Pacific City Chronicles

Fort Rogers After the Rose Hill massacre, the ne colonists wanted protection. Fort Rogers was the answer, and it stood on this rise of land for many decades until age forced it to close and be torn down. Some parts are preserved in a museum in the area. The area has a decidedly Bohemian quality to it, and is sometimes referred to as 'Little Berkeley'. The city's gay quarter along the south beach bleeds into a thriving artistic community that has several galleries, both public and private, small niche museums (The Museum of Masks has everything you ever wanted to know about various masks that heroes have worn, along with souvineers and a gift shop), homey Mom-and-Pop eateries and bakeries, and the first clock tower in the city. As it flows north and west, it shades into student housing, cheap fast food and various other University-oriented commerce. 'Chinatown' With the largest Asian community in the US outside of San Francisco, Pacific City's oriental community ...

Further cleaning up of the map, plus the addition of place names and area names. I need to find out why the text tool makes everything so blurry.

Universities and Colleges UWPC – University of Washington at Pacific City. Extension of the UW university system PCU – Pacific City University. Largest and best institute in the area. Crown Pointe College – The chief rivals of PCU in the athletics area as well as scholastic merit. Crown Pointe is a private college known for a very exclusive student body. St. Anthony’s College – Oldest college in the area, privately funded. Buckley Conservatory of the Performing Arts – Music, dance, theater Adams Polytechnic University – Leader in aerospace and electrical engineering

Barrow Hill Barrow Hill has a murky past involving murders, mysterious mass suicides, and general strange goings-on. It’s said to be one of the most haunted areas in the US because not only is it on the site of an old Indian burial ground, it’s the site of Rose Bay , the first settlement on Crown Island. Rose Bay, founded 1835, is named after the Fireweed wildflower that dotted the area and was one of the first permanent settlements of any size in the Northwest Territories. The Mtaki Tribe natives seemed friendly and helpful, and eagerly aided the settlers; for this reason the town grew rapidly and also didn’t feel the need for much protection. By 1837, though, increased contact with other nearby tribes revealed that the Mtakis were shunned as demon worshippers. Scouts who tried to relay this information to the city fathers were laughed at until the summer solstice of 1837, when the Mtaki revealed their true nature and slaughtered every white man on the island and nearby mainland in a...

What are the best places to live in Pacific City? Within the actual city limits (basically, just Crown Island)…. Gold Row This downtown area centered on 24th Street is the site of five-star hotels, exclusive stores and boutiques, the best restaurants and high-rise luxury condos. It’s the third most expensive address in the US. Most high-end retailers in the US and quite a few international ones have an outlet here. Many corporate headquarters are located here as well. Gold Row is generally considered to start in Township Square with the old Pacific Herald building. Cicero Park Old homes around the actual park area combined with a great deal of police presence make this a safe and expensive place to live. Rows of spacious brownstone reconstructions, Victorian corner homes and turreted brick hotels are scattered around this residential neighborhood. Most of the waterfront development is newer and up to modern codes because it was destroyed by Lemurian bio-machines during the invasion of ...

What are the worst areas of Pacific City? Iron Harbor . In 1956, this was the shipping center of the city until it the shipyards were destroyed by the Silver Sentry's battle with a Korexian invasion force. The new shipyards were in a different area and Iron Harbor spiraled into poverty. Rezoning attempted to correct the problem but only produced an industrial hellhole where people once lived. Today, the area is block after block of abandoned warehouses, rusting gantries and dockyards surrounded by outdated housing projects, factories, chemical facilities and mills. Crime is a tremedous problem and the Bonelords gang rules the streets and alleys. The area abuts the north end of the red light district, which certainly doesn't help matters. The vigilante Raven is often seen in this area. Isla Maria . The Spanish ghetto, more commonly known as La Hoya ('The Pit'). Povery and rampant unemployment, overcrowding and gang warfare between a dozen different rivals creates an almo...

StahlKorps : The Steel Corps. Nazi Germany had help from many strange quarters as it’s scientists ranged far afield in their search for any means to prevail over their enemies. One of the strangest was the Steinhauer Wormhole, an unstable hyperspacial bridge to the planet Korex, in the Andromeda galaxy. The Korexians were fanatical militaristic expansionists who ruled over 10,000 planets, and who thought the Third Reich had the right idea. Messages and information flowed back and forth, and from this the Nazi science corps was able to build the armored walking machines, the VogelPanzer , (Bird-Tank, called so because the two long legs are reminiscent of a bird’s) and the TotenPanzer (Death-Tank, a massive armored fortress on four legs). At the height of the program, there were almost 200 AusländerMaschines within the Empire. The units were high-maintenance because the builders simply did not understand some of the technologies used. They were capable of tremendous devastation but wer...

Minutemen Memorial Battalion Park has several statues and plaques to fallen heroes of all sorts, but the largest is the Minutemen Memorial. Five bronze statues stand atop a marble pedestal, depicting the first Pacific City superteam: The Minutemen. Originally started by Amazing Woman, Red Ace, and Mercury, the Minutemen served in every theater of WWII though they concentrated on the Japanese threat. They gained and lost members over time until they numbered five in 1958: Red Ace (Super strong war hero), The Shield (Alien with a golden force shield), Vesper (Formerly the villainous Mind Maiden), The Eagle (Weapons expert with mechanical wings) and Raptor (Eagle’s former sidekick Wing). On July 4, 1958, they stopped a plot by Reichmaster (II) to turn the entire city into mind-controlled Nazi zombies but at the cost of their own lives. The city erected the Minutemen Memorial Complex in 1960. It consists of the north end of Battalion Park, with the bronze statues surrounded by plaques and ...

NFL : Wolverines Major League Baseball : Kings, Redwoods National Basketball Assoc : Silver Knights American Hockey League : Stars Barber Stadium Complex , including the BarberDome, the Levy Arena, and the St. John Olympic Center. Named for James ‘Buddy’ Barber, a local philanthropist and sports enthusiast. The Barber Complex was the centerpiece of Pacific City’s 1984 Summer Games hosting, and has since been expanded even further.

Some campaign Miscellany: Aliens There is regular extraterrestrial contact though most access to the two publicly-known Alienage enclaves (one near Las Vegas, the other in The Azores) is restricted. Alien researchers, explorers and cultural exchange personnel typically have limited three-day visas in the US, after which they must check in with an INS agent or facility. There are about a dozen different races that regularly have contact with humans; most are humanoid themselves. It is known that there are interstellar empires and the Earth has been invaded a few times. Atlantis Atlantis exists somewhere in the Burmuda Triangle near the edge of the continental shelf. Relations with the nation and the US are shaky at best. It maintains a Mission to the UN in New York, San Fancisco, and Pacific City. It is known that the Atlanteans posesses very strong mental powers and a high level of technology, but they keep to themselves a great deal. Their city-state is protected by a psionic barrier ...

SQUIRE Some of the early mystery men of the 20's and 30's occasionally had assistants that were younger than they but none were consistent or noted. It took the unusual action of putting a minor into combat to bring the term 'sidekick' into the American vocabulary. Squire, the assistant to the Quantum Knight, was the first teenager to put on a costume and fight crime, beating out the first appearance of Kid Superior by two full years. In one interview the hero now known as Sentinel said that he regarded Squire's appearance as an inspiration to him to use his gifts for the betterment of mankind. William L. Shirer's monumental work Godlike , his 1965 follow-up volume The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which details the entrance of true metahumans onto the world stage, contains a lengthy interview with the Quantum Knight and Squire done soon after the end of the war. Later in the book he examines the proliferation of young assistants to the metas of the time wit...