About Luo Yang

Town
 Location Control
 Topo
 Industry
Xu Chang
 North
 Cao Cao (Wei)   
Flat
 Media and Telecommunications
Jian Ye
 South
 Sun Jian  (Wu) 
River
 Paper products and Media
Cheng Du
 West
 Liu Bei (Shu)  
Hills
 Construction and Farmlands
Nanman
 East
 Meng Huo 
Forest
 Forestry
Luo Yang
 Central
 Dong Zhou City
 Urban


Yuan Shao
 


Zhang Jiao
 


Summary of Luo Yang's Elite

Cao Cao owns and runs Wei International, a multi-million dollar media monster.  Wei is in control of the TV stations and most radio networks, with several other interests in advertising medium (i.e. billboards), chain video stores, the city’s amphitheater and more recently subdivision development.  Cao Cao also dabbles in film production, notably Porn, but it is completely untraceable to him.  He is a powerful man, with exceptionally competent and loyal people working for him.  He is feared by many and is not afraid to bribe or kill his way to what he wants.  Xu Chang is his home turf, where he grew up and currently resides in a monstrous mansion some refer to as the Wei Palace.

            Sun Jian is the patriarch of a very well respected family that includes two sons and a daughter.  He is a widower, but buries himself in work to avoid having to deal with emotions.  Sun Publishing is a family company that can be dated back almost a hundred years in the Luo Yong area.  The company has branched out in the past twenty years to not only include the local newspaper, Sun Times, but also a reputable book publishing company, one radio station, a freight railway and the lumber mill on the Chang Jiang.  Sun Jian is a family man, despite distancing his emotions, and loves his children more than anything.  Each one is working alongside their father in the company they will inherit.  The family stays together, so far as living with their own families in Jian Mansion overlooking the Chang Jiang, all except for one rebellious college student who prefers her $2300/mo. penthouse in the city.  Sun Media Corp. is Wei Internationals bitter rival.

            Liu Bei is a simple man who built a construction company with his hands and virtuous nature.  Shu Construction, Inc. grew from a small business agreement between three college friends into a sprawling corporation.  Liu Bei maintains an honest and caring relationship with all of his employees and they are devoted to him.  Shu is the prominent name in the construction industry in the Luo Yong area and Liu Bei employs the foremost experts in their fields to head up crews of sub-contractors.  He lives in the farmhouse he was born in next door to the converted dairy barn that houses the offices of his small empire.  He is also a widower, but his child is only five.

            Meng Huo is a ruthless man who won the Nanman forest in a poker match.  The forests were useless, until Sun Jian needed more wood for his mills.  Then Meng’s wife, Zhu Rong a shrewd woman negotiated a very good deal with the publishing mogul.  Using the method of ‘we have what you want and no one else does’, Jian finally came to the table with an offer that was very pleasing to the pair.  They now live in comfort in a 3000 sq ft home in the woods, but they want more.  They wait for the inevitable turf war to begin, before they set their plans in motion.

            Luo Yong is the capital city, a typical urban site with white collar work, some small industry and poverty.  The main offices for Wei Broadcasting and The Sun Times are located downtown.  Crime is high and men are easy to buy.  Dong Zhou is the mayor, a power hungry man with a love for woman, and he has made it very clear to the influential men of the city that his assistance needs to be bought, and Cao Cao has padded his pockets with enough funds to ensure his interest is seen to first.  On the side he has a very profitable  business run by the beautiful Diao Chan, called the Luo Yong Underground.  She came to him an expert in extortion and he delivered the bloodthirsty hit man Lu Bu into her maniacal fingers. Lu Bu helped recruit an old war buddy, Zhang Liao, to handle the pyrotechnics and they have been exceptionally efficient ever since.

              Also in the city is his ever present rival, Yuan Shao the police commissioner.   He is a third generation cop, and he has never been on the take.  He knows of the evil that plagues Luo Yong and waits for the day when he can crush Dong Zhou and he hopes that it is in the next mayoral elections.  Sun Jian will use all of his influence to support him, just to dispose of Cao Cao’s puppet in city hall.  He has a weakness however, and that is gambling, something his enemies are fully aware of. 

            Zhang Jiao is the founder of the Way of Peace Coalition. He and his brothers Bao and Lu run a small religious political organization that believes in socialism as the best possible solution to Luo Yong’s turmoil.  Each election Jiao runs and looses, becoming somewhat of a joke to the media.  His organization is about to take their beliefs to the next level, terrorism.