Crazy Campaign Idea

[kalos72]

Ok I know, this might be a lil out there but.

With all the news about the tragedy in Haiti, I was wondering has anyone every done a source book on it?

They have oil and mineral reserves hydroelectric plant and are fairly close to the US. Perhaps a Haitian government official stuck in NYC for Christmas was here trying to sell Exxon on tapping the reserve and now is trying to sell the information to the players to survive.

Anyone know of a "pirate" style campaign or article other then "Gateway to the Spanish Main"?

[Abbott Shaull]

I believe you are thinking about Captain Sparrow....lol Too bad they based it several years before 2000....

Pirates of the Vistula meets Getaway to the Spanish Main...

[sglancy12]

With all the news about the tragedy in Haiti, I was wondering has anyone every done a source book on it?

Here's what I had in my own TW2K Gazetteer (unfinished)

Republic of Haiti:
Prewar Population: >8,000,000
Prewar Population Density: 292/km2
Prewar per capita income: $1,600
Prewar Literacy: 52.9%
Prewar Demographics: 95% black, 5% mulatto and white
Prewar Infrastructure: 4 paved airports, 8 unpaved, 1,011 km paved road, 3,149 km unpaved, no functioning rail left, 1 port
Prewar Land Use/Crops: arable land 28.11%, permanent crops 11.53%, irrigation 920 sq km/ coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum; wood.
Prewar Energy Production:
Fossil Fuels: ?
Hydroelectric: ?
Prewar Energy Reserves: Hydropower
Prewar Resources/Industries: bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower/ sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, light assembly industries based on imported parts
Post War Casualties Summer 2000: ?
Haitian army was disbanded following the 1994 US invasion that returned Jean Bertrand Aristide to power. Aristide left office in 1996, but immediately begins fighting with the new president, Rene’ Preval. Aristide’s policy amounted to‘eat the rich.’ This resulted in a coup attempt and civil war between tiny upper class, with former army member’s forming paramilitary death squads, and Aristide’s starving masses. The US is in no position to intervene after the November 1997 nuclear exchange, so Haiti is left to continue the civil war on their own. Then Hurricane Georges hits in 09/98 and destroys 80% of the country’s crops and a complete breakdown in the water and sewer system. Cholera and famine cause Haiti to suffer a total social collapse. Much of Port-Au-Prince has been burnt to the ground. Refugees spill out to Florida and Cuba in boats, and across the mountains to the Dominican Republic. Refugees become marauder armies in order fight their way past the Dominican Army, only to find no food there either. Stories of the Haitian’s savage desperation (and many stories of cannibalism planted by New America’s propaganda department) lead American vigilantes in Florida to gun down Haitian boat people on sight. The Cuba army and navy capture Haitian refugees and (after 1999) intern them in the ruins of the evacuated US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay (destroyed by US personnel after they pull out). Cuba returns some refugees to Haiti with arms and a dose of communist dogma to ensure the island either remains a basket case, or develops a Marxist government.

Anyone know of a "pirate" style campaign or article other then "Gateway to the Spanish Main"?

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[kalos72]

I like it, something along the lines of "Grenada" in canon then. If its a wreck of a nation then a small US landing force to steal oil reserves won't have much true resistance. :)

[sglancy12]

I like it, something along the lines of "Grenada" in canon then. If its a wreck of a nation then a small US landing force to steal oil reserves won't have much true resistance. :)

Except those oil reserved would have been used up powering every gas-driven boat on the island, taking refugees away from the island following the '98 hurricane... if you are talking about refined petroleum in tank farms.

But if you are talking about oil reserves along the lines of oil deposits that have yet to be drilled or pumped out then it's a different matter. In that case, pro-Cuban Haitian militias and the Cuban Army are probably competing with pro-French Haitian militias and the Foreign Legion for control of them. And of course... there would nationalistic Haitian militias and criminal gangs harassing both groups.

Well, maybe your guys can play them off each other? It worked for Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars... and Toshiru Mifume in Jojimbo.

A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing

[kalos72]

Haiti doesn't have a refinery I dont think so yeah the crude mostly.

Why would the Foreign Legion be there do you think? Cuban/Haiti militias I get.. :)

[sglancy12]

Haiti doesn't have a refinery I dont think so yeah the crude mostly.

Why would the Foreign Legion be there do you think? Cuban/Haiti militias I get.. :)

I just imagine that the French are trying to secure petroleum resources around the world. Hence their presence in the Persian Gulf. Personally I think if they really needed access to serious oil supplies they'd be mucking around in Libya since it's right across the Med and the French have clearly gone to some lengths to turn the Med into a French lake.

So, working from their Caribbean islands and from French Guyana, they are trying to secure any intact refineries and oil fields in the region. If Haiti (a former French colony) had some reasonably intact fields then the French would investigate the options for controlling it.

I presume the use of the Foreign Legion because I presume a massive build up in the Legion. All that military talent wandering around the planet with little in the way of food & shelter (or national authority to work with) would mean a recruiting bonanza for the Legion. They could be picky and still keep the training grounds filled to bursting. Why send French kids to die overseas when you can get some foreigners to do it for you? Especially when French citizenship may be the most valuable commodity on the planet.

A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing

[pmulcahy11b]

The Legion already has a major training base in French Guyana, as well as a unit to guard the Arianne launch complex. So they already have a presence in that area of the world.

[firewalker]

On the hatit front i only got two things to through in the mix. the first is that hatit and the domican republic don't have the best of history with each other (hatit invaded and occupied the DR for quite a long time...as well as the general friction for the DR of living next to such a basket case). Second hatit is one of those places that would have surprising point's of readiness for the big oppes. Power supplies, you would be surprised how many places have solar power cell's on the roof for example (especially places that have first world partners such as twined parish, aid agencies and such).

Getting a little off topic i'm intrigued by the ideas of the French influence in the era and the resurgences of the forging legion. Frankly it makes good since that they would be after untapped and relatively unguarded oil reserves....if they are going to maintain something even close to modern civilasion there going to need it. There’s not enough done with the deferent survivor states.