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The Year of Chaos

  • January 13: The first baby is born with the condition that will later be described as Unexplained Genetic Expression.[1]
  • January: The Mexican government dissolves in the wake of VITAS outbreaks. Hundreds of thousands of refugees swarm the US border. [2]Sixth World Almanac claims April 7[1]
  • February: The IRA kills forty-four soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment in Coalisland.[3]
  • February 9: The Black Tide hits the North Sea coast, killing thousands and displacing millions in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Denmark and Norway. Half a million people eventually die from the Black Tide's effects.[4][5]
  • March: The IRA kills thirty-one soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment in Ulster.[3]
  • March 14: Newsweek magazine is the first media outlet that describes UGE babies as "elves" and "dwarfs."[1]
  • April 14: The IRA destroys the British SAS base in Belfast, killing thirteen operators and eleven Protestant paramilitaries.[6]
  • May: Beginning now and for the next three years, numerous UGE children disappear, are given up for adoption, or simply abandoned.[1]
  • July: Operation Discovery, a clandestine eight-man mission to Mars, makes planetfall and begins its survey.[7]
  • August 15: The Indonesian government collapses following VITAS and several volcanic eruptions.[1]
  • September 3 UK: The basalt columns of Giant’s Causeway rise on the coast of Northern Ireland, taller and more solid than they have ever been. Throughout the year, stone circles erupt from the ground across the United Kingdom.[1]
  • October 31 USA: The annual Samhain ritual in Salem, Massachusetts is attended by some new guests: A ghostly hunting group, later identified as the Wild Hunt, appears out of the evening mist charges around the celebrants.[1]
  • November 18: A tribe of yeti is conclusively identified in Nepal.[1]
  • November 23 GERMANY: The Treaty of Passau settled all remaining disputes about the rights of national and international corporations, effectively guaranteeing extraterritoriality to any corporation larger than a certain size.[8]
  • December 24: The Awakening. [1][8]
    • The great eastern dragon Ryumyo appears on Mount Fuji.
    • Under the cover of a fierce storm, Daniel Coleman leads a walk-out of the Abilene detainment camp. Guards attempt to stop him, but their bullets bounce off a glowing field. Coleman leads his people into the storm, leaving no trace.[9]
    • The main cabin of the primary Operation Discovery module suffers a catastrophic malfunction and crashes on Mars, killing five of the eight astronauts. The survivors begin the return to Earth in the command capsule.[7]
    • 00:00:01 - Saeletra makes its one and only appearance.[10]
    • The first mana storm sweeps across the Australian Outback.[11]Sixth World Almanac says February 20[1]
  • December 26: Ley lines and standing stones re-emerge all over Britain. The Great Welsh Dragon Celedyr is sighted over Caerleon.[12]
  • England's Sizewell B nuclear power station suffers a critical meltdown. 7,800 people die within the first month and nearly 80,000 will die of various cancers over the next thirty years.[13]
  • A nuclear power plant in Dounreay, Scotland, suffers a meltdown, creating the Scottish Irradiated Zone.[13]
  • The Auvergne volcano in France erupts.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 20
  2. o12707240Shadowrun 20th Anniversary p. 25
  3. 3.0 3.1 o89952224Tír na nÓg pg. 29
  4. o30783549Shadows of Europe pg. 10
  5. o84296706Germany Sourcebook pg. 22
  6. o89952224Tír na nÓg pg. 30
  7. 7.0 7.1 o48834768Missions p. 52
  8. 8.0 8.1 o84296706Germany Sourcebook pg. 24
  9. o82435997Native American Nations Volume One p. 74
  10. o26531536Denver: The City of Shadows p. 73
  11. o57038227Target: Awakened Lands p. 17
  12. o66933837London Sourcebook p. 18
  13. 13.0 13.1 o66933837London Sourcebook p. 17
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