Editing World of Project VIGILANCE (section)

==Seattle WA factbook==
Facts that you might not know (as they are unique to the World of Project Vigilance)…

* the Seattle of this world has a population of 8.6 million (''in real world today, the greater Puget Sound region has a population of 2.2 or 2.3 million''), with the downtown core spreading north through the Downtown core, Belltown, the Seattle Center, Capital Hill, the University District, Queen Anne and Fremont.   

* the Seattle Monorail encircles much of the great Puget Sound region, originating in downtown Seattle, heading south through Sea-Tac (international airport), to Tacoma, then back north east through Renton, Belleview and Redmond and all the way north to Everett and finally back south into Seattle. There is also an East-West line from Seattle to Belleview, across Lake Washington over I-90.  
 
* 20 years ago, Jeff Dee, billionaire, inventor, CEO of Newtronics Corporation (world-leading computer technology company) and one-time super-hero (Gauntlet) helped found the creation of the Seattle Space Needle Elevator. Built on the grounds of the Seattle Central and replacing the old Space Needle that was built back during the 1961 Worlds Fair. Completed in just four short years, it transformed Seattle into a world destination for cargo and travelers wishing to visit space at a reasonable price! Today Seattle has one of the most important seaports are tons of cargo is set up and down the elevator every day. Newtronics Corporation ran daily operations for the elevator for the next 11 years until CWI out bid them. There was another Space Elevator built just south of Tokyo 5 years ago, and plans for additional ones in China, and the EU. This has also lead to a fairly large number of space stations located in near earth orbit around these elevators, and the International Space Ring, which houses over 100 scientist and staff.   

* Cross World Industry (CWI) was founded 15 years ago by Randall Cross, who took his small family owned business (Puget Power Systems, a small power provider with geo-thermal heat sinks into Mount Rainer) into a world spanning company that is involved in hundreds of industries. Cross purchased the rights to operate the Space Needle from Newtronics Corporation and the US government 5 years ago and moved his company’s headquarters into the new constructed Sky-City Towers [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Skycity1000_01.jpg]] (''based on Tokyo Sky-City idea'') located in Belltown about two miles away from the Space Needle Elevator).  

* MacroWorks (MW) is an outgrowth of Microsoft Corporation, headed by former employee Andrew Works. Located in downtown Seattle they have revolutionized wireless computer communication and are a world leader in this field. (''i.e. the MircoWorks™ Headware Microcomputer™ allows you to buy rank 1 of '''Datalink''' with equipment points'')

* the Seattle Institute for the Criminally Insane (SICI) is based on the old US Navy Hospital [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/fallenpegasus/2741059584/in/photostream/]] (''the Pac-Med Building, which of course in the real-world today this is the Amazon corporate headquarters in Seattle, but it was a US Navy Hospital'') it has housed such notorious villains as the Beekeeper, Mother Superior and the Comic Zoom (all non-powered villains). There is a 4 meter stone wall, topped with razor wire that surrounds the building in addition to the latest advanced prison security system around. 

* the location for the newest Project VIGILANCE headquarters is going up in Seattle own '''Smith Towers''' [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/SmithTower_Seattle_WA_USA2.jpg/487px-SmithTower_Seattle_WA_USA2.jpg]], and said to be opening to answer the call of the free people everywhere!