the Business Recognition Accords, NABS is the equivalent of a single or double A corporation
* **Headquarters:** 2232 Dell Range Blvd # 103, Tsêhéstáno, Tetonwan CF, Očéti Šakówiŋ 82009
* **CEO:** Whope Fat Crow
* **Description:** News and entertainment network covering all of the NAN.
* **Partnerships:** NABS works with Matrix provider Elk-Sedge Systems. They also have close reciprocal agreements with other NAN broadcasters, including the Očéti Šakówiŋ’s *Wanbli Ogligle Waka* (“Eagle Network”), which is the local affiliate of the NABS.

The Native American Broadcasting Service (NABS) was founded to be the voice of the STC  – and it was as dull and straight-laced as a public-access, bureaucrat-run media outfit could be. In 2056, however, Sioux media strategist Whope Fat Crow took charge and convinced the STC that it was in the NAN’s best interest to privatize the operation and let her run with it. In the years since. Fat Crow has turned the NABS into a hip, modern and competitive network.

NABS reports still have a reputation for ground-breaking investigative journalism, and Fat Crow still sticks to hard documentation and fact standards for controversial stories, such as their reputation-making coverage of the of the Denver Olympics of ‘72. Since the NABS went private and no longer had to placate the STC, it has turned a detailed eye on tribal affairs and internal STC politics. The sudden spotlight has forced many bureaucrats to keep their noses clean – or at least to carefully erase any evidence.

While most of their news and investigative divisions are focused on the evils of the UCAS and CAS, they have uncovered scandals with the NAN that have occasionally made the STC wish they had not spun off the NABS. While the NABS entertainment and documentary divisions remain focused on the NAN (with such staples as “Tyee!” about native freedom fighters and wise old shamans during the Ghost Dance War), their news and investigative division has spread out, and they now have bureaus in every major North American city.

The NABS has a popular Matrix service provider subsidiary called NativeNet, with grid access offered in NAN country. NativeNet offers excellent tribal culture resources, exclusive NABS broadcasts, and probably has one of the best public shamanic lore collectives outside of MagickNet.

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