FACE IT YOU FRAGGERS, DENVER IS A SUB-DIVIDED PAIN-WRACKED, SCHIZOPHRENIC, SELF-SERVING, EPILEPTIC, SADO-MASOCHISTIC HAVEN FOR THE DIVINELY WARPED. AND | LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR BITTER THRICE-DAMNED SOULS. —RIGHT REVEREND DONALD R. BYRNE NeW CHURCH OF THE FINAL UNCTION (INTRAZONE ONLINE/REF # BDIU202-A) FASA CORPORATIONsystem MARS) oo PRESENT fr (ny i CONTENTS —s 4 | teres a Saas ‘ pain & iecaleate hae 7 See 2 Serato 7 maces = Seer Z ite ced 2 ices tae i net g Rena s Siete Nee z eee i fee a Seieues 2 ogurnanes, Bs anes 5 Bares paay e wow Gores wnt 7 ee weaager mins : Sarco & fear noo 7 ota ne Agee Duagee 3 | ammo is er a Ses tos * csp cony 3 Iie ne Meny 0h Land of Pi eon 7 ms 3 merce 2 pe 7 fe Conca otoarr 3 | nWigagee de Cement mi wer iliie sap ¥ae corns 2 | iveesercs = ens < eae es 3 ee = ee a roti s viens = The Bureaucracy a3 | Chips, Drugs and Alcohol 96 cea S Se eae % cane $ Mater eres = ingen ena ce 2 a ie potatoes & pee adie ee Sergey = al a hove Awe = | casero ine pei = aioe i aoe = mere io ae = Deuerw cn nic a wane 2 re ard ie me cL owes 4 contr cies 7 Toectoeees 3 eieafeee He opener came 7 von 7 7 7 ape ye pi os 3 Dace me oe loaeician 3% Stet cases ‘° Pata mey $ omens oe awn = one & Wheeies Happen Fs sacs Secor ce ° Sets arr isFy vision neo oo PRESENT fr (eno rusato stctoR 16 | order Securty te Whe tives Here (and How) 9 Money te Mow Pucble Sector Works 0 Leva end aw Erdman 0 on te Town ta aca Sty tas Paces to Hang Paces to Eat er) Other Paces of neest us svoux secror ts ‘Crossing the Sloux Line 1 | Who Lives Here and Why? br Ling ln the Es Ess at Those In Charge 3 Watt Do (and Not Do) iba Geting to Live Tere ba Weapons ba Chis, Drugs and Akcoho Bs Law Enocerent bs ime and Punishment bs Paces to See and Be br Motels 7 Fesaurnts and Ban ba Otner Paces of rest bo UcAS stcToR a0 Inks Keep Out—Border Secrty ta Local Yokel, Money, and fete az Home, Sweet Home i What Coss What a3 Fotis The Bg and the Diy faa Legal fon and Games tas So You Want foe Here? tas Weapons tas Mindbenders, Lega and Otherwise tas About the Badge tas Cite ane Pnishent tar Faces of Incest ta Hotes ta Restaurant ad Bars i50 Other Paces of rest ist ume stcron ‘4 Running the Ute Line tsa P Who tves Here 156 Way Cost of Lving 156 ny) Covert ana Uw 7 \ Tmimigraion etices 87 Weapons ‘9 Chips, Dug, ae Alcohol i39 Law Eocene is “And sic fr Some eo Macs to See and Be Seen tet Paces to Sty ist tats and Denis te2 One Othe Pace to Hang ie Boulter issFUT STRUCTURE ENFORCEMENT CORP PERSONNEL OPS INTELL ENCE EQUIPMENT co) elcome to Denver, also known as the Front Range Free Zone. It’s a simmering cauldron of barely contained chaos. The city’s six political sectors coexist only because they have no other choice. The sectors’ laws and economics conflict enough to make legal trade between them virtually nonexistent. Denver's shad- ‘ow economy alone sustains the city; without the black and gray markets, no one could afford food and the other necessities of life. This situation forces Denver's residents to ignore as well as they can the borders between the sectors. People and products must cross sector borders daily, and only the governments try to track the dangers and opportunities that cross at the same time. Denver's free-for-all, Wild West attitude attracts powerful players, and that makes Denver a dangerous place even for the most experienced shadowrunners. The Denver boxed set contains two sourcebooks, one for players and one for gamemasters, seven maps of various sizes and content, and other assorted ‘goodies. The Denver book for the players offers public-access information in the style of previous Shadowrun sourcebooks such as Seattle and Tir Tairngire. Most of these facts and figures are reliable, but previous readers from the fiction- al world have added innuendo, allegations, opinions, misunderstandings, and some outright lies—just like electronic documents in the real world. The gamemaster decides what is fact, fancy. or fallacy. The player characters can only determine these distinctions by digging, probably deeper than they'd like. The Denver Gamemasters Book tells the real story behind the subjects dis- cussed in the Denver book. Sections on the spirit of Denver, the people behind the decisions, and the places they go provide hints, clues, and guidelines for run- ning Denver as a campaign location or just as a frequent stopping place for shad- owrunners who love to travel. The Denver Gamemasters Book suggests alterna- tive subplots and background stories for the people, places, and things described in Denver, offering multiple choices that help the gamemaster to make every Front Range Free Zone experience unique. ‘The Gamemasters Book also provides rules for unique situations likely to arise when running in Denver. Finally, this section includes a few notes on gamemastering Denver and highlights those previously published rules that gamemasters are most likely to use. Enjoy, chummers. Let us know what kind of flowers you'd like on your grave. ddd‘SYSTEM BE LM A ecco od WELCOME TO... CATEGORY Message Base/Mall System Special Category/Toples (SIGS) Library Archive Flelds of Fire (Meres and Guns!) Corporate Shadowslles (Corp Dirt! Dig In!) PENNE mm ‘Shadowtech Com| Tir na nOg (Eire Uncovered) Real Life Compilation (Real Cool!) Lone Star Security Uncovereaill (Soon!) Germany (We got it!) Tir Talmngire (Those Wacky Elves. ..™) Era Read All about It What You Need to Know How It Got This Way How It Is Now The Real Power The Nexus Atlan Sector CAS Sector Pueblo Sector Sioux Sector UCAS Sector Ute Sector DOWNLOAD ALL? PRREEEEEE| Cor) Cow mn NOTE FROM CONTROL—Anyone with any knowledge regarding sabotage to thls system should contact me ASAP. Censorship will not be tolerated!system BIS PAST sa POWER (es meee Ue ddd nn <> —C.R. Mudgeon, longtime Denver citizen (Advertising slo- gan contest sponsored by the Department of Tourism/REF# HYP-456z036) ile-high Denver, the Treaty City. Cradled in gently rolling plains set against the beautiful backdrop of the Rocky Mountains’ Front Range, Denver has many per- sonalities that encourage different cultures to meet and mix, creating a unique ambiance more reminiscent of twentieth-century Europe than anything on the North American continent. (Or some such drek We've posted these files on Denver here on Shaclowland for your edification and amusement. As always, this is the place to come to learn the real intel about the Treaty City—not the fluffy bulldrek that travel guides and other consummate liars try to pass off as useful truth. This is the straight gain, hard and deep to the core. The travel guides do get a few things right. Denver is a city of many personal- ities. And different cultures do touch here—unfortunately, they rarely mix, and they frequently have each other by the throat. And if you put your imagination on overtime, Denver might be said to resemble twentieth-century Europe—but only if that definition of Europe includes pre-glasnost Berlin or maybe eastern Europe midway through the Euro-Wars. Now, don't take my cynical tone in the wrong way. Denver's a wiz place to live. I've been here nearly all my life, and my longest absences have hardly been by choice. It's a great place to do biz, no matter what kind of biz you're doing, More fortunes have been won—and lost—in Denver than just about anywhere else on this continent.system (RSI) PAST eau i (er But as we all must know by now, any clty whose shadows, are worth running holds enough danger to make it easy to get scragged If you don’t know exactly what you're doing. In Denver, any sector's “security consultants” will cheerfully geek you where you stand for setting one foot wrong, as will various ‘bled jammers and uncounted entrepreneurs who consider the ‘ost of ammunition expended while eliminating potential com- pptitors to be just another business expense. The Treaty City has more idiosyncrasies than most big ‘ties. Apart from the political and economic intricacies of the sectors and the varied levels of security surrounding each one, Visitors must also know a few other odds and sods If they want to stay allve In Denver—such as the safest time to cruise Five Points, for example, or how to find your way through the Trap. The high rate of immigration into Denver, aside from the flood Cf Immigrants clutching the appropriate paperwork who practi ‘ally cascade out of Calfree into the Free Zone, makes publici2- Ing these idiosyncrasies more important every day. In most cother cites, the establishment ignores out-of-plex runners who hhose up and get themselves geeked. But in Denver, so many ‘out-of plex runners have found interesting and novel ways to be scragged that they're drawing uncomfortable levels of official, attention to the resident shadow community. So you see, it's In ‘our own best Interests—not to mention yours—to keep you allve while n our backyard. We compiled the following files from several sources to provide an overall view of our lite tertitory out here among the mountains. If you're planning to pay us a visi, take the time to read them over. Take the information to heart—you'll be glad you di, ‘Marla Dancer (Crystal) Assistant SysOp Denver Data Haven >>>>2(Greetings one and ol, and welcome to the latest maior ost on Shadowiand Seatte. In keeping with our aim of giving You sags on the streets the wherewithal to keep sucking air post Your gums should biz take you further afield, we offer this latest posting from down Denver way. | kept the Denver-based com ments intoct Il thought they might make some sense to Seatie. denizens, and I've glossed them myself i | figure they’te impor. fant enough. | also ron this intel past some local exper for an appropriate Seat slant. As usual feel free to annotate the dak out of everything on this subboord. (As usual, keep your Sloper ite Icons off the primary data, As usual, we acqued some wiz new block IC from the topnotch slicers at the Nexus along with the data sai. Doubt me at your own sk.) Shadowiand Seattle, my colleagues, and me hereby di Claim ail esponsibility for any eosin this data and any personal lost0s or deaths resuting tom said eros. Goto f, say ond with a waljcecee Captain Choos, SysOp (11:48:39/5-17-54) >>>9>(An adaltional warning, As anyone who's been paying attention for @ decade or $0 knows, oll data has o halt-ite Because Denver changes more quickyy than most other cities, the holPtte of all this background drek is very shor Indeed. I know something in this posting has changed since Crystal put the fls together. I fag it: But | recommend that you toke oll this drek os nothing more than guidelines. Denver might well change profoundly between the day the authors wrote this info cond when you anive there. I’ jut that kind of placa )ecece 100 (04:08:42/5-18-54) >>9>2(And that's why | have no intention of ever moving back to the bockwater bug of Seatiiajecece —Broncomonic (15:09:58/6-1-54)TO visiron ino Dr fi POWER NEXUS —__SECTO a LTV COUN AO OUT <> —Alec “Box-O'-Rocks” Mandello, Denver Citizen (Marketing Survey: New Names for Denver! /REF#DDA-0020) hummers, you're going to Denver and nothing we can do will stop you. So savvy the rough stuff. This first part won't talk about random loss of life (your own or the other fragger’s)—just how and where to keep your skin dry. The sec- ond part raps on running the line. Download and retrieve at will DATAFACTS (MAY 2055) Total Population: 3,620,000 Human: 62% Ef 14% Dwart 4% tk 18% Trot 1% Other 1% ‘SiNless Population: 543,000 Per Capita Income: 21,750¥ Below Poverty Level: 29% ‘On Fortune's Active Traders List: 1% Megacorporate Affiliation: 44% Education: High Schoo! Equivalency: 505 College Equivalency: 23% Advanced Studies Certificate: 79 Regional Telecom Grid Access: According, 10 sector (see loca listings) 2>>>{Let me highlight two points for all of you out there. Fi the Bosic Dato population figures referto the entire Denver ore (ofeialy known a& the Front Range Free Zone—FRFZ—though Ccaling Denver “ttee" & @ real fogging oxymoron), not just the Denver metro area. The pop numbers include meto Denver Boulder, Colorado Springs. and points between. And yes. the three cities are physically separate. Yeah, okay. they hod ‘merged at one time, but then come the Treaty and is commit tee-rule clstertag, and It decided to raze @ bunch of areas fragging near down to bedrock. Open space separates these Cities, songe os that may seem fo residents of the Seattle plex, Keep in mind that SiNioss people in ths plex only count as ci 2606 ofthe street I they've been in the FZ for a month and no ‘more than three of fou mb are the ones they were born with. Point Two: Fach tertiorial sector uses unique RIG access codes ond security paradigms. The Sioux Sector is NA/SIO, the Pueblo Sector is NA/PUE, and the Ute Sector is NA/UTE. The remaining three sectors use non-intuive access codes: UCAS Sector (NA/UCAS-WE), Aztian Sector (NA/AZ-NO). and CAS Sector (NA/CAS) Jeccce ink (13:41:44/5-18-55) >332>(That means—according to the RIG routing, at least—ihat part of Denver finally belongs to Texas. Hor. har, har}eepo(And that sots off alot of people. Scon the history fles 10 (eta better understanding why.ieccee Leo (05:45:39/5-31-55) >e>eotApatt from the soclopottical consequences, ths RIG sep: ration odds comalexty and cost to doing bi in Denver, Say you've got your otfice on the north side of Colfox Avenue, Which happens to be the demarcation between the Ute and Pueblo sectors. Your chummer ves within spitting distance. just Cn the ther side of the demorcator. To give him « call. you've ‘90t fo ink through a totaly afferent RTG routing, with al the ‘odcitional cost that requifes. Painin the hoop }ecece Tambor (17:04:52/5-31-55) ses>>(Deal with it, pink boy )<>>22(Hold on for one tick here. This makes no fraggin’ sense to ‘me. The only place I've seen tirds in their glory is down south, ‘on the Aztion/Puebio border—running hot and fast over the plains. Why would anyone in his ight traggin’ mind take some: thing os clumsy as on LAV into the fraggin’ mountaine? That's {gotta cut your top speed down fo a taggin’ crawh}>5>>(Not tue, Nim Boy. High-speed runs into and out of Aztion ‘are what you see on the trideo and read about in the screarreheets, but that style only one way fo run a bid, and ‘one likely to.get you klled, ‘Se, ke any other speeditedk rigger alve, | lve for the va yyos you get when you wind your bic out and feel the unholy ‘wall of your turbines through every fiber of your body. But you're so begging to be splattered. | mean. think bout It. You're out on this pooHtable-at desert, going the & bat out of hel, kicking cut whe-knowshow-many lumens of IR fue—lopping back @ juicy big blip on the screen of any rador fig looking your direction. Your roaster-tall is visible from kicks ‘away. ond you're leaving a sonic footprint lke the wake of speedboat on a miror-flat lake. Trust me—out on the desert you're misslo-batt Now let's look at the attematives. Instead of hurting across the desert, 'm cruising it rice ond easy through the mountains My LAV doesn't care—broken ground feels jus Ike the desert fo its sensors, But what do those radar rigs see now when they look ln my drection? Ground clutter, that's what. Noe from the trag: din’ terrain itselt—and thot’s true even on look-down rigs. Suddenly I'm wraith. and to spot me, someone's got to pretty ‘nuch ty ight fraggin’ over me or end up in the same canyon ot the some tme. Of cours, the hills hold groundsited arrays—ts tening posts, IR tracker, that kind of drek but any tree trader ‘worth the name knows where to look for them and how fo avoid them. That'll do for the moment. have mote to say later Jecece tithe Al (19:49:59/5-27-55) [WEATHERING THE WEATHER ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same. ‘Anyone who's ever lived in Denver will tell you that the city ‘gets a bad slam from news media across the continent (maybe ‘even the rest of the world) and always has. Every time you hear reports of “an overnight dump of 50 centimeters of snow around Denver” In April or May, note that the Key phrase Is “around Denver.” Not in Denver. The high country does get lots, ‘of snow, but It's the fragging Rocky Mountains, omae. Down in the city self and in most of the FRFZ, the average annual total precipitation stands at about 40 centimeters. And more than half of that’s going to be rain. in an average year. Denver bass under 300 days of beautiful, nontoxic sunshine. >>>>{Eot that, Seattie Jecec« —Broncomonic (15:17:08/6-1-55) i mm td a >>>>>{Desorbing Denver's primary weather 05 300 cays of sun shine may be overstating conditions a bit, Cali $00 days 0 year without ain }eccee —Woppler the Weotheron (23:8: 54/6-1-55) January's the coldest month, with an average dally high of about 6 degrees Celsius and an average nightly low of close to -8 degrees Celsius. But even in January you can bet on an average of 22 days of sunshine. Jus the hottest month, with August a dose second. In those months, expect daly highs of 30 degrees Cand night lows of 15 degrees C, with 21 or 22 days of sunsine a month. ‘What makes Denver so temperate? The “weather shadow” of the Rockies. Most weather pattems travel west from the ocean land so have to climb over mountain peaks a thousand meters higher than the city’s elevation. Any moisture In that air drops as rain of snow In the mountains, and the alr that spills over the range onto Denver is dry and more temperate because It warms ‘past slides down the eastem foothils ofthe Rockies. ‘Sometimes during the winter Denver has the pleasure of a Wind called the “chinook.” Locals love this warm, dry wind off the Pacific because it can rase the temperature by more than 20 degrees C within an hour or two, an especialy welcome devel- ‘opment in January While not technically climate, the altitude does affect the ‘environment. Back before metric, Denver was called the “Mile- High City.” and for good reason: Is 1,609 meters (5,280 feet, ‘or one mile) above sea level, Though vistors to the mountain ‘communities Inside and outside the FRFZ are the most likely ‘candidates for altitude sickness, people get It inthe city, too. If {you feel out of breath from even limited activity, and If you have headaches, fatigue, and difficulty sleeping for no apparent rea son, you're probably suffering from altitude sickness. Denver's >>>>(Vistor from downslope take note: alcohol packs a con siderably hettier punch ot altitude, at least until your body ‘adopts, As @ rule of thumb, one cink affects you ot the equiva- lent of one-ond-c-hal crnks at seq level. Some people regain their normal alcohol tolerance in a couple of weeks. Some never do. but most of those learn to enjoy the quicker Duz)oeooiGave your jokes about Denverttes being cheap drunks, It's more to the point for all foo many of you slags that this decreased tolerance extends to almost al other narcotics. Ike Smiot said, normal folerance usually comes back within two weeks, Ifyou snap back at all} <«<«< —MedMan (02:27:22/52055) >>>>>(Couple of my chummers who moved to Denver finaly ‘went the bonetics route ond got their lung volume increased. Alitude doesn’t seem to faze them Snymore }eccce Todd (08:39:42/5-20-55) :>>>>>(Spelicastors might need to toke It real easy for the fist ‘couple of weeks in Denver. The lower partial pressure of oxygen Inthe ar means that tossing spss going fo take @ lot more out ff you than the same stunt does ct low attitude. until you get wed tot }cecee "—Moriock (16:96:12/5-22-65) 3>>>>(Back to the matter of weather. (Yeah, | know you're get- ting bored, but If you're skulking around in @ back alley duting ‘he winter months, you'd better account for the fact that the temperature can go from -12*o 16° Cer vice versa—with no ‘watning. Don't know about you, churnmer, but when it's way ‘below freezing, | wont to be wearing something warner than a Kevir Tir.) In the winter, c balmy, spxing-8ke cftemoon can (Gve way to c howling bizard by night. Every FRFZ administration tokes this unpredictable weather very seriously because it racks up a decent death tol every yeor. Ughtning storms, hal storms, flash floods, avalanches, even the ‘occasional fomado—they oll manage to geek @ couple of folks. The summer's changeable of hell, too. For example, all week we've been boking In temperatures higher than 35° C, but today t's cropped down to about 24° in the city and it's troor {Ging snowing in the high country. Happy Fourth of Juyl}>>>9(Lo0's right about the freaky weather. Anyone who {doubts should just remember the "huricane” of 'a] and the bi 201d of '38, ‘4d, and ‘1, The FRFZ has plenty of the weather Weirdness that's plagued much of the continent's west and i+ west for the las thirty yeas of so }cooee(And It opened pretty quickly and smoothly. considering ‘most of the bulings on the old crpor site hed been destroyed In vorious skirmishes ond the rest had been razed to the ground before UCAS officiaty took possession jee2e0(Even though it was rebull from the ground up. Stapleton sit shows is age In a few litle ways. For example. the runways ‘re just shot enough to make fonding « fuly laden sernbalisic {real hay proposition Jecece —Sky Plot (22:39 33/5-20-55) foo LUCAS has a second facility, along the westem outskirts of ‘Colorado Springs. Originally the municipal airport, this facility has more or less merged with Peterson Alr Force Base. >oe2e{That's not the way the UCAS fells I, you can count on that. "Peterson AFB? No such thing. chummer. Thi I Peterson ‘Civlan Alot got I? Civiion traffic only, no mihay presence. ‘Those fighter-bombers? In transit ony. cross my heart and hope {0 raph. Never in one place for more than 12 hours” Right. The UCAS uses Peterson as @ elvlon facity purely 10 lusty keeping It open, because one of the provisions of the Treaty was the cloting of Peterson AFB. UCAS sidestepped that by officially decommissioning the base and renaming it with o Cevilan designation. (No restrictions on civilian airports. se8? Greosy bostares.) {At any given time, between four and twelve fully fueled, fully med fighter-bomber+—F-8 Eagles usually, though you sometimes see the mote esoteric bicis put in an appeorance— ‘Fe sting on the runway. UCAS jstiies their presence by claim lng they're “in transt;" merely staging ot Peterson while en toute to other boses. And, n fact. no single plane ison the runway for ‘more than 10 or 12 hours. but new planes are always corning in (hey cyclo in ond out in two- and fourship elements: Quite o Sight.) According to the letter of the Treaty. that's lego though It wists the intent into @ Moebius stip ecece —Loomy (00:16:36/6-2-55) >>2po(And the other sgnatoties put up withthe rok?) ce2>{G0 for. Go figure )<>epoiAnd It's cryin’ fraggin’ shame. Ever seen this piace? Serious wizer, pryatel. The terminal's got a cable-tension root ‘hat Iooks Ike & mult-peaked tent, srt of a visual paraphrase of the mountains to the west. When the lights are on, It glows white Ct night—very impressive. When it was bull in the ecaly 1990s, wos designed to handle triple simultaneous landings, and ‘apporenty stil ould though it doesn't support anywhere near that levet of trafic anymore j55>>1A very scary combination Je<oooo (fei there wos a dtference between the two.}ecece — Freedom Cryer (13:02:14/601-54) Pueblo’s sole international facility, small as such facilities -g0, can be found In a place called Sedalia, south of Denver. It can't land anything heavily loaded, but It does fall nto the def nition of an International aitpot. do oe(ustyccece —Wongz (0058:21/5-28-58) seseo(tley, what about the old US. Alr Force Academy? Why not jst toke over hat place? }<seo>(A couple of teatons, Talbot. Fist, the old ocademy’s located in the foothily—a pretty fragging lousy place to put an port, al in ol. Contrary to what most people think when they heer “Air Force Academy,” this ain't the place where the zoomles practice thelr fouch-and-go rek in tost jets. They do that elsewhere, where there's fewer mountains to run Into. Te ‘Academy only ever had a smal field, just te handle prop-criven trainers. (Yes, plots sil do thelr initial training in prop planes. Much cheaper i ey honpen to break a couple.) Second reason? The Treaty Commission decided the ‘Academy land should belong to Pueblo. The United States had: to swallow that pil, but they di It with style. Before the U.S. Air Force pulled cut, they leveled every dornn installation on the site. CYou want the land? You got it. But we don't have to eave ‘onyting standing on that ste.") ‘And that’s why Pueblo alan open up thelr arport at the Academy Jecce< —Moraya (19:36.08/638 >eoooiStunner, your scope Is flat. Down and datk on the & rallpeo>o>(Persistent buzz says the United States didn’t destroy ‘everything on the stle. Apparently the charges plonted in some ff the underground facilities~shelters ond frag-knows-what else —tcn't go off Jeceee Huahine (16:15:19/6-7-58) sesse(Ghoulde nuked the ste from orbit. t's the only way to be sue jeccee Hicks (21:46 /6-9-55)i fn fr >>s>o (Ty. They won't o off. We've seen to that.Jeccee Top Shot (21:44:46/6-9-55) >>>>5(Some parts he US. Al Force opso(Thot used fo be the training stip Moraya was yipping ‘about earlier. (Or one of them. | guess thate’s evidence of ‘nother area marked for runways out there. Maybe they moved the facilty at one time, or maybe something else was going own. Not that It matters today.) Anyway, it eeeme the old stip didn’t contain anything sensitive to blow up. so | guess some- ods going o bud on it at some point, when they get around toiticceee —Vonce (19:31:08/6-10-55) >>>>2(Vou realy don't know what's there, do youjeccee Kotla 22:48'57/6-10-55) >>>>>{Leave ‘em to scream, Kat, More HAS for us)2220(No Intemational public carrier would dore. Even specu: lating on its fecstity would jack itsinsurance premiums sky-high, ‘And wihilo I'm on the subject of safety, let's take © look at the whole of-hatic set-up around the FRFZ. We've got seven— Count ‘em, seven—intemationl alerts counting the Azze fel, Seven major fociltes. al in an area about 178 kicks long by 55 kicks wide. Foch with ts own fight scheduling, al-tratfie contro! system, radar system, transponder codes, comm systems, and rekcetera, To add fo the fun, we throw In c dozen minor at pots, cach with is own fight schedule, bioh blah bioh. And ad ‘he miltery (Cops. transient milter) trafic at Peterson. (et your hoop that fighter Jocks don't take wel to sorne cvllan a-taftc controller feling them, Stay in the pattem, you're number fy ‘wo forlanding.") And the result? Absolute fragging chaos. Free Zone air space sees more close-approach incidents than anywhere else In the world (ond that Includes O'Hare ond Natta) The only tea: son you don’t fead about It as a major statistic is thot ihe brass spit up the fotol among those seven major fics. ‘Oh. and don’t forget those dracofoms fying in and out of the Aation Sactor. Most of them don’t even show up on tatfic: contol radar, and « feathered serpent is Ikely 10 be even less thrilled thon a military fghterjock with the news that he't have 10 wait for on hour for lending clearance, The few times | had cause to leave Denver. | traveled by land and caught « fight from somewhere more sane. And | ‘come home the same way)}<>>29(Getting confused? Good—that's getting nto the Denver spit cece Bung (08:25:44/5.31-55) As It did before the Treaty, Route 70 will also bring you In from the east, from the Sioux Nation. The highway's considered Sioux territory until the Interchange at Exit 282, lust east of Stapleton Alrport, when It becomes reclassied as an intema- tlonal highway.ETS VisirOR INFO PAST PRE >>3>>(The people who siced up Denver must have just oooved, that “intemational highway’ bit }eecee Mombasa (13:06:39/530-55) >>5>>(Actualy, none of the parties Involved tked the ideo. t's kiudgy. inelegant, and it doesn't even work most ofthe time. But It was the only scheme for highway upkeep and regulating tat fic hat the Treaty signatories could agree on. (i the Free Zone, Olt of systems reflect deciiors made that way, Sheer. lowest common-denominator compromise—not the best answer to a problem or even @ good one—but the only one everyone wil sign off on cece 100 (04:59-23/6-1-55) >>59>(Stress this again. Any time one of those brain-fragging “internotionai” highways enters or leaves teritory held exclusve- ly by @ sector, heavy-duty border posts and security out the hoop willbe walling je>>5(That's olmost true. A very real border completely sur- rounds the FRFZ. even in countries that adjoin the sector they officially own (for exemple. the Pueblo Corporate Council adjoining the Pueblo Secon. Everytime you cross the Free Zone bboundory you must poss through securty, regardless of where ‘you're coming ftom and where you're going, Why? Because the Free Zone’s a very special case, chum- met. The laws and Jurecfction in any given sector theoretical match those of the owning nation, but in practice the sectors rarely enforce those laws as vigorausly os they could. That's the, beauty of the Free Zone.) To continue the Pueblo example. i's uite possible for someone to ive happily and even legally In the Pueblo Sector and be persona non grata in the Pueblo Counc! ite. Track me? The point is, again, that there'll always bbe some level of socurty any time you cress into or out of the: FEZ Count on th}>>5>,You picked « bod exemple, tlendo'mine, because the bor: {dor between the Pueblo Counct and the Pueblo Sector actualy Pretty porous. OF course, they maintain a requitte and reascnabe NT or NEXUS SECTORS ao numberof border posts ond checkpoints, but the guards only top the travelers they consider most suspicious on thelr woxst doy. COthorwiee. passing between the two #0 cokewalk}<<<>>>2{What's the deol with t-bitds crossing Pueblo temttory? Sometimes it seems tke hostle ground all the way. but then | hear about jammers who cross the plain straight and legal Whot's the bier}cecce Fickle (20:10:26/6-2-65) >es>o(Ditferent jammers gat different deais. Those who smug (le things into Aztlan run pretty much unmolested once they Init Pueblo tenttory—os long as they're not known to smuggle things bock in. If you generally smwugale things into Pueblo or through the sector. you're on the drek ls. How do you get on the happy list? You can't apply for it, you gotta work the scene. Eventually, If you're on the up-and-up, the Puablo oys'l put you on the happy Ist themselves. Right nice of them. noh?}>>>>{How did this place get so fragging complicated. can you fell me that?) <<<<< —Horrorshow (02:54:46/6-3-55) >>3>>{¥ou know the old jokes. A camel & c horse designed by ©. Committee. An elephant is @ mouse bul to government specs. So what the frag can you expect from 0 committee of govern menty?}>222{Oh, come on. Most people scanning this board get into the FRFZ hunkered down in a fragging bid, don't they? Nul his tourst sludge ond get down to the real bytes, neh?}<>>>>(Froggin’ Inconvenient if you happen to have @ warrant ‘out for your ares in CAS (to use the some example). Then things get nasty jeccee Bongo (1209:16/62-55) i oy fo The established short-hop carriers ofthe nation that owns the sector usually handle In-sector fights. This means that in the Pueblo Sector the job's done by Alrlink. In the Sioux Sector, you fly Table Top, Skybus, Eagle Feather Transit, or with one of the other usual suspects. Refer to Danchekker's Primer on the Native American Nations, Volumes 1 and 2 (posted elsewhere on this board) for stats on rellability. cost, ‘comfort and so on. Transsector flights run between two different sectors. Your welcome upon landing depends on where your Right took of, but you'll get roughly the same treatment in terms of customs, checks as if you came In from elsewhere in the world. Your we! come also depends (as might be expected) on current relations between the two countries or sectors. ‘Most of the same carriers handle both In-sector and trans sector hops, but your choice of fights and companies is usually much mote limited for tanssector movement, >>>>>{Mainy becouse the catia hos 10 be licensed inthe ter totes of origin and destination, and i's too much trouble for ‘most of these small businessmen to bother }<<<<< —Sky Plot (22:57:21/5-29-59) >>>>>{Lo0k In the Immigration section on this boord for each sector that you're interested in visting before you actually toke to the a. Some sectos treat vistors very casually, while others— Atlan comes to mind, of course—wil shake you down s© hrc, Youll wonder why you bothered )<>>2>(By the by-oh, fyers face @ reguicr hazard these days in the FRFZ: what are happily caled “poppers'—fuzz bined kids using homemade rocket launchers fo take shots at passing ai craft, Pops occur mosty af night, ond usually within © Klick or two ofthe less hospitable areas of town }ecc<< Fight (10:28:19/67-55) Riding Above Before the unpleasantness of the Indian Wars, the Great Ghost Dance, the Treaty of Denver, and the breakup of the United States, the U.S. government bullt a magiev train line linking Boulder in the north to Colorado Springs in the south— looping through the heart of Denver, of course. Completed in 2011, the maglev line was loudly touted as a shining example ‘of clean, efficient, modem technology because it drew much of Its power from the solar collectors that shade the track bed lke a silver-bue, mintored awning, >>>>>(You people've been reading for too much government ‘propoganda, That of 20 wl solar ray provides a grand total of 5 percent of the power requirements for the magi. The rest comes from the nuke plant at Greenland, Pueblo Sector. Efficient, but not quite so clean }eccee Frasier (21:08:60/6-11-55) >>e>>{Maybe, maybe. But the solor ray does look lke some: thing out of ¢ fantosy rd, particucsy when you see i from theSe visiron ino PAS iu Ol. A sinuous rizorblue ver. maybe. oF a magical road but somewhere they couldn't get yelow bricks Jecece Wind (01'58:39/6-12-55) ‘The station farthest north sits at the heart of Boulder's Pedestrian mall at Walnut and 14th streets. The maglev maintenance yards are farther west, out toward Fifth Street, From its northern terminus, the track runs east until It hits Intercity 25 at Wattenberg, where it swings sharply south and parallels Intercity 25 into the heart of Denver, where It ‘tops at another main terminal, Union Station. From there, the route follows Speer Boulevard until it hits South University, then it loops back and rejoins Intercity 25 in Englewood, then follows the highway south Into Colorado Springs, ending at Ivywild ‘The maglev has four parallel track beds that allow for a mix ‘of commuter and express service. The express nonstop makes, the run fom Boulder to Colorado Springs In less than an hour. The commuter service stops at forty-three stations and takes 4 hours to run the entire route. ‘A holding company named the Front Range Transit Intemational—jointly owned by the six countries that run a slice ‘of Denver—manages the maglev. The six countries share main- tenance costs and revenue. Fares depend on distance and time of day. At one end of the scale, traveling from one stop to the next might cost as little a Znuyen, while the express from Boulder to Colorado Springs ‘could cost 85 nuyen or more. >>>2>/Pull UD one of the cigtzed maps they stuck into this post ‘ond take look at the maglev route. This damn train crosses, ‘ight sector boundetes! Eight Think about the hassles this service represents fo Immigration officials. The nonstop runs are pretty ‘clean. you're going straight from Boulder to yw, you statin Ute and end in UCAS. The Imm offcia reat everyone getting off the trin in vywid as a vitor rom Ute, wih al that ental ‘But wth commuter service. the train stops at every froggin’ station along the route. Let's say the train pulls into the Washington Pork station (Aztlan Secton ond people get out \Whete the frag did they come from? Maybe they got on at the. Denver Heaith and Hospitals station—the stop before stil in the ‘Aaie Sector. But hel, they might have boarded at any one of ‘twenty other stops, in three other sectors. n genera everyone: ‘who gets off « maglev train gets the ful Immigration credstick- condident check, just os f they got off « plane }eccc<. Margo 23:09-28/5.30-55) >>353(Okay, so getting off « maglev train means you face the Immigration drek for the sector you're entering. But getting on the magiev system is a challenge in its own right. Front Range Transit Insts on a separate secutty system for lis stops, and here's how it stacks up. When you slot Your stick to enter the Platform area, you go through this big tunstie stuffed full of magnetic-onomay detectors and chem-snitfers. i you're trying to make it on to the train canying weapons, ammunition, of ‘explosives and the sensors pick them up, you'l look up to find Yourself facing at least four of the biggest, meanest sec-guards fi NEXUS SECTO ou you'd ever go c long way to avoid, Stun batons ond narcoject weapons ore SOP, But if they really don’t tke your attitude, they'll cut you in haif with SMGs. If you manage to zer0 these {guards ond try for the platforn, the sec-guards watching nice. ‘ond sate through closed-ctrcut tid will gas the place down, Stun gos oniy, of course, but enough to neutraize everyone in the oreo. (hey'l apologize to ther other custorners later) Let's soy you protect yourself ogcirst the stun gas ond make It to the platform. So what are you going to do now? Get aboard { train? Each car in the maglev can be lslated because the do0ss operate on distbuted control systems. Remember those {quards watching by trideo? They’l see which cor you get on, ‘clamp the doos shut behind you. and fil it with stun gos. They sure 0s frag won't let the train leave the station. So where does thot leave you? Locked ino big metol can ful of gos. ronped ct the station, watching through the tronsplast windows wile whole fragging amy of sec-quards forns up ouide. When that ‘army is good and ready. they'll open the doors and side you out. ‘Moral of this story? Don't mess with the magley system, You'll endl up in a world of hut Jecece Choke Zulu (17:34:85/6-6-55) >>>>(Trust a mundane to oct tke there's no such thing os mag: Ical securty. In general. you've got watcher spits periodically Ppottoling the trans. They're trained fo alert the guards if some: fone tries to pack some ridiculously powerful enchanted item Conto the tron, but otherwise they oniy kick up o fuss f someone gets magically active in socially unapproved ways. I you get iy dit. Jeecee —Tor (22:98:19/67-85) >eepoiWhy 0 much secutily. you ask? Because the magley s Cone big. juicy. poltical target for tera of all stipes. Again. you ask why? Because it passes through every sector. and becouse people of every national otfilation depend on i. Toke a cose in point. During the past year alone, pottical ‘action committee thought to be associated with Alamos 20K tried to blow the tracks to protest how the nations “sold out” Denver to the "savages." A counle of weeks later. another ter fotist group. this one thought to be associated with the Kochinas. tried to bomb it to desttoy a symbol of the nations “going sof” on Anglos. If was running the maglev. I'd have even tighter secur tydeceee —Ryon 21:5150/69-56) Riding Below ‘Around the tum ofthe century, Denver began construction fon what was supposed to be an extensive subway system run- ning under the heart ofthe city. Only a few of the proposed tun: nels were ever completed. Derverites wanting to cross the city, feast to west of vice versa could use the subway. Those traveling, ‘orth to south didn't have this option In the FRFZ, only one line stil operates, and It only stops at 8 few of ts originally scheduled stations, This line terminates in the east in the CAS Sector near the Chamber of Commerce and, the Fitzsimmons Medical Center at East Colfax and PotomacAn ‘VISITOR INFO PAST Lusi Street, From here, the line swings north along lola Street and runs under Stapleton International Airport. Because Stapleton Is, part of the UCAS Sector, the alrport stations stil exist, but the ‘ralns no longer stop at any of them. >>>oe(That’s easy enough fo tix}>>>>(Well. yes, you might be able fo stop the tain ot any of the station platforms that you can see cs the fran goes by. But who's fo know If you can get from those platforms fo the sure face? it | were a paranoid UCAS slot. I'd have seaied off the ‘exits from those platiorns a long time ago )ecece —Tenmace (20:23:06/6-3-55) From the airport, the subway follows Martin Luther King J. Boulevard Parkway, back In CAS territory. The train stops at all stations along this street, follows Larimar southwest, then swings south on Broadway, stopping at all these stations, too. The line then enters the Aztlan Sector and passes under the Civic Center, where the train stops and opens Its doors on a solid wall of concrete, no platform. The line swings north to the CCAS Sector again, with the inal stop at Union Station. >o>20{The last active station on the route. The tunnel forthe Ene Continues wast into the Ute Sector, but the train itself no longer travels this section of the tunnel. And to the best of my know! 202, this part of the tunnel stil physically accessble. Service tendé at Union Station because the control software of the sub- Way fin stops it from heading any futher west. It simply pulls Into @ kind of underground switching yard ond retums the way it ‘came. down the other side of the double tunnel. 'd guess & (9000 enough decker could tap into the control system and just keep that of train rong }<>>>>{Sure, toll down tracks that haven't been serviced in how ‘many decades? Through @ tunnel that might have colapsed? To stations that probably have no access to the surface? No thanks }c»>>0(Lols of abandoned funnels under Denver, chummers. Good places to pull fade It the heat on the surface gots too hatsh for you. Assuming you believe they're actually empl... }eccee Archon 1.01721:14/69-58) Driving Denver Isn't the easiest city to get around in by car. Drive a couple of kleks in any given direction, and you run into a wall ‘ra fence—all minor streets are blocked off at the sector bound- arles—or you'll find yourself under the scrutiny (and gun sights) ‘of a border-crossing post. This changes as soon as you leave the boundaries of old Denver, of course. "Most roads won't put your vehicle In danger Just driving down them, but the level of repair varies from sector to sector. fr rd Page 18 For example, allroad surfaces in the Pueblo Sector are Just frag ‘ging cherry, but in Sioux. you'll be dodging potholes and ‘watching nervously as metal spalls off brdge supports. >>>>>(Hey. buttoned up in my Banshee t-bird, | don't care ‘squat for pothotes or spaling bridge supports)ccce< ‘The Mod Monk (11:9:47/68:55) >>>>>{Ah yes, screaming around in an LAV. throttles cracked ‘wide open, J's screaming, bouncing back IR ond rador signa tues s0 beety that no tracking system within @ hundred klicks ‘could possibly miss you, kicking cut so much heat that even the lowesttech AVM seeker head's going fo bore right in and blow You fo ite bity pleces of shrapnel. Sounds ke a rush fo me, privatel Sometimes stealth counts for @ lot more than hosepower. Monk Orhaven't you figured that out yet ?i>>>>(Just Ike sometimes steath ond subtlety are nothing but & waste of tre )ecece Hardesty (23:12.04/6-10-55) >o>>>(Gronted)<<<<< Agent (23:12:10/6-10-58) ‘CROSSING THE LINE We know this Is the data you really want: how to run the | Line, and how to get your sorry hoop Inside the Line (that’s, ‘what the riggers call the Boundaries). But once you're In, the rest is up to you. The Free Zone is roughly kidney-shaped, about 175 kicks long, north-to-south, and less than 90 Klicks across at Its widest point. The Free Zone extends as far north as the town of Mead on the extension of Intercity 25 leading north from Denver toward Cheyenne. The border of the Free Zone, known as the Outer Boundary, extends west to include the settlements of Longmont and Lyons. The Boundary then swings west of Boulder and passes through Ward and Rollinsville as It curves south. The indentation of the “kidney” ‘swings In to Include Golden, then the Outer Boundary heads almost due south to take Buffalo Creek and Deckers within the sector. >>>>>(Deckers? Great name for a town ccc Fast Jack (02:07:08/5-21-55) ‘The Outer Boundary passes through Divide and bends south of Colorado Springs. When It reaches the Cheyenne ‘Mountain tollway, it follows the fence line of the Fort Carson Military Reservation. From the town of Fountain, It bends northeast to pass just outside Yoder, then swings up through Kiowa and passes east of Denver just beyond Watkins. Curving, back around to the northwest, the Boundary passes just west, (of Hudson and half a Klick south of Platteville to close off the Free Zone,it VISITOR INFE ci iu ‘The total land area ofthe Front Range Free Zone is approxi- mately 17,500 square kllometers, and the Outer Boundary is, approximately 600 kilometers long, ‘THE OUTER BOUNDARY ‘The level of security along the Outer Boundary of the Free Zone varies, depending on the relationship of the territories on opposite sides of the line. For example, you'll obviously meet less security where the Pueblo Sector lies adjacent to the territory of the Pueblo Corporate Council than where the UCAS Sector abuts the Sioux Nation, Regardless of the juxtaposition of nations, however, all parts of the Outer Boundary maintain some level of security Generally speaking, the Outer Boundary marks the border fof the Free Zone with a double fence line, broken only by official border crossings. These fences are usually about 10 meters high, topped by a few strands of razorwire or monofilament cutwre (nasty!), and reinforced strongly enough to stop a speeding, semitraller. Some Sectors, unsatisied by the stopping power of mere fencing, built wall >>>>>MRiggers fake note: the fences won't stop a high-baling t Did, I've proven this to my own satisfaction on more than one occasion.jeccee ite Al (19:52:34/6-27-55) >>>>>{They're not built fo stop fving armored ca, but the sys tem does register a “tence-integiity falure” as soon as you break through, So why not us fly over the traggin' thing i<<<<< Freight (08:20:18/5-20-55) Despite rumors to the contrary, the Outer Boundary fences are not juiced. They do sport plenty of alarms, though: If you take your handy-dandy bolt cutters to the wire, the nearest security post gets the alarm and sends a few large men with large guns to pay you a vist, >>>>2(Don't be foo sure about the fences not being juiced, The entire fence line may not be electiied. but | can per onaly testy that some parts do have a healthy charge run- ring through them. Take the section of the Boundary near Watkins olong Highway 70 heading east out of Denver. The UCAS Sector meets the Sloux Nation, and neither side likes it, The border crossing ittelt looks like o fortress, and the. Boundary for several Kicks north and south of Wotkins has heavy reinforcement and plenty of electric deterrent. Trust me jeccee Gund (18:2626/5-30-55) >>>>2("Personaly testy?" | guess we con read that you got topped, huh? Garhart, go-hart, }<eoeo(No, you scrotty shell. It was some smort-mouthed shod ‘owrunner of who got himself zapped. Died on the wie. and he sized ond crackled and cooked for fragging near an hour ft im before anyone bothered to drag down what was lft ot his ualy face. Sil aughing, Tron?}<<<« Gund (1200:42/6-4-55) >>>se(Public senice announcement: for those who don't know. Gund—ek.a. Cpl. Batt Mojendie (re.)—used to serve with the UCAS Sector Boundary Pato). Word to the wise, )ecece Crystal (01:90:44/6-6-55) Depending on the Idents and “tudes of the teritories fac- Ing each other across the Boundary, the terrain between the two fence lines varles widely. Along some stretches of the Boundary, it's just open space—a billiard cable-flat killing zone, but without any nasty surprises. The space along other stretches Is a demo dweeb’s wet dream: sensors of all kinds {and landmines of varlous flavors (anti-personnel. anti-vehicu lar, “bouncing Bettys"), if even half the rumors are true, Elsewhere, standard troops with guard dogs or paranormal animals patrol the no man’s land. One particular stretch—a potentially high-traffic area outside the UCAS Sector northwest (of Truckton—dips down into a concrete ravine 30 meters wide and 15 deep, specially designed to give many t-bird jammers a nasty, nasty surprisePAST fu >o>p>(Null perso—just shit attitude short ofthe lip. catch some: height. ond fy. you're moving at pace. say even 300 kph you ‘ros $0 meter In ha @ second. That trench hasn't stopped & tmue t-bird jammer yet. Now pansy-nooped hover-boys, then we'te toking wall coke.)eccee Racer X (20:19/14/6-2.85) Here's our best advice: If you're planning to cross the Boundary, legally or on the sly, expect the unexpected. Security varies willy from place to place and time to time, so run recon before you go. >>s>o(Shoosh, Did I mis the end of the age of magic? Despite the apparent fact that no one on this board hos ever heard of magic, in the real world, if you're planning on running the Boundary. that oversight can cost you your ite, Long stiches of the Boundary—maybe ail of it—ate conetontiy scrutinized by watcher spits ond other cstral observers. Only realy senstive reas will mount anything copdble of actively mesiing you up, Dut even the wimpiest ile scrap of astral consciousness can histo up a patio} )<opeo(No farce. Remember last year when a fragging bocder skish broke out between the UCAS and Sloux crossing sta tions up by Horse Creek Reservoir? We're talking two buildings bout 20 meters apart, and one day the border guards just open fire on each other across no man’s land, Lots of fun ecece Halston (03:55:19/6-9-56) >>3>9(lremember, and there was something real srange about that one. According to the UCAS report, ot leost, some sort of werd psychic faint—that's the best way I can describe It—stil hung around the area, even a week alter ihe ineident. It was Ike something pushed the border guards into cutting loose on f20ch other. Don't know what jeccce —Lor0 @210948/6-11-55) >>p>o{ That's ust UCAS covering up for @ loss of control. “The evil made me dot” Yeah, right, }eexee ‘Samizdata (00:13:16/6-12-58) Security at border-crossing posts varies, too, from a skeleton crew of three or four lightly armed officers to a dozen heavily armed “customs officials,” supported by a fre POWER et fo au team of skullcrushers and at least one combat mage for astral back-up. Vehicular support ranges from none to a Citymaster or two. >>>5>(Don't forget air support. You'l often see Wasps ond Yelowjocket>—sometimes supported by something bigger ond nostier—patioling the fence lines or hovering over border posts cece Puget Deb (1403.01/6255) >>>o{Those combat moges are more likely to be one-tclent sorcerers, so-called magical adept. Think enough full-blown, mogicions belong to the govemments of these notions to statt ‘every major casing post on every shit? Get chipped, mae.) —Frolight (09:20:18/6-3-58) >>>>>(Don't let these guys blow foo much smoke, chummers What you're scanning here s more of less the official ine of dk what the govemments want you fo believe. (Since when did ‘Shadowiond stort eccepting goverment press releases 0s chip truth data?) Theoreticaly, the Cuter Boundary is an unbroken border But do you reaty bolleve that ail 400-piu Kicks get patroled reg, Ulatiy? Null. Do you think they send crews out immediately to replace frogged-up sensors? Null. Do you think the fence tne follows every fragging cif and ravine? Nut Just off the top of my head, I'd say there are at least ‘dozen places—mosty west of Denver—where you can sip into the Free Zone without so much as seeing « fence or a guard ot ‘sensor. Count on it. You want fo get into the Free Zone without ‘any offciol involvement? it can be done, Talk to me, | do it a the time. Reloy at LIGE 1903 (95-0040) )<>>>>{Ttue, 08 far of It goes. But lots of places hove no fences Co other securty because the terrain does a better job ot inter dicting entry than anything (metayhumanity con whip up >>5>(One last note on border personnel: inside the Outer Soundory—that i, nthe Free Zone Isett—the Treaty forbids the se of mitory assets. (We all know that just means the border Quards ore ex-miltary. nominally in the employ of private outs, Dut let that side for the moment.) Outside the Boundary? No restrictions whatsoever, chummer: sovereign tenor. What this realy means is that secutty for coming out of the Free Zones often much tougher than for going in. Look at bor: der crossing between the UCAS Sector and the Sioux Nation for ‘example, Who's watching the Sioux side of the borcer? The frogaing Widcats, that's who—Sioux Special Forces, shomonic ‘commandos and physical adepts—not people you want to tile withyeceee Rex (16:3005/6-7-55) >555>(That's ust net as important @ distinction as it sound Like somebody else said eater, you don't have to have « miltoryES visiron inFo PAST fu ‘commission 10 lay @ heawy machine gun. I's not the commission Cr the rank, but the troning and the gear that makes ¢ soldier dangerous. Look at a border crossing into the Sioux Sector. Who's watching the demareator? A bunch of “retired” \Widcats—no longer officially connected with the Sioux Special Forces, but that doesn’t make them any less lathol)55>9(5e0 my earlier Comments. They apply here, too.jecece Gund (13:30:01/5-30-55) ‘At least 20 meters of no man’s land separate the two lines of the fence, and sometimes twice that or more. A low, single-wire fence running down the center of the no man’s land marks the official border, but It's purely symbolic, because anyone older than about three can step over it easily, Its chill to install whatever security provisions you like on your side of the no man’s land-—patrols, land mines, whatev- fer—but you can’t do squat on the other side of that line. (Self-evident, | know, but It's best to make these things crys- tal clear at the outset.) According to the provisions of the Treaty. it Is strictly illegal to take any hostile action against anyone on the other side of that tiny litte fence. No matter ‘what they may have done to you of your country or be plan- ning to do or be in the process of doing. No physical. weapons, or magical attacks. >>>>0(The Treaty also forbids the use of any kind of control ™anipuiation on those bod people doncing just out of jurscic tion—tomething to coerce them into stepping into your hat of "59 man’s land, for example—though that particuir law is tough toreguiate }ee>>>(Sometimes i's s0 trogging tempting to break that prov: Sion. Here's a typical scenario: someone's on your side of no ‘man’s land, cutting his way through your fence, when you spot him. He sees you coming, ond before you can do squat he’s run JO meters and hopped back over that tle rip wire that marks the demarcator. You con walk right Up to the line until you're POWER if face to face with the guttemmeat, but you con't do a thing to him. You can't even take a swing at him to wipe that crek-ect Ing snile off his foce)eceee Gund (13:31:14/530-55) >>>>>(Why do | think this Gund slot’s speaking trom exper fence?}>5>10'd say 85 percent of the “poliical incidents” between sectors are © result of border guards not paying adequate Cttention fo this provision of the Treaty.}ecce< Lane (01:16:08/6:9-56) >>>>>(Ihis Seems as good « place as any to raise an importont Point. No overal body of law governs the entire FREZ The Treaty Cf Denver fs the closest thing to o common law, but the Treaty only constrains the actions of governments, not Individuals (with some rore exceptions that will become abundantly clear in, time). No one holds overall ursdiction. ond no central pokce force or justice system exists within he Free Zone, Instead, each autonomous sector claims its own jurisdiction ‘ond enforces its own laws. When you'te in the UCAS Sector Yyou'te under UCAS law: in the Aation Sector, you're under Azle law, ond s0 on. This leads to many interesting consequences, of course Two adjoining sectors might have very different ideas about ‘acceptable/legal behavior or what they consider contraband, For example, most sectors consider i legal for anyone to enter their terttory without jumping through all the oppropt Cte bureaucratic hoops (no big surprise there). But far fewer reguiations apply to leaving a territory (unless they've got a warrant out for your artest or some such drek). Let's think ‘about the gentleman trying to cut his way info Gund’s sector. ‘As 800 os the intruder steps back out of UCAS tertory, he's in ‘another jurisction, where his most recent activities aren't ile 1901. The UCAS forces don’t have any legal recourse—they ‘con't even go through the (generally useless) process of trying to excite him, ‘Then there oFe the border motets. best exempted by the TL lows, Ute Sector laws are @ lot mate lenient when It comes to BTL chips and other electronic rrinc-benders thon the laws in the Pueblo and UCAS sector. “Coifornia hots"—chips without ASST ‘Beok controt—are as llegal as ful-on beetles in UCAS. for exorn- ‘le, But they're chilin Ute, as long os there's @ heath warning on the packaging. So what happens? Predictably, there's a boom Ing business in the Ute Sector cranking out Califomia hots—ot perfectly legotwhich ore then smuggled across the derarca {08 o the hungry markets in other sactors <<< Potty (19:08:08/6-1085) >>>2>(There's ako another level of complenty. The laws of the: level of enforcement in a sector might be sightly different from the owning country. For example, weapon possession laws ate more leniont—or. at leost, not os stringently enforced—n the UCAS Sector thon those in the UCAS proper }5>5(And don't forget megacorporate extioteritoralty. As they are everywhere else, megacorp sles within sectors ore considered sovereign terior, outside the sector's juresction, Step onto Yomatetsu propery, and you're under Yamatetsu law ho matter what tector you're in. if you want mote intel on. cexrateritoralty and what it means to you. I suggest you check out the Corporate Shadowilles post elsewhere on this board )}<<<<< —Dorok (28:17:13/6-10-55) GOING BACK AND FORTH ‘Though It's often dificult, sometimes dangerous, and usual ly aggravating, for all the obvious reasons, the Treaty signatorles hhad to make provisions for people to travel between sectors. If the Denver sectors block off any sector from contact with the rest of Denver. the city will collapse within a week or two. It's pure economics. Even ifthe parent country ofthe sector does its best to ship In supplies through alrdrops or overland shipments, the sector stil needs access to other pars of the Infastructure to funetion properly. The different sectors and thelr parent nations are always in competition and often at each other's ‘throat, but they make It possible for each other to exist. Trade between the sectors, mostly illegal and underground, keeps them viable. >>>>o{'s estimated that 30 10 40 percent of he people Fving in ‘any given sector work in cnother }eeeee Johnny 2 (1523:58/5-19-55) >>>5>(Wotking outside your sector shows serious symptoms of brief. you ask me, One day you're going fo find the border closed becaxee one nation sotied off the ether once too atten, ‘ond you won't be able to get to work. or maybe you'l be cut off from home jeceee —Todd (00-42:12/5:21-55) >>>>{Uke sectors decide to commit social and economic su cide real often jeccee ty (14 16:28/5-22-58) >>>s>(Hey, ery me a fraggin’ fiver. When you choose to be a \Wwagetlave, you get to put up with Grok Ike thisjeecee Mung (03:37:50/5-2455) Secuy at the border poststhe oficial “transit cor ors baneven sectocs: i ertower Shan most goverenens might the and mowere near as ae ws they Ike fo clam, Dut sl a utter for concer: Most borer posts Rane ony pedestian tafe and small motoreycies—the specie dnc ton Is anything they consider too small tobe capable of | Smugging nage quantes of contaband o egal ans, Only a few poss handle larger veces, But vehicular taf fal 0 be much ofan issue because so few Denvertes fee any need 0 dese to take ther pvatevehces into another sector, So fees In at, that moet of he egnatry governments compa, about the aggre oat mabeaning any veleuar cose poms atala visiron fu >>>>>(Yeah, the governments bag about it, But they keep their, vehicular crossing points open. Why? Toke @ 100k at the size of ‘he next one you see, churnmer, and then answer the question. Most of the vehicular crossing points are fragging huge. much bigger than they need fo be to handle @ car, truck, oF ‘even 0 laden semirale. What kind of vehicles are they Bult 10, ceccommodate? leds, chummer. that's what. LAVs jammed with “imports.” Remembe the intel about the sectors being dependent on the. underground economy? Even if everybody in the Front Range: Free Zone put their cars up on blocks and swore never to dive them again. the sectors would keep their vehicular crossing, Points open to let the birds make thet “deliveries. ")>s>e(They fy over the ftaggin’ fencel Geez, stop thinking Ike Hbrds have wheel} <<<<« Frelign (20:28:28/66-55) Walking Through Take the kind of security checkpoint you go through at an. airport and jack up the intensity a couple of notches—that'll sive you a pretty good idea of the typical pedestrian crossing, point Everyone going through the crossing point must walk through an archway just jam-packed with sensors—metal- etectors, MADs, cher-sniffers—just to get Into the “process- Ing area.” Anyone who triggers the sensor array will attract the attention of a handful of very large. very mean gentlemen and, ladies, typically wearing medium armor and packing SMCs. One ofthe few ways of getting them off your case once they're on it [s for you to submit to a stip search to prove to their satisfaction, that the weapon detectors overreacted. >o>>>(Generalzations are often deadly, But here goes with @ big one. The archway you walk through at your average cross: Ing point contains @ magnetic-anomaly detector (metal detec: tor, for You moron) plus a chemsitfer, both of average cope: ‘ily (sometimes much more, but this tech’s not cheap). either @ns0% goes off, guards wil march you off somewhere pxlvate 10 ‘explore the nooks and crannies of your body. For @ more in- depth discussion on how this drek works, refer to the Neo- Anarchists’ Guide to Real Life, somewhere else on the BBS }cecee —Hopoiyte (16:20:34/5-19-55) >>>>(There'll usually be © mage or shaman ossensing the {2720 too. If you're packing lots of foc! and fetishes—or any: thing particuiarly powerful—you'll be led away to give o full ‘accounting of just what you've got and why. Make your story convincing }e<<<« Blackstone (21:16:42/5-20:55) >>>>0(tlterate my doubis about the presence of magicions at ‘every ttoggin’ checkpoint al the foggn’ time. Real ife an't the too chuckles —there just cin that many wizers to be had Jecece —Fieight 09:32088/6-3-55) fr NEXUS SECTORS z ‘The sensors, however, are usually ramped pretty low to ‘cut down on the false-alarms. The guards grab most of the People they hassle based on sight alone. Each sector distrb- Utes a series of “templates” to thelr border crossings of what ‘constitutes a “suspicious looking individual” or “interdictable ‘appearance’—in simpler terms, the kinds of people it's wiz to hassle, >>>>>{Guess who appears mostly on those lists? You got orks Cond trol. 's racial bios, pure and siplo.jeece< Remember Hott (20:18:14/5-19-58) >>>>>{ you ask me, most racial bias is based on some level of tnuth cece —Aambane (09.28:41/5-20-55) ‘Once you're through the scanner arch, the fun’s only beginning, You'll have to explain to some hard-faced, sour- ‘minded immigration slot just why you want fo enter the sec: tor, how long you'll be there, where you'll be staying and all the regular drek. As you're doing this song-and-dance, you'll also be asked to slot your credstick into the immigration off- ‘cer’s scanner and provide a thumbprint. (God help you If the data on your credstick doesn’t look acceptable or if the thumbprint data encoded on it doesn't match the digit you're pressing against the scanner.) Most of the immigration officers, ‘working the crossing posts consider It thelr job, their duty and thelr privilege to put you through pure plupertect hell before letting you cross. They have the right to refuse anyone admis- sion into the sector for any reason that crosses their minds at the moment. And they have the authority to send you off to ‘one of those little strip-search rooms without so much as telling you the reason why. >>> (True enough. But most sectors hove at least some kind of “appeal” process in place. If you think you've been Jacked with—tetused entry unfoily, covity-searched for no reason—you can usually fe an official appeal (some nations Call it a “protest” of an “exception"—check the terminology ond requirements before doing anything). You probably ‘won't get any satisfaction from it, but the mechanism isin ploce.)ecec< Monk (16:29:11/5-23-55) >>>>(Whot about cybewore?}>>>>(Depends on the sector you're trying to enter. Also ‘depends on whether the immigration grunts know it's there, of ‘couse. Some soctors—Aztan, for example—won't let you in ot ‘iif you've got any cyberware other than data headware or ppute-andt-simpie prostheses Others are mote Ive-ondtJet-lve, unless you've got some kind of offensive weapon system—spurs or o builtin gun of some kind, Before sectors ike ths wil let you In, you'll have to have the offensive system “restrained.” Basically this iso sensor wired into the control cliculty for the offensive systam and