Atlanta, CAS, from the Neo-Anarchist’s Guide to North America for Shadowrun (1st Edition)
Atlanta seems like a cool town.
It’s not a place in which I’ve spent a lot of time. A place I’ve been to when on the way to other places – the dreaded transfers in Hartsfield-Jackson airport, stuck in traffic on I-75 on the drive to Florida.
In 2050 it’s not only the seat of county and state government, but also the CAS federal government. It distinguishes itself from other Sixth World metroplexes in still maintaining their own police force and not shopping it out to Lone Star or Knight Errant.
This section was written by Stephan Wieck, author of Queen Euphoria, co-founder of White Wolf, and Georgia Tech alum. It, refreshingly, focuses not on how the Shadowrun metaplot infused itself into Atlanta, but rather how Atlanta evolved from then until now. None of the usual suspects of Megacorps are mentioned at all, instead we are given details about:
Global Business Computers
Coca-Cola™ Company – Frag you, Pepsi!
Hisato-Turner Broadcasting – because someone has to show reruns of The Jeffersons
Wait, why should we care about them?
Lots of checkerboard backgrounds.
Cord Mutual Insurance, largest insurance company in the world, winner of the clandestine Insurance War in 2035, has a 500-story tall building. The current tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, with 168 stories and a height of 828 meters. At the same scale, the Cord Mutual tower would have a height of 2.5 km, or about a mile and a half high. Drek.
“I’ll walk the thin line for you.”
Another place of interest: Fulton County Stadium – abandoned by sports teams in 2024, there was an attempt to turn it into a new Epcot:
Researchers covered the coliseum with an experimental biotech membrane that was supposed to photosynthesize to produce food, turn solar radiation into usable energy, and purify the air it released into the domed interior of the coliseum. In effect, the coliseum was an experimental model for enclosed cities of the future.
How well did that turn out? After corporate sabotage and funding cuts, the project collapsed and the homeless (known as “domers”) moved in. By 2045, we have this:
On seemingly random nights, the masses crowd back into the dome to view a kind of gladiatorial battle in which an outside domer tries to dethrone an insider. The domers refer to the special battlefield where these fights occur as the killground.
This is much more awesome than its current fate (demolished in 1997 and made into a parking lot).
That dude is totally grabbing her tit.
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