The year is 2054

• 2054: In London, England, U.K., a rash of murders break out. The victims are
all women with names identical to the victims of the 1888 "Jack the Ripper"
slayings. All are prostitutes and all are found horribly mutilated. The media all
but ignores these killings.
• 2054: In London, England, U.K., after the fourth London Ripper murder, the
killer is revealed by Lord Geraint of Wales to be a clone of Prince Albert Victor
Christian Edward Windsor, Duke of Clarence and one of the suspects of the
original Ripper killings of 1888. The clone, created by the Transys Neuronet
corporation and later killed by Lord Geraint, is the first recorded fully cloned
human being.
• 2054: In Tir na nOg, Sean O'Brien and Patrick Robinson of the New Ulster
Revolutionary Movement are arrested and convicted of 12 counts of murder.
• 2054: In Portland, Tir Tairngire, NuGene Corporation CEO Torin Silverstaff is
killed in a street mugging. His son Tavis takes over the corporation as the new
CEO.
• 2054: The CAS destroyer Garfish is found at the bottom of the Gulf of
Mexico. No bodies are found onboard.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, rumors of a new assassin group spreads
through the Seattle Metroplex criminal community. This group, called
Chimera, is supposedly made up of ex members of a KGB hit squad called
Kamera gone independent.
• 2054: In Tenochtitlan, Aztlan, Simon Xaltepec is elected for his third and final
term as mayor.
• 2054: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the Minneapolis blood slaughters, after one
child killed a month for fifteen months, abruptly stop.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Robert "Doctor Bob" Khamdeng and his
entire DocWagon crew is killed during a routine call that turns into a major
gunfight.
• 2054: On March 13, in Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a routine military training
exercise is initiated using two pilots flying FB1680 attack jets against a
Cheetah remote drone piloted by a ground tech. The two pilots are using an
experimental simsense hook-up that allows them to access each other's
senses. One of the pilots flies too close to Tir Tairngire territory and fires two
Rattlesnake III air-to-air missiles at the drone. One missile destroys the drone
but the other flies into Multnomah Falls Park and impacts with a tour bus
containing the children of Tir Tairngire corporate executives. 200 children are
killed. The two pilots, Jonathan Winger and Tamara Ny as well as the ground
tech, Theodore Rico, are arrested and sentenced to five years in a military
prison at Fairfax, North Virginia.
• 2054: Fuchi Industrial Electronics introduces its Put an Eye Out surveillance
program to prevent trid broadcasting by unauthorized personnel of Fuchi
employees.
• 2054: In UCAS, famed army General Franklin Yeats retires from military
service.
• 2054: The NANA terrorist group shoots down three Lone Star helicopters.
Lone Star responds by initiating a joint raid against NANA with the Salish
Shidhe security forces. Eight terrorists are killed and four wounded. The NANA
leader escapes.
• 2054: In the North Sea, the luxury liner Pride of Ulster, carrying 342
crewmembers and 1,052 passengers, sinks at 12:29 am GMT when all routine
contact with the vessel fails. The New Ulster Revolutionary Movement claims
responsibility for the act. Their statement says "You'll not find survivors,
unless you look in the hereafter."
• 2054: In the MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, New Age Arms facilities are struck by
chemical fires for four days straight. It is speculated that the fires are caused
by plasma shock weapon testing.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the city is lit by strange lights in the sky
similar to the Aurora Borealis. The lights cause is unknown but they are
reported to originate in southern NAN territory.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Haversby theater for elven-style
theater opens to an enthusiastic crowd. The opening show is considered a
huge success.
• 2054: In the CFS, a military observation post just south of Redding explodes.
Tir Tairngire involvement is suspected.
• 2054: In Australasia, the ANZAC strike ends.
• 2054: The Seattle-Brisbane Trade Agreement is signed.
• 2054: In the NAN, a chartered plane carrying 13 members of the Tacoma
Wings urban brawl team crashes over Sioux territory.
• 2054: In Tir Tairngire, Count Gerard McCoy, a civilian member of the Board of
Military Advisors with which the Council of Princes consults on Military matters
and frequent companion of Prince Jenna Ni'Fairra, disappears from public
view.
• 2054: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCAS, there is a rash of serial murders
characterized by the extreme mutilation of the bodies to the extent that
gender cannot immediately be identified. The media dubs them the cannibal
killings.
• 2054: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCAS, Robert Neiman, Steven Jorge,
and Thomas Harris, three of the survivors of the KFK Special Projects
research lab fire of the previous year, as well as Bernard Ohara, head of KFK,
are killed execution style. Robert Malik, the last survivor is suspected but
never found by Minuteman Security. Another suspect, a female assassin
known worldwide as Striper, escapes Philadelphia in the company of a local
street mercenary known as Ripsaw. Both disappear.
• 2054: In Tir Tairngire, Lacrima, a self-styled "mage-historian", declares that
the exact date of the volcanic eruption that formed Crater Lake in Tir Tairngire
is 3454 B.C., July 22, 09:35 hours. The scientific community, known for
denouncing Lacrima's theories, responds with total silence.
• 2054: In Tir Tairngire, the military seals off Crater Lake for unrevealed
reasons. Access is completely restricted and secured by land vehicles, combat
drones, jet patrols, and magical security.
• 2054: In FRFZ, a Tir Tairngire commando team initiates a raid against Data
Haven, the home base of the Shadowland computer network, in order to
prevent information on Tir Tairngire from being released. The team
accidentally strays into Sioux territory and is attacked by a group of the Sioux
Special Forces Wildcats. The event causes a large, yet short lived, diplomatic
incident and is unsuccessful at preventing the Tir Tairngire files from being
broadcasted.
• 2054: In Tir Tairngire, a terrorist smuggles a bomb into the Telestrian Habitat
in Portland. The bomb detonates killing both the terrorist and twelve
inhabitants. Hard Green, Alamos 20,000, the Muslim Ork Army, TerraFirst!,
 the Nuevo Kachinas, and half a dozen other terrorist groups claim
responsibility.
• 2054: In Tir Tairngire, Aiden FitzGerald, President/CEO of Matsushima
Computer Technologies (Tir Tairngire) is arrested for espionage against
NeuroTech and Willamette Compustat. The Matsushima's Tir Tairngire assets
are all confiscated by the Tir Tairngire government.
• 2054: In Tir Tairngire, a Sioux-registered airbus suffers engine and servo
systems failure and crashes into the Crater Lake area of Tir Tairngire. There
are no survivors.
• 2054: The luxury vessel Gilded Hope is lost while trying to cross through the
security veil of Tir Na nOg. All 8 crew and passengers are lost.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, radical ork activist Preacher holds a rally
attended by seven thousand orks and trolls. Preacher encourages all listeners
to "take up the torch" and fight back against metahuman racism "at all times,
and with due force." Soon after the rally, supporters of Preacher begin a
policy of active resistance against Lone Star Security.
• 2054: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, a team of scholars and
archaeologists report a major archaeological find 130 miles off the coast of
Crete, Greece. The expedition, funded by the Atlantean Foundation, discovers
a major treasure trove of artifacts in an area reported by historical records to
be the former location of an island called Thera. Thera is known as a possible
location of the legendary lost city of Atlantis.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Janie Lamet, a young human child, is
rescued by Solista, a sasquatch, from a cave-in after two days of being
trapped. The media immediately cashes in on the event with made-for-trideo
features.
• 2054: The Banco Euro Internationale is discovered to be forging accounts.
Bank President Fellipe Tolonka and fourteen bank officers are arrested after a
week-long undercover investigation. The initial tip given from a clerk who
noticed a discrepancy in one of the accounts of which the only possible cause
could be a bank officer. The financial damage to the European Economic
Community is estimated to be in the billions, possibly trillions. Over one
hundred corporations face financial collapse due to the scheme.
• 2054: In the Salish Shidhe Council, NAN, a Sea Drake that has been
attacking shipping lanes resulting in destroyed property and many deaths, is
caught. The creature is discovered to have been cybernetically altered by
unknown parties.
• 2054: In the UCAS, AWS announces the field testing of new powered military
armor.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Flex Lenard, a popular trideo interviewer
known for extreme ultra-conservative views, is abducted after a gunfight
leaving his four bodyguards dead.
• 2054: In Japan, a semibalistic flight to Tokyo crashes just short of Narita
Airport. All 109 passengers plus a flight and cabin crew of ten are killed.
Among the passengers are Martha S. Grimes, chairman of the Board of the
Highstar Corporation, and 17 members of her personal security party.
• 2054: In Gilroy, CFS, Valerie Stupnikov, a known shadowrunner, is found
murdered execution-style.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Farazad Samji is found dead in an alley.
His body has been burned from the inside out. No explanation can initially be
found. But a film of the incident provided by KKRU shows Samji being killed
by a previously unknown type of magical spirit composed entirely of light.
• 2054: In the Yucatan, Aztlan, Rebel forces blow up an oil refinery killing 127
technicians. The government promises swift and brutal retribution.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, various nodes of the matrix are
inexplicably burnt out entirely. The destruction seems to be limited to nodes
pertaining to religion. Many deckers begin to panic noting the similarity
between this destruction and the Computer Crash of 2029.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the magical shop of Aziz, a known mage-
researcher is destroyed in a fire.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the ORC, having tried numerous times to
arrange a meeting with Governor Schultz over the treatment of orks and trolls
by Lone Star officers, stages a massive demonstration in front of the
Metroplex Hall. The demonstration quickly gets out of control when Lone Star
officers try to break it up. Hundreds are arrested, hurt, or killed.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, an out-of-town shadowrunner by the
name of Raven and his elven partner try to force Miyuki Kishi, a low-level
corporate executive, and her boyfriend Akira Hirota to talk with him. The
confrontation swiftly becomes a fight. Raven, Kishi, and Hirota are all killed
instantly. The unidentified elf dies on the way to the hospital.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Yao Wah, a known Ork Underground
journalist, is killed in a supposed robbery attempt.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Gus Deighton, an employee with Renraku
Computer Technologies, is killed in a lab fire of supposed magical origin.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, two Lone Star officers, Corporal Larry
Torno and Private Renny "Reno" Mellor are attacked in their vehicle by the
light spirit that killed Farazad Samji. Both officers barely survive the attack
and deny that the spirit was involved. However, both officers are later
implicated and arrested for the murder of three homeless ork children. The
children were gunned down in cold blood and the officer's vehicle computer
log shows that it has been tampered with. Lone Star Chief William Louden
calls the officers actions isolated incidents and denies that Lone Star has a
problem with racist officers.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, an Orks First! pirate broadcast identifies
the cause of the matrix attacks as the light spirit that killed Farazad Samji.
Apparently the spirit is capable of traveling through fiber optic networks and
destroying matrix sites. With the help of Renraku Computer Systems and
Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, a young ork shaman by the name of Patti
Dewar is able to contain and banish the spirit forever. In gratitude, both
companies pay her 30,000 nuyen which she then donates to the Street
Savers shelter for homeless children.
• 2054: In Sioux Nation, NAN, the Fuchi Lawsuit against FTL Technologies ends
inconclusively but with FTL Technologies in shambles. Fuchi Industrial
Electronics initiates a hostile takeover of FTL Technologies.
• 2054: Alamais, the western dragon leader of Der Nachtmachen is rumored
killed.
• 2054: In the former Yugoslavia, Serbian and Croatian hostilities flare up
again.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a minor breakout of a new retrovirus,
inaccurately labeled VITAS 4, strikes in contained areas. For some unknown
reason it seems to primarily strike members of the street gang subculture.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, Lone Star corporation executives Sarah Layton,
Vince McMartin, and Marcus Drummond are killed in an automobile accident.
• 2054: On May, 16, in Osaka, Japan, a series of unexplained explosions set off
massive fires. The fires gut the city's downtown area.
• 2054: On June 5, in FRFZ, the home of Yakuza Oyabun Kasigi Toda is
bombed, although Toda is not home during the explosion, his wife and two
children are killed.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Dr. Theodore Drumming Bear, a beloved
magical physician known for his low cost treatment of street people, is found
murdered.
• 2054: In Tir na nOg, government officials announce a relaxation of their
strict policy of isolation and separatism.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, trideo personality Flex Lenard is rescued
from his kidnappers after over 150 days in captivity. He is slightly injured
during the rescue attempt in which 3 members of the Knight Errant strike
team leading the rescue are injured. All 7 of the kidnappers are killed.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, two inmates, Ironhead Tiamartz and
Wilson Gressman, escape from the Hollywood Correctional Facility. After an
intense three-week manhunt, they are recaptured and sent back to prison.
• 2054: In the CFS, the "Ghostman" simsense chip is released to massive riots
of people waiting to buy it.
• 2054: A computer virus infects the stock market computer causing a massive
economic crash. The event is later called Black Friday and results in the
market being closed until the virus can be purged from the system.
• 2054: In Yokohama, Japan, several unexplained fires break out at 9 industrial
sites. 6 of the destroyed complexes are owned by Ares Macrotechnology.
Witnesses near the scene of the fires report seeing a dragon flying in the area
several minutes prior to the fire.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, grunge rock star Fetid Nikky is found dead
in a dumpster behind the Viper Club by Rikki Ratman, a bartender at the club.
Reports indicate that the body is drained of all fluids and severely beaten.
• 2054: In the UCAS, Mycroft Tek, a small adult simsense company enters the
arms business with the AWX-11 Terminator Pistol.
• 2054: In Germany, the popular clothing style changes to an emphasis on
disquieting natural colors.
• 2054: In FRFZ, a fight between two shamanic adepts at the Raintree Inn
leads to one of them spontaneously combusting.
• 2054: In Austin, Texas, CAS, an explosion occurs over Duval Street. No
explanation is given for the cause.
• 2054: In the Midwest UCAS, an unbroken series of torrential downpours
causes massive flooding. These floods, larger than any experienced in the
area, causes massive destruction to the grain belt. This gives rise to fierce
commodities trading.
• 2054: Keno Spandeau, President and Chairman of the Floundering Karriko
conglomerate, is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This causes the
Karriko conglomerate to suffer even greater losses.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, during the Battle of the Bands in Kowalins
park, the second place winners, the band Iguana, opens fire on both the
judges and the spectators for not winning first place. Several deaths result
from the attack.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, the Church of Devine Truth and Light gain a
reputation for feeding an housing the poor, as well as renewing Redmond
Barren neighborhoods.
• 2054: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, two local shadowrunners, Ennio
Franzetti and Jackie Forester are found dead floating in Lake Pontchartrain.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, construction on the Renraku Arcology is
completed.
• 2054: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Eagle Security forces encounter serial
murderer Corey Martin. Although they shoot him more than 60 times, Martin
escapes, indicating that he is somehow magically active.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a Renraku Computer Technologies facility
is bombed. An anarchist group called the Apostles of the Apocalypse claims
responsibility.
• 2054: In FRFZ, the Ute sector inexplicably cuts off all transport in or out
except for approved trips to the Ute Nation. The close-out is short lived.
• 2054: Rumors begin to spread of a new matrix utility called Black Hammer.
This program is alleged to mimic the lethal properties of black IC.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Seattle Timberwolves player "Scratch"
Potter is named as one of three defendants in a grand jury indictment
involving charges of racketeering and points-fixing.
• 2054: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the terrorist group Apostles of the
Apocalypse are killed in a raid by Lone Star Security Services. Their leader,
Solomon Kane, is identified as Anjiro Torii, whose father was an executive for
Renraku Computer Technologies until six months ago. Detective Sergeant
Jordan Hallis, who discovered their location, is killed in the raid. He is
awarded the department's Medal of Honor.
• 2054: In San Francisco, CFS, the terrorist group Burakumin get into a
shootout with the SFPD. Seven officers are killed in the fight.
• 2054: The band Anhedonia releases its album, "Sad Eyed Angel Falls".
• 2054: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Sunito Hiroshige, wife of Yakuza boss Keiji
Hiroshige, dies.