Re: [HoE] Gimme Shelter Site Update

["Fuzyn9feet" <Fuzyn9feet@email.msn.com>]

> >>And one item in this has confused me since I read it
> >>in (I believe Iron Oasis, coulda been Junkman) a
> >>sourcebook and this reminded me to ask: why did
> >>Hellstrome permit himself to be deported?
>
> The reference is on page 13 of IO.
>
> By that time (2044), Deseret was its own legal entity (not a member of the
> USA or the CSA), and its leader, President James Snoddy, revoked
> Hellstromme's citizenship and basically told him to get out. Rich as he
was,
> he presumably didn't have a higher power to appeal to. When the elected
> official that is the highest governing body of the place you are deciding
to
> live in tells you that you don't get to live there anymore, you either
stage
> a coup or you leave, and what would staging a coup have gained him?
>
> --Jacques

A successful coup? His own independent country. Now that ain't bad, but
could he do it. I doubt it.

Christopher Merrill
A W.H.A.T.T. Member