[K5pbem] WHat Happened To The Zone?

[Jamie David Jeans]

> Four years later and it is 2039. The Zone is even more of a ruin, but one
> can find a lot of abandoned mil-tech all over the place. There's even a
> wrecked Nightsky Dragon sitting in the middle of the Zone, brought down by
> forces unknown (Ran, Raven, and Shion?). Jinsei has undergone a huge
> shake-up, with many of the upper management of Jinsei NY recalled back to
> Japan (to be "re-located," insiders say many were forced to commit seppeku
> to "regain lost honor," not because Quincy is a traditionalist, but
> because he knows how much seppeku *hurts*). Neo York, meanwhile (and maybe
> the feds in general) have decided the Zone is only useful as a dumping
> ground for the wretched masses (not like they didn't do this before).
> Instead of once-a-month trips, it might be once-a-week, where the
> homeless, the insane, and the criminally inclined a tossed into the Zone
> and left to fend for themselves. The Zone is also now more primitive than
> it was, with a lot of the infrastructure built up over the previous 20
> years destroyed in the fighting. Many places and people known from the old
> Zone and the old stories are gone, and the rebuilding is still going on,
> as people try to settle down and live the best they can.

That is some pretty intense stuff there. The Zone being no longer a nice
place to have a jaunt, plus all the hardware that could be taken out of a
Jinsei Nightsky Dragon to boot. Something tells me that even in the Zone,
something as big as that will take time to loot, because of the chaos in
the Zone, and all the street to street fighting.

Also, concerning Raven and her band of merry Espers, do you think they'll
have managed to set up a zone of their own somewhere? Maybe undergound
where Raven continues to train and take care of new Espers?

Jamie

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