
Shadowrun : Prosperity
A Roleplay in Second Life
Setting: Hong Kong 2077
History to Date
::NOTE:: All information that appears after 2068 is NON-Canon and has been created by the Staff for Roleplay purposes. It is counted as fanfiction after that point and NOT to be taken as canon events.
2015 — Hong Kong declares independence from China in reaction to communist crackdowns. British diplomats stall a Chinese retaliation while corporate backers secure control of the new free city.
2017 — Wu Kuan-Lai, founder and CEO of Wuxing, Inc., builds his new corporate headquarters at a carefully picked location in Aberdeen.
2019 — The Red Dragon Association quickly becomes the most powerful Triad in Hong Kong, with the great dragon Lung at its head.
2025 to 2029 — The first major wave of Asian refugees flood into a neutral and prosperous Hong Kong following the Republic Civil War in China and the failed Nationalist Revolution in the Philippines.
2039 — Wu Kuan-Lai passes away and leaves control of the corporation to his son, Wu Lung-Wei.
2044 — The Nationalist War between the Canton Confederation and Taiwan results in a second major wave of refugees who settle in Hong Kong.
2057 — The Wu family and Wuxing, Inc. receive a number of valuable bequests from the will of the late dragon Dunkelzahn.
2059 — Wu Lung-Wei completes his father’s dream and forms the Pacific Prosperity Group, a pan-corporate trade organization designed to combat Japanese economic control of Asia.
2061 — Astral space becomes visible to mundanes around the Wuxing Skytower in Aberdeen as Halley's Comet comes by Earth.
2062 to 2063 — A violent Triad war breaks out between the Red Dragon Association and its main rival, the Yellow Lotus Triad, resulting in the destruction of the latter syndicate.
2064 — In the wake of Crash 2.0, Government reforms change the process of determining Hong Kong’s government.
2068 — The pro-democratic and anti-corporate organization 9x9 first appears in Hong Kong.
2077 — Our Story starts here.....