2036

2036 - California Free State UCAS President McAlister withdraws all federal support from California after they threaten secession Tir Tairngire invades south to Redding. Aztlan invades north to San Diego. Japan takes control of San Francisco. Alamos 20,000 claims responsibility for the firebombing of a town in rural Ohio, their first public atrocity. 20 people (mostly metahuman) die. SIN established through the 14th Amendment to the UCAS Constitution Fuchi markets 3rd-generation cyberdeck, desktop CDT-1000. Akiko Kano and Arthur White-Eagle earn the Nobel Prize for the "Kano-White Eagle Theory of Metaphysical Phenomena". Regeneration and transformation of regional forests begins in Scotland. Open war in Italy is only avoided when Pope John XXV negotiates a settlement between the corporations and the sindaci (mayors). The cities of Genoa, Milan and Turin are written off as a catastrophe zone and renamed the Special Administrative Zone of Genoa-Milan-Turin (GeMiTo). (Shadows of Europe)