The Year Is 2056

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2056: In New York City, New York, UCAS, the Metascience facility of the Hurley-Cooper corporation is destroyed in a massive explosion. Three employees, Dr. Liron Phalen, Dr. Benjamin Hill, and a project aid are killed. No cause is given for the blast. 2056: In Aztlan, Aztechnology goes through a corporate shakeup to remove traitors. Four high ranking members of Aztechnology intelligence are killed for undisclosed reasons. 2056: In Tokyo, Japan, the Olympic games are held. Due to the Japanese government's refusal to allow metahumans to compete with humans, 60% of the nations invited refuse to attend. Furthermore, no nation boycotting the games televise them. In response the IOC forms a "World" team for athletes from the boycotting nations to compete in as independents. Still, the 2056 Olympics has the lowest attendance record in Olympic history. To deal with this problem the IOC cancels the 2060 Olympics until the metahuman question is dealt with. 2056: In Kaneohe Bay, Hawai'i, Yakuza Oyabun Ekei Tokudaiji is assassinated by a radical faction of Na Kama'aina and ALOHA in an attempt to purge Hawai'i of corporate interests. 2056: In Corporate Sector, Hawai'i, riots break out in protest to corporate influence over Hawai'ian sovereignty. Corporate security fires on the protesters killing many of them. In retaliation the protesters detonate explosive devices in the Renraku and Monobe facilities resulting in massive fatalities. The riots eventually spread to the royal palace and protesters call out against Ali'i Kamehameha V. 2056: In Hawai'i, using the riots as a catalyst, the Na Kama'aina party and ALOHA stage a coup against Ali'i Kamehameha V. They instil his distant cousin in his place. 2056: In Hawai'i, the corporate council, responding to the growing violence against corporate interests, fires a group of Thor projectiles into the ocean as a warning. The Hawai'ian dissidents respond by shooting down a SaederKrupp helicopter. Open violence rages throughout the Islands. Witnesses claim that in the midst of the violence, massive storms and aurora-like lights can be seen on Mount Haleakala. 2056: In Hawai'i, a month after the Na Kama'aina/ALOHA coup, Ali'i Kamehameha V stages a countercoup. Na Kama'aina is put back in their place and ALOHA is almost destroyed as a group. 2056: In Hong Kong, the police estimate that one in six citizens are members of a triad gang. 2056: In UCAS, Dunkelzahn is awarded UCAS citizenship by a special Congressional act. At his swearing-in ceremony, President Steele personally shakes his hand. His official home is changed from Lake Louise to Prince Edward Island. 2056: In Fairfax, North Virginia, UCAS, Tamara Ny, Jonathan Winger, and Theodore Rica are released after two years of a five year sentence for accidentally killing 200 children during a training exercise. Ny and Winger join the Los Angeles Sabers combat biker team and quickly become huge fan favorites. 2056: In Illinois, UCAS, the diaries of Tamir Grey, an influential ghoul trapped within the Chicago Containment Zone, are smuggled out and distributed to

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the outside world. They portray the life of the refuge worker who became a ghoul as a noble creature who has suffered great hardship in his life. These diaries spark nationwide public sympathy for ghouls as a race. 2056: In Aztlan, rebel forces destroy a ferry running from Cancun to Cozumel. 200 civilians are killed. 2056: In Los Angeles, CFS, Daniel Truman of Truman Technologies officially relocates his business from Chicago to Los Angeles. 2056: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, a street samurai named Gallow Joe is found murdered outside of the Red Hat club. The body is found with a broken neck which is surprising due to Gallow Joe's muscle mass. 2056: In Los Angeles, CFS, unidentified people begin burning whole city blocks surrounding the walled enclaves of the rich. These blocks are bought up and used to expand the enclaves. 2056: In the UCAS, President Thomas Steele is re-elected President of the UCAS in an uninspiring campaign. 2056: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a serial killer simply called the Ripper brutally murders four women and three men. The killings mysteriously stop soon after they begin. 2056: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Silas Betancourt, a psychologist for Lone Star Securities, falls from his seventeenth floor office at the Lone Star Securities Office. Witnesses report that the corpse of Mr Betancourt liquefies and dissolves soon after impact. 2056: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz is re-elected in an uninspiring election. 2056: In San Francisco, CFS, a bomb goes off during the Liberation Day parade killing several Fuchi executives and Imperial marines. 2056: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a shadowrunner by the name of Lensman enters the Stuffer Shack at the Renraku Arcology and opens fire with an FNHAR assault rifle screaming about "the dark coming to get him." Many people are killed by his attack before he himself is killed by Renraku security.