Campaign Canon: LA History
Since a lot of what happened between 1999 and 2016 has been left up to the individual storyteller to decide what happened and what did not, here's our campaign's Canon as it is known to Technocracy personell.
Dimensional Anomaly
A Dimensional Anomaly disrupted access to Horizon Constructs and Colonies, cut the Front Lines off from the Inner Circle, gutted the ranks of the Void Engineers, and brought many Earthbound Technocrats face to face with the frailties of their own practices.
The catastrophe changed the Union’s tactics, priorities, and resources. Many Constructs remained operational but they worked on a more individual basis, adopting this policy when Control went offline for a decade, with the Symposium leaders largely dictating policies. After a brief intensified Pogrom both sides of the Ascension War dug in for a Cold War, focusing on regaining strength while combatting an increase in Marauder and Nephandic activity. The increased religious fanaticism that underlines much of the modern day's world politics is considered by some a paradox backlash building up on acount of the previous generation of Technocrats pushing too hard for control too early.
The Colonies have suffered tremendous losses but are recovering and rebuilding slowly. Some however have fallen victim to the Dimensional Anomaly in horrendous ways, leaving no one truly alive. Not in a recognizable form anyway. The Void Engineers have become decidedly more militant in recent years. The process of recovering lost constructs and colonies is still ongoing. If you are a Void engineer you've heard rumors of Threat Null. You've been told to keep your mouth shut to unauthorized personell.
Autochtonia Has Fallen
The Machine God is dead. Or so it is said. Its voice was cut off when the Dimensional Anomaly broke its connection to the earthbound Iteration x'ers. In the process Iteration X shows a more humane side than it has in the past. Some in the Convention worry the Machine God will return, cherishing their new-found independance.
Financial Crises
The Syndicate had a couple of tough years with failing manipulations leading to financial markets collapsing. However through careful strategies they made a remarkable comeback, using politics to bolster their iron grip on the masses, placing corporate leaders in political positions, readying the world for corporate control. Special Projects Department has been hit hard by Traditionalist forces but made a comeback in recent years, riding the wave of increased corporate influence on sleeper society. The only branch of the Syndicate that remained relatively stable throughout the economic turmoil were the Enforcers. Criminals always find a way to make money.
Medical advances
The Progenitors have remained remarkably stable through the whole crisis, focusing on academic work rather than being on the Frontlines and mostly being earthbased. Medical science continues to plot forward, developing both new cures and new diseases steadily. Genetic research is making bold advances readily accepted by most of humanity.
The Traditions
During the time the Dimensional Anomaly was most active the Traditions too lost most of its leadership and their most veteran warriors. Their response was violent and directed at the Technocracy, holding us responsible for ridiculous reasons. In return we went to war with them again. In more recent years the Traditions have backed off a little and seem to have re-organized themselves and hostilities have become more intermittent. It is assumed that like us the Traditions are rebuilding their forces, recruiting new members, increasing their influence.
Vampires
Among Vampire society the Technocracy has detected a growing conflict between western and eastern vampires. The nature of this conflict is largely unknown but appears as a turfwar between gangs. So far the Union has been observing rather than interfering. It can ill afford another battlefront.
Shapeshifters
Among shapeshifter society the Technocracy has seen a decrease of the population, in part because of the Syndicate's retalliation against the werewolves that undermined their ventures. But what they lost in numbers the shapeshifters gained in fanaticism. Of particular note is the increase in numbers of rodent shapeshifters and their suicidal fanaticism.
EDE
There has been an increase in dimensional activity. Strange phenomenona are being investigated, an increase in dimensional breaches has been reported in recent years. This is generally assumed to be an after effect of the Dimensional Anomaly.
The Others
There are other things out there that have not yet been properly identified. Alien entities that take possession of human hosts whose purpose remains unknown but whose actions and influences seem to side them with the Traditionalists. Vile mutations yet uncathegorized that stalk the dark streets, misfits of forbidden science or insidious meddling of EDE's have grown more prolific in recent years while the Union was focused on rebuilding their organisation after the Dimensional Anomaly.
Future Prognosis
The Frontlines are reporting an increase overall of supernatural activity in the wake of the Dimensional Anomaly while the Union's numbers were reduced. The NWO and Syndicate Media departments have warned that 8% of californians believes they were abducted by aliens in the past (true fact). A large portion of these people were witnesses to supernatural events in the past and were mindwiped by the Technocracy. Mind Specialists within the Union are warning of a potential paradox backlash building.
The Union lost Authochtonia and with it its Timetable and statiticians' predictions. More recent statistic prognosis points to a growing crisis centered on Los Angeles. Personell in the Hub believe this is the reason why the complex is 100 meter underground and selfsustaining. Something dark is coming ...
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:43, Sat 04 Feb 2017.
