Rhine-Ruhr Conurb

#location #eurotour

You want to get into the EC's crown jewel, GERMANY?

Jack your thinking chrome in, 'cause this ain't gonna be easy.

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Here's a picture of the Sakralgeometrie. Yep, those lines are all real, they're in the sky above Frankfurt, visible from the Airport. They represent trajectories for all sorts of aircraft: rockets, airplanes, drones, helicopters. Everything is calculated with German precision. There's no way you just land there by accident.
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Here's a Fernlenkoperator. Part Netrunner, part Techie, part Solo. They can be found around the Airport, moving cargo, tinkering with the tarmac, the AI - oh yeah, you bet your ass Sakralgeometrie is regulated by one of the most advanced and secretive AI systems (some even think it's an AGI).
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Let's say you get past all of this. Sure, let's indulge that idea.

Since The Collapse, Germany's been going through it, hard. In the past 15 years, they've rebuilt almost everything from the ground up, including the restoration of wonderful 19th century architecture in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munchen. The Rhine-Ruhr Conurb was on the backburner of this trend - the German government chose to allow Megacorps to settle in, they did away with taxes on industry.

The result is Die Sprawl - buildings on top of buildings on top of powerplants and recycling units. The Autobahn-Maglev line goes straight through all of the ex-cities (now districts of the Megalopolis), cutting on commute times massively. Most companies also supply shuttle buses from and to the Maglev line, since owning a personal car is very, very expensive in Germany.

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Problem 2.a: the Gangs

of course there's Eurogangs around the block, but not the way you've seen in Venice. This ain't a tourist town: you've got Neo-N%$^s, Turkish diaspora and Kurdist terrorist cells, all infiltrated by the Russians. I've seen SovOil Execs yelling "Glory to the 5th International!" while rushing down a corpo factory alongside Kurd cyberpsychos.