bay_area

Bay Area, 2103

===== His­to­ry ===== As the WWW ex­pand­ed in­to ev­ery as­pect of life and each suc­ce­sive gen­er­a­tion knew less about any oth­er way of liv­ing or com­mu­ni­cat­ing, crowd­ing hu­mans to­geth­er in cities and go­ing places to buy or do stuff be­came less and less im­por­tan­t. Cor­po­ra­tions aban­doned the cities. Lack­ing the prop­er­ty and oth­er busi­ness tax­es the cites de­te­ri­at­ed, en­cour­ag­ing more peo­ple and busi­ness to leave. Even­tu­al­ly, ev­ery­one that could had moved out.

May 14, 2070 a mag­natude 8.9 earth­quake rocked the Bay Area(//”the shake”//). The Gold­en Gate’s north tow­er crashed in­to the bay drag­ging most of the span with it. BART2 and the Coastal Ma­gLev were to­taled up and down the peninnsu­la all the way to the SJ­PA Au­ton­o­mous Eco­nom­ic Zone. The “Pep­si Co­la” dike, built to hold back the ris­ing ocean­s, most­ly held. Near­ly all the lo­cal util­i­ty and trans­porta­tion in­fra­struc­ture was dev­as­tat­ed. Over 40% of all pri­vate prop­er­ty was knocked or burnt down. Most of the rest was con­demnable or de­stroyed dur­ing the en­su­ing month long ri­ot­s(//”the burn”//). No one rushed to re­build the city that was half-emp­ty any­way. Plans were drawn up to re­pair the Coastal Ma­gLev up the east­ern side of the bay, no mon­ey for the project ev­er ma­te­ri­al­ized. The Bay Bridge which had been new­ly hard­ened(vs ter­ror­ist­s) in 2043 was one of the few large struc­tures to sur­vive. With­in a decade CAL­TRANS elect­ed to tear it down rather than pay to main­tain it.

Most cor­po­ra­tions had al­ready reloact­ed their da­ta cen­ters and net­work in­fra­struc­ture to ge­o­log­i­cal­ly sta­ble Sacra­men­to or fur­ther afield. 90% of their work­ers telecom­mut­ed from slang|PRD’s (Planned Ru­ral De­vel­ope­ments gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties or var­i­ous oth­er qui­et, safe, con­trolled ar­eas. The #USA and the world wrote the Bay Area off as a bad in­vest­men­t.

Soon, af­ter the shake and burn San Fran­cis­co, Sil­i­con Val­ley, and the rest of the Bay Area fell in­to near an­ar­chy. On­ly a few en­claves main­tained a sem­blance of or­der and a sta­bli­ty. The largest of the­se, based around the old pub­lic pow­er gen­er­a­tion fa­cil­i­ty and grid, slow­ly unit­ed the en­claves and “re­claim­s” much of the city. By 2103 there is a demo­crat­icly run “c­i­ty-s­tate” the #G­BA, Greater Bay Area. It con­trols large parts of what was once ref­ered to as “The Bay Area”. Gain­ing de­fac­to au­ton­o­my since, as of yet, the #G­BA ruler­ship has been care­full not to give any­one a rea­son to care what hap­pens around SF Bay.

Oh yeah, the earth­quake al­so opened a hell­mouth & le­gions of the dead are con­vient­ly close, in http://www.wan­ing­moon.­com/­goth­ica/ar­ti­cles/6660009.shtm­l|­Col­ma :)

===== On Lo­ca­tion ===== == San­Fran Dis­trict == sfdis­tric­t|San­Fran Dis­trict is part of, the ass part of, the #G­BA. It is home, crum­bling home, to 120,000 liv­ing and an an­noy­ing num­ber of un­dead.

The ma­jor­i­ty of the ./episodes/who in­vit­ed you|sea­son one is shot here.

== Oth­er Dis­trict == FIXME

== Al­ca­traz Is­land == Seized by the In­di­ans of All Tribes(I­AT) in Nov 2069, on the 100 year an­niver­sary of the first In­di­an re­oc­cu­pa­tion. Since the slang|shake and burn IAT has heav­i­ly for­tifed it with low-tech, hi-tech and mag­ic. It is a no-­go zone for non-in­di­an­s. Vi­o­laters are killed dead by or­ga­nized, trained, buffed in­di­an war­rior braves.

== Mi­wok Is­land == //­Former­ly An­gel Is­land// (Re)oc­cu­pied and de­vel­oped by IAT start­ing in the sum­mer of 2072. It pro­vides grow-­food land, liv­ing space, and is the epi­cen­ter of trib­al life for the IAT. Non-tribes­men are un­wel­commed but not killed on sight.

== Marin Head­lands == Not part of bay area#G­BA. The IAT has sev­er­al camps and grow-­food ar­eas here. There are al­so sev­er­al well-de­fend­ed cor­po­rate slang|PRD‘s all over the North Bay.

== GBA == (The Greater Bay Area)

The GBA en­com­pas­es most of The Penin­su­la, East Bay, and South Bay. It is hemmed in the east by the Coastal Hills Range, in the north by El Cer­ri­to, and in­cludes all of San Jose in the south. These are not fixed, rec­og­nized bound­ries. They are the places in which more peo­ple claim to be part of the GBA rather than part of some­thing else. With­in this area are many large and small tracts that are un­con­trolled, con­trolled by oth­er en­ti­ties(I­AT, Cor­po­ra­tions, Gov­ern­men­t, In­de­pen­dent Town­ship­s, etc.) or are just not fit for con­tin­u­ous habi­ta­tion.

Formed out of the peo­ple who had not aban­doned the Bay Area be­fore and who lived through the slang|shake and burn. De­fi­nate­ly not your com­mon co­po­rate zom­boid­s; neo-hip­pies, an­ar­chist­s, lib­er­t­e­ri­an­s, cypher­punks, sur­vival­ist­s, technopa­gen­s, cultist­s, crusties, crunchies, FOB’s, freak­s, and a med­ley of oth­er sub­-­cul­tures. They share com­mon at­tributes of DIY, free­dom, in­de­pen­dence, mul­ti­-­cul­tur­al­is­m, and equal­i­ty.

The GBA is di­vid­ed in­to dis­trict­s. Each dis­trict has its own lo­cal­ly elect­ed coun­cil, a mili­ti­a, and is large­ly self­-­gov­ern­ing but all sub­scribe to http://www.un­hchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.ht­m|”The Uni­ver­sal Dec­la­ra­tion of Hu­man Right­s”. The GBA it­self has an over­all coun­cil elect­ed by its cit­i­zens and a “mili­ti­a” which is more of a stand­ing para-mil­i­tary force than the dis­trict mili­tias.

A tough place to live, the GBA is walk in the park com­pared to most “slang|un­reg­u­lat­ed” ar­eas and in its cit­i­zens opin­ions far, far bet­ter than be­ing a cor­po­rate drone.

===== The World (Cliff notes ver­sion) ===== Bay Area folk are con­cerned with lo­cal is­sues like //”will my home still be there”.// Peeps don’t trav­el much any­more, it’s a ma­jor uber­suck and why stress when ev­ery­thing need­full can be got over The Net, no muss, no fuss.

The rest of the world is Mootvile to them, but here is what is known.

== Cor­po­rate lands == The area that was for­mer­ly Cal­i­for­ni­a, Ore­gon, Wash­ing­ton and a few oth­er states, is now cor­po­rate con­trolled or “slang|un­reg­u­lat­ed“. A very few in­de­pen­dent town­ships strug­gle on. The state and lo­cal gov­ern­ments them­selves have been vot­ed out of ex­is­tance(pri­va­tized). Much of the rest of the world has suf­fered sim­i­lar cor­po­rate takeover­s.

== USA == What re­mains con­sists of the North­east­ern, Mi­dat­lantic and most of the Mid­west­ern states. Cor­po­ra­tions con­trol ev­ery­thing through Fed­er­al and state gov­ern­ment prox­ies.

== EU == A gov­er­men­tal fa­cade. Ruled overt­ly and ab­so­lute­ly by cor­po­ra­tions.

== PRC == One of the few pow­er­full na­tion-s­tates that is not a cor­po­rate pup­pet.

== In­di­an Fed­er­a­tion == In­di­a, sur­round­ing land­s, parts of Africa. PRC’s chief com­peti­tor as top non-­cor­po­rate na­tion-s­tate.

== Cana­da == Around 2037 Canuks saw that they liked Szech­wan food and dis­liked be­ing threat­ened by the US­A. Mean­while the PRC took note of Canada’s enor­mous fresh­wa­ter re­serves and vast emp­ty land­s. Soon the Sino-­Can ac­cords were signed.

Af­ter years of im­mi­gra­tion, mu­tu­al de­fense, joint space ex­plo­ration, Mar­tian col­o­niza­tion the PRC and Cana­da are like broth­er peas in the co-pros­per­i­ty pod.

== God’s own Re­pub­lic of Texas == Tex­as, Mex­i­co and most of the South­ern states.

== The Free State of Utah == North of RF­SU.

== The Re­al Free State of Utah == South of FSU.