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  << SHADOWS IN FOCUS: CITY BY SHADOW: CHEYENNE    3
  Silver breathed a long sigh of relief walking out of the 
  back room in Phoenix’s Tavern. The tedious meet was 
  over. She had sold Mr. Johnson on her team’s services—
  they got the job. Not only that, but she haggled a nice 
  bonus from the nuyen-pinching Johnson for her team 
  once the job was over. Overall, it was not too shabby of a 
  performance for a relatively new face. 
  For the Ancient biker, though, doing well in the meet 
  was only a small portion of the drek she and her team 
  already had to plow through to get this job. Mr. Johnson 
  had originally approached her and her team yesterday in 
  Seattle for work in Cheyenne. And he insisted the formal 
  meet for all the details and negotiation for the pay should 
  take place here in Cheyenne today, in a very well-known, 
  biased establishment that banned all Anglos—a group 
  that included her entire team. She knew Mr. Johnson was 
  trying to test her team’s mettle, testing them to see how 
  they could cope working outside of their comfort zone. 
  To complicate matters, her team had a street samurai on it 
  who used to be an UCAS army grunt. He was a troll who 
  went by the street name “the Hammer,” and Silver was 
  certain that detail wouldn’t escape the Johnson’s atten-
  tion. Current Sioux Nation policies banned any active or 
  former UCAS military personnel from entering the nation. 
  No exceptions. Which meant she and her team could not 
  pursue any legal avenues to cross the border, even if their 
  ethnicity wasn’t a major hurdle for them to get legal visas 
  for visiting the Sioux Nation. 
  They knew they had to fly under the radar to get this 
  job, which also meant going through all sorts of hoops in 
  the shadows to get them into the country within Mr. John-
  son’s timetable. And to make matters worse, the Hammer 
  had served a tour along the border with the Sioux Nation 
  near Bismarck, which meant some local SDF troops and 
  Wildcat members likely still remembered him and might 
  have felt compelled to complicate their stay in Cheyenne 
  if they caught wind of the fact he was in town. So barring 
  radical magical or cosmetic surgery to alter the Ham-
  mer’s ugly mug, they had to make sure he stayed out of 
  sight as much as possible while here, including not having 
  him watch her hoop at the meet. And even if all that shit 
  wasn’t bad enough, she also learned that while he was in 
  the UCAS army, the Hammer had harassed enough of the 
  local smugglers who ran the Sioux/UCAS border to have 
  caused them serious problems in crossing the border now, 
  a couple of years after he got tossed out of the UCAS 
  army. Damn sins of the past. Many of the local smugglers 
  would simply walk away from any negotiations once they 
  learned he would be involved. These logistical nightmares 
  would have given even a veteran face headaches. Had it 
  not been for her connections with the Ancients, and her 
  willingness to incur debts to several Pueblo fixers in ex-
  change for a silent, smooth border crossing, she and the 
  rest of her team might still be stuck in Seattle looking for 
  work. But they were here and on a job, thanks in no small 
  part to Silver and her skill. 
  Damn, I’m good. 
  Even on her own, without support from her team, she 
  managed to disguise herself and fool the bouncer, the 
  bartender, and the rest of the patrons into leading them 
  believe she was a Sioux Nation native. There were also a 
  number of members of the First Nations gang inside the 
  bar, so she had to be careful in disguising her Ancients’ 
  tats. First Nations and the Ancients might have an alliance, 
  but things had been growing a little tense between them 
  as of late. From what she had heard from the higher-ups 
  back in Seattle, there were ongoing trust issues between 
  the two gangs. It was better for her if she was identified 
  only as a shadowrunner in nondescript street clothes and 
  not as a member of the Ancients, as much as she hated to 
  hide who and what she was. She even managed to play 
  nice when one of the slots from First Nations tried hitting 
  on her. It wasn’t easy—she had to resist the urge to slam 
  her beer bottle down on his head each time he tried to 
  cop a feel—but she managed. Glad I follow Sea, not Grif-
  fin. Maintaining her composure for the rest of the evening, 
  she had no difficulty getting through the club and into the 
  meet. Now all she had to do was to walk out of the club.
  As Silver moved to the front door to collect her weap-
  ons, she remained at a heightened vigilance, scanning the 
  patrons of Phoenix’s Tavern carefully, hoping her nano-
  paste disguise was still working, checking if anyone sus-
  pected she was nothing more than a poser. Thankfully, no 
  one was paying her any special attention except for the 
  lonely bar flies trying to undress her with their eyes. Even 
  the First Nation slot who had initially harassed her was 
  off in the corner, hitting on another woman. No one else 
  tried to stop her, leaving her with an unimpeded path to 
  the front door. Satisfied no one suspected who she truly 
  was, she did not hesitate in her stride. She gave no indi-
  cations of her lingering nervousness or growing discom-
  fort. People could sense that, and she knew it was the first 
  thing she looked for in people who didn’t feel they be-
  longed. Silver mentally forced herself to present an air of 
  confidence, making sure her breathing was even and her 
  hands remained steady as she reclaimed her guns from 
  the bored-looking doorman and took off through the front 
  door into the night air. 
  Relieved everything had worked out according to the 
  plan, she relayed the success to her team when she hit the 
  street. “The meet is over, chummers. We got the job. Head 
  back to the motel for details and planning. I’ll meet you 
  there.”
  “Gotcha. Hammer is rolling out of the parking lot now. 
  See you in ten,” replied the youthful voice of the decker of 
  the group, Megapulse. 
  Silver started walking down the street to her bike, feel-
  ing relieved. She could not wait to put on her Ancients 
  leathers again, and be whole. It felt like she was betraying 
  her very identity for this job, even though she knew it had 
  to be done. The more she thought about it, the more her 
  skin around her covered tats started to itch. She needed to 
  get to the motel and take this crap off before she started 
  scratching at the coverings and blowing her cover. 
  
  >> SHADOWRUN <<
  << SHADOWS IN FOCUS: CITY BY SHADOW: CHEYENNE    4
  Lost in her own thoughts, Silver nearly overlooked the 
  three men following her down the street; men about the 
  same age as her. She noticed out of the three human teen-
  agers, one had a led pipe, while the other two likely had 
  switchblades in their hands. From the looks of them, each 
  of them wore black and purple, with prominent tattoos of 
  coyotes on their arms. Gangers. She wasn’t familiar with 
  this local gang, but that didn’t make them any less dan-
  gerous.
  Without making a sound, she meditated on her mem-
  ories of the sea, saying a quick prayer to her mentor spirit. 
  Moments later, she felt the familiar surge of mana rushing 
  through her like a tidal wave, which she crafted into a pro-
  tective aura around her body.
  Not wishing to show weakness to the gangers, whom 
  she knew she had to treat like a pack of wolves, she imme-
  diately turned around to stare down the pack. “What the 
  fuck do you drekheads want? I’ve got biz to take care of.”
  “Chica, you seem lost. This isn’t your town. We don’t 
  know you,” replied what seemed to be the leader of the 
  gangers. “That could be dangerous.”
   “What fucking business is it of yours?” spat Silver. “And 
  know if you are thinking about trying anything, I’ll lay you 
  flat on your asses with broken bones and gunshot wounds. 
  Maybe alive, maybe not. Doesn’t really matter to me.”  
  “We’re just trying to keep the streets free of any pink-
  skin trash and any half-breeds we find roaming around. 
  Your shade looks right, but your features look more like 
  you’re a half-breed. Or you may even have even less Na-
  tive blood in you. We’re here to find out which is the case. 
  And if you have no Native blood, it’s going to be a real bad 
  night for you.”
  “Fuck you. I’m a full-blood runner from Laramie. I’m in 
  town because business brings me here. My parents were 
  Jishnu and Nascha Jenkins from the Arapahoe tribe. Lara-
  mie is where they lived, and where I grew up. And that’s all 
  the free biography you get. So get lost.” Even though Sil-
  ver wanted to end the confrontation right then and there 
  by walking off, she knew better than turning her back on 
  these gangers.
  “How convenient the people you claim to be your par-
  ents are dead and have been for six years now,” said the 
  second ganger sarcastically.
  “Their deaths were not so convenient for me,” Silver 
  replied harshly. She thought her anger sounded genuine.
  “Tell you what. You tell us what this Native saying 
  means in English, and we’ll let you go. We’ll chalk it up to 
  it our mistake..” The third ganger rattled off a couple sen-
  tences in his native tongue. 
  Silver quickly checked her ARO screen with a transla-
  tion program running, something which she has relied on 
  regularly for her interactions while in the Sioux. 
  “Error. No Translation Found. Error #34421.”
  Shit!
  Silver urgently texted Megapulse. “I fucked up. Three 
  gangers are jumping me. Get your asses here now!” 
  Silver quickly assessed the situation. The gangers were 
  far too close for her to use her pistol. With all likelihood, 
  the one with the pipe would be able to knock it out of her 
  hand—and break her hand in the process. 
  She had no choice. She called upon the mana flowing 
  through her and started casting.
  
  >> SHADOWRUN <<
  << SHADOWS IN FOCUS: CITY BY SHADOW: CHEYENNE    5
  POSTED BY: MIKA
  Cheyenne is a subject that is best discussed by someone 
  familiar with the area and familiar with the people. I’ve 
  spent most of my life in the Cheyenne sprawl and have 
  regularly revisited it in my adult years, I have plenty of 
  contacts there, so this is my backyard. I know what I’m 
  talking about. Doubt me all you want (hi, Ma’Fan!), but I 
  know this stuff. Anyone can throw in some extra knowl-
  edge, but if you all could give me the benefit of the doubt 
  for once, it would be novel.
  > 
  Also novel: One of your pieces that is totally unbiased and 
  accurate. We’ll see if you can pull it off. 
  > 
  Ma’fan
  According to current, big-brother-style monitoring of 
  SINs, the current population of Cheyenne is close to three 
  million metahumans (2,950,783, for those who get off 
  on exactitude). There is no precise count of the SINless 
  within Cheyenne, but it is believed to be relatively small 
  compared to other sprawls of Cheyenne’s size. My best 
  guess based on my personal experience is that it numbers 
  less than a hundred thousand. And many of those SINless 
  metahumans are from the small, unlawful Anglo groups 
  who linger in Cheyenne; gangers, shadowrunners, crimi-
  nals, members of tribes that are not officially recognized 
  within the Sioux, etc. The Cheyenne sprawl does a very 
  good job making sure everyone who is a permanent res-
  ident has a SIN, particularly those with a tribal affiliation. 
  Most metahumans in the Sioux Nation take pride in their 
  heritage and don’t mind being in the system and identi-
  fied with a particular tribe. Being a part of a particular tribe 
  and its traditions is very much a part of who you are as an 
  individual. For myself, I am proud to identify myself as a 
  member of the Lakota tribe. 
  It also doesn’t help the SINless community that the 
  Cheyenne sprawl has some of the most stringent laws in 
  North America mandating SIN possession and use. And 
  believe me, these laws are heavily enforced. Those caught 
  without a legal SIN who cannot prove a tribal affiliation are 
  usually jailed for up to a year, given a criminal SIN, de-
  ported to their native country, and are barred from ever 
  
  >> SHADOWRUN <<
  << SHADOWS IN FOCUS: CITY BY SHADOW: CHEYENNE    6
  returning. If a native country can’t be determined, you’ll 
  likely be deposited randomly across whatever border the 
  Sioux National Police feel like dumping you. You’ll likely 
  be dropped off in another Native American Nation such 
  as Pueblo or the Salish-Shidhe Council if you’re lucky and 
  you don’t cause the authorities too many problems; or 
  the UCAS, Tsimshian, or the Algonkian-Manitou Council 
  if you pissed them off. They’ll likely drop you off tens of 
  kilometers outside of any sprawl, where you might freeze 
  to death during the winter, or be killed by any number of 
  dangerous paranormal critters while hiking to the near-
  est sprawl. Or in the case of Tsimshian, you’ll likely killed 
  by any number of toxic shamans or toxic free spirits you 
  might stumble across. These extreme examples encour-
  age the SINless to get a legal SIN, or encourage them to 
  obtain and use fake SINs at all times. Or just get the hell 
  out of the Sioux Nation altogether.   
  To put it in perspective, Cheyenne is a slightly small-
  er sprawl than Seattle. So if you’re an urban dweller, you 
  will certainly enjoy Cheyenne and all the nightlife and the 
  attractions this modern sprawl has to offer, from state-of-
  the-art night clubs and trendy luxury restaurants to excit-
  ing combat bike matches featuring the Sioux Nation’s own 
  Apache Mustangs. Cheyenne has it all for those expecting 
  a comfortable and high lifestyle, including five-star hotels. 
  Those of you who think the Sioux capitol is still stuck back 
  in the days of the Old West will be in for a pleasant sur-
  prise. And maybe you can rethink your dusty stereotypes.
  For those who appear to be Anglos, frequently referred 
  to as “pinkskins” by the locals, or for those who belong 
  to tribes that are not indigenous to the Sioux Nation, be 
  warned: There is still a significant amount of distrust and 
  prejudice that can be experienced not only in Cheyenne 
  but throughout the rest of the Sioux Nation. The general 
  sentiment is that if you are an outsider with no close ties 
  to the community, then you are someone not to be trust-
  ed, and your motives are automatically suspect. In many 
  cases, if you are labeled as an Anglo or as an outsider, you 
  are not permitted to patronize certain establishments. This 
  is even true if you are from one of the tribes of the Sioux 
  Nation, but not the right one. There are many locations in 
  Cheyenne that only cater to members of a specific tribe, 
  and they deliberately leave everyone else out in the cold. 
  Even if you are allowed to visit an establishment, be pre-
  pared to speak to both the employees and the patrons in 
  the language of the dominant tribe for that establishment 
  until you are told you may speak another language. It is 
  respectful and frequently expected. Make sure whoever is 
  doing the talking for you and your team is relatively fluent 
  in the dialect of the particular tribe. Linguasofts frequent-
  ly have errors, do not cover the entire vernacular for the 
  tribe, and may not allow the user to come off sounding 
  like a native speaker. Tribal members can frequently pick 
  up on people trying to speak their language who are not 
  otherwise familiar with it. And trust me; some of the lo-
  cal languages can be difficult to pronounce properly if you 
  are not a native speaker. Those caught using technological 
  aids are seen as insulting both the culture and the individ-
  ual you are speaking with, and you might end up causing 
  trouble because of this perceived slight. Tread carefully in 
  Cheyenne, chummer. Even though I enjoy technology and 
  make the most of it when I can, I personally would not at-
  tempt to use a lingasoft when dealing with others outside 
  of my tribe.
  The Sioux Nation deliberately makes visiting their na-
  tion difficult for both Anglos and outsiders. Anyone com-
  ing into the nation is thoroughly scrutinized by the Office of 
  Military Intelligence (OMI) first, with paperwork that could 
  take weeks, months, or even years to be approved. Run-
  ners who wish to get into the country without this scrutiny 
  need to be smuggled in. And yes, if you are considered 
  to be an Anglo or an outsider who is legally allowed to be 
  here and aren’t affiliated with a corporation that could get 
  you better living quarters, you will likely be residing on a 
  reservation such as Butte, or you will find yourself living in 
  parts of Cheyenne that tend to be less desirable. As such, 
  the tourist industry from Anglo nations has suffered; many 
  in my nation prefer it that way. However, once an Anglo or 
  an outsider has achieved official resident status and has 
  started building up relationships with the locals, this preju-
  dice typically gives way to respect, and more doors open 
  for them. Just ask the proprietor of the bar Oasis, who is 
  a retired Anglo shadowrunner. He has been running his 
  joint in Cheyenne since after the second Matrix Crash and 
  has had no problems keeping the respect of the locals. 
  Although daunting for outsiders at first, gaining the trust 
  and respect from the locals is well worth the effort and will 
  make any stay in Cheyenne that much more enjoyable—
  and perhaps even profitable.
  > 
  There is a small but growing minority in Cheyenne that doesn’t 
  care for how Cheyenne is developing. There are just too many 
  outsiders for one, and the corporations keep bringing in more 
  each year. And they all act fucking superior to us and believe 
  they own the place! They think they’re untouchable by Sioux 
  laws because they are affiliated with a corporation (which is, 
  of course, not true). Others believe the rapid growth of the 
  sprawl is endangering the land, threatening what used to be 
  a fairly pristine ecosystem. Our corporate friends tell us that 
  they respect the Sioux ways and respect our customs about 
  honoring the land, but then they engage in things like illegal 
  dumping, illegal strip mining, and violating our air-pollution 
  regulations. Anglos have always proven untrustworthy, and it 
  is foolish for our Council of Chiefs to take them at their word. 
  Deception and greed are the weapons of the pinkskins, and they 
  should hold no place within our sprawls. The last thing we want 
  is for our nation to be raped and pillaged and have it look just 
  like Tsimshian. 
  > 
  17-321
  > 
  Enough with the racial slurs. Cut it out or be banned. 
  > 
  Glitch
  
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  > 
  Just so you know the consequences of using a fake SIN in the 
  Sioux, if you are caught with one and you are what the authorities 
  consider to be an Anglo, you are looking at five to ten years in 
  jail, not one year like you would face if you were simply SINless. 
  Now, if you are caught as a Native American poser, trying to 
  pull off an American Indian disguise and the fake SIN identifies 
  you as part of a particular tribe, you’re looking at twenty to 
  twenty-five years in jail. And you can forget about getting an 
  early release based on good behavior. The Sioux don’t believe 
  in that kind of justice. The sentence you get is the sentence you 
  will be serving. They take tribal affiliation seriously in the Sioux. 
  Just beware of the penalties you might face before you try to do 
  something stupid. Sioux jails are not very hospitable in the first 
  place, and even less so for Anglos doing time in them. 
  > 
  Sticks
  > 
  So there’s a lot of talk here about “Anglos.” How do the people of 
  the Sioux define someone as an Anglo? Is it merely skin color?
  > 
  UCASian
  > 
  No, as Mika has implied, there are basically two types of 
  discrimination to be found in Cheyenne: one based on the color 
  of skin and how you look, and the other based on whether you 
  are a member of a recognized tribe in the Sioux. If you are not 
  a member of one of their tribes, you are still considered an 
  outsider, and there is a certain amount of distrust there. And it 
  depends on which aspects of society you’re talking about. Those 
  on the streets care a lot more about how you look and your skin 
  color than your tribe. That’s just the way it is. It has been that 
  way for some time, and will be for the foreseeable future. The 
  wealthy, the powerful and the government tend to care more 
  about the tribe you belong to, if any. If you belong to the right 
  tribe, you can get preferential treatment. If not, others of the 
  right tribe will get priority. You’ll likely get harassed more by law 
  enforcement if you’re considered to be from the wrong tribe, 
  and you’ll get yourself noticed a lot more than someone else 
  who is from an indigenous tribe. But make no mistake about it: 
  If you are considered to be an Anglo or look like it, you’re going 
  to see a lot more prejudice than if you are a Native American 
  from another tribe or nation, particularly at the street level.  
  > 
  Lanchek 
  > 
  Given how the Anglos from the former United States government 
  tried to exterminate our people as part of a blatant act of ethnic 
  cleansing, I would say their distrust and bias against Anglos in 
  particular is warranted. 
  > 
  17-321
  > 
  The problem with tribal identity even impacts local runners. If 
  they need someone to do the talking to a member of another 
  tribe, and tribal identity matters in those circumstances; often 
  times they will simply hire a face from that particular tribe to 
  get the job done. There are a lot of faces in Cheyenne that work 
  as independent contractors, hired by shadowrunners to make 
  the connections that otherwise would be impossible for them. 
  These runners will frequently offer their services to outsiders as 
  well. That’s the good news. The bad news is these independent 
  contractors understand how valuable their services can be, and 
  as such, can be expensive. 
  > 
  Henry Wildshadow
  FACTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
  Population of Cheyenne: 2.9 million
  •  Human: 72%
  •  Elf: 4%
  •  Dwarf: 3%
  •  Ork: 16%
  •  Troll: 1%
  •  Other: 4%
  Per capita income in Cheyenne: 34,500¥ 
  Below poverty level: 13 percent 
  Estimated SINless: 4 percent
  Megacorporate affiliation: 25 percent
  Tribes:
  •  Lakota
  •  Dakota
  •  Nakota
  •  Arapaho
  •  Crow
  •  Cheyenne
  •  Lumbee
  •  Mohawk
  •  Potawatomi
  •  Mohegan
  •  Cherokee (Tsalagi)
  •  Chocktaw
  •  Navajo
  •  Cree
  •  Ojibwe (Plains Chippewa)
  •  Shoshone
  •  Delaware
  •  Hidatsa
  •  Mahican
  •  Seminole
  •  Oneida
  •  Creek
  •  Apache
  •  Onondaga
  •  Chickasaw
  Air travel: Cheyenne Regional Airport (to be replaced with an 
  international airport in 2078)
  Ground travel: Highway 25
  
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  > 
  Their services are a lot cheaper than resorting to bio-sculpting 
  and other extreme modifications just to fit in. 
  > 
  Plan 9
  > 
  Let’s change the topic to something a little bit less controversial. 
  Responding to what 17-321 had said, the Sioux’s environmental 
  laws are just like their laws regarding their SINs: very tough. 
  Sure, I’m certain that the corps may attempt shortcuts and try 
  to cut costs that may lead to the harming of the environment, 
  but if they were ever found out, there would be hell to pay 
  from the Bureau of Resource Management. Punishments could 
  include being kicked out of the country and barred from ever 
  returning—a mighty steep price. Not signing the Business 
  Recognition Accords has given the Sioux Nation a distinct 
  advantage over the corporations within its borders. They have 
  to play nice with local laws or else. 
  > 
  Mika
  > 
  Provided the Council of Chiefs or tribal judges have the will to 
  enforce them, yes, I would agree the laws would work. Problem 
  is, as both you and I both know, the Council of Chiefs like to 
  turn a blind eye to their corp friends and have been doing so 
  for years now, especially when there are large sums of nuyen 
  involved. Laws only have teeth when they are enforced. And if 
  it’s not them, it’s corrupt members in the Sioux National Police 
  who are on the take and who are not above fixing reports and 
  placing blame elsewhere to protect their corporate donors, even 
  if it means placing blame on other tribal members instead of 
  the foreign corporations. And don’t try and tell me it doesn’t 
  happen, I’ve seen it happen first hand. If it’s not the cops doing 
  the rigging of reports, it’s the judges, rendering verdicts to 
  protect the guilty.
  > 
  17-321
  > 
  Although the legit tourism industry has been suffering under 
  the heavy-handed rules imposed on it by the OMI, smugglers 
  here have seen a booming demand for their services from 
  people wanting to be snuck across the borders with no 
  questions asked. I should know—my own bank accounts have 
  been flourishing because of it. Thanks guys, I appreciate it! 
  Keep the work coming!
  > 
  Storm Cloud 
  One of the things that sets Cheyenne apart as a bus-
  tling and vibrant sprawl today is at the heart of the city, 
  you have the Sovereign Tribal Council headquarters and 
  its surrounding office complex which plays host to repre-
  sentatives of each of the member nations of the Native 
  American Nations (NAN) and its associated government 
  agencies. You have the local sprawl government, and 
  then you have the national government, represented by 
  the Council of Chiefs and the Council of Elders, located in 
  downtown Cheyenne. With all these government officials 
  and agencies concentrated in one city, it brings with it a 
  horde of lobbyists and lawyers of all types, all attempting 
  to influence policy and establish laws that are beneficial 
  to their employers. With such a conflux of the politically 
  connected and the elite in one sprawl, you also get Big 
  Business catering to the wants and needs of the elite and 
  powerful, reaching all the way up the food chain to the 
  megacorps and all the way down to lowly single-A corpo-
  rations. All this economic activity regularly fills Cheyenne’s 
  coffers with a drekton of nuyen each year, bringing in an 
  estimated six billion nuyen annually, making it by far the 
  wealthiest sprawl in the Sioux Nation. 
  Within Cheyenne, as well as other parts of the Sioux, 
  the megacorporations and some AA corporations have 
  made arrangements with the Council of Chiefs to oper-
  ate mostly autonomously within Sioux Nation borders. 
  Megacorporations do not officially have extraterritorial 
  status, as the Sioux Nation has not signed onto the Busi-
  ness Recognition Accords, but with the sweetheart deals 
  the corporations have gotten from the Council of Chiefs 
  over the years, they have extraterritoriality’s essence. The 
  corporations just need to make sure the Council of Chiefs 
  are happy with this backroom arrangement, which pretty 
  much means lining the current Chiefs’ pockets with nuy-
  en and making sure there are cushy office jobs waiting for 
  them once they leave office if they so desire, and paying 
  limited amounts of taxes to the sprawl to make the local 
  
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  population feel that they are contributing to the welfare of 
  city. This in turn makes the Cheyenne city chief and his ad-
  visors happy and keeps them from complaining too loud-
  ly about any wrongdoings perpetrated by the megacor-
  porations inside Cheyenne. After all, any problem can be 
  solved by the right amount of nuyen.
  If there is a downside in Sioux politics here, it’s that 
  there is no shortage of corruption at the highest levels, 
  though it tends to be discreet and is nearly impossible to 
  prove. The members of the Council of Chiefs know that 
  if their misdeeds are ever caught, they will be made an 
  example of. The last chief caught up in a corruption scan-
  dal was from the Dakota tribe, and she paid a high price. 
  She is still serving her prison sentence, despite having 
  been convicted back in 2050. As such, the Council of 
  Chiefs have gone to greater lengths to hide their corrup-
  tion over the years, using runner teams from outside the 
  Sioux Nation to make drops containing paydata to either 
  the corporations or the local mob, or pick-ups of certified 
  credsticks from the corporations. They use untraceable 
  bank accounts and are careful about living within their 
  means so as not to present hints of impropriety. But it has 
  become clear to the people that the Council of Chiefs are 
  profiting off of their hands-off arrangement with the cor-
  porations, and what the Council of Chiefs may be doing in 
  their council chambers might not always be in the best in-
  terests of the people or their tribal traditions. As such, the 
  cries to reform the Sioux government are growing louder 
  from various policlubs throughout Cheyenne. Whether 
  any change will actually happen is an open question. The 
  Sioux Nation government is well known for being fairly 
  stagnant in its policies and resistant to change, and it is in 
  fact propped up by its highly capable military and a very 
  adept intelligence-gathering apparatus. This puts it in a 
  position to put down any types of revolts or demonstra-
  tions, especially under the vigilant watch of Sinopa, the 
  current head of the Office of Military Intelligence. This is 
  one of the reasons why most policlubs calling for reform 
  are underground groups, and most of whom are want-
  ed by both the Office of Military Intelligence and by the 
  Sioux National Police. 
  > 
  Yeah, really if the last example of a chief being caught for 
  corruption was twenty-five years ago, than it would suggest 
  pretty much everyone there is satisfied with the status quo 
  and are complacent. That, or it is way past time for another 
  example to be made out of one or more of the Chiefs to make 
  sure they stay in line.
  > 
  Smugsly
  Since being allowed to operate within the Sioux Na-
  tion borders, the corporations have taken advantage of 
  the nation’s generosity—some would say complicity—in 
  Cheyenne by establishing several high-tech research fa-
  cilities near the University of Cheyenne. These research 
  parks and facilities often mirror what is happening at the 
  University of Cheyenne, which has an academic program 
  that focuses on Matrix-related fields of research and de-
  velopment, as well as fields of applying high-tech solu-
  tions to the Sioux Nation’s other main industry, that of 
  agriculture and intellicrops. 
  > 
  To be fair, the megacorporations hire a lot of locals to work in 
  their high-tech research facilities, particularly those graduating 
  from the University of Cheyenne. So they are not technically 
  busing all their employees into the country. I might not agree 
  with all their propaganda, but according to the Council of 
  Chiefs, the megacorps are contributing to the economic 
  prosperity of the city by helping to keep unemployment low 
  for Sioux citizens. The last estimate of unemployment in 
  Cheyenne was around 15.2 percent. I mention this because it’s 
  always important to see both sides of the argument, and to 
  see why the Council of Chiefs may like to keep them around 
  (besides just for the bribes). 
  > 
  Snopes
  > 
  You might say they are hiring locals, but I would say they 
  are stealing locals and their talent from their own people. 
  Their talents should stay here locally to benefit the tribes, 
  not benefiting a faceless corporation and then spreading the 
  fruits of their talents outside our nation, including to those 
  whom we still consider our enemies.
  > 
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  GOVERNMENT
  The main governing body for the Sioux Nation is broken 
  down into two councils: the Council of Elders and the 
  Council of Chiefs. It’s been that way since 2018, when 
  the Sioux Nation was established following the Treaty of 
  Denver. Each body is made up of twenty members. For 
  the Council of Chiefs, each member serves a single five-
  year term. According to the laws given to them by the 
  Council of Elders, no one on the Council of Chiefs may 
  serve for longer than one term. Many Council of Chiefs 
  members have openly expressed their interests to serve 
  longer and have lobbied the Council of Elders over the 
  years to dismiss this “archaic notion” of a term limit. So 
  far, the Council of Elders has not caved into these de-
  mands, which has only exacerbated existing tensions be-
  tween the two councils. All members of the Council of 
  Chefs are selected by the Council of Elders.
  > 
  I’m sure the corporations would love to see the same people 
  stay in their role as chief for longer periods of time as well. After 
  all, it must grow tedious that after only five years, you have to 
  start the ball rolling all over again on a bunch of new Chiefs 
  that you have to work on from scratch to get into your good 
  graces and willing to take your bribes. All the while hoping 
  the vast majority of them are cynical and jaded slots that can 
  be manipulated, and not idealists who would gladly have you 
  
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  arrested for trying to bribe a tribal official. And since it takes time 
  to convince a Chief to do your bidding, that means less time 
  the chief could be useful to a particular corporation. Five-year 
  teams, in the grand scheme of things, are not that long. 
  > 
  Cheyenne Sam
  > 
  This is why a vast majority of corporations approach the 
  candidates before they are even appointed to the council. That 
  way they get the full five years out of the chiefs. And this is also 
  why the corporations are so interested in finding ways to “help” 
  elders pick the candidate pools for these seats. That way they 
  can stack the deck in their favor from the very start.
  > 
  Lanchek
   
  On the other hand, the Council of Elders is appoint-
  ed for life. Trust me, this disparity in term has generated 
  plenty of strife between the two councils over the years, 
  strife that has yet to be resolved. And that’s just one of 
  many issues plaguing the councils. Once one member of 
  the Council of Elders dies while in office or is unable to 
  perform their duties, the Council of Chiefs appoints a suc-
  cessor. By law, it takes fourteen members of the Council of 
  Chiefs to successfully appoint a new member to the Coun-
  cil of Elders. 
  > 
  Being given a for-life term doesn’t mean the members of 
  the Council of Elders are untouchable and can’t be removed 
  from office. It just means it doesn’t happen very often. And it 
  also doesn’t mean an Elder can’t choose to step down before 
  they come to the point that they die in office. The Council of 
  Elders’ members can be removed if they are successfully 
  prosecuted for crimes they have committed. This can be done 
  as a function of the Council, voting to remove one of their own 
  for misconduct. For the record, no Elder has been removed 
  from office in this kind of disgrace in the history of the Sioux 
  Nation. They may also be removed by the Council of Chiefs 
  for displaying an incapacity to carry out their obligations, such 
  as in the case of health problems or mental instability. This is 
  basically considered a nuclear option for the Council of Chiefs 
  because it’s a surefire way to piss off the Elders. The Elders 
  would prefer to take care of the matter as an internal matter 
  and not have the decision taken away from them and carried 
  out arbitrarily by the Chiefs. Again, this option has never 
  been used. But the option does exist and could very well be 
  employed at any time during the current standoff between the 
  Council of Chiefs and the Council of Elders.
  > 
  Kay St. Irregular
  The Council of Elders and the Council of Chiefs have 
  two high-rise halls that stand across from each other in 
  downtown Cheyenne. The buildings for these two councils 
  are difficult to miss in the downtown area, with the Council 
  of Chiefs building being one of the largest in Cheyenne, 
  standing sixty stories tall. For those that know how Chey-
  enne was laid out prior to the Sioux Nation breaking away 
  from the former United States, their buildings are delib-
  erately erected on the site where the old Wyoming state 
  capitol used to stand. 
  NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
  When the Sioux Nation was first formed in 2018, the new 
  government established the Council of Elders with five 
  founding Sioux tribes. In the ensuing years, the Coun-
  cil of Elders would establish the Council of Chiefs to 
  manage the daily operations of the nation at large, and 
  would come to incorporate another twenty tribes into 
  the government structure via tribal compacts. Many of 
  these tribes had been displaced during the war with the 
  former United States government and had their popula-
  tions wiped out by the Anglo’s so called “re-education” 
  centers, and later by their naked efforts at genocide. Be-
  cause of their participation in the Great Ghost Dance War 
  and all the blood they shed in the war effort, many felt 
  that these small tribes and bands had earned the right to 
  have a voice in the new government and be recognized 
  as official members of the Sioux Nation. And many also 
  felt the urgency to ensure their unique cultures would be 
  preserved by giving these displaced tribes a new home.
  It would become apparent that one of the first chal-
  lenges for both the Council of Chiefs and the Council of 
  Elders was determining the size and make-up of each 
  council. Some advocated for basing representation on 
  population size, which would have overly favored the larg-
  er tribes indigenous to the Sioux territory. Others favored 
  plans to have each tribe represented on each council by a 
  chief and elder they had selected, leading to each coun-
  AETHERPEDIA: CHEYENNE CLIMATE
  Cheyenne’s weather is no different than the climate found 
  in other parts of the Sioux Nation; it tends to be volatile and 
  chaotic. Temperatures in Cheyenne can vary greatly in any 
  season (and on any particular day), going from the extreme –25 
  degrees Celsius in winter to at 35 degrees Celsius during the 
  summertime. Sudden storms are known to spontaneously erupt 
  over Cheyenne, dropping several centimeters of water in mere 
  moments. These extreme conditions go beyond what used to 
  occur prior to the Great Ghost Dance. Floods, tornadoes, and 
  blizzards have all become commonplace in the capital, and the 
  people there have just adapted to their random occurrences. 
  These violent storms have proven profitable for the corporations, 
  particularly those that are invested in construction. Random 
  thunderstorms have been known to drop enough precipitation 
  to equal a category 2 hurricane. Possibly as a combination 
  of the turbulent weather and strict environmental standards, 
  Cheyenne has among the cleanest air in North America, 
  generally free from acid or other air contaminants.
  
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  cil having twenty-five seats. Many feared that this system 
  would still allow for the larger tribes to band together and 
  oppress the smaller tribes by forming large voting blocks. 
  There were other concerns that the larger the councils got, 
  the greater the chance of crippling gridlock. Ultimately, it 
  would be decided through long and sometimes combat-
  ive debate that certain tribes would share a seat and enjoy 
  what would be called “staggered terms.” One term, one 
  tribe would have a member sit on the council. For the sub-
  sequent term, the other tribe that shared that seat would 
  be allowed to have their representative on the council by 
  having one of their Elders appoint someone from that tribe 
  to the Council of Chiefs. The tribe that had been in power 
  would then be out of power for the next five years. In the-
  ory, this would allow all tribes, no matter how big or small, 
  an equal voice on the two councils. And the power-shar-
  ing component would ensure that a particular tribe could 
  not continually impose its will and desires on the other 
  tribe. Once the largest and most influential of the tribes 
  (the Lakota, Dakota, and the Nakota) finally agreed to 
  share a single seat along with some of the smaller tribes, it 
  was finally determined how the council seats would be di-
  vided. This was not a perfect plan, or even a perfect com-
  promise by any stretch of the imagination, and even today 
  there are many who still complain about the unfairness of 
  it all. Many still call for a system of “one tribe, one seat, one 
  chief, one elder.” But being a Sioux citizen, I’ll you that it 
  is probably never going to happen. The Sioux council has 
  become an established and ingrained institution, one that 
  will resist major change in how they do things to the bitter 
  end. Things have been set up, the system has been work-
  ing, and that’s how they’re going to stay.  
  Despite various grumblings about the system, this ini-
  tial plan for power sharing amongst the tribes seemed to 
  defy the odds and actually work well. That is, until recent 
  years, when certain tribes and their elders began to disre-
  gard these agreements and continued to nominate mem-
  bers from their own tribes for consecutive terms while ig-
  noring the wishes of the tribes with whom they shared a 
  seat. To get around the notion of power sharing, there was 
  a major loophole in the law that members of the Council 
  of Elders could use to get away with nominating mem-
  bers of their same tribe over and over again. This loophole 
  requires the most qualified candidate with the strongest 
  leadership skills from any particular search be nominated 
  as the Chief or Elder. Nowadays, it is not that all that hard 
  to falsify credentials and coach a particular candidate in 
  giving all the right answers in an interview session, espe-
  cially if you already have access to the questions. Mea-
  sures can also be taken, usually by shadowrunners hired 
  by the Elders, to make opposing candidates look weaker 
  by tarnishing their records or reputations. So far, only a few 
  of the smaller tribes have engaged in this politicking, and it 
  has led many Sioux citizens to become even more cynical 
  of their government (even though they won’t tell you that 
  to your face, in fear of being labeled a troublemaker by 
  the OMI). And worse still, it is causing a significant crisis 
  for both the Council of Elders and the Council of Chiefs 
  as the larger tribes begin to look at doing the same thing. 
  Should the larger Sioux tribes (Lakota, Nakota, Dakota 
  tribes in particular) engage in such behavior, there is no 
  guarantee that the two councils as they exist will survive. 
  Will it lead to civil war? Not likely. Will it lead to civil strife, 
  and a fracturing of a nation that up to this point has prid-
  ed itself on tribal unity, weakening it on the international 
  stage? I can almost guarantee that. Once that particular 
  thread has been unwoven by one of the big tribes saying 
  they won’t play by the rules, the rest in this very uneasy 
  tapestry could very well collapse.
  Another challenge arose for the new council when the 
  members realized that after their terms were up, an en-
  tirely brand-new council would be appointed. All experi-
  ence from the previous council would be lost, and after 
  five years, the government would basically be starting 
  over from scratch. It was voted on and approved in 2021 
  that ten of the council seats would have their initial term 
  limit extended to seven years, and then return to five years 
  after the first term. From what history tells us, there was 
  a lot of resistance to that plan, but the council eventually 
  approved it. So now, half of the Council of Chiefs were ap-
  pointed this year (2075), while the rest will be appointed 
  in 2078. Although it was necessary to ensure continuity of 
  governmental functions by having staggered terms, many 
  of the smaller tribes felt resentment that most of the larger 
  tribes and their chiefs got the longer terms of office, and 
  those tribes got the better end of that deal. That slight has 
  turned into yet another grudge many tribal leaders carry 
  around with them decades later, and it is yet another rea-
  son why so many tribal leaders feel that there is a need for 
  reform of the Sioux Nation government.
  COUNCIL OF CHIEFS
  Despite only being in office for five years, the Council 
  of Chiefs still holds tremendous power over the govern-
  ment operations of the Sioux Nation. They have the abili-
  ty to pass new legislation, and they appoint heads of the 
  various bureaus, which have terms ranging from three to 
  ten years. The heads of these bureaus in turn determine 
  how their bureaus will be organized and how they will 
  function. Typically, they’re organized in ways that will be 
  appealing to the Council of Chiefs, those that were re-
  sponsible for putting them into office. In the Bureau of 
  Justice, for example, the head of the bureau appoints 
  tribal judges to lifetime terms. These judges will likely 
  be ones “suggested” by the Chiefs for these posts. The 
  only way these judges can be removed from office is by 
  a full vote from the Council of Chiefs. The head of the 
  Civil Enforcement Bureau has considerable influence over 
  the command structure, and the loyalties of those in the 
  higher levels, of the Sioux National Police. Similarly, the 
  head of the National Security bureau has great influence 
  
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  over the command structure of both the Sioux Defense 
  Force and the Wildcats. Because of this influence, the 
  various Chiefs are considered significant power brokers 
  in Sioux politics, shaping all the nuances of the Sioux 
  government, and typically shaping the course of the gov-
  ernment long after they are out of office. These are the 
  men and women gathered in Cheyenne who currently 
  wield that power, and these are the individuals that the 
  megacorporations would like to have in their pockets.  
  SIOUX SEAT
  The Sioux seat on the Council of Chiefs is always held by 
  a Chief from one of three major tribes: the Lakota, Dakota 
  or the Nakota tribes. This is the only seat on the tribal 
  council that is shared by three tribes. Since these tribes 
  are among the largest tribes, many have questioned the 
  wisdom of them sharing power instead of having individ-
  ual seats on the council. Despite this point of contention, 
  the three tribes have established a solid power sharing 
  system. Currently, the Dakota tribe holds the seat on the 
  Council of Elders. The sitting member of the Council of 
  Chiefs is Chief Matoskah Wise Thunderbird, from the La-
  kota tribe. Chief Wise Thunderbird was recently appoint-
  ed to the Council of Chiefs in June of 2075, and his term 
  lasts until 2080. The third tribe that is out of power on 
  either council (the Nakota tribe) is always guaranteed that 
  someone from their tribe will be nominated to one of the 
  more powerful government bureaus, typically the Bureau 
  of Civil Enforcement, the Bureau of High Technology, the 
  Bureau of Immigration and Revenue, or the Bureau of 
  National Security. This person is generally considered the 
  “Chief in Waiting,” serving as leading candidate for the 
  Council of Chiefs when that tribe’s term comes around. 
  The member of the Nakota tribe who is currently consid-
  ered Chief in Waiting is the present head of the Bureau of 
  Immigration and Revenue, Joseph White Deer. 
  Prior to his appointment to the Council of Chiefs, Chief 
  Wise Thunderbird served for five years as the head of the 
  Bureau of Civil Enforcement. That’s right; Wise Thunder-
  bird was essentially the Sioux Nation’s top cop from 2070 
  until 2075. Prior to that, Chief Wise Thunderbird served for 
  twenty years in the National Police. Needless to say, Chief 
  Wise Thunderbird’s personal security detail is handpicked 
  from the Sioux National Police and is quite qualified and 
  competent. In addition, Chief Wise Thunderbird spent 
  nearly ten years as a member of one of the Sioux National 
  Police Force’s rapid threat response team. If your Johnson 
  sends you after Wise Thunderbird in any way, be aware 
  you’ll be in for one hell of a fight. They’re no Wildcats to be 
  sure, but both Chief Wise Thunderbird and his security de-
  tail are as well trained and dangerous as any Knight Errant 
  SWAT team member. 
  Despite having a solid reputation for efficiency in the 
  Bureau of Civil Enforcement, Chief Wise Thunderbird un-
  fortunately also is thought of as being a bit of an ass kisser, 
  particularly toward the Dakota Elder who appointed him. 
  More than half of the legislation and budgetary spending 
  measures presented to the Council of Chiefs so far benefit 
  the Dakota tribe. Many believe Chief Wise Thunderbird to 
  be weak-willed and spineless. Even worse, they feel he is 
  being manipulated by the Dakota tribe. He may have been 
  an imposing police officer at one time, but he is proving 
  to be less capable as a politician. As such, there are fac-
  tions within the Sioux population and the Lakota tribe that 
  would like to see Chief Wise Thunderbird out of office, 
  preferably sooner rather than later. Talking to folks in the 
  shadows, there are at least two contracts out there on Wise 
  Thunderbird’s head, with the largest one being 750,000 
  nuyen from the Lakota Mafia. When Chief Wise Thunder-
  bird was the head of the Civil Enforcement Bureau, he led 
  a harsh crackdown on organized crime activities, which 
  pissed off the powerful Whiteclay family. Since becoming 
  a Chief, Chief Wise Thunderbird has continued to propose 
  new laws that would clamp down on the Lakota Mafia’s 
  operations even further, particularly their smuggling rings. 
  The fact that, Chief Wise Thunderbird continues to breathe 
  speaks volumes about competent his security detail tru-
  ly is. We will see how much longer that lasts with these 
  contracts out on his head. Despite his name, Chief Wise 
  Thunderbird is not believed to be Awakened, and he does 
  not follow any totems. Chief Wise Thunderbird is fifty-two 
  years old and a graduate from the University of Laramie.
  > 
  If you were wondering about what happens when a Chief dies 
  in office, the Council of Elders nominates someone to serve 
  out the remainder of the term. The person appointed to that 
  office will always be of the same tribe as the Chief that died 
  in the case of the seats that are shared among different tribes. 
  Unfortunately for the person hand-selected for this honor, they 
  will not get any more time than that of the original term and 
  will not be nominated again for another full term. So, if a Chief 
  dies six months prior to the end of their term, the replacement 
  only gets those six months. That’s it. And getting those full six 
  months would be the optimistic outcome. Many times it takes 
  several weeks or even a couple of months for the Council of 
  Elders to agree on a candidate. There was one time in 2048 
  where a Chief died in office, and her replacement only got to 
  serve for two weeks before being replaced!
  > 
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  HIDATSA SEAT
  The Hidatsa tribe holds a seat all to itself on the tribal 
  council. The Chief that currently holds this seat is a for-
  ty-one-year-old woman named Gentle Phoenix. Chief 
  Gentle Phoenix is in the middle of her term, which ends 
  in 2078. She is a shaman and is believed to follow the 
  Fire Bringer totem. Chief Gentle Phoenix’s main claim to 
  fame is her advocacy for improving the educational sys-
  tem in the rural areas of the Sioux Nation. To that end, 
  she partnered with Saeder-Krupp to bring in technology 
  
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  that will bridge the gaps in the quality between rural and 
  urban educational programs. Technology that includes 
  state-of-the-art trideo sets for rural schools that connect 
  them with instructors in the larger sprawls, state-of-the-
  art commlinks and cyberdecks for students to learn on, 
  and vast improvements in schools’ science labs. All this 
  in addition to her consulting work with Saeder-Krupp 
  to help them obtain certain military contracts for the 
  Sioux Defense Force. Rumor has it she was paid a twen-
  ty-five-million nuyen retainer to act as their consultant. 
  She certainly seems to be living up to her end of the bar-
  gain, if that is the case. In addition to the help she is pro-
  viding to S-K with obtaining military procurement con-
  tracts, Chief Gentle Phoenix was instrumental in helping 
  S-K obtain the multi-million-nuyen contract to construct 
  Cheyenne’s new international airport. Chief Gentle Phoe-
  nix has proved such a friend to S-K on the council that I 
  am sure S-K will sorely miss her when she leaves office. 
  For her part, she’ll have a net worth of over thirty million 
  nuyen, so she should be fine. 
   
  SHOSHONE/DELAWARE SEAT
  The Shoshone/Delaware seat has become problematic 
  for the Sioux Council in recent years. The current Chief is 
  from the Shoshone tribe who was just appointed to a new 
  term in 2075. And for the past three councils, for a total 
  of fifteen years, this seat has belonged to the Shoshone 
  tribe, despite vehement protests from the Delaware tribe 
  that the Shoshone Elder has been showing their tribe 
  “undo and unlawful” preference in nominating consec-
  utive Shoshone members to the Council of Chiefs above 
  their own candidates and has been blatantly ignoring the 
  council’s established procedures for shared seats. The 
  line that has repeatedly been fed to the Delaware tribe by 
  the Shoshone elder is that the candidates from the Sho-
  shone tribe “have simply been stronger and more qual-
  ified than any from the Delaware tribe.” They may have 
  been on paper, but in reality, none of the Shoshone can-
  didates over the years have really lived up to what was 
  on their résumés. 
  The Delaware tribe has been so upset by this practice 
  that it has tried to take the Council of Elders to tribal court 
  to protest these nominations. So far the case has been tied 
  up in court procedures for a couple of years now, and it 
  does not appear that it will be resolved any time soon. Part 
  of this is because the Bureau of Justice is currently headed 
  up by Kelly, a member of the Onondaga tribe whose tribe 
  is also in a dispute over the Council of Chiefs seat that it 
  shares with the Blackfoot tribe. Ruling in favor of the Dela-
  ware tribe would ultimately hurt the interests of the Onon-
  daga tribe. With no obvious solution in sight, many death 
  threats from angry members of the Delaware tribe have 
  been lobbed against the sitting Chief, but so far no actual 
  attempts have been made against his life—or at least, no 
  attempts have been reported to the Sioux National Police. 
  The Shoshone chief seems to be well known around the 
  Cheyenne shadows as a skilled Mr. Johnson, who seems 
  capable of dealing with these threats quietly. 
  The name of the sitting Chief is John Winterfox. Chief 
  Winterfox is thirty-three years old and is one of the young-
  est chiefs to ever sit on the Council. Chief Winterfox is also 
  a junior executive manager at Wind River Corporation, 
  continuing the long tradition of the Shoshone chiefs serv-
  ing as executives there. Other than being a bright, young, 
  and ambitious businessman, Winterfox seems idealistic 
  and does not appear to be supporting any other interests 
  other than those of his tribe and the Wind River Corpora-
  tion. Chief Winterfox has a strong ally on the council from 
  the Apache tribe, Chief Eskiminzin, who shares his desire 
  to see the Sioux Nation promoted above outside interests 
  or considerations. This has made both Chiefs targets for 
  replacement by corporations looking to find more friend-
  ly members from the Shoshone and Apache tribes who 
  could serve their interests, while at the same time, willing 
  to freeze out their competition in the Sioux Nation. Chief 
  Winterfox is not Awakened.
   
  ARAPAHO SEAT
  The seat that belongs to the Arapaho tribe is currently 
  filled by a fifty-two-year-old man named Ilesh Brilliant 
  Sun. Chief Brilliant Sun is wealthy, having had a success-
  ful, and profitable, twenty-five-year career as a tribal civil 
  attorney before accepting appointment to the Council of 
  Chiefs. Chief Brilliant Sun is also a shaman, practicing the 
  Way of Wolf. The policies Chief Brilliant Sun has put forth 
  could be described as pro-Awakened, so much so that his 
  policies would loosen restrictions on magicians, weaken 
  registration requirements, water down criminal punish-
  ments against magicians guilty of committing crimes, 
  and dilute requirements on free spirits within the Sioux 
  Nation. Some in the shadows feel Chief Brilliant Sun 
  could be a member of the Black Lodge based on his poli-
  tics, using his position to try and advance their pro-Awak-
  ened agenda. So far, this has not been proven. Should 
  any actual connections come to light, it might also impli-
  cate the Arapaho Elder. But so far, Chief Brilliant Sun has 
  done nothing to warrant special scrutiny from the Office 
  of Military Intelligence. Make no mistake, though; this 
  guy could be dangerous, especially since those of us in 
  the shadows are already aware that there could be Black 
  Lodge members in the Tsimshian Protectorate council, on 
  the Board of Directors in Pueblo, and in the UCAS Con-
  gress. Chief Brilliant Sun was just appointed to his term in 
  2075. Brilliant Sun is also a minority owner of the Apache 
  Mustangs, the Sioux’s combat bike team.     
  CROW SEAT
  The Crow tribe is represented in the Council of Chiefs by 
  a man named Tom Charging Bear. Chief Charging Bear 
  is a thirty-seven-year-old ork. Despite being halfway into 
  
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  his term, Charging Bear has not had too much of a lasting 
  impact on the politics of the council, and he is one of the 
  lesser, charismatic individuals on the council. The most 
  notable thing of his political career is he has proposed 
  legislation that has been friendly toward Shiawase and 
  has taken steps to kill legislation that would have harmed 
  Shiawase’s interests inside the Sioux. It is fairly obvious to 
  observers who are paying attention to Sioux politics that 
  Chief Charging Bear is likely bought and paid for by Shi-
  awase. Like Chief Wise Thunderbird, Chief Charging Bear 
  is not Awakened. Chief Charging Bear is also a minority 
  owner of the Apache Mustangs combat bike team.
  OJIBWE SEAT
  The Ojibwe tribe is represented by a man named Bemidii. 
  Chief Bemidii is sixty years old, a solid family man, ideal-
  istic, a firm believer in the Sioux Council and its merits as 
  the best form of government, or so he says. Chief Bemi-
  dii’s father was a fervent follower of Daniel Howling Coy-
  ote and participated in the Great Ghost Dance. His father 
  died during that ritual. Chief Bemidii is a hardliner against 
  Anglos and is staunchly anti-foreign corporation. Bemi-
  dii is celebrated by many in the tribes for standing up to 
  the foreign corporations and for trying to get legislation 
  approved that would further restrict the rights of Anglos 
  who are attached to foreign-based corporations. As such, 
  Chief Bemidii is believed to have ended up on a number 
  of corporations’ enemies list. Bemidii is considered an 
  obstructionist to the interests of the corporations, often 
  blocking motions for months at a time before they are 
  voted on by the tribal council. Chief Bemidii is a shaman, 
  but no one is sure of which totem he follows. There are 
  also rumors in the shadows of Cheyenne that Chief Be-
  midii is a member of the Midewiwin Society, a shamanic 
  medicine group that was once believed to be trying to 
  heal the ills of society. Lately, the Midewiwin Society has 
  become known for its vigilante-style attacks on individu-
  als or institutions that they feel are “cancers” to the well 
  being of the Sioux Nation. This has even included attacks 
  on the Council of Chiefs and the Council of Elders for their 
  alleged corruption. As such, membership in the Midewi-
  win Society is currently banned, and any known members 
  of the Midewiwin Society are arrested. This is a scandal 
  waiting to happen if it can be proven that Chief Bemidii is 
  a member of this group.   
  CHEYENNE SEAT
  The Cheyenne tribe’s representative is a female elf named 
  Dancing Eagle. The Cheyenne Chief has historically held 
  great influence out he rest of the council, partly because 
  the Sioux National Police is dominated by members of 
  the Cheyenne tribe. As such, whoever is the Chief for the 
  Cheyenne tribe is assumed to have a vast majority of back-
  ing and support of the Sioux National Police, despite that 
  organization claiming that it’s not political. Locals shadows 
  say that the Cheyenne Chief can leverage this backing to 
  help cover up secrets … or reveal them. Chief Dancing Ea-
  gle is the only adept on the Council of Chiefs, and he can 
  be very charismatic and persuasive. She is by far the most 
  popular of the Chiefs with the people, and some specu-
  late that she will eventually be nominated to the Council 
  of Elders. Chief Dancing Eagle is reported to have strong 
  relations with Chief Wise Thunderbird from his time as the 
  head of the Civil Enforcement Bureau, and she is a close 
  ally to the Lakota chief. According to her SIN data, Danc-
  ing Eagle is fifty-eight years old, but as an elf, she appears 
  to be twenty-five. In addition to her duties as a member of 
  the Council of Chiefs, Dancing Eagle is part owner of the 
  somewhat controversial club, Marble Paladin. Her corpo-
  rate patron for this establishment is Telestrian Industries. 
  Chief Dancing Eagle was just nominated to her position 
  this past year, and will remain until 2080.    
  MOHAWK/POTAWATOMI SEAT
  The Mohawk/Potawatomi seat is another tension-caus-
  ing seat on the Council of Chiefs. For as long as the Sho-
  shone Elder has been nominating members of his own 
  tribe for consecutive terms on the tribal council, the Elder 
  from the Mohawk tribe has been doing the same thing 
  with their own council member. The current sitting Chief 
  representing the Mohawk/Potawatomi seat is a man 
  named Keme from the Mohawk tribe. Chief Keme’s term 
  in office began back in 2073. Keme enjoys an influential 
  role on the council due to the fact that both the Sioux 
  Defense Force and the Wildcats have high numbers of 
  Mohawk members within their ranks, and that tribal affili-
  ation translates into political influence. It is also a seat the 
  Potawatomi tribe would like to enjoy as well, should they 
  ever be given the chance to do so. Unlike the arrange-
  ment between the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota tribes, the 
  Potawatomi candidates for bureau chiefs are rarely con-
  sidered for high office. The last time the Potawatomi had 
  a bureau chief was back in 2058, when the Potawatomi 
  delegate served on the Bureau of Heritage. Most people 
  don’t even remember his name, as his term in office was 
  that insignificant. Feeling marginalized, the Potawatomi 
  tribe have resorted to hiring shadowrunners to dig up dirt 
  on Chief Keme and find ways of getting him out of office, 
  either through assassination or disgrace. Disgrace would 
  likely be the best option for the Potawatomi, as it would 
  put political pressure on the Mohawk Elder to nominate 
  someone from the Potawatomi seat. So far, efforts to un-
  seat Chief Keme have proven unsuccessful. 
  The shadowrunners who take this job only need to 
  look at Chief Keme’s close relationship with MCT to find 
  controversy. Despite making visible efforts to appear as 
  though he keeps MCT on a tight leash, particularly with en-
  vironmental regulations (given the Tsimshian fallout), he is 
  among the first to vote to renew MCT’s contracts with the 
  Sioux Nation, such as the contract that allows MCT to run 
  
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  specialized prisons like Blackstone Prison. Many believe 
  MCT, a very unpopular corporation in the Sioux Nation 
  with the Sioux people, has made millions from the votes 
  Chief Keme has made while on the council, and it is com-
  mon to find those that work in the local shadows to as-
  sume that Chief Keme is on MCT’s bankroll. Chief Keme is 
  sixty-eight years old and is not believed to be Awakened.
  MOHEGAN/CHEROKEE SEAT
  Unlike other tribes, the Mohegan and Cherokee tribes 
  seem to have no trouble following the established rules 
  with their shared seat on the tribal council. Last term, this 
  seat was occupied by a Mohegan chief. This time around, 
  it is member from the Cherokee (Tsalagi) tribe, a female 
  chief by the name of Singing Dove. And this mutual pow-
  er sharing has been going on without incident since the 
  modern council was formed. Chief Singing Dove is a for-
  ty-six-year-old human woman, who is Awakened. Prior 
  to being appointed to the council, Chief Singing Dove 
  was a well-established talismonger with some fairly deep 
  pockets. She is a shaman who is now following the ways 
  of Coyote.
  Her allegiance to Coyote has not always been the case. 
  At the beginning of 2074, Chief Singing Dove was in-
  volved in an assassination attempt. The GridGuide system 
  on her vehicle “malfunctioned,” and her vehicle was sent 
  into oncoming traffic with a speeding semi-truck. Prior to 
  the incident, Singing Dove was a follower of Bear and a 
  very pleasant member of the Council of Chiefs. Following 
  the accident, however, Chief Singing Dove’s personality 
  changed. She became meaner, more spiteful, and venge-
  ful toward her enemies. She literally spent over a hundred 
  thousand nuyen hunting down the runners responsible 
  for her accident, and instead of turning them over to the 
  national police she simply had them killed after learning 
  from them that an illegal, anti-council policlub was their 
  employer. She has then spent another hundred thousand 
  nuyen going after them directly, hunting down any mem-
  ber of that organization she could find, no matter whether 
  they had any involvement in the assassination attempt or 
  not. Chief Singing Dove has all but dismantled that poli-
  club singlehandedly but also has earned her a lot of en-
  emies on the streets of Cheyenne. At some point in this 
  time, Singing Dove turned away from Bear and started to 
  follow Coyote.  
  Many attribute her abrupt change in personality, and 
  her beliefs, to the fact that the hospital resorted to ex-
  treme measures to keep her alive: cyberware and bioware 
  implants. They were also forced to clone at least two of 
  her organs and one of her arms. The whole process left 
  Singing Dove was in the hospital for nearly a year. That 
  was a full year when she could not attend council meet-
  ings. And when she did return, there were a lot of vicious 
  rumors swirling around the Hall of the Chiefs saying Chief 
  Singing Dove was no longer “whole.” Many derided her, 
  saying that it would have been better for her had she died 
  a natural death instead of being put on the path to burnout 
  as some form of unnatural monstrosity. Some claim that 
  she didn’t actually survive and that a shedim replaced her. 
  Others have claimed that Chief Singing Dove has gone 
  toxic (which, if true, would prove to be quite the scandal), 
  while others claim that she was taken by that hospital and 
  merged with a bug spirit, explaining her extreme shift in 
  personality. Other conspiracy theorists believe that Chief 
  Singing Dove is part of some Anglo conspiracy; a conspir-
  acy that frequently changes depending on which group 
  you talk with. More recently, some rumors suggest she 
  may be an early head crash case due to the cyberware 
  they had to install in her to save her life. Because of the 
  vicious rumors cascading through the halls, Chief Singing 
  Dove has not had an easy return to the council, as those 
  rumors only spark mistrust between her and her fellow 
  chiefs. One may even go so far as to suggest that she has 
  become ostracized on that council through no fault of 
  her own. But because she seems ineffective now, word is 
  spreading in the shadows that the Mohegan and Cherokee 
  tribes, along with their Elder, may be holding secret talks 
  to discuss what to do about Chief Singing Dove, as she is 
  likely no longer able to effectively pursue their interests on 
  the council. They do have the option of claiming that she is 
  no longer medically fit to continue in her role on the coun-
  cil, but this option has never before been pursued. It could 
  prove to be embarrassing to the Mohegan and Cherokee 
  tribes pursuing that route. As much as I hate to see any 
  more tragedy befall this woman, I suspect another “acci-
  dent” may be in her future, this time coming from the very 
  people she was appointed to the council to represent.
  Because Chief Singing Dove has missed so much of her 
  term due to her “accident,” she has been lobbying hard 
  for the Chief of Elders to either remove the term limit al-
  together, or simply extend her term by a year. Given the 
  Council of Elders’ resistance to the notion of removing 
  these term limits for the Council of Chiefs, it is likely Chief 
  Singing Dove is going to be out of luck on that front. 
  CHOCKTAW SEAT
  The Chocktaw seat is represented by a forty-year-old 
  Chocktaw man from Laramie named Koi. Chief Koi is an-
  other member of the council that has very little personal-
  ity, and he trends low on social media sites during tribal 
  council broadcasts. He was appointed to the Council this 
  past year, then Three months into his term, he disappeared 
  from the public spotlight, only appearing via trid telecon-
  ference during the council meetings. There’s speculation 
  that the reason he disappeared from public life is that at 
  some point in the last three months, he has expressed as 
  a changeling. Given cultural backlash against changelings, 
  it’s reasonable to conclude that Chief Koi wishes to keep 
  his condition hidden until he has served out his term and 
  can relocate out of country. Unfortunately for him, he still 
  
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  has a little over four years left in his term. That’s an eternity 
  for anyone with a secret as large as this one to maintain a 
  cover-up. We’ll see if he can run out the clock, or if he’ll be 
  forced to resign before his term is up.  
  Like Chief Chargin Bear, Chief Koi is widely believed to 
  be on Shiawase’s payroll. Not only does he support poli-
  cies that are beneficial to Shiawase, but his personal secu-
  rity detail is completely made up of Shiawase personnel. 
  There are no laws to prohibit this practice, but if Chief Koi 
  were much of a politician, he would realize how bad this 
  looks. Thee is no indication that Chief Koi is Awakened.
  NAVAJO SEAT
  The Navajo people in the Sioux Nation are represented 
  by Chief Naalnish. Appointed in 2073, Chief Naalnish en-
  joys a greater profile on the Council of Chiefs due to the 
  fact that his brother, Gaagii, is the city chief of Cheyenne. 
  Many of the council members have business interests 
  within Cheyenne, and Chief Naalnish can help solve local 
  problems for these members for a little quid pro quo from 
  the Council of Chiefs. It would be appropriate to call Chief 
  Naalnish a political fixer—he is quite able to expedite cer-
  tain issues, while making others disappear. Of course, 
  City Chief Gaagii is not doing these favors for his broth-
  er out of the kindness of his heart. Many locals suspect 
  that Gaagii is angling for a post on one of the national 
  bureaus, possibly the Immigration and Revenue Bureau. 
  Chief Naalnish is fifty-two years old and is the first dwarf 
  to serve on the Council of Chiefs. H is not Awakened.
  CREE SEAT
  With Shiawase, MCT, Horizon and Saeder-Krupp having 
  their own bought-and-paid-for Chiefs to play with, Ares 
  needed to get in the game, so they have invested in the 
  Cree seat. Chief Chogan is a retired member from the 
  Sioux Defense Force who served twenty-six years in the 
  military and retired as one of their war chiefs. Because 
  the Cree tribe has a high number of people in the Sioux 
  Defense Force and the Wildcats, it has special influence 
  over matters related to the military, including military 
  
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  procurement contracts. Chief Chogan is more respect-
  ed within military circles than Chief Keme because while 
  Chief Keme served only his one-year mandatory tour of 
  duty in the Sioux Defense Force when he turned eigh-
  teen, Chogan entered service in the Sioux Defense Force 
  and made it his career, rising through the ranks. He was 
  appointed to the seat back in 2073, and with only two 
  years to go in his term, Ares is already planning ahead 
  and scouting out his replacement. It’s critical to Ares’ in-
  terests that they keep the Cree chief in their pocket, par-
  ticularly now that Roger Soaring Owl has left Ares and 
  taken all his connections in the Sioux Nation government 
  with him. Although Ares has several candidates in mind 
  for the tribal council, it appears they are trying to groom 
  the current head of the Bureau of High Technology, Al-
  soomse, for this position in 2078. Unfortunately for Ares, 
  they will have to deal with the Cree elder, whose attitude 
  has soured against Ares following Soaring Owl’s per-
  ceived disgraceful exit from the megacorporation. There 
  is significant chance that the next Cree Chief will be an-
  ti-foreign corporation.
  Chief Chogan is not Awakened.
  LUMBEE SEAT
  Out of all the chiefs on the council, the Lumbee chief, 
  William Demery, seems to be the most confrontational 
  with the Office of Military Intelligence. Chief Demery 
  would like nothing more than to slash the OMI budget 
  and have it shut down all of its internal intelligence gath-
  ering operations. If you spoke with Chief Demery about 
  why he is taking this antagonistic approach to the OMI, 
  he would likely say that in his fifteen years as a member 
  of the Sioux National Police force, he had the opportunity 
  to witness OMI’s methodology and tactics on a number 
  of occasions, including tactics that he disdains and con-
  siders illegal. If you talk to local runners, however, you’ll 
  likely get another story. Chief Demery is rumored to be 
  on the Lakota Mafia payroll. In fact, much of Chief De-
  mery’s wealth is believed to come from smuggling. And 
  the real reason Chief Demery wants to cripple the OMI is 
  that he does not want his illegal activities discovered and 
  used against him, as opposed to any civil rights grievanc-
  es he might have. Chief Demery left the Sioux Defense 
  Force as a detective, so there was plenty of time for him 
  to have been approached by the Lakota Mafia and turned 
  into a dirty cop, if he wasn’t one at the beginning. He is 
  forty-two years old, an ork, and not Awakened. His term 
  ends in 2080. 
  MAHICAN SEAT 
  Appointed to the Mahican tribe’s seat in 2073, Chief 
  James Great Owl is a forty-eight-year-old shaman fol-
  lowing the Jaguar totem. He’s a strong Aztlan nation sup-
  porter, though he is more ambivalent about Aztechnol-
  ogy. It is very important to him to make that distinction, 
  as Chief Great Owl believes Aztlan and Aztechnology are 
  not one in the same, and that the Aztlan people should 
  be freed from beneath Aztechnology’s tyranny. It is be-
  lieved that Chief Great Owl advocated passionately for 
  the Office of Military Intelligence to intervene in the Az-
  tlan-Amazonia war and sabotage Aztechnology’s agen-
  da in the war in order to weaken its grasp on the Aztlan 
  nation. There is no evidence to suggest that the Office of 
  Military Intelligence actually interfered during the course 
  of that conflict, but it’s the OMI—not leaving evidence is 
  their thing. Despite his anti-Aztechnology stance, Chief 
  Great Owl has been looking to foster increased rela-
  tions with the Aztlan people. Chief Great Owl is looking 
  to bring the sport of court ball to Cheyenne, something 
  which the council has so far rejected. If he succeeds, ex-
  pect that one of the major customs of court ball—the sac-
  rificing of the captain of the championship team—to be 
  banned. Although court ball is popular in certain sectors 
  within Cheyenne, I personally believe that it is not popu-
  lar enough for Cheyenne to invest in a team. Right now, 
  Cheyenne’s passion in sports seems to be in urban brawl 
  and combat bike. 
  ONEIDA SEAT
  The Oneida tribe is represented on the Council of Chiefs 
  by a forty-one-year-old troll named Chief Smiling Horse. 
  Chief Smiling Horse was appointed to his seat in 2073 
  and has strong ties with the Pueblo. He frequently trav-
  els to the PCC, meeting with their board of directors as 
  part of his official diplomatic business. Some say those 
  ties are too strong, and Chief Smiling Horse is in bed 
  with the Koshari, who are looking to expand their influ-
  ence into the Sioux Nation. If this is the case, he would 
  have a major enemy in the Lakota Mafia. Chief Smiling 
  Horse is not Awakened.
  CREEK SEAT
  Chief Lamochattee represents the Creek tribe on the 
  Council of Chiefs. Prior to his appointment to the coun-
  cil, Chief Lamochattee worked for Charisma Associates, a 
  Horizon subsidiary, from 2068 to 2073. Although Chief 
  Lamochattee resigned from his position at Charisma As-
  sociates prior to becoming a Chief, it is strongly believed 
  by those who work in the shadows that Chief Lamochat-
  tee continues to foster a strong relationship with his for-
  mer employers, carrying Horizon’s water on the Council. 
  Naturally, Chief Lamochattee seems to get the best PR 
  exposure on the council, and he enjoys high approval rat-
  ings within his tribe. It also doesn’t hurt that he seems 
  to be featured more prevalently on the Native American 
  Broadcasting Service in metahuman interest stories than 
  the other Chiefs, even more than Chief Dancing Eagle. 
  Chief Lamochattee is forty-four years old, and he appears 
  to be positioning himself to have a long-term career in 
  Sioux politics, possibly as an Elder once the current Creek 
  
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  member leaves office. It’s also possible that he would like 
  to be considered as a head of one of the ten tribal bu-
  reaus. Given that the members of the Council of Chiefs 
  are only allowed one term, it is not surprising to find that 
  after serving their term on the Council, Chiefs will typical-
  ly appoint outgoing Chiefs to head up the bureaus. This 
  is not always the case, but generally you will find two or 
  three of the current bureau heads who are former mem-
  bers of the Council of Chiefs. If rumors are believed, Chief 
  Lamochattee has an eye on the Bureau of Cultural Preser-
  vation for his next job after he leaves office in 2078.
  APACHE SEAT
  Chief Eskiminzin is the current representative on the 
  Council of Chiefs for the Apache tribe. Appointed in 
  2073, Chief Eskiminzin is another patriotic idealist on the 
  council. He has remained staunchly independent and 
  free from outside influence, and he frequently challenges 
  legislation that appears to be supported by foreign cor-
  porations. His most common allies in these objections is 
  Chief Winterfox from the Shoshone tribe and Chief Be-
  midii from the Ojibwe tribe. Sadly, Chief Eskiminzin has 
  announced that he is terminally ill; he has been missing 
  weeks of Council meetings at a time, and it seems un-
  likely that he will live to the end of his term. The Apache 
  elder is already looking for a replacement, as are the 
  megacorporations. Chief Eskiminzin is seventy-two years 
  old, and he is a shaman who follows the Bear totem. 
  > 
  Yeah, it sounds like Chief Eskiminzin has become the victim of 
  a poisoning job/run. He was fine about six months ago when 
  his health took a sharp turn for the worse. That was around the 
  same time that he was leading major opposition on the council 
  against MCT’s plans to build another, specialized Awakened 
  prison in the Sioux Nation, a state-of-the-art spot that would in 
  all likelihood become another dumping ground for the worst 
  magic offenders in the Sioux, and would become another 
  astral toxic wasteland just like what the Blackstone prison has 
  become. Coincidence for the timing? I think not! If you love the 
  Sioux Nation, you should be grateful for what Chief Eskiminzin 
  tried to do and for trying to protect us from the sort of blight 
  that MCT wants to saddle us with. You should also work to make 
  sure someone like him is once again appointed to the council. 
  We need someone with core beliefs, not someone who is a 
  corrupt and spineless collaborator who only values nuyen. 
  > 
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  ONONDAGA/BLACKFOOT SEAT
  The next seat on the Council of Chiefs is shared by both 
  the Onondaga and Blackfoot tribes. Currently, Chief 
  Great Horned Bear from the Onondaga tribe holds this 
  seat. He was appointed to the council in 2073. The On-
  ondaga tribe has controlled this seat since 2068, going 
  back to the previous term. However, unlike other seats 
  and other tribes where elders have engaged in dirty tricks 
  to get their own tribal members appointed to the Council 
  of Chiefs, it was clear Chief Great Horned Bear was the 
  most qualified candidate at the time he was nominated. 
  Even by the Blackfoot tribal elder agreed. Prior to his ser-
  vice on the tribal council, Chief Great Horned Bear had 
  worked for nearly eighteen years for a local corporation 
  called High Plains Coding as a Matrix engineer. Despite 
  having a doctorate in Matrix science, Chief Great Horned 
  Bear has proven to be charismatic and knowledgeable 
  of Sioux politics, and he has made it clear that Sioux 
  politics is indeed a passion of his. Since being in office, 
  Chief Great Horned Bear has proven effective in getting 
  improvements and appropriations for his tribe from the 
  Council of Chiefs, including a hundred-million-nuyen ur-
  ban renewal project for portions of Cheyenne that are in-
  habited by members of the Onondaga tribe.
  Chief Great Horned Bear is sixty-two years old and is 
  an Eagle shaman. 
  > 
  It also doesn’t hurt that, as the story goes, the Blackfoot elder 
  received a vision from his totem that Great Horned Bear was 
  the proper candidate for this term. Lots of Sioux figure that it’s 
  unwise to argue with a totem spirit. 
  > 
  Jimmy No
  > 
  For those of us who are cynical and jaded (and grounded in 
  reality), there’s absolutely nothing stopping the Blackfoot elder 
  from claiming “Oh, by the way, Eagle told me to nominate this 
  guy and he’s the right guy for the job,” when in fact, it’s nothing 
  but bulldrek. And I bet you that’s exactly what happened. It’s a 
  naïve and gullible lot to believe that “this supernatural entity 
  told me this is this right candidate.” 
  > 
  Mystic Skeptic
  > 
  Other than the fact that he’s surrounded by a bunch of other 
  professional liars who could probably see through it in a 
  heartbeat. That and they possess magic to detect lies. 
  > 
  Lyran
  > 
  And I have to add that being perceived as voting against your 
  own tribe for a candidate from another tribe is not an easy 
  choice to make. That decision sparked a lot of anger within the 
  Blackfoot tribe directed at the elder. It would have been much 
  easier on him to have just nominated a candidate from his own 
  tribe. I have to believe that what he did, he thought he was 
  doing the right thing.  
  > 
  Cheyenne Sam
  > 
  Those who toy with spiritual beliefs for worldly gain can feel 
  their souls slipping away from them, like sand through open 
  fingers.
  > 
  Arete
  Despite the likelihood Chief Great Horned Bear may 
  have been the better candidate for the job, he not been 
  warmly received by the Blackfoot tribe or one of its more 
  
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  prominent members, Sinopa from the Office of Military 
  Intelligence. It is believed that Sinopa invested thousands 
  of nuyen into the Blackfoot candidate to ensure that he 
  would be chosen from the pool of candidates submitted to 
  the Elder for nomination, and she was greatly displeased 
  to find out that her candidate was summarily rejected. 
  This candidate, whom many believe was recruited from 
  the Matrix Security Taskforce unit of the Sioux Defense 
  Force, would be used by Sinopa to spy on the activities 
  of the Council of Chiefs, particularly on classified, closed-
  door sessions of the council where outsiders, including the 
  OMI, do not have access. He would have also been used 
  to potentially expand the powers of the Office of Military 
  Intelligence to gather intelligence on Sioux citizens within 
  the country—as if the OMI’s powers weren’t already broad 
  enough. Despite this setback, be assured that Sinopa will 
  try again in 2078 to make sure her candidate is appointed 
  to the Council of Chiefs, even if that means that between 
  now and then, there will be a new elder on the Council of 
  Elders serving the Onondaga and Blackfoot tribes.
  CHICKASAW SEAT
  Since December 2074, the Chickasaw seat on the Council 
  of Chiefs has been vacant. There has been a buzz around 
  Cheyenne that Harold Fox Black Shield, the head of the 
  Resource Management Bureau, is the leading candidate 
  for this open position. However, there is more to this open 
  vacancy than the fact that Black Shield is married to an An-
  glo who works for Horizon and travels to the UCAS. The 
  Council of Chiefs has been pressuring the Council of Elders 
  to change the rules on term limits for a long time now. The 
  current members on the Council of Chiefs would like at 
  least two terms and are choosing to press the issue. As 
  such, they have been refusing to appoint anyone to the 
  Council of Elders until that change is made, using the open 
  seat as leverage against the Elders. In retaliation, the Coun-
  cil of Elders is refusing to nominate anyone new to the 
  Council of Chiefs. The Council of Elders seems resolved 
  not to give into the Council of Chiefs’ demands and in-
  stead seems willing to wait the chiefs out until 2078, when 
  half the Council goes away. This situation is ripe for shad-
  ow work, as both councils are eager to get members of the 
  rival council to change their votes to get what they want. 
  Depending on how involved runners get, this could end 
  up either being resolved quickly or becoming a drawn-out, 
  protracted squabble, serving only to agitate all involved. 
  Either way, there is nuyen to be made in the shadows. 
  > 
  Given how much animosity is building between the two 
  councils, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the Council 
  of Chiefs decides to start declaring one or two of the Elders 
  impaired and vote to have them removed from office as a shot 
  across the bow. If that happens, things will get ugly. 
  > 
  Kay St. Irregular
  SEMINOLE SEAT
  Chief Holata represents the Seminole tribe. Chief Holata 
  is a respected, fifty-seven-year-old man who is a retired 
  tribal judge who served for over twenty-nine years as a 
  magistrate. Chief Holata is viewed as the most progres-
  sive of the sitting Chiefs. He holds little animosity toward 
  the UCAS and CAS, and he would like to see improved 
  relations with the neighboring countries. There have been 
  many rumors swirling around Chief Holata suggesting that 
  he might be working with the UCAS or the CAS as a spy. 
  People I know working in the Cheyenne shadows have 
  told me that the Office of Military Intelligence has been 
  paying close attention to Chief Holata, but so far, Chief Ho-
  lata has neither been arrested nor made to “disappear,” so 
  no matter the scrutiny Chief Holata seems to be under, he 
  seems to be holding up just fine. Chief Holata’s term is up 
  in 2078, and he is a shaman who follows Fox. 
  SIOUX NATION BUREAUS AND THEIR CURRENT DIRECTORS
  AGENCY 
  HEADED BY 
  TRIBE 
  TERM 
  TERM ENDS
  Agriculture 
  Degotoga Smythe 
  Cherokee 
  4 yrs 
  2078
  Civil Enforcement 
  Oconostota 
  Cheyenne 
  5 yrs 
  2078
  Cultural Preservation 
  Wematin King  
  Blackfoot 
  3 yrs 
  2078
  Health and Welfare 
  Liniwa 
  Hidatsa 
  10 yrs 
  2078
  Heritage 
  Aranck 
  Arapaho 
  8 yrs 
  2082
  High Technology 
  Alsoomse 
  Cree 
  7 yrs 
  2081
  Immigration and Revenue 
  Joseph White Deer 
  Nakota 
  4 yrs 
  2078
  Justice 
  Wapun Blackfield 
  Onondaga 
  10 yrs 
  2078
  National Security 
  Daniel Foster 
  Apache 
  5 yrs 
  2078
  Resource Management 
  Harold Fox Black Shield 
  Chickasaw 
  7 yrs 
  2081
  
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  COUNCIL OF ELDERS
  In Sioux politics, the Council of Elders is the final arbiter 
  of what becomes the law. The Council of Chiefs may pass 
  legislation and rule on legal conflicts between the tribes, 
  but if it isn’t ratified by the Council of Elders, the policy is 
  effectively killed. The Council of Elders has the ability to 
  influence policy over longer periods of time, since they 
  have life terms in office. Each seat on the Council of Elders 
  mirrors the seat found on the Council of Chiefs. When a 
  seat becomes open, either on the Council of Chiefs or 
  the Council of Elders, it is up to the counterpart seat on 
  the opposing council to go through the search process 
  to find an appropriate candidate for the position. Once a 
  candidate is selected, the Chief or Elder calls for a vote by 
  the full council for either approval or rejection of a candi-
  date. The candidate takes office if approved, while a re-
  jection results in the Elder or Chief selecting a new slate 
  of candidates to be interviewed for the post. Candidates 
  that are rejected the first time are never re-nominated. 
  Generally speaking, the Council of Elders is not con-
  sidered as relevant to the day-to-day operations of the 
  government as the Council of Chiefs. As such, the corpo-
  rations do not pay as much attention to the Elders as they 
  do the Chiefs, though they maintain an interest in who the 
  Elders nominate to the Council of Chiefs. The Council of 
  Elders is generally made up of what you would call “hard-
  liners.” Almost all of them have direct memories of Daniel 
  Howling Coyote and the events of the Great Ghost Dance. 
  A couple of them actually participated in that ceremony 
  and survived. Because of this, the Council of Elders are bit-
  terly opposed to Anglo and foreign corporation interests 
  in the Sioux Nation. The corporations have to work hard 
  on candidates as they are going through the interview 
  and selection process and get them into a position where 
  they are, at the very least, less hostile to their interests and 
  won’t automatically vote to kick them out of the country 
  after they take office. With the Sioux Nation not ratifying 
  the Business Recognition Accords, the megacorporations 
  are in a weakened position. If the Council of Elders were 
  ever successful in nominating an overtly hardline Council 
  of Chiefs, the corps’ gilded positions in the country would 
  be jeopardized.
  At the moment, there are two current openings on 
  the Council of Elders. With this ongoing spat between the 
  Council of Chiefs and the Council of Elders, there could 
  be an unprecedented number of seats on the Council of 
  Elders become open this year. If that should occur, ex-
  pect interference from outside groups (namely, the cor-
  porations) in an effort to manipulate the outcomes of the 
  nomination process to the Council of Elders and shape the 
  future off the Sioux Nation as they see fit.
  > 
  The corporations are continuing to lobby hard to get the 
  Council of Chiefs and Elders to ratify the Business Recognition 
  Accords. The last vote on the matter happened a couple of 
  years ago, and the measure was soundly defeated, fifteen to 
  five. Some would see this as a crippling defeat to corporate 
  interests, but the vote before than in 2068 was a walloping 
  eighteen to one, with one Council member abstaining. So 
  there’s some measurable progress on that front. Still, it’s going 
  to be a really long time before the Council of Chiefs ratifies 
  this document. And then it’ll still have to go on to the Council 
  of Elders, where that will be an entirely new battle all together 
  with the much more conservative body. 
  > 
  Slice  
  SIOUX SEAT
  The Sioux Seat on the Council of Elders is held by an 
  eighty-six-year-old Dakota tribesman named Wahkan. 
  Whispers in the shadows suggest that Wahkan is look-
  ing to break tribal customs by nominating someone from 
  the Dakota tribe to the Council of Chiefs instead of the 
  expected “Chief in Waiting,” Joseph White Deer from the 
  Nakota tribe. There has been some uproar over this pos-
  sibility, as it would completely alienate the Nakota tribe 
  and upend the three tribes’ power sharing agreement, 
  but for many, it is hard for locals to argue why the Dakota 
  tribe should not be engaging in this practice when the 
  smaller tribes seem to have been blatantly violating this 
  rule for years and have been getting away with it with 
  impunity. Some speculate Tribal Elder Wahkan is angling 
  to have his son, a fifty-eight-year-old tenured professor 
  at the University of Cheyenne, nominated to the seat on 
  the Council of Chiefs. Tribal Elder Wahkan is one of the 
  original members of the Council of Elders, and as such, 
  he commands a lot of respect. Should the Dakota elder 
  push for his son to becoming a member of the Council 
  of Chiefs, it will likely be approved by the Council of El-
  ders by a fairly wide margin. As many media pundits have 
  commented on, saying no to Tribal Elder Wahkan is simi-
  lar to saying no to Charlie Whiteclay. It is something that 
  does not happen. Tribal Elder Wahkan is a shaman who 
  follows the Mountain totem. 
  > 
  Interesting you should reference Whiteclay, Mika. Wahkan’s son 
  is not the only potential usurper for the seat on the Council of 
  Chiefs. Word in the shadows is that Charlie Whiteclay would 
  like his nephew, Adam Lionhead, appointed to the Sioux seat 
  on the Council of Chiefs, and he’s putting significant pressure 
  on Wahkan to make it happen. It’ll be interesting to watch this 
  conflict unfold, as Whiteclay has as much influence within 
  the Sioux Nation as Wahkan has on the Council of Elders. 
  This conflict may eventually answer what happens when an 
  immovable object encounters an unstoppable force. 
  > 
  Snopes
  
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  > 
  Which just means that’s possibly a second way the Nakota tribe 
  gets screwed. 
  > 
  SxSioux
  HIDATSA SEAT
  Tribal Elder Spell Weaver has shown a growing disdain 
  for Chief Gentle Phoenix and her apparent affection for 
  Saeder-Krupp. The Hidatsa elder has made public com-
  ments that he feels the Sioux National Police should look 
  at Chief Gentle Phoenix for possible corruption, and he 
  has, in the last year, lobbied the Council of Chiefs to expel 
  the council member—this despite the fact that a few years 
  ago, he was responsible for appointing Gentle Phoenix to 
  the council. It is likely that Tribal Elder Spell Weaver feels 
  betrayed by Chief Gentle Phoenix who, during her inter-
  views, gave an impression of holding a strong suspicion 
  of the foreign corporations and a willingness to crack 
  down on them. Unfortunately, none of those promises 
  from Chief Gentle Phoenix have come to fruition, and 
  Tribal Elder Spell Weaver is suspecting that he had been 
  used. Tribal Elder Spell Weaver is seventy-eight years old 
  and is a shaman practicing the ways of Wise Warrior. Trib-
  al Elder Spell Weaver is not an original Elder, having taken 
  office in 2065 after his predecessor died during the Sec-
  ond Matrix crash.
  SHOSHONE/DELAWARE SEAT
  The Shoshone/Delaware seat is held by an elder from 
  the Shoshone tribe named Wanikiy. He has caused strife 
  by repeatedly nominating members from his own tribe 
  to the Council of Chiefs. Tribal Elder Wanikiy has shown 
  no desire to change this practice, earning him the ire of 
  the Delaware people. Removing Tribal Elder Wanikiy from 
  his position would potentially solve the Delaware tribe’s 
  current problems, particularly if his successor is from the 
  Delaware tribe. Should anything happen to Tribal Elder 
  Wanikiy, you can bet the Shoshone tribe will be lobby-
  ing hard to keep this seat out of the hands of the Dela-
  ware tribe if only to avert serious retaliation for Wanikiy’s 
  perceived abuse of power. The Delaware tribe, however, 
  isn’t the only group looking to find a way of getting rid of 
  Wanikiy. Tribal Elder Wanikiy is a major opponent to ex-
  tending the Council of Chiefs term to five years. As such, 
  he is a logical choice for the Council of Chiefs to portray 
  as an Elder who is incapable of carrying out his duties and 
  must be removed from office, in hopes of getting some-
  one more amiable to their position. Tribal Elder Wanikiy is 
  also a major opponent of the megacorporations, so they 
  also wouldn’t mind seeing him go. Tribal Elder Wanikiy is 
  ninety-one years-old and is a shaman practicing the ways 
  of Mountain. He was appointed to the Council of Elders 
  in 2060 when his predecessor died of “natural causes” in 
  his sleep (as if that designation means anything anymore, 
  with the growing number of methods to conceal murder 
  as a natural cause).
  ARAPAHO SEAT
  Tribal Elder Rowtag a sixty-seven-year old adept, rep-
  resents the Arapaho people, though he was not an orig-
  inal Elder. He came to office when his predecessor, who 
  was also his father, died of cancer in 2059, and he has 
  been sitting on the council ever since. Tribal Elder Row-
  tag is not the most popular member of the council. He is 
  “merely” an adept and does not follow a totem, making 
  him a bit of an anomaly among the shamans that dom-
  inate the council. Despite the prejudices he faces, Tribal 
  Elder Rowtag continues to fulfill his duties, and he ap-
  pears to be healthy enough to stay on the council for an-
  other ten years or so. Like the Chief he appointed to the 
  Council of Chiefs, there are rumors hanging over Tribal 
  Rowtag’s head that he may be associated with the Black 
  Lodge, though no proof has been offered.
  CROW SEAT
  The Crow representative on the Council of Elders is a 
  seventy-year-old elf named Hassun Gold Lion. Tribal El-
  der Gold Lion took office in 2046 and was initially very 
  popular with the Crow people. But after thirty years, the 
  Crow tribe has become discontented with their Elder, and 
  a majority of their population would appreciate a change 
  with the person that holds the seat. Unfortunately, the 
  Elder has made it clear in private remarks to friends that 
  he intends to sit on the council for at least another thir-
  ty years. And there’s a good reason for him wanting to 
  stay: Tribal Elder Gold Lion seems to have become quite 
  friendly with the foreign corporations in the Sioux, partic-
  ularly Shiawase. And for at least the last two terms, he has 
  been knowingly appointing Crow Chiefs that are amena-
  ble to Shiawase interests. From what I have heard, Shi-
  awase considers Tribal Elder Hassun Gold Lion a strong 
  asset and friend on the council, and the corp will go great 
  lengths to ensure that he remains healthy. Of course, 
  this has made Tribal Elder Gold Lion a target for the oth-
  er megacorporations, who would like to see him out of 
  power so they can install someone on the council that 
  will be their pawn instead of Shiawase’s, as well as ene-
  mies of those who despise the foreign corporations and 
  would love nothing more than to ensure their influence 
  over the Sioux government is severed once and for all.
  OJIBWE SEAT
  Another hardline conservative on the council is the Ojib-
  we Elder, Charlie Blazing Sun. Tribal Elder Blazing Sun is 
  a seventy-eight-year-old shaman who follows the ways 
  of Thunderbird. He joined the council in 2052, and since 
  that time, Tribal Elder Blazing Sun has had a history of 
  nominating anti-Anglo and anti-foreign corporation 
  Chiefs. Looking back at the Chiefs he has nominated 
  over the years, there have been a couple of Chiefs that 
  seem like they would have been members of the Mide-
  
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  wiwin Society, including Chief Bemedii. However, there 
  is no evidence to suggest that Tribal Elder Blazing Sun is 
  a member of their society or even knew his choices had 
  society connections. It is possible his politics simply align 
  with the Midewiwin Society. Although Tribal Elder Blaz-
  ing Sun is anti-foreign corporation, he seems to be one 
  of the sitting Elders willing to work with the Council of 
  Chiefs to extend their term in office. This has made Tribal 
  Elder Blazing Sun a few allies on the Council of Chiefs 
  while alienating many of his fellow tribal Elders.
  CHEYENNE SEAT
  The Cheyenne seat on the Council of Elders is held by 
  Tribal Elder Otoahhastis. Like the Sioux Elder, Otoahhastis 
  is one of the original members of the Council of Elders. 
  Tribal Elder Otoahhastis is ninety-three years old and is 
  said to want to step down. However, with the current spat 
  between the two councils, the Eagle shaman desires for 
  the impasse to resolve itself before adding yet anoth-
  er unfilled vacancy to the Council of Elders. Tribal Elder 
  Otoahhastis has a replacement he has been lobbying for: 
  Chief Dancing Eagle. The current animosity between the 
  two councils, however, makes it unlikely that such an ap-
  pointment would be approved. The nomination of an ad-
  ept would also serve to complicate matters on a council 
  dominated by shamans.
  MOHAWK/POTAWATOMI SEAT
  The Mohawk tribe currently holds the seat on the Coun-
  cil of Elders for both the Mohawk and the Potawatomi 
  tribes. The metahuman that holds this seat is a seventy-
  two-year-old troll named Matchitehew who took office 
  in 2066. The Mohawk Elder is staunchly against foreign 
  corporations and has been said to be disappointed with 
  Chief Keme and his subtle attempts to aid MCT. Tribal 
  Elder Matchitehew is adamantly against extending the 
  Chiefs’ terms past five years because he believes it would 
  allow corruption within the Council of Chiefs to fester. 
  Tribal Elder Matchitehew has become somewhat of a 
  firebrand on the issue and is one of those Elders that the 
  Chiefs would need to find a way to deal with if they are 
  to get the Council of Elders to agree to extending their 
  terms. So far, Tribal Elder Matchitehew has no intention 
  of stepping down or retiring any time soon.   
  MOHEGAN/CHEROKEE SEAT
  While the seat on the Council of Chiefs is held by the 
  Cherokee tribe, the Council of Elders seat is held by the 
  Mohegan tribe. And really, the sharing of both the Coun-
  cil of Elders and the Council of Chief seats by two or more 
  tribes should not be as rare of an occurrence as it has 
  become. The Mohegan elder is a eighty-six-year-old elf 
  named Spirit Dancer. Right now, Tribal Elder Spirit Danc-
  er appears to be most concerned about the well being 
  of the Cherokee chief, Singing Dove, and whether she is 
  capable of carrying out her duties given all the contro-
  versy surrounding her. Her behavior has become more 
  erratic lately, putting Spirit Dancer in a difficult spot. He 
  could try to have the Council of Elders remove her from 
  office due to the irregular behavior, but just as the Coun-
  cil of Chiefs removing an Elder would be a nuclear op-
  tion, so would the act of removing a Chief by the Council 
  of Elders. Before the accident dramatically altered Chief 
  Singing Dove, Tribal Elder Spirit Dancer was considered 
  a moderate and was open to voting to give the Council 
  of Chiefs an extra five-year term. Now that he has en-
  countered serious problems with the sitting Chief, Tribal 
  Elder Spirit Dancer seems to have backed off that posi-
  tion. Tribal Elder Spirit Dancer is a shaman who follows 
  the Horse totem.   
  CHOCKTAW SEAT
  Tribal Elder Minco is the representative for the Chocktaw 
  people on the Council of Elders. He is eighty-nine years 
  old and is an original member of the Council of Elders. 
  He is also the only mystic adept currently sitting on the 
  council. Tribal Elder Minco is a very wealthy elder, own-
  ing four very successful stonewheat farms near Casper. 
  The tribal elder’s net worth is said to be in excess of sev-
  enty-five million nuyen. Tribal Elder Minco is said to be a 
  very strong supporter of local corporations, particularly 
  the Wind River Corporation. Even though he is “just” a 
  mystic adept, Tribal Elder Minco follows the Sun totem.
  NAVAJO SEAT
  The Navajo seat on the Council of Elders is occupied by 
  a forty-six-year-old woman named Doli. Tribal Elder Doli 
  has only been on the council for four years. Her seat was 
  the last seat filled by the Council of Chiefs before this 
  sparring over term limits began. She is the only elder 
  younger than sixty, and she happens to be progressive 
  and lenient toward the corporations, which has caused 
  tensions between her and many of the other elders. She 
  has also expressed interest in working with the Council 
  of Chiefs in finding a compromise for their concerns over 
  term limits, even going so far as suggesting that their sin-
  gle term be extended to seven years. This idea has not, 
  however, caught on with their other elders. Tribal Elder 
  Doli is a shaman who follows the Phoenix totem.   
   
  CREE SEAT
  The Cree elder is a sixty-nine-year-old man named En-
  koodabaoo. Tribal Elder Enkoodabaoo was a close person-
  al friend of Roger Soaring Owl, and as such was on friendly 
  terms with Ares and supported improving relations with 
  that megacorporation. All that changed when Roger Soar-
  ing Owl left. Goodwill for the megacorp ended. Ares has 
  tried to improve their relations with Tribal Elder Enkood-
  
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  abaoo, but their efforts went nowhere. Tribal Elder En-
  koodabaoo is not interested in working with the Council of 
  Chiefs on the matter of their terms, but he is far from being 
  the most outspoken on the matter. As such, the Council 
  of Chiefs do not appreciate his decision, but he does not 
  appear to be in danger of being targeted by the Chiefs for 
  removal from office. Of course, if the political squabble 
  deteriorates, this could change. Tribal Elder Enkoodabaoo 
  does not speak a lot about his personal religious beliefs, 
  but he follows the Artificer totem. Prior to becoming an 
  Elder in 2070, Enkoodabaoo was an established talismon-
  gerer and renowned for making foci. He still makes foci 
  part-time, and because of the quality of his craftsmanship, 
  his foci normally cost about 2,000 nuyen more than what 
  you might find in other shops. Tribal Elder Enkoodabaoo is 
  considered to be one of the more accessible Elders.
  LUMBEE SEAT
  The Lumbee seat is one of two seats currently open on 
  the Council of Elders. The Tribal Elder that held this seat 
  died in November 2074. Following this death, the Council 
  of Chiefs had the brilliant idea of playing chicken with the 
  Council of Elders and not filling any new vacancies until 
  they give the Chiefs what they want. The Tribal Elder that 
  had this seat was an eighty-two-year-old man named Ti-
  hkoosue. I should note that there is a bit of mystery sur-
  rounding Tribal Elder Tihkoosue’s death. Tribal Elder Ti-
  hkoosue was visiting Casper when he suddenly “fell ill” 
  and passed away. This is plausible for a man of his age, 
  but there seems to be more to it, particularly since I’ve 
  heard from runners in the shadows that the official police 
  file looking into his death, including autopsy, were sealed 
  by the Office of Military Intelligence. Hackers have tried 
  locating his file to find out what was in it, but any copies 
  they have found have in no way explained why his file 
  would be sealed by the OMI. And given there have been 
  different versions of Tribal Elder Tihkoosue’s file and his 
  autopsy posted on Shadowsea over the years, it gives 
  credence to the theory that the files have been generat-
  ed by the OMI as a means to disseminate misinformation 
  about what happened with the Tribal Elder. 
  At this time, there are no frontrunners for this seat. The 
  search process for a candidate has not even been started 
  by the Council of Chiefs.
  > 
  The most popular speculation is that Tihkoosue had become 
  inhabited by a bug spirit, and the OMI covered it up to spare 
  the nation an embarrassment. Of course, despite my diligent 
  investigation into this, I cannot validate or disprove these 
  rumors. But they definitely persist … 
  > 
  Snopes
   
  MAHICAN SEAT
  The Mahican Elder is an seventy-eight-year-old shaman 
  named Rising Wolf. Tribal Elder Rising Wolf is your typ-
  ical, hardliner conservative who will not cave to either 
  corporations or the Council of Chiefs. The only difference 
  is that many in the local shadows suspect the tribal el-
  der has been bought off by the Lakota mafia. Since 2072 
  when Tribal Elder Rising Wolf assumed office, classified 
  information pertaining to both the Council of Chiefs and 
  the Council of Elders have been leaked to the Whiteclay 
  family. Many believe this has allowed the Whiteclay fam-
  ily to earn millions of nuyen on insider information, par-
  ticularly from financial deals that were negotiated behind 
  closed doors at the Hall of Chiefs and the Hall of Elders. 
  Tribal Elder Rising Wolf was also instrumental in getting 
  Chief Demery of the Lumbee tribe appointed to office, 
  and Demery is also believed to be a stooge for the Lako-
  ta mafia. Tribal Elder Rising Wolf follows the totem of his 
  namesake, Wolf. Many locals have derided Tribal Elder 
  Rising Wolf for this, saying that the leader of his pack is 
  in fact Charlie Whiteclay. These rumors have caused Trib-
  al Elder Rising Wolf to have many adversaries within the 
  Sioux government, not the least of whom has been Chief 
  Wise Thunderbird.       
  ONEIDA SEAT
  The Oneida seat has been vacant since February 2075. 
  The previous tribal elder, Tocho, died after prolonged 
  health problems. He had served on the council for thirty 
  years. Like the Lumbee seat, there are currently no candi-
  dates being reviewed for this seat. Obviously, there are a 
  number of interested parties out there. The corporations 
  would love to fill this seat with someone more moderate 
  in their politics, particularly toward foreign-based corpo-
  rations. Anglo activist groups in Cheyenne would love to 
  see someone who would advocate for ending the res-
  ervations and the policies surrounding them. The Elders 
  themselves would like to see someone nominated for 
  this seat that would reflect their ideology. And of course, 
  the Chiefs would love to nominate someone who would 
  be more receptive to their interests. Once the current po-
  litical standoff between the Chiefs and the Elders is over, 
  expect there to be another type of conflict, and this one 
  will resolve around who gets this seat, and who gets to 
  nominate members to the Council of Chiefs for the next 
  twenty-plus years.
  CREEK SEAT
  If rumors around Cheyenne are to be believed, Tribal 
  Elder Achak is one member who needs to either be re-
  tired or removed from office. The eighty-nine-year-old 
  shaman appears to be suffering from symptoms similar 
  to Cognitive Fragmentation Disorder. In recent months, 
  the shaman has addressed people by the wrong names, 
  skipped important meetings while appearing randomly 
  on the streets of Cheyenne doing things such as handing 
  out credsticks to random strangers, appeared disorien-
  tated on multiple occasions, addressed Chiefs by names 
  
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  of former Chiefs who have not been on the council for 
  decades, and acted out of character, as if he was a differ-
  ent person altogether. His actions also suggest he may 
  be following up to three different totems: Lion, Eagle, 
  and Dark Goddess; something which should not be pos-
  sible. The interesting thing about Tribal Elder Achak is that 
  at no time during his life has he ever gotten any kind of 
  augmentation that would have exposed him to this dis-
  order. Tribal Elder Achak has always maintained a strong 
  distrust and disdain for technological augmentations. If it 
  is true that Tribal Elder Achak was exposed to the disease 
  through casual contact, this could fuel the rampant para-
  noia out there that merely interacting with anyone who 
  has cyberware or other types of augmentations could in-
  fect you, and could result in more violence and targeting 
  of these groups by intolerant and uneducated individu-
  als. Let’s hope this is not the case. 
  > 
  Eh. It is bound to happen sooner or later that someone will 
  use the CFD virus as a weapon and a means of disposing 
  with your enemies. I’m sure this is just someone trying to take 
  out Achak. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if this had the 
  megacorporations’ fingerprints all over this. 
  > 
  The Smiling Bandit
  > 
  That’s the thing. Like Tribal Elder Gold Lion, Tribal Elder Achak 
  was a moderate in his politics toward the megacorporations. 
  Yes, he was strict when it came to environmental policies, but in 
  every other regard, he was happy to have them carry out their 
  business with very little interference from the Council of Elders. 
  They would see him as someone they would want to keep on 
  the council despite their differences on environmental issues.
  > 
  Why Sioux Serious
  APACHE SEAT
  The Apache seat on the Council of Elders is held by a sev-
  enty-nine-year-old troll named Illanipi. Tribal Elder Illani-
  pi is reported to be very frail and in poor health. He has 
  missed a majority of council meetings for the past two 
  months, appearing only to vote against measures that 
  would give the Council of Chiefs two terms. It is clear that 
  he is another Elder who needs to be replaced soon, but 
  he simply cannot be replaced due to the current standoff 
  with the Council of Chiefs. The Apache seat would also 
  be a viable seat for the megacorporations to squeeze in 
  a moderate tribal member. Tribal Elder Illanipi was defi-
  nitely not a friend to the megacorporations or to Anglos 
  in general during his twelve-year term on the Council 
  of Elders. In fact, on several occasions, he has advocat-
  ed from the elimination of all Anglo reservations in the 
  Sioux Nation, and the removal of all remaining Anglos 
  from the Sioux lands, and to make the nation all Native 
  blood. Although most Elders would not go so far as to 
  endorse this idea publicly, whispers in the shadows seem 
  to indicate that there is more sympathy for this idea on 
  the Council of Elders than what is typically known to the 
  public. So it is very possible that the council could one 
  day try and make the Sioux Nation even more Anglo-un-
  friendly, should the tribes appoint members with similar 
  viewpoints to those of Tribal Elder Illanipi. Tribal Elder Illa-
  nipi is a shaman who follows the ways of the Eagle totem.     
  ONONDAGA/BLACKFOOT SEAT
  The Onondaga and Blackfoot seat on the Council of El-
  ders is currently held by the Blackfoot tribe and is filled 
  by a seventy-year-old shaman named Liniwa. Tribal Elder 
  Liniwa entered office in 2062 and is in relatively good 
  health. Tribal Elder Liniwa potentially put his health in 
  jeopardy by voting against Sinopa’s handpicked candi-
  date for the Council of Chiefs in favor of Great Horned 
  Bear. This vote was not popular with his tribe, as it was 
  the Blackfoot tribe’s term to hold office. Despite all this 
  political fallout from his controversial pick for Chief, Tribal 
  Elder Liniwa continues to keep breathing. There is a ru-
  mor going around Cheyenne that suggests Sinopa would 
  eventually like to take over this seat on the Council of 
  Elders. Sinopa has been the head of the Office of Mil-
  itary Intelligence since the mid-2050s. Despite having 
  reached retirement age a long time ago, it would seem 
  Sinopa is not ready to leave her government service be-
  hind, and that when it becomes time for her to depart the 
  OMI, the next step in her career might be to ascend to 
  the Council of Elders. No one is sure of how long it will be 
  before Sinopa retires from the OMI, as she never speaks 
  openly of her retirement plans. However, I am certain 
  Sinopa’s future plans are something that are of great in-
  terest to Tribal Elder Liniwa, as he would likely not want to 
  be a stumbling block to Sinopa’s own personal ambitions 
  and be caught in the crossfire. Tribal Elder Liniwa is a sha-
  man who follows the ways of the Dragon totem.
  CHICKASAW SEAT
  The Chickasaw seat is held by a seventy-six-year old 
  woman named Spirit Warrior. Tribal Elder Spirit Warrior 
  has sat on the council for seven years, taking over the 
  seat in 2069. Tribal Elder Spirit Warrior is considered a 
  moderate, often working to find solutions when others 
  choose to bicker. Spirit Warrior has frequently support-
  ed Tribal Elder Doli’s efforts to pass policy that would al-
  low for the Chiefs to have terms up to seven years and 
  would allow for a resolution of the current conflict that 
  is preventing new Chiefs or Elders from being selected 
  to open seats. Although Tribal Elder Spirit Warrior tends 
  to be moderate in her politics regarding domestic issues, 
  her policies toward the corporations have been neutral at 
  warmest. Her strongest support goes toward local, tribal 
  citizen-owned companies, while her votes on megacor-
  porate issues have more or less been neutral. They have 
  not supported any one megacorporation over the oth-
  ers, but they also have not led to harsher restrictions on 
  
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  the foreign corporations. Tribal Elder Spirit Warrior is a 
  wealthy businesswoman who owns two large ranches 
  outside of Cheyenne that specialize in the sale of beef. 
  Tribal Elder Spirit Warrior’s net worth is estimated to be 
  over twenty-five million nuyen.
  SEMINOLE SEAT
  Tribal Elder Kiyiya holds the seat for the Seminole tribe 
  on the Council of Elders. He is eighty years old and very 
  anti-social, avoiding the spotlight whenever possible. He 
  rarely shows up to council meetings in person. Frequent-
  ly, Tribal Elder Kiyiya has his ally spirit represent him and 
  serve as his voting proxy. Many do not question the va-
  lidity of the ally spirit, as that spirit is quite powerful. He 
  or his ally spirit always votes as a hard-line conservative, 
  working against the Anglos, their corporations, and the 
  Council of Chiefs. I’m not sure why he uses his ally spirit 
  in this way, but many in Cheyenne just chalk this up to a 
  personality quirk. Tribal Elder Kiyiya does not get along 
  with the other elders despite the fact that ninety-five per-
  cent of his voting record coincides with their interests. Ki-
  yiya took office in 2066 and is reported to be a shaman, 
  though his privacy means his totem is not known.   
  LOCAL AUTHORITIES
  CITY CHIEF
  Day-to-day city governmental services are overseen by a 
  city chief. Like other government officials, city chiefs are 
  appointed by the Council of Chiefs and serve for a four-
  year term. Many of the administrative posts at the local 
  level are dominated by the Hidatsa tribe. The current city 
  chief for the Cheyenne sprawl is a man named Gaagii 
  from the Navajo tribe, breaking the long line of Hidatsa 
  city chiefs that stretched back for over thirty years. Gaagii 
  has been in office since 2075. It is commonly believed 
  that his brother, Chief Naalnish, was instrumental in hav-
  ing him nominated. While in office, Chief Gaagii has been 
  helping the Council of Chiefs with their political problems 
  within the sprawl, most of which deal with business mat-
  ters; that in turn has only enhanced their net worth due to 
  his intervention on their behalf.  
  The City Chief is responsible for overseeing the local 
  bureaus. In the Sioux Nation, these bureaus vary from 
  sprawl to sprawl. The local bureaus for Cheyenne are: Pub-
  lic Safety, Public Works, Commerce, Local Taxation Ser-
  vices, Education, Zoning, and Open Spaces. The city chief 
  is responsible for appointing the heads of those bureaus, 
  as well as directors who  manage and oversee contracts 
  with the various corporations and take care of city ser-
  vices. These heads only serve for as long as the city chief. 
  Every four years a new administration is appointed, and 
  the cycle begins again.
  > 
  Smuggling is a major concern for city chief Gaagii. He has been 
  trying since he first took office to crack down on these operations, 
  particularly those involving the Lakota mafia. He has a friend 
  on the Council of Chiefs, in the form of Chief Wise Thunderbird, 
  trying to support him and getting the Sioux National Police to 
  back his efforts, but he has also seen his efforts undermined by 
  yet another sitting chief—Chief Demery. There is a real tug of war 
  between those three politicians. For better or worse, smuggling 
  is still on the rise in Cheyenne despite Gaggii’s best efforts, and 
  the Lakota Mafia’s profits from the various smuggling rings are 
  up dramatically.
  > 
  Why Sioux Serious
  > 
  I’m sure the Hidatsa tribe doesn’t mind seeing the Navajo Chief 
  look impotent to the Cheyenne residents in the face of the Lakota 
  mafia. After all, I’m sure they want to get the city chief position 
  of the Sioux’s largest sprawl back under their control the next 
  time the post becomes open. Heck, it wouldn’t surprise me in 
  the least if they are making concerted efforts to make Gaagii 
  look bad, just to make sure the next Cheyenne city chief is from 
  the Hidatsa tribe.  
  > 
  Woppler   
  > 
  Don’t forget that there is still a lot of corruption at the street level 
  within the “Snipes” ranks and within the Sioux Defense Force. 
  Until the politicians can root out that corruption (a lot of which 
  is caused by the Lakota Mafia), there’s really nothing that can be 
  done about the growing smuggling rings. You shut down one, 
  two more pop up in its place.  
  > 
  Sticks
  > 
  Along with the smugglers, violent street crime is rising in 
  Cheyenne. There are a growing number of street gangs 
  appearing on the streets, including the more notorious Ancients 
  and First Nations gangs, looking to advance the interests of the 
  Koshari and the Komun’go Seoulpa ring. This is causing fears 
  to rise throughout Cheyenne that a bloody street war between 
  the Lakota Mafia, the Ancients, and the First Nations is all but 
  inevitable. You also have the Concrete Sidewinders, the Street 
  Tricksters, and the Cheyenne Brawlers—each are smaller 
  gangs that are causing mayhem to serve their interests. Many 
  of these gangs have hideouts and turf in the red-light districts 
  of Cheyenne, particularly one famously referred to as “Anglo 
  Town.” Unfortunately for the Anglos that live there, the Snipes 
  couldn’t give a frag about what happens in Anglo Town, so many 
  times Anglos have to put up with the increased violence or find 
  other ways to deal with it (such as hiring shadowrunners). So 
  long as the violence does not extend beyond the boundaries of 
  Anglo Town, the Snipes are content to not get involved unless 
  the violence involves a member from one of the recognized 
  Sioux tribes. In which case, hell generally rains down on Anglo 
  Town until someone is held accountable.  
  > 
  DangerSensei
  
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  ANGLO TOWN
  One of the neighborhoods in Cheyenne struck by urban 
  blight, Anglo Town is a blend of a working-class neigh-
  borhood for Anglos and outsiders getting their start in 
  Cheyenne as well industrial developments. The Anglos 
  and other residents who live here have no ties to the 
  indigenous tribes, nor do they hold any significant con-
  nections to the megacorporations, who typically put 
  their people up in residential mini-arcologies they have 
  built in better sections of Cheyenne. Street gangs have a 
  significant stranglehold here. The industrial areas can be 
  particularly dangerous. There are roughly fifty thousand 
  people that live and work in this overcrowded neighbor-
  hood, which is located south of business loop I-25, in the 
  southern parts of Cheyenne. From the overcrowding to 
  the rising violence, this is not considered a tourist desti-
  nation, nor is it a spot where you would want to spend a 
  lot of time unless you have no other options. The highest 
  security rating in this neighborhood is C. 
  CHEYENNE CITY SERVICES
  Fire Services: Community Response Inc. (Local, single-A 
  corporation owned by a Chickasaw tribal member)
  GridGuide: MCT
  Healthcare: Doc Wagon
  Matrix Service: STC Grid
  Police: Sioux National Police
  Power: Gaeatronics
  Prisons: Shiawase/MCT
  Sanitation: The Horizon Project
  Public Transit: Ares
  
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  NO BOUNDARIES 
  NEIGHBORHOOD
  In most neighborhoods in Cheyenne, it is common to find 
  members of the same tribe living in the same neighbor-
  hoods. Travel through Cheyenne, and you’ll find neighbor-
  hoods that are predominately Cheyenne, Lakota, Dakota, 
  Hidatsa, and so on. Tribal lineage generally determines 
  which neighborhoods you live in, though there are no es-
  tablished laws governing this. Rather, it is the mindset of 
  the tribes to live as a community and to maintain their her-
  itage. The No Boundaries neighborhood is an exception to 
  this, a neighborhood hosting significant blending of mem-
  bers from a large number of the tribes. In this neighbor-
  hood, it is unsurprising to find inter-tribal marriages and 
  children who belong to more than one tribe. This behavior 
  can be risky, as marrying outside of your tribe is generally 
  considered a significant social taboo and could get you os-
  tracized. Despite the pressure not to engage in such prac-
  tices, the No Boundaries neighborhood hosts a growing 
  population. In addition to mixed marriages between tribal 
  members, there are a lot of families where tribal members 
  married Anglos, and this is where they have chosen to re-
  side. Again, this is another violation of traditional Sioux 
  customs, and another reason why violence based on hate 
  and prejudice has flourished in the neighborhood. As is 
  the case in Anglo Town, the Snipes are not all that interest-
  ed in quelling the violence that takes place here, making 
  half-hearted efforts to put a stop to it. No Boundaries has 
  one of the highest crime rates in Cheyenne, after Anglo 
  Town. It’s located north of Dell Range Blvd, just east of 
  highway 212. Security ratings vary from single A to C. 
  THE CORPORATE ZONE
  Along the north side of East Pershing Boulevard near 
  Brimmer Park is an area known as the Corporate Zone. 
  Although corporate types can be scattered all over Chey-
  enne, the greatest concentration of corporate residents 
  live in this area, a neighborhood consisting of a few doz-
  en small- to medium-sized residential arcologies belong-
  ing to the megacorporations and some smaller foreign 
  corporations. The Sioux National Police patrol the streets 
  in the corporate zone, but like in other sprawls, securi-
  ty for each building is generally left to whoever owns it, 
  without much interference from the Sioux National Po-
  lice, unless the corporation has elected to have the Sioux 
  National Police be responsible for the arcology’s security. 
  Almost all the arcologies require either valid Corporate 
  SINs or valid guest passes to enter. The tallest of the ar-
  cologies belongs to Shiawase; it stands thirty-five stories 
  tall and houses up to fifteen thousand corporate citizens. 
  Within the full Corporate Zone, nearly twenty-five thou-
  sand corporate citizens have established their homes. 
  Security in this zone ranges from rating AAA to single A.  
  ROADS AND HIGHWAYS  
  IN CHEYENNE
  Interstate 25 is a major route for north and southbound traf-
  fic inside Cheyenne, running along the eastern boundary of 
  the Cheyenne Military Complex. Interstate 80 handles west 
  and eastbound traffic going through the sprawl. Other ma-
  jor roadways inside Cheyenne include Business Loop High-
  way 80 and Highway 85. Highway 85 is a major thorough-
  fare running through the downtown section of Cheyenne, 
  as is Capitol Avenue. Traffic is pretty heavy during business 
  hours, particularly the downtown corridor. In 2058, Ares 
  won the contract to install a light-rail system to alleviate 
  some of this congestion. This transit system runs through all 
  major sectors of the city, with its central hub located at the 
  corner of East 27th Street and Highway 85.
  SOVEREIGN  
  TRIBAL COUNCIL
  As well as serving as the capital for the Sioux Nation, Chey-
  enne is also the host city for the Sovereign Tribal Council. 
  The STC members meet in their lodge in downtown Chey-
  enne, discussing and debating issues of importance to the 
  Native American Nations. NAN members that maintain 
  active representatives on the council include the Algonki-
  an-Manitou Council, Athabaska, Pueblo, the Salish-Shidhe, 
  the Sioux Nation, Tsimshian, and the Trans-Polar Aleut. The 
  Ute Nation lost its seat when it was assimilated into Pueblo; 
  many in the Ute territories have been demanding to have 
  this seat back, making this an issue of contention within 
  Pueblo. The individual NAN members have embassies that 
  line Capitol Avenue between 1st and 5th Avenues in Chey-
  enne, commonly referred to as Embassy Row by the locals. 
  Most of the events, pageantry, and politics of the 
  Sovereign Tribal Council do not directly impact the day-
  to-day life of the average Sioux citizen. That means that, 
  other than being an interesting tourist destination, the 
  body doesn’t hold much interest for the typical resident. 
  Many in Cheyenne still wonder what in fact the STC does 
  in this day and age, besides spend lots of money bicker-
  ing at each other in a manner eerily similar to the UCAS 
  Congress. The STC runs several NAN-based governmental 
  agencies out of Cheyenne, ranging from the Native Amer-
  ican Environment Agency to the Native American Space 
  Agency. These agencies are meant to establish standards 
  throughout every Native American Nation, increase coop-
  eration between the members of the NAN in certain sec-
  tors and establish regulations that, in theory, all member 
  nations should adhere to and benefit from. Unfortunately, 
  as many pundits have pointed out, the STC is really good 
  at pointing out what their member countries should be do-
  ing but has had a difficult time making those nations com-
  ply, particularly when those rules interfere with national 
  interests or would cost nuyen. There have been legitimate 
  attempts to strengthen the authority of the Sovereign Trib-
  al Council over the years, but all efforts have failed.
  
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  The matters that are currently being hotly debated be-
  fore the STC that could spur shadowruns for paydata in-
  clude the deteriorating situation with treaty negotiations 
  in Denver. Both Pueblo and the Sioux have sectors in Den-
  ver, and a collapse of treaty negotiations would mean cha-
  os for those two nations, and possible violence between 
  them and the CAS and UCAS sectors. It could also lead to 
  a possible conflict with Aztlan, which desires a permanent 
  return to Denver in the form of a new sector to call its own. 
  So far, the STC has had about as much success coming up 
  with contingency plans as the negotiators in Denver have 
  had in coming up with a new treaty. Meaning none.
  Another important matter being discussed by the 
  NAN representatives is the tense situation currently de-
  veloping between the Salishe-Shidhe Council and the 
  Tsimshian Protectorate. Many events over the past year 
  have dramatically escalated tensions between those two 
  nations, from pollution and toxic wastelands that have 
  encroached on SSC lands to the kidnapping of a twelve-
  year-old girl from the SSC who happened to be the 
  daughter of one of the SSC’s tribal chiefs. That girl ended 
  up being killed by a toxic shaman who lived in Tsimshian 
  before runners on a rescue mission could get to her. This 
  has prompted a retaliatory crackdown on the Protector-
  ate by SSC forces and has led to a growing call for inde-
  pendence by the Tsimshian population.
  > 
  The Tsimshian representative, Mirtha Longford, has strongly 
  urged the STC to stay out of the matter between the 
  Protectorate and the SSC. The SSC has grown tired of dealing 
  with the pollution, waste, and deadly diseases that have been 
  encroaching into their lands from Tsimshian for years, and 
  they have been urging for strong intervention from the STC. Of 
  course, Longford has expressed outrage that such intervention 
  would violate their sovereign rights, despite the fact that 
  cleaning up Tsimshian would also benefit their own people 
  tremendously. Ugh. Gotta love NAN politics.
  > 
  Netcat
  > 
  Many outsiders would outright dismiss the notion of the STC 
  stepping up and going into the Tsimshian Protectorate for 
  clean-up efforts. These critics would argue that it would actually 
  cost them money and lives to do so, things the STC has been 
  unwilling to spend unless someone else (like the Sioux) would 
  take the lead and carry the burden of such an operation. But as 
  Mika mentioned, the STC is looking for something to keep them 
  relevant. The STC was heavily involved in the original attack on 
  Tsimshian over a decade ago to remove their tyrannical council 
  from power, but they haven’t done much since. Cleaning up 
  Tsimshian would offer a sense of credibility and legitimacy 
  to the organization, something it desperately needs. Besides, 
  Longford has shown a great disdain for the council over the 
  years. That disdain is clearly mutual, so it is likely the council 
  won’t feel overly obligated to listen to her protests. 
  > 
  Thorn
  LAW ENFORCEMENT 
  SIOUX NATIONAL POLICE
  With Cheyenne being the largest and wealthiest sprawl in 
  the Sioux Nation, the Sioux National Police has its hands 
  full. In Cheyenne, the Sioux National Police has a perma-
  nent force of about seven thousand personnel. It has its 
  own state-of-art forensics capabilities but often finds it-
  self with a backlog. The Sioux National Police, particu-
  larly in Cheyenne, will contract out to megacorporations 
  such as Ares and Shiawase when it needs to expedite the 
  processing of high-profile cases. And in Cheyenne, even 
  seven thousand Snipes are sometimes not enough, as the 
  rising crime rate indicates. The current head of the Snipes 
  in Cheyenne is Harkahome, from the Cheyenne tribe. 
  Harkahome has been the police chief for Cheyenne since 
  2075, when City Chief Gaagii took office and appointed 
  him to the position.  
   The largest organized criminal enterprise the Sioux 
  National Police has to deal with in Cheyenne is the Lako-
  ta Mafia. Headed by the notorious Charlie Whiteclay, the 
  Whiteclay family has had a stranglehold on the criminal 
  activities inside the nation for years. The Whiteclay’s most 
  lucrative business is smuggling; smuggling of drugs, BTLs, 
  UCAS-produced products not regularly available to aver-
  age citizens, banned firearms, alcohol, and even tobacco. 
  The Whiteclay’s smuggling business in Cheyenne alone is 
  estimated to be at a quarter-billion nuyen each year. With 
  that kind of profit, it is bound to bring in some competition. 
  Both the Pueblo’s Koshari and the Komun’go Seoulpa ring 
  are looking to expand into the Sioux and challenge Charlie 
  Whiteclay and his empire. These organizations have been 
  using proxies to test the waters in Cheyenne and push their 
  goods on the streets. These proxies include the Ancients 
  (Koshari) and First Nation gangs (Komun’go ring). Things 
  at the moment are tense, but from what I have heard, the 
  Sioux National Police are bracing themselves for a full-on 
  proxy street war between the criminal syndicates. 
  Bug spirits are another security issue the SNP must be 
  constantly on the watch for. Although much of the bug 
  hunting is done by the Sioux Defense Force, and of course 
  shadowrunners and bounty hunters, the Sioux National Po-
  lice must be on the constant look out for insect shamans. 
  In Cheyenne and in the other larger sprawls, the SDF has a 
  specialized task force for shamans attempting to acquire 
  hosts for bug spirits. The Sioux National Police currently 
  has bounties out on the heads of a dozen insect shamans 
  believed residing in Cheyenne alone, with bounties rang-
  ing from 2,000 nuyen up to 15,000 nuyen. The specialized 
  task force is led by Public Safety Chief Wambleeska from 
  the Lakota tribe. 
  Another unique challenge faced by the Sioux National 
  Police is that the Sioux Nation has a higher concentration 
  of magic users than other parts of North America. As such, 
  it becomes a challenge to register and keep track of all 
  
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  the Awakened in the Sioux Nation. There are several that 
  are considered dangerous since they are not registered 
  and could be members of underground or secret magical 
  societies such as the Midewiwin or False Face. The Sioux 
  National Police maintains bounties on the heads of rogue 
  magic users who have not complied with the Sioux Na-
  tion’s laws on magic users and cannot be located. I am 
  not a bounty hunter myself, but from what I understand, 
  the SNP has approximately thirty active, local bounties on 
  individuals practicing unregistered magic who may have 
  committed crimes against the Sioux Nation. These individ-
  uals are believed to be active in Cheyenne; the number is 
  higher if you take into consideration the entire country.
  > 
  Trust me, if you are an unregistered magic user in Cheyenne, 
  you do not want to cross paths with Chief Wambleeska and 
  his specialized task force. Chief Wambleeska is very dogged in 
  his pursuit of insect shamans, and if you are an unregistered 
  magic user, he has a standing policy of shooting first and 
  asking questions later. He is known for seeing unregistered 
  magic users as a potential source of insect shaman recruits 
  and will not hesitate to eliminate any he comes across. Some 
  would say he is meticulous in what he does, while others 
  (mainly in the shadows) will tell you that he is a dangerous 
  zealot who likely has gotten many innocent magic users 
  killed because he wrongly suspected them of either being or 
  harboring insect shamans. Unfortunately, Chief Wambleeska 
  has proven effective in his work, and many will choose to 
  overlook the innocent he has killed. Some simply argue that 
  they should have been registered in the first place, and that 
  their deaths are their own fault.
  > 
  Sticks
    
  Unlike other police and security corporations who may 
  not give a fuck about policlubs and their activities, the 
  Sioux National Police are required to keep tabs on their 
  interests. The policlubs that see the most crackdowns 
  by the Sioux National Police are those that either advo-
  cate radical, and potentially violent, reforms of the Sioux 
  government, those that support greater Anglo rights, or 
  those that advocate violence against local corporations. 
  Those that advocate violence or taking action against for-
  eign corporations are generally left in peace, forcing cor-
  porations to handle those Neo-anarchist groups on their 
  own. The Office of Military Intelligence frequently tasks 
  the Sioux National Police in pursuing dangerous policlubs 
  that work against Sioux interests. And these many actions 
  against policlubs are typically prompted by the intelligence 
  the OMI has gathered on activities within Cheyenne from 
  their many internal spy operations.  In Cheyenne, and in 
  the rest of the Sioux Nation, there is no expectation of pri-
  vacy. Anyone can be spied upon by the OMI at any time, 
  and if they catch you doing something they don’t like, they 
  will send the Sioux National Police after your hoop.
  CHEYENNE 
  LOCATIONS
  LITTLE BIGHORN BAR
  MISSILE DRIVE AND WESTLAND ROAD
  No Anglos. Patrons must have honorably served their 
  mandatory time in the SDF. Cover charge of twenty nuy-
  en waived for Wildcats, but not for members of the SDF. 
  SINs must reflect Sioux Nation military service. 
  The nineteenth century battle of Little Bighorn is the 
  major motif of this military-themed bar. Sitting Bull, Crazy 
  Horse, Bearded Man, Running Antelope, and Chief Gall are 
  celebrated as major war heroes of the Sioux Nation in this 
  THE SIOUX NATION’S LAWS  
  ON ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO
  Alcohol and tobacco are highly restricted substances in the Sioux 
  Nation. Restaurants and bars must go through a vigorous licensing 
  process in order to serve alcohol. The taxes and the paperwork 
  involved make the cost of selling legal alcohol close to prohibitive, 
  but many bars and clubs still endeavor to serve it. Most are restricted 
  to selling alcohol that has less than 4.5 percent alcoholic content 
  for beer and twelve percent alcoholic content for wine, unless other 
  arrangements are made through the Council of Chiefs. The laws 
  are designed so that most alcohol sold in retail stores is limited to 
  urban areas. Rural areas for the most part are dry, as most small 
  time retail stores will not go through the legal hoops and expenses 
  to sell alcohol. It is possible for an individual to purchase hard liquor, 
  though those individuals must go to government-controlled Liquor 
  Distribution Branch outlets. Smaller sprawls only have a single 
  Liquor Distribution Branch outlet. Cheyenne, due to its size, has two 
  such outlets.
  If an establishment is licensed to serve alcohol, they will go to 
  extreme measures to ensure alcohol is not abused on their premises, 
  and that there are no disturbances that can be reported to the Sioux 
  National Police. Licenses are relatively easy to pull, and one taken 
  away, an establishment may never get the license back again.
  Tobacco is a similarly restricted substance, only sold at 
  authorized, government-sanctioned distribution outlets. Smoking 
  in public is highly frowned upon in Cheyenne. However, many 
  restaurants and clubs provide a smoking room for those that desire 
  such amenities.
  All these rules have made alcohol and tobacco products highly 
  desirable on the black market; and as such, caused the prices for 
  these products to increase dramatically. Illegal alcohol or tobacco 
  products can be as much as three times what it would be in other 
  sprawls such as Seattle.
  
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  bar. Current and historical figures from the United States, 
  UCAS, and CAS military are heavily satirized, including the 
  current UCAS President, Angela Colloton; quite naturally, 
  special derision is saved for General George Custer. This 
  is one place where SDF personnel and Wildcat members 
  can go to blow off steam and relax. Little Bighorn bar is 
  most definitely off limits for Anglos. The owner, a female 
  from the Tsalagi (Cherokee) tribe named Tsistunagiska 
  Heart, is a successful businesswoman and civic leader. 
  Her net worth is estimated to be upwards of twenty-five 
  million nuyen. In addition to owning the Little Bighorn Bar, 
  Heart also owns the successful Healing Winds bar and a 
  number of brothels in Cheyenne. All of her brothels are in-
  dependent of the Lakota Mafia or any other criminal syn-
  dicate, to my knowledge. Her brothels only use Anglos. 
  Tsistunagiska works to keep any native members out of 
  the life of a joyboy or joygirl and generally invests nuyen 
  to get a native man or woman out of the lifestyle, even if 
  it means transforming them into shadowrunners instead. 
  Heart often “recruits” (read: extracts) her brothel workers 
  from Anglo reservations such as the Butte reservation. She 
  also runs a couple of underground fight clubs, which are 
  popular with local street kids as well as SDF personnel and 
  Wildcats looking to improve their fighting prowess and 
  make some nuyen. All their opponents in these clubs are 
  Anglos; again, kidnapped from Anglo reservations. Out-
  wardly, Heart is a philanthropist, helping establish quality 
  low-income housing for native Sioux Nation residents and 
  has set up two rehab clinics. She generally seems on the 
  level, but Heart is very much one person’s hero and an-
  other person’s villain based on their ethnicity. Heart has a 
  lot of clout with the Council of Chiefs and is a major player 
  in sprawl politics. People know the seedy side of Heart’s 
  activities but don’t challenge her about it. She is well liked, 
  particularly by active-duty SDF, the police, and Wildcats. 
  And even if she didn’t have friends within the SDF and the 
  Wildcats, she has the resources to hire runners to remove 
  any troublemakers.
  Little Bighorn has a seating capacity of 175 people. 
  The bar employs local music talent as live performers. It’s 
  well kept up and has a state-of-the-art sound and light 
  system with security to match, including magical. Lit-
  tle Bighorn has four back rooms that are used regularly 
  for clandestine meetings. Little Big Horn has also been 
  known to rent out rooms at various brothels when de-
  mand is high. Little Bighorn bar, thanks to the owner’s 
  connections, has access to liquor that would not normally 
  be available to private bar owners.
  STRIPES 
  RANDALL AVE. AND RODGERS DR.  
  ON THE CHEYENNE MILITARY COMPLEX
  Wildcat bar only. SDF personnel not welcome. No Anglos. 
  The owner is a retired Wildcat operative, who served 
  for over twenty-five years, known as Apex. Stripes cele-
  brates the unclassified warrior heroes of the Wildcats and 
  has a wall honoring members whose operations and iden-
  tities are still classified, and who can’t yet be recognized 
  by name for their contributions to the security of the Sioux 
  Nation. There is also a wall for warriors killed in the line of 
  duty. Getting into Stripes if you are not a Wildcat is a dan-
  gerous proposition. If they learn you are a poser using fake 
  credentials, they will kill you without hesitation. The Wild-
  cats take their fraternity and their bond as Special Forces 
  members very seriously and will suffer no slight to their 
  honor. Stripes is a very popular establishment that seats 
  up to one hundred fifty people at a time. There are usual-
  ly lines at the front door to get in. The only VIPs who are 
  allowed easy access into Stripes are those who have ei-
  ther been wounded in action or those who have received 
  the Council of Chiefs Decoration of Valor and Courage, 
  the Sioux Nation’s equivalent of the UCAS’ Congressional 
  Medal of Honor. There is no cover fee for Wildcats to enjoy 
  Stripes. There are absolutely no meets with shadowrun-
  ners at this bar. However, Stripes is a good place to go if 
  you need to find a specific member of the Wildcats. No 
  matter if they are active, former, or retired military, chanc-
  es are they will visit Stripes periodically, or at the very 
  least, there were be people there who will know who you 
  are looking for. But good luck to you if they perceive you 
  as being a threat to one of their own.
  COMBAT BOOTS 
  WHITNEY ROAD AND FOUR MILE ROAD 
  Active and former SDF personnel are the primary cus-
  tomers. Wildcats are welcome, but very few come. No 
  civilians allowed.
  Combat Boots tends to be the hangout for members 
  of the SDF who are pulling their mandatory tours of duty. 
  These SDF members generally are not the finest military 
  personnel, and the bar hosts frequent street drug and BTL 
  use. Bar brawls are regular occurrences, reflecting a lack 
  of disciplines among the customers. However, none of 
  the violence or nuisance behavior ever gets reported to 
  the Sioux National Police, and Combat Boots continues to 
  maintain its permit to sell and serve alcohol despite the vi-
  olence. It is suspected that the proprietors have someone 
  in the government looking after their interests and help-
  ing keep these issues on the down low. Despite this, the 
  SDF is rumored to be very close to making Combat Boots 
  off limits to its personnel given the problems that happen 
  here, a decision that would force the bar to close. It is also 
  rumored that the owners of Combat Boots run an under-
  ground gambling den for the Lakota Mafia here as well as 
  smuggling operation for UCAS made goods, though this 
  has not been proven. Combat Boots is also believed to 
  serve illegal alcohol in its gambling den. Combat Boots is 
  frequently harassed by members of the Midewiwin society 
  for perpetrating certain ills of society, but they do not have 
  enough force to seriously disrupt their business.
  
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  PHOENIX’S TAVERN 
  ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SOUTH CHEYENNE 
  ALONG I-25, JUST INSIDE SPRAWL LIMITS
  No Anglos. 
  Phoenix’s Tavern is a major hangout spot for the First 
  Nations gang in Cheyenne. Phoenix’s Tavern is fifteen 
  years old and has seen better days. Phoenix’s Tavern has 
  all the standard trappings of an average bar, including 
  half a dozen dartboards, pool tables, and various gam-
  bling ARO programs. The food is halfway decent, with 
  the occasional non-soy-based item, but you shouldn’t 
  expect any unsanctioned alcohol. At maximum capacity, 
  Phoenix’s Tavern can hold around eighty people, though 
  these days Phoenix’s Tavern rarely sees those numbers, 
  even on the weekends. There is often tension between 
  First Nations and local gangers, especially a gang calling 
  itself the Tricksters. Violence has been on the rise in the 
  neighborhood, though the Sioux National Police has yet 
  to take action to shut the tavern down. The establishment 
  has two back rooms that can be used for meets. Because 
  First Nations is heavily involved in pushing drugs and 
  BTLs for the Komun’go ring, Phoenix’s Tavern is a good 
  place for acquiring them, though you might encounter 
  trouble from the Midewiwin secret society for promoting 
  the social ills of the Sioux Nation. Phoenix’s Tavern has a 
  ten-nuyen cover charge. 
  INTENSITY 
  W. 17TH STREET AND CENTRAL AVE. 
  No bias; everyone with nuyen welcome. 
  While other nightclubs and bars stick to only music 
  and performers from around the NAN, Intensity plays 
  music and has performers from other parts of North 
  America, including the UCAS and CAS. This includes cor-
  porate-sponsored performers from megas such as Hori-
  zon and MCT. The Intensity nightclub believes in giving 
  customers what they want no matter who produces it or 
  where it comes from, the consequences be damned. This 
  has drawn the ire of the Council of Chiefs and Elders, who 
  would love nothing more than to see this downtown spot 
  closed down permanently. But somehow, despite arrests, 
  death threats, and a deluge of fines and citations clearly 
  meant to punish the nightclub for violating cultural norms 
  and laws, Intensity remains open. Unlike Little Bighorn, 
  whose owner has legitimate political connections, it is 
  likely Intensity’s deep connections to the local shadow-
  runner community are keeping the club open. Intensity 
  offers free drinks to established runners and has con-
  nections with local smugglers, and the owners will make 
  connections between parties they trust. It is also rumored 
  that the owners have safehouses that regular patrons can 
  use if they are in trouble, but only if they do a favor for 
  the club later on. The SDF does not, of course, agree with 
  Intensity’s colorblind policies. The SDF usually parks it-
  self outside of Intensity and scrutinizes any Anglo seen 
  either going in or coming out of the club. If your elec-
  tronic paperwork is not in order, prepare to be picked up 
  outside Intensity and shipped off to jail. The SDF posi-
  tioned around Intensity cannot be bribed, as they officers 
  tend to be very patriotic and devoted. Intensity boasts a 
  state-of-the-art light and sound systems that rivals Little 
  Bighorn. Intensity is one of the largest and most popular 
  night clubs in Cheyenne, capable of holding up to eight 
  hundred club goers at one time on five different floors. It 
  has a dozen private rooms in the basement that serve as 
  meeting rooms and are frequently used by runners and 
  Mr. Johnsons. Because Intensity is so heavily scrutinized, 
  you will not find a drop of unsanctioned alcohol or tobac-
  co products on the premises. There is a fifty-nuyen cover 
  charge. Intensity is a popular club for college students at-
  tending the University of Cheyenne, only a few blocks to 
  the east. 
    
  THE OPEN FRONTIER 
  N. COLLEGE DRIVE AND SUMMIT DRIVE
  Anglos are allowed if they either possess Official Resi-
  dent status or are citizens of the Sioux Nation (National 
  SIN). No chrome or visible nano-augmentations. 
  The Koshari are looking to expand operations into the 
  Sioux Nation. This is putting pressure on the First Nations 
  gang, which has an alliance with Komun’go ring (Seoulpa 
  ring), who are also pushing into the Sioux. This in turn is 
  putting the squeeze on the Ancients, which has alliances 
  with both First Nations and the Koshari. Trust is breaking 
  down, alliances are waning, and a full-on, bloody street 
  war seems to be approaching. The Open Frontier is legally 
  a Sioux-owned business, but it is actually a front for the 
  Koshari, serving as one of their major footholds within the 
  Sioux. So far, the Koshari are focusing on chop shops and 
  auto theft rings. But everyone knows the Koshari won’t 
  limit themselves to those areas for long; they’ll eventual-
  ly venture into street drugs, smuggling, talislegging, and 
  prostitution rings, which will force them to muscle in on 
  the Lakota Mafia-dominated territories. If you have alle-
  giances with First Nations or Komun’go ring, coming to 
  this club could very well get you killed. The Open Fron-
  tier serves food and drink from all across the NAN, from 
  Aztlan and SSC to Pueblo. This club is described as being 
  “multicultural,” to cover up for it being perhaps too pro-
  PCC. Different rooms are decorated with a different tribal 
  motifs, ranging from Anasazi and Hopi to Sioux stylings.
  This club has only existed for three years. Its maximum 
  seat capacity is one hundred, and it has two rooms in the 
  back that are normally used for Koshari business but can 
  be rented out for other meetings. The Open Frontier has 
  access to high-proof liquors, but not legally, so it will only 
  serve this outlaw liquor to established regulars or VIPs 
  of the Koshari. Everyone else gets watered-down drinks 
  for the Open Frontier, making many of them feel like the 
  ten-nuyen cover charge is a little steep. 
  
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  THE NEW PARTHENON
  W. 23RD ST. AND BENT AVENUE
  Exclusive corporate club, corporate SINs only (with an 
  exception for members of the Council of Chiefs and the 
  Council of Elders). 
  The New Parthenon is styled in Greek architecture, fea-
  turing Greek art and Greek cuisine. The nightclub is owned 
  by Ares Global Entertainment. The exterior is modeled 
  after the Parthenon in Athens, but instead of being dedi-
  cated to Athena, the New Parthenon is dedicated to Ares 
  for obvious reasons. It is a very high-end, five-star estab-
  lishment, meant to cater to the corporate elite. Customers 
  typically must have a corporate SIN to be able to enjoy the 
  high dining and atmosphere of the New Parthenon; excep-
  tions are made for the Council of Chiefs and the Council 
  of Elders. Younger members of the Council of Chiefs are 
  sometimes found at the New Parthenon, while members 
  of the Council of Elders generally do not visit the New Par-
  thenon, likely on principle. Cover price ranges between 
  five hundred and five thousand nuyen per night, depend-
  ing on the level of the nightclub the customer wants to 
  enjoy. There are four levels; one is modeled on Hades 
  and the underworld, with similarities to the hell level of 
  Dante’s Inferno except everything here is Greek-themed, 
  three-headed Cerberus and all. All the rivers in the under-
  world are also represented as individual rooms: Acheron, 
  Cocytus, Phlegethon, Styx, and Lethe. There is another lev-
  el modeled after the oceans and Poseidon. The third level 
  is modeled and sculpted based on what Athens looked 
  like thousands of years ago. Ruins are intact and sculp-
  tures glow with their original beauty. And the final level 
  of the New Parthenon is modeled to appear like Mount 
  Olympus, with the Greek God Ares heavily featured. Indi-
  viduals with Corporate Limited SINs may only access the 
  Underworld and the Ocean levels, while Corporate Born 
  citizens may access every level, including the more elite 
  levels of ancient Athens and Mount Olympus. One thing 
  to note is that Ares Global Entertainment wanted to make 
  this club appealing to elites from all corporations and not 
  just Ares. To reassure customers that this not some ploy for 
  corporate espionage, security for this club is not contract-
  ed to Knight Errant, but rather to, Eagle Security. This has 
  provided good PR for Ares to the Sioux tribes and seems 
  to have assured executives from other corporations that 
  this is neutral venue to enjoy the luxurious amenities. De-
  spite this, the New Parthenon is still a popular location for 
  corporate espionage by shadowrunners, as well as corpo-
  rate headhunting. The New Parthenon has an arrangement 
  with the Council of Chiefs where it is able to serve wine 
  with alcoholic content as high as 56 proof, and other hard 
  liquors as high as 100 proof.
  THE COPPER  
  AND BRASS CLUB 
  W. 21ST ST. AND DEY AVE.
  Anglos allowed if they possess Official Resident or Citi-
  zen status (National SIN). 
  Owned by a woman who goes by Lady Alianora H. Fel-
  de, the Copper and Brass Club capitalizes on the allure 
  of steampunk. Customers are expected to dress in ste-
  ampunk regalia. Those that do not will be turned away. 
  The interior of the club resembles a late-Victorian-era bar 
  with gears and copper pipes strewn around as accents. 
  The club has a wide array of fine dining options and li-
  quors, specializing in a glowing green absinthe. The own-
  er’s real name is Nijlon Eagle, and she is a member of the 
  Blackfoot tribe. Since that is the same tribe as the head 
  of the Office of Military Intelligence, it is speculated that 
  the Copper and Brass Club is actually a front for one of 
  the OMI’s active spy rings in Cheyenne. All the polished 
  brass in the club doesn’t come cheap—there is a fifty-nuy-
  en cover charge to get in.
  DESTINY’S LINK CLUB
  CRIBBON AVE. AND W. 3RD AVE.
  Anglos allowed if they are either Official Residents or 
  possess Citizen Status (National SIN)
  Link clubs were established a little over a decade ago 
  and have remained popular ever since. By using virtual 
  and augmented reality to allow attendees from across the 
  globe to mingle with each other, you can talk to people 
  from Manhattan, London, Seattle, Neo-Tokyo, the Rhine-
  Ruhr Metroplex, and more in the course of a single con-
  versation. Destiny’s Link Club is owned by a former Lum-
  bee chief named Maxwell Swift River, who served on the 
  council between 2065 and 2070. A few months after 
  leaving office, he opened Destiny’s Link Club. Destiny’s 
  only features performers native to the Sioux Nation giv-
  ing other clubs around the world a chance to experience 
  Sioux musical tastes. Swift River’s connections allow him 
  to serve a slightly broader range of alcoholic beverages, 
  and clubgoers can use tobacco in the club. The club can 
  host up to two hundred and fifty physical attendees, but 
  the virtual attendance can be (and usually is) much larger 
  than that. Due to Destiny’s interactions with clubs outside 
  the Sioux Nation, the club has become a magnet for oper-
  atives of the OMI wanting to keep an eye on secret con-
  versations taking place in the club’s dark corners.
  VINTAGE WHEELS
  PARSLEY BLVD. AND AMES AVE.
  No cyberware or nano-augmentations. No Anglos. 
  Vintage Wheels is part nightclub and part automobile 
  museum, hosting a collection of nearly 140 vintage and 
  classic vehicles from around North America and Europe, 
  most of which are worth more than 150,000 nuyen. Nearly 
  
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  a quarter of the collection are vehicles from the 20th cen-
  tury, with four of them having been built in the 1950s and 
  restored to mint condition. The club hosts a wide range of 
  automotive memorabilia, from pieces of famous racecars 
  to artifacts tracing the history and development of the au-
  tomobile. Guests are welcome to wander the floor, check-
  ing out the vintage cars in a rather subdued atmosphere. 
  The recent damage from corrupt nanites has put the 
  staff of the museum on edge, and new security precau-
  tions have been introduced. There are three different scan-
  ners located at the front door to the club, set up to specif-
  ically detect nanites and anyone contaminated with them. 
  These are top-quality scanners—the club does not want to 
  take any chances with their collection. 
  Vintage Wheels has three VIP rooms on the second lev-
  el that can be rented for private meetings. The club  can 
  hold up to two hundred and fifty people and is generally 
  packed every night, even with its 75 nuyen cover charge. 
  Vintage Wheels is believed to be have ties to the Lakota 
  Mafia, though the full extent of this alleged connection 
  has yet to be discovered.    
  THE BADGE 
  E. FARM ROAD AND MORRIE AVE.  
  Police Bar. Active and former members of the Sioux Na-
  tional Police only. No corp security.  
  One interesting aspect of the Lakota Mafia is that they 
  have been successful in setting up a bar called the Badge, 
  which has been meticulously established as a police bar. 
  Five years ago, the Whiteclay family approached a retiring 
  and well-respected police captain from the Sioux National 
  Police force, Balin Murray, a member of the Mohawk tribe, 
  who was decorated and well liked within the force. They 
  provided him the funds to set up this bar, and the means 
  to take care of himself and his family for the rest of his life. 
  He runs the public face of the bar, while the Mafia pulls 
  this retired police captain’s strings from behind the scenes. 
  The bar is full of plants from the Mafia attempting to spy 
  on police conversations and to gather intel on active op-
  erations. This is fairly easy to do, as the Sioux National 
  Police cover the entire nation, so it isn’t unusual for cops 
  at this bar to not recognize everyone they see. The three 
  private rooms for VIPs are bugged—using hard-wired mi-
  crophones, the sort of thing that won’t show up on a typ-
  ical search of wireless devices. This has gained the Lakota 
  Mafia some significant advantages—they’ve learned when 
  raids and busts will go down, where the police are stashing 
  witnesses, and even what’s happening with other crimi-
  nal enterprises in the sprawl. This has helped to solidify 
  the Lakota Mafia’s control over the Sioux Nation and its 
  interests in Cheyenne. There is no overt Mafia presence 
  or activity in the Badge; it is meant to be subtle so that no 
  one will notice it. Five years after the Badge was set up, it 
  is still going strong with no significant problems. The La-
  kota mob is playing things smart with perhaps one of their 
  
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  greatest assets in Cheyenne. The Badge has a capacity of 
  two hundred eighty-five customers and does not require 
  a cover charge.   
  THE ROYAL FORTUNE
  W. 22ND ST. AND PIONEER AVE. 
  Corporate Elite hotel (Horizon). Corporate SINs only (shad-
  owrunners may go to the Privateer, but it is invitation only, 
  and they must be brought up through the service/freight 
  elevators and kept out of sight as much as possible). 
  This Las Vegas-style hotel is called the Royal Fortune, 
  based on the famous pirate ship of Bartholomew “Black 
  Bart” Roberts. The fifty-story hotel features a historical 
  recreation of the Royal Fortune pirate ship outside, which 
  patrons can tour. The Horizon hotel has three major clubs: 
  Bounty of the High Seas, Buried Treasures, and the Priva-
  teer. Each club can handle up to one hundred seventy-five 
  metahumans. The Royal Fortune was built in 2070 with all 
  modern amenities for its one thousand rooms and is con-
  sidered a five-star hotel. Out of the three major clubs within 
  the Royal Fortune, only one has private rooms to allow for 
  meets with shadowrunners: the Privateer. Even then, run-
  ners are brought in through the freight elevators and kept 
  out of sight of the corporate elite. There is an air of superi-
  ority and disdain for the lower classes in this establishment. 
  The pirate ship is a tourist magnet, but it’s also a target 
  for neo-anarchist pranks. They are fond of breaking into 
  the ship and replacing its pirate flag with cloths adorned 
  with megacorporate logos. Two months ago, it was Renra-
  ku. Last month’s, it was NeoNET’s flag that appeared.
  In addition to the pirate ship, the Royal Fortune main-
  tains an eighteen-hole golf course that has become pop-
  ular on the pro-golf circuit, bringing in millions of nuyen 
  of tourist revenue annually. In recent months, Horizon has 
  been using their clubs at the Royal Fortune to raise the pro-
  file of two Native American musical acts, not only within 
  the Sioux Nation, but also on the international stage:  Liv-
  ing Rain, a solo singer from the Apache tribe, and Wound-
  ed Spirits, a band from the Chickasaw tribe. These two 
  musical acts are becoming more popular in other parts of 
  the NAN, and Horizon has planned tours around the NAN. 
  In the UCAS and CAS, there is resistance to their music, 
  but mostly from the older generations. The younger gen-
  erations, those that were not around during the era of the 
  Great Ghost Dance, are embracing the music. There are 
  even talks about bringing their tours to the UCAS and CAS. 
  The cover charge for the three clubs inside Royal For-
  tune is seventy-five nuyen.
  CHEYENNE CHAYA
  E. 24TH ST. AND DUFF AVE. 
  Japanese Ochaya (tea house), Shiawase owned. Estab-
  lished patrons with Shiawase Corporate SINs only.
  Cheyenne Chaya is a traditional, Japanese tea house 
  owned and operated by Shiawase. This Sioux Nation al-
  lows the corporation to run and operate the Cheyenne 
  Chaya as if it had extraterritorial status and as such, has 
  Shiawase security. The Cheyenne Chaya has no limits on 
  the alcohol that may be served, and it frequently serves 
  traditional Japanese spirits such as sake. The Cheyenne 
  Chaya is generally reserved for those with Corporate 
  Born SINs, although those holding Corporate Limited 
  SINs may be brought into the tea house as guests. They 
  may never, however, be full-fledged patrons of the Chaya. 
  The Cheyenne Chaya can hold up to sixty guests, and is 
  a relatively small, but lavish, establishment. There is no 
  cover charge.   
  YAHTO’S SPORTS BAR 
  HAPPY JACK RD. AND ROUND TOP  
  No Bias. 
  Yahto’s Sports Bar is a popular locale with sports en-
  thusiasts featuring urban brawl and combat bike memora-
  bilia from famous members of the Lakota Arrows and the 
  Apache Mustangs, such as autographed helmets and armor 
  jackets, and memorials to popular members of the Lakota 
  Arrows and Apache Mustangs who had been killed in the 
  brutal sports. Yahto’s also has a collection of combat bikes 
  used by famous members of the urban brawl team that have 
  since been retired or wrecked. Most have been restored for 
  this collection. Yahto was a member of the Lakota Arrows 
  for two seasons (2067-2068) before being paralyzed from 
  waist down in a horrific crash at the very start of his third 
  season (2069). Unfortunately, the accident was so severe 
  that even modern medicine could not restore Yahto’s ability 
  to walk. Yahto’s Sports Bar has seating for up to eighty cus-
  tomers. Yahto’s has three backrooms that can be used for 
  private meetings and no cover charge
  OASIS 
  CREIGHTON ST. AND ELK AVE. 
  No bias. 
  Oasis is owned by a retired runner named Ox. He is an 
  Anglo dwarf nearing fifty, but no one gives him any grief 
  over his ethnicity, not even the Sioux National Police or the 
  SDF. Wildcats that come in here show respect for Ox, but 
  he will not explain how he earned it. Some rumors suggest 
  that he saw action against Winternight during the second 
  Matrix Crash and fought alongside Wildcats members. 
  Others say he and his team helped clean out a significant 
  bug hive threatening a particular tribe; the tribe changes 
  depending on who is telling the story. No matter the rea-
  son, no one gives Ox grief. 
  Oasis opened in 2065, shortly after the Crash. Ox is 
  considered to be one of the most successful Anglos in 
  Cheyenne that is not affiliated with the megacorporation. 
  Out of respect for Ox, the Sioux National Police does not 
  harass the customers of Oasis like they do with other clubs 
  that they don’t like. Oasis is styled as a tiki-bar with a cover 
  charge of twenty nuyen.   
  
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  RIDE HARD
  COMANCHE DR. AND OSAGE AVE. 
  No chrome, no nano-augmentation. Anglos welcome. 
  Ride Hard is a bar run by a former Dakota ork rigger 
  named Axle. Axle was injured in a car crash toward the 
  end of his shadowrunning career and was paralyzed from 
  the waist down. No medical treatments been able to undo 
  his paralysis. The motif in Ride Hard is customized bikes, 
  drones, and muscle cars. This bar celebrates old cars and 
  bikes as well as brand new cars that have been tricked out 
  with vibrant colors and powerful modifications under the 
  hood. These vehicles are not so much meant for a muse-
  um but are instead meant for vehicle enthusiasts with a 
  passion for their work. Ride Hard frequently sponsors car 
  shows that draw hundreds of enthusiasts from around the 
  Sioux. The bar features two backrooms used for private 
  meetings, and it can seat up to 150 customers with both 
  bar and booth seating options. Cover for this bar is twen-
  ty nuyen, but if you have a unique ride that catches the 
  manger’s attention, you get in free. It is believed that Axle 
  still owns a couple of underground garages that are used 
  by local riggers to service runners and their vehicles, so if 
  an outside runner team is in need of rigger services, Ride 
  Hard could be the place for them to get hooked up with a 
  capable local rigger.      
  CROSSROADS
  HIGHWAY 30 AND CHERRY BLOSSOM DR.
  No bias. 
  While Ride Hard caters mostly to riggers, Crossroads 
  caters to smugglers, particularly those that work the 
  Sioux/Pueblo and Sioux/UCAS borders. The bar features 
  rockabilly music and has a pretty average appearance. It 
  seats up to eighty-five customers in the main area, and it 
  has two basements that expand its capacity somewhat. 
  One is obvious and contains the place’s walk-in food stor-
  age refrigerator, while the other is a hidden room where 
  smugglers go to talk shop and have private meetings with 
  clients. The smuggler or client must be let in through the 
  walk-in refrigerator, and a hidden door at the back of the 
  basement refrigerator must be unlocked wirelessly to gain 
  access to the hidden room. The room is a second bar area 
  that can serve up to thirty people. While the top bar only 
  serves legal alcohol, the bar in the basement has almost all 
  the liquor that is on the market throughout North America 
  and even in other parts of the world. Clients that are not 
  regulars at Crossroads will need to have a known smuggler 
  vouch for them to the bartender or the manager before 
  they are let downstairs, which means their rep is on the 
  line for any outsider admitted. Cover for the upstairs bar 
  is fifteen nuyen, the cover for the bar in the basement is 
  fifty. Crossroads is owned by a wealthy Cree businessman 
  named Chogan Diamin, whose business empire seems to 
  have been built on his connections with smugglers.        
  THE CHAMELEON’S LAIR
  HAPPY JACK RD. AND OTTO RD. 
  No Anglos. 
  The Chameleon’s Lair is a rundown bar off the beat-
  en path. It is small, and most passers-by won’t give the 
  Chameleon’s Lair a second look—they’ll move on to bet-
  ter places like Crossroads. But the Chameleon’s Lair is low 
  profile, and doesn’t do anything to potentially draw atten-
  tion to it, like serving illegal alcohol or tobacco or tolerat-
  ing drug or BTL sales. The bar plays by the rules to ensure 
  the law doesn’t have any reason to come after its patrons. 
  And for the most part, it has worked. There has been no 
  trouble coming from the Chameleon’s Lair, and because it 
  tends to police itself, Sioux National Police patrols around 
  the bar are sparse. The Chameleon’s Lair has been around 
  for nearly forty years and has gone through four differ-
  ent owners. The current owner is a Lakota woman named 
  Makawee Storm Cloud, who is active on data havens such 
  as Shadowsea and is believed to be an active smuggler.  
  LIBERTY 
  S. GREELEY HWY. AND CHALK BLUFF RD.
  No Anglos. 
  Liberty is owned by a member of the Lakota tribe 
  known as Chaska who has no love for the foreign-owned 
  corporations. To that end, he uses proceeds from the bar 
  to support active neo-anarchist cells working against the 
  foreign corporations. None of the neo-anarchists that fre-
  quent the place are openly against the government, and 
  those who are find themselves shunned. That just gives 
  the Sioux National Police another reason to ignore the 
  place, as they have no real problems with anti-foreign-cor-
  poration activism. Liberty’s exterior is covered in anti-for-
  eign corporation graffiti and that’s exactly how they like it. 
  The bar’s capacity is eighty people. Liberty is also known 
  for having three backrooms that can be used for runner 
  meets, and Johnsons can get a discount for the rooms if 
  they let the management know they are targeting foreign 
  corporations. Because of the lack of restrictions on who 
  can visit, Liberty continues to be popular with runners. 
  > 
  I really enjoy the barbecue ribs and the chili cheese fries there. 
  Both pack a kick like a mustang.
  > 
  17-321
  CRACKED 
  FIRETHORN LANE AND SNOWBERRY DR. 
  No bias. 
  There are actually two locations for Cracked. One is the 
  physical location, the bar that serves the decker and hacker 
  wannabes who are looking for street rep, while the other 
  location caters to elite deckers. Both locations of Cracked 
  are used by members of local neo-anarchist groups as 
  meeting spots. The public version of Cracked is very easy 
  
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  to find and access, as it has a physical address. The only re-
  quirement to enter the bar is paying the thirty-nuyen cover 
  charge. You need to establish your reputation in the physi-
  cal version first with those who manage the bar before you 
  get an invitation to join the virtual club. Jobs from John-
  sons are posted to the virtual bar, in spots only the most 
  capable of hackers can find. They will never be posted at 
  the physical club. In addition, you will only find low-level 
  neo-anarchists at the physical location of Cracked, those 
  that are mostly muscle, and not the actual lieutenants and 
  decision makers. People with any importance in neo-anar-
  chist circles will only be found on the Matrix host, for their 
  own security. Those who want to impress the bar manage-
  ment at Cracked usually need to do some jobs for them to 
  build up their street cred, jobs that typically entail anything 
  from acquiring hard-to-obtain, illegal alcohol to dealing 
  with troublesome local law enforcement officers. 
  Cracked is owned by a retired female combat hacker 
  from the Crow tribe who ran under the name Cunning 
  Wolf. No one knows Cunning Wolf’s physical location 
  and she has not been seen in public for a few years, but 
  she can be contacted through Cracked’s Matrix location. 
  The only way she will meet runners is virtually. There is a 
  good reason why Cunning Wolf is so scarce: Though she 
  is not wanted by the Sioux Nation itself, there are multi-
  ple bounties on her head from six different nations and 
  corporations, including Tír Tairngire, UCAS, CAS, Renraku, 
  and MCT. The highest bounty is from MCT for a cool one 
  million nuyen. The physical bar of Cracked can seat sixty 
  metahumans, while the Matrix site can host up to three 
  hundred and fifty  users at one time.      
  THE COYOTE LOUNGE 
  COVERED WAGON RD.  
  AND 180 SERVICE RD.
  Seminole tribal members only.
  The Coyote Lounge is one of several establishments that 
  require a specific tribal affiliation to patronize the estab-
  lishment. This bar, run by a member of the Seminole tribe 
  named Nokosi, caters to members of the Seminole tribe. 
  Some would think that restricting a business only a small 
  percentage of the population is bad business, but the trib-
  al identification works for Coyote Lounge. Its patrons are 
  loyal and want to support their Seminole tribe. This trans-
  lates into high levels of repeat business. The bar is, natu-
  rally, decorated with art styles identified with the Seminole 
  tribe. Most of the food is soy-based, but the few items on 
  the list are traditional Seminole food and drink, including 
  sofke, a traditional Seminole soup made out of roasted corn 
  and fried bread. What is good about these types of estab-
  lishments is that if you need to find out information about 
  someone from a specific tribe, runners can hit up people 
  for information, particularly with smaller tribes and bands. 
  If you can get someone to talk to you, chances are they’ll 
  know something about your subject. The Coyote Lounge is 
  a small bar, only able to serve fifty people at the same time. 
  There is one back room at Coyote’s Lounge that can be used 
  for meetings, but it can only be used if both the Johnson and 
  the runners are from the Seminole tribe.
  CHEYENNE CANTINA 
  WESTERN HILLS BLVD. AND BUFFALO AVE. 
  Cheyenne tribal members only.
  The Cheyenne Cantina is another establishment that 
  only serves members of a single tribe—in this case, the 
  Cheyenne. To enter, a customer’s SIN must show that clear 
  Cheyenne bloodline. The Cheyenne Cantina is owned by 
  a former Cheyenne chief and is a small bar, only able to 
  serve up to fifty customers at a time. Unlike other tribal 
  establishments such as the Coyote Lounge, the Cheyenne 
  Cantina allows runner meets in its two back rooms with 
  their Johnsons so long as Mr. Johnson is from the Chey-
  enne tribe. The cover fee is twenty nuyen, and the only 
  alcohols available to patrons are spirits sanctioned by the 
  Sioux Nation.
  THE HAUNTED COFFIN CLUB
  E. 19TH ST. AND DUNN AVE.
  No Anglos
  Coffin clubs started as a trend in the mid 2060s where 
  live, generally Awakened, musical bands and performers 
  were put on stage to put on an act that would transcend 
  the physical world to the astral plane, and hopefully mes-
  merize the club goers with the vibrant auras and patterns 
  in the astral. The Haunted Coffin Club has warded cubicles 
  that can hold up to two hundred ninety metahuman bodies, 
  making it one of the largest coffin clubs in North America. 
  It’s also viewed as one of the best. The magical security at 
  the Haunted Coffin Club is top notch. There are three mu-
  sical acts regularly employed by the Haunted Coffin Club: 
  Bright Flames, Raging Thunderbirds, and the War Party. One 
  of these three groups is rumored to be a runner team but 
  there are ongoing arguments as to which one it is. 
  For a fee of 1,500 nuyen, a person is granted access 
  to the main ward of the building, which is the main room 
  where performances are held. People can visit in astral 
  form only if they wish, leaving their bodies elsewhere. 
  There are four private rooms for VIPs that are warded dif-
  ferently than the rest of the club. Only those who are au-
  thorized to use those rooms are allowed access, and per-
  missions change as soon as time is up. 
  The Haunted Coffin Club is owned by a Snake sha-
  man named Viper who belongs to the Nakota tribe. Even 
  though tempo is banned by the Sioux Nation, club goers 
  that physically come to the club have options of obtaining 
  it at the club, allowing even the mundane to take advan-
  tage of the amenities of this club. It is common knowledge 
  that the Sioux National Police that work the area around 
  the Haunted Coffin Club are bought off by the club and will 
  not raid it for tempo use. 
  
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  THE MARBLE PALADIN
  E.12TH ST. AND DIAMOND AVE. 
  Elves w/ Corporate SINs only. Anglos are allowed if they 
  are elves and have corporate SINs.
  The Marble Paladin is owned and operated by Telestri-
  an Industries. This in itself is controversial, as most in the 
  Sioux do not appreciate a Tír-owned business operating 
  within their borders. The foreign nature of the club is not 
  the only thing that irritates the locals; they’re also not fond 
  of the fact that Telestrian Industries has a very close rela-
  tionship with the only elf on the Council of Chiefs, Chief 
  Dancing Eagle. This relationship is close enough that the 
  she is named co-owner of the Marble Paladin and shares 
  the profits. Many see this as part of the deep corruption 
  that has seized control of their council. As such, there are 
  regular protests from groups outside the Marble Paladin, 
  demanding that the club be closed down. The Sioux Na-
  tional Police make certain that the protests are peaceful, 
  but that’s the extent of their effort. They see this as an 
  Anglo tribe club, despite the Chief listed on the books as 
  part owner, and that means the Marble Paladin finds itself 
  frequently targeted with vandalism that the Sioux National 
  Police does little to stop. The Marble Paladin often hires 
  low-level runners or reliable gangers to prevent vandalism.
  The Marble Paladin is quite opulent, with marble col-
  umns and walls. Semi-formal attire is required. Fine food is 
  served and has a distinct from Tír Tairngire flavor, as does 
  the music. It a safe bet that all three levels of the club are 
  frequently attended by spies from the Office of Military 
  Intelligence. Cover charge for anyone coming to the Mar-
  ble Paladin is one hundred nuyen, and it can hold up to six 
  hundred fifty club goers. 
  > 
  The demonstrators claim that the protests have nothing to do 
  with race, but my sources insist that a major backer of these 
  demonstrations are in fact policlubs like Humanis. True, the 
  Sioux Nation tends to be more tolerant of different metatypes, 
  particularly if they have a tribal affiliation, but that doesn’t mean 
  everyone in the Sioux feels the same way. And sadly, groups 
  like Humanis are still active in Cheyenne. They’re just harder to 
  find, as many who sympathize with Humanis are thought of as 
  traitors and overly influenced by the Anglos. So instead of them 
  having chapterhouses, you’ll likely find them hanging out in 
  people’s garages and basements.   
  > 
  Pistons   
  > 
  Because nothing says “intimidating political power” like 
  meeting in your mom’s basement.   
  > 
  Haze   
  SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
  HORSE CREEK RD. AND BLAZER RD. 
  Shamans and free spirits only. No hermetic mages, ad-
  epts or mundanes. No Anglos, no cyberware, no na-
  no-augmentations. 
  Spiritual Journey caters to the shaman population of 
  the Sioux Nation. It’s unique in that it allows free spirits to 
  patronize the establishment, and you can find a half dozen 
  free spirits hanging out at any given time. Spiritual Jour-
  ney is popular with magic lodges and medicine societies 
  looking to recruit. The Children of Great Mother society, 
  Bear Doctor Society, and Eagle’s Guardians all have an ac-
  tive presence at Spiritual Journey. In fact, it is said that that 
  both the owner and the main bartender are followers of 
  the Great Mother totem. In addition to the recruiting by 
  the public lodges,  the bar also hosts activities from secret 
  societies such as the False Face society and the Midewiwin 
  society vying for recruits. All these groups looking for po-
  tential new members often leading to extraction jobs for 
  shadowrunners, or jobs meant to interfere with the other 
  groups’ recruitment efforts.
  Spiritual Journey is only a couple of blocks away from 
  another Awakened club, Healing Winds, and both clubs 
  compete for customers. Both have hired runners to take 
  care of their rival, but both bars continue to remain open 
  and firmly entrenched in their location, nearly three years 
  after this rivalry started. 
  All musical performers hired for shows at Spiritual Jour-
  ney are Awakened. Most use versions of the Entertain-
  ment spell. Spiritual Journey can seat up to one hundred 
  twenty-five metahumans and levies a fifteen-nuyen cover 
  charge. Spiritual Journey currently has two back rooms that 
  can be used for shadowrunner meets; any runners coming 
  to the meet are ushered in through a rear door. They never 
  go through the front, where the bar is, and they are not 
  supposed to socialize with clients. Spiritual Journey only 
  offers sanctioned liquors.     
  HEALING WINDS CLUB  
  AND TELESMA SHOP
  HORSE CREEK RD. AND MARTINGALE LOOP
  Primarily shaman and mystic adept club. No Anglos, 
  mundanes, no cyberware, no nano-augmentations. 
  The Healing Winds club is another popular magic user 
  hang out. This one allows adepts in addition to shamans, 
  but these adepts have to be able to astrally perceive and 
  cast spells. More importantly, they have to demonstrate 
  their talent before they are allowed into the club. Heal-
  ing Winds is a major rival to Spiritual Journey and has 
  frequently butted heads with their rival. Unlike their rival, 
  Healing Winds has a telesma shop that helps bolster the 
  profits of the club. The telesma shop is top rate, run by an 
  Apache talismonger named Brilliant Thunderbird, no rela-
  tion to Chief Wise Thunderbird. This telesma shop offers 
  everything from foci to alchemical preparations. Although 
  Brilliant Thunderbird tells you that you may only procure 
  legal reagents and materials from his shop, everyone 
  on the streets will tell you that by providing a “modest” 
  gift, you would be afforded the opportunity to peruse his 
  less-legal materials. 
  
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  As with its telesma shop, Healing Winds claims it only 
  serves sanctioned alcohol to its customers. But by know-
  ing the right people, they can get you any alcohol you 
  want for the right price. No illegal alcohol is ever found on 
  site, but it is believed the personnel of Healing Winds have 
  a spirit pact with free spirits, and they actually have hidden 
  the alcohol somewhere else off site. When its needed, the 
  spirits dash off and bring it in. 
  Cover charge for Healing Winds is fifteen nuyen. Heal-
  ing Winds is only slightly larger than Spiritual Journey, able 
  to serve up to one hundred thirty-five people at a time. 
  Healing Winds is owned by Tsistunagiska Heart, who also 
  owns Little Bighorn bar. 
  THE APACHE MUSTANGS 
  ARENA
  E. 12TH ST. AND CAMPBELL AVE.
  In 2073, the Apache Mustangs was the latest team add-
  ed to the Western Conference of the World Combat Cy-
  clists League. Currently, the Apache tribe is the prima-
  ry owners for the Apache Mustangs, but two current 
  sitting Chiefs on the Council of Chiefs are also minority 
  co-owners in the franchise. While the Apache tribe owns 
  the actual franchise, the stadium is owned by the Nakota 
  tribe. This has resulted in many tense negotiations over 
  leasing rights, advertising rights, and scheduling con-
  flicts. The Apache Mustangs arena holds up to 85,000 
  spectators. Because of the popularity of the Mustangs, 
  all home games are always sold out, and the game is al-
  ways broadcast live to the rest of the Sioux Nation. For 
  outsiders, getting tickets to a game can be difficult, often 
  requiring going through scalpers who mark up the cost of 
  the tickets by as much as two hundred percent.   
  > 
  Boo! The Mustangs SUCK! They have been the bottom feeders 
  of their conference for the last three seasons. The Lakota Arrows 
  is where all the action is at. The urban brawl team won the Super 
  Brawl in ’74 and looks to be in prime shape for a run at the ’76 
  Super Brawl title. 
  > 
  Slamm-0!
  > 
  Give them a fragging break! They’re an expansion team. 
  Expansion teams take time to find their footing and become 
  competitive. 
  > 
  17-321
  > 
  That and their general manager is an idiot who doesn’t know 
  what he’s doing.
  > 
  Riptide
  > 
  The only reason the Mustangs have underperformed is because 
  their General Manager tried to follow the League rules and play 
  nice with his competition in acquiring talent for the Mustangs. 
  And he got burned by getting stuck with no-talent slots for his 
  combat bikers. This time around, he’s actually hiring runners to 
  help him even the playing field with the other teams and recruit 
  real talent for the Mustangs this season. So I actually expect him 
  to get some good talent for the team, instead of the losers that 
  he has found over the last couple of seasons.
  > 
  17-321
  > 
  Like I said, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He should have 
  been doing that from the start. Anyone familiar with how 
  professional sports works knows you need to get your hands 
  dirty and use runners to acquire your talent. He should be fired 
  (or shot) for his incompetence.
  > 
  Riptide
  UNIVERSITY OF CHEYENNE
  E. 16TH ST. AND SEYMOUR AVE.  
  ALL THE WAY TO E. 19TH AND  
  WARREN AVE. (15 CITY BLOCKS)
  The University of Cheyenne focuses on various high-
  tech fields with its curriculum, with a special emphasis 
  in Matrix-related areas, from the development of Matrix 
  programs and sculpting AROs to the design of new tech-
  nology to enhance the Matrix experience. Headware is 
  frequently researched and developed at the University of 
  Cheyenne, particularly those pieces of cyberware meant 
  to interface with the Matrix. In recent months, the Uni-
  OTHER IMPORTANT RUNNER 
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  • Always a Vacancy Motel: 200 rooms
  • Cheap and Convenient Motel: 130 rooms
  • Transylvanian Room and Board: 100 rooms
  • The Graveyard Motel: 300 rooms
  • The Pine Box: 120 rooms
  OTHER BUSINESSES OPERATING IN CHEYENNE
  • Stuffer Shack
  • Weapons World
  • Soybucks
  • Nature-Taste
  • Líder
  • Xiao Technologies
  • Swift Wind Deliveries
  • Cartwright Cartage and Freight
  • Amalgamated Technologies and Telecommunications
  • Onotari Arms
  • Natural Vat Foods
  • McHugh’s
  • NukIt Burgers
  
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  versity of Cheyenne has expanded its research fields into 
  working with the newly discovered Cognitive Fragmenta-
  tion Disorder. Though still lagging behind the megacor-
  porations in researching the phenomenon, the University 
  of Cheyenne is making progress and discoveries about 
  this new disease. The University of Cheyenne has up to 
  36,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate and grad-
  uate programs.
  Any technology or developments coming out of the 
  University of Cheyenne may only be licensed to local 
  Sioux firms. This licensing is handled through the Bureau of 
  High Technology, a government agency within the Sioux 
  Nation government. The University of Cheyenne serves 
  as a hub of activity for nearly twenty local high-tech firms 
  that surround the university. Also in close proximity to the 
  University of Cheyenne is the Bureau of High Technology, 
  located on East 15th Street and Russell Ave. Its proximity 
  to the university campus allows members of the Bureau of 
  High Technology to keep an eye on the university as well 
  as the tech firms, both domestic and foreign, that may be 
  interested in the university’s research.
  The current president of the University of Cheyenne 
  is a former tenured professor of the Matrix Engineering 
  program named Tatonga. The seventy-two-year-old elf is 
  a member of the Lakota tribe who has been with the Uni-
  versity of Cheyenne for thirty-six years; thirty years as a 
  professor and six years as the president of the university. 
  There is talk that President Tatonga may be looking to re-
  tire in the next few years, but whenever the topic comes 
  up, he quickly dismisses those rumors. There are no short-
  age of individuals, from both inside the university as well 
  as from outside from the various tech firms, that would 
  love to be in line for the presidency.
   
  COUNCIL OF CHIEFS HALL
  W. 24TH ST. AND CAREY AVE.
  On the site where the Wyoming state capitol building 
  used to exist are two high-rise buildings, now divided 
  by Capitol Avenue. One of them is the Council of Chiefs 
  Hall, the other is the Council of Elders Hall. The Council of 
  Chiefs building is a sixty-story, modern-looking spire. The 
  top forty floors are reserved for the Chiefs themselves, 
  with each Chief utilizing two stories for themselves and 
  their tribe. Five stories are for tribes that are recognized 
  by the Sioux nation but that do not have representation 
  on the council, and the space on them is primarily used 
  for lobbyist offices. For the tribes that share a seat on the 
  council, the tribe currently sitting on the council has the 
  office space assigned to that particular Chief. Once they 
  alternate, and the other tribe takes the seat, they move 
  their offices to the lower levels of the building until they 
  get the seat back. The other fifteen stories are devoted 
  to the various bureaus and administrative functions for 
  the Sioux Nation: Health and Welfare, Resource Manage-
  ment, Agriculture, Civil Enforcement, Justice and Cultural 
  Preservation. The Bureau of High Technology is located 
  near the University of Cheyenne, while the main head-
  quarters/offices for the Bureau of National Security can 
  be found on the Cheyenne Military Complex, former-
  ly the Warren Air Force Base. The Council of Chiefs hall 
  also has three sub-levels. Two of the sub-levels are set 
  up for conference rooms, auditoriums, and magic lodges, 
  while the final sub-level is a grand hall used for religious 
  ceremonies. Access to this grand hall is highly restricted. 
  There are two walkways on the tenth and twentieth floors 
  that bridge across Capitol Avenue and adjoin with the 
  Council of Elders building. Despite its modern exterior, 
  the interior for the spire is decorated in tribal designs that 
  come from each of the Sioux Nation member tribes. The 
  Council of Chiefs hall is one of the most secure locations 
  within Cheyenne, if not in the entire Sioux Nation itself. 
  Both the Council of Chiefs and the Council of Elders halls 
  rely heavily on magical security including astral vines, 
  watcher spirits, wage mages, and patrolling spirits.
  COUNCIL OF ELDERS HALL
  W. 24TH ST. AND CENTRAL AVE. 
  Standing in the shadow of the Council of Chiefs Hall is the 
  Council of Elders hall. The Council of Elders hall is literally 
  half the size of the Council of Chiefs Hall, standing at thir-
  ty stories tall. One reason for this disparity is that very few 
  governmental functions are carried out inside the Council 
  of Elders building save for the operations of the Council of 
  Elders themselves. The top floor of the Council of Elders Hall 
  is where the meetings of the Council of Elders take place. 
  This floor also has room to also accommodate gatherings of 
  the Council of Chiefs. There are indeed rare occasions when 
  a joint session is required with both the Council of Chiefs 
  and the Council of Elders, and this is where those meetings 
  happen. The last such meeting took place in 2065, follow-
  ing the events of the second Matrix Crash, which claimed 
  the lives of four Chiefs. The next twenty floors are reserved 
  for the members of the Council of Elders, with each floor 
  dedicated to a particular Elder. Again, the exterior of the 
  building is of modern design, but the interior décor is made 
  up of tribal designs native to each tribe. The Council of El-
  ders Hall has security similar to the Council of Chiefs Hall. 
  THE SIOUX JUDICIAL  
  COURT BUILDING
  W. 25TH ST. AND CAREY AVE. TO W. 26TH 
  AND CENTRAL AVE. (TWO CITY BLOCKS)
  While most of the Bureau of Justice’s administrative offices 
  are located inside the Council of Chiefs high rise, judicial 
  councils (court cases) take place inside the Sioux Judicial 
  Court Building, which faces the north sides of both the 
  Council of Chiefs and the Council of Elders buildings. The 
  Sioux Judicial Court building is ten stories tall and houses a 
  number of court rooms, judges offices, conference rooms, 
  
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  holding cells, and attorney offices. The building handles 
  both criminal as well as civil cases from Cheyenne and near-
  by parts of the Sioux Nation. Much like the security around 
  the Council of Chiefs and Council of Elders buildings, secu-
  rity around the Sioux Judicial Court Building is tight. In fact, 
  there is a precinct station on the fifth floor filled with the best 
  and brightest members of the Sioux National Police ready 
  to respond to any emergency, whether inside this build-
  ing or in one of the nearby locales. These officers are well 
  trained in emergency procedures for the Council of Chiefs 
  and Council of Elders halls and are trained to supplement 
  and serve as reinforcements for the security personnel in 
  those buildings. Their response time to any emergency in 
  the other buildings is typically two minutes or less.
  CHEYENNE CITY HALL
  E. 26TH ST. AND HOUSE AVE.
  For sprawl-related services, the Cheyenne City Hall is 
  the place to go. City hall has offices for the city chief, his 
  aides, and the heads of the city’s local bureaus (Public 
  Safety, Public Works, Commerce, Zoning, and Open Spac-
  es). This eight-story cylindrical building houses offices for 
  the corporations responsible for many of the sprawl’s ser-
  vices, from Ares (transit) to Gaeatronics (power).
  SOVERIEGN TRIBAL 
  COUNCIL LODGE
  W. 20TH ST. AND CAPITOL AVE.
  Only four blocks away from the Council of Chiefs and 
  the Council of Elders halls is the Sovereign Tribal Council 
  Lodge, holding the offices and meeting rooms the core 
  of the organization needs. Unlike the Council of Chiefs 
  Hall, which houses most of the administrative offices for 
  its bureaus for the entire Sioux Nation under its roof, the 
  agencies for the STC are spread out in buildings surround-
  ing the STC Headquarters, known as the STC Office Annex. 
  These buildings range in height from five to fifteen stories 
  and house NAN agencies including the Native American 
  Environment Agency, the Native American Space Agen-
  cy, the Bureau of Non-Tribal Peoples, the Native Ameri-
  can National Reserve Bank, and the NAN Cultural Affairs 
  agency. There is a central hub beneath the STC building 
  that connects the STC building with the office buildings in 
  the STC Office Annex via light rail.
  CHEYENNE REGIONAL 
  AIRPORT 
  DELL RANGE BLVD. 
  By most standards, the current Cheyenne Regional airport 
  is outdated and obsolete. The Cheyenne Regional Airport 
  typically handles flights within the Sioux Nation and is un-
  able to handle larger airliners. The international flights that 
  originate from the regional airport usually only go as far as 
  Denver and Santa Fe in the Pueblo. The Council of Chiefs 
  finally decided that such an outdated airport was not suf-
  ficient to serve government and the three million citizens 
  based in the national capital. So in April 2075, the Council 
  appropriated two billion nuyen to purchase the land and 
  begin building a new, state-of-the-art international airport 
  just outside the current city limits of Cheyenne. This airport 
  will be able to handle all major air traffic for the region and 
  should be an economic windfall for Cheyenne. Because 
  the new airport will be a good distance away from down-
  town, it will support a large number of privately owned air 
  taxis, something that the old regional airport could not 
  handle. The new Cheyenne airport will also be able to han-
  dle sub-orbital takeoffs and landings, allowing Cheyenne 
  to bring in revenue from the sub-orbital airline industry. 
  Saeder-Krupp was awarded the two billion nuyen contract, 
  with the strict stipulation that no nanites are to be used in 
  the construction of the airport. Due to this limitation, the 
  construction for the new airport will take longer than usu-
  al, with a completion date of January 31, 2078.
  > 
  You know who’s not looking forward to this new airport? The 
  Casper sprawl. Casper, having the current international airport, 
  will lose millions of nuyen in revenue from air traffic being 
  diverted to Cheyenne. If there are delays and problems with this 
  project, you can bet that officials in Casper are trying to make 
  sure this airport takes as long as possible to be built, the will of 
  the Council of Chiefs be damned. 
  > 
  Traveler Jones 
  HENEQUEN ENTERPRISES
  E. 19TH ST. AND DUNN AVE. TO  
  E. 17TH ST. (2 CITY BLOCKS)
  Officially listed as an export/import business, Henequen 
  Enterprises is owned by a feathered serpent named Hen-
  equen. Henequen originally had the majority of his opera-
  tions in Denver, but when Ghostwalker returned to reclaim 
  his domain, the dragon returned to Cheyenne to make the 
  Sioux sprawl his new headquarters. Henequen Enterprises 
  takes up two city blocks, including a strip mall that contains 
  many administrative offices. Other residential buildings 
  have been modified to serve as storage units, going so far 
  as replacing the original clay and wood with ferrocrete. In 
  addition to the offices for Henequen Enterprises and the 
  storage buildings, Henequen Enterprises also has four he-
  lipads at its disposal for transporting freight. Almost all the 
  buildings belonging to Henequen Enterprises are heavily 
  warded and under observation by watcher spirits.
   
  HIGH PLAINS CODING 
  HEADQUARTERS
  E. 20TH ST. AND PEBRICAN AVE. 
  One of several multinational tech firms indigenous to 
  the Sioux Nation, High Plains Coding has survived mul-
  
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  tiple attempts at buyouts and hostile takeovers by the 
  megacorps. The current CEO is an Anglo named Daniel 
  O’Malley. O’Malley originally worked for Horizon for 
  nearly ten years before leaving to work at High Plains 
  Coding. It is unclear why O’Malley left Horizon and his 
  much higher paying job for HPC, but many suggest that 
  O’Malley is much happier with HPC than he ever was 
  with Horizon. Daniel O’Malley replaced the former CEO 
  for HPC, Andrew Boyce, who retired in 2064. Rumors say 
  that HPC has survived several of the hostile takeovers 
  through the efforts of the Office of Military Intelligence, 
  and that O’Malley continues to maintain a strong rela-
  tionship with Sinopa. It is also speculated that HPC is cur-
  rently working on several classified, Matrix-related pro-
  grams for the OMI.   
  ARES’ SIOUX NATION 
  OFFICE COMPLEX
  E. 15TH ST. AND MORRIE AVE.
  Ares’ Sioux Nation Office Complex is not as lavish or as 
  opulent as its office complexes in other sprawls such as 
  Manhattan, and the building itself is best described as 
  Spartan by most accounts. Word on the streets is that Ares 
  prefers to keep a lower profile in the Sioux Nation so as 
  not to agitate those who oppose an Anglo-run or foreign 
  corporations in the Sioux government and risk having 
  their enemies accuse them of trying to brand everything 
  in the Sioux Nation with an Ares logo. This fifteen-story, 
  plain-brown building houses offices for Knight Errant and 
  Executive Protection Services to manage their private se-
  curity contracts, along with offices for Ares Global Enter-
  tainment and Ares Integrated Solutions (which focuses 
  on heavy industry operations). Ares also has offices in 
  its complex designated for its operations of Cheyenne’s 
  mass transit systems, including bus, taxis, and light rail. 
  In the sub-levels there are research facilities belonging 
  to Cerebrotech and Crystal Optics. The director for Ares 
  operations in the Sioux Nation is a thirty-nine-year-old 
  Lakota woman named Selena Redfoot.
  > 
  There have been rumors Ares of engaging in perverse 
  experiments with bug spirits for years. Given the Sioux Nation 
  has a considerable bug spirit presence, particularly in the rural 
  areas where there are dozens of ghost towns, cavern systems, 
  and abandoned mines, it stands to reason there could be covert 
  operations headed up by Ares’ black ops agents dealing with 
  bug spirits from this building. Naturally Ares will deny that to 
  keep their public image up. And of course, the Council of Chiefs 
  is comfortable not asking any questions about it. They’re happy 
  with their ignorance. But if you’re hired to find out more about 
  these operations, this building might be a good place to start. 
  And if you choose to share, I would be willing to pay you for 
  your trouble, on top of what your Johnson may already be 
  paying you. 
  > 
  17-321
  > 
  Would that be you paying for that info, or would that be 
  Warpath?
  > 
  Stone
  > 
  Does it really matter?
  > 
  17-321
  THE GARY CLINE BUILDING
  W. 4TH AVE. AND HYNDS BLVD.
  Horizon has a twelve-story office building in the northern 
  part of Cheyenne called the Gary Cline Building. Most of 
  Horizon’s office building is devoted to the Horizon Project 
  subsidiary, which holds the sanitation contract for Chey-
  enne. Other Horizon Subsidiaries that share this building 
  include Patherfinder Multimedia, Singularity, Synergestic 
  and Charisma Associates. Given the events of the last 
  year or so with Horizon, I have been told by my contacts 
  in Cheyenne this megacorp has been under scrutiny from 
  the Office of Military Intelligence. A lot of the interest 
  seems to be over whether Horizon has its Dawkins Group 
  operatives operating within the Sioux Nation, and wheth-
  er rumors about Horizon operating a secret clinic in the 
  Sioux Nation revolving around head crash patients are 
  true. So far, if the OMI has found anything incriminating 
  on Horizon, they haven’t said anything publicly about it. 
  And since Horizon is still allowed to operate within the 
  Sioux Nation’s borders, one could speculate that they ha-
  ven’t been caught breaking the law. The director for the 
  Gary Cline Building is a fifty-three-year-old Anglo wom-
  an named Indira Beck who has been with Horizon since 
  before it became a megacorporation.  
  > 
  It’s always possible, especially with Horizon that they may have 
  been caught red-handed doing the slimy things they are known 
  for but they also know some dark secrets about OMI and have 
  bought their silence with that knowledge. 
  > 
  Kay St. Irregular
  > 
  Sanitation, eh? Makes me wonder just how much information 
  Horizon is gathering on us just from our trash. 
  > 
  Slamm-0!
   
  MCT
  I-80 AND MERIDAN AVE. 
  Mitsuhama Computer Technologies (MCT) has its Chey-
  enne offices on the far eastern outskirts of the sprawl 
  along I-80. However, their offices are not listed overtly 
  at MCT, but rather are concealed under one of their sub-
  sidiary’s names, Elk-Sedge Systems. Elk-Sedge Systems 
  is believed to have operations in this building, but make 
  no mistake, the parent corporation controls the vast ma-
  jority of the compound. The building looks unremarkable 
  from the outside—squat, plain, and only five stories tall. 
  However, immediately beneath the five-story building 
  
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  are 45 sub-levels. The top five stories are used by the Elk-
  Sedge Systems subsidiary, while everything beneath the 
  ground level is utilized by MCT. What is confirmed about 
  this building by runners who have infiltrated it, is that the 
  sub-levels house a drone assembly factory for Mitsuha-
  ma Industrial Technologies. Mitsuhama is also believed 
  to be running their Mitsuhama Computers, Black Lotus 
  Software, and Dolmen Data Systems from this build-
  ing. Much of the covert research from these subsidiar-
  ies revolves around stolen materials coming out of the 
  University of Cheyenne. MCT is also believed to support 
  their Mitsuhama Magical Services operating out of this 
  building. Many suspect MCT is running a sophisticated 
  talislegging ring from this building. The rest of the space 
  in the underground facility is still unaccounted for, its 
  function a mystery to those working the shadows. Mag-
  ic users that have assensed this building have reported 
  a growing and disturbing background count originating, 
  and magical security is tight, particularly on those levels 
  whose uses we don’t know about. It would seem MCT is 
  up to its old tricks again—the same tricks that led to the 
  ruin of Tsimshian.
  SHIAWASE
  CONCORD RD. AND E. PERISHING BLVD. 
  Shiawase has its Cheyenne headquarters on the east-
  ern end of the downtown district. Inside the thirty-story 
  high-rise, Shiawase Armaments, Shiawase Atomics, SEC-
  CA Co-op Commercial, and Shiawase Fuzion hve their 
  offices. SECCA Co-op Commercial is heavily invested 
  in the agricultural side of the Sioux Nation’s economy 
  and is frequently hired to help improve the Sioux intel-
  licrops and protect them extreme drought and disease. 
  These somewhat natural phenomena have been hitting 
  agricultural interests hard throughout North America, but 
  so far SECCA Co-Op has helped stabilize the Sioux Na-
  tion’s economy, which is based heavily on its agricultur-
  al interests. Crops are still producing nearly seventy-five 
  percent of what they are capable of producing thanks 
  in large part to this cooperation. This has proven lucra-
  tive for Shiawase, bringing in nearly 650 million nuyen 
  last year from Sioux Nation contracts. These lucrative 
  contracts have, of course, garnered the attention of Shi-
  awase’s competitors looking to get their own cut of the 
  market share. Aztechnology has perhaps been the most 
  aggressive corporation to go after Shiawase’s interests in 
  this field and start competing with them, but others are 
  following Aztechnology’s lead, including Horizon.        
  SAEDER-KRUPP
  W. 18TH ST. AND CAREY AVE.
  Another mainstay of the downtown Cheyenne skyline is 
  the Saeder-Krupp building. Located a few blocks away 
  from the Council of Elders and the Council of Chiefs’ halls, 
  this modern, thirty-two-story octagon-shaped building 
  prominently displays S-K’s logo in the downtown corri-
  dor. While other corporations shy away from grabbing 
  too much attention in a country that tends to be very 
  hostile and distrusting toward foreign corporations, S-K 
  is bold in putting their name and logo out there. Inside 
  Saeder-Krupp’s high-rise are offices for its heavy industry 
  subsidiaries, AN Meridian and Krupp Manufacturing. S-K 
  is currently in full-on recovery mode trying to rebuild af-
  ter the great dragon civil war and has been pushing hard 
  to grab as many heavy construction project contracts as 
  possible within the Sioux Nation. These projects include 
  the new Cheyenne International Airport, which will soon 
  be under construction. In addition to its heavy-industry 
  subsidiaries, S-K is invested in procuring military con-
  tracts with the Sioux National Police, competing with the 
  likes of Ares and Shiawase for those contracts. Krupp 
  Munitions and Onotari Arms are also present in the Saed-
  er-Krupp building, trying to provide weapons and vehi-
  cles for the military as well as providing legal firearms to 
  the local population. On top of Saeder-Krupp’s weapons 
  and heavy industry interests in the Sioux Nation, S-K is 
  heavily invested in the Sioux Nation’s financial sector. 
  Dresdner Bank, German Treuhand, and Lothian-Vaea are 
  all active financial institutions within the Sioux Nation and 
  have their main Sioux offices within the Saeder-Krupp 
  high rise. The S-K building also offers luxury apartments 
  and condominiums for wealthy residents of Cheyenne. 
  > 
  Aha! AN Meridian! AN Meridian was called out by Plan 9 in the 
  Dirty Tricks file for allegedly being tied to the Black Lodge (at 
  least some of their personnel were). I wonder if there are any 
  connections between AN Meridian and Chief Brilliant Sun, who 
  Mika suggests could be a Black Lodge pawn? It might be worth 
  checking out. It could help prove that Chief Brilliant Sun has an 
  ulterior agenda. 
  > 
  The Smiling Bandit 
  CHEYENNE MILITARY 
  COMPLEX 
  (FORMERLY WARREN  
  AIR FORCE BASE)
  MAIN GATE: RANDALL AVE. NEAR I-25
  The Cheyenne Military Complex started as an Air Force 
  base for the former United States government (Warren 
  Air Force Base), and prior to that it was an army fort (Fort 
  Russell) that was established in 1867. Warren Air Force 
  Base would become one of three strategic missile bases 
  within the United States, armed with Intercontinental Bal-
  listic Missiles (ICBMs). The Sioux Nation inherited those 
  ICBMs when it took over control of the base. In the years 
  that followed, the Sioux Nation spent hundreds of mil-
  lions of nuyen maintaining and upgrading these missiles, 
  maintaining their capability of striking at any target in 
  North America, including Atlanta and Washington Dee-
  
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  Cee. Currently, none of the players have their ICBMs ac-
  tively targeting each other, but it would only take a few 
  minutes to get these missiles prepped and ready to fire. 
  There is still very much a Cold-War mentality in Cheyenne 
  when it comes to these weapons. 
  As far as military strength is concerned, the Sioux Na-
  tion has a mere fraction of the Air Force that either the 
  UCAS or CAS maintains. If it came down to it, the Sioux 
  Nation would likely lose the battle for air superiority with 
  either nation. That is if we were only talking about straight-
  up technological capabilities and assets, and not other in-
  tangible assets such as magic. If magic was added to the 
  equation, things would likely be on a more even ground.  
  The Sioux Nation’s military might really comes from 
  their ground forces in the form of the Sioux Defense Force. 
  Although exact force numbers are classified, it is assumed 
  that at any given time the Sioux Defense Force has up-
  wards of 35,000 personnel. Many of that force comes 
  from the eighteen-year-olds serving their one-year, man-
  datory tour of service, though there are also many Sioux 
  volunteers looking to turn the Sioux Defense Force into a 
  rewarding career (I was never one of those people). In ad-
  dition to serving as a base for the standard Sioux Defense 
  Force, the Cheyenne Military Complex houses the head-
  quarters for the Matrix Security Task Force, the SDF’s elite 
  decker and computer unit, and it serves as the headquar-
  ters for the Sioux Wildcats, the Special Forces unit for the 
  Sioux Defense Force. To this day, the Sioux Wildcats are the 
  envy of Special Forces around the world, including the Tír 
  Ghosts, the UCAS Army Rangers, and UCAS Delta Force. I 
  have no exact numbers for the Wildcats, as their numbers 
  are always kept a secret. On the grounds of the Cheyenne 
  Military Complex, you’ll also find the headquarters for the 
  Bureau of National Security and for the Office of Military 
  Intelligence in a building known as the Dark Tower.
  SIOUX NATION PUBLIC 
  WORKS HEADQUARTERS
  E. 25TH ST. AND VAN LENNEN AVE.
  In the Sioux Nation, young adults who turn eighteen 
  have a choice: choose either one year in the military or 
  two years performing social work. This work can entail 
  anything from landscaping public parks, removing graffi-
  ti, filling potholes, serving as forest rangers, cleaning up 
  illegal dump sites, or patrolling neighborhoods as part 
  of neighborhood watch teams to building low-income 
  housing. I chose to go into the military at that age, but 
  there are many other Sioux residents who do not feel 
  that lifestyle in general is for them. And so to live up to 
  their requirement, they will opt for this work instead, de-
  spite the social stigma that comes from being perceived 
  as a “draft dodger.” Those who wish to buck the system 
  and not participate in either the social works program or 
  serve as a draftee for the SDF will typically hire deckers 
  to break into the computer records for the Public Works 
  department to alter records to show that they success-
  fully completed their required service in this program. 
  Hacking these records are considerably easier to do than 
  trying to hack the records for the SDF, but given the Sioux 
  Nation’s investment in data processing and security, this 
  can still be a challenge. The Sioux Nation Public Works 
  Headquarters is also frequently targeted by criminals 
  looking for SIN and personal data they can use to steal 
  identities and forge fake SINs. No one knows how fre-
  quently criminal organizations are successful in compro-
  mising the security of this data, as the authorities do not 
  talk about such things, however, if they are careless and 
  leave any trace of who they are, they will be tracked down 
  the Matrix Security Task Force and will likely find them-
  selves being hunted by the Sioux Defense Force. The 
  Public Works Headquarters is located in a gray, relatively 
  plain six-story building.
  
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