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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8654372" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>To be fair, they had to do some heavy rescheduling on account of Covid – and not just the same supply chain issues everyone else is having.</p><p></p><p>Back in oTORG, Nippon Tech was one of the least-used cosms, because it didn't really have much to offer other than Japanese stereotypes. Moderately advanced (but not so far it would arouse suspicion) tech, martial arts, and Big Bizniz. So for the reboot, it was given a pretty big makeover and expanded to cover not only Japan, but also China and both Koreas. And to give it more of an identity, they added a biotech element with a focus on horror: the Contagion, which kills people and turns them into biotech zombies. They apparently had plans to lean even harder into this element, by adding biotech kaijus and the like. That was a pretty cool thing, particularly given how lackluster oTORG's Nippon Tech was.</p><p></p><p>And just as they were getting ready to crowdfund the Pan-Pacifica sourcebook, Covid hit. At this point, it did not seem prudent to have a sourcebook where a large portion was dedicated to a mysterious disease ravaging east Asia, so Pan-Pacifica got punted to the back of the line. But presumably a fair amount of work had already been done, and had to be flushed down the biohazard disposal tube. Current Pan-Pacifica seems to be leaning more into cyberpunk, but with genemods instead of cybernetics (so, biopunk?).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8654372, member: 907"] To be fair, they had to do some heavy rescheduling on account of Covid – and not just the same supply chain issues everyone else is having. Back in oTORG, Nippon Tech was one of the least-used cosms, because it didn't really have much to offer other than Japanese stereotypes. Moderately advanced (but not so far it would arouse suspicion) tech, martial arts, and Big Bizniz. So for the reboot, it was given a pretty big makeover and expanded to cover not only Japan, but also China and both Koreas. And to give it more of an identity, they added a biotech element with a focus on horror: the Contagion, which kills people and turns them into biotech zombies. They apparently had plans to lean even harder into this element, by adding biotech kaijus and the like. That was a pretty cool thing, particularly given how lackluster oTORG's Nippon Tech was. And just as they were getting ready to crowdfund the Pan-Pacifica sourcebook, Covid hit. At this point, it did not seem prudent to have a sourcebook where a large portion was dedicated to a mysterious disease ravaging east Asia, so Pan-Pacifica got punted to the back of the line. But presumably a fair amount of work had already been done, and had to be flushed down the biohazard disposal tube. Current Pan-Pacifica seems to be leaning more into cyberpunk, but with genemods instead of cybernetics (so, biopunk?). [/QUOTE]
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