[Torg] Torg Timeline + A United Living Land

[James Knevitt]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:

> Though on the subject of Nippon Tech, it's not just some of the
> technology that's dated but a lot of the underlying concepts of
> the realm itself. Super-ninjas, megacorps and fears of Japan buying
> up everything in the United States are very early 90s cyberpunk
> (minus the cyber, of course) and may not play that well transplanted
> into today's world. If I ever get another Torg game going my plan is
> to change Nippon Tech from "mega-corporate reality" to more of an
> espionage reality ala Bond, Bourne and "Alias". Maybe with a little
> "Chuck" thrown in. :)


I imagine that a modern retelling of the Possibility Wars would take
into account the so-called 'anime invasion' as further examples of
Nippon Tech exerting their influence in the US.

-- 
James Knevitt
jknevitt at gmail.com

"O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you."
-- TS Eliot, 'The Waste Land'