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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1781875" data-attributes="member: 3649">Creating a golem under the Urban Arcana rules is pretty difficult but not impossible; creating armies of them (as was mentioned above) is probably impractical. I've thought a little about this, and might return to it later.  I'd thought about the difficulties vis-a-vis East Coast/West Coast, but as I mention above you still have train travel, albiet slower, dirtier and more dangerous (due to occassional Indian attack or magical beast attack) than in the 'normal' world. You still have ship traffic through the Panama Canal. I'd thought about having them form a seperate nation but I realized that maintaining administrative control is no different than maintaining administrative control over Alaska or Hawaii. The Internet still works. California still gets TV reception. They have phone service, though several trunk lines have to route through Canada. Radio still works across the Dead Zone since it can reflect off the ionosphere, from what little I remember. Long distance cell phones still work since they can route through other areas; There is probably a US-based sattillite uplink on either side of the Dead Zone that takes care of this as well. Government controlled and regulated teleportation still works. You just can't drive there as quickly as you used to and you need a passport (Unless we just offered Canada or Mexico an obscene amount of cash and trade concessions to turn over a 100-mile-wide corridor of land to the US). Other considerations probably exist; the Dead Zone came into existance around 1920-1925, so we've had a long time to adjust to it and find ways to work around it.  The West Coast is probably not quite as populous as it is now, which is probably a good thing.</blockquote>

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