Timeline & Tech

"Cascadia doesn’t remember history, it archives it for leverage."
Full Historical Archive available on the Cascadia Discord.

I. FOUNDATIONS & ORIGINS

Era: 1800s – Early 1900s
Theme: Settlement, Industry, and the Birth of the Underworld

Overview:
Cascadia began as a 19th-century fishing and timber outpost, an alternate version of Aberdeen, Washington. Immigrant labor built its foundations, carving the first districts from the rain and smoke. Early trade routes turned to black markets; crime families like the Augustines found fertile ground where the law was thin and fortunes were thicker.
III. THE TECH RENAISSANCE

Era: 2000s – 2010s
Theme: Innovation, Surveillance, and Awakening

Overview:
The 21st century brought the “Silicon Rainforest.” Tech startups and redevelopment reshaped the skyline, but the city’s grit remained. The discovery of dark matter through the Higgs-Boson experiment in 2012 marked the dawn of the Metahuman Era. Protests, surveillance, and the rise of the G-Kings defined a decade of unrest and awakening.
V. THE FACTION AGE

Era: 2030s
Theme: Cybernetic Expansion, Power Realignment, and Ideological Fragmentation

Overview:
Factions solidified—corporate, state, and underground. SilverEye surveillance expanded, cyberware hit markets, and the line between person and product disappeared. The Russo Syndicate adapted through data and memory archives; Apollonis Solutions rose from youth reform into a megacorp. Influence became currency, and rebellion became branding.

II. EXPANSION & SYNDICATE ERA

Era: 1940s – 1990s
Theme: Industrial Boom, Cultural Fusion, and Organized Crime

Overview:
Industry and trade made Cascadia a powerhouse, while immigrant enclaves evolved into entire districts. Organized crime thrived—first under the Augustines, later joined by the Russo Syndicate. Art, music, and subcultures emerged in the chaos, blending vice and vision into the city’s DNA. By the late century, corruption and culture were indistinguishable.
IV. CORPORATE CONSOLIDATION

Era: 2020s
Theme: Privatization, Control, and Cultural Decay

Overview:
The 2020s fractured Cascadia. Riots, assassinations, and pandemics tested the city’s soul. Privatized law enforcement rose under the Civil Security Act, legalizing mercenary contractors like Centurion Security and the Praetorian Guard. The Velvet Rose Syndicate blurred art and crime, transforming narcotics into theatre. Control replaced justice.
VI. CIVIL COLLAPSE & RECONSTRUCTION

Era: 2036 – 2050
Theme: War, Surveillance, and the Death of Privacy

Overview:
The Second U.S. Civil War consumed the nation. Cascadia survived by selling its soul to the corps. Centurion and Praetorian forces ruled the streets, while SilverEye’s predictive AI ended the war through surveillance and suppression. By 2050, the city had rebuilt—scarred, neon-lit, and bound by contract. Peace came at the cost of privacy.

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I. City Infrastructure & Surveillance
SilverEye Surveillance Network. A dense citywide mesh of cameras, pole drones, acoustic sensors, and facial-recognition nodes. SilverEye Prime is a predictive analysis system (not sentient): it profiles movement and behavior and feeds data to CPD and enforcer groups.
Weaknesses: signal scramblers and spoof tools (mirror tags, camocloaks) can disrupt towers and drone loops.

II. Cyberware (Overview)
All listed cyberware exists in countless iterations—corporate, off-brand, or entirely home-brewed. Street engineers splice, jury-rig, and overclock their mods until no two builds are the same. Quality varies from clinic-grade precision to basement miracles held together by static and prayer.
Note: All listed cyberware exists in countless iterations—corporate, off-brand, or entirely home-brewed. Street engineers splice, jury-rig, and overclock their mods until no two builds are the same—some brilliant, some barely stable.

But every upgrade has a cost. Too much chrome and the body turns on itself. The condition’s called Overchroming—when synthetic systems outnumber organic ones, and trace alloys begin seeping into the bloodstream. The result is Chromatoxemia, a slow poisoning that corrodes tissue, warps neural feedback, and destabilizes emotion regulation. Most call it “the gleam”—that feverish glint in the eyes of those who’ve gone too far.
Official clinics deny it exists. The streets know better.

Field Emergency Tech
Trauma Gel, Reboot Kits, and Suture Foam are standard field remedies, portable tech that buys time on the street when hospitals aren’t an option.

Neural Interfaces
- CortexJack™ - basic data-jack implant
- SingeNet™ - corp-grade spine interface (used in Praetorian personnel)
- MindLink Array – encrypted neural bridge for squad-synced reflex sharing. Rare, high-maintenance, and prone to echo bleed.
- EchoDrive – low-latency neural cache that temporarily stores muscle memory for replay or upload. Street tech, semi-legal.

Sensory & Optics
- GhostOptics - multi-spectrum vision
- EyeHUD - optical HUD with short-burst capture and translations.
- VantaEyes – Full ocular replacement; hyper-glossy aesthetic. Marketed for fashion-forward predators.
- AuralNodes – Ear-canal mods that allow frequency filtering, language translation, and sonic weapon resistance.

Body Enhancements
- Subdermal Weave - ballistic-resistant dermis mesh.
- TraumaBoost glands - combat stimulant delivery systems.
  - Also known as StimJack ports.
- OsteoForge plating – skeletal reinforcement for increased load tolerance and melee resistance. Used by heavy enforcers.
- PulseCore mod – artificial heart augment that regulates adrenaline surges and prevents shock; black market versions double as defibrillators.

III. Hacking & Digital Tools

Comms & Jamming
- HoloComms - wrist/visor comms for file dumps.
- Signal Scramblers - jam beacon feeds (illegal in USB zones)

Obfuscation & Spoofs
- Ghost Suits & Spoof Masks - defeat cameras and thermal profiles (limited).
- Signal Snares & Blind Boxes - forge or obfuscate location/tracking.

Backdoors
- Backdoor Firmware Keys - unlock corp gear; black markets constantly update.

IV. Drugs & Combat Stimulants
Combat stims are cycled through StimJack ports for field use.

Examples in the market:
- Spitfire - high-performance stimulant; severe crash risk.
- FocusBurn - nootropic for snipers/hackers; long-term neural burnout.
- Redline - reflex enhancer with dangerous physiological costs.
- NullDrop - civilian tranquilizer turned underground weapon.
V. Weapons & Vehicle Modifications
Improvised and modified tech blurs lines between warfare and DIY: jury-rigged IEDs, EMP mines, smartgun HUD links, biometric grip safeties, tracer mixes, and a range of vehicle mods (signal boosters, EMP insulation, trap doors).

VI. Drones
- Recon Drones - thermal/optical sweeps, common CPD tools.
- Assault Drones - armed (legal for enforcers; illegal copies circulate).
- Utility Drones - repair and salvage bots frequently hijacked for field ops.