Editing Apocthulhu: The Vulture Committee (section)

=Important Places and Groupings=

'''Please note''': While we're using real place names, the game takes place in an ahistorical future.  Any resemblance is coincidental and/or for convenience.

==Post-Singularity America==

[[File:Post-Singularity America small.jpg]]

(Btw the hi-res version of the map is [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XugaRyUUHnpvwfb1A-jkx8G1evaAkXln/view?usp=sharing/ here]  )

==The New National Progressive Miners Union==

The Ideological Faction in Northern Minnesota that encompasses Virginia and Hibbing. labeled as "The New National Progressive Miners Union" on the map is where Neotropolis is located owing to Virginia, MN's many investments in renewable energy such as Wind Turbines https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/2247813-wind-energy-takes-flight-iron-range , its currently liberal leaning tendencies, and status as an economic hub.

Hibbing has a cogenerating power plant that apparently is unreliable (according to Google reviews, they have frequent power outages). 

There is a solar panel manufacturing plant in the small town of Mountain Iron, a few kilometers west of Virginia; https://heliene.com/solar-photovoltaic-modules/

==New Green Bay==

Specifically a "pirate" city out side of Green bay obviously called "New Green Bay". North of what used to be the actual city of Green Bay, but still within the relative seclusion/ protection of the bay. Originally founded by a group of bandits who bit off more than they could choose and pissed of the wrong people. It is now a sanctuary for the low lives of the Apocalypse; where they can come to trade, rest, or launch expeditions into the infection zone to the south.

At first there was very little order with people openly stealing or killing each other, which tends to happen when you have lots of morally questionable people in one place. But as it grew into less of a city and more of a small town the larger groups started making laws and providing a semblance of order. So now instead of murders taking place in broad day light they happen in the dark of night behind close doors, unless they want to be hunted down by the town "police" supplied by the biggest gangs in the city.

A wild west type town with loose laws but a general honor among thieves type of vibe. Just big enough that any other faction would have to use significant resources to get rid of it but not so big as to make it a target for the A.I.

==SciNet==

A dispersed community of scientists and investigators into the unnatural and the invading AI; motives vary but in general they are intent on finding out what they can about it, trying to communicate with the AI, and coexisting with it and the unnatural. They are ostensibly independent of any established “official” groups. Membership by invitation, communication is pseudonymous, though in rare cases members do meet in person. No guarantees that they have not been hacked/infiltrated, or that individual members may not have ulterior motives. Provides access to a pool of knowledge/resource on the unnatural and the AI, and potential contacts/information on areas where contacts are based.