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Harold Standing Bear

## Harold Standing Bear, Region 3 Commissioner, Oceti Sakowin

* **Name:**Bear Stands Alone 'Harold Standing Bear'
* **Position:**Pipe Holder in the Sioux Defence Force, registered citizen of the *Oglála Lakȟóta Oyáte ,* and the Oceti Sakowin Commissioner for Statistical Region 3 (FargoArea) of the Red River Disputed Military Zone. Commanding Officer of the 9th Upper Yankton Warband.
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**8/14/2018, Wazíbló, Lower Yankton CF, Oceti Sakowin (formerly Pine Ridge SD)
* **Family:**Vivian Long Winter (wife, Maitomoni'ohe, Upper Yankton CF), Candace Hunts-For-Herself (daughter, Nekoma Pyramid , Upper Yankton CF), Graham Moving Rock (son, Ituhtaáwe, Upper Yankton CF)

Bear Stands Alone was part of the first generation that grew up entirely in the Oceti Sakowin and he reflects the fierce nationalism of his youth in everything he does, from his private devotion to his family and to the Wicoh'an Wakan Sakowin to the intense patriotism that led him to a long and distinguished career in the SDF, which saw him serve first as a Wildcat and then a high-ranking army officer. His key role as a commander of ground forces during the Third Ghost Dance War earned him the notice of Mariah Screaming Bird, who hand-picked him to serve as the Region 3 Commissioner for the Oceti Sakowin.

Bear's tenure as commissioner has seen him mostly concerned with border security and making sure the problems of the Zone don't spill over into the Upper Yankton Council Fire. Although his authority is in the Zone, it is a powerful statement that he works and lives just across the border in Maitomoni'ohe (what used to be West Fargo), where he is respected as an Elder in the Hunting Cat Society. His approach is one of patience and he tends to wait to see how things develop, separating out things that are worth the Sioux Nation's time and attention from what isn't. To that end, he has cultivated a close working relationship with his opposite number on the UCAS side, Lt.Col. Morris Calder. Bear's patience is backed by the knowledge that he can call upon the nearby forces of the SDF to protect the nation he loves whenever it becomes necessary. Because Bear-Stands-Alone never negotiates from anything but a position of strength.

Late in the evening of December 20, 2075, acting on information from confidential informants within the Block about a potential existential magic threat ongoing there, Commissioner Standing Bear activated the 9th Border Warband's airborne units out of Maitomoni'ohe Airbase and staged an expedition into the core of Fargo, cordoning off the Block and declaring martial law as outlined in Section Two, Paragraph 13 of the Alexandria Accords. With the approval of Governor Screaming Bird and the grudging acquiescence of UCAS Governor Evergreen, Standing Bear maintained a state of martial law from 12/21/75 to 12/31/75, working in conjunction with the Grid Overwatch Division and making several high-level arrests (especially within Kilbourne Urban Design) and helping Ares set up their new security apparatus.

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Evo-4M

* **Headquarters:**2501 Hudson Rd, Maplewood, MN 55144
* **Leadership:**EVO-Midwest Senior Vice President Irena Volkova
* **Major Subsidiaries:**Harris-4M, CrashCart , Twin Cities Transit Authority, Red Star Clinics

Evo, the well-known transhumanist megacorp out of Vladivostok, swallowed up a lot of traditional big-names in St. Paul after Crash 2.0, like 4M. Their Red Star augmentation clinics are doing a lot of business, and their Doc-Wagon equivalent, Crash-Cart, has amazing response time here. Which is great, until you’re doing a run against Evo. By that I mean, if you buy Crash-Cart, don’t do runs against Evo, as they have your data on file.

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Deuce

* **Name:** "Deuce" is the only name anyone ever heard.
* **Position:** Possibly deceased (previously Sergeant-at-Arms for the Heathens MC)
* **Metatype:** Fragged if I know (Best bets are Troll and Ork)
* **Magical Tradition:** An Adept of some sort (tradition unknown)
* **DOB:** One of the great mysteries of the universe, before 2061 probably.
* **DOD:** Granted that Deuce is dead, it would have been on 2/2/2076, on a ghostforsaken stretch of road somewhere outside the Alton Grain Elevator between Regions 2 and 3 in the RRDMZ.

Nobody knows much about the hulking chief enforcer of the Heathens Motorcycle Club. Even Deuce's metatype is up for debate, descriptions describe someone too big to be an Ork but without the horns of a Troll. Some descriptions mention a male, some a female, some can't tell. There aren't any official pictures of Deuce, at least not clear ones. And nobody dares ask personal details of the biggest bruiser in a mostly-Troll Biker Gang.

And by all stories Deuce is huge, not the tallest metahuman in the gang, that would be John Mist-calf himself, but Deuce probably two meters across the shoulders, depending on the account. Bodies from those who have fought Deuce back up the report that Deuce has bone spikes along the knuckles. And Deuce is, with one possible exception, supposed to have never lost a fight. Including the one with John Mist-calf.

Club Legend has it that Deuce just showed up in the John Mist-calf's camp in 2061, the Year of the Comet, to fight the biggest, baddest fighter there, which was, of course, Mist-calf himself. Mist-calf is supposed to have experienced one of the few defeats of his carrier but apparently put up a respectable enough fight to earn Deuce's respect and the Mist-calf moved fast to induct Deuce in the Club there on the spot.

From that moment on, Deuce has been a legendary warrior in a gang that prides itself on being legendary warriors, not much for things that aren't battle and almost never seen in town, but a constant threat that lurks behind their rep.

As of recent, however, the roamers and other itinerants that move up and down the roads of the 'Zone have started to tell another story about Deuce, that somebody, with glowing fists and a sacred charge, may have finally bested the Heathen's unbeatable monster. The most common version of the tale attributes this defeat to Ether, who as a part of the most recent incarnation of Fargo's own shadowteam, has something of the status of a folk-hero to a lot of the people along the fringes of society, which this has done nothing but cement.

Whether Deuce is well and truly gone, like so much about Deuce, remains undetermined...

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Commander Egan

* **Name:** Egan ‘Fourhand’ (“Drives Backwards”)
* **Position:** Watch Commander in the ZDF, Interextraterritorial Process Control Liaison; Sergeant-at-Arms of the Black Hawk Policlub
* **Metatype:** Tum (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:** 9/12/2032, near Timpanogas, Ute Nation (formerly Provo, UT)
* **Education:** Ute Basic Education, Ute Army OTC

In a city like Denver, at the juncture of four sovereign nations, nobody is so well positioned to profit quite like a border guard who’s willing bend the rules to get what he wants. It can go very quickly from a tough duty to a lucrative opportunity with the right attitude.

Of course Cmdr. Egan wasn’t always a dirty border guard. Even if you asked him now, he’d tell you that he isn’t dirty, the world is, and he’s just doing what needs doing to set it right. He’s had quite a journey from ‘Noble bigot with a badge’ through ‘lawman gone bad’ to ‘dirty cop’.

Egan was born into a proud Family of Noochew near Timpanogas. He excelled physically at a young age and was indoctrinated into Ute warrior traditions both positive and negative. Following his talents and inclinations, he signed up with the military and made a career out of it. His unwillingness to compromise got him stationed to the Ute Sector of Denver.

He believed even after the crash that his nation could return to glory. And that hope and honor died when the PCC "bought" his country in 2067. Suddenly he looked back and recognized the graft and backroom dealings. From his point of view everyone else was the bad guys: the megacorps, the historic treaty breaking Anglos of the UCAS, the racist CAS good old boys, the self-righteous Sioux who his nation had to beg for assistance from only to be cut off when it was starting to do some good and the PCC who bought them like chattel.

At least the criminals were honest in what they did. He cashed in his temporary citizen stock option and signed up with the ZDF. His experience and commendations made him untouchable and he had a plan. He was going to do what everyone else had been doing but now instead of destroying his country he is working to bring it back. All the money he gets goes to supporting Ute culture, Ute candidates and yes Ute freedom fighters.

Personality Egan sees himself as a victim but one wounded, dangerous and wanting to strike back. He is willing to facilitate illegal border crossings provided it doesn't affect "his" people… a category which is remarkably subjective and getting more so…

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Scrap

Scrap is found floating randomly on The Map and can be collected several times to repair any damaged Modules. Extracting it does not require any additional Tools, however results can be improved with  Scrap Magnet and  Iron can be slowly accumulated with  Scrap Processor.

## Usage

Fully repairing Scrap Processor by collecting Debris from The Map:

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Aztechnology

## Aztechnology North

* **Headquarters:**4403 E Lake St, Minneapolis , MN 55406
* **Leadership:**Emiliano Rojas, Site Manager Aztechnology North.
* **Major Subsidiaries:**StufferShack, Mosaic Seed and Fertilizer, Refmex GL Glass Minneapolis, HashFunk.

Aztechnology’s  got a strong basis on the West Side of St. Paul, the traditional epicenter of the city’s Aztlaner population. Aside from their offices, and their Aztlaner-oriented stores all over the place, they also benefit from the farm communities in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, considering they’re one of the biggest suppliers of fertilizer and the like. They’ve got that big, shiny pyramid office block on East Lake near the Lake Bridge that serves both as the Aztlan  embassy and local Aztechnology headquarters.

* Emiliano Rojas, Aztechnology North
* Alice Marvin, Refmix GL Glass

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Knights of the Red Branch

## The Knights of the Red Branch

The Knights of the Red Branch . You’ve heard of ‘em, I’m sure, unless you’re either a complete foreigner or you live in a Matrix dead zone. They’re mostly known for the bombing of an elven  cafe in Boston during the 2036 St. Patrick’s Day parade. After the elves took over Ireland and renamed it Tir Nan Og , this group formed amongst non-elven Irish, in country and abroad, as a resistance group. Their shared goal is to free Tir Nan Og from elven control; some moderate elements would be content to restore a state of democratic equality, while more extreme factions simply hate all elves, especially those from the Tirs.

Saint Paul was settled largely by Irishmen originally, and many more have come

   over in the Sixth World, providing a large potential supply of militant recruits and supporters. There aren’t that many Tir-tied targets here, so it’s mostly recruiting, fundraising and promoting for the resistance effort back home. With so little news coming out of Tir Nan Og, it’s hard to say how it’s going, but the recent democratization of Tir Tairngire on this continent gave these people a lot of hope, and recruitment’s been back on the upswing. If you want to get in contact with these guys, just head to your local Irish pub and don’t be an elf, and you can probably, with some legwork, get ahold of a representative. They operate fairly openly here in Saint Paul ; it’s friendly territory.

*Most of the Knights are Irish Catholics, but some cells are made of Protestant Orangemen, mostly from Ulster. They seem to be getting along quite well now, but anyone who knows their history will realize this is a much more tenuous alliance than it looks on the surface.*
- Gopher Eater

*Also, some of these groups are all-human , and some aren’t. I imagine Humanis  is courting some of the former, but the Knights have held together so far. The leadership has made sure all the different elements in the movement keep their eyes on the prize.*
- Wirefrog

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Keepers of the Eastern Door

## Keepers of the Eastern Door Units

   **Elite Protectors of the Haudenosaunee**

* **Active:**1990-Present
* **Country:**Niswi-mishkodewinan
* **Branch:**IV Band "War Army"
* **Strength:**Warband Strength (overstrength)
* **Garrison/HQ:**O'Kelley Armory in Gaa-ministigweyaa (formerly Thunder Bay ON).
* **CO:**Warleader Odeserundiye

Every nation has its special forces. With the Niswi-mishkodewinan it is the Haudenosaunee 'Keepers of the Eastern Door' units.

'Keepers of the Eastern Door' was originally the nickname of the Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) people, who maintained the eastern frontier of the Haudenosaunee before conquest.

While technically the warrior tradition of the Mohawk go back centuries, the current incarnation of the Keepers traces its history back to before the Awakening. In 1990 in the Oka Crisis Mohawk Warrior societies and other native groups managed to force the military forces of the former nation of Canada to stand down during a land dispute. This victory, which is arguably the only 'win' native forces had against conventional Anglo government forces during the twentieth century, inspired several generations of Mohawk Warrior societies, who served in various resistance movements against the occupying governments of North America for the next several decades, showing up at such protests as the Standing Rock protest against the Keystone X pipeline, until the Great Ghost Dance War, when the already-trained and disciplined Mohawk Warrior Societies were among the units who joined Daniel Howling Coyote  in his war to reclaim the continent from the "Anglos" that had taken it from them.

When the Haudenosaunee joined the Niswi-mishkodewinan, one of the bargaining chips they brought with them was the Kanienkahaka military infrastructure, of which the Keepers of the Eastern Door were the centerpieces, becoming the core of the informal elite units of the Three Fires Alliance. It was a combination of Keepers and Aztechnology  CorpSec that were primarily responsible for the 'Hudson Bay Incident' that started the Algonkian-Manitou Civil War. The standardization reforms to the army made by War Chief Kariwase placed the Keepers as front line (and behind the lines) troops in IV Band, the Warband most responsible for prosecuting the war against the rebellious Manitou Council.

Of all the Manitou Elves  they have fought, they have a special rivalry with the Meraeth ke'Désach or 'Warriors of Change', their opposite numbers on the Manitou side, and the two outfits will go out of their ways, sometimes even violating orders to get a shot at each other.

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Frank Whyte Projects

* **Location:** 1245 Fife St, Winnipeg, Region 1, RRDMZ R2X 3B7
* **Population:** Estimated at around 5200-5300
* **Administration:** Administrated by the Frank Whyte Project Authority, a part of the Winnipeg Housing Authority (Stretched Hide Society). Maintenance and custodial services provided by Andjelic-Upper Edge Properties Lmt (A member of the Red River Valley Investment, Holdings and Development Group).
* **Territoriality:** The Frank Whyte Projects are property of Andjelic-Upper Edge Properties Lmt, a partner company of the Fargo-based Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman, and the property is part of the extraterritorial properties of the Single-A Red River Valley Investment, Holdings and Development Group, of which GCS is a member company.
* **Security:** Onsite security is contracted to local security provider WinniGuard Security.

The Frank Whyte Projects is yet another in a long line of megaprojects born out of the need to house the flood of refugees who came across the new border when the newly-formed Očéti Šakówiŋ kicked all the ‘anglos’ across the border into what was left of the USA and Canada after the Awakening. Unlike down in Fargo-Moorhead, where the rich retreated from the poor (see the Securitracts or the infamous Glyndon Dome), in Winnipeg the Manitoba government stepped in and provided for places to put the refugees, far from the settled elites.

One of these was the now-infamous Frank Whyte Housing Projects. The Manitoba provincial government decided to pour some money into low-income, subsidized housing projects. One of the sites chosen was Frank Whyte Park, a public park in Winnipeg recently put up for sale during a spree of post-Awakening privatization. The original plan provided housing for about 5000 residents, fixed rent.

Like many mass housing projects, the next few decades saw problems of keeping order and maintaining a huge project. Even then the FWP had a bit of a rep. But the breaking point came during the aftermath of the Third Ghost Dance War, when the border moved to the Red River, and the civil government of Manitoba ceased to have any influence or presence in Winnipeg, and the supplemental funding that had been (barely) keeping the Projects afloat dried up.

That’s when things really went downhill, the UCAS all but abandoned the RRDMZ (except for a couple airbases in Region 2 and Region 3) and the Očéti Šakówiŋ was only really invested in the western side of the river. Leaving neighborhoods on the eastern side of the River, like Mynarski, Kildonan, Transcona and others, to their own devices. And Frank Whyte Park is deep in the crime-ridden Mynarski.

For the last decade, the condition of the Projects has only gotten worse. With a lack of either funding or supervision, the FWP has largely become the home of squatters and the increasing number of RRDMZ residents who have no means for other lodging. It has also fallen under control of the gangs, most recently the Mad Krowz, a crew of the 1323.

**Return to: Winnipeg**
Kirin

### **Shadowsona: KIRIN**

**Shadowsona Profiles: Supplemental Asset Management Solutions (a HorizonProduct)**

**Last Updated 7/29/2075**

* **Identity:** Available\* (want more? click here  to upgrade to Shadowsona Ultimate)
* **Description (Metatype):**Wican  (*Homo sapiens nobilis)*
* **Description (Gender):**Female (she/her)
* **Description (Magic):** None\*
* **Skillset:**Matrix actions, Piloting, Vehicle Maintenance and Modification
* **Affiliation:**The Fargo Team 4.0 (core)
* **Area of Operations:**Oceti Sakowin, Free Range Free Zone  and Red River Disputed Military Zone
* **Available:**High
* **Reliability:**High

**Notes:**Has operated on the fringes of the shadows, either as a solo operator or temporarily in concert with other teams, largely in the Oceti Sakowin and Denver until recently. Relocated to Fargo Area to join the Team there.

\*Some observers in the Matrix have conflicting reports about subject's possible Technomantic abilities.

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Malls

## Twin City Malls

   If you’re looking for something somewhat more legitimate, there are a whole lot of malls around and the like. The entire Midway neighborhood is full of both big-box retailers, many of whom sell a lot of gear that can be modified for our purposes, and even low end cyber. The little shops along university will sell you a lot of things that they only show to regulars, if they’re convinced to do it. A lot of talismongers  are in this area, too.

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Borderlands Security Inc

## Borderlands Security Incorporated

* **Rating:**BBB (International, Specialized)
* **Headquarters:** Dibiarugareesh, Upper Yankton CF, Oceti Sakowin  (Formerly Minot ND).
* **CEO:**Annette Chiefstick
* **Status:** On paper an independent, publicly-traded security company, although currently 52% of stock is held by the AAA corporation Saeder-Krupp or its subsidiaries and shell corporations within the Oceti Sakowin. Licensed to conduct security operations within the Oceti Sakowin, UCAS , Niswi-mishkodewinan and the Front Range Free Zone as well as various partner corporate territories.
* **Territories:**While not eligible for extraterritoriality, BSI operates in a number of different jurisdictions with those entities that do, including providing security for the highway system in northern Minnesota UCAS, in contract with North Central Roads LLC, Region 4 of the Red River Disputed Military Zone and the border patrol for the Niswi-mishkodewinan's southern border.
* **Divisions:**BSI doctrine dictates the forming of unique task forces for each of their contract areas, often a mix of central BSI personnel and local talent: TranSec for the NCR contact, CampuSec for NDRU's campus security, CordSec for Concordia campus security, TractSect for Rose Creek, Harwood and other other Securitracts etc. The regional contract-specific teams are supported by more general task forces with cross-jurisdictional missions, such as the Combined Response Unit "CrosSec" or the former Joint Task Force on Shadowrunners "JointSec". While operating in the RRDMZ, NetSec, their Matrix security division, by terms of their contract, provides copies of all their operational data to Zone Overwatch and assist in ZOD operations.

BSI recently took a serious blow in Region 3 of the RRDMZ, after holding the general security contract there for over three decades, they lost the Fargo contract after their BlockSec division was almost entirely wiped out in the bloody violence of the Solstice Blackout and their client, local corp the Group (at the urging of their new creditor Ares) canceled their contract with BSI in favor of Ares' own Knight Errant. BlockSec and JointSec personnel either moved to different divisions of the company (lead investigator Bernard Striker III transferred to PlexSec in the MSPlex) or join the new Knight Errant team (such as hero cop Russell Tallboy who has been hired on as the head of the KE-RDT).

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Al-Shabaab

* **Turf:**Camden Industrial Park, North Minneapolis
* **Colors/Apparel**: Conservative Somali or Heemaal dress, generally in Black and Gold, with the symbol of crossed rifles over an open Quran.

The Somali Al-Shabaab gang, or simply “The Boys”, are one of a number of small African immigrant groups that operate under the protective umbrella of the Riverside Jihad.

Founded in the 2020’s by members of the Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab , a Somali fundamentalist Islamic group, when they fled their homeland after their faction was driven out in one of the frequent reversals in the ongoing civil wars there. They quickly established themselves in Northeast Minneapolis, in the beginning they sold opiates to buy weapons for fellow Islamist organizations before they started just keeping the cash for themselves and settled down into a relatively normal gang. While not as widespread as they used to be, the Boys still operate out of the abandoned Camden Industrial area, living by theft and small-scale drug dealing.

*Shit, are these ruam still around? I still remember when the Espiritu Sancti kicked them out of Columbia Heights and they tried to grab turf on the Lost Boys’ side of the River. Some of my fondest childhood memories are putting serious mob qua to the Kebabs on a weekly basis. I wonder which if any of their old chiefs are still alive and running things? Alif Abdul (who I’m pretty sure I killed), Majloon, One-Arm? Maybe one of these days I should check that out and see about finishing the job.*
-Tsov Tom

*Word on the street is that the Vory were funding the Espiritu during that rumble. Certainly the Kirillovs were quick enough snapping up their turf when the Espiritu Sancti broke up after that*.
-Just Asking

*They may work under the ‘protective umbrella’ of the Jihad, but the relationship between the two gangs is anything but harmonious. The Jihad are American-style Nation of Islam, which tends to favor Shi’ite Islam when it approximates established Islam at all, with frequent borrowings from esoteric Sufi traditions, where the al-Shabaab retain a great many of the views of their predecessor organization, such as strong support of the Sunnah and a history of clashes with militant Sufis and the purging of Sufi sites and texts. Not to mention that the Boys have retained the old al-Qaeda tradition of selling opiates, in direct opposition to the purist distaste for all physical drugs among the Jihadi. For example, the threat of the Jihad has kept them (so far) safe from being torn apart by the Lost Boys, but the leadership in Cedar-Riverside did nothing when Boko Haram, (a nigerian gang also under Jihad protection) started killing any of their members they found selling out of Marshall Terrace Park*.
-Juba

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Archconservative

## Archconservative Values Alliance

**Motto:**“A Holy War for the Soul of A Nation”

The Archconservative party has a long history in Minnesota, going back to the Tea Party favorite Michelle Bachman in the first years of the century. Bachman was one of the driving forces behind the formation of the Tea Party Caucus , which would later form the core of the Party. The American Values Alliance formed independently during the crises that led up during the formation of the UCAS , and was absorbed into the growing national Archconservative party. While never in the strict majority, the AVA has always been strong enough to be a spoiler in state politics and anyone wanting to do anything has to at least take them into account. Party headquarters are in Saint Cloud , the current chair is Andrew MacDonald.

The national Archconservative Party can trace its political roots directly back to the Tea Party movement of the first days of the twenty-first century, which was galvanized into a proper Party during the chaos of the Awakening.  The party supports a “return to real, traditional American values”. The Archconservatives are roughly pro-business, but their primary focus is on moral and social issues, endorsing what they consider “traditional family and American values” and are unabashedly Protestant Christian, openly speaking out against magic as “immoral and unnatural”. In the twenty years since the Brackhaven Affair  in the special election of 2057 the Archconservatives have worked very hard to shed the label of racism by association, however it is a charge still often leveled at them by their critics and there have been very few non-human Archconservative candidates.

### Prominent Minnesota Archconservatives

* Representative Captain (ret.) Oscar Yeager, Minnesota 6th district
* Sebastian Hantous, Minority leader in the State Senate
* James Montblanc, former Defensive End for the Vikings, recently announced his run for Governor in 2076
* Reverend Arthur Hemmings , influential regional televangelist

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LifeMeTree Constant-In

* **Name:**LifeMeTree Constant-In (possibly not his given name, but after two  crashes , nobody can tell)
* **Position:***Deceased* (formerly President and founder of the #Funk network)
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**1/23/1953, Negril, Jamaica (now Caribbean League )
* **DOD:**9/11/2072, Fargo, 119, Region 3, RRDMZ

The late founder of #Funk, LifeMeTree Constant-In, was a first in a lot of ways. A member of the first generation born into the Rastafari Movement in Jamaica in the 1950's, one of the first generation of true hackers in the late 1970's, one of the first Jamaican tech millionaires in the 1980's (LifeMeTree ability to gain, lose and gain fortunes was legendary) an early adopter of both the first AND second Matrix, managing to remain a pioneer (and pain in the ass) for over a century.

Constant-In was famous as an eccentric. He known for his fascination with analog computer systems and disdain for binary, or in his words, "Die-Nary", code. That and his conviction that the sacrament of the ganja was part of metahumanity's TRUE Awakening was part of what led him to his final venture, #Funk.

In the last years of his life, traveling “Babylon” and finding ways to make its death-obsessed culture serve Jah, LifeMeTree was recommended by his old chess protege, JL, to the Old Man to lead a panel on life extension at METAxFargo '72.  He went viral - a phrase he hated - ranting at the other attendees for their cultural vampirism, a rant which led shortly thereafter to a stroke.  No stranger to strokes - he was one hundred and nineteen, and had survived four strokes, five coronaries, and twelve years of congestive pulmonary obstructive disease without surgery or a hospitalization longer than three days - he called back to the Caribbean and requested a nurse.  However, he died the same day his nurse arrived.

HashFunk’s subsequent stock crash had less to do with LifeMeTree’s absence, and more to do with his bequests, which subdivided numerous former company assets to various benefactors, proteges, mistresses, and assorted acquaintances.

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Bowler

## The Bowler

* **Location:** 2630 S University Dr, Fargo, RRDMZ58103
* **Style:**Old-fashioned bowling alley done up 'early never been renovated' style.
* **P2  Rating:**9:22:45
* **Gang:**Saturdayers
* **Description:**Bowling Alley, Bar and Community Center.

The Bowler is something of a local institution. For over a century, it has served as gathering place for south University Drive, with the bowling alley that it takes its name from, three bars and a grill. It served as a polling place during elections (back when Fargo still had elections) It has survived floods, plagues, manastorm and the general decline of everything outside of the Block.

In fact, the troubles have only made it more of a hub locally. What started as a Saturday Night sex toy raffle during karaoke eventually branched out into other kinds of exchanges and raffles as times got harder after the Awakening , often unofficial arrangements between League teams, meat raffles, collections to cover fellow bowlers' health costs and unemployment. Eventually this would cross over into actual theft, fraud, even violence to protect their own and make up the shortfalls that the systems didn't cover. This is when it became the headquarters of the Saturdayers as this informal organization came to be called.

This is a place where people come to bowl. Sure. To sing karaoke. But also when they're in trouble or the medical bills are too much or when they need to move a stolen car.

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Black Fangs

## Black Fangs (*Hez'Mor*)

* Turf: Hawthorne in North Minneapolis
* Colors/Apparel: Black, often wear bone jewelry of various sorts

This ork gang from North Minneapolis is famous as local Goblin Rock star Nabo ’s home gang.Now that he’s made it big, they’re as involved doing his security as they are in the traditional gang game, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still manage their turf.

*That much money that quick can tear a gang apart. I wonder how they’re all really doing?*
- Wirefrog

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Cabela's Arcology

## Richard Neil Cabela Complex

* **Location:** 580 Sterling Lyon Pkwy, Winnipeg, Region 1, RRDMZ R3P 1E9
* **Description:** Headquarters of Cabela’s Outfitting
* **Territoriality:** Extraterritorial, owned by Cabela’s Outfitting, a subsidiary of AAA-Prime corporation Ares Macrotechnology
* **Leadership:** Serena Davis, President of Cabela's Outfitting, member of the board of Ares Macrotechnology West 1 Territory. Site Manager Gladstone Three Eagles
* **Style:** Modernist, based on the designs of Moshe Safdie
* **Population:** 19,100 (2075)

The largest of Winnipeg’s three arcologies (along with Cargill-Monsanto’s Prosperity Spire and the Dynasty Block downtown). Located in the heart of Winnipeg’s Tuxedo Industrial district, in fact, if you count the attached factories and warehouses, it takes up all of Winnipeg’s Tuxedo Industrial district, is the massive, labyrinthine structure of the Richard Neil Cabela Habitation Complex, the Arcology headquarters of sporting goods giant Cabela’s Outfitting.

When Cabela’s previous headquarters in Sidney NE ended up on the Oceti Sakowin side of the border after the Treaty of Denver, its new corporate owners, Ares (who had just recently acquired it along with all the other holdings of its parent company Bass Pro Shops) decided to move the heart of the company up to Winnipeg and started construction on a massive new headquarters/factory space.

As well as housing some 19,000 company employees, from the janitors all the way up to the top management in styles befitting their ranks, the Cabela’s arcology also contains production, storage and shipping facilities, everything, in fact, required to keep the Cabela’s chain of retail outdoor supply stores and online brand functioning, all in one place.

The Cabela doesn’t make its mark on the skyline in quite the way other arcologies do, spreading out instead of up, a sprawling maze of modular units built together in different configurations to meet the needs of their inhabitants. This unique, blocky, design was modeled heavily on Moshe Safdie’s ‘Habitat 67’ in Montreal, built some 60-70 years before.

Naturally, as an Ares subsidiary, Cabela’s utilizes the services of Knight Errant Security and while their presence is often kept low-impact, to keep from seeming like an armed camp, they are also ubiquitous, and Ares has never lost sight of the fact that they have put all of their eggs in one large, blocky basket and protect that basket accordingly.

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Little Earth

## Little Earth Housing Project

The last big Native site here is in Phillips. The old Little Earth Indian housing complex was bombed from the air to hell and back during the wars, and like the rest of Phillips was as much walled off as fixed up. That said, very little actual death occurred there during the war years; by the time the conflict had escalated to airstrikes in the middle of cities, nobody important to the SAIM rebels was in the place, and all the civilians had been moved out. So, it’s still aspected towards Native-style shamanic magic, not twisted like the Park . As Phillips slid further down the slope, some local street shamans started up a bit of a commune here. The magical group offers healing to a variety of groups in Phillips, and sanctuary for squatters in what’s left of the apartments. In return, the squatters keep the shamans fed and happy, hackers make sure everyone has electricity, and the gangers  leave it the hell alone, both because they need the shamans’ services and because altercations tend to go poorly for the mundanes. Making friends with these guys will go a long ways for you in Phillips.

*This commune setup of theirs is stable partly because the threat from the outside keeps them unified. The squatters are too scared of the ghouls  and the gangsters outside to not work to keep the place up and running, and anybody who does slack gets removed by the others pretty quickly.*
- Wirefrog

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Leering Steer

## The Leering Steer Bierhall

* **Location:**16 12th St S, Fargo , RRDMZ  58103
* **Style:**Classic German bierhall
* **Gang:**Mulies
* **P2 Rating:**8:23:56
* **Description:**German and Scandinavian booze and food.

Laying comfortably in the shadow of the Block , the building is an unprepossessing-looking structure that comes alive as you enter, as the metal siding and a rusted sign outside give way to a cozy, wood-paneled interior done up a combination of medieval shields, nineteenth-century stuffed animal heads, vintage rock posters from twentieth-century german rock bands and propaganda objects from anarchists in twenty-first century Berlin.

A bit of a neighborhood institution, it combines after-work dive bar and family restaurant, a venue for local events, like fundraisers, weddings, reunions, that sort of thing. It also attracts the a fairly large Troll crowd, who like the high ceilings and heavy, sustaining food, a mix of working-class 2-4-2ers and the more traditional Ascomanni, those with families and responsibilities, contrasted with the more boisterous "Crystal Raider" crowd at Brewhalla (although with second gen Troll raiders, this is often where Brawlhallans' parents gather).

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Healthcare

## Public Healthcare

Finally, there are some mid-grade public clinics in town that you might be able to get work done at, if you’ve got airtight ID. And I mean airtight. Again, those clinics with megacorp ties you may also be able to get access to as payment for a run. As far as high-threat-response care goes, DocWagon used to operate here, and cover most of the inner cities, but not all of the suburbs. They faced not one but two competitors here, though, so they’re pulling out for less saturated markets.

One is Evo’s CrashCart , which hasn’t succeeded worldwide in unseating DocWagon as Evo (well, it was still Yamatetsu then) had hoped, but has staked out large swaths of Asia that DocWagon didn’t service. This is one of their very few American strongholds, where they’ve hung on since they came on the scene in 2052.

The other is Ares’ Infosantee , which was originally part of Cross Biomedical in Quebec. Both have superb response times here. If you’re close to one of the two corps, I’d take that service, but otherwise, it might be better for you to skip it. Do you really want Evo or Ares to have medical files on you?

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KMFF

## Matrix Free Fargo, the only newsfeed you can trust/hate

This mobile, outlaw streaming site is the broadcast arm of the Prairie Public Underground , keeping them grounded in their journalistic roots.

To call the programming on MFF "eclectic" is to acknowledge the limits of the word. It varies wildly, it is built around its highly-individual and often editing-free news broadcasts with an eye to serving the SINless and everyone else forgotten at the fringes of modern society: weather reports for Roamer Clans, tips on self-sufficiency by Biodynamicists, Craftpunk  repair shows and, of course, their flagship, political and current events reporting and commentary like nothing else you can find in the largely one-company Valley  media.

Some of its most popular broadcasts are original shows by local underground figures such as Doctor Morlock of the Moorlocks  on ghoul issues, Doc-guana 's wildly popular (and useful) updates on DIY medical advice for the uninsured and a host of others. Outside of local content, they work hand-in-hand with other underground media outfits in the RRDMZ, especially the outlaw radio station VA4QKP-FM out of Winnipeg. They also restream underground shows from around the nation and around the world, sneaking them past TransForum InfoMedia 's monopolistic control of all information channels in the Red River Valley. Some of the more popular shows repackaged this way include (but aren't limited to) The Anarchy in Broadcasting Network , Radio Free Detroit , Deniable Assets and others.

However, the people who listen to (and can find) the primary feed only make up a minority of MFF's listeners. Far more widespread are the MFF's infamous "Newsplosions", brief editorializing, reporting, announcements and just inconvenient questions or uncomfortable answers all jammed into brief bursts in the middle of otherwise respectable broadcasts or hacking into corporate feeds and broadcasting until the corps' hackers shut them down.  Starting at the beginning of 2076, the new 'anchor' or at least main voice of the MFF Newsplosions is the local streaming celebrity "Riverling Shadowrunner" Race Cannon.

The rebel journalists of the PPU hold the mission of MFF near and dear to their hearts, with some even valuing their political work secondary to their journalistic duty to bring the truth to the people.

Naturally with an agenda like this and methods like that, the MFF is up to its eyeballs in enemies. The Corps, Knight Errant, the military government of the Zone all make active efforts to find them and shut them down for good. TransForum InfoMedia especially has it out for the pirate matrix channel and MFF has to change both the location of their physical studio and the Matrix address of their feed on a regular basis, often signing off suddenly to broadcast a mathematical formula to tell loyal viewers where Matrix Free Fargo can be found next...

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Iron Horse Industrial Salvage Yard

## Iron Horse Industrial Salvage

* **Location:**402 42nd St N, Fargo , RRDMZ  58102
* **Type:**Junkyard, specializing in heavy commercial and military vehicles
* **P2  Rating:**9:54:14

Some things in this world are exactly what they look like. Such as Iron Horse Industrial Salvage. Its a Junkyard. Its a Junkyard for really big machines. Commercial aircraft, construction equipment, military surplus, farm equipment, John's got everything from parts for last year's model of Mesametric DVM-2233 Road-Roller Drones to the mostly-intact of an IFMU Herkimer Battle Genie from the Eurowars, located about a kilometer north of the Wasted Acres quarantine.

The owner, John Iron Horse, is a former SDF  trooper who was part of the occupation forces in West Fargo during the Red River Crisis of '64 , and stayed on after he demobilized in '66, working first as a salvage expert and tow-truck driver and then buying this place in '68. He isn't afraid to haggle, but is generally pretty willing to give you a good deal. He's got a real head for machines and the business is largely an excuse for him to tinker with them and talk with other people who tinker with them. He also asks minimal questions about where they came from, unless its SDF surplus, in which case he'll want to know the name of the guy who polished the fenders and what base it was on and... well, you get the idea.

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Buddy's

## Buddy's Bomb Shelter Club

* **Location:**The Block 7-6, Ground Floor Atrium/Sublevel One, Fargo  RRDMZ  58102
* **Style:**Faux post-apocalyptic, with red velvet and gas masks. The bullet holes are real, though.
* **Gang:**None (under direct protection of the Underbergs )
* **P2  Rating:**3:3:75
* **Description:**Strip club, bar and casino. But mostly a strip club.

The first thing that old Buddy Underberg did when he leveled up from being a crooked car salesman to being a proper gangster in the late '30's/early 40's was to use his ill-gotten gains to buy Fargo's one real strip club (the venerable 'Northern Gentleman's Club' and its attached 'Bomb Shelter Bar and Grill'), partially as a place to launder money through, partially to have a location separate from the dealership to do shady deals in and partially just because Buddy thought that owning a strip club was a thing gangsters did, which tells you a lot about Buddy Underberg right there.

There's not a lot to tell about the place itself. It hasn't changed much over the years. Garish lights, cheap furniture made to look less cheap, a cheap buffet, overpriced shots and naked metahumans working a pole to canned dance remixes. Its a strip club. People do novacoke in the bathrooms and sell it (if you know which bartender to ask) at the bar and in the champagne room. The gimmick is that they've moved the strip club down into the actual bunker Buddy built beneath the place to hide contraband in, so its got this 'bomb shelter' look that they play up. And since its in a town full of frustrated sarariman, college students and a military base , it still makes boatloads of cash.

They also run a fair bit of their prostitution trade out of Buddy's.

The Underbergs still own the place and its managed by a trusted lieutenant of theirs (former legbreaker Sammy the Squat , one of Buddy's original crew) and they do still use it as neutral grounds for meetings with allies (primarily the Tiospaye ).

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Diemert's

## Diemert's Bar and Café

* **Location:**315 Main Ave, Moorhead , MN, UCAS  56560
* **Style:**Wood-paneled whiskey bar and steakhouse.
* **P2  Rating:**7:9:65
* **Gang:**Blind Pigs
* **Description:**Moorhead's best-kept secret, and home to several other of Moorhead's better-kept secrets.

Diemert's has a long history in Moorhead, going back all the way before prohibition, for nearly two hundred years there's been a bar or restaurant of some description at this location near the main bridge. It is a quiet, rather spendy, little hole-in-the-wall that makes up for lack of space with quality in whiskey, steaks and ambiance. It is almost a mirror image of the the Corner , which sits right across Main Ave from it. Of course, the discrete, unofficial, but very much PRESENT security generally doesn't let the types who stumble across the street in to this place.

It is so much the opposite of the Corner that it often comes as a surprise to find out that they have an ownership in common. Through a series of fronts and trusts and shells, Diemert's is as much owned by the Underbergs  as the Corner is, under the management of their cousins the Myhre Sisters instead of Brady. Although that shouldn't surprise anyone who knows their Moorhead history. See, back in the day Diemert's was one of the 'Privilege Places' the speakeasies (or "Blind Pigs" as they were called locally) that never got raided during Prohibition. It has a tradition of organized crime and smuggling almost as long as its been in existence. In fact, the Myhre Sisters work hand in hand with their cousin across the street. Diemert's acts as a front and meeting place for the smugglers that bring in Brady's product from across the border. The Myhre's split the take, sending the stuff to be sold locally across the street for Brady's dealers and pushers to distribute and taking the rest of it farther into Minnesota, to eventually reach the Twin Cities.

Also, side note, they do actually make a pretty good steak there.

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Clay Stoddard

## Clay Stoddard, Ares Mr. Johnson

* **Name:**Clay Matthias Stoddard
* **Position:**Special Projects Manager for Ares Agribusiness - Fargo
* **Metatype:**Elf  (*Homo sapiens nobilis*)
* **Education:**Bachelor's of Business Management, Wayne State University
* **DOB:**3/4/2047, Dearborn, MI, UCAS
* **Family:**Malcolm Augustus Stoddard (father, Dearborn MI), Miriam Rose [Zoughaib] Stoddard (mother, Dearborn MI), Nadine Stoddard (sister, London ON)

Clay is exactly what he's supposed to be. A second-generation Elf, a third generation Ares man, tall and pretty, smart and good with people, he took all the classes he was supposed them and graduated just above the middle of his class. Charm, he learned before he entered High School, had more to do with success than the letters on a report card and the people who had succeeded in The Company (and if you grew up in Michigan, "The Company" meant Ares) the same way noticed him. Just the way Clay always intended.

He nearly finished all four of his years at Wayne State before taking the Ares Personnel internship. After graduation he bounced around for a couple years, Data Analysis, Efficiency Task Force, even six months as a Floor Manager at the Ares Arms factory. Finally though, Special Projects came calling and he started to doing the grunt work gathering info for Simon Gruber, a Special Projects Manager (read: "Mr Johnson ") for Ares. Gruber was a survivor in the cutthroat, dog-eat-dog world of Ares Executive Culture and he taught Clay his most valuable lesson: How to Spot a Winner.

When the feud between Dylan Heppner and Glen Cavendish erupted into Shadowrunner-worthy conflict, Clay assessed the field the way Gruber taught him and marked Heppner as the younger, more vital party and Cavendish as a dinosaur who'd exhausted his powers. Ingratiating himself with Heppner's faction, he did what he did best and forged ties with others of Heppner's proteges, including rising star Sonja Oxnard . All the while, he acted as an aide and assistant to Heppner's own Special Projects. When Oxnard was appointed as the Sr VP of Ares Agribusiness - Fargo Clay was a natural choice for her Special Projects Manager. It was better, he was always taught, to be the biggest fish in a small pond than the other way around...

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