93gamesstudio (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} 93gamesstudio) wrote,@ 2007-12-30 11:07:00 |
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End of the Year Update
So, as many of you can tell there will not be a 2007 release. We've had a few set backs as try as I might I haven't been able to pull things together as fast as I would like.
I am ok with the delay though. This project has turned out some awesome material. I am very proud to have worked with Clayton and am equally proud of the rules he has developed. All along I've told him I would rather delay and have quality than rush it and put out something that is no different than that which is already out there. I can tell you that the rules we're putting out are going to take the game to a new level.
I do have some good news though, writing is almost complete, maybe a week or two left and its done. Except for a few special peices, art is already collected. Cover and layout images are in as well. All I am mostly waiting on is a final edit and then it out the door. So I would look for pre-orders taking place in January.
And now for another snippet:
2009
The Libyan leader dies in September. Because he actually had no official state title and Libya being "a state of the masses", no person replaces him. Instead the Prime Minister steps up and assumes all of the formers duties and responsibilities. The death of the Libyan leader causes great unrest throughout the west as they prepare for all possibilities, but by the end of the year most fears are subdued.
One of the Prime Ministers first acts as de facto head of state is to continue and expand the Great Manmade River project. Libya contracts with several additional large European companies to expand the project. In exchange for their assistance Libya grants them all large swathes of land (about 10 sq. km. each) near Banghazi along the Mediterranean coast. The companies quickly setup their own company towns, construct ports, and begin importing in thousands of workers (both labor and security).
In additional to public works, the Prime Minister goes on a European and North American tour to repair political ties and Libya's national image amongst the west. The new democratic president of the U.S. welcomes the offer and holds a North American summit with Libya, Canada and Mexico. Officially not much is accomplished at this meeting, however, the groundwork is laid which will see benefits next year as the river project is expanded and offered to American companies.
Manmade River Project
The Manmade River Project is one of the largest engineering feats undertaken in the modern era. Connecting over 1300 wells, a network of pipes supplies water from the Sahara Desert in Libya from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System. Work began on the project in 1984 and progress was slow until 2007 when an explosion of growth began to see tangible results.
2010
Libya's Great Manmade River project enjoys huge milestones. The program is expanded beyond what most thought it could. By the end of the year hundreds of small villages and towns are reached and included in the system. Large areas of the once desert area are even turned into lush, fertile valleys. Encouraged by this success, several U.S. companies are granted company towns in order to further speed expansion. With the profits these companies start seeing, the financial markets joke that soon there'll be more money in water than in oil.
After seeing the success of Libya's company towns, many other African nations openingly adopt the same practice. Most of them are set up for legitimate ventures, such as port operations or diamond mining (as many of them try to turn away from the blood diamond image). However, a few of them are allowed to operate without oversight and begin to create walled citadels where all manner of rumored activities exist.
The most famous of these new company towns is located in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) about 15 miles up river from Grand Bassam near Amia, named Utopia. Utopia's secret will remain intact even past 2013, however, many rumors will travel the world about what happens there.
Seeing the explosive growth of rich farm land in Libya, Egypt embraces its neighbor and in the fall, signs multiple treaties of mutual support. The treaties include provisions for the sharing of the Great Manmade River system, providing cheap Egyptian labor for the projects use, mutual defense and the sharing of technology. Egypt opens its first company town along the Libyan-Egypt border. These treaties will prove to be very beneficial to both countries in the coming years.
This year Egypt has experienced a huge boom in oil and gas transport coming thru the Suez Canal heading to Europe. The increase has been largely due to the fact that Russia has ceased all oil exports to Europe. The embargo includes any nation which publicly issued statements of support for France over the Belarus attack. This embargo is absolute and includes all means of transport (trucks, ships and pipe). The increased revenue allows Egypt to provide increased financial support for the Manmade River Project as well as increasing its military might.
[This is uneditted and subject to change, but should be pretty concrete]
