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Originally Posted by kalos72
With all the news about the tragedy in Haiti, I was wondering has anyone every done a source book on it?
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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.
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Originally Posted by kalos72
Anyone know of a "pirate" style campaign or article other then "Gateway to the Spanish Main"?
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Mitch Berg published two naval articles in Challenge magazine.
In issue 53 he published "Naval Rules: an unofficial variant" which covered rules for generating characters from Navy backgrounds.
In issue 60 he published "Sailing: an unofficial variant" which covered rules for piloting sailing ships and included stats for a variety of sail powered vessels.
A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing