Urban Guerilla and Florida

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Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Who's to say the USS Constitution has even reached that far yet?
One option to introduce the PCs to the ship is have it arrive after TF34 leaves Germany - November 2000 or even later. Other options are a pick from Turkey or even Israel.
Urban Guerilla is set in 2001, but that could well be January, which doesn't leave much time to get across the Atlantic via the West Indies.
Also, would Captain Christiansen persist with docking at St Petersburg after potentially hearing the area has been taken over by NA? Gateway does open with an encounter involving pirates associated with NA, and John Hammersmith is supported by them. Captain Christiansen is clearly concerned about NA too (see pages 23 & 27) and directs the PCs to seek out and pass on any information about them.
Given all that, it's possible a new destination was selected rather than risking the ship and crew just because they used to call that particular port home.

Gateway to the Spanish Main takes place in Sept 1 to Dec 15 2000 according to the timeline and NA doesnt go active until Jan 1 2001 in St Petersburg - so she very well may have been there when NA took over publicly there

The operatives who were building the fleet and taking the kids captive (which according to UG was foiled meaning the timeline shows that the fleet was destroyed and the kids freed) were NA linked - so there is a chance the Captain chose an alternate destination after that