[01:13] <Jeff> One....pre-Mob War, especially early 2050's, James "Jimmy" O'Malley, Don of the Seattle Mafia had just been sent by the Mafia heads to Seattle to take it back hard to the yakuza, who were highly winning the war for Seattle's streets at that point.
[01:14] <Jeff> Especially up until about mid-2052, O'Malley made little headway, though he worked damn hard at it. Seattle was very much at that point, dominated by two powers on the streets. The yakuza, specifically the Shotozumi-gumi, which at that point was still very much linked to the Watada-rengo based out of Chiba.
[01:15] <Jeff> And very importantly, gangs were still a power.
[01:15] * Wildfire nods
[01:15] <Jeff> Major work by Lone Star and other various factions/corps in 2052-2054 decimated the power of the gangs in Seattle.
[01:16] <Jeff> The Halloweeners were wiped out by Renraku almost entirely. The Ancients made peace behind the scenes with Tir Tairngire.
[01:16] <Jeff> The Cutters were almost completely wiped out by a bioweapon from a Tir corp.
[01:17] <Wildfire> Ah, okay. More gangs good
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[01:17] <Jeff> In 2050-51 especially, the Ancients were big news on the streets. Relatively new to town, all elven, and they made big business, pushing the Cutters back.
[01:18] <Jeff> So, two major streets wars really. Between the Cutters and the Ancients, as well as them trying to stay independent from the syndicates, and the war between the Mafia and the yakuza.
[01:18] <Jeff> While the Mafia didn't have much power, they were absolutely brutal in making it an all out war in those beginning years.
[01:18] <Wildfire> Very good
[01:18] <Jeff> Their territory was nothing, but they fought damn hard to expand on it and protect their existing territory.
[01:18] <Jeff> Next up, the governmental side of things.
[01:19] <Jeff> There was a great deal of sentiment in local politics in those years of Seattle being independent from UCAS, resulting in all kinds of political intrigue between national level law-enforcement/intelligence agencies and Seattle political powers.
[01:20] <Jeff> The Night of Rage was still only 11 years past, leading to all kinds of profiling still within local law enforcement.
[01:21] <Jeff> Lone Star was very loose with the law at that time, working more as vigilantes in some respects than cops, considering they were still trying to make up for the screwups involving the Night of Rage, as well as believing they had a monopoly over the city, since it's long before Knight Errant gave them any kind of competition.
[01:22] <Jeff> Additionally, with these factors, the media went crazy. Working hard to get the next big scoop, every move by law enforcement and politicians was over-analyzed and blown up.
[01:22] <Jeff> Etc...you get the point.
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[01:22] <Jeff> Finally, the corporate side.
[01:22] <Jeff> There were no Seattle super-powers at this point. Pure and simple. It was the ultimate ground to make gains against other corps. Every corp had an interest here.
[01:23] <Jeff> The only real "bad guys" that most everyone seemed to hate was Aztechnology.
[01:23] <Jeff> If you had to nominate one corp on the top of the heap at this point, it may possibly have been Fuchi.
[01:23] * Wildfire nods
[01:24] <Jeff> This is pre-Corp War and still even pre the intra-corp operation against Aztechnology in Aztlan to "teach them a lesson."
[01:24] <Jeff> So most definitely, open warfare was very much frowned upon. Things were to be kept quiet, in the background.
[01:25] <Jeff> You could go as often and as hard as you wanted against a competitor, just do not make it show up on the nightly news.
[01:25] <Jeff>
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[01:25] <Wildfire> Yay
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[01:25] <Jeff> Which of course, happened anyway.
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[01:25] <NWNexusvoid> :o
[01:25] <Jeff> Hey dude.
[01:25] <Wildfire> Nosy reports and all
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[01:25] <Jeff> One last note, since the corporate side is pretty much covered.
[01:26] <Jeff> Seattle overall, was a much dirtier place. The real money from the corporate future war hadn't come into the town yet, the Arcology was in the beginning stages of building, leaving even Downtown dirtier and looking more used.
[01:27] <Jeff> A much more gritty cyberpunk feel. Most of the major Lone Star/corporate "urban renewal" projects hadn't happened yet, the cleaning out of some areas of Seattle by Ares, due to the Universal Brotherhood, hadn't happened yet.
[01:27] <Jeff> The Barrens were much more of the Barrens and much more sprawling.
[01:27] <Jeff> Puyallup was...well...a toxic fucking wasteland straight out of Fallout.
[01:28] <Jeff> Overall, the city was much more like New York city in the late 80's or any classic crime movie set there.
[01:28] <NWNexusvoid> With people who had trees growing out of their head.
[01:28] <Jeff>
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[01:28] <Jeff> That's pretty much it.
[01:29] <Wildfire> Sounds perfectly like the way I like my SR
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[01:29] <Jeff> I left out the international side of things, but since I think the NAN and the Tir is a load of shit, fuck if I care.
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[01:30] <Jeff> Oh...international side of things is easy to sum up. Everybody hates the Japanese for taking over Seattle and shipping the Yakuza to Seattle. That's all you need to remember.